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wanttorun100
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 Posted: 04/04/05 - 09:35 Post subject: was basketball a snob sport where you grew up
We had only three sports in Jr High
soccer (volley ball of girls) - everyone could be on team
track - everyone could be on team
basketball - only 15 guys could be on team
Highschool - same deal just replace soccer with football and add baseball / softball.
Now I figgured out long ago I sucked eggs at any sport involving a ball but it still sorta bothered me the snob aspect of basketball
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j1miller
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Posted: 04/04/05 - 09:37 Post subject: Re: was basketball a snob sport where you grew up
| wanttorun100 wrote: | We had only three sports in Jr High
soccer (volley ball of girls) - everyone could be on team
track - everyone could be on team
basketball - only 15 guys could be on team
Highschool - same deal just replace soccer with football and add baseball / softball.
Now I figgured out long ago I sucked eggs at any sport involving a ball but it still sorta bothered me the snob aspect of basketball |
Yes, but I was awesome.
Made reserve as a freshman in high school and Varsity as a Sophomore. Capain all 4 years.
Played in College. scholarship player.
i guess that makes me a snob.
If it makes you feel better, I really suck now.
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cherylpf
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Posted: 04/04/05 - 09:42 Post subject:
No, the soccer and field hockey teams were the snobs (they were also the pot smokers...  ) the basketball teams were hosses. They were good.
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jrjo
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Posted: 04/04/05 - 09:43 Post subject:
Basketball was like the slave sport in our school. The coach was an absolute hot-head tyrant. There were dozens of unwritten rules and he was a pain about them all. I finally chucked being on the team after my sophmore year.
Funny thing was, the girls' team coach was cut out of the same cloth.
I wouldn't call it a snob sport in my school, it was more like willingness to be a cookie-cutter kid.
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BobM59
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Posted: 04/04/05 - 09:45 Post subject:
Basketball consisted of all the poorest and the most athletic. Not a snob amongst them.
The Golf team, on the other hand, redefined snobby. And let's not forget about the Ski Team.
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cherylpf
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Posted: 04/04/05 - 09:46 Post subject:
| BobM59 wrote: | Basketball consisted of all the poorest and the most athletic. Not a snob amongst them.
The Golf team, on the other hand, redefined snobby. And let's not forget about the Ski Team. |
Oh yes, and the tennis team.
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phillycat
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Posted: 04/04/05 - 09:47 Post subject:
The best ball players in my high school were street players so snobby is not something that I would have called them
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j1miller
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Posted: 04/04/05 - 09:48 Post subject:
| BobM59 wrote: | Basketball consisted of all the poorest and the most athletic. Not a snob amongst them.
The Golf team, on the other hand, redefined snobby. And let's not forget about the Ski Team. |
Hey! I was on the Ski team!
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HighHeat
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Posted: 04/04/05 - 09:49 Post subject:
| j1miller wrote: |
Hey! I was on the Ski team! |
of course you were...you were a snobby basketball player...so it's a natural fit. 
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j1miller
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Posted: 04/04/05 - 09:52 Post subject:
| HighHeat wrote: |
of course you were...you were a snobby basketball player...so it's a natural fit. |
Um, everyone was a snob at my high school. http://www.saintursula.org/
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Library Chick
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Posted: 04/04/05 - 09:53 Post subject:
Well, there were only about 40 guys in my whole high school, so just about anybody who wanted to be on any team could. Football and basketball were the big sports, in the spring they had baseball. They used to have track, but they dropped that so they could have enough guys for a baseball team.
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gretriever
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Posted: 04/04/05 - 09:54 Post subject:
Being Green Bay, and playing in the stadium the Packers used before moving to Lambeau Field, suffice to say, football was king. After that was track (!), then basketball. The snobs were in golf and tennis.
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spongebob
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Posted: 04/04/05 - 10:26 Post subject:
You probably went to a school with a lot of commoners.
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coachmarkos
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Posted: 04/04/05 - 10:38 Post subject:
beings that I went to a small SD school, no one was cut from the team, so not really a snob sport.
However, the wrestlers probably would have aruge with me on that.
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runaroundsue
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Posted: 04/04/05 - 10:42 Post subject:
another golf here.....no blue collar kids on that sport.
cross country was the sport that status had absolutely no bearing. The year that the school offered a pair of Brook Chariots to girls that were on the track team and then went out for cross country.....the team grew from 4 girls to 30+ and became an overnight powerhouse.
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