Coach’s Message
10.18-10.24
Star’s Football Family-
I sincerely hope this message finds your family in good health and spirits. Fall has hit like a ton of bricks and with each passing day we can feel the impending guarantee that winter will not miss us. Hard to believe that if we were playing we would be nearing the end of our regular season. As I look across the country at the states who have continued to play I feel a sense of disappointment that our boys and girls are not getting that experience. However, I also feel a tremendous sense of excitement that we still have our entire season in front of us! I try to keep reminding our team that life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it. We have built this program on the foundation that our response will determine the outcome. This year has tested our culture to its very end. I am so proud to say that our players, parents and staff have shown that they will not go down easily. Our persistence is greater than any resistance. The investment, preparation and leadership that I see each and every day on the football field is proof positive that it is not the head coach who makes the program but every person who is connected to it. You.. yes you! Each of us have a stake in this program and together we can make a difference. Once again, a group of people with a shared belief is an unstoppable force. Alone we are just a drop of water in the bucket but together we are a tsunami able to move mountains and find the path to a brighter future.
What’s your why?
I pose this question to every player and coach in our program. It’s an odd question, vague at best. However, it is an essential pillar in our journey throughout life. It can be interpreted many different ways but at the core it is about searching for your purpose. So many of us say we know our why but we never articulate it. I usually clarify to our kids.
Why do you play football?
Why do you put so much effort and time in?
Why do you work so hard with no guarantee of success?
Why do you take the risk ?
Why?
I then follow up that I do not have the answer. I have “my” answer but they need to find “their” answer. In any successful organization you will have values and behaviors that need to be supported but beneath that you must have a group of people who understand their mission, vision and purpose. We all should have a personal attachment to the overall goal. I encourage your family to sit down and talk about why your son or daughter plays football. I am always enlightened by the responses.
Congratulations
Platoon Backyard Ballers
Winner of the Pumpkin Carving Challenge .
25pts towards their score !
2nd Baz III 15pts
3rd Cantaloupes 10pts
Parting Shots
We will get through this!
We will play football!
It will be awesome!
TOP PRIORITY
- PLATOON CHALLENGE #4 TRICK OR CLEATS
- GOODWILL CLEAT DONATION
- LIGHTLY USED CLEATS
- NO HOLES OR SEVERE DAMAGE
- TEAM THAT COLLECTS THE MOST CLEATS….WINS!
- Camp day location
- Tuesday 5-7pm
- Frosh far west
- Soph on stadium w/ varsity (sharing)
- frosh/soph final hour 6-7 together on stadium
- Friday
- Soph far west
- Frosh on stadium w/ varsity (sharing)
- frosh/soph final hour 6-7 together on stadium
- 5-7pm
- Tuesday 5-7pm
- Calendar update
- We have added Saturday 10/31 8am-10am as our final day for the varsity
- We have asked the Administration for 1 more day this week, and we await their reply.
- The date would be Wed/ Thurs or the following Monday.
- SCN 4TH PHASE