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This is not my choice, not to play ,I was told by the school superintedant we would not be playing. In the past there has been alot of this teams bailing out and not showing up for games. This conference has gone down hill, the format for the playoffs change year to year, this year three champions last year inter-division(small vs. large) and only one champion. Last year we were in the small group and were competetive and won the small side ,then the playoff format changed and we ended up playing all large schools so what gives? Did I complain ,no I just played the games, schools bailed on us for the past three years but we did not go bashing their kids or coaches, this has been the roughest year I have experienced , I begged the conference to keep us in the small group where we at least could give teams some competition but there were three votes for us and the rest were against. This was done even though I stated that our population in the schools(Inez and Warfield) had dropped and we had 22 outof 28 that had never played football, they voted to move us into the large group. Another reason for us is the geographical outlay, with the gas prices, we are the northern most team and all the schools in the large group(except JC) they are roughly 2hrs. away, all of the small schools are within 45min.(except Hazard) Now explain that one?Some on here have stated we should be kicked out, so be it, the superintendant has already stated that if we are not in the small or even the north side div. we will not be in the BSVC. next year.I am just a coach trying to teach kids to play football and this year has been difficult I find myself teaching basic fundamentals, ones that most were taught in the first season of youth league. Not taking anything away from our youth program because 2 thirds of our team did not play youth league. They are really a good group of kids just inexperienced and to see them at their schools getting teased and ridiculled is a little too much. One of the comments I read on here about what does this teach our kids? Humility I guess but I am not whining about it , it is what it is If these kids can weather the storm right now good things will happen to them in the future.