[Beetle01]

and another thing im sick of watching people play football who dont care if the win or lose......everybody pretends they care when its all going good, but when the **** hits the fan everybody falls apart and its somebody elses fault no matter what.......

i have to say that this is the worst team ive seen in a long time thank god were 6-3......i understand that its not a losing season and we goin to the playoffs and all that..........but lets face it guys this isnt the same program it was a few years back we we just crushed everybody and freshman were goin in in the 3rd quarter

now every body dont get all mad and shun me from the crowd i hjave been a devoted devil for a long time and i am just getting tired of the way things are

Competition has gotten a little better than 3 or 4 years ago.

The state team didn't even beat anyone that was all that good to win state. Belfry was way down, and OC was an average team at best.

what teams aren't going to walk through a schedule that includes Powell, Estill, Lewis, West, and East. Heck our JV team can beat those teams most years.

Ill even go and say that I personally don't think the State team would be within 4 TD's of the 02 team. If that close. Or a few other teams Russell has had over the past 15-20 years. At a school like Russell with dwindliing numbers, the amount of talented players drops. This year you have a few outstanding players, but then there is a dropoff. This year's team has around 13 or 14 seniors I think. those teams had 20-25+ seniors. That's a major difference for a 3A school. Especially when the classes below aren't much of an improvement with the amount of players.

This team is still much better than 97, 01, or 04. If their lineman can get it together they can be pretty good. They also need to play like they care, not worry about what school they are going to. Because if this is all the effort some of these kids have, they better just focus on school, because no college coach will put up with the laziness that is shown by some of the players on this team.