My only point, if Conner and Cooper wanted to platoon, they could. If they don't, that's completely fine! I don't care. But saying they can't...I don't buy it. That's all. It's for some coaches and it's not for others. I don't care who uses it. You guys are acting like I'm condemning those two schools for not platooning. I could care less!!! But they could if they chose to. It just takes some work and the willingness to change the program. It's a transition. It's not for everyone. Some coaches want their superstars on both sides of the ball the entire game and some develop other kids to sustain success. That's it.

You over simplify it. You make it sound as if it's just that easy.

 

Do you actually believe for one second if they could platoon they would choose not to? Cooper basically platooned 2 years ago or at least tried to at the start but they had injuries and had to out in players that could do the job rather than just put a body out there so they could say they are "platooning".

 

You cant oversimplify it. If it was that easy trust me, they'd do it. When you don't have the players that can actually play at that level and not be a liability then they would play them.

 

No coach goes out there with the idea that they want to run their players to death by having them play both ways. It's a choice they'd rather not have to make but if they want to win they have no choice.

Like I said, any team that has 22 players can platoon. What is your goal though, to win or to give out participation trophies?

 

What in the world are you talking about with participation trophies? Teams that platoon seem to have done pretty well over the years right?

 

And I root for HHS, there is no such thing as participation trophies. Win state or your season fell short. That's it. Period!

 

And no, any team with 22 players may not be able to platoon if they didn't develop all 22 players. And platooning is more than just 11 and 11. It also includes backups for those starting 11. But again...you have to choose to develop that. Do you really think that even the biggest schools in the state could just platoon without developing their talent?? There are some big schools in the state that aren't very good! ANY school that wants to platoon has to buy in and develop their talent and depth at a young age. Regardless of size. Some achools choose to do that and some don't.

What in the world are you talking about with participation trophies? Teams that platoon seem to have done pretty well over the years right?

 

And I root for HHS, there is no such thing as participation trophies. Win state or your season fell short. That's it. Period!

 

And no, any team with 22 players may not be able to platoon if they didn't develop all 22 players. And platooning is more than just 11 and 11. It also includes backups for those starting 11. But again...you have to choose to develop that. Do you really think that even the biggest schools in the state could just platoon without developing their talent?? There are some big schools in the state that aren't very good! ANY school that wants to platoon has to buy in and develop their talent and depth at a young age. Regardless of size. Some achools choose to do that and some don't.

 

Correct platooning is at least having 15 kids for offense and at least 15 for defense.

You over simplify it. You make it sound as if it's just that easy.

 

Do you actually believe for one second if they could platoon they would choose not to? Cooper basically platooned 2 years ago or at least tried to at the start but they had injuries and had to out in players that could do the job rather than just put a body out there so they could say they are "platooning".

 

You cant oversimplify it. If it was that easy trust me, they'd do it. When you don't have the players that can actually play at that level and not be a liability then they would play them.

 

No coach goes out there with the idea that they want to run their players to death by having them play both ways. It's a choice they'd rather not have to make but if they want to win they have no choice.

 

Never said one time it was easy. In fact I said you have to commit to it. It's a lot of work. Some want to commit and some don't. And again, I could care less who does and doesn't. I'm not condemning either staff for not doing it! The point you and other one is trying to tell me is that it can't be done. It can. They choose not to invest the time and that totally fine and their choice. I don't care if they do or don't.

 

It is a choice. Again, you can't just start it at the varsity level. You have to invest time at the younger ages. If you don't believe in it, you develop the real food atheletes in each class. If you buy into it, you sacrifice at the younger ages to develop more kids...knowing that it will pay off in the long run.

 

You do have a choice and some don't choose to do it and that's completely fine. Not condemning either program for what they want to do. But with more and more teams switching over to platooning, competing against those teams are not gonna get any easier.

SK won the JV game I believe the score was 49 to 24?

I must say Trent Kincaid is one heck of a player. He made a play late in the game to swat a deep ball, thing of beauty.

What in the world are you talking about with participation trophies? Teams that platoon seem to have done pretty well over the years right?

 

And I root for HHS, there is no such thing as participation trophies. Win state or your season fell short. That's it. Period!

 

And no, any team with 22 players may not be able to platoon if they didn't develop all 22 players. And platooning is more than just 11 and 11. It also includes backups for those starting 11. But again...you have to choose to develop that. Do you really think that even the biggest schools in the state could just platoon without developing their talent?? There are some big schools in the state that aren't very good! ANY school that wants to platoon has to buy in and develop their talent and depth at a young age. Regardless of size. Some achools choose to do that and some don't.

