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I am from Raceland, and I will have to agree with F-ball on this one. We were just talking the other night about what a big mistake Greenup is making combining Mckell and Wurtland. Yes they will win Jr. high games but, at what cost to the program. They will have 11 kids on the field and 30 on the sidelines not getting to play and there numbers will decline because of that. My son will be a 7th grader this year and we finally have enough this year for a seperate 7th and 8th grade schedule. Between the two teams there are 59 kids. All of the kids will get to play because Raceland does not worry about winning Jr. high games. Don't get me wrong.......They try as hard as they can to win, but not at any cost to the kids. It's all about developement. if you have 30 kids on one team and only 11 of them play most of the time you will lose kids. You will lose your marginal talent kids who if they get to play may develope into a kid who is going to help your highschool team in the future and add depth to your lineup. You can't depend on just 11 kids all the time. Ultimately I'm from Raceland and you can do what you want. We will take all the transfers that you send us. Because of what Greenup is doing with there Jr. high we will start getting even more of there kids. We got 6 more this year.

No you cannot have our kids we would like to keep all of them. That is why this move was made. I believe we are around 80 middle school kids signed up right now and expect to have more as school gets started up.

You guys always get kids from Greenup. But I agree with you about them combining teams. Is it really more important to win middle school games than to develop all of your talent for a more successful high school program? You know where I stand on this matter. Yes you compete and try to win but not by sacrificing the development of your players. I think you did a pretty job of explaing that with this post. Maybe you should run for president.