Summer Schedule and Information

Welcome to the 2010 season of Warrior football. It should be an exciting one from every perspective. Our off season training will begin on Tuesday. Everyone will get credit for Memorial Day as I have heard a fair amount of excitement about making all 40 workouts and going to the Taste of Texas. For a complete summer schedule including attendance awards please see the website at www.CypressChristian.org/Football/Off-Season.cfm. One change is that Warrior Wednesday is going to move to Thursday and probably get a new name as a result. We will have 7 on 7 this Tuesday at CCS. Starting June 8 we will be traveling to Fort Bend and will probably need a few drivers.

I will continue to send regular emails but want to encourage you to subscribe to the RSS feed for both the football headlines and the Warrior Link on the new school website. Each sport has a Warrior Link so you will need to be on the football pages. To subscribe just click on the word subscribe above my picture on the Warrior Link and at the bottom of the headlines. When you subscribe to the RSS feed the information will come right into your email or onto your home page depending on how you set it up.

If you missed the parent meeting after the scrimmage or simply need the information again here is what was discussed.

Coaching Your Student’s Passion
I believe that this will be a tremendous event that will be a great encouragement to you as a parent. The speaker will be Bruce Brown and I use a great number of his resources in our football program. I hope you come and make it a point to invite friends and neighbors. You will be benefiting our schools athletic programs and I believe you will benefit greatly as a parent who has the tough job of raising a teenager in todays culture.
June 24 at 7:00 p.m. Cost: $20 ($35 per couple) (Admission includes two Bruce Brown booklets.)

High School Football Camp
June 25 from 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Cost: $35 This camp is coached by college coaches from programs that I know personally are like our program at CCS. It is both a basic skills camp for all positions and a recruiting opportunity for the colleges that come to the camp. So far Dordt College, Greenville College, and Taylor University are committed to coming.

Season Tickets
You can purchase or renew your season tickets through the website. A reserved stadium seat for every home football game at any level is just $100. 10% of the ticket revenue goes into the schools benevolence fund and another 10% goes into the general athletic booster account.

Football Booster Club
I personally join each year and this season there are new benefits including a replica game jersey and a reduced cost for the Coach's Club level. 10% of the money raised goes into the schools benevolence fund and another 10% goes into the general athletic booster account. Our budget covers about a third the cost of our program and the rest comes from ticket sales, booster club memberships, and sponsorships.

Football Sponsorships
There are a lot of sponsorship opportunities with football like Field Signs, Media Guide, PA announcements on Friday Nights and Website Opportunities. Your business or one you know of may be interested in this opportunity. This can also be done in conjunction with the schools larger Partners in Education program.

Old Uniforms can still be purchased for $10 each. The new uniforms should arrive in mid June and we will have an event to show them off and take pictures for the media guide.

School Service
I am asking each football player to donate 10 hours of their time to improve our campus over the summer. This will be done in small groups following the morning workouts or on some select workdays. This is a great opportunity to give back to the school as well as show some servant leadership. More details will be provided soon and we will probably start working the second week in June.

Please remember that the first day of practice is August 2 so please take all your vacations prior to that if at all possible.

Texans Practice

I learned a few things watching the Texans practice today. One is that they get a lot more done without pads than I would think is possible. They waste very little time during a practice. They film three or four angles of everything which would be a big help. We could get a lot more done in our practice if every coach had one or two assistants just to set up drills and catch footballs. How nice would it be to have four full practice fields including one that is indoors. We do have some of the same equipment, the same helmets and I still think we will have nicer uniforms. I also think that coach Kubiak said more to me than he did during the whole practice. Go Warriors!

2010 Spring Game

An inter-squad scrimmage is always an interesting thing as a head coach because it is not possible to be perfect on both sides of the ball at the same time. Traditionally the defense is usually better during the Spring Game and today was not an exception. I do believe that our own defense will be the best we see all year and I am very pleased with the progress that we are making on both sides of the ball. I believe that we have the potential to be a great football team. We have had the opportunity to have several guest coaches with us in the spring with a tremendous amount of experience (I hope we will have them in the fall as well) and they have also confirmed for me that we have a great deal of talent.

There were several things that I forgot to mention or probably did not make very clear today so please check the website. One thing was regarding the booster club and season tickets which make purchasing high quality equipment and many other aspects of our program possible. I believe in leading by example (another reason the seniors are responsible for the equipment) which is why Bethany and I join the Coach's Club but I also realize that not everyone can afford to do that so please do not feel obligated. There are many other ways that you can serve the football program other than giving money and one that I always appreciate is prayer.

The uniforms are Navy, White, and Columbia Blue like our current ones (the printout looked a little black) and every helmet will be silver. All of our helmets get reconditioned and painted every year. You can still buy an old jersey all summer long and hopefully we will find a few of the missing numbers.

It has been suggested to me that we play the spring game in the evening next year to avoid the heat. Since that suggestion came from a mom of four small children I think I will agree. While it was a little hot it was also a great day and I want to thank everyone for coming out and cheering on the Warriors.

Sping Football is Underway

Both high school and middle school have completed there first spring practice. We had a great turnout for both teams and out numbers in the fall could be easily be over 90 players. We might even break the century mark if enrollment for next year continues its rapid pace. If we have a 100 players we might just sell out of season tickets. I am not sure what the lead time is but we will get more chairs installed if that is the case. The players are excited about football and ready to put in the work that is required to make it a great season.

80 Plus

I know a little about having a lot of kids but today was a whole different story. Over eighty K-5th grade students descended onto to the football field to play with some really big toys, maybe learn some basic skills and hopefully gain a new role model or two. There are always a lot of thank you's from the elementary parents but I love it more for what it does for the HS players.

I love to hear them explain the basics of the drills and learn the names of the little kids. I heard more than one elementary student refer to the HS players as "professionals." I love the opportunity to challenge the HS players to live up to the exceptions and the role models that they are and should be in the eyes of the elementary students. Some of those little kids will be the stars when the current players are coming back for homecoming. I hope that we will continue to build a legacy as a football program and as a school that is continually impacting the next generation.

Fun before Football this Mother's Day

Bethany and I will be going to see Tim Hawkins this Sunday at 6:30 at the First Colony Church of Christ in Sugar Land, TX. We have seen him in the past and feel he will not disappoint. Tickets are Tickets are $15 and it would be great opportunity for football families to connect.

You can get a preview of Tim at: http://www.timhawkins.net/

Here is the link for tickets.
https://store.tunafishcomedy.com/index.php/timhawkins/tickets/sugar-land-tx-may-9th-6-30pm.html

One warning, you will laugh so hard that your face will hurt the next day.

Elementary Family Fun Day

Are you ready for some football? This weekend, four Warrior QB's spent two days learning the basic fundamentals of the position and were willing to take on the more important part of "Accepting the Risk of Leadership." We have a team of great leaders and I expect to see a lot of growth in this area during the 2010 season.

One great way to develop leaders is to give of our time to impact the next generation, which we will be doing this Friday from 3:30 to 5:00 on the football field. I need at least 20 players and would love to have several parents at the event. We rotate elementary students through 6 stations that teach them some basic football fundamentals and also provide them with an autographed mini football. Current seniors and other select players will be singing autographs. Players that attend will be able to get their helmet for spring football practice that night and put it in their locker.