You just repeated what I've been saying all along. I have said you can't platoon simply because you have so many players in the team. You have to have the players that can play. You call it develop but it translates to the same thing, talent. If you don't have the talent to platoon then you can't platoon.

 

I said participation trophies because earlier all you thought you needed was numbers period. You would rather play more Johnny and Joes if you have numbers than play to win. It's not that easy.

 

You talk about developing as if there is a farm system somewhere. You do realize that even with pee wee teams etc. you can only play with the talent you have right? There isn't a magic pill you can give someone to all of a sudden make them great. It's embarrassing to hear you basically say no one but a few have feeder programs that actually try and teach the kids the game. Get real.

You just repeated what I've been saying all along. I have said you can't platoon simply because you have so many players in the team. You have to have the players that can play. You call it develop but it translates to the same thing, talent. If you don't have the talent to platoon then you can't platoon.

 

I said participation trophies because earlier all you thought you needed was numbers period. You would rather play more Johnny and Joes if you have numbers than play to win. It's not that easy.

 

You talk about developing as if there is a farm system somewhere. You do realize that even with pee wee teams etc. you can only play with the talent you have right? There isn't a magic pill you can give someone to all of a sudden make them great. It's embarrassing to hear you basically say no one but a few have feeder programs that actually try and teach the kids the game. Get real.

 

You read what you want to read! Never once in any of my posts or words did I ever insinuate that all you needed was numbers. Not once! I said you have to develop them! And if you commit to developing all players early then you would have plenty of players that can play. Never once said it was just by the amount of kids that you have on the sideline.

 

You said you have to have talent. Are you saying that out of 50-60 kids that stand on the sideline every week that only 20 have talent at Cooper or Conner?? I find that very hard to believe. Do you really think that these other teams that two platoon all the time just started with more talent from day one??? No! They developed it!! They took a chance one day and changed their philosophy. They may have even struggled to get there a year or two but knew if T was best for the long run. They sacrificed success at younger ages to make sure more kids got reps and tested them in game situation prior to getting to varsity level. They didn't care if they won 8th grade, freshman and JV championships. The entire program had one goal, develop ALL the talent they had. Not just the really good ones. So yes, at the younger ages I would absolutely want to play more kids rather than win so they are prepared for when winning really matters! It's actually pretty simple and it has nothing to do with participation trophies. HHS has had this philosophy of developing more kids for a very long time (even when they didn't platoon). It's not new! Are they a program that counts on participation trophies? Don't think so. Again, they've been using that philosophy for a long time. Seems to work.

 

Don't need a pill to make them great! You need development and game experience to make them better. You keep talking about great players. Do you think every kid that plays in a two platoon system is great?? No. Heck, some may be very average. That's what you're not getting. You don't have to have 44 great player to two platoon. If you're great, you are unique and being great or the number of great players you have most likely isn't going to change much. The key is developing, training and getting others game experience so they can get good enough to contribute when it counts! Do you want your pee wee programs to be really good or do you want your varsity program to consistently be good? If you take each class from pee wee and establish "well here's the 10-12 great players in this class and play them all the way up to the varsity level (because you need to play the great kids right?), what's that do to you overall numbers and depth??? Well I can tell you that's why you look around on your field and say "we just don't have the talent or depth to platoon". Well exactly! You didn't develop it at the younger ages. The focus was on developing the really great kids and pee wee championships rather than making a very average kid better so they could contribute down the road. No, there is no pill to make kids great. Platooning says you use way more kids to have success than just the "great" kids. Again, neither way is wrong, but anyone that has numbers has the ability develop those numbers and take the time to make several kids better. They may not all be great, but they will get better and contribute to the team. Every program that platoons has to have this going on in some fashion. I never once said other feeder programs don't team kids the game (again, you hear what you want). I said it's about the amount of kids you focus on and the amount of kids that actually get experience througout the younger years. Are you willing to sacrifice a win or two along the way to ensure you are creating depth down the road. Would you dare take one of the "great" kids off the field to allow someone that may be a step behind him get experience in a critical situation. Would you dare divide teams into smaller teams at the younger ages to get kids more playing time and experience, even at the chance that the two teams may not win but if they were together they would? Those are things you do to crest and develop all the talent you have. You don't choose the great kids and send them out on the field for every minute of the game to ensure you win. You force yourself to take chances with all the kids. And that's all the way up to the JV level. Again, never once a said anything about other feeder programs. Again, I could care less. But when someone says "they can't do it", I say garbage. I say you choose not to do it. AND THATS PERFECTLY FINE. Theres no need to take offense to that. You do it one way and others can do it another way. Both can work! But when someone says you can't do I just don't buy it.

