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Wow...I coach at a small private school in Washington State. We have finished 0-9, 1-9, 1-9, and 1-10 the last 4 seasons. We have never had more than 22 players turn out. We currently have 17 healthy players on our roster for our game Friday night - started with 20, suffered one bad ankle sprain (out for two more weeks), one broken arm (season), and one mild concussion (out 1 week). In our league are three teams which are consistently ranked in the top 7 or 8 teams in the state. The last few years they have beaten us soundly - but each year the score differential was less. This season we are currently 1-3, but the scores of our losses have been 20-7, 33-14, and 18-13. The 33-7 score was against the 5th ranked team...third game of the season and we were the first team to score on them. They kept their starters in the entire time because we were moving the ball, just kept fumbling. We had over 300 yards rushing...
All that to say, not one single time during that very, very long first and second seasons did we EVER even consider ending the season or dropping the program. Those kids busted their butts every week...why would a coach quit on the kids? I don't get it.
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