[Fly Like a Duck]

I can agree with most you said. in 2012 my son played soccer and that team went 18-2 and lost in a shoot out in the Regional Championship. There were a lot of kids on that team that could have helped the football team. But, MOST (including my son his SOPH year), quit football becaused he didn't want to play.
His reason was watching his cousins and older friends that were great football players live the "Friday Night Lights". BUT, then also watched them after High School turn into beat up forgotten about heros who have nothing but trouble with their bodies. ONE of the reasons his best friend quit (Who could've been one of the best backs in the area) and a couple of his other classmates.
Of course there are also other reasons (which we won't discuss on here) why others quit.

I can honestly say it wasn't because of soccer though. If there is one thing that Paintsville Soccer Coaches do is allow their players to play football and do NOT discourage against it. They also make their practice and game schedules around football if they have kids that want to play both. Heck they even go to the football games and support their soccer players that play footabll as well as the football team.


Things WILL turn around in the very near future at Paintsville. People just need to be patient.:Thumbs:

I know as many kids, if not more that did absolutely nothing in high school that suffer from this. Of course, they don't get noticed, because 'doing nothing' in high school doesn't get noticed.

I have nothing against soccer, but it's a lot like basketball (everybody gets to shoot the ball), baseball (everbody gets to field the ball and swing the bat) and soccer (everybody on the field gets to kick the ball, everybody can score; except the goalie, but I guess he technically could. Then, sign him up for the U.S Olympic Team :blabbermo)

That's great that they share the kids (or at least willing to do so) with both sports being during the same season. I know of a school this year, and their starting nose guard was also the 3rd leading scorer on their Region Semi Finalist Soccer team. Their football team also made it to the 2nd round of the playoffs and did well.