Over coming Pressure

ADDED COMMENT:

IN VIEW OF THE PAST HISTORY OF THE SCHOOL, I WOULD SELL THEM ON THE IDEA THAT THEIR TEAM IS IN POSITION TO BE THE ONE THAT CAN CHANGE ALL OF THAT! THEY CAN BE THE "CHOSEN GENERATION" SO TO SPEAK TO TURN THE FOOTBALL FORTUNES AROUND FOR YEARS TO COME. "NO PRESSURE, JUST GO OUT AND PLAY LIKE YOUR CAPABLE OF AND WE WILL BE FINE". THEY HAVE A CHANCE FOR REAL GLORY IN THEIR HOME TOWN THAT WILL ALWAYS BE REMEMBERED!!!

Coach Easton-TIGER ONE

Coach Mountjoy

I would say that we are trying to stay on an even keel but when it goes bad its real bad. When its good its outstanding. I gave them the how do you want to be remembered talked that Coach Easton spoke about and they seemed to respond will continue to build on this during the week. We just have trouble overcoming adversity.

Coach Easton

We have tried alot of what you talk about but nothing has worked. Gave the how do you want to be remembered bit and that went ok. Just trying to find the right button to push. If we can win saturday nite it could very well be the event that changes the culture around are program. Kinda of that "right now moment." you know were a bad team becomes good or a good team becomes great.

It comes to a head Saturday nite.

Attitudes have definately changed. Its really tough for us to enforce any kind of mandatory summer workout attendance rules or things like that because we honestly wouldn't have a team. We are pretty lucky if we get 3-4 kids a day coming in, if we get a summer when we have more than 6 regularly lifting we know we are going to have a good year. We have found the best thing is not really something you as a coach can control. The best seasons we've had have really revolved around that one player that has IT. The kid that makes everybody around him better. When we've had kids with great leadership like that our seasons have been great. The kids all have confidence that they can follow that kid to win, whether he's a Q or a running back, or a great linebacker, try to find a kid that all the other kids look to and sell him on your system, once he buys it the rest will get in line.

So we lost the game 34-27. Gave up 2 long touchdowns on playaction pass when we had our Corner man on the TE. Corner was undisplined stared in the backfield and the TE ran a post route for a touchdown twice. Both times we had the same stunt called and if the kid would have covered his guy we would have sacked the qb.

The worst part is this kids mother is the school libarian and his father is a music teacher and both have some pull with super. and AD. and both came up to me after the game and expressed concerns about the way there son was being coached (we pulled him after the 2nd TD pass). Then I get an email yesterday from the AD that I am going to have a meeting with him and the kids parents. The kid was a starting QB (back up corner) so we pulled him for a sophomore (who played great) and decided to start him at corner because our other corner who plays both ways was sick. The kid was fine in practice but didn't focus (part of the reason he lost his job as QB) If the meeting doesn't go good and I don't get any support from the AD then I will most likely resign at the end of the season and look for a job else were or if worst comes to worst take a year off from coaching. I will let you know how things turn out and thanks for listening to me vent.

This is the most disappointed I have ever been after a football game. We were so close to achieving our goal of being a playoff team. This week we play the number 1 ranked team in our state. They have given up a total of 24 points through 6 games. Won the state title last year and have a 19 game win streak.

Any ideas on how to keep these kids together???