Team Profile
Photos by Andy Mitchell Photography
Q&A with Coach James Manning
Q. How would you characterize this year’s team?
A. We are young and coachable.
Q. What will be the keys to your success?
A. Our kids believing they are good enough to make plays.
Q. Who will be your key leaders on the team?
A. Brock Smallen, Brent Baddley, Elijah Prichard, Jay Horne, Luke Parr, Asa McMillon, and Zach Gilbert.
Q. What are your biggest reasons for optimism?
A. Our kids are really coachable and are flying around.
Q. What will keep you up at night?
A. Injuries and depth.
Q. What can you build on from last year?
A. We lost five games by seven points or less last year, much an improvement over the years prior.
Q. Any lessons learned from last year?
A. We belong in football games, we just have to believe we deserve to win them too.
Q. Will we see anything different this year?
A. Hopefully bringing fun back to our game of football.
Q. How would you characterize your team’s speed?
A. Like spotty internet: sometimes it’s awesome and other times you are triple clicking the mouse.
