[ImagineThat!]

The way the players get on these teams makes this showcase program a joke. The coaches will control who gets on it, they will do a poor and crooked job of it. We need to let the players vote on whether to keep their coach for next year or not. That would wake up school officials wouldn't it? New coaches are what are needed to keep our mountain regions from getting their collective butts kicked every year in the state tournament. Players here have just as much talent across the board as anywhere else, it is the coaches who lack the talent. This program will showcase how lacking they truly are.

I'm not going to say that there are not coaches that should not be coaching or could not improve, but the coaching is not what is holding back volleyball in the mountains. In the mountains, most of your better female athletes play three sports. They go from one sport to the next and do not have time to focus on one sport and dedicate themselves to one sport. In western KY and northern KY, high school volleyball is a warm-up for club volleyball. They play volleyball year-round. Club volleyball is where they know they will get looked at by colleges. IMO this is the biggest difference in mountain volleyball and the rest of the state.