[Pulp Fiction]

If you want to be the best train with the best

Pulp, I get what you are saying, it's very valid and irritating. But, we do it in our everyday lives as well. Our kids are playing AAU or Select sports with other kids from other schools and not their own schools summer teams. As NKY said at the best, it's all about competition. I want my baseball players that I coach in the summer to play against the best competition, which ultimately will make them better for the team, thus we push the kids who can play with top level travel teams to go that route. We have a summer team of the kids who either did not fit from a time perspective, or just were not ready to compete at that level stay with us. Should I have had my best players stay with a summer team that was not competing against the best athletes possible just ot show more school loyalty?

The Olympics are supposed to be Country vs. Country

And yes, playing better competition will make you better... it only makes sense. However, if your "home" country doesn't have the competition, the athletes and the training facilities that the U.S.A. has...... then IMO, that doesn't give anybody the right to come over to our country and train only to compete against us in the future.


For example....
That would be like NKU training all year in the Joe Craft Center or Rupp Arena..... practicing the entire season with the UK players and coaches.... then playing against them in the NCAA championship game.