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The Adidas All In Classic is in Cincy that same weekend also. 7-17 ~ 7-19 and is NCAA certified. Eddie Ford's Kentucky Hoop Fest is 7-15~7-19 is also certified. I was told today at KBA that Hoop Fest was not that good of an event anymore.

If you guys know of any 8U player that would like to be a part of the or Summer 2 tournament tour, please tell them that we have a couple spots available. We will be starting on Monday 6-22-15 at 6:30. You can tell them to contact me. guygodwin@ymail.com 859-308-8695

We will be announcing a tryout soon. If you know of anyone that would be interested in trying out, please let them know about this. This team currently scheduled to play In the AAU Midwest Championship at KBA 6-26~6-28 and also the AAU National Championship 7-10~7-12 also at KBA. We will be done for youth football.

They are minors and at 13 years old may not have had the discussion with parents as to how to handle sharing information about their kids. *** Note *** That is just MY opinion. I know the question has been asked multiple times. They may feel the same as me and may offer it up.

Congrats to The Legends for winning the Indy event. These boys are having a great season. ABB, Just my perspective. These kids are 13 years old and parents may not agree to have kids names listed on a message board. I know you don't mean any harm. But, I don't think I would list my players and I they may not want to list any also.

Shining Star Sports Boys 8U/2nd grade is looking to add two players for the summer season and AAU Nationals. AAU Nationals will be help in Lexington at KBA in July. This is the same team that won the KY AAU State tournament in March. However, due to summer conflicts we need to add two additional players. This team will participate in 2 tounaments in June an addition to the July National event. We will practice at Notre Dame High School (Covington) just one time per week and play up in the summer session at Sports Of All Sorts on Sundays. If you know anyone interested, Please have them contact Coach Guy Godwin guygodwin@ymail.com *** We will conclude prior to youth football starting up ***

Two years in a row we were one of the top 2 or 3 teams and drew the SP Shooters in the opening round of bracket play. Let a double digit lead slip and bowed out of the event early in a game that went down to the wire. We were the only real threat for the Shooters. SP went on to win 4 games on Sunday. the OhioBall Stars also checked out early losing on a buzzer beater in bracket play.

Same here. I have kids that are being pulled into their high school workouts already. Our practices were killed by this this week. I expect that next week we wont even practice.

AAU had it wrong when they allowed kids that were two years older the "normal" age for the grade. Example: I took my team to Nationals as 5th graders. At that time there was a young man that went to Tichenor Middle who was supposed to be in the 7th grade but was in the 5th. His 6th grade coach at that time had a son playing with me and there was discussion about having him come play with us. He was in the 5th grade but roughly 18..19..20 months older. It would have been completely legal. AAU has seen the writing on the wall this spring. Many of their tournaments have had 25~30% turnout due to the age change. Many tournament directors will tell anyone that will listen. If they go to age based they lose their teams. Everyone has kids with the late summer birthdays where the kid did kintergarden twice or held out of school initially. (Keep in mind that Ky uses October 1 as the critical date to start school) How ever old you are on 10-1 is when you start school. *** Also, AAU is sponsoring their own grade based events this summer in Las Vegas *** This rule will change again in mid October. Other than AAU sanctioned events, Sports Plus in Cincinnati is the only facility that has used the age requirements. Last weekend there was an event there ran by Ohio Players Association. The Ohio Players website listed the eligibility requirements for the event as Grade based. If you had a exception then they followed the 8-31 date. However, you could not be 2 years over the normal date. If you were in the that grade you could only be 1 year above the date. Then, Sports Plus advertised the same tournament as age based with the AAU rules. (Mass Confusion set in) My youngest player is an 8th grader who just turned 13 on 2-28. He is a grade higher and nearly 9 months younger than our oldest player. (Who is only 5'0" & 80lbs and never plays BTW) I think AAU is on the right track with making it age based. The only problem is the date they used makes NO sense. I have three kids that are deemed too old. One is late July and two in August. Per the AAU rules these kids are considered 14U players. However, they will not play a single game this summer after they turn 14. I think if AAU changes the date to Feb End then all issues will be resolved. Most AAU/Club level teams are not even formed until early March. Some state High School associations prevent clubs from forming until Middle School ball concludes. Players are not allowed to even tryout for a club or they will be ruled ineligible. I had a kid from Ohio come and watch a scrimmage. He couldnt step on the court, he couldnt touch a basketball until some time in March. I forget the date. Basically, because of this, there are NO tournaments for 7th grade and above in Ohio until Mid March. (Ohio doesnt have 6th grade middle school ball) Ohio also, has a rule (that I like) that only two kids from the same school can play on the same club team or they are again ruled ineligible. *** Clarification, only school teams can participate in Ohio tournaments before March or those players are in eligible ***

