[baseball_dad]

you dont dissappoint me your knowledge on the situation dissapoints me, you ramble on and on and i honestly think its for agrumentative reasons i think you know you dont know the situation there but you simply dont care, so im done fooling with you....

I was once close to the program. I didn't help out or coach, but was just someone that kept up with it. I have talked to Hammonds and past assistants he has had. I really though that a couple of years ago that this program was on it's way back. The team that went to the region 2 years straight, should have went farther than the second and first game of the region. Heck, his 2005 team should have went to the region championship. The problem was that he was listening to parents that he shouldn't have. The 2006 team should have contended for the championship as well. Again, parents getting in his way, kept that from happening. This past season, there was a lot of turmoil within the program. Players weren't buying in to what he was teaching. And it all spans from the past few seasons before. It is time for a change and should have happened this year. I once was a student at KCC. I didn't play baseball, I didn't have the gusto to play. I did like to watch, though. Those days that teams feared Knott are gone. They now fear Perry, Letcher Central, Lee, and Powell. Sure, Hammonds hasn't had the number of players that he did in the late 80's early 90's. But he did have talent. Shoot, most of the kids that played in the local Little League have played on his teams the past 7 years. And those LL teams were good.

Hammonds is a good, no, a great coach. Probably the best coach Knott has had in any sport. Knott's program is tainted, or at least until the sophomores are gone, though. Those parents he let "run" the program are gone and maybe he can turn the program around. I'm just not going to say he can. It is time for a change. Someone fresh.