Okay, you want to know what what great coaching legends feel makes winners. Well here it is. Any good coach will tell you that they would rather have eleven average players that will buy into the system and that are willing to learn. Just because a player was born with great athletic ability does do not make him or her GREAT. you have to have a player that willing yo learn, play as a team member and not as one.
You can take average players with heart and motivate them to play above their beyond their abilty. How do I know this, I spent ten years at Moore County with Mac. We took a team that did not have alot of talant in 1989 and advanced all the way to the semi-finals, 12 and 2 not bad for a team with no great athletes on it. Instead there where 24 players that believed themselves and in what there coaching staff was doing, they also put team ahead of everything else This team also had a lot of pride in their community.
The 1988 team had one great player and many average players but advanced all the way to the Clinic Bowl in Nashville. 14 and 1 not bad for a buch of avergare players.