Donnelly Barnes 🇺🇸

Garrard Middle School Football Coach.

[Old Salty Marine @BamaSaltyMarine]

We stopped disciplining children and started diagnosing them.

Now we have a society full of adults who think everything is someone else's fault.

Tell me I'm wrong!

[EKU Football @EKUFootball]

It's camp season in Richmond 🏈

#E2W | #MatterOfPride

[Donnelly Barnes 🇺🇸 @CoachBarnesGMS]

Day 2 @EKUFootball #CommitToTheG @GarrardFB @schools_garrard

[Donnelly Barnes 🇺🇸 @CoachBarnesGMS]

Let’s get to work!!! #CommitToTheG @GarrardFB @CoachDerekDay @EKUFootball @EKUWWells @CoachRav @Coach_IMcClain

[Donnelly Barnes 🇺🇸 @CoachBarnesGMS]

@ChiefSmoke10 Crazy!!! Going ruin small town football.

[Donnelly Barnes 🇺🇸 @CoachBarnesGMS]

We got MS athletes out here making transfer announcements like they’re committing to a D1 school or declaring for the draft. What is this sport becoming? Commit to your grass roots. Add to the tradition @12thSports @vaughtsviews26 @KHSAA

[Donnelly Barnes 🇺🇸 @CoachBarnesGMS]

We pay respect and honor today. #commitToTheG @GarrardFB

[EKU Football @EKUFootball]

The next generation of Colonel Football starts here.

Our high school prospect camps are coming up soon, lock in your spot today 👉 https://t.co/foTPmB20iV

#E2W | #MatterOfPride

[Donnelly Barnes 🇺🇸 @CoachBarnesGMS]

Thank you 8th Graders. #CommitToTheG @GarrardFB

[Donnelly Barnes 🇺🇸 @CoachBarnesGMS]

#CommitToTheG @GarrardFB @ParkerBarn20045 @EliBarnes79 @Garrard65Will @LippertScouting @racersfootball @CoachDerekDay @Ryan29658149 @vaughtsviews26

[Donnelly Barnes 🇺🇸 @CoachBarnesGMS]

@ParkerBarn20045

[EKU Football @EKUFootball]

Make your name known this summer!

Our high school prospect camps are right around the corner, with strong programs from across the region set to be in attendance.

Register now 👉 https://t.co/idAqRJvJ8C

#E2W | #MatterOfPride

[EKU Football @EKUFootball]

Make your name known this summer!

Our high school prospect camps are right around the corner, with strong programs from across the region set to be in attendance.

Register now 👉 https://t.co/idAqRJvJ8C

#E2W | #MatterOfPride

[Donnelly Barnes 🇺🇸 @CoachBarnesGMS]

Too bad these places are being replaced with turf and flashlights.

[Baseball’s Greatest Moments @BBGreatMoments]

High school baseball field in Hindman Kentucky

[Donnelly Barnes 🇺🇸 @CoachBarnesGMS]

Wow. That’s thinking outside the box’s.

[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

A 4-day school week for students could be a win for EVERYONE.

TEACHERS could finally use the 5th day to catch up on their insane workload.

STUDENTS could participate in off-campus activities, jobs, appointments, or extracurriculars without living minute-to-minute every day.

And before people object because they view schools as daycares, families would adjust…just like they do for summer break, holidays, snow days, and teacher workdays.

[Donnelly Barnes 🇺🇸 @CoachBarnesGMS]

So true. We put kids in a position that they have to choose a sport and if they don’t pick the sport we coach or want them to pick coaches get mad instead of supporting.

[Zach Elder @CoachZachElder]

We have a problem.

Somewhere along the line, “Playing multiple sports is good!” turned into, “you have to play all of your sports simultaneously year round!”

We’ve lost the plot. Kids cannot play a baseball, basketball, and football season all at the same time.

[Donnelly Barnes 🇺🇸 @CoachBarnesGMS]

One can only 🤞#CommitToTheG

[David C. Stapleton III @coach_stapleton]

An indoor facility might be the most valuable facility in a football program IF you have one..

[Donnelly Barnes 🇺🇸 @CoachBarnesGMS]

Facts!!!

[Wendi A. Irlbeck MS, RDN, LD, CISSN @Wendi_Irlbeck]

Youth sports is on life support.

If you think it’s fine, you’re not paying attention.

Kids age 10-12 are playing way too many tournaments and travel ball. Parents treat it like the World Series. They need less travel, more rest, fueling, and actual development. They’re 12 YO.

The data backs it up:
❌70% of kids drop out of organized sports by age 13.
❌Professionalization (year-round single-sport focus, heavy travel/tournaments) drives overuse injuries, overtraining, and burnout.
❌Nearly 1 in 10 youth athletes experience burnout; up to 35% deal with overtraining.
❌Early specialization before 12-13 raises injury and burnout risks significantly.

Multi-sport kids who rest and play for fun stick around longer and develop better.

Let them be kids. Prioritize recovery, fun, and long-term health over trophies. The best athletes often sample multiple sports early and specialize later.

Who else sees this?

[Donnelly Barnes 🇺🇸 @CoachBarnesGMS]

@JacksonA1226 @vaughtsviews @dhsfbcoach @danvilleadsfb @AlbrightRocks @LippertScouting