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We will just have to agree to disagree on the issue of the importance of the elementary program SP. I think it is highly important that 8-10 year olds learn the game and hoprfully find a love for the game. If we have 25 eight graders, I say why dont we have 30 then? One reason we dont keep these fine athletes once they get into high school is we have never placed a great value on our underclassmen. (or so it seems). Why are we not competing in a conference or league every year? Why do we feel the need to to use our underclassmen as practice targets? We need a staff to make certain that our underclassmen are playing every week and practicing daily as a group. We need to promote these kids and we need to ask those who are not playing why arent you playing. Once again if its a transportation issue lets get that resolved. A big issue in the past has been that we seldom have our coaches at the high school level. I think it would be a high priority to have a couple coaches at both the middle school and high school level so we can keep in constant contact with these kids and we leave no stone unturned and have these good kids fall thru the cracks.

Not really disagreeing in regards to elementary football. More players is always a good thing. And yes, having one or two coaches at the high school full time is paramount.

If we have 35 players on the 8th grade team and we play our top 15 players (as most teams do) to get the W, is that really making things better? 20 of em will warm the bench and skip out before they're sophomores. At least that's what's been happening.

Anytime we've had the numbers in the younger grades we've played a decent JV schedule, not sure on the conference stuff.

More freshman = more sophomores, more sophomores = more juniors and so on and so on. So I guess more 6th graders = more 7th graders, right?