And that's a sign that he's continued his development. The tone I've set with him is, 'Hey, you haven't achieved all that you want to.' And winning districts in track gave him more confidence and motivation to step it up even more this fall.

I look at Opening Day, and you have to be excited. I want to see exactly where we are at.

To be honest about it I was more pleased with our effort against the Kings Christian even though we lost than I was after our win in the opener. We started to become a football team last Friday night.

It's very unusual for boys. Boys usually develop later. But it's a situation where he's very talented. He was always ahead of the pace.

We are going to make errors. We did the same thing two years ago when we had sophomores on the varsity, but it paid off when they became juniors and seniors.

I could tell the very first day. You coach 20 years at the college and high school level, and you can quickly tell how good a kid can be. And I thought this kid could be a state champion. And I saw that in the seventh grade.

This year will be more of a traditional team with more playing time for the starters.

She is not a loud kid by nature, but she'll be a leader for us in some ways. She understands what it takes to be like that team last year. She tends to get mad at herself, but last year's team helped her with that.

When I was in school 20 years ago, it wasn't all that important. And if the coach was mad at you, denying you water was something they used as punishment.