It seems tha tthere is a common theme spreading through two of our favorite teams in the west. BYU made the statement when coach Mendenhall replaced Croten, that they would be returning to the glory days. Although this undoubtedly means a revival of stomache ulcers, and anxiety filled Saturdays, still it means more wins. It also brings back images of dad watching nervously with his jar of M&M's, or jelly beans during his non-chocolate streak, popping candy faster and faster as the game progresses.
As I have talked to the coaches at Jordan High it seems that there is a similar occurance. Nobody is calling it a "return to the glory days", but there are a lot of similarities that I have observed. In past years Jordan has not always had the most talented team, but they have generally had the strongest hardest hitting !@*#%@# players in the state. Yes, many scoffed at the beetdigger mascot and name, but they only laughed once, then they found themselves looking up from their back at the beetdigger that plowed them as he walks away. then the fear sets in. Even if we never made it to the finals, or even the playoffs for that matter, we still remained, year after year, the team to beat. The difference between teams of the past and the current team and teams of the future is that they will not likely be the smallest team out there, but they will still be one of the hardest hitting teams and are once again becoming the team to beat. coach Jacobsen reads all the latest studies in excercise and player training and conditioning and impliments it with the team. The result has been a steady upward slide in the teams performance. They were also invited to a national invitational in Ohio for this summer. There is a long list of teams that want to be there, but Jordan was jumped up to the upper end of the list. This pleased coach Jacobsen, especially because, as he put it, "Alta was all butt hurt about it". Rock it to the house coach. We will see this year if the upward slide continues.
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Several years ago, Coach Jacobson had what he called the Gauntlet. Which would consist of the best teams that we would be facing that season. He talked about it all the time. How the games we were playing were preparing us to "run the gauntlet" Well, we beat every team in the "gauntlet" and lost to almost all the others or at least struggled to beat them. I attribute this attitude to his tremendous sucess in the regular season, being in one of the toughest regions in the state, and his dismal embarrasing flops in the playoffs. He need to prepare his players minds around one thing.....the playoffs. That's what Coach Dupaix has done so succesfully. Even in years that they have barely made it to the playoffs, you have to consider them a contender. For him and his players, the playoffs are the gauntlet and they run it better than anyone in State history.
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