[Lambert #1]

HAZFAN49,

I completely agree with you. Hazard came up here and lost 36-6 but went down swinging. That bunch of kids has learned more this year from losing games to bigger schools than they would have learned from playing smaller schools that they would have just ran the score up on. Your coaching staff has done an outstanding job with these kids both mentally and physically and I see them turning into excellent high school players because of it. Until this year I had never been a huge Wade Lyndon fan but after this season I do respect him. He came into the season thinking he could win the Big Sandy outright but a few injuries to a small school/team like he has and it is devastating and he has kept moral high and expectations large. You can learn and get better as a player and team while losing. I particularly respect him for the fact that he has not forfeited to anybody, his kid would not have accepted him telling them that they were going to forfeit and that's a direct relations of expectations from the coaches. Hazard has to much tradition and pride to forfeit or quit and everybody knows that about them. Good job Dawgs and the coaching staff down that way from a Cougar fan.