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Can you name any Basketball players!!!! NO How many are playing college Basketball!!! None Do not cut on the football program. A school the size of Pikeville needs to have have kids play multiple sports for it to be successful. That is the way it has been in the past 25 years. The pressure for kids to specialize has come about over the last couple of years which has caused some problems within the school system. Kids do not need to be pressured into committing to one sport.

When I was in high school there was no pressure to specialize in one sport. I played baseball, basketball, football, and threw and ran track. Of course I have at least one regional championship in all four of those sports. I still got a football scholarship playing all four sports. These kids now a days that "specialize" in one sport are only hurting themselves. How many sports did Chase Gibson play-2, what about Jeremiah Akers-3, what about Matt Branham-2, what aboout Matt Walls-3. All of these guys played more than one sport and all of them got scholarships to play ball in college. So these kids now are just lazy kids that don't want to better themselves in my opinion. Playing ffotball helped me in basketball and baseball, playing baketball helped me in football and baseball. kids today are just too babied my mommies and daddies that don't want baby to get hurt. By playing sports you take on the risk of hurting. Suck it up!