Mr. Munford, I respectfully feel that you missed my point. I am not bitter than my child did not receive a basketball scholarship and was not ever expecting that. Unless you have had a child play basketball for Coach Kidd or have been an avid follower of the McIntosh Lady Chiefs basketball team for at least 2 years of his tenure, I do not expect you to understand how utterly abused the players and parents felt by him. Almost every game was a humiliating experience for both players and parents because we had seen our girls play for years and knew they could do so much better. We often sat in the stands and remarked that our girls were much better in 8th grade than they were here in Varsity level at high school. Coach Kidd never seemed to share in this humiliation, never even seemed to care that the team continued to lose. He would just always blame things on the players and keep doing the same things in practice and in games that hadn't worked before. Most all of the girls knew more than he did about basketball, his assistant coaches knew more than he did; but he never took advice from anyone, just continued to run his teams into the ground without seeking any help which he so very much needed! He could not admit that he just didn't know how to coach a basketball team. It was more painful than I can express! He never scouted another team and wouldn't let anyone else do it (parents volunteered, but he said no), so his teams came into every game clueless about their opposition except for anything they might have known or heard from friends at the other schools. Tact and grace HAS for years been used in trying to replace Coach Kidd but no one in the administration ever seemed to care enough about the basketball team to do anything. It was a problem desperately needing to be solved; in fact, another year of his coaching might have ended the women's basketball program at McIntosh, that's how bad things were. I just hate to see him lying to the public about his reasons for stepping down; I feel that all those who suffered under him have been cheated. But, enough said about it; obviously, I could go on for days. I just hope the next coach has the program's and the girls' best interests at heart rather than his own.

Finally,

If this is true that Coach Kidd is not coaching, what a great thing. I have never had a daughter play at Mcintosh but I have watched many games. I have seen a game when he did not call a time out the entire game. It is great to see both Kidd and Hale gone. Now it is time to step in the right direction.