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New moto for Fligg and players
Photo Credit: James Ruppel
Matt Fligg, head coach, huddles his players around him after a spring practice.
Written by James Ruppel, Sport Editor
After a 0-10 season, Matt Fligg, head coach, looked down at his football players and said that our goal for the 2010 season was the eleventh game.
As a player and a journalist, I have to look at the football team from two points of view, as a player and as a fan. As a player, in my heart, I know the team will succeed and as a fan I have to be skeptical.
As a player I look at all of the talent around me on the field and I say to myself, “We could actually do very well this season.”
Though as a fan I have to say, “We have not won a game in two seasons and wonder if we will repeat what the team did last season.”
But for anyone reading this article, I can assure him that the whole team is going to give 100% toward winning games.
We want to win them for the team, the school and ourselves.
We football players are out on the practice field for the next two weeks, May 10-21, to improve on our team skills. We will be in the weight room all summer getting bigger, faster and stronger to win games this upcoming season.
As we sat before Coach Fligg on May 10, we looked at him for words of encouragement. Fligg told us, “We are looking toward the eleventh game.”
We all looked at him and wondered if the eleventh game was the first playoff game and, if it was, we knew what he wanted and we also know that we will not let him down.
We know as players the same as everyone else in the halls and in the stands every Friday night what our record is, but we are trying to change that. As a team we are not looking for one victory; we are looking for multiple ones. We want nothing less than an appearance in the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, playing for a state championship. We, as players, know we have to start small and win one game and advance from there.
As a player I know we will win and, as a school, we should get behind not only our football team but all of our sports teams and cheer them on no matter what their records are.
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