I have no dog in this fight. And as someone who really does not care where Coach Burkhart coaches next season (me and 99.99999% of the world), I hope that the parents of the football players and coaches of the teams are taking the opportunity to teach their boys some lessons from this whole fiasco. I don't know how everyone else looks at six-man football, but this type of event is one of the reasons we play the game at our school. Not that we are hoping for these types of things, but we are looking for our kids to learn more from six-man football than how to cut block, tackle in space, or make the opponent miss in the open field. 10, 20 years from now, very few people, even the kids who played the game, will remember each team who won district or state in a given year, much less the men who coached those teams. However, if some of the kids on the Gordon and RS teams can learn from the mistakes made in this course of events, or at least learn the ramifications of their choices when making then going back on a promise, or how job-related decisions may affect their family, etc., then as bad as all this may be for the Burkharts and some fans from the City of Gordon in the short term, it will have been worth it for what it did for the boys involved. As many have already said, this whole thing will pass. However, I hope the boys from RS and Gordon are wiser and ultimately the adult beneficiaries of this whole thing.
