Read what I have written on this thread "Alfalfa". 'It's too bad Floridians do not understand the value of watching dd's play amidst the exceyetement HS vball brings to a gym.". I have never said that parents in Florida don't support there DD's team. Florida parents do support their DD teams and so do the fans at their schools, Florida parents just aren't ignorant nor arrogant enough to say just because it's this way in Florida the entire country must be this way. I used two teams from Florida as examples of teams that played in front of backed gyms when they play each other, and I could give more.

Really.....YOUTUBE! There are hundreds of thousands of HS matches across the country. You're going to base your theory, that all schools in the country are well attended and that all HS kids have a great HS experience based on a few matches you watched on YOUTUBE. Based on your "Rumps in the seats" and Youtube theory, your perspective is all matches across the country must be this way. Well whether you want to believe it or not, that's not the way it is.

I am glad every kid in Texas has a great experience, and every match played in Texas has a packed house, that is awesome. I have coached in many matches like that and it is a great experience. As someone who knows a lot of club coaches who coach high school in the northeast, the south, the midwest and the west, there are a lot of schools that have the same thing ALL schools in Texas have, some have a little of what ALL schools in Texas have, and some don't have anything like what ALL  schools in Texas have.

So you think more fans attend HS matches across the country then attend all the club events, meaning all the Q's (3 day events), JO's(8 day event), AAU's(8 day event), All the Pres day tour. (3 day events), All the MLK Tour. (3 day events) and all the small events (2 day events)?

I know this will be hard for you to wrap your head around, but there are states were some High Schools DON'T have volleyball programs. Athletes have to go find a club to play for. There are athletes who don't play high school at all because their HS program is so bad , they don't want to waste their time, they train with their club during HS season.

Once again VBEye, it is all about your experiences and your perspective. and there is nothing wrong with relaying the great experiences you have had with your DD in HS volleyball. Where you go wrong is trying to say it is like that everywhere. If you read, I have absolutely agreed that club can't compete with those rivalry matches were both sides of the gym are packed with family and students, its a special atmosphere.

Please do read your quote, it is very opened ended and asks for interruption. You asked the question "consider that and what it says." Well I told you what it says to me and asked you what are you comparing, Parents coming for an individual team or the entire daily attendance at club event. Your response was .... "Hogwash!?". 

I only used disparaging remarks when YOU made a ridiculous, completely uninformed, inappropriate commitment about Florida parents, like you are an authority. It was pretty much the epitome of arrogant and ignorant. I don't wish to call people be these things, but when you made those off wall remarks, I felt I needed to make sure you understood what I felt about those remarks. It had nothing to do with back pedaling. I am sure if I made the same comments about Texas parents, you would have fired back at me.Nowhere have I made any remarks looking down on Texas parents or players, as if I was above them nor do I think I know more about the way things are done in Texas better than Texans. But i do know what it is like in some other areas of the country.
  
In your last paragraph I have agreed many times, if you read, that club can not compare to the HS experience of a packed house playing your rival. What you don't seem to able to grasp, is that in many cases, that happens only a couple times a year and in some cases it does not happen at all.     

Well you are now creating stuff out of thin air, once again read what I have written. I don't feel this a hard request if you wish to truly debate me on a subject. Never have I said one word that all my experience's are from Florida, in fact I said they were from talking to other coaches around the country. Because I am from Florida, which you had no knowledge of you just assumed, I can say your comments are totally inappropriate. You have specifically said your experience are from Texas and youtube, I have also said there are other parts of the country like Texas. So no I never said Texas is the only one.

Anyway to the rest of you good luck with your HS seasons, I hope all have a great experience!