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Colonel,

I respect your response. It makes sense. As I explained to the young canoeman, we all have the same situation with regards to baseball, 4H camp, family vacations, etc. Do you think the children of Floyd County, KY are the only active children in the entire Commonwealth?

As for "small schools" and budgets and such, I say if your coach doesn't want to take your middle school players to a Division 1 college, play on their facilities in front of D1 coaches, interact with those players, get tours inside the facilities, compete against teams from all over the state, and have an all around awesome time, well then I say you should ask your coach why he is coaching. That is my personal opinion.

I know there are coaches out there who only want to play if they think they can win. That is the truth. Personally, we are taking the kids that are able to go. We are a county with 2 stop lights. I don't feel sorry for you if you have 4 middle schools in your county. We have 1. Our player's parents are toting the kids down, the kids came up with $16 to spend the night in the dorms the night before, and our program covered the $150 entry fee. I don't think that is too extravagant.

FYI, I called about reservations today at the state park resort in Prestonburg and they wanted $89 a night (+ tax) for us to come there and stay the night before the 7 on 7 there. You do that math?

So, in closing, I have slowly but surely realized that this board has a lot of Eastern KY folks on it. I don't expect you all to know what is going on in the other parts of the state. However, for you all to say you are the "best" at things, I feel you should compete with teams from across the state to measure that.

Again, that is my personal opinion.