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[QUOTE="husky429, post: 5193370, member: 6696"]
Your athletic director is an idiot. Set plays don't win at the middle school level. Fundamentals do. Honestly, they aren't going to win much at ANY level if you've had 3 practices and 5 games in two months without a freakish athlete or 2 on your team. That means they're only touching a basketball, what, once a week on average? That's absurd. You will simply never win with that kind of schedule unless

Tell him you need practice or games 5 days a week if he wants the program to improve. My one year of middle school we had practice or games 6 days a week. Practices were 2 hours in a full gym. That's how competitive basketball teams work. If he wants to have a rec team, continue to have the kids play or practice 1x per week. He's being moronic. Research shows you need 3-4 practices per game if you want to maximize improvement.

Please feel free to copy and paste this response in an email to him ;) DM me for my extension at work if he wants an AD to AD chat.

It's nice to have a couplefew plays at that level so kids can start to learn how to run plays for high school. But the CONCEPTS are so much more important.
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