greasedlightnin

It be hard for my son to get many more chances he has given 4 years of dedicaton to his team, he knows hes not the best would just lik eto get on the field there is always next week, or the next. He is a pretty good cheerleader from the sidelines and ill ask him about clarinet! am glad to be a prt of the "Doyle" community and wouldnt trade it for another Good Luck

I hope the Cherokees show what they are made of Friday night. go cherokes make us proud.

/sad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad.gif" /> I felt compelled to say a few things on a few subjects that have been mentioned in this thread! 1) The boys on the football team feel defeated because they have a coach who feels defeated...no team pep talks, tell the boys they have no "heart", I've aleays heard you should praise publically and critize privately and I can guarantee this does not happen on the football team. Negative comments are a constant! 2)At the first of the season Coach Hutchens wrote in the Prep Extra paper that he wanted the football team to "catch the fever" of the baseball team and all the successes they had last year! That will never happen because Hutchens does not have the characterhead baseball coach Howard has, he does not run his program the way Coach Howard does, To do so you would need integrity, discipline and have a love for the players, the program and the community. Even Coach Howards wife is involved with the program...promoting it and attending every event they have. Coach Hutchens lives in Jefferson County...the only time you see his wife is when she makes it the football games. Never offers help in any other way. (Most of the family members do not even wear SD stuff -- you think they are embarrassed)! You cannot just "catch the fever"...the head coach is responsible for creating an atmosphere of winning and positiveness (that is taught by showing the boys you care about all of them) being proud to be the coach and part of the program and the community. Coach Hutchins just simply does not do that! If you are not proud to be here or proud to be involved with the program then find somewhere else to go! 3)The boys do have support from the community.....just attend a ballgame and see how many "doyle" loyalists attend, people who haven't had kids at the school for years...the community supports the school and they want a winning program, or at least one you can be proud of! A lot of people are embarrassed by the behavior that is allowed to be displayed from the players (you think they learned how to stomp and slam their helmets from Coach Hutchens) 4)After the Clinton dibacle, if you were behind the stadium and saw a certain group of boys slamming their helmets into the concrete, cursing at the top of their lungs, screaming at each other, and displaying attitudes that were not appropriate, you would wonder "where was the coach/es?" at this time...this shows the character of the team...they have no discipline...the coaches just let them go off and don't do anything about it. Not all players were involved in this. 5)Someone mentioned the "playmakers" not getting in trouble, this is so true......One "playmaker" has quit the team about 10 times, but they always love on him, pump him up and let him walk right back onto the field and step back into a play...just not something the kids not considered "playmakers" always appreciate. Those "playmakers" are not all even devoted to the program.....in ways that can't even be mentiond here. There have been times when certain players are made to run but others not..(this has happened more than once). There is a clear distinction made for certain players and not others. Even "playmaker" parents mention how differently they are treated (they don't want their player treated differently just because they start, etc.) 6)This is all I can write for now because it so depresses me! I want the best for these boys...the majority of them have worked hard this year in practice and they deserve not to be given up on! I hope they hold their heads high and come out with a couple more wins this year.....salvage their pride and show you kno who they have the biggest heart of all! /sad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad.gif" />

A wing and a prayer might help! Maybe these boys could take their anger of losing out on Central and play their butts off! The coach says they have not "heart". I hope they show him he is wrong!