Patience for the process…it’s far easier to preach than to practice.
But the kings of football in Moultrie, Georgia are all about their process. Especially once it led them to the peak of their mountain this past December.
“We feel like there’s about five or six things that we do that give us a little bit of an edge,” explained head coach Rush Propst. “Starting in our weight room with the way we train…that’s first. And that would be training up-tempo style which helps your offense to condition the body that way. And then defensively, it helps them to defend a team that does that.”
The 2014 Colquitt County squad tied the bow on a perfect 15-0 season with a 28-24 win over Archer in the Georgia Dome for the 6A state title. Their 2010 campaign, carried on the wings of the same spread, fast-paced offensive approach, ended in the same place. But that time, the result was the opposite.
Their 2010 shot at the title four years prior was not nearly the close contest seen in the Archer game, as the Colquitt team racked up 609 yards in total offense and thirty-eight first downs in a 52-38 shootout….and still managed to lose. But the final score, the most important number of all that night, burned a stamp on the Packer program. Since that following January, the coaching staff has continuously placed a larger emphasis on practice to ensure all players are readied for what they’ll see in games. That means both the offense and the defense are trained in a fast-paced environment.
Seventy-six-year-old Jim Rhodes has built a career out of his way with words. But his actions have spoken louder.