[#1 Blackcat Fan]

I've coached at the Junior High, Little League, and now at the 5th-6th level here at Pikeville. Most of you on here from Pikeville know who I am and I don't hide that. While I agree that the more kids you get involved and keep engaged the more will stick with it and that philosophy is what what we try to go by. But allow me to give you a coaches perspective. Let's say you have a kid who is talented but doesn't want reps in practices. He constantly goofs off in practice and is more concerned with talking to his friends than paying attention no matter what the coach does to deter this behavior, the child still is insistent on doing it his way. While I'm not saying that this kid is nessacarily a bad kid or the coaches don't like him. It is, however, very hard to put those kids in a game even in a blowout because you feel like you're rewarding that kind of behavior. These kids, even though they are still young need to learn that just showing up isn't enough. That's true in life as well as football. I don't know what PHSForevers situation is or even who they or who their child is. So I'm not aiming that at you or anyone else. Im not saying that the example I've given is always the case. There are some complete idiot coaches out there that only care about their own kids and you don't have to be a genius to identify them. I'm just trying to give you a coaches perspective.

You run his behind off till he decides if he wants to quit or put forth the effort.
My original post was not directed at this type of kid. My post was directed at the less talented, but shows up and puts forth the effort type of kid. One of the games I witnessed a particular team had around 30 players. I seen a total of 16 kids get in this game. The team was down 20+ points with less than 3 minutes left in the game. That is not the only team. I have seen others. That is why I started the thread. I was just using that one as an example.

I have yet to see Pikeville play this year, so I am not talking about you coach. Just wanted to clear that up.