[Capt. DH]

3:30-6ISH is2 1/2 hours like I said.

I think just about every kid has the chance to take PE, but if they can't they must lift, either before school or after school. It wouldn't be fair to the other kids who lift if you didn't make it up.

Offseason is 3:20-4:30 Mon., Tues., Thur., and Fri. Not every day of the week.

If you miss, he doesn't make you feel like crap. It's the 15 minutes that you have to stay after practice each day until the time you missed is made up, that makes you feel like crap. It's only time that you make up, not the conditioning and hitting. He makes you pick up after practice and take in the equipment.

Balancing football and grades is the hardest thing for a young kid to do. We have several kids on the team with all A's and as far as I know, none of the kids had to set out or miss any football due to grades. He checks grades every week and makes kids that have C- or below keep an assignment notebook. For kids that have D's or below he has a FACTS program, which is a mandatory study session.
And by the way, the majority of his kids don't have terrible grades. They have really good grades at a tough school like Pikeville, where 93%-100 is an A. 83%-92 is a B, etc.

Last, I wasn't trying to personally attack you. I'm just saying that you may have other things that interest you and football is probably not very high on that list. It's probably the best for you and the football team that you didn't play. If you were not happy you probably had a negative attitude, and kids that are trying and working their butts off don't need that around anyway

Elwayfan, I agree with you and what you said. Pantherpro was better off not playing because he wouldn't have been taking too very well if he was pouting around and being negative. There is really no difference in the time that is put towards football now and when I played in the early 80's. These kids that don't play are lazy or extremely excuse oriented. It is always everybody else's fault and not their own. A lot of these kids have no sense of pride and history.