FanSpeak Oct17

Media creates monsters

IT'S VERY interesting to listen to the radio and read the sports reports in the newspaper. You should keep in mind that all this bragging on one or two players -- especially the really young ones -- you've seen what kind of a monster you create. You see what happens with those kids thinking they're above the rules. So you might want to be a little careful because some of these kids already have enough attitude as it is. Ask their classmates.

Worry about wins

WHAT WE need at Southeast is an athletic director and a president that will pursue athletics and get winning coaches to create winning attitudes and a winning atmosphere. We don't need an athletic director and president and others on a committee that want to pursue a mascot name change for no reason at all. At least the Jackson Indians have enough guts to say what they really stand for and are not scared of their mascot.

Rubbing it in

HOW GOOD do football coaches look when they are winning by 28 points at halftime and they play their favorite starters the whole game? Not good at all when you have equally talented, dedicated players that just stand and watch. I think it is time for coaches to take a good look at their whole team, not just their chosen few. Do you really have to be that greedy? Look at the rest of team and give them a chance, too.

A day's pay

I SEE Sammy Sosa was fined $87,000-plus. That's one day's pay. It takes the average person two years or better to make $87,000. Do I feel sorry for the man? No way.

What's the score?

I JUST wonder why the Southeast Missourian won't publish major college football scores, yet they can publish golf that no one knows about and other trivial things. A ballgame on TV, they never publish the score the next day.

Gotta be the shoes

I WAS wondering if some coaches are running a sports program or a fashion show. When athletes are required to buy matching shoes so all the girls on the basketball teams will match and all the track runners' shoes will match; the money of the parents is tight enough without having to worry about buying special matching shoes for their children to run around the track with so they will all match.

Credit for the JV

I WOULD like to comment on the article about the Cape Central cross country meet. In the article there was nothing about the JV girls team coming in first through eighth. All the article talked about was Jennifer Pancost, Holly Shaffer and Linnea Woldtvedt. Don't the others deserve some credit, too? They put just as much effort into their running.

Come out and cheer

I'M GETTING tired of our pathetic fans never showing up when we're not doing well.