Li'l Spock and sports-Kid brag plus commentary on his future
Posted: Tue May 26, 2015 11:30 am
Kid Brag>>>>
Li'l Spock is a junior this year and absolutely lives, eats and breathes sports. He got to start Varsity basketball for about 40% of the season this year. He is a decent 3-p tshooter and a tiger on defense-lots of steals and forced turnovers and so forth. The fans like his 3-pt game, but I think he mostly became a starter because of his defense.
When the season started there were 5 kids (3 juniors and 2 freshmen) that the coaches ostensibly considered equal off the bench. As the season progressed it appeared that L'il Spock was being played less and less in that rotation. He always had a good attitude and fully bought into the coach's program when the one of the freshman appeared to be moving full-time into the 6th man role. The other 2 juniors made their unhappiness more known. All 5 of these kids got a lot of playing time on JV. They can play 3 halves a night which means 2 halves of JV and one of varsity or whatever
He was playing really good on JV and with about 1/3 of the regular season left he was told that he would be 6th man on varsity. I actually was not surprised and figured that was going to happen soon as, looking at it as objectively as I could, it was obvious that he belonged on Varsity. He was told this on Wednesday and his first game was on Friday night-he was bouncing off the walls with excitement. I do not know how he sat still in class that day.
Friday night, one of the starters gets injured and suddenly he is a starter. His first starting game was the next day. So he goes from playing about a minute or two a game to starting in the course of a week.
As a starter, he would no longer be playing Junior Varsity. We have contacts on the JV team for the team that we played on Saturday. That was a 2-pt game and I do not remember who one. However, we were told that the opposing coach told his players that they were lucky that L'il Spock got moved up.
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Coomentary--
He is a walking encyclopedia about all levels of sports-No one can believe that we don't have cable, which means NO ESPN. However, he gets a lot on Youtube/Netflix.
Teachers have talked to me that he should become a sports writer or some such. Mrs. S and I agree completely. I t was funny this spring when they registered for classes for Senior year that there was a sort of conspiracy among TPTB at school to direct him to take a year of "School Publications" where he should get his feet wet on sports writing or whatever.
Mrs S and I and his grandparents also really think he should be a teacher and a coach-that is his true love and wheelhouse, but you can't always get a 17 YO to listen.
I am not so happy about his C minus in Trig/Stats. He will still make "B" honor role-but the Kid could be 4.0 if he put 1/10 the effort into academics that he does into sports. He absolutely refuses to study for tests outside of school.
At this point, he plans on majoring in some field of Agriculture at NDSU-lots of jobs in that field outside of farming. Agronomy, Genetics, soil science -whatever. He also may want to farm. That will take a lot of thought-given the absolute disaster that my 30-year long career has been due mainly to my listening to Dad on way too much stuff-but that is another story. He works here now and so forth
My main problem with his leaning toward looking at the Ag field is that he has never once picked up a farm magazine to peruse and learn what is going on the field. Sports mags. now that is another story.
Li'l Spock is a junior this year and absolutely lives, eats and breathes sports. He got to start Varsity basketball for about 40% of the season this year. He is a decent 3-p tshooter and a tiger on defense-lots of steals and forced turnovers and so forth. The fans like his 3-pt game, but I think he mostly became a starter because of his defense.
When the season started there were 5 kids (3 juniors and 2 freshmen) that the coaches ostensibly considered equal off the bench. As the season progressed it appeared that L'il Spock was being played less and less in that rotation. He always had a good attitude and fully bought into the coach's program when the one of the freshman appeared to be moving full-time into the 6th man role. The other 2 juniors made their unhappiness more known. All 5 of these kids got a lot of playing time on JV. They can play 3 halves a night which means 2 halves of JV and one of varsity or whatever
He was playing really good on JV and with about 1/3 of the regular season left he was told that he would be 6th man on varsity. I actually was not surprised and figured that was going to happen soon as, looking at it as objectively as I could, it was obvious that he belonged on Varsity. He was told this on Wednesday and his first game was on Friday night-he was bouncing off the walls with excitement. I do not know how he sat still in class that day.
Friday night, one of the starters gets injured and suddenly he is a starter. His first starting game was the next day. So he goes from playing about a minute or two a game to starting in the course of a week.
As a starter, he would no longer be playing Junior Varsity. We have contacts on the JV team for the team that we played on Saturday. That was a 2-pt game and I do not remember who one. However, we were told that the opposing coach told his players that they were lucky that L'il Spock got moved up.
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Coomentary--
He is a walking encyclopedia about all levels of sports-No one can believe that we don't have cable, which means NO ESPN. However, he gets a lot on Youtube/Netflix.
Teachers have talked to me that he should become a sports writer or some such. Mrs. S and I agree completely. I t was funny this spring when they registered for classes for Senior year that there was a sort of conspiracy among TPTB at school to direct him to take a year of "School Publications" where he should get his feet wet on sports writing or whatever.
Mrs S and I and his grandparents also really think he should be a teacher and a coach-that is his true love and wheelhouse, but you can't always get a 17 YO to listen.
I am not so happy about his C minus in Trig/Stats. He will still make "B" honor role-but the Kid could be 4.0 if he put 1/10 the effort into academics that he does into sports. He absolutely refuses to study for tests outside of school.
At this point, he plans on majoring in some field of Agriculture at NDSU-lots of jobs in that field outside of farming. Agronomy, Genetics, soil science -whatever. He also may want to farm. That will take a lot of thought-given the absolute disaster that my 30-year long career has been due mainly to my listening to Dad on way too much stuff-but that is another story. He works here now and so forth
My main problem with his leaning toward looking at the Ag field is that he has never once picked up a farm magazine to peruse and learn what is going on the field. Sports mags. now that is another story.