Parenting & Family Quote by Thomas Dooley

There is something almost quaint - and quietly revealing - in how Dooley frames ambition here: not as hype, but as a problem of basic awareness. The line is all logistics and understatement, the kind of plainspoken planning you hear from someone used to letting performance do the talking. In 2026 ears, the idea of a sports figure saying they might "put something in the paper" lands like cultural time travel, but that is the point: he is operating in a local, analog ecosystem where legitimacy is earned block by block, family by family, not algorithm by algorithm.

The intent is straightforward: recruit kids, grow the club. The subtext is more interesting. Dooley is acknowledging a gap between having a real thing - a club with coaching, structure, maybe even ideals - and having it matter in the community. He is also, gently, admitting that institutions do not magically attract people just because they are well-meaning. You have to sell the existence before you can sell the mission.

There is a second, quieter note: a certain reluctance toward self-promotion. "I did not do any big advertising" reads like a moral posture as much as a tactical choice, suggesting that "big" marketing feels a little suspect in youth sport, as if it risks turning mentorship into a product. The quote captures a transitional moment in athletics: grassroots development starting to borrow the tools of publicity, but still embarrassed to need them.