Central Cambria

[kmr]

What is going on with the Red Devils football program?  I have heard over the last two years that the football program is struggling because they have no athletes.  This years boys athletics has had great success with the basketball program going to the elite eight, wrestling 19-1, and now track going undefeated.  So I don't believe the problem is the lack of athletes.   Kids aren't coming out and kids are quitting.  Holsinger quit and never came back and now the talented freshman RB among other classmates are not coming out.  So what is going on?  Will there be a change?

[Guru]

KMR you have heard?  Where in the heck are you getting your information?  Plenty of the basketball players and track kids play football. The wrestlers also had a few guys playing football. If a kid isn't playing football it isn't because of the coaches!  I hated my coach in HS and many of my College coaches... yet I played.  Using coaching as an excuse is for the weak minded.  You either want to play or you don't.  Could guys walking the halls contribute, no, because they lack the mental toughness to play.  You obviously don't know the first thing about the CC Program.  Before you spout crap on here, behind your user name, get your facts together.  Also, if you know so much about athletics, you ought to volunteer as a coach at CC.  Of course you would have to pass background checks, spend your own money to become a certified coach, pass your concussion awareness and sudden cardiac arrest testing, forgo your summer vacation and every weekend from around July through November and every weeknight from August 10th-November 1st.  Let me know if you need an application and I'll fast track it to the AD.  

[kmr]

So you tell me what's going on?  I was just asking.  

[kmr]

How are my facts wrong?

[kmr]

Things are different from when you played you know that. You can't have that attitude the kids are different from the 80s. You need to go after kids now.

[Crimson's Ghost]

It's small school football in this area, every school has a few kids that don't play football walking the halls that would help every program. Period.  Maybe it's coaching, maybe kids are being turned away from football these days. But there's no doubt football participation is down, and it's in more places than Central Cambria.  

[kmr]

I definitely agree but when kids are quitting great players there's a problem. When your a player and your being told if you don't like it you should quit that's a problem. That's a fact it has happened.

[CCDevil2012]

What is going on with the Red Devils football program?  I have heard over the last two years that the football program is struggling because they have no athletes.  This years boys athletics has had great success with the basketball program going to the elite eight, wrestling 19-1, and now track going undefeated.  So I don't believe the problem is the lack of athletes.   Kids aren't coming out and kids are quitting.  Holsinger quit and never came back and now the talented freshman RB among other classmates are not coming out.  So what is going on?  Will there be a change?

Michael Jordan was a great basketball player but struggled in baseball, Usain Bolt is the fastest track athlete in the world but is terrible at football, some wrestlers are state champions but only weigh 120lbs which is hardly a suitable weight for football. You can't assume success with one sport because of success in a different sport. 
Things are always worse when you're losing. Do you think anyone would blink an eye if Coach Wheeler at BG told a kid to quit if they didnt like it? Or do you think he just lets kids sit out sprints or reps when they don't feel like doing anything?

[Crimson's Ghost]

West Branch recently won D6 in basketball and wrestling in the same year, but had a losing season in football.  So you are right, not everything translates.

[CMM52]

Things are different from when you played you know that.  You can't  have that attitude the kids are different from the 80s.  You need to go after kids now.

Football participation in general down everywhere, it's just a tough sell when kids have so many options now.  Come get beat up every day or go play fall ball, path of least resistance.  Also, kids aren't different, we're different and this is thread is a perfect example.  Has to be the coaches fault for failures, not possible the kids could have anything to do with it.  Insane!  Kids are a reflection of how they are brought up, and yes parents have a lot to do with it, but it takes a village to raise a child.  We are all a little at fault.