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Rice Lake knocked off West DePere last night to make it to state a second year in a row. My Brother's Grandson plays for Rice Lake, and this is his second trip. His older Brother made it down there, and was on a state championship team.
Rice Lake is one of the smaller schools, whose football program is amazing. They moved them up into a higher level, and are playing against schools twice their size, in Division II.
A long time ago, a guy named Vern Pottinger, whom I knew as the head football coach at Belvidere HS, in Illinois, left the city and started teaching in Rice Lake, where he took over the football program. Since then, he brought it to one of the best in the state, and passed it on to one of his assistants, whose football acumen is a lot like Vern's. Anyone who believes a coach can't turn a program that's weak into a winner in HS, doesn't understand just how important the entire culture of football is in communities. It's why there are programs in the South that are amazingly strong.
Rice Lake is one of the smaller schools, whose football program is amazing. They moved them up into a higher level, and are playing against schools twice their size, in Division II.
A long time ago, a guy named Vern Pottinger, whom I knew as the head football coach at Belvidere HS, in Illinois, left the city and started teaching in Rice Lake, where he took over the football program. Since then, he brought it to one of the best in the state, and passed it on to one of his assistants, whose football acumen is a lot like Vern's. Anyone who believes a coach can't turn a program that's weak into a winner in HS, doesn't understand just how important the entire culture of football is in communities. It's why there are programs in the South that are amazingly strong.
