[dkrude]

There is a couple of issues facing Powell County in multiple sports. They don’t have a competitive developmental program for their Grade Schools. It use to be a very competitive rivalries between Bowen, Stanton, and Clay City. Then they brought in Jr Pro and got away from School ball. Every Kid doesn’t need a trophy, they need to be earned. Some years we were the best team and others we had to fight to just be able to get the ball down the court. It made us better.

Powell County has always played upperclassmen and held back kids that have greater potential to satisfy the politics with the County. If little tommy is in the 8th grade and as good as little Timmy that is a junior then bring Tommy up and get him some time on the floor.

High School coaches don’t communicate or work with any of the grade schools or middle coaches to ensure a common message is being given to the kids. No plans in place to start fundamentals and continue them through the athlete’s career.

Powell doesn’t have but one middle school. So on a middle school team in basketball you have 5 starters. Knott County goes from k-8 in one building and has 7 Schools that play middle school ball which means they have 35 starters in basketball every season. And it is a very competitive school league that they play. Traveling in and out of county to play.

Blake is from Knott County and in Powell he cant wait for the middle school to dump him a large amount of players each year. He is going to have to help in making changes at the grade school level and be a bigger voice at the middle school level or his time here will be short. Blake is a great guy but he doesn’t have the same luxuries that he had in Knott County.

Again this isn’t just a boys basketball problem in goes across other sports, like softball and girls basketball.