Stats, it's a team thing

By Lew
August 30, 2005

Dear Mustangs,

The GoFridayNight page does a great job and is very detailed. The blogs could use some work, but I digress (smile).

One of the neat things about this site is the "Leaderboard" section of the site. If you do the drop down menu for 3A and click it, you see Sweetwater leads area 3A schools in rushing. That's for the TEAM. One thing I noticed when I clicked on INDIVIDUAL rushing statistics not one Mustang did I find in the list. How come?

I can only think of a couple of reasons this might have occured and the first one doesn't count. Now, I don't know how Coach Jackson does things in Sweetwater. I have only had one e-mail from him in a couple of years. I have never spoken to him on the phone, nada.

I can only suspect what happened on the "Leaderboard" page. Coach Jackson chose not to make individual statisics available. Please bear in mind this is all a theory. You know what? If that is indeed the case, that's fine with me.

There certainly isn't a thing wrong with the Team concept. I sort of chuckled to myself though. As any General of any Army will attest, never let the enemy know how large your Army is. Never let them know what kind of units you have in your battalions...It's just strategy. Nothing wrong with that at all as far as I am concerned.

There is another way of thinking on the Team concept also. You may notice in some colleges, they don't put the name of the player on the back of the jersey. This is an old strategy from Notre Dame. You didn't see names on Knute Rockne, Frank Gifford, or even the great Rudy. And they were all heroes as it was because of the Team that they succeeded.

No, I don't need to see individual statistics for rushing. I understand the thinking. It sure looks good to see Sweetwater had 403 yards rushing and the 2nd best rushing team had 228 yards. Now, that doesn't mean rest on our laurels. It's just a statistic. Let's see if we can maintain that. Good job Mustangs!

Lew

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