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[quote=Woodsman]I don't think they necessarily worked harder than everyone else in the mueller era either. Highlands enjoyed the luxury of having stacked rosters with often unmatched talent and a legendary coach....and they benefitted from Covington Catholic not having a coach for the better part of a decade.


It was discussed endlessly prior to new coaching staff taking over and endlessly last two years about the drop in athletic boys in a couple straight classes, people just want to refuse to believe this and blame it all on coaching. Would HHS have won more games w/Mueller coaching? Probably, but still would not have been very good teams. If Mueller was coach, I can not see Highlands losing the two games they did this year when they had comfortable leads with only a couple mins left in the game and allowed ridiculous come backs by the other teams. So I think lack of athletes is number one reason for drop off, but coaching also is playing a part.

There were plenty of athletic kids in the last several classes to continue to compete at a very high level if there was not this stigma that kids would only play on one side of the ball. There have been kids placed on the field the last several years that had ZERO business getting into a game much less playing meaningful snaps. This thought process cost them a trip to the state finals three years ago and last year going under .500

There is more than ample talent on that roster, but it takes the willingness of the staff to take a step back and give things a look.

Just an example of the disconnect on the current coaching staff. Kevin Siple was brought onto the coaching staff this year as a volunteer and has had little to no contact with the head coach. That my friends speaks volumes.