[Mr.Kimball]

I think there is some truth to this....[B][B]I heard BMR on a radio show say that he would try to make a run at Reg. title every 3-4 years. Developing 8-9th graders to make a run when they were juinors or seniors...Anything in between is just icing on the cake....[/B][/B]
Its just hard for a small school to have a freshman team or a Jv team...Some kids develop a little slower so lack of playing time deff. does not help this...some get discouraged and quit...so with dwindling numbers comes lack of talent...no one to compete for spots...no one pushing or trying to take starting positions...The quick solution would be an easier non district sched. With a couple of winning seasons students will get excited and want to be a Tiger again...

I think that it is very much evident that that's what he has tried to do. I do think that with the last regional title bunch, he went a little overboard with that though. He went for 3 to 4 of years and basicly only played about 6 kids. Can you blame any kid for getting discouraged and not wanting to bust his butt every day knowing that they would never get to play? Especially, when you have kids that have transferred in playing over top of you, and you have been a Tiger since the day you were born. Take for example two years ago Slone, Pack, and Murray. That's half of the guys that even got to play. It's hurting the program now, IMO.

Also if you remember, BM watered the schedule down immensly when that bunch was 8th graders and freshmen. He went to the absolute extreme on that too, I thought.