[kyrj]

To me and I am talking as a parent now , Parents have to show as much interest in what their kids are doing in high school as they do the lower grades. When kids are in the lower grade programs like little league baseball, pee wee football , t- ball and so forth, parents are there to support those kids, they see that those kids go to practice and keep their commitment to the team. That needs to happen at the high school level as well, be there to support your child, just because he or she got older does not mean they do not want to look up in the stands and see mom and dad , grandpa and grandma and so on. Also take an interest in the team as a whole, what can I do to help? Run chains at the football game, work concessions and things of that nature. It will take things like this to help get more kids out IMO. When we all quit pulling in different directions and start helping each other down the same path toward the same goal then we will see some success. Compliment kids on there hard work. Now as a coach my goal is to be successful on and off the field, when a young man graduates from MCHS and a college or employer finds out he played four years of football at MCHS, they know they are getting a quality young man that has learned work ethic and has had good moral behavior reinforced for four years , and they take our young men before they take others. We are in a catch 22 though, we need more success on the field to get more players out , and we need more players to have more success. I will keep chipping away at the stone wall though and one day it will fall.