You need to encourage kids to get out and play Pop Warner, to play summer touch football. You need to get them playing. Ooley still runs a summer touch football program for elementary kids in grades 3-6. He's disappointed in the turnout from the east side of the city. We have very few kids from the east side.
Someone needs to take charge, beat the bushes and get the kids out.
That's what Ooley did. Until then, it's going to take commitment for a program to succeed - like Ooley and his staff demonstrated. Marc Burkholder said he remembers seeing Ooley around the football field all the time. He took the time and the effort to make his program work. And believe in it.