[Dawg@heart]

Well, the young players sure didn't make much of a showing for themselves today in the Panorama at Johnson County Middle-actually embarassed themselves more than anything else!! 7th grade looked decent enough, some good kids at this level. As for the 8th grade-pitiful is a good description. And the sad part is there are several really talented players there. Coaching was horrible. first you cannot keep 17 kids on a basketball roster-way too many. these kids are old enough to be cut in tryouts like they are at every other school. Also can't play kids out of obligation at this level. Whomever makes basketball decisions for Lawrence County's kids best remedy the problem in the 8th grade coaching situation or there will be players drop out of basketball right now. We heard that the starters stand around in practice for 30-45 minutes at a time while the head coach spends all his time teaching the other kids how to play basketball. Shouldn't they already know by now??
Youth league is ended in elementary school and its time to think about the future of LC basketball. To do that you have to have a coach that is in the program and can coach the game. I'm sorry for these boys, especially the starters because they certainly won't get any better with another season like they had last year.