Blackman I must say that your posts are extremely entertaining. Honestly, I thought it was mostly just a shtick to keep attention on the MIC program. However, after watching your team last night I think this is the real Blackman. You tell this same stuff to your players at practice every day.
The sad part is you guys are missing the point of high school football. To you, it’s all about titles and D1 scholarships. Glory reigns supreme in your program. Too bad, because the best part of high school football is the life lessons that these young men learn. It’s about playing for the guy next to you. Sticking together and preserving when things aren’t going your way. Grinding it out through the hot summer while others lay by the pool or stay inside playing video games. It’s about picking your teammate up when they make a bad play and telling them “next time you got it”. These are lessons young men need to learn and unfortunately, most of them do not get it in today’s society.
You can brag about all of your D1 offers and visits. You guys certainly have some freakishly talented players. Yes, you have a young coach who loves to post all over social media about the great things that are happening to a select few players. But at some point the parents, and hopefully the administration, are going to start asking “what are our boys learning from the football program?”.
The right way was on display for you last night. I hope you played close enough attention to see it. That was a large family of brothers you played against. They genuinely love each other. The type of love that comes from being together for 6 years. The type of love that gets stronger even as some of the most talented players on the team leave for greener pastures. (yes, we know you guys were chirping in Tucker’s ear all spring and summer about how the TJ coaches weren’t treating him right). The type of love that if a coach started pushing around one of the players on the sideline then he would end up with the whole team in his face. It’s an amazing thing to watch when it’s done right. Coach Cash may not be social media savvy. He may not work the college recruiter circuit every weekend. But he knows how to build a band of brothers that will fight for each other, and leave it all on the field. He may not be a cutting edge coach, but he must know something to win 324 games.
So go ahead, enjoy all of the hype and glamour of D1 offers. We’ll just be sitting over here in little ol’ Avondale churning out amazing young men that will blow your mind if you ever get the chance to speak with them. Articulate, humble, caring, hardworking young men. You know the kind this country used to celebrate. Who knows, we may even see a state title or some D1 offers. But that will be a result of something bigger that’s going on at TJ.