Section 13,
I played that day against MHB, let me first start by answering your questions... I don't think it was any big half time adjustment by MHB (give their coaches credit they beat us), did we as players think we had won it all? Not even close, one thing Coach Kerhes teaches you is to respect every opponent and all the time. As an offensive player never once did I or our team mates think it was Coach Monty or the defensives fault. We won as a team and we lost as a team. BY no means did LK go conservative with the offense.
I may get blasted for my beliefs, but here goes. First things first, when you don't perform, look in the mirror. Offensively we struggled the entire third quarter. You can't win big games like that. At one point I personally snapped the ball on the wrong count and hit a receiver who was in motion, the ball bounced past the O-line and the defense recovered, that was a critical moment to make a mistake. I remember an interception and a TD catch that MHB players made that the ball bounced off of Mount players into the hands of a MHB player laying on the ground. MHB didn't beat us by luck, they beat us on the field. For 55 straight games before that the ball bounced our way, on that day it didn't, we didn't' get many breaks, and we shot ourselves in the foot. As a group of players we were heart broken, we felt as though we had let the program, the school, and the purple raiders of the past down. At the same time when I look back at it, that group over achieved. we graduated a lot of starters from the year before, for a mount team we were very undersized, but we did what all Mount teams had done, we worked hard and we played as a team. That day we just didn't come out on top. When we get together we still don't like to talk about it. It hurts, and some of us left the field that day feeling like many Purple Raiders before hadn't felt, like we had let Coach Kerhes and our teammates down.
I played that day against MHB, let me first start by answering your questions... I don't think it was any big half time adjustment by MHB (give their coaches credit they beat us), did we as players think we had won it all? Not even close, one thing Coach Kerhes teaches you is to respect every opponent and all the time. As an offensive player never once did I or our team mates think it was Coach Monty or the defensives fault. We won as a team and we lost as a team. BY no means did LK go conservative with the offense.
I may get blasted for my beliefs, but here goes. First things first, when you don't perform, look in the mirror. Offensively we struggled the entire third quarter. You can't win big games like that. At one point I personally snapped the ball on the wrong count and hit a receiver who was in motion, the ball bounced past the O-line and the defense recovered, that was a critical moment to make a mistake. I remember an interception and a TD catch that MHB players made that the ball bounced off of Mount players into the hands of a MHB player laying on the ground. MHB didn't beat us by luck, they beat us on the field. For 55 straight games before that the ball bounced our way, on that day it didn't, we didn't' get many breaks, and we shot ourselves in the foot. As a group of players we were heart broken, we felt as though we had let the program, the school, and the purple raiders of the past down. At the same time when I look back at it, that group over achieved. we graduated a lot of starters from the year before, for a mount team we were very undersized, but we did what all Mount teams had done, we worked hard and we played as a team. That day we just didn't come out on top. When we get together we still don't like to talk about it. It hurts, and some of us left the field that day feeling like many Purple Raiders before hadn't felt, like we had let Coach Kerhes and our teammates down.