[Mr. Friday Nights]

IMO, it has been the lack of a feeder program. The middle school and the youth football league were fighting for kids and it has really hurt our numbers. Youh league would have some god athletes and the middle school would have some good athletes. Neither one has had much success because they were stealing each others players. Not enough athletes to have success on one team and kids got tired of losing. Quit coming out. Now, Martin County has a 3-4th, and a 5-6 grade team. Both have good numbers and some good kids coming up.

We will take our lumps this year because we are basically playing varsity with a jv team (full of sophomores) but I believe we have things straight. And we will be fine in a year or two. Hopefully, establish ourselves over the long term.

I agree that a solid feeder program is the life blood of any program, but find it hard that kids just decided to stop coming out without other reasons. SC was one of the better teams in the state (for their class) not long ago and now they are a W on the schedule for most teams. What is the community support like there? Has there been consolidation of middle/elementary schools? I just find it hard to believe that kids are not playing at a young level when they had solid numbers in the past.

I know all schools are losing kids to outside interests but it seems SC more than most with their previous level of success.