Jamal Merrell

Don't never just go to a youth league to where it's a money grab.

Money grab is a league that costs $180, $200 and it's no practice, no speed agility, no extra training, it's just games, game days.

Go to a league where, I talk about mine, it's a speed agility day, it's a training day

It's a practice day with our team.

And then it's a game day.

Or if it is structured into one day, it's a training period.

It's a practice period.

And then it's a game period to where your kid is getting all the elements of all those structures.

And then whether the game is the ultimate icing, because they could win or lose and

gonna feel that if they win they're gonna be happy if they lose they're gonna be like oh man we lost i could have did this better but you give them that reinforcement um and go from there so definitely put your kids in a structured league not just a league that is the money grab and you can learn that from just take a tour look at go to one of the game days at a league if you see parents yelling screaming and it's one player on each field or each court just scoring all the points that league is not structured

If you go to a league where it's a rotation of players getting in, a lot of kids are high-fiving.

It's a Kona truck there that's just getting water ice.

What league was that?

Jamal's league.

I love it.

Yeah.

I always would say just guidance and direction.

I call it a window of that.

If you have a good athlete or know a good athlete between freshman and sophomore year, it's for them to get eyes and get noticed.

Around end of sophomore year and junior year is when the colleges should know about that kid.