Particularly when people look at the makeup of our team and some of the things we've been through, with playing more freshmen than anybody in America and having some really potentially, what could have been devastating, injuries. And then to be able to kind of pull it all together and still win the conference is a tremendous achievement for a team that I think most people felt like was probably a year away.
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I'm proud of them, it's been business as usual. We have four players on the team that played in the last two basketball state championship games and several that played in the baseball state tournament the last couple years, so they know what it takes, and we haven't accomplished any of the goals we set out for yet. It's just a reward for the first four games.John Lilly
We fell probably one player short. I'll take responsibility for that. Sometimes with timing and the way you set things up.... sometimes you guess wrong.
John Lilly
You look at our classes every year and we've never gotten overly caught up in all of that. But as long as we get guys who fit in our system well and meet the needs that we have on our football team, we'll be pleased with that.
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Here's a guy who is obviously not the ideal size, but we've found out a lot about his heart. I think that is something you always get when you get somebody from Madison County.
John Lilly
We feel like if we can finish it off the right way, it will be another phenomenal year. That's the key, being able to put them together - one, two, three years in a row.
John Lilly
Our only security is our ability to change.
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