It feels like just yesterday that we were beginning fall camps... and now the 2015 season has came to an end. Saturday marked the final game our seniors would take the field as Savage Storm player. It also marked the 99th meeting of Southeastern and ECU, our biggest rival. I am proud to say that for the second consecutive year in a row, our team left with the Great American Classic trophy! Since this is our first season here, I have not had the chance to bond with many players who were not part of the defensive line. Our Dline is losing four young men and my heart breaks a little bit. There is one player in particular whom my husband has coached since he was just a kid and playing juco ball. He has watched him grow from a pup to young man.
This time of year is always a rough one. Football Scoop is overloaded with firings/interim fillings/possible firing speculations on daily basis. This is a trying time for a coaching family and my heart goes out to those families. This is the first season in awhile that our lives are not hanging in the balance and we know where we will be when Spring ball rolls around. Some of our coaching staff is experiencing these feelings for the first time and I pray for them. This life isn't always an easy one, and no one, except another coaching family, can even begin to understand what you're going through.
I have never been more proud of my husband! He just wrapped up his 7th season as a college football coach and recorded his sixth winning season! This season his defensive line boys made great strides and broke some school records. The "Get off the ball" strategy became a phrase we said daily in our house and it gave us some good laughs!
Although I am a little sad that the season is over, I am a tad bit excited for a sense of normalcy in our lives. But what is normalcy as a coaching family? Daddy still doesn't work 8-5 and weekends are guaranteed free! Before we know it we will be fully engulfed in recruiting trips and the hubs will once again be available on a limited basis, but for now we will enjoy some family time.
