Who better to put on the show first than my high school coach Mike Reed. I hope that each player that we come across with this show gets the opportunity to have a coach like Mike. What people don't understand is that small schools struggle in many different ways and sometimes that struggle is extremely really and deals with a high school students home life. Sometimes, athletics is an athletes only escape from an unfair reality. I personally witnessed Coach Reed show up for his students time and time again standing in the gap where some players own parents were not able to stand. There are many many late nights behind the scene ahctions that take place such as driving 60 miles to drop a kid off at their home, daily trips to the middle of nowhere to drop a kid off at home otherwise they would not be able to participate in athletics. Spending the extra money to make sure that a student is able to get cleats, or socks.. Even more... paying the extra money so that player and his family can feed themselves for the week. A coach is something so much more than we give them credit for. We all have our faults, every single one of us and some people love nothing more than to scrutinize others and their faults. But how many of you can say that you followed that student athlete all of the way through? Its not your job to feed that kid.. but you did. Its not your job to pay for the tutoring so that that kid can pass high school.. but you did. Its not your job to risk everything so that kid may have an opportunity in life... but you risked it. Its not your Job to love them... but you do. The deeper and more genuine we get into it, the more we figure out that this has nothing to do with athletics at all. This has to do with love and family along with leadership scrambled with opportunity to be something you were never given the time of day to be. Coach Reed is a great coach, he knows 6 man football and he is at fault for loving his kids.. sometimes that shows up as enabling but I would go to battle with nobody else, I would follow no other coach because I have seen the true meaning of what a coach really is. We pushed the boundaries several times.. and several times had to admit our wrong doing but we are all better because of it. Not very many people have seen the truth put together with the hurt and pain in order to gain success.. Success measured by the size of the heart.. the size of the man from fighting through adversity.. the size of the family and the kindness only sustainable from someone who faced a Goliath and God showed up.. You can tell me all about your coach and I will never doubt what you have to say and the truth behind it but I will also tell you about mine.. One thing I know is that we are going to fight for each other.. And his family continues to grow from the ability to coach more and more players. You can hear it in the voice of his current player and you will see it in the eyes and the story of his past players. Forever a great man, forever a great coach and forever the creator of the truth that family is the most important no matter what. "Never fear the winds of adversity, for a kite flies against the wind rather than with it".- unknown
