How are the juniors getting better and preparing for playing at the next level when they are competing against freshman and sophomores from other schools? I believe that if a junior isn't good enough to play at the varsity level then they should be cut and allow the opportunity for some younger kids with talent to get the experience they need to play at the next level. And, if you have a junior getting significant playing time at the JV level, and also seeing significant playing time at the Varsity level.....then that talented young man should be playing Varsity. Period. Not whining that they aren't getting enough playing time at the varsity level and being brought down to play at the JV level just to keep him happy.

 

How are the sophs getting better and preparing for playing at the next level when they are riding the bench? Come next year, if they even come out at all, will they have the experience they need to play at the varsity level? Heck no, they aren't being developed. JV shouldn't be the time to develop juniors. It should be a time to develop the younger kids. There's only a couple sophs that play consistently - Cleves and Hayden. The other sophomores are lucky to see a couple minutes each. It really is unfortunate for those players.

 

Also, if a freshman does show potential they should be brought up to JV. That's what it means to develop a team. You are not developing a team for JV play - you are preparing these young men for varsity.

 

CCH kept too many players and the team in the coming years is going to suffer for it.

 

No junior that plays JV for CCH is getting much run at the varsity level so that argument is out the door. Any sophomore that isn't better than the 4 juniors starting will get run this year and next year at the JV level. This sophomore class is not overly deep. If Arnzen was healthy he'd be starting JV. There are no freshmen at CCH physically ready to play at the JV level so that argument is out the door. Your only correct point is that JV is for developing players for varsity. That's what CCH is doing.

There are always going to be exceptions. The fact is that there are 7 seniors and 8 juniors and out of those 15 only 5 contribute on a nightly basis. That is not the development of a program. Does CCH want to win Freshman/JV Regional Tournaments or win at the Varsity level?

 

In a previous post you mentioned Bovard and Jacobs. Would these two players ever been the players that they became if they didn't have the experience playing varsity as sophomores? That experience allowed them to make major contributions as juniors and seniors.

 

If kids are so frustrated that they are considering not coming back, it has nothing to do with that individual's passion for the game of basketball. It has everything to do with not seeing any action and not being developed.

 

Gotta go watch CCH destroy Cooper tonight.

 

Jacobs and Bo started as sophomores on the varsity because they were good enough. Period. If there were better varsity players at their position those two would not have started and would have played JV.

 

No current freshman will have a chance to start next year. Period.

 

If a kid doesn't want to be patient and ends up qutting, too bad.

Jamel Riley played JV as a JR for Holmes. How did that work out?

Boone County has many juniors playing JV. Pretty good program right now.

 

 

Deep programs have juniors playing JV. Its a luxury.

It seems like there has been a lot of internal issues at Cov Cath in both basketball and football over the last few years.

It seems like there has been a lot of internal issues at Cov Cath in both basketball and football over the last few years.

 

Who says there are internal issues?

Are there any updates on the freshman game?

Are there any updates on the freshman game?

 

I heard the CCH frosh won in OT.

Wow I am kinda glad I missed the talk in this thread. I agree with Clyde and TOG's assessment on this. Cov Cath has a lot of players in all classes, except as noted maybe the current sophomore class