I have watched a couple episodes of this show and have mixed feelings about it.
Basically, for those that haven’t seen it, they take kids who want to do things (cheerleader, basketball, etc…) that they can’t do and stick them with a coach, trainer, or whatever for a few months and then we see if they get to realize thier dream of being a jock or whatever.
I am not too sure that this show is totally on the up and up though. 2 of the 3 episodes I have seen have involved taking un athletic kids who have never even participated in the sport (cheerleading, basketball) and training them for a few months and then they end up making the team, which is typically the varsity or senior team in high school.
Now, I don’t think high school sports teams should be all about ability, but these 2 kids were obviously nowhere near the level of the other team members and if I was on those teams I would probably be sorta pissed that these kids sucked so bad and still made the squad when I had been playing my whole life. It kind of defeats the purpose of try outs.
For instance this kid in the basketball episode made the varsity team at the end of the show, but he got his ass whipped by a 6th grader. The cheerleader was barely able to jump 2 feet and made the senior cheer squad.
It seems that these kids are making the squad mainly because ehy are on Tv and teh coaches don’t want to look bad or something.
There was an episode with a little band that was trying to win a battle of the bands at a local college. They actually had some talent and the singer may have a future somewhere, but tey lost the battle. I guess the show couldn’t sway the judging of a big contest like that.
Well, I agree with you to some extent. The athletic department I agree, but the Sly Caps (the band you’re talking about) they lose because that genre of music (mainly hard ska, i presume) has sort of drifted away in another dimensiion the high-schoolers had back in Junior High. In my opinion the band was awesome, not because it was on television, but mainly because I loved the beat, the chords, riffs, and solos!! And they lost from the judges point of view, not the show’s directors.
In the basketball one, that was a tiny school. I think they said 150 people in the high school. That works out to about 35 junior and senior guys, and they need 10 of them for varsity basketball. Not that tough to make it, considering.
He also didn’t seem that bad by the end. He was whipped by the 6th grader, but he really sucked at that point and he definitely improved by the end.
Eh. I gotta disagree with you here. The 6th grader was DEFINITLEY holding back in the last game. And they played to 3 points which makes me believe that there was alot of editing going on in the cutting room. Who plays one on one to 3 points?
The kid playing basketball had made his junior high team and that was before the coaching when he really sucked. That seems to indicate that the competition for those spots is not really intense. He seemed to be trying out with some fat kids and even the two guys he scrimmaged against were not that good. I definetly think that 6th grader could have played in front of him on the varsity team.
I thought that episode was just fantastic. The change in that kids attitude and then the change in the kid was amazing. He was totally different, confident and hard working instead of the whining loser he was at the beginning.