[Granny Bear]

Charlie, you never cease to amaze me with your foresight and common sense. You have given excellent analogies and a tremendous description of how the process works. Well too often, we get those whose teams that are not as good blame it simply on illegal recruiting. They want to make excuses for their own shortcomings by making saying its the fault of someone else as to why they are not successful. That's why we now have children growing up not being accountable for their own actions. Their parents or support model have taught these kids that "Its not your fault, someone else is to blame".

For me, it's always been about who has the best programs that succeed. Those schools that build tremendous support models are the benefactors of successful teams for longer periods of time. Lets face it, the Ft. Thomas football league just might be the very best youth football program around. Its charter is structured football that teaches the proper skills and sportsmanship for the children of Ft. Thomas. The league is made up of children from that area but there is a small number of outsiders that are allowed in after they have all the Ft. Thomas children who sign up. They fill in the teams with youth from outside the area. My son was privileged enough to play in that league in 4th and 5th grade. His first year, Mueller came down to speak to the boys. It was my first chance to hear him speak. His motivation and enthusiasm sold me and my son. After practices, we went to watch the Birds practice and were so amazed at the structure and execution that Highlands ran their practice. We went to more HHS games that year than we did Campbell County games (where we live).

We went to the Red Devils and were part of what may be the greatest teams in Red Devil History with Buzzy Johnson, Chris Kelly, Michael Kremer, Brady Hightchew, Nate Geiman, Jake Cain, Jake Rebholz and Connaughton. But all of those kids went their separate ways to as many as 8 different High Schools. The story behind this is that the Ft. Thomas feeder created 4 QB's, 8 RB's, etc.... All that knew the Highlands way and entered into High School as a group that already knew how to play football. This is the true backbone to HHS's program. Sure, there are kids that come along the way, but it's the foundation that makes this program great and that program is built out of the small community of Ft. Thomas!

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That charlie22 is definately a keeper!!!

If only he wasn't a lawyer!!