Comments on: LoHud.com Top 10, Week 1 http://sixthman.lohudblogs.com/2007/11/30/lohudcom-top-10-week-1/ Girls basketball in the Lower Hudson Valley Thu, 18 Mar 2010 01:19:32 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: The Poo Poo Bandit http://sixthman.lohudblogs.com/2007/11/30/lohudcom-top-10-week-1/comment-page-1/#comment-6651 The Poo Poo Bandit Wed, 05 Dec 2007 03:31:28 +0000 http://sixthman.lohudblogs.com/2007/11/30/lohudcom-top-10-week-1/#comment-6651 Reality, the parents job is to live vicariously through their daughters not to prepare them for life's travails. Everyone knows that! Reality, the parents job is to live vicariously through their daughters not to prepare them for life’s travails. Everyone knows that!

]]> By: confused http://sixthman.lohudblogs.com/2007/11/30/lohudcom-top-10-week-1/comment-page-1/#comment-6650 confused Wed, 05 Dec 2007 03:08:42 +0000 http://sixthman.lohudblogs.com/2007/11/30/lohudcom-top-10-week-1/#comment-6650 POO POO BANDIT......You are brilliant.... POO POO BANDIT…...You are brilliant….

]]> By: Reality http://sixthman.lohudblogs.com/2007/11/30/lohudcom-top-10-week-1/comment-page-1/#comment-6649 Reality Wed, 05 Dec 2007 02:39:57 +0000 http://sixthman.lohudblogs.com/2007/11/30/lohudcom-top-10-week-1/#comment-6649 The coach's job is to motivate. The parent's job is to support the child and to get them to practice on time. That's It! The last thing these coaches want is to draw attention to themselves. They want to bring out the best in all the girls. Winning builds character as does losing. It is all about building character. Many parents or outsiders have a hard time comprehending this. Parents interfere with this procees when they create a comfort zone for their child. Life is a struggle and is all about solving problems. These coaches have dealt with hundreds maybe thousands of girls. Everyone of them with a differnt personality. The coaches know what works and how to use it. Let the girls grow up and let the coaches do their job. Try to remember the girls are out their playing and the coaches are out their coaching. Not us! The coach’s job is to motivate. The parent’s job is to support the child and to get them to practice on time. That’s It! The last thing these coaches want is to draw attention to themselves. They want to bring out the best in all the girls. Winning builds character as does losing. It is all about building character. Many parents or outsiders have a hard time comprehending this. Parents interfere with this procees when they create a comfort zone for their child. Life is a struggle and is all about solving problems. These coaches have dealt with hundreds maybe thousands of girls. Everyone of them with a differnt personality. The coaches know what works and how to use it. Let the girls grow up and let the coaches do their job. Try to remember the girls are out their playing and the coaches are out their coaching. Not us!

]]> By: The Poo Poo Bandit http://sixthman.lohudblogs.com/2007/11/30/lohudcom-top-10-week-1/comment-page-1/#comment-6645 The Poo Poo Bandit Wed, 05 Dec 2007 00:30:41 +0000 http://sixthman.lohudblogs.com/2007/11/30/lohudcom-top-10-week-1/#comment-6645 That's astute not asstute! That’s astute not asstute!

]]> By: confused http://sixthman.lohudblogs.com/2007/11/30/lohudcom-top-10-week-1/comment-page-1/#comment-6633 confused Tue, 04 Dec 2007 03:14:30 +0000 http://sixthman.lohudblogs.com/2007/11/30/lohudcom-top-10-week-1/#comment-6633 Yeah right astute Yeah right astute

]]> By: The Poo Poo Bandit http://sixthman.lohudblogs.com/2007/11/30/lohudcom-top-10-week-1/comment-page-1/#comment-6632 The Poo Poo Bandit Tue, 04 Dec 2007 02:56:12 +0000 http://sixthman.lohudblogs.com/2007/11/30/lohudcom-top-10-week-1/#comment-6632 A very astute person... A very astute person…

]]> By: confused http://sixthman.lohudblogs.com/2007/11/30/lohudcom-top-10-week-1/comment-page-1/#comment-6630 confused Tue, 04 Dec 2007 02:44:46 +0000 http://sixthman.lohudblogs.com/2007/11/30/lohudcom-top-10-week-1/#comment-6630 What is a poo poo bandit? What is a poo poo bandit?

