[Russelldad]

Maybe Boyd had something to do with that.Lou Holtz said in a 10 game schedule you can get high school players to play their best and with their maximum emotion 4 games a year.

I could not agree with you more. These same boys we bash on saturday's about not playing hard or with heart or emotion or making too many mistakes, playing with too much cushion, are the same boys who are on this and other sites every day reading our predictions and scores like 30 - 6, 27- 7, etc etc. and looking at the paper where all of the sports gurus pick us to win.

Please devil nation remember that except for Jones, Foster and Harvey, NONE of the remaining starters have ever seen "regular" varsity action offensively or defensively. I've watched every game this year, scrimmage and regular season, and I see kids giving their all. Are they making mistakes, ABSOLUTELY. But with every mistake comes a lesson learned. They apparently are learning from their mistakes because after the chewing out at halftime and some adjustments by the coaches we eliminated some of the mistakes and played much much better. I have faith that this 07 devil class will make us proud again this year, regardless of whether the last game is played at Papa Johns again or not.

I apologize to the forum for venting, but I had to get it off my chest.