Losing sucks!!!

So, at the request of a friend, I have decided to finally update my blog. It's not been easy to get on here because there's so much going on. As you can tell from the title of this blog, basketball has not been going so well. We actually won our first game and won it by 21 points. Since then, it's not been pleasant. Our closest game was this past Friday where we lost by a mere 24 points. In Delaware, girls sports in public schools are at a real disadvantage. I knew that when I started but I'm really starting to see now to what extent it is. Here, private schools rule most sports, especially the girls sports. Two public school teams have not met in the state championship for girls' basketball since 1977. The middle schools in our school district don't even have athletics. Even if they did, I'm not allowed to go talk to them about coming to play basketball at our high school. This is very backwards compared to Texas. On the other hand, the private schools get all their girls from the youth programs and all have middle school athletics. Not only are they not restricted as far as a school district, they can have students come to their school from other states (Some of these schools are mere minutes from New Jersey and Pennsylvania). The talent that doesn't come up through their programs, they give scholarships so that they eventually end up in their programs. In a public school, I don't even have a budget. Everything that I think we need, I have to fund-raise in order to get the money for it. It's definitely an uphill battle that I'm fighting. If I'm going to turn things around, it's going to take time and a lot of work outside the season to try and build a foundation in downtown Wilmington among the girls that don't have the same advantages that the rich girls have. Of course, the good ones will end up at the private schools anyway. The task is a little bit daunting. Maybe I'll go teach/coach in Pennsylvania.