[HHellBird]

This is such a tough situation for both the player and the parents of the player on what is best for the team and the kid.

I don't know the player you all are speaking about, but I know how stressful the situation can be from a personal perspective.

I am a parent of a boy who played QB all through the pee wee league from 1st grade thru 8th. He was the best QB in the entire league especially his 8th grade year. Many of his former coaches said he not only had a bright future but would most deffinately be playing at the next level after HS. Unfortunately he is in a school district where a new school opened and was delegated to go there. The school was only a few years old and the varsity QB was young and is now a 3 year starter for them. He wasn't going to be replaced, yet if the school district boundaries weren't changed my son would of been the starting QB as a sophomore last year at Ryle. He would of also been the starting QB at Boone, but as fate sometimes throws you a curve ball he was sent to a school where he wouldn't get the chance to play QB because of the current QB who was only a year older would start through his senior year.

As a parent it was a tough decision, he is a very smart kid, NHS and all and a great 3 sport athlete. We really liked the new school and the fact that many of his friends were also going there made it even a tougher decision whether to stay or go to another school. We chose to keep him in the new school knowing that he may not get a proper shot at playing the position he has played his whole life. He is such a good athlete that they moved him to WR and he started both offense and defense his sophomore year, only 2 sophomores last year started the season as starters on this team and he was one of them. He never played WR before in his life yet as a sophomore led the team in yards per catch last year with a 21.6 yard average. This year he leads the wr's in yards per catch again with a 24.1 average. Last year the JV team needed a QB for the first game of the year, this after he played the entire game the night before against Ryle and he in his first time at playing QB in high school set a school record with a 99 yard TD pass in that game to beat Ryle JV. The next week they played him as QB on JV again and he went out and threw 4 TD passes. That was the extent of his QB career in high school and we keep wondering what would of happened if the new school didn't open, he'd be a starting QB at one of the other schools and may be getting some serious looks for the next level. But that isn't how the cards played out.

He isn't complaining at all, he loves playing WR and in 4 days he will be playing for a State Championship for Cooper. Something he may not of ever had the chance to do if Cooper didn't open and he went to Ryle instead or even Boone co.

So things work out in a weird way sometimes, but it still doesn't make the decisions the parents and student have to make any easier.