Quote: It is also obvious that you do have something to do with Blackville like coaching maybe?
I actually don't, but I have spoken with their coach before on a few occasions and he has said the program has come a long way in 3 years since he took over. He worked with what players he had. If I remember correctly, he told me that half his kids were football players or kids that have never touched a ball before. Be proud of a 12-0 beat down? No, but don't make it sound like the work they did put in to get to State was pointless.
It sounds personal from my end because I have been part of a team that was on the receiving end of a 10-0 drilling and I have been with a team that scored 9-0 on a team. The program is only a a few years old and a lot of the kids are still developing. When you say that if the team isn't competitive and can't compete with higher level teams, then they should drop the program, then I ask when can the program grow? Sure, if their isn't improve evaluate the coach and the talent and make what changes you can, but if the kids want a team and want to play soccer are you going to tell them, "No" and your reason being is that "You aren't good enough."
Blackville, 2002, I agree was a good team but a lot of good things happened at one time. Back then there actually was a decent recreation league for the county that had a lot of support, so kids had been developing the basics. They also had a foreign coach for a about 2 or 3 years. So for that team they probably could work on more advanced things. When the kids have little to no fundamentals at all, then it is going to be a slower learning process. What they did in 2-3 years in '02 will probably be 5 or 6 years now because of what they have.
