Let's get some things straight. I guess I'm the resident fact checker around here now. By the way this site isn't a shell of it's former self. It may be less viewed recently but that isn't because of mods or Deanna - it's because of how quickly people are offended. This site doesn't exist if people don't express their concerns about their beloved HS football teams. When you regulate that too much....then it all goes away. This is fantasy land.
Yes Coondog- I said this was coming. It isn't b/c of S. Cramer opening either. EGs worse than usual team is feeling that issue right now. The reason SP is a bad team, and they are a bad team - is because they don't have a whole lot of talent, and what talent they do have (and had) wasn't positioned properly. The coaching staff gets a lot of credit when things are good. They've done an overall good job over the years with talent they had, but make no mistake about it they've been loaded with talent for years. Only small spots in history has Belmont NOT had plenty of talent (82-83, 85-86, 89-90, 95-97) on the field. Recently, SP has had pockets of unbelievable talent and didn't really do the job coaching that would result in state championships. 2011-2014 was a pocket of talent that was as good as any group ever to come through. Many were wasted. Some weren't. Make a FB position change in '13-14 and you definitely have one state champ. and maybe a closer run in another. ML and staff have to stop putting guards at fullback and the nepotism that has existed there for every coach that's had his kid there is just continuing. Usually the kid is a better player than what may or may not be playing currently. What everyone in the stadium knows though is if you are a triple option team, and you don't have the correct pieces starting where they should....these results will exist. Coonie part of knowing this coming was coming was very simply what they didn't accomplish at every level of football growing up. Those MS teams for 2-3 years were not good. Some groups/years have talent and some don't. 2016-2018 is just one of those pockets that belongs with 82, 85, 89 and 96 years and in those years the coaching was questioned as well. Nothing new. Coaching is always "better" when you're loaded with talent and guys who know how to play.
Yes Coondog- I said this was coming. It isn't b/c of S. Cramer opening either. EGs worse than usual team is feeling that issue right now. The reason SP is a bad team, and they are a bad team - is because they don't have a whole lot of talent, and what talent they do have (and had) wasn't positioned properly. The coaching staff gets a lot of credit when things are good. They've done an overall good job over the years with talent they had, but make no mistake about it they've been loaded with talent for years. Only small spots in history has Belmont NOT had plenty of talent (82-83, 85-86, 89-90, 95-97) on the field. Recently, SP has had pockets of unbelievable talent and didn't really do the job coaching that would result in state championships. 2011-2014 was a pocket of talent that was as good as any group ever to come through. Many were wasted. Some weren't. Make a FB position change in '13-14 and you definitely have one state champ. and maybe a closer run in another. ML and staff have to stop putting guards at fullback and the nepotism that has existed there for every coach that's had his kid there is just continuing. Usually the kid is a better player than what may or may not be playing currently. What everyone in the stadium knows though is if you are a triple option team, and you don't have the correct pieces starting where they should....these results will exist. Coonie part of knowing this coming was coming was very simply what they didn't accomplish at every level of football growing up. Those MS teams for 2-3 years were not good. Some groups/years have talent and some don't. 2016-2018 is just one of those pockets that belongs with 82, 85, 89 and 96 years and in those years the coaching was questioned as well. Nothing new. Coaching is always "better" when you're loaded with talent and guys who know how to play.
