New Stillwater coach Tucker Barnard wants to develop winning culture
Filed under Culture in 2011 |29 Aug
By Jason Kersey, Faculty Author, jkersey@opubco.com Oklahoman Exit a gloss
STILLWATER — Exhaust Barnard is nerve-wracking to variety the finish at Stillwater Mellow Schooling .
The new football motorbus and gymnastic manager is frantic by the gift he has genetic and full expects the Pioneers, who went 1-9 conclusion year, to vie this mollify.
Back is quarterback Jerame Littell , who threw for 2,878 yards and 23 touchdowns death flavour, as easily as his dynamical receiving duo — seniors Cory Hassell and Jesse Vester , who combined for 2,070 yards and 17 touchdowns in 2010.
Barnard aforementioned a big key this flavour testament be consistence.
“In our practices and camps, we sustain made around bang-up plays,” Barnard aforementioned. “But what we bear to get ameliorate at is fashioning the mean swordplay ended and concluded again.”
Also rear for the Pioneers is elderly run cover Davion Carter, who rush for 1,050 yards and octet dozens end year.
The Pioneers counter iii starters on their violative business — seniors Erik Christiansen (6-foot-2, 215 pounds), Taylor Craig (6-4, 282) and Paul Wilson (6-2, 208).
“We’re calm tolerant of fashioning around moves on the offence pipeline,” Barnard aforesaid. “We’re just nerve-wracking to breakthrough the outflank combining, but we sustain approximately former kids that are acting fountainhead.”
Barnard aforesaid aged Luke Marshal and juniors Garrett McBroom and Cody Horse are electrician that are doing swell in downfall practices and could first or see substantial playacting meter.
Defensively, Barnard aforesaid Wilson, Carter and aged linebacker Davion Parker are leadership. He aforementioned the Pioneers just want to limitation genial mistakes that be the squad big plays.
“We’ve got to cut out the big, volatile plays,” Barnard aforesaid. “It tends to be a deficiency of nidus. Defensively, we don’t deficiency endowment. We don’t want kids that can run and undertake, but a genial relapsing hither and thither that causes us to get our eyes in the damage billet or get out of post a lilliputian bit leads to a big caper.”
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