Getting toward the end of STJ sports and we all now how it feels....

Okay being honest we all have come to the conclusion in sometimes in the "Journy" that we have either played down to the competition, but was it really players fault or coaches???

As i begin this lets start with the starting of it all coaches think that somehow we have become the total powerhouse team in every sport we play so therefor they talk shit about every team we play. This frustrates me because i've seen this happen countless times when coaches look pass the smaller schools and start to prepare for the dominant SAC, IWA, TMI, which ever it may be.

In football we have blown out teams numerous amounts of time gaining us the swagger needed to make a push into the playoffs no doubt, but is that what we need? Was it better for STJ to drop the first home district game in a while to SAC? Truly i maybe wrong, but that loss opened the eyes of the football players that we are not unstoppable. Most players that week started to look over SAC and check out who was in the first round of the playoffs. Having Cheston Guodge and Wilson Vick wreck shop on our secondary was not a fun thing to view from the stands, and neither was our still young gun quaterback with a lot of throwing potential toss a few picks into no mans land. Look down at the competition dropped us a district title in football, but made us realize that we could be beat. And the real heart and guts that should've been played against SAC was tripled in the last playoff game against D.C. when we took the eventual state champs to the bring of demolishment. I went and watched the State game in temple and we by far handed them the most competition of all season. Looking down on SAC helped us in the long run , but no repeat of the district.....

Basketball short lived story here plenty of potential, but if i hear Platz tell us we should be able to beat SAC, IWA, Hyde Park again I would've shot myself. We most definutly had the potential if luke would have been 100% all year, as we saw in our district opener against IWA that we could play with the top dawgs only losing by ten and giving it up at the end. We looked down on tiny teams and it came back to bite us just mentioning one team in the Goliad tournament as in Mathis i beleive anyways long story short we didn't give them the time of day, and a three point rain at the buzzer later we are playing for a 3rd place trophy which we loss. Mathis was a tiny team bunch of non athletic players and we should have beat them by 25, but we were preparing ourselves for Goliad that night in the title and what do you know no hardwear for the team. Playing to the highest potential each game we might have been able to catch a playoff birth, despite horrible coaching and too many techs to keep our minds in the game. Maybe next year baskeballers.

Baseball time as the teams season draws to a close rather quickly, we've seen it before and I'm sure we will see it again. One teams name comes to mind to no district title and the name is Hyde Park, don't get me wrong they are a scrappy bunch of players, but no where near the talent that we have this year. Going into this game alls I could find in conversations was "Wheres the playoff game against J.P.II" or " Did we lose the district title splitting the series" coming into the game with only a 3-0 win last time shouldnt we expect something a little better than the first time if I was a coach I would've scouted a team out and put on my spoil season pants on. Hyde Park saw Hayden the last time what would make a coach thing that if a team faces a pitcher twice they will hit him better the second time. Hayden is a fine pitcher, but he is no Denver or Andre that can tear teams to pieces with his stuff they got to him and started ripping, and a shot at the district title down the drain. Be ready baseball team playoffs will be more intense first round seeing that tougher team out of Houston.

These are some prime expamles of bone head coaching decisions now lets see players or coaches you tell me ???