ladyndnmom

If any one should be complaining, it should be the people from Oneida. She didn't even touch her. This was a pathetic call. This same ref that screwed us over last night, screwed us at Coalfield too.

As far as Coach West quitting on the girls at the York game yes, I feel that in some ways he did. After mentioning the opinion of this forum to one of the players, her reply was "we quit on ourselves". As for him telling them they are not a championship team, her reply was "he tells us sometimes that we don't play like a championship team". This I totally agree with. There are some games, that I think if you were to tell the person sitting beside you that this same team went to state last year, that they would probably fall off the bleacher in shock. Do I agree with everything Coach West does? No. Their are times I think that a too quick substitution can contribute to game losses. If you have 5 girls out there not fouling, keeping the opponent from scoring, and they are scoring for us, why pull them off the floor? Do I think it's all his fault when we lose a game? Of course not. But, I do know this. He has the respect of these girls, and I don't think that any of them would ever want to play for another coach, or at least I know one that definitely would not. They may not always understand his playing decisions, but they defend him and support him. Do I think that they lack confidence, yes. I believe they think they are beat sometimes by some teams before they ever step foot on the floor. But I think that he does believe they are championship material, and they need to believe it too.

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Speaking as a mother of one of the "fish" who went to the smaller pond. My daughter chose to go to Oneida, because that is where her father went, and many of her cousins went there and played football. She was used to going to the games, and had many friends there from church also. After having dealt with another teenager that I am close with, and the struggle that was there to make this teenager go to school, I didn't care where she went, as long as she would go. She did not go to Oneida, because of any of the coaches at SHS or OHS, in fact she was not even going to play ball. The only reason she did was because I made her. I told her that no matter which school she went to, she had to play one year. If she didn't like it after that, then she could quit. She has many friends at SHS, and loves to go to the SHS games and support them. Since our children can get past the SHS/OHS thing, why can't the parents? Before you make judgements about their reasons for going to another school, why don't you show them the decency of asking them.