 

You and the other poster said "you can't do it at Conner and Cooper. We aren't as big as SK." Or something to that effect. I said "yes you can. But you have to buy in, commit and develop the players when they are younger. That's what I've said since the first post.

 

Today, those two choose not to. And that perfectly fine. But this all started because you guys said they couldn't. Well they can. They just choose to not do the things you have to do to be able to do it! And that's their choice. You are acting like I'm attacking those programs for not doing it. I could care less! I'm saying if they wanted to they could. (If they committed to it)

I crack up when teams have 60 plus kids and can't platoon.

You read what you want to read! Never once in any of my posts or words did I ever insinuate that all you needed was numbers. Not once! I said you have to develop them! And if you commit to developing all players early then you would have plenty of players that can play. Never once said it was just by the amount of kids that you have on the sideline.

 

You said you have to have talent. Are you saying that out of 50-60 kids that stand on the sideline every week that only 20 have talent at Cooper or Conner?? I find that very hard to believe. Do you really think that these other teams that two platoon all the time just started with more talent from day one??? No! They developed it!! They took a chance one day and changed their philosophy. They may have even struggled to get there a year or two but knew if T was best for the long run. They sacrificed success at younger ages to make sure more kids got reps and tested them in game situation prior to getting to varsity level. They didn't care if they won 8th grade, freshman and JV championships. The entire program had one goal, develop ALL the talent they had. Not just the really good ones. So yes, at the younger ages I would absolutely want to play more kids rather than win so they are prepared for when winning really matters! It's actually pretty simple and it has nothing to do with participation trophies. HHS has had this philosophy of developing more kids for a very long time (even when they didn't platoon). It's not new! Are they a program that counts on participation trophies? Don't think so. Again, they've been using that philosophy for a long time. Seems to work.

 

Don't need a pill to make them great! You need development and game experience to make them better. You keep talking about great players. Do you think every kid that plays in a two platoon system is great?? No. Heck, some may be very average. That's what you're not getting. You don't have to have 44 great player to two platoon. If you're great, you are unique and being great or the number of great players you have most likely isn't going to change much. The key is developing, training and getting others game experience so they can get good enough to contribute when it counts! Do you want your pee wee programs to be really good or do you want your varsity program to consistently be good? If you take each class from pee wee and establish "well here's the 10-12 great players in this class and play them all the way up to the varsity level (because you need to play the great kids right?), what's that do to you overall numbers and depth??? Well I can tell you that's why you look around on your field and say "we just don't have the talent or depth to platoon". Well exactly! You didn't develop it at the younger ages. The focus was on developing the really great kids and pee wee championships rather than making a very average kid better so they could contribute down the road. No, there is no pill to make kids great. Platooning says you use way more kids to have success than just the "great" kids. Again, neither way is wrong, but anyone that has numbers has the ability develop those numbers and take the time to make several kids better. They may not all be great, but they will get better and contribute to the team. Every program that platoons has to have this going on in some fashion. I never once said other feeder programs don't team kids the game (again, you hear what you want). I said it's about the amount of kids you focus on and the amount of kids that actually get experience througout the younger years. Are you willing to sacrifice a win or two along the way to ensure you are creating depth down the road. Would you dare take one of the "great" kids off the field to allow someone that may be a step behind him get experience in a critical situation. Would you dare divide teams into smaller teams at the younger ages to get kids more playing time and experience, even at the chance that the two teams may not win but if they were together they would? Those are things you do to crest and develop all the talent you have. You don't choose the great kids and send them out on the field for every minute of the game to ensure you win. You force yourself to take chances with all the kids. And that's all the way up to the JV level. Again, never once a said anything about other feeder programs. Again, I could care less. But when someone says "they can't do it", I say garbage. I say you choose not to do it. AND THATS PERFECTLY FINE. Theres no need to take offense to that. You do it one way and others can do it another way. Both can work! But when someone says you can't do I just don't buy it.

 

You and the other poster said "you can't do it at Conner and Cooper. We aren't as big as SK." Or something to that effect. I said "yes you can. But you have to buy in, commit and develop the players when they are younger. That's what I've said since the first post.

