re: Tide Hoops | Offseason

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A really cool opportunity for reigning National Player of the Year Zach Edey to LOSE!

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Here’s the WFU release for anyone interested in attending

Wake Forest to Host Alabama for Charity Exhibition Men’s Basketball Game on Sunday, Oct. 29

I’m assuming no TV?

I wouldn’t think there’d be tv or radio but I’d be very happy to be wrong.

Feeling lucky?

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Cadence Bank wants to provide one lucky fan with @AlabamaMBB season tickets! Enter now for a chance to win and see the Crimson Tide in action this winter in Coleman Coliseum.

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From Trilly:

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Indiana +135
Kentucky +140
Alabama +240

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I coached both boys and girls high school and junior high basketball. I have coached in final fours. I took over a junior high program where girls were not considered important. At the height of the program I had 128 kids playing basketball both boys and girls in a school of about 175 kids in K-6.
What I learned:
1. Some parents were using me as a babysitter.
2. Coaches I recruited wanted to change plays more than teach fundamentals.
3. By the third year I had taken full control of the program. When we practiced I had every kid in the program on the court with no ball in their hand to begin with. All we worked on was what a pivot foot is, how to pivot, Triple threat position, different first step moves. Then we introduced the ball during the second practice. I always lead the first 45 minutes of practice. Then I turned it over to the coaches.
4. During my 45 minutes of practice, we worked on nothing but ball handling, passing, catching, how to run and catch and run and dribble with both hands, and for five minutes, we went over the rules and theory of the game.
5. In the K-2 age group we played 3 on 3 and nothing but man-to-man defense.
6. I did not let kids shoot beyond the three-point line before the fifth grade unless they could do it with proper form.
7. I made the free-throw contest every year into a huge deal.
8. There were no trophies or medals except for the following:
Best defender
Best rebounder
Best ball handler
Free throw champion
9. Our teams played in the league in north Alabama called TVBA.

We started with nothing but the girls that I introduced basketball to in kindergarten through the second grade won over 20 games when they were in high school.
Prior to that, the school had not had a winning season in basketball for over 25 years. I was only there for four years. I did not get to see the program through. The people that follow me tried to keep it going, but it eventually fizzled out.
I loved that school and that community because they gave me their full support because they knew I cared. Unfortunately, the superintendent hated my guts. But personally for me in a strange way it was a blessing because of it force me to go back to my primary job that I had done most of my life and make a good living. But I loved my short time there.