[Band of Brothers]

There are several reasons that Whitley does not retain players, it has been a problem for years going back to the Campbell years. Some kids lose interest, some have crappy parents who don't want them to play, some can't step up to the next level, also Whitley has had a problem with coaches sharing athletes within the school. It is not just football that they have this problem. Parents think they can run the program and have been known to complain to board members because their kid was not starting, some kids have parents who shop them around like free agents. Parents are as big a problem as they are a help in most cases, one parent took his younger kids to another school because Coach Black did not get him a D-1 scholarship...LOL. Then took them to a third school because as 8th graders they did not get as much attention as other kids who were born and raised in that system. Whitley provides great equipment to the kids and every opportunity to succeed, but due to the way the elementary school program is run everyone thinks they are stars, thus when they find out they are average and have to wait their turn to shine they get mad and quit....I could give you a bushel full of reasons, but honestly the reasons are as numerous as the stars in the sky.