[RunItUpTheGut]

I didn't say anything about schools not working as hard or, for that matter, harder, than the Laurels. All I said is the Laurel's success is not all numbers and advantages. They work hard. Period. There's been years where girls have got up at 6 a.m. 3 days a week for conditioning. If these two schools approached the game differently, the results would be much different. If I'm coaching against these two, I take a long look at trying to do things more like they do. You ain't going to change things picking up a ball and bat on February 15th.

LOL, that's my exact point. Most schools in this region cant do that. They have a limited number of athletes to choose from, and nobody that knows what theyre doing in a lot of the areas to coach summer ball since the school coaches cant.

I still cant understand why the KHSAA cannot allow coaches to coach summer ball. I don't see how its any different than basketball being allowed to play all summer. That is one thing that could greatly increase the parity.

To see the difference as a fan of one of the Laurel County schools is going to be hard to do. To see it as a difference being one of the smaller schools is hard to do. Im just a neutral observer of the game. No ties to a program and not family playing or coaching anywhere. As I see it now, those schools, along with the larger schools have a much greater advantage in a game where skill and tuned in coordination is 99% of the game. Its pretty much like all of London gets an extra 3 months of softball every year while a girl going to Harlan would have to travel 100 miles to make a practice for a summer team, if she would even be lucky enough to make the team, and its not going to help the fact that her other 10 teammates at Harlan cannot do it with her.