If the best CC players have come up from the Red Devils program in recent years, what does the poor showing of the Camels football program say about the Red Devils system?

 

Great, the RD's have "real Officials" and "real Coaches". Perhaps they should get rid of some of those "real coaches" and get some Real teachers that care about player development and running a system that translates into high school success.

 

I have every confidence that the CC grounds staff will have the field in ship shape by football season!

The CCYFL is no comparison to the NKYFL or Red Devils.

Do they use officals? They do, but not real ones. Kind of like their coach's.

Speaking of coach's.

The coach's they use are made up of ex-red devil Dads, who kids would not be stars for us. They left to coach them there.

We could always play a game.

 

The tax dollars I'm talking about are the wasted money that has and will continue to be spend on a field not suitable for playing on.

 

You come across like a school board member. Because you have no clue about how things should be done.

Turf is expensive, but more cost effective compared to the wasted money used the last 5 years on the current dust bowl. How much more money will be wasted to fix the current problem?

If they are the current leaders who think they know everything then fire ad's, coach's and kick youth basketball and football players off of fields that there parents tax dollars pay for. But these same people can't grow grass or turn on a hose.

But you fell for all of it and let the cat out of the bag..

The Red Devils were kicked off the field for the CCYFL,their own youth league.

Remember you have 10 varsity coach's that played for the Red Devils.

We were good enough then but not now.

That is poor leadership to say the least.

 

What kind of absurd statement is this? As a former Red Devil player and coach, I'm embarrassed by your remarks. You should re-evaluate the "real" reason why you are coaching youth athletics. Is it to produce Stars? It should be to develop young men into fundementally sound football players that have a passion for the game that we have grown to love.

 

Both the Red Devil program and CCYFL provide viable options for "kids" that want to play football. They are co-existing and both will continue to flourish. Your continued efforts to bash the CCYFL and the field they play on will not get you elected to the Board.

The field will look fine in about three to four weeks, even though it might appear to be a desert right now.. Also since the crumb rubber was added, injuries have been down.

 

Brossart football who knows where they will be playing, but I bet it will not be a the Pyramid.

 

I hope you are correct. I will go back for a visit mid-May and will report back. I didn't see any grass, sprigs, or dormant grass seedlings. Just dirt, some black rubber at mid-field and a few clumps of weeds. I am more concerned about the trenches left by the bands and how the deeply worn paths can be safely covered by the burmuda...

 

IMO... the Camels and all athletic teams who use the field for competitive play deserve better!

First off everyone knows that Bermuda grass turns brown in the winter, really the only green spots on the field right now should be pullled because they are weeds, not grass. Secondly I do have to say I think its a pretty dumb thing to have Bermuda grass for a playing surface for a Northern Kentucky High School field, only one other school tried that here in NKY and that was Highlands, and we all know what they have went to now. I do beleive all athletic fields have went down hill in the past years such as the softball field that can't get right, the soccer field is harder than ever and lets not even start on a baseball field that use to be top in the region, and top in Northern Kentucky, also a gymnasium that has holes in the dry wall and a panel of dry wall falling out. So its safe to say whomever is in charge of grounds, i think its the Alexander lady, has been doing a very very poor job. Campbell has always been referred by many in Northern Kentucky as a "Hillbilly" school and in the past 5 years you can really see that coming to light.

 

As for trying to bash board members for these things that can't be done. We all know that there has to be a vote on what things get done and what dont get done, so why not ask your board to vote on getting a new surface for the football field and see which ones are for and against it. It is very clear that some board members that are coming up for re-election very soon (I beleive this year) are totally against many things that others try to bring up in order to push the school forward in trying to become better. I know for a fact b/w the high school team, middle school teams, youth league, red devils, and band that field had roughly 55 events on it alone this year from the end of August until about the very first of November so in roughly 10 weeks there were 55 events, I don't care what grass you have or grounds crew you have your lawn wont keep up, anyone could tell you that. Heck pro fields only get at max with high school games etc. 15 games a year!!! Even pro baseball fields only get 81 games in 6 Months, only 30 more events than at campbell county but yet in 3 times as much time. The only real solution is to get turf, and I agree with this so that everyone can use it, but I know some board members are for it and some are against it, so go to an open meeting and ask whom is for and whom is against and see what your school board rep is for, because an election will be coming up soon.

Would someone answer this Question?

 

Why is there 10 Red Devils coaching the high school?

 

They were good enough to play on that field and coach kids there.

 

But someone has a great idea, lets charge $1,500 the kids who go to this school to play on this field.

 

In other words price them off the field.

 

We offered to play a game to help fundraising but you guys declined.

Why?

Why did the school board kick the youth basketball league out also?

 

We finished playing our games at Highlands. Just like Corson you are running players away from your school.

I am a big Fan of Cc high school players and coach's. It is the school board always causes the problem.

