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I agree. If you evaluate Clarksville NWHS or for that matter a majority of the high schools in Montgomery County, you'll find a majority of losing athletic programs in the entire system. CMCSS accepts and condomes mediocrity and it shows in the win/loss column in every sport, fall and spring. The athletic directors aren't involved and don't care as long as parents aren't involved and don't voice their concerns, whether athletically or academically. Lossing at NWHS is in the culture because we have teachers who only coach for the supplement. It's not about the kids and their development. The coaches don't attend summer camps with their athletes, so they don't learn and certainly can't teach proper fundalmentals or technigues. The coaches aren't leaders, mentors, or managers of resources. Review the Leaf Chronicle All-Area Selections during the month of December. Look at NWHS in the areas of football, soccer, cross country, volleyball, and the absence of NWHS athletes speak loud and clear. We have coaches who have coached (drawn a paycheck) for twenty years and have never been selected as coach of the year. Look at the basketball team records currently. On Tuesday Jan 3, the girls loss by 55 points and the boys by 35 points, and the boys coach continues to sit in his rocking chair court side. He's waiting on retirement next year at the expense of his team. It,s a travesty and the CMCSS countinues to accept and condome mediocrity and hence, its become systemic. A house cleaning is needed in all the athletic programs throughout the CMCSS and especially NWHS. It's about the kids and teaching and the CMCSS administrators are failing this community. I agree, with both MSGOV and 1 New Wild Cat fan.

All talk and no substance. Playing assignment football. You had better go back to spring practice and summer camp and begin teaching the basics of individual and group skills before jumping into the team drills of running plays. You coaches read eough play books but fail to teach the individual and group skills required to make each play successful (assignment football). You're arm chair coaches who don't know how to teach and train effectively. It shows every Friday night as your offensive lineman lay on the ground (after attempting a chop block) and watch their RB's get tackled and QB scramble for his life. It shows in slow pulling guards, RB's, and TE's who fail to make their assigned block. It shows as your OL gets beat because they aren't strong enough or know how to block (use their hands to contain a DL or shed a DL). It shows in the dropped passes, wrong or incomplete pass routes, the fumbles, and when your CB's make more tackles than the DL and LB's combined. Your defense stays on the field 8-10 minutes a qtr and still haven't learned to swarm to the ball or plug holes. When your offense gets momentum, your QB fumbles or you get a penalty. You have ruined your QB with 1 step drops and roll outs to the point that he is ineffective. Get back to the basics with 3 and 5 step drops so your QB can sychronize. You're to complicated with slow pulling gds and with your QB rolling out to pass. Get back to the basics. Your QB is scared he's going to get hurt and panics because his lineman don't block. Your RB's have not broken the 100 yd mark since Station Camp. Your receivers can't catch and don't know how to run the correct routes. Absolutely no sychronization between QB and Receivers. Assignment football. All talk and no substance. You must teach first, but to teach, you must know the bases of individual and group skills required to make a play successful yourself before jumping directly into the team drills of running plays. Springfield wins in a blowout.

The NW players have been told to just have fun. Absolutely no teaching of fundalmentals or strength and conditioning during the week. They just run plays against the JV and have fun. KW JV won't be on the field Friday night. It been very obvious the last two Friday nights (Portland & David Lipscom), where the NW offensive lineman allowed the defense to run between them without resistance, that NW lacked basic lineman fundalmentals, strength and conditioning, and coaching, which resulted in a 4 & out game plan. To make matters worst, the defense stayed on the field 8 -10 minutes of a 12 minute qtr, then the majority of those same players went back on offense resulting in 70 yards total offense. The NW coaches have really exposed themselves this season. As mentioned at the beginning of the season, if NW didn't beat Station Camp, they'd be 0 & 4 going into the KW game. Friday nights game will be emotional but it's payback time for KW as NW struggles to avoid another shut-out or blowout. Then the coaches can blame the loss on Clarksville having too many schools or the absence of talent, or the absence of #24 from last year. The coaches have been exposed.

