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Please accept my humblest apology for having the gall to even suggest that a trivial thing such as not having a feeder system may have a direct affect on a high school baseball team's performance on the field! Of course, a coach Combs, Varney, or Dean could take a kid who hasn't played since T-Ball (no coach pitch, just hitting off the tee), and have him playing at a high level with no trouble at all, couldn't they? You ever see a high school kid try to so a simple act as THROWING a baseball when he hasn't thrown one since he was eight years old? Or have you ever seen a kid try to hit a baseball thrown by a high schooler when he has never even seen a ball thrown by a little leaguer???? If you haven't, I'll tell you, it aint a pretty sight. Now imagine taking over a whole team of "talent" like that and competing at a high school level. That is basically what happened. I know. I saw it. It wasn't pretty.


You keep hammering at the fact that Wolfe County doesn't play or practice on Saturday's as being the main culpret for their past failures. Personally, I think they SHOULD schedule a few Saturday games, but am smart enough to know that NOT playing on Saturday's wasn't the reason for Wolfe's 3-11 record in 2002 or their 4-18 record a couple of years ago. Actually, if those teams had played on Saturdays, their won/loss record would have only been worse. Why not ask your coach what he would rather give up if he had to, a feeder program, or Saturdays? As far as some of our "past" players are concerned, they were notorious for coming up with excuses to "be out of town" when Saturday practices WERE scheduled. I'll wager some of the same guys complained to you about not practicing on Saturdays. We had a player a few years ago, one of the best athletes to ever play at Wolfe, never take baseball seriously at all. Quit as a Sophomore. Walked out on the team for a week as a Junior. Missed practices left and right as a Senior. With about two weeks to go in his Senior year and no game scheduled, Mr. Potter called off practice on that day. Had to take his kid to the doctor or something. This player went to the principals office complaining that "we ain't playing enough." I bet this same guy complained to you, as well.

By the way, you mentioned coach Varney in your post. If he fails to make the Regional tournament this year he should be fired as well. I have not been at all pleased with the job he has done the last two years. He had the most talent both years and we didn't get out of the District either year. No excuses for him either.