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i think lumberton is goin up not sayin up to a playoff spot yet but i dont think they are gettin the credit they deserve

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i think lumberton is goin up not sayin up to a playoff spot yet but i dont think they are gettin the credit they deserve

Having watched the posts from the last few weeks, I see a lot of threads talking about “proper credit due", "respect", "underrated", "overrated", etc.

A team will get respect or the proper credit when they put a winning team on the field. That is not just for Lumberton but for any team.

For a 13 year period (1953-1965), Nederland was in the playoffs 11 times. That was when you had to win district to go to the playoffs. In that time they won 1 state championship, lost in 2 other state championship games and had three other quarterfinal appearances. I will bet Nederland was well respected back in those days. But guess what? That was followed by 22 years out of the playoffs and a mediocre team most of the time. In that time frame Nederland had 7 or more wins in a season only twice. I am sure that they got almost no respect during that stretch. Why should they? A team is judged by its fairly recent history of being competitive. With 22 years of losing, you can't point back to another generation and demand respect; I don't care how good the run was before. The same goes with a good showing in a couple of scrimmages.

If you win, respect and proper credit will follow. If you don't, then it will not. It is as simple as that. Lumberton's time will come and they will be competitive in the future (playoffs or not). Maybe it will be this year, maybe another year but it will come….then they will get the respect that seems to be such a hot topic.

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Lumberton may not get in but the attitude is much better and that's where you have to start.

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In reference to my last post about respect, winning and losing........

All student athletes deserve respect no matter the performance of the team or the individual. What matters is that they have the guts and desire to go out and practice and strive to win. I think I respect players from a losing team more since I am sure it is more difficult to want to play on a team without a winning tradition than it is to play on one that has a good chance at the playoffs and maybe a championship. Imagine putting up with long, hot and hard football practices when you have a good idea that you are not going to make the playoffs, yet you continue to try anyway.

It reminds me of one of my favorite quotes. It is a passage from a speech by Teddy Roosevelt and it is called Man in the Arena. I think it does a good job in describing how I feel about the "kids" that play high school sports, especially on losing teams.

THE MAN IN THE ARENA

"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again;…. who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat."

THEODORE ROOSEVELT April 23, 1910

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