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There always seems to be a "good group" of middle schoolers coming up. It hasn't translated to success at the high school level.

We do "almost" always have a good group of middle schoolers. Four years ago we had a good group of eighth graders. Unfortunately, it has translated into six seniors. I don't know how many seniors Wayne County had but I know they had a lot more of upper classmen than Clay. ANY time Clay has 10-15 seniors they will compete. I have confidence that the current/past staff can coach the fundamentals and X's & O's. Keeping 10-15 juniors and seniors has been and will be the greatest challenge ahead for Combs. I've been scratching my head over this for years and don't know the answer. Hopefully we get it figured out soon. Someone mentioned in an earlier post about weakening the schedule...at this point that is not a bad idea. Anybody that thinks its a bad idea simply isn't thinking. Winning solves a lot of problems and for whatever the reason is, Clay is indeed young and experienced. Winning a few outside the district is paramount at this point in the building process. Sorry guys, you can point fingers and criticize offensive and defensive schemes all you want, we simply ARE NOT going to compete with most of the teams on our schedule at our current starter average age. My statements in no way are being critical of those that do play, they're out there fighting.