Also for anyone from Red Devils to bash Campbell County for them looking out for their own league first is just moronic. Lets face it Red Devils back in the day use to be the only team in Campbell County and most of those kids went to play for Campbell County. The past 15 years a lot of Red Devil players have now went to differnt private schools, so why should Campbell put a feeder team that has a lot of kids not go to their school district over children that are already in the Campbell County School system and will be attending this school system for a long long time? It's like buying your kid a new toy but letting the neighbors kids play with it more than your kid does, it just wouldn't make sense and neither would letting the Red Devils take first dibs for a field over one of their own teams.

 

My question is this, what has the Red Devils done for Campbell County in the past 10 years? You can easily bash the field that they have provided to you for free and their cost, so why not if you want the field to be nicer ask to go in and pay for upkeep to it. It's people and organizations that look for handouts and then complain about them when they have had a favor done for them that really have a messed up mind, it'r rediculous and abosolutely arrogant. Like posted before its about the kids playing games, not about an organization or some "legacy" that these Red Devil people think that they have. There is only one group of people that give a hoot about the red devils and that are the red devil people themselves, other than that no one cares and no one thinks about the team.

 

By the way I am an Ex-Red Devil myself, and won some Super Bowls while I was there and its embarassing to hear the stuff I heard on here from some of the red devil people, the organization or well those involved with the organization have really changed over the years, and maybe thats why these coaches now coach for the Campbell County Youth football league, because they are back to what Red Devils use to be, somethign for the kids to learn to play ball, kinda like the Ft.Thomas League.

Your backing a Coach that went 9-32 for a career at a then 4A school with an enrollment of 1,300 kids are you serious? Oh and the year he finally was let go he was 0-10 and you would keep him around? I sure hope your not a manager at some company or anything.

And your saying that fundraising would have been $8,000 dollars off this one event? Are there luxury suites available at these games? Will Marvin Lewis, Pete Carrol, Bill Bilicheck be at this game as well, because wow I don't know how a youth team can make 8 grand in one game.

What Has the Red Devils done for CC.

 

How about These Guys

Troy Styer Head Coach comes to most of our games.

Keith Culp 32 years Red Devils

Rob Schultz played and still coach's Red Devils

Terry Brown 8 years Played Red Devils

KIP MASON PLAYED RED DEVILS

jUSTIN mASON pLAYED rED dEVILS

Adam Nelson Played 8 years Red Devils

Doug Miller 12 years Red Devils.

 

All Varsity coach's for you that came on board when Troy became Coach

 

Take our coach's, bash our league, kick kids off of field.

Is there anything else you want from us.

 

All of the guys mentioned support us using the field twice a year on a Sunday.

 

The School Board doesn't want us after 49 years.

 

Thank God for Dale Muller and Highlands who opened there arms to us and let us finish up our season there.

Now you can start the Red DEvils don't play here. Well your right. Corson didn't want us out there. So they didn't go. He got fired for not winning.

I now Troy wants us there but not many are coming because of this.

 

As far as the fund raiser.

1700 people X 3$ is 5,100 Remember 3 games played.

This is a avg gate for a big game in

NKYFL.

 

Concession profit 2,500 T-shirts and split the pot 400.

8,000 grand and the kids have fun playing against there classmates.

Somebody needs to get a grip on their life past the 8th grade. As for the Camel coaches, I think the vast majority also played at Campbell County. Some played at the college level. All of them played the game at some point and time. What is the point you are trying to make?

 

You also do not have your facts straight. The Campbell basketball league has around 700 students in the league.

 

The football field is much better than it has ever been. A lot of work and money has been put into it. It has improved and the school system wants to continue to make it better. Yet, Red Devils think Campbell has a bended knee to his opinion and desires. The field and assets belong to his desires as he wants. Use it without obligation and Campbell should feel grateful their facility can be used by the Red Devil program. Add in a little arrogance where Red Devil sits in judgement for anything Campbell may or may not do and he wonders why he finds his program being boxed out fairly quick.

 

I have listened to Red Devils rants for years and for the life of me I fail to see how he thinks his program is so entitled to everything he complains about. Yet, for other schools that do nothing for the program he will be highly complimentary of. This is probably why a good decision was made by Campbell County to be self determining on its football program instead of the emotional whims of a youth league coach.

Also for anyone from Red Devils to bash Campbell County for them looking out for their own league first is just moronic. Lets face it Red Devils back in the day use to be the only team in Campbell County and most of those kids went to play for Campbell County. The past 15 years a lot of Red Devil players have now went to differnt private schools, so why should Campbell put a feeder team that has a lot of kids not go to their school district over children that are already in the Campbell County School system and will be attending this school system for a long long time? It's like buying your kid a new toy but letting the neighbors kids play with it more than your kid does, it just wouldn't make sense and neither would letting the Red Devils take first dibs for a field over one of their own teams.

