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Titan1
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 Posted - 01/28/2010 : 00:07:29
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Our pool schedule is up for our first tournament of the year. We are playing the Brookwood Broncos and the East Cobb Colts. Does anyone have any information about either of them? I know the most of the Colts where Scorpions before but The Broncos I can't find anything about them. Just curious. We play so much that I have seen about everyone but not these two teams.
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zwndad
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Posted - 01/28/2010 : 10:05:42
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| If the Brookwood youth league is still doing like they used to, they typically keep all their kids in the Dixie Youth rec league through Minors (9U-10U), so 11U is usually their first travel team. Probably a GGBL team. Just a guess based on past history. |
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bmoser
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Posted - 01/28/2010 : 18:47:12
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zwndad is correct, newly formed GGBL team that has no travel ball experience that I know of. This park usually doesn't let travel teams form until 11U.
Brookwood High School won the Georgia H.S. State Championship a few years back, and their Football teams are always tough. My point is that this area has a lot of athletes, so just because we haven't seen this 11U group play baseball before, doesn't mean that they wont have some athletes. I don't remember their minor Rec team going far in the Dixie Youth District States, but you might poke around the Georgia Dixie Youth web site to see if you can find any District tourney results.
If I had to guess, I'd bet they'll be a A or AA team with a few AAA caliber players. Let us know after you play them how they were.
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Originally posted by Titan1
Our pool schedule is up for our first tournament of the year. We are playing the Brookwood Broncos and the East Cobb Colts. Does anyone have any information about either of them? I know the most of the Colts where Scorpions before but The Broncos I can't find anything about them. Just curious. We play so much that I have seen about everyone but not these two teams.
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titans
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Posted - 01/29/2010 : 08:07:08
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bmoser is right on regarding Brookwood. This team is made up of first time travel ballers since the park won't allow travel teams until 11U (I have tried numerous times). The problem with that policy is, many of the talented kids in the program leave for travel teams at other parks when they are 9 & 10. All but one of the players from the Shiloh Titans last season came from the Brookwood program,and this year there are many more scatterd around Gwinnett (Shiloh at various ages, Parkview, South Gwinnett, Grayson). Not only do you lose many top boys, but many good coaches leave the program with their kids as well.
My prediction is they will be a solid AA team. |
Edited by - titans on 01/29/2010 08:54:16 |
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bmoser
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Posted - 01/29/2010 : 10:59:46
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titans:
Boards typically deny travel ball to its members to prop up Rec all-stars. If the majority of members support that, then that's why the best players are leaving, and not much you can do.
If you find that most members do NOT support that, then find some folks to run for any open Board slots. Make 100% sure that Gwinnett County Parks and Rec is there to control who gets a ballot, counts the votes, and announces the winners. Do NOT let the current Board run the election.
I was part of a group who added County oversight to another baseball orgs elections in Gwinnett that had very little of no Board turnover for years. Guess what happened? New Board members began to get elected the moment the County controlled the process, and now 3 years later, I think maybe 1 or 2 of the old timers are still Board members.
Reach me off-line if you need help with this. There should be term limits and staggered term periods in your orgs by-laws so openings are occurring every election. They can also do things like say you must first be a league director to run for the board, and guess who picks the league directors? Right, the Board! That is against Roberts Rules, and you can get that abolished.
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