Newton 19 West Orange-Stark 7/Final

[ladybug33]

Thoughts Anyone ?

[ladybug33]

Explain the Mile ...?

[bedelmon]

Explain diversity....

[bedelmon]

You talkin about different ideas, different attitudes or different races?

[ladybug33]

WOS Fans, Thoughts ? 

[ST413]

Explain the Mile ...?

I asked that yesterday no one seems to want no to answer.

[bone]

Guess it's a mustang secret.

[Gasilla]

Nm

[Gasilla]

The lineman have to run the mile in less than 10 min. Not that difficult if you've done ANYTHING in the off season.

[ST413]

No it isn't. I can't rmember what ours was for sure that long ago. But it wasn't 10 minutes. I said 6:00 and 6:45 I think maybe it 8:00 and 8:45 but I am about positive it was less than 9 minutes not close to 10.

[HJ2012]

Is this something they do on the first day of practice to weed kids out?

[TxHoops]

But they have to make the time pulling tractor tires and with a couple dozen chinchillas chasing them, nipping at their heels. It's quite a scene man

[Mr. Buddy Garrity]

I remember running mile long treelines in HS and Tech training in Mississippi. Best time was 4:31. Puked for about a min afterwards. Never ran a mile like that ever again lol

[Gasilla]

Is this something they do on the first day of practice to weed kids out?

It's not to weed anyone out. It's to see who's paid the price and who hasn't. And they ALL know it's coming. It doesn't take a ton of effort to run a sub 10 min mile, but you can't sit around all year eating Snicker bars and sucking on Dr Pepper.

[Trufan]

I think your a little hard on ole Chuk. It would be hard for another coach to come in here and run T's 52 defense. One of the advantages we have had is the constant of the Chain Gang defense. We teach it in Lil Mustangs all the way up to high school and have for years. Several teams have talent perhaps equal or slightly less to the Mustangs in our area but are a good coach away from turning their program around. A good coach means a lot, just ask hj. A good coach can make the talent better, a bad coach and it really doesn't matter the talent level. We have gone through a lot of assistant coaches in our history, not all of them were good coaches. The one constant except for a year or so has been Cornel Thompson.
 
We have been blessed with a lot of kids that can really play football, but I will tell you for sure some of the best football players never played football at WOS. They didn't want to go through the conditioning he makes the players go through. Just for the record I am talking about black, white, and hispanic kids. Yes, talent will rise to the top, but it is the coach who either gives that talent a place to shine or have that talent on the bench and never see the light of day.
 
We are really blessed in our communities to have outstanding men teach or our kids at the peewee level. We are oustanding because we are all on the same page. Bring someone else in and that page, like it or not, does get changed and would have take some time to be adjusted to.
 
Your way off base with the Penn State remark.  Believe it or not, he knows a thing or two about coaches.

I have been absent for a while ind missed a few post.
I really like this post. You were spot on about the youth football program running the same defense being important. You spoke about the tradition here in orange and the FACT there this is a talent rich town. I do believe that it takes a a good coach to take all those ingredients and put together a winning program. Which Thompson has done. BUT I don't think I was to hard on him because unlike you he only credited Thompson. As far as the penn state remark I do apologies because that situation was horrible. My comment was based on the similarities in attitudes and the protect the program at all cost atmosphere. As I read through some of the post on this site it's scary how many folks loose it when someone questions Thompson. It's borderline cultish. I stated in an earlier post that some folks put too much faith in man. Any man not just the coach. It is a recipe for disaster because the man becomes bigger than the sport, school, church or anything he heads. That usually leads to followers compromising themselves when dealing with the man. I'm not admitting that that's what's going on at WOS but it is alarming to watch. WOS 35-6

[21 hondo]

Truefan i appreciate that you have expressed an objective point of view. No man is infallible, & everyone should have the ability to be dispassionate & admit it when someone they like may not be right, or someone they love may not be the best!!!!! Regardless of the relationship !!!!!!