No,

Bedford and Milton should have separate teams and play with New Castle, Pleasureville, Campbellsburg and Eminence.

 

What would this gain them?

I think Henry, Trimble, and Carroll should join in with us, Gallatin, Walton V. Owen,Pentelton and Grant co's. We have very nice league with teams starting with 1st-2nd, 3rd-4th, and 5th-6th grades and all 7th-8th graders play middle school. Grant has 2 teams in each age group, for total of 6 teams, Henry could probly have couple teams and one from Emenince, have 12 team league with north south divisions. We currently play home and away games.

What would this gain them?

 

More kids playing

I think Henry, Trimble, and Carroll should join in with us, Gallatin, Walton V. Owen,Pentelton and Grant co's. We have very nice league with teams starting with 1st-2nd, 3rd-4th, and 5th-6th grades and all 7th-8th graders play middle school. Grant has 2 teams in each age group, for total of 6 teams, Henry could probly have couple teams and one from Emenince, have 12 team league with north south divisions. We currently play home and away games.

 

Having 3 little league teams feeding the middle school helps the program at Henry.

I agree that the yellow jackets team is a great feeder program for 6th grade and below. But I think the sr team hurts the varsity program in the long run. It creates a division between the kids and, from what I can see, there is a lot of animosity even between the two teams, the sr yellow jackets team and the middle school team.

 

I believe in 7th grade you need to come together in a school sanctioned program that gets the kids used to the grade requirements and playing as a team. They begin to play the competition that they will play for a majority of their jv and varsity career. Also, this program needs the involvement of the varsity coaches. By this I mean, they need to make sure the lower level coaches are effectively coaching the kids in the manner in which they will be coached on the high school level.

 

I think the middle school team should only be for 7th/8th graders, with the exception of a breakout 6th grader. This sr yellow jackets team has been a very political controversial topic that no one seems to want to address, but I think it has cause our programs to get worse and worse. Not that those kids don't receive good coaching on the yellow jackets team. In all honesty, it is a better team, but the school team already is receiving the programming to lose. They lost a majority of their games by 20 points or more without much of an offensive showing.

 

This year's seniors was the 1st or 2nd year that the sr yellow jackets team was in place. From the results that we are having, I don't believe this system is working. Not that there aren't other factors, but when you need to re-build the way Carroll needs to, you need to look at everything.

I think Henry, Trimble, and Carroll should join in with us, Gallatin, Walton V. Owen,Pentelton and Grant co's. We have very nice league with teams starting with 1st-2nd, 3rd-4th, and 5th-6th grades and all 7th-8th graders play middle school. Grant has 2 teams in each age group, for total of 6 teams, Henry could probly have couple teams and one from Emenince, have 12 team league with north south divisions. We currently play home and away games.

 

I think that is a great idea. This is very similar to what we are doing in basketball too and that seems to be working well on the lower levels.

I think Henry, Trimble, and Carroll should join in with us, Gallatin, Walton V. Owen,Pentelton and Grant co's. We have very nice league with teams starting with 1st-2nd, 3rd-4th, and 5th-6th grades and all 7th-8th graders play middle school. Grant has 2 teams in each age group, for total of 6 teams, Henry could probly have couple teams and one from Emenince, have 12 team league with north south divisions. We currently play home and away games.

 

Sounds good to me. Currently, our kids play in the Henry/Eminence league. Why not have both sides join into one program? Distance is the only factor that I can think of. Some parents may not want to drive their kids to Grant Co/Walton-Verona from here and vice versa.

Sounds good to me. Currently, our kids play in the Henry/Eminence league. Why not have both sides join into one program? Distance is the only factor that I can think of. Some parents may not want to drive their kids to Grant Co/Walton-Verona from here and vice versa.

 

I think that it is a good league. My friends kids play in it and really enjoy it.

The drive will be a problem for Henry and Trimble to go to Grant Co.

 

Henry has 3 Elementary schools and each has a team. 2 Teams would be nice, but it would take away from what Henry has.

I think the middle school programs should be 7th & 8th graders (like it was IN THE DAY) and let 6th graders play in the Little Leage programs. The only thine most 6th graders do on middle school teams is "ride the pine". Some will get some action, but I would guess very few.

5th graders going against the other league teams of 5th & 6th is causing them to get clobbered and lose interest in the game. It is tough to have fun when you have trouble even scoring.

I think the middle school programs should be 7th & 8th graders (like it was IN THE DAY) and let 6th graders play in the Little Leage programs. The only thine most 6th graders do on middle school teams is "ride the pine". Some will get some action, but I would guess very few.

5th graders going against the other league teams of 5th & 6th is causing them to get clobbered and lose interest in the game. It is tough to have fun when you have trouble even scoring.

 

Good points there are very few 5th graders who can play with 8th graders, and you are putting them at greater risk of injury.

Sorry I was late ot the yellow jacket program. The yellow jacket program works fine. I agree that 7/8 should play at the middle school, but there is too much coach turnover at the middle school and the asst that they hire are not the best. Kids play for the YJ because of the stability of the coaches and that they know that they will be there year in and year out. If you knew anything about the YJ program then you would see how many kids that have went to the high school program and have returned to help the younger kids at practice. The middle school program is needs to get a coach in there that is going to stay and hire some asst that will make a difference. The kids need a coach who will be there for them not for just one season then leave. It is hard to build a winning tradition when you don't know who the coach is going to be year in and year out.

I was not aware that Carroll had 7th and some 8th grade players playing on a different team then their MS. I know Carroll has been having a good deal of probelm in the MS competing with the teams they play. Cutting your talent that way is not going to help anyone.