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SlapMyMonkey 
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Posted on: Sep. 08 2012,11:56 am |
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After the 58-0 LOSS.
I wonder if the A.L. Head Coach & Game Officials had the same conversation as last week. On how close the game was and how the final score didn't reflect on how close the game really was after last weeks 42-7 LOSS.
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This is my real name
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Posted on: Sep. 11 2012,11:42 am |
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I remember the four-year-plus losing streak and parents and coaches writing letters to the editor complaining that the Tribune dared to mention it in the paper, and how the Tribune was demoralizing the team.
You'd think the then-players grew up playing in "scoreless" leagues where everyone got a trophy at the end of the season. THIS is the end result of all-inclusive policies like that. We STILL can't win.
But as long as they're getting good grades in self-esteem and nobody does anything to disrupt that, let's keep the status quo.
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canvasback
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Posted on: Sep. 11 2012,5:51 pm |
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(SlapMyMonkey @ Sep. 08 2012,11:56 am)
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Nope, they did not have that discussion. We got trampled just like everyone knew we would...including a lot of the team. But they showed up and took the field. I won't give you the soap box speech about them trying their best etc...but they did. Though the losing doesn't feel good, the kids do have fun knowing they are up against a ranked team. Go to a game...any game...and you will see the problem...numbers. Example...OW had 3 times the number of players on the sidelines. AL simply does not have, and never really has had, and kind of youth program, especially compared to other area communities.
Albert Lea High school does have some quality athletics and progams. Wrestling for example...respected and feared statewide...and a perrenial top ranked program with state appearances...unbelievable youth program. Hockey has not shared the same type of success, but still competitive, and again, starts with the youth program.
The kids that go out to play football know what they are up against, they play because they like football.
So, going to rip the band next? We used to have a large award winning marching band...now, well? Nobody wants to play trombone anymore. 
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Posted on: Sep. 11 2012,6:33 pm |
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So, going to rip the band next? We used to have a large award winning marching band...now, well? Nobody wants to play trombone anymore
Eleven band directors in 20 years will do that to a program.
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Posted on: Sep. 11 2012,10:32 pm |
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perhaps i missed it, but was there a article in the sports page regarding the game? we were driving by hammer field awhile back & the team in full dress were jogging around the playing field & i commented to my wife there sure does not look like there are a lot of players out for the team. anyone know how many are on the varsity team?
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Posted on: Sep. 12 2012,10:47 am |
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88 guys tried out for the B squard many, many years ago in the Big 9 school I attended....we probably had twice the enrollment AL now has.
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old ball coach
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Posted on: Oct. 02 2012,9:47 pm |
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the enrollment argument is crap. wrestling wins with same enrollment year after year. swimming is winning this year too. football teams NEED TO LIFT WEIGHTS. our football teams do not lift weights. Waseca is smaller than we are and who won that game? nothing like giving the job to someone that never won as an assistant and will not win as a head coach.
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Posted on: Oct. 04 2012,11:51 am |
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Last 7 seasons of Albert Lea Football
13 wins 50 losses
opponents scoring 27 pts per game albert lea 14 pts per game
under Max Jeffrey
2 wins 12 losses
opponents scoring 37pts per game albert lea 12ps per game
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ALAngst
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Posted on: Oct. 04 2012,1:41 pm |
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(old ball coach @ Oct. 02 2012,9:47 pm)
QUOTE nothing like giving the job to someone that never won as an assistant and will not win as a head coach.
"14 years" as an assistant. Never once on a winning year. Third person interviewed, out of three, offered the job right after interviewing. Talked about how he wanted the kids to have fun. Well, who doesn't?
Ma Jeffrey is, and always was, a joke. Austin lost every game for the past two years. They fired their coach. Then they went out on a search to find a coach who had had success. When they hired him, he said he was going to teach them the fundamentals, how to tackle, how to block, how to move quicker. You watch where the Austin coach takes an arguable worst program over the next couple of years, compared to Jeffrey.
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