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The bold statement I will have to disagree with. I have no name to speak of in the Russell community but my son managed to earn his starting position on the 05 team.

That may be the case for your son. I'm not saying this is the case for all players and all positions. I'm saying that it happens..and I'd guess much more often than it should. I'm not naive enough to think this doesn't happen in life in general. But one of the ideas of being a good coach, especially at the high school level (where most students aren't making it to play college football, much less the pros) is that you are teaching kids about life. One of those lessons we like to think sports imparts onto our kids is that with hard work you can do anything (a bit naive sometimes but thats what we tend to say) however, with McGlone, this is often not the case. I remember the two supposed "stars" on my team literally cursing and screaming at him during practices and right on the football field. I can remember one of these "stars" telling his backup that they should be the starter because they worked harder and out performed him. Even he couldn't talk McGlone out of starting him. In fact, the year before he was the starter, the QB who was the starter then asked the coaches not to make him his backup for the same reasons. Did it change? no. What kinds of messages do these tell the student athletes? I'm not sure exactly for each person, but for me it probably isn't good.