Yes, he needs something else, confidence and experience. Looks for pity from his players when he makes defensive mistakes. Always quitting. Reads lots of football books and talks a good game too much. We'll see if he can implement and deliver a plan Saturday in his second debut as DC. He did okay in his first debut as a DC in zero week but SC did run on NW. Saturday will tell the tale or we'll see if his head was swelled. WB won't give him any pity. They want to win. What will he say to his players afterwards? A quote from TSU's new head coach to remember. In order to win, you've got to have a good defense. In order to have a good defense, you've got to have good LB's who can stop the run and good DE's who can pressure or contain the ball. If you don't have that, you don't win. We'll read about the outcome and wait for posted excuses. Regardless of the outcome, KW has the LB's and DE's, but can KW revenge their losses to NW? Or Mac, is it one game @ a time.

What camp. They still have the same coaches, minus three. Will a camp make a difference? I agree, the players must make plays to win.

Coachwhoknows, my scouting report says the def. coordinator cussed out the head coach when told he was not putting any pressure on the ball. It also says the players have a worst foul month than the coaches resulting in a few penalties. If true, sounds like the same undiscipline Viking team and coaches as years past. We play them in October and the score? It will be ulgy. The Vikings have a few good athletes. #7 is a monster @ DE as is #3 @ DB. # 3 and # 2 or 22 or 12 appear to have some wheels coming out of the backfield. Problem is they can't get going because they're waiting on slow developing blocks or missed blocks at the line. QB? Either slow or not stepping back far enough to get away from the center. Appears to bump into the RBs a lot. When NW played Maplewood, the QB was tackled by his own center several times. Several times the MW defense jumped right over the ctr to sack the QB. Maplewood stayed in the backfield. Who's the OL coach? If they don't win Friday nite against a 3a team, they may not see a win before we play them. They have a few athletes, but not played correctly. Who's the head coach? The viking LB's didn't make but two unassisted tackles against NE. The HC takes it all in stride. I wonder who the coaches will blame at seasons end. Themselves or the refs?

You attended the UT Clinic in the spring 2003. Do you remember what was said about endurance conditioning verses speed (acceleration and explosion) trg. Obviously not! Practice the way you're going to play. Strenght, Acceleration and explosion (speed), and fundamental blocking and tackling is what the game is about. Keep your blocking schemes simple and do what you do best. Run the ball. The season begins Friday. Keep running endurance 110's (without adequate rest between intervals--5-6 minutes) and watch your teams legs go flat fast with rapid weight loss. Continue not doing any speed and agility training and watch what little speed you have dissappear. Talk to your track coach, if your have one. It's not cross country but football. No, I don't know your daily routine, but your post just confirmed my scouting report. You and coachcris are creatures of habit and love to post. Keep posting and providing information about your team to your opponents. We already know your OL is slow reacting to the snap count. Your DL and LB's aren't reacting and swarming to the ball. They're dancing and waiting on the ball to come to them. No pressure on the ball. Your DBs are fine with some speed but need to work on pass coverages. If you don't make the necessary training adjustments, you will feel what strength and speed is on Aug 27, Sept 2 and 9, and on Oct 21. Either you're prepared or not. No penalty excuses or comments of having a grand weight room that you don't use will be acceptable. This is my last post on this subject.

Well deserved penalty flags. Perfer to have them now than when the season begins. Learn from the experience. Look, lets not start the season off blaming the refs as the excuse for poor execution. You don't need the refs against you as the 12th man, especially when the season hasn't begun. . Remember the comments after the White House game? Play football. Bottomline; "your team isn't ready to compete and it shows". I will say "Big" improvement in the passing game. However, very weak individual blocking and tackling techniques same as last year. Soft lineman with no phyiscal strength or speed to do all the guard pulling I saw, or put pressure on the ball defensively. A wing-t is ineffective without strong, agile lineman, who know how to block and can make a block in all the misdirection I saw. Too many missed blocks and too many players watching and not going to the ball. Do you have an effective strenght, conditioning, and speed program? You can't continue running plays the entire 3hr practice day and not do any weight room work, nor work on individual blocking & tackling skills, speed and agility skills for your RBs, LBs, & DBs. Athletes aren't born, but developed. Endurance conditioning (110's) only slows your team down. Stick to 40's with 3-4 minute rest between intervals. Sled work is not an effective individual blocking drill, nor are the non-contact-- tackling drills and it showed during the scrimmage. Stop the blame game and go to work developing, training, and preparing your team to play football. You do that and you'll win.