 

My question is this, what has the Red Devils done for Campbell County in the past 10 years? You can easily bash the field that they have provided to you for free and their cost, so why not if you want the field to be nicer ask to go in and pay for upkeep to it. It's people and organizations that look for handouts and then complain about them when they have had a favor done for them that really have a messed up mind, it'r rediculous and abosolutely arrogant. Like posted before its about the kids playing games, not about an organization or some "legacy" that these Red Devil people think that they have. There is only one group of people that give a hoot about the red devils and that are the red devil people themselves, other than that no one cares and no one thinks about the team.

 

By the way I am an Ex-Red Devil myself, and won some Super Bowls while I was there and its embarassing to hear the stuff I heard on here from some of the red devil people, the organization or well those involved with the organization have really changed over the years, and maybe thats why these coaches now coach for the Campbell County Youth football league, because they are back to what Red Devils use to be, somethign for the kids to learn to play ball, kinda like the Ft.Thomas League.

 

Remove all the emotions and realize that if those kids go to other schools their parents tax money still contributed to the field and it's maintenance.

The tax money argument is the dumbest thing I have ever heard of in my life for any athletic field. Ok out of the 20 bucks that get taken out from their taxes for a school they contributed about 1.50 towards that field a year, not even enough to mow half of the football field, get real, most of the tax money for that school goes for educatoin purposes. The field is already over played on and the school is looking out for their kids first and foremost and looking out for their own teams first.

 

If people don't like it then why not ask the board for a vote on getting turf. If these great red devil coaches that are now coaching for campbell county sees fit to have red devils on it then they would make a huge push for not only the red devils to play but they should make a push to the school board as well for wanting turf.

 

Again nothing can get done unless you ask for it, and the biggest voices to be heard from up there is from the coaches on that staff. Its not just board memebers and such its the staff as a whole. Heck for UK basketball to get a brand new practice facility it took the coaches and athletic department as a whole to push for it, then it goes to the board. There is no difference here on this situation either, your coaches need to step up to the plate and ask for this project, get a vote on it and see which board members then say yay or nay to the idea and then make your judgements from there. The board is not in charge of coming up with ideas like that, they are there first and formost for 1)Academics 2) Laws and Rules then athletics would be a distance from all of that. I think if the idea was brought to them in one of their school board meetings that are public and then see if any action takes place. But if the coaches at campbell truly wanted this to happen then they would step up to the plate, its not the school boards job.

 

Add into the fact that you have an AD at Campbell that doesn't know what is going on and has taken all athletics back at Campbell 10 years, its only going to get worse, and nothing will happen for major improvements for any of the kids or community. He is as tight on spending as anyone I have ever seen, his wallet has to have cob webs in it. Until somone gets up there that "truly cares" for the kids and the school program nothing will get done, because you need the confidence and backing of your AD as well. I don't care what things you do your only as good and as strong as your leader.

Remove all the emotions and realize that if those kids go to other schools their parents tax money still contributed to the field and it's maintenance.

 

I pay a lot in federal taxes, do I get to touch "my" gold in Ft. Knox, or fly "my" plane in the air force, or sail my "aircraft" carrier in the Navy?

 

I pay a lot in federal taxes, do I get to use my Federal Courthouse building?

 

I pay a lot in county taxes, do I get to use Jolly Golf Course for free?

Use the campground for free?

 

I pay a lot in city taxes, do I get to use the meeting hall at the city building free of charge or go to NKU research center and use "my" equipment? Or shoot basketball in the new NKU arena. Oh wait, I have to pay to use "my" NKU health center over the taxes I pay.

 

None of the above entitles anyone access to their public owned property on the terms they want.

Turf is nice, but I guess I am old school. I love the grass! Its like in the NFL, get rid of the domes and play outside baby!

 

I'm with you the mud and mess are apart of the game. I hate turf.

I pay a lot in federal taxes, do I get to touch "my" gold in Ft. Knox, or fly "my" plane in the air force, or sail my "aircraft" carrier in the Navy? No, but they protect you??

 

I pay a lot in federal taxes, do I get to use my Federal Courthouse building? That's where all citizen's federal legal business is performed, not you or anyone else's banquet hall??

 

I pay a lot in county taxes, do I get to use Jolly Golf Course for free?

Use the campground for free? Think you pay enough to pay for one day's maintenence??

 

I pay a lot in city taxes, do I get to use the meeting hall at the city building free of charge or go to NKU research center and use "my" equipment? Or shoot basketball in the new NKU arena. Oh wait, I have to pay to use "my" NKU health center over the taxes I pay. NKU is state and tuition funded, not paid for by city taxes??

 

None of the above entitles anyone access to their public owned property on the terms they want.

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