[baseball1974]

First I want you to look at what I said, I never said anywhere that winning A state championship in middle school had any thing to do with how you play out in High school. As far as Sheldon Clark is concerned I don't think middle school ball, can do anything but help you. If it didn't I don't think we would have it. If you want to find out what happened to them. I want to refere you to 3 areas that you might want to explore 1 did you have same coach in middle school as in HS, 2 do you have the same athletes. 3 is your coaching in HS sound. Do the athletes enjoy playing as much for the HS coach as much as the MScoach.

You're finally starting to back track into reality? That's good. You did say basically because these players played in a middle school state title they would be more prepared than others because "they've been there before." And the second thing speaks a lot to what I've been trying to say regarding the complaints over Mayfield having more kids in their school. The same reasons you listed is exactly why an Allen Central for example isn't cleaning house in 1A. They don't have the program and coaches others do, nor do they have the community or administration support. As far as Sheldon Clark goes, the reason they won in middle school and aren't winning now is simple, its a completely different situation. And that is why Williamsburg could win that tournament every year and it won't do anything for them when they get up to their junior or senior years. So many variables are involved and its no way fair to say to a group of kids that they should win because they won when they were in middle school. Just look at Middlesboro? They put winning a state title on that group a long time ago based off similar reasons and it was not reality at all.

We are the same team with some improvements and A year to work to get better and up to now no injuries like we played with last year. I realize we just have A very small line, and big fat running back, and A brand new inexperience Qb and it looks imposibile since we will be playing all those teams with all those trophies, you know that is scary, I just hope and pray we get the opportunity to try, that was so much fun.

You keep saying over and over and over, "We are the same team as last year." That is simply not true. The player that was responsible for 95% of the touchdowns Williamsburg scored last season is no longer there. I know everyone keeps saying the qb now is much better and so on, but what data are you basing that on? He has proven himself against great defenses all year? Nobody has seen how he is going to react in a state championship type atmosphere, and nobody knows what he will do in close games when the game is in his hands? Because of that you can not say with any credibility that the team is the same, because the team that went to the state championship game last year no longer has their offense?