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/dry.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=" /dry.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=" RCHS currently has 4 or 5 girls playing AAU basketball throughout the off season. Some of these players are making a huge impact on the teams that they are representing. I have been watching Kingston girls basketball for a long time and throughout the last several years the records have been blamed on the players. In my opinion it is time to wake up and smell the coffee. You cannot have a school the size of Kingston High School and your sports programs continously do so bad. I feel that we need coaches that not only care about the game but about the impact of morals and values that they are instilling on the players. My question is how good would the University of Tennessee be today without the impact of Bruce Pearl. Don't say to me that is college ball. I am saying to you that this man came to the university excited, energetic, and ready to turn the program around no matter who he was going to make mad or what it took to do it. I would love to see the coaches get involved with the program to the extent that Coach Pearl did at UT. Lets don't keep blaming someone for the problem and fix it.

I would like to say that any club is only as good as its leader. Coach Anderson has had two long years to make a statement with this team, and I would definitely say that his statement has been made. He obviously didn't understand that you cannot win playing 5 or 6 players, especially when they are out of shape. You can't expect any out of shape player to play continuously and not get tired and frustrated. It is a shame that the other players on the team, other than the starters, received very little playing time. In my opinion, that will come back to bite Anderson especially with Kingston's past history of Senior leaders. With his record, I'm not sure what a change in the lineup would've hurt. There might be a couple of decent players moving up, but from what I understand they are a bit emotional and cry all the time. That will never work in high school. Good luck to the Lady Jackets next year, and hopefully there will be changes in store!