Perhaps this attitude shown by U of M coaching staff helps explain why Khalid el-Amin chose to go to the University of Connecticut instead of the University of Minnesota. Then again, thank God he did, since he would have been caught up in the basketball scandal vortex at the University of Minnesota.
Jay Clark Cooper Steve Kotvis wrote: > > What we have in the Minneapolis park system is not so much a system that > will find our next Olympian, but one that offers the broadest opportunities > for youth to develop sports skills limited to achieving recreational level > skills at best. > > I have coached youth baseball for the past six years, and youth basketball > for the past three. As my children approach the 6th and 8th levels I am > faced with the reality that they will not find them with the competitive > skills approaching their suburban brothers and sisters, where resources and > competitive levels are much greater. The commissioner of our baseball league > stated in a parents meeting tonight that John Anderson, the University of MN > baseball coach does not even look at Minneapolis high school players in his > recruiting. > -- > Steve Kotvis > _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
