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**Unchained** · August 16th, 2007, 01:43 PM

Here's a bothersome little quote from the preview:

"I really feel like the kids we've got work hard," Crabtree said. "We've had some quitters and some transfers and really got rid of some of the more selfish players. We ended up with a team that's all about the team. I like that. I'd rather have 19 or 20 that are all about the team, rather than have 25 with five or six individuals that are not."

**sup-rbeast** · August 16th, 2007, 02:16 PM

I agree that part of the problem Pound has faced in the last few years. If ya believe it, ya might as well say it. The community may have had a part in past struggles as well...but the community doesn't play the games. If folks get mad and quit coming to the games..ya still have your players on Friday night...but if your players are selfish on the field or quitting...then you have diddley squat. Chris had all the right to say what he did. If you coach you have to have balls and a tough skin. Folks got all over him a few years back when he predicted that his team would win the CD within a couple of years as well.

**imported_Counts** · August 16th, 2007, 02:16 PM

Well it will be BB material for some teams BUT I DO think it is something Crabtree needed to say to his team since I am sure most people (myself included) talk so much about the Pound Mass defections that it starts wearing on the Players

**Unchained** · August 16th, 2007, 02:22 PM

There's a little more history to this than you know amigo. This is just his latest backhand at him.

**imported_Counts** · August 16th, 2007, 02:24 PM

I would be lieing if I told you I had not heard a few stories BUT I have always thought he was a nice pretty nice guy

**Unchained** · August 16th, 2007, 02:26 PM

You have a PM amigo

**sup-rbeast** · August 16th, 2007, 02:31 PM

The way I see it...when you are thrust into a situation like there is at Pound, you had better establish an "us against the world" attitude. And, if you have had defections, you had better address that...especially if it substantially impacted your team. I see nothing wrong with what he said...if it can be used as a catalyst for motivating his team, he needs to wear it out.

**Unchained** · August 16th, 2007, 02:34 PM

When you attack a kid, harrass his family that is another issue though folks. Be a man and get over it. Those kids decided that they didn't want to stay at Pound. Move along, and do what you get paid to do-coaching. Bitching and whining about it solves nothing. He isn't the first coach that has had to deal with this, and he won't be the last.

**sup-rbeast** · August 16th, 2007, 02:36 PM

I'm not gonna defend what he said...but from his and Pound's point of view, how do you think they view the players that left only because they wanted to play on a team they thought would be better than Pound ?... All I am saying is that if he can make his team better by letting them feed off of this, then he is doing his job as a coach.

**Unchained** · August 16th, 2007, 02:39 PM

Unfortunately for Crabtree, this is fueling Chris, and I have a feeling come Friday, August 31 at Carrol Dale Stadium, young Strouth is going to be thinking about Crabtree when he puts on the show that I think he is going to put on for us all. Sometimes what you say comes back to haunt you. It has happened to us all before.