Announcement

Entitlement The Biggest Youth Player Flaw!

Posted by Bill Mobley on Nov 14 2011 at 02:32PM PST
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Often young players get caught between truth and reality, followed by the parents who start drinking the koolaid of those who start telling them how great their child athlete is at such a young age…notice the key word here is “child”.

It starts happening around the 5th or 6th grade when talented players begin to stand out skill wise or mature a little faster than others and they separate from the local pack of players. The key word here is “local”, remember that too. Local can be your area recreation league (like our Jr Magic) PAL, County sports, school, or community-based travel clubs.

For that moment in time, when some children become faster, more coordinated, and/or the height fairy blesses them beyond all others…they are for that one moment, the best of the best in their pack. Until one very important thing happens. Someone else actually starts telling them that and they start believing it!

Our parks of full of young and older former bball stars, men who woulda, coulda, shoulda made it. Stop here and ask yourself how many great players did you see on the floor in middle and high school, and then ask yourself what college did they play at? More importantly, finish that thought with the next question…how many of them graduated from college?

The so-called “best of the best” who got away with playing when theywanted through middle school and their coaches tolerated them through high school. Sure they came to practice when they wanted and showed up on game day, played hard because the coach wanted to win games in the “local” area..but they never established the truthful work ethic and commitment as to what it takes to really make it. Who gave them the real map of hard work and commitment?

Its called “entitlement”, the act of feeling like you deserve something for who you are and not what you do in this world! You can be the greatest athlete in the entire COUNTRY (not just little ole Brevard County) and if you don’t have complete COMMITMENT to your studies as a “student-athlete” and your training for the sport to get better everyday… you will not be considered.

Contact ANY college basketball coach or recruiter, players who think they are “entitled” almost always go home in the first semester, players who are “commited” are NEVER satisfied and always want to get better, because they are realistic that their is ALWAYS someone better out there working harder everyday.

At Brevard Elite Basketball, players are entitled to ONE THING and that is the “opportunity” to commit themselves to learning how to train, play, and be coached as a student athlete. Our goal is to train and to play our “student athletes” among the top players in the United States.

They quickly learn to know that the best is many top players from all over, not only the small few here in Central Florida. If it were about being the best in Brevard, all the college coaches would be here…they are not here. They are at “registered NCAA Exposure Events”, where they are legally, by law, able to preview and recruit young prospects.

We want those players who are truly commited to learning and training for exactly what the NCAA schools and coaches have laid out as guidelines for players to be accepted in those institutions both academically and athletically.

If college basketball is really your dream…stop guessing, stop drinking the koolaid…you are only entitled to one thing with regards to basketball and that is the opportunity to commit to the hard work it takes to make it.

Brevard Elite Basketball is commited to providing the guidlines and requirements laid out by the NCAA to all those student athletes who want and will embrace that opportunity.