All-Star Talking About Minors.

[alexamarysouza]

I think this should be posted at the top of the newbies section with missbee's rules. those are perfect and completely help understanding it all.

 

[canttouchthis]

I think this should be posted at the top of the newbies section with missbee's rules. those are perfect and completely help understanding it all.

i think they should be on top of allstar as well.

 

[ACEDAD]

The difference is cheerleading is majority female and... well.. that is a huge difference.

FWIW, there are high school message boards on girls basketball, softball, etc., etc. It is not uncommon for athletes to be discussed.

Identical to what MissBee outlined.

 

[King]

FWIW, there are high school message boards on girls basketball, softball, etc., etc. It is not uncommon for athletes to be discussed.

Identical to what MissBee outlined.

Have those rules worked well or just worked? (would be my first question)

 

[TheVipersMom]

Im part of a message board that involves minors. It's a high school sports for TN and its mostly football but it has all high school sports on it.

Every kid that is talked about is a minor. Like someone mentioned above it can be positive or negative stuff. It talks about players grades and attitudes. To playing time and what school they go to and if they some how transfer schools there is usually speculation behind that as well. No one has ever went up in arms over a player being brought up. They chose to play a sport they are talked about in every way even outside of field play.

Obviously no profanity or I'm sure suggestive talking like oh he looks hot in those pants haha but seriously no one ever gets their panties in a wad over there. In fact I'm one of like 3 women on the board so this must be a female problem! Ehh

 

[GTpink4ever]

i think twitter is out of control. i think cheer athletics athletes are ruining the programs rep. i believe there was an outburst when cami branson left cheetahs. ca athletes bullyed her from what i saw.. BlueCat how does CA deal with athletes that lash out on social media networks? do they get away with it?

 

[GTpink4ever]

i think twitter is out of control. i think cheer athletics athletes are ruining the programs rep. i believe there was an outburst when cami branson left cheetahs. ca athletes bullyed her from what i saw.. BlueCat how does CA deal with athletes that lash out on social media networks? do they get away with it?

may i add that camie is a minor.

 

[laughAlittle]

i think twitter is out of control. i think cheer athletics athletes are ruining the programs rep. i believe there was an outburst when cami branson left cheetahs. ca athletes bullyed her from what i saw.. BlueCat how does CA deal with athletes that lash out on social media networks? do they get away with it?

I would love to hear your response of this BlueCat after seeing many tweets from cheetah athletes.

 

[Seeker30]

i just like to add in BlueCat 's defense. these girls and boys for the most part are kids. theyre going to make mistakes we put them on this pedestal sometimes and expect them to act like the perfect role models. theyre teenagers theyre going to lash out theyre going to get fed up angry, deactivate their twitters. talk bad. sorry theyre not your perfect role model and i understand you want them to be and God forrid they use fowl language cause your 6 year old looks up to them.
im not saying that it should go unpunished but let them make mistakes dont call them out on every thing theyre growing up. theyre are thousands of followers im sure its repeated to blue cat often let her take care of it.

i honestly feel like these kids are being to closely monitored and i see them make mistakes and all i can think of is. i probably wouldve reacted worse if i were him or her at that age. and if i were a cheerlebrity no one would love me cause i cus up a storm and im 21 (almost) but its my peronal twitter i have my cheerleader follow me on there at their

 

[MissBee]

The difference is cheerleading is majority female and... well.. that is a huge difference.

I don't understand how it's a huge difference when you are talking about minors. Do you think that pedophiles aren't interested in boys? Ask Jerry Sandusky or some Catholic Priests about that. Some of the things said about these HS aged boys make the posts on here wondering why someone left their gym look like a joke. They talk about their personal lives, that they were busted drinking on the weekends-and calling them alcoholics (this is parents from other teams, and usually when they say the kid was busted-the kid wasn't, it's all lies made up to make them look bad). They talk about kid's low grades (again, they don't know anything about a kid's grades but they act like they do). They all post "I know the family personally...." and then spout off something completely untrue. It's rough.

 

[King]

I don't understand how it's a huge difference when you are talking about minors. Do you think that pedophiles aren't interested in boys? Ask Jerry Sandusky or some Catholic Priests about that. Some of the things said about these HS aged boys make the posts on here wondering why someone left their gym look like a joke. They talk about their personal lives, that they were busted drinking on the weekends-and calling them alcoholics (this is parents from other teams, and usually when they say the kid was busted-the kid wasn't, it's all lies made up to make them look bad). They talk about kid's low grades (again, they don't know anything about a kid's grades but they act like they do). They all post "I know the family personally...." and then spout off something completely untrue. It's rough.

Hold up.. You completely changed the meaning of what I posted. Where did the pedophile part come into what we were talking about?

It is different because females think and approach things differently than males. Cheerleading is predominately dominated by females (athletes and parents). Strangely enough the only part which is male dominated is the coaching. So the interactions everyone has and their group and how they approach things are different because its more predominately female.

 

[ACEDAD]

Have those rules worked well or just worked? (would be my first question)

I'm not saying they've worked at all. I just don't think the majority being female should be a factor.

 

[BlueCat]

i think twitter is out of control. i think cheer athletics athletes are ruining the programs rep. i believe there was an outburst when cami branson left cheetahs. ca athletes bullyed her from what i saw.. BlueCat how does CA deal with athletes that lash out on social media networks? do they get away with it?

There were a small number of athletes who posted some things that were across the line and they were dealt with. I didn't personally see anything that I would consider "bullying", but it is possible that most offending posts were deleted before myself or the coaches could see them. The people who were initially publicly frustrated with Cami were pretty quickly condemned by most of the other CA athletes (as well they should have been.)

It's not an excuse, but the microscope that comes along with cheerlebrity-ness didn't help the situation here. Things like mental blocks, roster situations, and moving gyms are all fairly serious issues on their own - even before being discussed at length by hundreds, if not thousands of people through the lens of their twitter accounts.

We do the best we can to monitor what our athletes say and do. However, it simply isn't possible for us to guarantee that every single tweet and sentence uttered out of the mouths of hundreds of teenagers is going to be sweet and innocent. If the tweets of a few of our athletes changes your opinion of our program, then that is certainly your prerogative.

Regardless, we wish the best for her and our friends at Spirit.

 

[kristenthegreat]

Maybe it's a good idea we're avoiding those discussions then? If it's happening elsewhere, at least this can be one place where we avoid that type of discussion..I'd rather not wade through 14 threads of each athletes GPA debate and whether or not it had an effect on making X team lol.

 

[newcheerdad]

I think when discussing minors in any context, I tend to err on the side of giving kids their privacy - even if they happen to have a public twitter or facebook account. Again, I understand that if you put yourself out there, you run the risk of criticism or worse, but I'm not sure commenting on someone's outfit choice or parsing every word someone says on Twitter adds anything meaningful to the conversation. I think as adults we need to be careful not to feed into the whole rumor mongering that's common among kids.

That being said, I think we also have to look at this reality: cheer will only grow if there are personalities that other kids can relate to and draw people into the sport. Every major professional sport understands this - that's why so much of the marketing around those sports involves individual athletes as much as it does teams or the sport itself.

So at some point, yeah, you have to discuss minors, but I think you can do so within the context of them being competitive athletes - how they performed at a competition, whether they've left for a particular gym, etc. I don't think those things should be completely off-limits, but I think they should be held to a pretty high standard in terms of fairness and accuracy.