So why does the philosophy changes only hit here? Why are the kids here the only ones who stop working hard or trying? Its kind of like Russian Roulette. You can win a lot of the time, but eventually its going to catch up to you. We still have good teams here, its just unless you have a team loaded for bear, not just in skill positions, but size, your facing an uphill battle. That's not to say an uphill battle can't be won, just don't count on it all the time. Burton was a really good team, but if they had tried to just run over top of people, would they have went as far as they did, with what they had? No way. They used what they had, and it paid off. PV this last year, they used the Pinkstons, Mitchell, and Lawson's respective skillsets. When they played a team that was pretty physical back with them, they weren't neturalized because their set used their skill and speed. Honestly the game has changed, and as opposed to sticking with a philsophy that fits when you have the right pieces, you have to change to fit what you got. What do you always hear is the key to winning football? Speed. Why is Urlacher considered so good on the defense? He's big, but he also can cover most of the field. Honestly, one of the best things for this area, is more teams pushing the track aspects. A 6'2 225 lb player that runs 4.2 is going to be better to have than a 6'2 225 player that runs a 4.5 most of the time. IMHO, I dont think its the change in philsophy here thats hurt us, I think its exactly the opposite. A big old team like Appy had that was able to run over people here, played WC, who was a big old team but was like 10 times faster. The old saying speed kills didn't become an old saying because it wasn't true [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
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