I have a lot on my mind this Saturday. Had a great Bday bash for the boy, and coached some football. Here are my thoughts…
Some Thoughts:
- Had a tough football loss today in the MM league. The National Champions took us down 14-6, but in doing so really showed us that we have the talent and design to beat that team. We made mistakes early, but once we settled in we had them cold.
- Meanwhile the JPW team is pure trash. I really hate putting people’s business in the street, but with this situation I couldn’t hold back. They forfeited the first game at the half because they were getting their butts kicked. That head coach lost his job. We are without a head coach now and effectively are without leadership. I don’t like it. I like the individuals running the program but what they are doing is totally ineffective for the talent and caliber of player they have. As a result they have failed to gain a first down in three straight games, loosing each by a minimum of 32 points (see forfeit). This latest game was stopped by the referee because it was just too ugly. We did not compete. Moreover we put a kid back there to play QB who hadn’t played QB with this team. It was a mess. Yet the coaches continue to offer platitudes like, ‘we are getting better every week.’ and ‘our kids did good out there’. The program above the MM level is a joke and everyone knows it. Unfortunately that means we are losing a lot of talent to other teams. So the handful of complimentary players that form the nucleus of our skill player set are being treated like top talent when, including my own kid, they are not. I can forgive the TM team for losing all the time, because they lack enough talent and they really lack experience. 20 kids on that team and only 8 can play at a time. You just cannot keep your talent on the field and when the noobs come in… Look, it is little kid football, but these things are impactful. This is how they will remember the sport moving forward.