He is wining or losing with HIS kids. This team is made up of a majority of kids he coached since they were kids at PME. They just followed their coach.
Hayfield back in the playoffs...maybe not
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My last time on the subject.
I’ve never had any problem with his kids following him. My dad sent me 40 minutes everyday to play for a coach in high school so I could get a chance to get looks. My only problem with anything has how their staff went about it. Gotta be smart and they haven’t always made good decisions. With that being said, if they’re gonna win, make it count and be legendary. Gotta avg 100+ after all the stuff they’ve been through.
Maybe but some people are acting like it’s bigger than it really is. The Overton brothers just want to see these kids do good and the kids believe in them
Rec league culture is all this is honestly. Hopefully they grow from this and stop putting the spotlight on themselves. Just keep being great men to the kids and push them to the next level.
Anything they have been through is self inflicted by their own disregard of the rules and lack of understanding and appreciation of sportsmanship and fair play, in my opinion.
I'd like to see these tough-talking VA schools grow a pair and actually schedule. There's a lot of half-assed "tough" scheduling because the reality is all these schools know deep down their place in HS football across the country and are scared of being humbled. OS is the only team who's ever had a true pair and went out and scheduled like grown men. Of course, all the other coaches saw what happened and went right back to their tiny worlds and tiny dreams.
They did and the drop off from the first string was dramatic. Edison actually looked better than the Hayfield subs.
Football is great for teaching and molding young men and showing them the value of teamwork and hard work. But what are the coaches, administrators, and all of the adults who support them teaching them in this case? Rules can be disregarded, overlooked, and ignored, because the end justifies the means. This win at all costs attitude has no place in high school sports. HS football isn't perfect, but it's the last bastion of pure sport we have.
The NFL long ago sold out to the almighty dollar. Sold to the highest bidder. College football, during my childhood, was still mostly pure. The pageantry, the traditions, the rivalries, it was all so grand. Now the money has perverted most of what was good about football. Gone are a lot of rivalries and traditions, sold out to big media conglomerates with $$ signs in their eyes and greed in their hearts. Money has perverted the NCAA, the conferences, the schools, and the players. How much money can we get from media rights deals, getting more of our teams in the CFP, and how much can I get for NIL? Hitting the transfer portal and playing 6,7,8 years for self.
I fell in love with HS football over 35 years ago. I still love so much about it. But I see the invasion of super teams and the win at all costs mentality creeping in ever so quickly. The question I have is, if I were 13 all over again would I fall in love with HS football?
Ok? So if he stayed at Freedom with these same players and got the two transfers (qb and wr) would you say all this?
I think if the players that Freedom had the last 2 years were acquired in the same manner as the guys to Hayfield, then the VHSL should have treated Freedom the same way. I don't think the VHSL is blameless in all of this mess. If they would have acted 2 years ago, then we wouldn't be embroiled in this mess now. The precedent should actually have been set with John Marshall even before that.
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