9-29-2010

Just a quick note that on thursday we will be at the practice fields NOT at town hall, they are striping and the Titans will be on the other field.

I am asking all the parents to remind the boys to stay aggressive and remember what we talked about regarding proper tackling technique.

See you tomorrow.

Kent

9-28-10

Hi everbody, just a quick note about my pending suspension. The league has reviewed our appeal and decided to overturn my suspension, yeah...I was hoping for good news, but i guess they very seldom overturn these things, so I will count my blessings and move on. Thanks to those who supported me.

9-27-10

Hello, well another hard fought game, unfortunately another loss. The positives were there, we ran the ball better. The passing game was open we just didn't connect as often as we should have. Defensively we played well except for a few plays, and as we tell the boys, the game comes down to a few plays and this time they made more than we did, I think we gave them a few by some missed tackles but that's the play. We will go back at it again this week in an effort to make more plays than Slinger. We will work more on tackling and continue to teach technique at all positions.

Game balls went to Noennig, Robinson, and Seramur. Robinson has made good strides since we switched him to receiver, and made a great adjustment on a long TD reception. Seramur made a great play on and interception. Noennig was all over the field on Defense again, and made a nice throw for the TD.

See you all at practice tonight.

Kent

Oshkosh Game

Hello again, these kids are definately ready to get their 1st win. We have been preparing them for the Oshkosh game and they have responded better this week in practice than the 1st 2 games.

I asked them to get some rest friday night and not stay up too late, since we need to leave Hartford by @ 8:00 a.m. weather should be o.k. and spirits should be high.

To get directions go to www.AAYFL.org and find the page with the teams listed ( not the map Icon on the home page, that is just a map of WI.) then click on Oshkosh West.

I hope to see everyone there. I am not sure yet if i will be allowed to coach, i was suspended earlier in the week for arguing with the officials last saturday after the game. We have appealed and have not heard back yet. So if I am not on the sidelines that is why. Our team and staff is prepared to win one for the gipper. I sure want to be there 'tho this is what we volunteer for, to watch our kids play and to be told you can't, well it's hard. i am proud of the way the team has responded this week and hope to get their best effort yet.

See ya.

Kent

9-23-2010

Hello again, I sure hope the rain holds off tonight. I wanted to drop a quick note to everyone to let all the parents know how we look this week. We made a few adjustments on defense and the kids really took to it. Made it a little easier for them, hopefully that transfers to the game. Also added a few wrinkles on Offense to open it up a little, we don't want 1 kid carrying the load, this should give us more opportunities.

Practice today is at town hall, I told all the boys after practcie tuesday.

See ya later.

Kent

Game 9-18

Well we made a terrific comeback in the 2nd half. Those kids turned it on in the second half. I told our boys if we can put together 4 quarters of the effort they showed then, we will be a very good football team. I was happy and proud of the way they responded in the 2nd half. They could have held their heads but they didn't. jason Schmidt in particular was puking during warmups and didn't play the 1st ahlf he asked to play in the 2nd half to try and help his team, that is awesome. Win or lose that attitude is what I like in a team, and we are a team.

as for my behavior with the referee, while the call was right i felt the rules were not being enforced for yardage and wanted to defend my team and our kids safety. In end i feel I represented our entire club poorly acting that way and I want to apologize to all the parents and fans who witnessed it. I don't usually get that animated, but when the safety of our kids could be at stake I will fight for that.

We have practice tonight, tuesday and thursday. Thursday will be at Town Hall again.

We are at Oshkosh on Saturday for a map go www.AAYFL.org. We wear our white road jersey's.

thanks
Kent

9-16-2010

Hello again! Well we are fast approaching game #2. We've had a good week of practice trying to clean up some of the mistakes we made last week. These boys make me proud each practice with their ability to learn and correct what they are doing wrong, this is a direct result of desire to succeed and their ability to pay attention, which at 7th grade level sometimes is hard.

We will be practicing at the High School like normal tonight. However, next thrusday and each thursday from now on we will be at Town hall.

The club is still looking for parent volunteer hours. It is my understanding that we only have 1 person in concessions on saturday for our game, so if you or anyone you know from a different grade level can work please contact Mary Jo Vanderheiden.

We do practice rain or shine, I hope the rain holds off for us today.....If there is lightning we will cancel practice.

Well 'til next time
Kent

Game 1

Well not what I wanted the first week, I really wanted a win for these guys, but I tell you what, that was a tough well fought game. I told the boys in our post game huddle they have no reason what so ever to hang their heads they just went toe-toe with a good football team and played their guts out, sometimes you lose a football game. We now have a few things to coach them up on and clean up some little things but if we stay within our gameplan we'll be fine. I thought it was a heck of a game.

Practices are now mon-tue-thursday. NO MORE WEDNESDAY'S. Our next game is against West Bend West on Saturday at home again, let's hope for sunshine.

Game Time

Good morning all, We wrapped up pre-season practices yesterday, some good things some not so good things happened, but again, an encouraging sign was recognizing what we did wrong and the players fixing it on the field. I hope that carries over to games.

I am excited for saturday to kick this season off.

We start at home that is always good. This year we play Wauwatosa West @ 10:30. I have told the boys repeatedly to be there by 9 and ready to start stretching at 9:15. If they are late (not on the field helmets and pads strapped on and in their lines ready to stretch by 9:15) they will not start or they will miss their first rotation if they are not a starter.

Players, start getting excited today ramp up the energy and come ready to show everyone some Oriole excitement.

Kent

Game week 9-6-10

Well this is it, the last week of practice before it all starts to count, can you feel the excitement?

Just a quick note to everyone. 1st i hope everybody had a great holiday weekend.

I am switching the day we go to Town Hall to practice from wednesday to Thursday, so please make note of this, I will of course remind the boys on Tuesday and wednesday. Be at Town hall by 4:45

Otherwise we'll see you at practice tonite.

Kent

9-4-2010

Well last night's youth night at the varsity was very fun. I am glad we had 110 boys attend on a holiday weekend. Thank you to the players and the parents for bringing the boys there.

We do not have practice monday we resume on tuesday.

Wednesdays practice will be held at town hall on the game fields so be there by 4:45.

Our first game is fast approaching, next Saturday. I'll be in touch before then, but until then have a great Labor Day weekend.

Kent

Sept. 1st 2010

Welcome to september! Hopefully the weather stays as nice this month as it did in August for us.

We are starting to install our special teams units this week. We will also be done installing all of our offense today, i am very excited about that, now we can really focus on teaching aqnd correcting the little things and get ready for next Saturday's home opener.

Friday night is youth night at the varsity. I would like all players from grades 5-8 to attend. we will parade onto the field at halftime, we will toss T-shirts and form a tunnel for the varsity players to run thru. All very fun things for the youth program to do at a varsity game and kinda be part of the action. the 8th grade teams will have a brief scrimmage amongst themselves also at halftime. Due to a new rule in the AAYFL the teams cannot scrimmage each other , they will be scrimmage Orange offense vs. Orange defense and Black offense vs. Black defense, still very exciting for those boys to showcase their young talent on Gib Mahr field. Hope to see all of you there.

If you haven't turned in fundraiser packets I need them by thursday.

Wristbands are availabe at practices, Mrs. Schwalbach has them by her truck in the parking lot before each practice.

That should do it for now. see you tonite

Kent