Blue Bird, you must have a specific point your alluding to. Why not say it openly so that it can be addressed more clearly. I'm trying to understand what you are trying to pry out of me. Just type it down. I will discuss, confess, anything you want to know, if I have info about it.
Okay, I turned off the tv. I see what your saying. Talented kids are more essential to a team than is a top coach. That is a half-truth. So you are half-correct. Good players are needed to win district, Bi-district, Regional, Quarter, semi-final and state championships. And lots of teams do. Lots of teams win football, basketball, baseball games and track meets. My point is that when those teams play each other, the team with the most prepared coaching staff will usually prevail. Now there are exceptions. Calvert vs Rs the last two years, for example. It is my belief RS had the better staff, maybe Calvert had some better kids. But, the Trojan coach had made some significant offensive changes which may have made the coaching issue less lopsided. Calvert won both.
In 2006 and 2007, in my biased opinion, we trounced Calvert because they didn't have the kind of offensive sets that showcased their athletic advantages. So I say we out-coached them. In 2004 Danny Davis ran a surprise defense against us in the semis I was not ready to handle. Had it not been for Jerry's defensive preparations, we would have lost. Danny out-coached me. He had sought help from another coach he beat earlier in the playoffs. It worked against us that game...only. The teams were equal athletically.
In 2006 our defense fell apart against Rule in Shotwell, but our offense was so versatile we won anyway. Even that was problematic. We realized the run was not going to work early, so we reversed and used the pass to open up the run. Tyler and I figured how to do that after playing Throckmorton in the 2004 semis. We learned our lessons and remembered them. We actually taught ourselves how to beat Throckmorton after both games, '04 and '05 semis. By '06 we were confident we could handle any defense. We would sit at the supper table and quiz each other on how to overcome every strategy a defense might use. In 2007 Calvert refuted our pass attack, so Tyler, Andrew and Mark had to do it with sweeps, alternatingly. I digress.
If Burkhart and Rodgers were at, say Ft. Davis in 2010-2012, RS would have been fortunate to win one state championship, unless another set of good coaches had replaced them. Guys like Tyler, Lee, Jones, Hayes, Marcus and others would pick up where they left off. And there are some really good young coaches and older coaches who are pursuing greatness we saw this year. Coach K. at Oakwood, Mt. Calm's coach, Ware, Gallegos, Williamson at Groom, and others. Coach Rainer in Follett has proved again he is in that upper-class, so to speak.
