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old ball coach 
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Posted on: Oct. 29 2012,12:09 pm |
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Quotes from Jeffrey after Saturdays loss at Faribault. "The biggest thing the football team, and the other Albert Lea sports teams need to improve on in order to beat some of the bigger schools is to spend more time in the weight room".
“When you lift weights as an athlete you gain confidence in what you do and you gain strength overall,” Jeffrey said. “Our players need to make the investment. Our weight room needs to be the off season.”
Really?? Weight training and football. There's a novel idea. One would think that after 8 losing seasons(6 Clay Anderson years as an assistant and 2 years head coach) it would have registered a little sooner. Should have been working on a weight training program rather than painting the fieldhouse and working on a new football helmet logo.
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old ball coach
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Posted on: Oct. 05 2013,1:23 pm |
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and it continues.... 0-6 this year. Outscored 65-203. 5-20 since taking over and outscored 411-878.
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SlapMyMonkey
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Posted on: Oct. 06 2013,7:12 am |
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At least they didn't lose as bad this year to Owattona. They only lost 23 -0.
OH WAIT! THEY ONLY PLAYED 6 MINUTES. 
Looks like we need a fire Max Jeffrey post. 
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Common Citizen
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Posted on: Oct. 06 2013,8:19 am |
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I watched them practice a few weeks ago and could have sworn they were the JV until I was corrected. Where's the beef?
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This is my real name
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Posted on: Oct. 06 2013,3:39 pm |
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Maybe the Tigers are competing at the wrong level. When was the last time they had a winning season? I normally disagree with lowering standards to the point they are already met, but this is a long streak of losing seasons. I'm not sure if it's due to fewer students enrolled (which translates to fewer players), or if the players were coddled too long before playing competitive football, or if the problem is in coaching — but there is clearly a problem. The question is — how can it be fixed?
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Skol
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Posted on: Oct. 07 2013,12:26 pm |
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Our football program is a joke compared to any of the schools surrounding us. Many of the districts are starting their kids in pads in the 4th grade and learning the fundamentals of the plays that they will be using through their highschool playing time. We don't start pads until 7th grade, you want to see something disheartening, go watch your son play his first game in 7th grade against a team like waseca where they've been in pads already for 3 years and learning to play as a team. It's tough to see.
Not a fan of our coach, his modo this year was to win 4 games, that's the message he sent to the players... Wow, lets really push ourselves boys, win a 1/3 of the games. But in his defense, how much do we pay a coach in AL for football? We probly pay next to nothing so you get what you pay for.
I agree that our kids should use the weight room more, but money is tight for a lot of families in this town and just having your kid in sports can get expensive at $150 a sport entry fee. Not to mention the cost of new cleets, gloves, etc. So they want the kids to use the weight room more in the off season and summer but to use it in the summer you have to pay an additional $80. Why don't they let kids who have paid for a sport during the year be able to use it for free to try and get some incentive for kids to go out for and stay in sports.
Rant done, stepping off the soap box.
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old ball coach
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Posted on: Oct. 12 2013,9:03 am |
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what the program needs is someone(meaning a coach) who is willing to demand perfection. to work in the off season. weight training should be part of the program. no lift, no play. summer weights at the high school is $30 and free during the school year. if you cant afford that, scholarships are available. all of the posts here are valid. what it comes down to is the football program needs a leader and it is obvious since 2004( 17-72 record) we have not had it. the numbers do not lie.
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ALAngst
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Posted on: Oct. 14 2013,1:36 pm |
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(old ball coach @ Oct. 12 2013,9:03 am)
QUOTE what the program needs is someone(meaning a coach)
Austin has a coach. This is his second year. He came from a successful program where he was a head coach. He said he would teach fundamentals, discipline, and then the kids would go out and have fun.
He also took over a program that had 20 consecutive losses.
Max Jeffrey got the job because he was a local good ole boy. Has been an assistant forever, for programs that never won. Was the third one interviewed for the job, and offered the job virtually as soon as he left the room. Chalmers the current athletic director, but not then, was on the committee to select the head coach (one of three). His track record as football coach hardly qualified him to make a choice.
Max said first, foremost and pretty that was it, he wanted the kids to have fun. He runs a spread now supposedly pistol offense, without a good throwing quarterback and the necessary receivers.
They get blown out by unbelievable scores, but hey the kids are certainly having fun!
Albert Lea needs a coach who also gets to pick the coaches down the ladder into the younger ages. Build a program from the way up. Has good assistants (rather than hold onto one defensive coach who couldn't coach an NFL defense against a 5th grade opponent). Go to Glenville and Alden and get those scools into Albert LEa area football.
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