“I’m ready to get started. I’m excited,” said first-year Ethel High School head football coach Adam Smith earlier this week. “I really haven’t gotten a chance to meet the players and that’s something I’m anxious to do.”
But for now, in the midst of the regulations surrounding the Coronavirus pandemic, he must wait.
Smith said he has been looking at game video from the 2019 season in order to get some kind of idea of what he has coming back for his first season leading the Tigers.
“I’ve been evaluating some guys, to see where they are. I’m looking at some things we can possibly do differently, but at the same time seeing some things we can keep and expound upon.”
He admits that it is a disadvantage not being in the weight room and having spring training, but says Ethel is not the only school facing that issue.
“Everybody has a level playing field as far as that is concerned,” he said. “Nobody is able to get work in, so we are all at the same place.”
He did say that a lack of familiarity with his players will be somewhat of a disadvantage. “That’s the biggest thing,” he said. “The coaches that were at a school last year already know the players and the players know them.”
Smith said that when practice was finally allowed that the he would be “just teaching the bare basics and improving on some of those things as we can.”
