[Doctor J]

It won't be a quick or easy fix to solve the problem at the high school. You can't play 5A schedule with 40 kids. Very few 8th graders playing the last 3 years. You need a high school coach that will take ownership (if allowed) of the feeder programs. This must start with the pee wee programs. Whitesburg and Cowan are the only 2 pee wee programs that are competitive. I'm in favor of going to 3 middle school teams when the schools consolidate, but this will only work if they fix the pee wee programs. I know MJP hasn't played Whitesburg in the last 5 years. Whitesburg and Cowan start several weeks before the other programs and play significantly more games. If you are going to have a pee wee football program, you must commit to it. This will spill over into the 5th and 6th grade programs and ultimately into the 7th and 8th grade programs. Consolidating the programs wont work until all the schools are on the same page and the same level of commitment. It is going to take a few years to fix the problems at the high school; so patience is a must.