[dawgbyte02]

I believe that sports are very important. I believe that it teaches kids a lot of life lessons (if they'll pay attention). I love the competetiveness, I love the discipline it teaches, I love the comradery, and I love them learning to seek a goal, work hard, work harder and then work even harder yet, and strive to acheive it as a team and to personally strive to be the best you can personally be.. I was fortunate to have two sons receive college athletic scholarships as well, and I loved every minute of watching them play.

So dawgbyte with all that said, I still completely agree with every word you said. There is still way more to life than sports. Many of those examples are what you mentioned. The part about job interviews, job skills, and the such is something also that you hit the nail right on the head with. Anyone that is in your position (as I am as well) can tell you just how pathetic the options are for perspective employers.


Really , it all comes down to putting all things in their proper perspective and priority and having the common sense to distinguish what each are..I was able to talk to in my opinion the greatest player to ever play at Lawrence Co. just this week and also I can say that he may be one of the finest young men and human beings that I ever ever had the pleasure of being around (but I can say that about his whole family too) to go on top of that, and it just came to me that he is the perfect example to describe what I am talking about. Lawrence Co. is very fortunate to have Stevie Blevins on staff as a perfect example to your kids of what to strive to acheive for in life and as an example of how to go about acheiving those things the right way. I can assure you that he did go about it the right way too, because our families traveled what seemed like all over the world together for several summers and I saw it first hand....Class is the best word I can think of to describe him. Naw, I found a better term...First Class....... So dawgbyte it can both work hand in hand. Granted it's not always easy, but again always remember these words, "discipline, perspective, and priority".

Very well said. I to believe that sports, band, cheer, FFA and any number of other extracurricular activities are good for the body, mind and soul. As you are aware it should always be about the TOTAL education of our young people. I to have had the pleasure of watching mine on the college level. And if I had one piece of advice to parents of athletes as Seeger says keep it in perspective because it is not about the sport it's about the education, whether in high school or college.
You are absolutely right about Stevie Blevins, class act.