CCRaider30

[/b] wow this has really got out of hand. being a player and talking to my team mates we originally read this thread every day to see what was said. but since it has gotton so bad we finally just stopped reading it. if anyone has something negative or an opinion...why post it on here where players will read it?? instead why not come on raiders we know yall can do it and positive thoughts but instead it turns in to 18 pages which is nothing but garbage to me. so i guess everyone can keep posting negative things on here but it is giving our team, school, and community a bad rep. and it is absolutely helping nothing at all. i agree with what pedo said today on his show..i hope that people heard what he had to say because i believe what he says. lets go beat ttown tomorrrow raiders!! BSA and play WAO!

yea i agree everything that i read is always an outside opinion about what is going on. some people may believe that politics are involved but really and honestly i believe that it is not. everything that i read is always negative. the players on the team and myself are the only ones who really know what is going on because no one else is out there everyday putting in the hours that we do. everything that is said just degrades the team. i think that people need to realize that what it all comes down to is that all the team hears is how things need to change but if the players were asked then people would see that we believe opposite if what everyone says and that is all that matters. just let us play the game that we love and not have to worry about what is said......this would help. instead of all the negative we never hear any postive except from each other and our coach and that is all the matters. friday night raiders lets play WAO and BSA!!!!

next year will be a better year but i know that we are not going to quit on this year...who knows i mean the reg. sesaon stats really dont matter the important thing is the district tournament and teams better watch out cause we know they will overlook us. we jus have to play our game which i know we can. but is it right to say that a coach should leave after a season like this? maybe it is your opinion that he should but last year was a very good year for our program with 2nd in reg season and 2nd place in the district. every team faces a down year but does that justify wanting to get a new coach? i believe our program will get better. i also read where you said that the players should not stress about this whole ordeal but it is kinda hard when all you hear is people bashing you. i believe it should not be up to the parents because they are not the ones playin and neither is the people in the stands who watch us. people may be afraid to say something because they think it will hurt their kids but i can assure you that the players know it is not politics because that is not our coach. i guess what it all boils down to is that people have their own opinion. there is nothing to change that but i do believe that people should just let us play and not worry about us or the coach maybe that is what it all boils down too. the stuff people say should be kept to themselves and not shared to where players read or hear it and that might solve the issue.

well all i am trying to say is its easy for people to judge a team by their record even though they know nothing about the team. if anyone was in my situation reading all these posts about my team and my coach they would say something also. yeah we dont have the quality athletes the shelbyville or oaklands have but you will never see my team quit. not all of our games but most of them we have been in and just 1 quarter or a couple minutes will turn the game around. it is also hard when there is only 2 seniors and 8 juniors that really play with only 1 having been a 3 year varsity starter. but i have to disagree that we are not an undisciplined team. maybe a record speaks for itself for some people but can you really bash a person who doesnt quit and still keeps going despite what anyone says and is dedicated to his team?

come play with us and im sure we will show you a very undisciplined team! but go ahead and think what you want to and make your little comments to make your team sound better or to make you feel better. you know NOTHING about us at all.

i agree with what you said. as a player for coffee county it is getting really old hearing about how bad we stink and how bad our coach is. everyone has an outside opinion about our program and they are intilted to it. if you want an inside opinion or my views i will say that this year has been a real struggle. i gurantee though if anyone comes to our practices they would not think that we have only won one game this season because we work hard and want to continue to get better. and as for our coach, there is no other coach that i would rather play for. he is not only a coach to us but a friend, teacher, and one who wants the best for us. he still comes in and puts together a game plan and has never given up on us and i know that he never will. we are a really young team and we all love going out there and competing. even though we have only won one game we still go out and play to win but it is hard with the little experience we have. so i hope that all of yall who have something to say about my team or my coach then i hope you read this. go ahead and bash us if you want to or if it makes you feel better but our coach gave us a piece of paper that goes: "its not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, who face is marred in dust, sweat, and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, cause there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himslef in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." so there ya have it. one more thing to those who want to bash my coach, i would have to say that in the end i have learned many lessons and i feel he has made me a better person and that is more important in life then a W or L in a column.