 

Today, those two choose not to. And that perfectly fine. But this all started because you guys said they couldn't. Well they can. They just choose to not do the things you have to do to be able to do it! And that's their choice. You are acting like I'm attacking those programs for not doing it. I could care less! I'm saying if they wanted to they could. (If they committed to it)

You just said what you stated in this post you never said!!!!!!!!

 

let me break it down for you.

You said this: "Never once in any of my posts or words did I ever insinuate that all you needed was numbers."

 

and then in your next breath you say this "Are you saying that out of 50-60 kids that stand on the sideline every week that only 20 have talent at Cooper or Conner??"

 

Make up your mind RCC, you continue to talk out of both sides of your mouth.

 

You keep sayin you have to develop players. Wth do you think that means? Are you saying your varsity coaches are having lineman camps all year long instead of letting players play pee wee and freshman football? You make it sound like you have magical camps that players tong players simply sit in a classroom and watch tape and go out in the field to do blocking techniques and never play football at any level until they become Sophomores and then they are fully developed. Because if that isn't what you are talking about then I'd love to what what you do mean because just like Ft Thomas per wee league, Cooper also has feeder program. I know for a fact that the coaches teach the kids how to play and know for a fact several varsity coaches for Cooper are coaches in that feeder program so what the heck are you trying to say???? please inform us what your definition of development is???

 

Want to know about development? Cooper for the past 5 years have had senior starting QB's. That means the last 4 starting QBs were all 1st time starters and you wanna know something? Going back to 2013 they have out performed every DI QB they went up against starting with Drew Barker and ending with your DI QB last year along with Tanner Morgan.

 

I'd call that pretty dang good development.

 

Oh, btw, I never once said that Cooper couldn't ever platoon like you stated I said. As a matter of fact I said in this very thread that 2 years ago they did until the injur bug struck.

 

What I always did say is you can only platoon if you have the talent to do so. HUUUUGE DIFFERENCE.

Let's do this one last example and I'm done.

 

Team A platoons at the high school level. They start at a very young age preparing for it.

 

They have multiple youth teams and play several kids on their teams. All their teams do play against other teams, but sometimes they take a whoopin and sometimes they win. But there's a common goal to their method.

 

There's 4-6 really good players on each of their 4 youth teams. They are playing games every week. Kids play a lot of different positions on both sides of the ball. Again, that may mean they don't always have the best kids in the game. But they are all gaining experience and confidence.

 

Now flash forward to high school. Each kid gets slotted a side of the ball and then into a position they can play. They don't cross over and they train on that position and that position only for four years. And they also have other kids playing that position only. Technique and role expectation is taught every day and that's all that kid learns. He doesn't have to also learn plays or techniques for other positions. He focuses on his role and his role only for 4 years. He is bay far not the greatest athlete on the team, but he's become an expert at his role and is able to contribute at a high level for the team. No one would call him a great athlete and many don't even know his name. But he and his partner at that position are part of the big picture. Are there athletes on the field that are better than him? Sure! But he holds down that role. This allows the other athletes to do other things. This happened because he played early in life and was developed.

 

Now, fans of Team A could say "well Joe that plays running back was always better at that position than Johnny. Why isn't Joe playing there??? We would be better. It just makes sense to have your best athletes playing as many positions as you can right?" Well they would be right. Johnny, the teams best running back, was always a dominate middle linebacker as well. And the QB was always an outstanding defensive end. And the stud corner was always the best wide receiver. And the safety was always one of the best running backs. And the deffensive tackle was a plow when he played offense. Sure they could say all those things and they would be absolutely correct! But now other kids have been developed and can sufficiently hold down those spots that allow the superstars to be superstars at their spots. If Team A didn't take those chances to develop those kids at a younger age and give them shots, they wouldn't have the luxury of having all these kids that can hold down other spots while the elite athletes play where the team needs them the most. And every kid can focus on becoming an expert at their role. Not trying to be really good at several roles. Heck, even if your the best running back in the state in a platooning system, not only do you not play defense, but you also share carries with another running back! But when you're in the game, your legs are fresh and you are only focused on one thing. And over the course of a game, that pays off for that running back and the team.

