We're not willing to strap a future school board with an unreasonable clause, and the me-too is unreasonable over a long period of time because we don't know what the future is going to hold.

The responsibility of the school district is to prepare for the future and make sure we are able to provide facilities and a high level of education to every student. Should there be future developments, we will have land there to create buildings.

It's a real feather in Coach Allen's hat to get a kid like Derek Miller. In my opinion, Derek is the best football player in the Kansas City metro area.

He's going to be a steal for somebody. I fully expect him to be an early offer type player. He's already getting plenty of attention from all of the local teams ? Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri and others are already all over him. But I think he's good enough to play for almost anybody that can use a back in his mold.

Darren had much thicker hips, and he was able to run over you if he had to. D-Bell is a lot thinner and not as thick, but he has incredible speed and nobody can catch him. He doesn't have to run over too many people.

We need to get a lot of preliminary input before we can work on getting them (ninth-graders) to the high school.