]]> By: The Poo Poo Bandit http://sixthman.lohudblogs.com/2007/11/30/lohudcom-top-10-week-1/comment-page-1/#comment-6629 The Poo Poo Bandit Tue, 04 Dec 2007 02:24:59 +0000 http://sixthman.lohudblogs.com/2007/11/30/lohudcom-top-10-week-1/#comment-6629 I think that these mean men Coach Vaccaro and Coach Ricci need to stop picking on the little girls who play basketball for them. When these girls play in college the coaches there aren't mean at all. They pamper them with all of the niceties they don't receive in high school. When they graduate college and go out into the world all of their bosses will already know what wonderful people they are and they will have whatever job they want at a salary of their choosing. They won't ever have to deal with temperamental bosses or unbalanced co-workers. The college coaches make personal wake-up calls bringing with them fresh baked croissants and an assortment of teas and juices. They help them with their homework and rub their feet when they get tired. At night they read them a bedtime story and kiss them ever so gently on the forehead before they go to sleep. Of course all the mommies and daddies of Section I players want their little girls to play in college and I can sure see why. When will Coach Vaccaro and Coach Ricci get with the program and understand that in order for the girls to possibly one day play in college or possibly one day compete in a dog eat dog world all they have to do is be gentle and tell them how wonderful they are? Come on guys! I think that these mean men Coach Vaccaro and Coach Ricci need to stop picking on the little girls who play basketball for them. When these girls play in college the coaches there aren’t mean at all. They pamper them with all of the niceties they don’t receive in high school. When they graduate college and go out into the world all of their bosses will already know what wonderful people they are and they will have whatever job they want at a salary of their choosing. They won’t ever have to deal with temperamental bosses or unbalanced co-workers.

The college coaches make personal wake-up calls bringing with them fresh baked croissants and an assortment of teas and juices. They help them with their homework and rub their feet when they get tired. At night they read them a bedtime story and kiss them ever so gently on the forehead before they go to sleep. Of course all the mommies and daddies of Section I players want their little girls to play in college and I can sure see why. When will Coach Vaccaro and Coach Ricci get with the program and understand that in order for the girls to possibly one day play in college or possibly one day compete in a dog eat dog world all they have to do is be gentle and tell them how wonderful they are? Come on guys!

]]> By: Bill McG http://sixthman.lohudblogs.com/2007/11/30/lohudcom-top-10-week-1/comment-page-1/#comment-6628 Bill McG Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:38:23 +0000 http://sixthman.lohudblogs.com/2007/11/30/lohudcom-top-10-week-1/#comment-6628 I also attended Saturday's basketball game between Scarsdale and Ossining and respectfully I disagree with the picture being painted by the previous bloggers. I have been peripherally involved in girl's basketball, both high school and AAU, for almost 10 years now. Both of my daughters have played for and have been coached by Mr. Vacarro and Mr. Ricci. It is true that both of these gentlemen coach with a high level of emotion and passion but it would be incorrect to insinuate that either of them thinks that it is about themselves and not about the children. You refer to them as "fools" and embarassments, but what you don't know is that out of the spotlight (afternoons, evenings, weekends) when nobody is watching, both if these men have uncounted hours of their own time and personal finances, to help innumerable children reach for their potential as basketball players and as young adults. To watch one basketball game and to pass judgement on two men whose entire body of work has taken ten, fifteen or twenty years to build is not fair to them, nor does it draw an accurate depiction of who they are, or what they stand for. You may not agree with their style or all that they do and say but I know that my children are better people, not just better athletes, for having known and played for these two men. I also attended Saturday’s basketball game between Scarsdale and Ossining and respectfully I disagree with the picture being painted by the previous bloggers. I have been peripherally involved in girl’s basketball, both high school and AAU, for almost 10 years now. Both of my daughters have played for and have been coached by Mr. Vacarro and Mr. Ricci. It is true that both of these gentlemen coach with a high level of emotion and passion but it would be incorrect to insinuate that either of them thinks that it is about themselves and not about the children. You refer to them as “fools” and embarassments, but what you don’t know is that out of the spotlight (afternoons, evenings, weekends) when nobody is watching, both if these men have uncounted hours of their own time and personal finances, to help innumerable children reach for their potential as basketball players and as young adults. To watch one basketball game and to pass judgement on two men whose entire body of work has taken ten, fifteen or twenty years to build is not fair to them, nor does it draw an accurate depiction of who they are, or what they stand for. You may not agree with their style or all that they do and say but I know that my children are better people, not just better athletes, for having known and played for these two men.

]]> By: HoopsFan http://sixthman.lohudblogs.com/2007/11/30/lohudcom-top-10-week-1/comment-page-1/#comment-6627 HoopsFan Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:44:13 +0000 http://sixthman.lohudblogs.com/2007/11/30/lohudcom-top-10-week-1/#comment-6627 Re: The Fan - overall I agree with you. They are 2 of the best coaches in section 1. However, I think the coaches of boys games look like idiots as well. They set just as bad of an example as the girls coaches. Re: The Fan – overall I agree with you. They are 2 of the best coaches in section 1. However, I think the coaches of boys games look like idiots as well. They set just as bad of an example as the girls coaches.

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