 

Having your best elite athletes on the field all the time sounds like it's exactly the right thing to do. And I can tell you that HHS fans struggled with not doing that early on. Several felt the same way. "How can you not have so and so on the field now!!!" But now, we get it! It takes a leap of faith that a lot of programs and fans aren't willing to do therefore they just say "we don't have the talent". If you keep using that, then you'll never do it. Just about every team that didn't platoon at one time said the same thing. If they would have continued to think that way, they never would have made the switch.

 

It sounds like we're going to agree to disagree. But I will tell you...at one time I was in the same exact mindset as you are. HHS is too little and doesn't have enough elite athletes to not have them on the field all the time agaisnt good teams. Boy they proved me wrong!

Can a mod please issue participation trophies for three of the longest threads I have seen in two years? Hopefully the two participants had relief typers they could platoon in to keep the rhythm going. (Hehe)

You just said what you stated in this post you never said!!!!!!!!

 

let me break it down for you.

You said this: "Never once in any of my posts or words did I ever insinuate that all you needed was numbers."

 

and then in your next breath you say this "Are you saying that out of 50-60 kids that stand on the sideline every week that only 20 have talent at Cooper or Conner??"

 

Make up your mind RCC, you continue to talk out of both sides of your mouth.

 

You keep sayin you have to develop players. Wth do you think that means? Are you saying your varsity coaches are having lineman camps all year long instead of letting players play pee wee and freshman football? You make it sound like you have magical camps that players tong players simply sit in a classroom and watch tape and go out in the field to do blocking techniques and never play football at any level until they become Sophomores and then they are fully developed. Because if that isn't what you are talking about then I'd love to what what you do mean because just like Ft Thomas per wee league, Cooper also has feeder program. I know for a fact that the coaches teach the kids how to play and know for a fact several varsity coaches for Cooper are coaches in that feeder program so what the heck are you trying to say???? please inform us what your definition of development is???

 

Want to know about development? Cooper for the past 5 years have had senior starting QB's. That means the last 4 starting QBs were all 1st time starters and you wanna know something? Going back to 2013 they have out performed every DI QB they went up against starting with Drew Barker and ending with your DI QB last year along with Tanner Morgan.

 

I'd call that pretty dang good development.

 

Oh, btw, I never once said that Cooper couldn't ever platoon like you stated I said. As a matter of fact I said in this very thread that 2 years ago they did until the injur bug struck.

 

What I always did say is you can only platoon if you have the talent to do so. HUUUUGE DIFFERENCE.

 

Oh my goodness. Do you read the whole message or do you just take out excerpts to try and make a point. Of course you have to have physical numbers of kids. But I never said that alone is all you need!! How do you even get to some of these points? And when I said are you telling me that that other kids sitting on the sidelines don't have enough talent to get in the game (according to you), that's has nothing to do with whether you have numbers to platoon. You're looking at the here and now and saying you don't have the talent to do it this year. That's fine. No one is asking you to do it this year or any year. Just don't pretend it's not possible at Cooper. It is if that's what's they chose to do. They haven't yet. And there's nothing wrong with that. It wasn't a debate on what they should or shouldn't be doing. It's was a debate on whether they could start a platooning system if they wanted to. Never put a timeline on when! You guys just said it couldn't be done at Cooper or Conner. I said it could if they wanted to. Up til this point they just haven't wanted to. And that's their choice. You don't just snap your fingers and start platooning. It takes a lot of time and management. Again, no one said to start next week.

 

So two years ago, was their decision to platoon do to the time and effort they put in to committing to platooning or did they just say "you know what, we happen to have a lot of athletes this year. Let's try to platoon!" Because that was NEVER going to work and exactly what happened would happen most of the time and you can't sustain it year after year without continually developing talent, so you fail and you say it just doesn't work. Committing to it and trying it without any structure in place is a big difference.

Let's do this one last example and I'm done.

 

Team A platoons at the high school level. They start at a very young age preparing for it.

 

They have multiple youth teams and play several kids on their teams. All their teams do play against other teams, but sometimes they take a whoopin and sometimes they win. But there's a common goal to their method.

 

There's 4-6 really good players on each of their 4 youth teams. They are playing games every week. Kids play a lot of different positions on both sides of the ball. Again, that may mean they don't always have the best kids in the game. But they are all gaining experience and confidence.

 

Now flash forward to high school. Each kid gets slotted a side of the ball and then into a position they can play. They don't cross over and they train on that position and that position only for four years. And they also have other kids playing that position only. Technique and role expectation is taught every day and that's all that kid learns. He doesn't have to also learn plays or techniques for other positions. He focuses on his role and his role only for 4 years. He is bay far not the greatest athlete on the team, but he's become an expert at his role and is able to contribute at a high level for the team. No one would call him a great athlete and many don't even know his name. But he and his partner at that position are part of the big picture. Are there athletes on the field that are better than him? Sure! But he holds down that role. This allows the other athletes to do other things. This happened because he played early in life and was developed.

