Top Texas Gold Coaches & Teams

[CULater]

Coach May has had troubles over the years, but she did qualify for gold nationals her first year with a new team.

The Texas Firecrackers went to the first qualifier available to Texas teams. The tournament in Florida was a Southern region qualifier. It was not the same weekend as the qualifier in Houston. By the time the Texas qualifiers took place they were already qualified. They could not have attended a tournament " In their backyard" or their front yard. They already punched their ticket.

Not at all true. The Southern Territory qualifier in West Palm Beach was the weekend of June 8-10. The exact same weekend as the Region 7 qualifier in Houston.

[WACdad]

You are correct CU.

And the "real" southern qualifier was in Dallas the wknd
of June 15-17. So two chances to qualify in Texas. Don't
see a reason to go to Fla unless of course you don't think
you have a chance to qualify in Texas.

[realcoach]

Really? Two chances to qualify in Texas and how many berths? Nine? Let's post a list of all the Texas teams that did not qualify for Gold nationals, then you can ask their players, coaches and parents if they might have considered backup alternatives to qualifying. Looks like they planned and executed a good strategy for their team.

My favorite is your slam on all the Florida teams. Send your letter to ASA and maybe they'll keep those teams out of Gold next year, I know our team would appreciate it.

[CULater]

Texas teams have always attended the Southern Territory qualifiers very well. The fact that the Region 7 qualifier was the same weekend had an effect on attendance at the Southern Territory event. There were only 36 or so teams, with 6 berths.

Just to point out, there were actually 3 places to qualify in Texas, Waxahatchie (3 berths), Dallas (6 berths) and Houston (3 berths)

[texasugly1]

Really? Two chances to qualify in Texas and how many berths? Nine? Let's post a list of all the Texas teams that did not qualify for Gold nationals, then you can ask their players, coaches and parents if they might have considered backup alternatives to qualifying. Looks like they planned and executed a good strategy for their team.

My favorite is your slam on all the Florida teams. Send your letter to ASA and maybe they'll keep those teams out of Gold next year, I know our team would appreciate it.

Sounds more like a way of getting away from all the glory, bomber, aces, storm, batbuster teams. Well I am glad they went to florida and qualified. Can we say they are a florida team since they went 2 and BBQ at gold nats? Please, if your going to carry the name, back it up with quality play and play the best of the best. I would respect them more if they played a Rapidfire, Glory Gold, Eclipse, Bomber Gold, or Just about any of the Oklahoma teams and lost. JMO

[CoolInTheShade]

Complete this sentence:

"This summer I want to spend a week in...

a) Waxahatchie, Texas"
b) Spring/Klein, Texas"
c) McKinney, Texas"
d) West Palm Beach, Florida."

[CULater]

Complete this sentence:

"This summer I want to spend a week in...

a) Waxahatchie, Texas"
b) Spring/Klein, Texas"
c) McKinney, Texas"
d) West Palm Beach, Florida."

Play where you want to play, but don't pretend like it was the weather that took that team to WPB. I think it was smart to go to a qualifier that had 36 teams and gave out 6 berths rather than 65 teams for 3 berths. But a weekend in WPB had nothing to do with it.

[CoolInTheShade]

That's for dang sure...it rained all week!

[WACdad]

Complete this sentence:

"This summer I want to spend a week in...

a) Waxahatchie, Texas"
b) Spring/Klein, Texas"
c) McKinney, Texas"
d) West Palm Beach, Florida."

[WACdad]

If that was the criteria you used to select the tournament I hope you
got to make a side trip to see Mickey. I can't complain we selected our
tournaments the same way in 10u. Select the vacation spot first, tournament
second. And folks wonder why gold ball isn't as strong as it used to be,jmo.