HERE WE GO!!!!

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Received good reliable reports from some good folks today. Last night was same old same old. Now, we can sling [censored] in the wind, or we can call a spade a spade. Evidently we have a long long way to go. We have to learn to tackle and hang on to the ball. It matters not if the kids are playing hard if that is going on.

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some will only look at is as a win/ lose situation, even if the team played better than last year. I know after losing for so long it is easy to see the negative and none of the positive but I'm willing to sit here and bet that the Kelly program is in better shape than it was last year.
The last thing the players need right now is people saying "same old sorry Indians" if they played 100%, no give up ball and they played a better team. They are in the process of learning how to win, it isn't just a switch that gets turned on. They can build up on the fact that they were in the game but fumbles cost them a possible win.

Never said they were sorry. I know they played hard last night. I know they are working hard. In this league though, when you should win a game, you need to win it. We consistently shot ourselves in the foot last night, and you are lucky enough to have not had to deal with year after year of losing. I would not wish it on anybody.

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and you are lucky enough to have not had to deal with year after year of losing. I would not wish it on anybody.

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is that what you think. When I played for Burton my four years went something like this. 4-6, 3-7, 3-7 and my senior we went 1-9. we never made the playoffs and we were considered a doormat. The whole decade of the 80's were a very dark time for the Raiders. My 4 years we won 11 games. The Seniors from last years team won more games in one year than I did my 4 so Yes, I know what it is like to be on and root for a team and program that is down

4-6 or 3-7 would be beter for us. Ever go 0-10?

they all look like loosing records. Never made the post-season. the only teams we beat were St. Paul, Ervinton (didn't beat these my senior year, we beat Kelly) mabye Rye Cove. We got smoked by Appy every year, not just beat but beat down. 0-10 or 3-7 no one is happy with that.
It is just one game, don't write the team off after just one loss. so far this year. I know it is hard but don't be down just yet every program has to have a start in digging themselves out of the bottom, and they need support doing that.
Take Castlewood for example. Their home stands were at least 2/3 empty. How is that for support? People are funny. Norton has won 3 straight Region D titles and look what happens, we have our biggest team EVER. The paper said Norton would field 49 kids this year but you know what? It all started with a dedicated core that wasn't winners yet, just wanting to be. They took their lumps and have steadly built the program. Jimbo went to State his first year then it was a black time till that core group got it together. From 99-2001 Norton struggled before getting back on their feet.

Not writing them off-simply not going to make excuses for them or coddle them . The cold hard truth is tough to take sometimes. At some point there has to be some accountability. We'll see what this Friday holds at Pound.

I know i don't have a dog in this conversation. But it does take having that one group, that makes that decision, to make things change.
You can coach all you can. But when you get a group that wants to win no matter what the odds. They eventually will find a way to, and from that point on they will start making things happen.
Those growing pains can be really really long and tough. But i have seen Kelly practice. They have a good group and a good group coming up.
Now it's about just going out and making it happen. Not thinking it going to or wishing it was going to. But making it happen.
A coach can't make that happen. You can fire up a group for a time. But to be consistent the group has to do that. And they have to have the leadership within themselves to do that.