1 hour ago, TheDeuce said:

As much as some people have been whining on here over the past few seasons, it's incredible that just two games can fix everything. 

Truly fascinating to watch. 

It's kind of like the old Eddie Murphy bit, "If you're starving and somebody throw you a cracker you gonna be like this: ******* that's the best cracker I ever ate in my life!"  

8 hours ago, TheDeuce said:

As much as some people have been whining on here over the past few seasons, it's incredible that just two games can fix everything. 

Truly fascinating to watch. 

I think it's more about the feeling and the excitement that the Birds have the right person that will finally use the talent that has been in the program and also bring better schemes and game prep.  

Over the years, Highlands Frosh team has won 8-9 games nearly every year.  The varsity team should have been able to consistently win at least 7 games and probably 8-9 games every year too.  The talent has been there to compete and to be a very successful and winning program.  

Has the talent been there to win state?  Maybe, who knows?  But, now that they have the right Leadership that will emphasize player development on top of everything else that he seems to be doing right, I think we'll find out in the next couple of years.  

4 minutes ago, NKYPrepSportsFan said:

I think it's more about the feeling and the excitement that the Birds have the right person that will finally use the talent that has been in the program and also bring better schemes and game prep.  

Over the years, Highlands Frosh team has won 8-9 games nearly every year.  The varsity team should have been able to consistently win at least 7 games and probably 8-9 games every year too.  The talent has been there to compete and to be a very successful and winning program.  

Has the talent been there to win state?  Maybe, who knows?  But, now that they have the right Leadership that will emphasize player development on top of everything else that he seems to be doing right, I think we'll find out in the next couple of years.  

They absolutely should be excited. Getting a new coach usually is an exciting time. 

4 minutes ago, TheDeuce said:

They absolutely should be excited. Getting a new coach usually is an exciting time. 

Especially a coach the level of Coach Sphire. 

18 minutes ago, NKYPrepSportsFan said:

I think it's more about the feeling and the excitement that the Birds have the right person that will finally use the talent that has been in the program and also bring better schemes and game prep.  

Over the years, Highlands Frosh team has won 8-9 games nearly every year.  The varsity team should have been able to consistently win at least 7 games and probably 8-9 games every year too.  The talent has been there to compete and to be a very successful and winning program.  

Has the talent been there to win state?  Maybe, who knows?  But, now that they have the right Leadership that will emphasize player development on top of everything else that he seems to be doing right, I think we'll find out in the next couple of years.  

 

@NKYPrepSportsFanGreat post! There are a ton of Birds fans out there that simply love that fact that players, and by extension the team, is being put in the position to be successful. Adjusting to the players you have is absolutely essential and that is what Coach Sphire is doing and what Coach W refused to do. Again, like NKY fan said, this is not necessarily saying HHS should have won a bunch of state titles the last 7-8 years, but there is no doubt that the talent was there and they should have won A LOT more games. It has been truly frustrating to look back and think what could have been in terms of wins and losses and players who "could have been".