Youth Basketball Team Kicked Out Of Its League For Being Too Good

[Aloha_Shooter]

http://uproxx.com/sports/youth-basketball-team-deemed-too-good-for-league/

Jason Hanauska, coach of a girls basketball team with Rogers Area Youth Basketball Association (RAYBA), found out late last week that his team was getting kicked out of the Northwest Suburban Basketball League because his girls were deemed “too talented,” and were apparently dominating their peers.

The Northwest Suburban Basketball League has decided RAYBA does not fit into the league. The main reason they made this decision is because other teams do not want to play RAYBA due to the skill level.

As an aside, the CBS Local site in Minnesota linked to Uproxx instead of the source article at Fox 9. God forbid CBS admit it was digging up news from Fox ...

[sniper7]

Hopefully they left their participation trophies on the table and walked out.

[kidicarus13]

The league obviously has no tolerance for flashing gang signs

[Irving]

The league obviously has no tolerance for flashing gang signs

Beat me to it.

[roberth]

So, the other teams don't have to work harder to get better, they just boot the good team out of the league.

Good job, now they all suck.

[68Charger]

So, the other teams don't have to work harder to get better, they just boot the good team out of the league.

Good job, now they all suck.

That's the "progreSSive" way... which is obviously regressive- but you can pretty much count on reality being the opposite of what they tell you.

[roberth]

That's the "progreSSive" way... which is obviously regressive- but you can pretty much count on reality being the opposite of what they tell you.

Indeed.

Life is no longer about applying yourself and doing the best you can.

Apparently life is about being a victim and using the government/administration to make things "fair".

Losers and weenies.

[RblDiver]

So, the other teams don't have to work harder to get better, they just boot the good team out of the league.

Good job, now they all suck.

There was an old cartoon, Reboot, about beings that lived inside your computer. In one episode, Enzo (think about the equivalent of a 12-year-old boy) tells the System Clock that he wants to be 50% smarter than everyone. The clock asks if he wants to be smarter now, or later. He chooses now.

Shortly thereafter, he realizes: "I didn't make myself any smarter, I made everyone else DUMBER!"

[cstone]

In other news, the NFL has expelled the Denver Broncos and Carolina Panthers as the other teams didn't want to play teams that beat them.

Seriously, nothing ruins kids sports more than over involved parents. Get your kid a ball, glove, bat and kick them out of the house during decent weather. If they enjoy it and they are good, they will play in a league. If they are really good and they enjoy it they can play on a traveling team. At that point, the parents need to car pool the kids to games. IMO, it is so much more fun to watch little league games rather than professional sports. But I'm cheap that way.

[68Charger]

Maybe the team needs to go pro... or they can compete in the Olympics, I hear the standards have changed.