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The state of Kentucky will never excel in football until we get Coaches that have the players best interests in mind. Basketball and Football coaches alike have to work together in order to get kids more recognition and notoriety on a national level. If you look at the 2016 Recruiting class, it's probably the deepest class this state has ever seen. But, that is also an outcome of those players being projected into the recruiting scene at an earlier age. There are some big opportunities for middle school football players such as the FBU National Tournament. Every year the top talent in the Nation comprise the 64 teams across the Nation. Talent evaluators use the tournament to begin their ranking lists for recruiting classes. Ask any of the top recruits in the state (the first group from Kentucky to compete) and they will tell how the tournament prepared them for the level of competition they would face going into high school and provided them with a sense of what was needed to be a top recruit. With that said I've found out that some middle school and high school coaches have demanded that their players not play in this tournament due to their own selfish agendas. Coaches giving players ultimatums to either pick the tournament or they would not be allowed to play basketball. Coaches hindering the future of their players. It's a shame that when their is a kid talented enough to be one of the top players in the Nation if not the top and his Middle School basketball and football coach will not let him compete in the tournament. If I was the kid I would be leaving town and looking for a place that I knew had my back.

great post. some changes definitely need to be made.