Growth comes from hard games.
From pressure. From mistakes. From responding.
This weekend is an opportunity to compete against quality teams and find out where we are — and where we need to grow.
Stay connected.
Stay disciplined.
Respond the right way.
That’s how teams improve.
@spriggsmady@Taylinmosqueda@RyleeYoung2029
#WinTheBounce #TogetherAsOne
The best part of NCAA Live Period isn’t the hype.
It’s finding players who translate to winning.
Sol United 17U heads to Louisville with a group that values toughness, efficiency, versatility, and team basketball. Guards that settle games. Wings that defend and rebound. Players willing to make the extra rotation, sprint the floor, and compete through uncomfortable moments.
This group doesn’t chase empty possessions.
They impact winning.
College coaches looking for:
✔ steady guard play
✔ positional versatility
✔ efficient scorers
✔ defenders who compete
✔ high-feel teammates
✔ players who embrace roles and toughness
…should make time this weekend.
@evabirkofer@MadisenS30@CharleyRae2028@the_sam_garner@Josie_ladd@addysongravelle@AddisonEdgin00
#SkylarArnold
#WinTheBounce
#3SSB
#TogetherAsOne
@tnteampride@clarksvillesol@2jet3@United_Phenom@daonlyone27@MeadeHoops@JrAllStarBB
@tbwnextgen
@PGHTennessee@_BlakeDerrick
2031 guard Kennedy Heitmeyer of T.W. Hunter MS was selected to the SE/NE Super Regional All Tournament team. Way to step up and shine when the lights were the brightest 10 🖤🏀
@pride2023@TNPride3SGB2028@clarksvillesol@United_Phenom
Thank you @PrepGirlsHoops@PGHTennessee for the recognition on the list of 2029 PGs in Tennessee. A lot of great players in that article. https://t.co/H0dvf60zMZ~~
Coaches can set the standard.
But players decide if it lives or dies.
The best players don’t just do it right.
They make sure everybody else does too.
When players start leading like coaches, winning stops being a hope and starts becoming a habit.
We don’t have a classroom management problem.
We have an emotional regulation crisis that teachers are being asked to handle.
Somehow, “classroom management” has turned into:
• de-escalating trauma
• supporting anxiety and depression
• calming panic attacks
• breaking up fights
• being cursed at, threatened, and even assaulted
• being the counselor, social worker, and crisis team
And at the same time…
we remove the very things that actually help:
• recess
• movement
• art
• play
• connection
Teachers aren’t trained for this.
And they shouldn’t have to be.
Classroom management was never meant to do all of this.
It’s about:
relationships
rules
routines
responsibility
That’s it.
It was never designed to replace what families, communities, and systems failed to provide.
And until we stop offloading every societal failure onto schools,
teachers will keep drowning under expectations no human can meet.
KIRBY SMART ON BEING GREAT
"There's one way. The right way. The hard way. There are no shortcuts.
When the alarm goes off...if you wanna be a really good player, you're gonna get up & go to class.
You've gotta do something somebody else isn't willing to do."
~@TerryCollege