sinfonian":xatvhdqj said:
I wish someone would convince Eula to start playing football. It's the one reason I'm hesitant to send my son there.
You know, what probably needs to be done in towns like that is something like this.
People who want to bring in six-man football, especially to towns like Eula which play no football is to get some folks to come in and speak to civic clubs, perhaps there's a Lions Club or Rotary or something that meets every couple weeks. Bring in a well-respected six-man coach to speak to the locals about the game.
Before you do that, get a few of the pro-sixman local folks to sit down and try and identify the resources they have and are willing to bring to the table.
Once, I was told of a non-football school whose administrators said it would cost them $1 million to start up a six-man program with construction and such (and they had an excellent facility which could be easily re-purposed with existing lights; I told my friend to have the supt. give me a contract for $950,000 and we'd split the profit).
You don't have to start with Jerry's World. Lawn chair stadium with portable lights (or no lights, you can play on Saturday afternoon if you have to) can do for awhile. Maybe the local bank or the Coke bottler can donate a couple grand for a scoreboard and some other local fundraising can reduce the cost to the local school district. Yeah, they may have to deal with some of the personnel costs and such, but there's no law that says that the good people of Last Chance ISD can't raise $20 or $50 thousand dollars to buy equipment and get things started.
A number of local school districts here have "educational foundations" that raise money and give grants to teachers for special projects from technology in the classroom to conferences or some extracurricular activities. Nothing to stop you from raising money to start up a program (which is what most of us in private schools do).
There's a bunch of us in the six-man community who would help a local group identify what needs to be done and help a local campaign to start up six-man football in some of those commie-pinko non-football schools.
