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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.

As matman said, we have never had a huge amount of community support. For some reason everyone in Martin County thinks their child is the next Lebron James. What is hard to figure is we have had very, very little success in basketball compared to some of the things our football program has accomplished in the past. We have never had the numbers of a Belfry or JC.

Now we have to compete with fall baseball for the interest of our youth. And don't get me started on soccer!! But we have a plan and I have confidence in it. We have some good coaches in place to coach our feeder programs. I think we will have to have some patience but we are gonna get there.