The Defenders have a nice D3 level team as well. Shining Stars play mostly in the region/area. Pretty much like The Legends. Last year we played each other several times. (Became a burden on the kids and families I think) This year just seen each other the one game. I try to make it as easy as I can on my families. I usually try and balance out the travel with the Quality of the event. The really weak tournaments do not help us get better and the really hard ones are always far. We have attempted to play in the toughest events in the Cincy, Lex, Louisville region. Next weekend we may be in Indianapolis. We are planning to go to Atlanta in July and Possibily Pigeon Forge or Evansville in June (more of a fun trip). Then conclude with HoopFest in Louisville. We were planned for the Eddie Ford event also and were denied because it was full. Then once families made other plans it opened back up. I've been very happy with the events that we've had this season in Greater Cincy. In fact, I've never seen as many teams as there are this season. Also, had a good turnout of teams from Indy driving over. Even last weekend. That event had two 7th grade divsions. Elite division and non-Elite division. The Elite as mentioned had 4 solid teams. This weekend the KingsIsland event has 31 teams. There is really no reason to travel anywhere when we have this level of tournament so close to home. I also like that the KI event is played in all local Norther Cincy High Shools. We've only played at KBA twice this year. How do you define "this area"?

Coach that is good to hear. Are you guys still under The Thundermaker name? Where are you guys playing in upcoming weeks?

Played SWOH yesterday in the final. Lost 60-50. Coaches son went off for 31. Had 8 3's. We had spell right before half and allowed them to jump up 39-30. Great up and down game. I seriously have never seen a kid shoot the ball like this before. He pulled up between mid-court and the 3 point line and drained one. Pretty special shooter. From what I heard though is that he did'nt really do that in other games. Just got hot at the right time. After playing them, I can see The Legends beating them consistently. Despite having the 6'6" kid they were not near as physical as The Legends, BallStars or Air Kev. We played a pretty good game overall I was pleased. Have to tip the cap to a kid shooting like that. I did talk to the coach and he is from Walnut Hills and they did play The Legends in their first event of the season. (I was wrong about that) He also confirmed that the NKY Rockets beat them in the same event. He said this event was 3 days after they formed their team. The SP Shooters have actually completely flipped rosters since MLK. I saw that game and the only players they have now vs. then are the two KY kids. The OHSAA has a rule that will not allow player to play until after the Middle School season concludes. This is why all the Ohio Clubs don't get started until late March every year. All the SP Shooter kids were playing school ball in fact their team was not even together like it is now in the March 21st event. They had everyone the following weekend and beat the defending Bearcat Classic/Ky D1 State Champ Playmakers. They are a solid team aswell.

The Legends have beaten us in the State tournament. But haven't played Air Kev, SP Shooters or SWOH Elite. I'm hoping we can play SW today. On any given day all these teams can beat each other. SWOH has a unique advantage. They have two kids that are over 6'4" one is pushing 6'7". With the changes that have occurred with us in the last two weeks I think we can compete with them. Comparing scores over the season of common components I know we can we are very similar. (With all our players) if The Legends are hitting 3's and not in foul trouble they can beat any of them. I would guess that Air Kev is on the outside of the group. Also, looking at the additions the SP Shooter have made I'd add them to the group as well. From what I've seen this season the top teams in greater Cincinnati are. (No particular order) The Legends (beat Shining Star Sports, Split with BallStars) SWOH (Beat SP...not sure others, Beat BallStars I think) The BallStars (Lost to SSS, Beat Legends, lost to Legends) SP Shooters (split with SSS, Split with BallStars, Split with AirKev, lost to SWOH) Shining Star Sports (lost to Legends, beat BallStars, Beat AitKev x2, Split with SP) It seems like SWOH hasn't been beaten by the Greater Cincy teams. But they are beatable. Had a hard fought game last night vs. SP Shooters until the end. Today 3 of these teams are in a Four team bracket. Along with Cincy Lakers. Hopefully all of these teams will be in the Kings Island event next weekend.

This thread cracks me up. They don't worry about glory but because the thread wasn't about them someone associated hijacks Henry's thread.

Fall AAU is good at South West Ohio. Contact Tom Sunderman.

Shining Stars has 7th grade team that played in 14U last weekend. There is a 13U & 14U SS team in Ohio. But the NKY team is a 7th grade team that played in 14U. There are a couple kids with August birthdays that prevent us from being a 13U team. We also could have played in 13U with out those kids but we chose to play in The Bearcat as a 7th grade team instead.

The Eddie Ford event at The Expo center is next weekend. For whatever reason several age groups are sold out because they reached their targets. I know the 7th grade (8th grade to be) is full. Not sure why they are limiting the numbers this year.

I'm confused.

In my opinion the school cutoff is irrelevant because the AAU Season is basically from Mid March ~ Mid July. Kids are being forced to play up in age groups during a season when they will never turn that age until after a season. In essense, this is like forcing a kid to start Kindergarden before he turns 5 years old. Just move the date to the end of Feb and everyone will play in the age group of their age. There will be no overlap.

Interesting for sure.

Shining Star Sports 7th grade took a loss the Defending D1 Indiana State Champs yesterday getting knocked to the Silver Bracket. Kentucky Elite is still alive in the Gold. Does anyone know who Kentucky Elite is? Where are they from?

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