Look man you just gotta stop. You realize Sycamore has an unreal team that would have been an uphill battle to try to beat? Hillcrest has a stud running back that would be hard to stop? Rochester is doing Rochester things up in 5a this year? Your words of Sterling could play with any public team in the state are bold and you need to just quit. It’s frustrating coming on here and seeing posts from you.
We rolled through a conference with a couple of average schools that had some excellent athletes. For the most part, those teams aren’t well coached and they don’t play defense. You were the only one on here talking about how we’ll be able to stop KB because our line was so good and everything. You were wrong. I think anyone that watched film going into the game Saturday had a worry if things didn’t go perfect that’s how the game might go. (Edit: I do want to say for the most part our d played well. Brown got loose a couple times and that’s what special players do. It was more the o couldn’t get started. That had a lot to do with SR’s talent and game plan. Very similar to Phillips a couple years ago.)
Alright that rant over.
New rant. As far as everything else that’s been posted about, Sterling’s in a tough spot with their location, size, demographics, etc. There’s not a lot of options for a conference switch but at least there are some non-con opportunities each year like someone mentioned that probably needs to be looked at. If they’re not good enough to get to 5 wins in the wb6 then they’re probably not good enough to make a run in the playoffs. Might as well beef it up a little.
Sterling’s going to be 5a basically guaranteed. There will always be a public like them trying to break through and then you have your usual privates and now your non-multiplied privates to get through. That is what it is. You can go through my posts, I don’t usually get into that debate but I will say a school of 570 males that have sent 51 athletes on to the division 1 level in the last 6 years is not on the same level of a public school of about 1050 that has sent maybe 51 male athletes to the d1 level in their history. The majority of those 51 knew they were going to be college athletes going into the selection of their school, the coaching didn’t turn them into those athletes (maybe a few got that extra push). And for those of you that say publics are being out-coached or out-worked, and just need to work harder, that’s just ignorance. Sterling’s got a great thing going from top down and have coaches and kids that work freaking hard. Sometimes you have the jimmys to get there and it doesn’t quite work out (‘16/‘17). Sometimes you don’t have the kids but still have a nice regular season as a product of the program consistency (‘19). Sometimes you just get a nice draw and make it further than most people thought (‘18). The bottom line is the program as a whole has coaches and kids that work their butt of each year and expectations are high for that to continue.
We got smoked on Saturday by a better team that’ll be in 5a again next year. I’ll assume there’ll be a lot of guys back in the weight room for Sterling this week getting after it to try and close the gap for next year.
