[Coach JohnsonPLD]

Yea you’re right it’s funny but it does get old. I guess that I just didn’t realize that Douglass is lucky to be the only high school I guess in the state that players want to transfer to play football at.

A funny thing there is a school only about 2-3 miles from Douglass who complains about kids coming to Douglass has called this kid’s house a couple of times a week to come there.

Also another development that has come about @Big Daddy Bull is now that the other city schools besides Bryan Station do not have to play Douglass now this offseason they formed a new freshman league but for some reason Douglass was not invited. lol

I just wanted to shed a little light on the Freshmore League I created.  Give a little history behind it.... 

When I got to PLD 6 years ago I did join a freshman league.  We played in that league for two years.  The problem with that league for me was that very few of the teams in it had enough for a JV team.  We played the freshman game first then JV after on Monday Nights.   Nearly every Monday I would get a call from the team I was playing letting me know they didn't have enough for JV or that their JV team was not organized enough to do special teams so could we do 10 and 10 or something..  I really couldn't understand because the JV team is next up and I felt like we desperately needed to play those games.  I also struggled to make sure we had enough players for these games as well.. I'd pull up 8 or 10 of my best freshman and we'd play the game.  At PLD, we can have some good teams and have had some really good ones over the last 5 years and have had some great success, but in order for us to be good we needed two full classes to achieve that.  My philosophy changed some... I wanted my Freshman and Sophomores to start playing together because at some point they will be Juniors and Seniors.  Those players needed to learn how to play together and I wanted that to happen early.  I got out of the freshmen league and got into a JV league.  I played in that for 2 years.  The issue I was having there was that large teams like Douglass, Bryan Station, Scott County etc.. had mostly Juniors and Sophomores.. They had designated freshman teams... Our freshmen were definitely outmatched in those games.  15 and 16 year olds playing against 13 and 14 is a big difference.  So this winter I talked with lots of teams that were in the same boat I'm in.  I decided to pull us together and form the Freshmore League.  More schools than not struggle with numbers.  We are a 6A school with almost 2,000 kids and we will have 80 kids 9-12.  There are probably numerous reasons for that. But that would be another post entirely.  I do have some larger middle school classes coming up in the future, so one day I hope to have a freshmen team and a separate JV team.  At that time I'll do something else that best fits my program.  Right now the Freshmore league is what I need, so I made it happen.  I hope one day I'll have 100+ players, but that's not the world I live in.  I definitely didn't leave teams out on purpose.  It didn't make sense for some teams to be in the league, because the model just didn't fit their needs either.  Hope this helps in clearing up who is playing in it and who is not and the reason for it at all.  If anyone has any questions on the league, or you are a coach who is interested in joining the league email me wesley.johnson2@fayette.kyschools.us  Go Dawgs