 

Now, fans of Team A could say "well Joe that plays running back was always better at that position than Johnny. Why isn't Joe playing there??? We would be better. It just makes sense to have your best athletes playing as many positions as you can right?" Well they would be right. Johnny, the teams best running back, was always a dominate middle linebacker as well. And the QB was always an outstanding defensive end. And the stud corner was always the best wide receiver. And the safety was always one of the best running backs. And the deffensive tackle was a plow when he played offense. Sure they could say all those things and they would be absolutely correct! But now other kids have been developed and can sufficiently hold down those spots that allow the superstars to be superstars at their spots. If Team A didn't take those chances to develop those kids at a younger age and give them shots, they wouldn't have the luxury of having all these kids that can hold down other spots while the elite athletes play where the team needs them the most. And every kid can focus on becoming an expert at their role. Not trying to be really good at several roles. Heck, even if your the best running back in the state in a platooning system, not only do you not play defense, but you also share carries with another running back! But when you're in the game, your legs are fresh and you are only focused on one thing. And over the course of a game, that pays off for that running back and the team.

 

Having your best elite athletes on the field all the time sounds like it's exactly the right thing to do. And I can tell you that HHS fans struggled with not doing that early on. Several felt the same way. "How can you not have so and so on the field now!!!" But now, we get it! It takes a leap of faith that a lot of programs and fans aren't willing to do therefore they just say "we don't have the talent". If you keep using that, then you'll never do it. Just about every team that didn't platoon at one time said the same thing. If they would have continued to think that way, they never would have made the switch.

 

It sounds like we're going to agree to disagree. But I will tell you...at one time I was in the same exact mindset as you are. HHS is too little and doesn't have enough elite athletes to not have them on the field all the time agaisnt good teams. Boy they proved me wrong!

I can save time because you and I were never in the same mind set if you think my mindset was we didn't have enough players to ever platoon.

 

I e been a huge fan of platooning but unlike some in here I realize you have to have the players to platoon with and that doesn't just mean numbers. You have to have players that can play at the varsity level and contribute. There is reason why out of couple million kids that play pee wee football, only a few hundred thousand ever start varsity games, and out of a million and a half that okay high school football only 6% play in college at any division level.

 

Numbers don't mean much if they can't play good enough to contribute at the level they are playing at.

 

I dont know know of a single coach that wouldn't want to platoon if they could.

 

2 years ago Cooper had the talent to and made it all the way to the semi final game like HHS did and just like HHS, they lost to Pulaski County. So Cooper can do it when they have the players to do so. When they don't they have to do what they can to win. You sometimes make it sound like these kids will be playing in HS for 10 years so they have time to develop them. That is t the case.

Oh my goodness. Do you read the whole message or do you just take out excerpts to try and make a point. Of course you have to have physical numbers of kids. But I never said that alone is all you need!! How do you even get to some of these points? And when I said are you telling me that that other kids sitting on the sidelines don't have enough talent to get in the game (according to you), that's has nothing to do with whether you have numbers to platoon. You're looking at the here and now and saying you don't have the talent to do it this year. That's fine. No one is asking you to do it this year or any year. Just don't pretend it's not possible at Cooper. It is if that's what's they chose to do. They haven't yet. And there's nothing wrong with that. It wasn't a debate on what they should or shouldn't be doing. It's was a debate on whether they could start a platooning system if they wanted to. Never put a timeline on when! You guys just said it couldn't be done at Cooper or Conner. I said it could if they wanted to. Up til this point they just haven't wanted to. And that's their choice. You don't just snap your fingers and start platooning. It takes a lot of time and management. Again, no one said to start next week.

 

So two years ago, was their decision to platoon do to the time and effort they put in to committing to platooning or did they just say "you know what, we happen to have a lot of athletes this year. Let's try to platoon!" Because that was NEVER going to work and exactly what happened would happen most of the time and you can't sustain it year after year without continually developing talent, so you fail and you say it just doesn't work. Committing to it and trying it without any structure in place is a big difference.

It did work. They made it to the state semi final game. Btw, never once did I say they didn't have the structure. Just like HHS they have a feeder program.