2012 The Year of Destiny

2012 The Year of Destiny: Time to go back to work!

I think each day, each week, each month, and of course each year brings new and exciting challenges and expectations. The 2012 Eagle Football year is no exception. We have entered in to a new Conference, with many of our old friends from Tennessee, that will give us opportunities for success that we have not had before. We are attempting to build a new 11-man conference which will include teams that we have been playing from Indianapolis and Cincinnati, that again, we lend its' self for our success.

2012 promises to be an outstanding year in many regards. It looks very good for the success of our Senior and Junior teams, in that we have already had an influx of coaches and players show interest in those two teams. Locally, there is a new league which has formed that shows promise of sound structure and motivation in the 9 - 14 age group which will lend itself to our needs.

Spring Football begins on March 19th, and already we have many new faces at the younger ages that want to come out and take a look at what we offer. All in all I visualize Eagle Football becoming a platform for God's plan as it spreads beyond my expectations in 2012.

I can't wait to watch it all happen!

A Season To Remember

Eagle Football 2011,
was a season to remember, for many reasons. We, the players themselves, the coaching staff, and myself and the players and parents came together like never before and met challenges head-on. The players went from two-a-days, where they worked on football skills, (but also fed the people in need, helped mentor kids at a football camp, and washed cars for a church), to regular season with hopes and aspirations of success.
Together, the players worked hard, to get in shape, to hone skills, and to reach a point where team would be gained and individual would be lost. They were successful!
Through a season that witnessed "not so many wins" but many victories on and off of the field, our fans saw hard play, companionship, and a dedication to one another that showed the greatest of our players. Players, as well as the team, went through trials and tribulation but over-came the not so bright moments to stand tall and witness the greatness of what we achieved.
Together, with God's help, we withstood personal strive, family disorder, relationship testers, sicknesses and emotional soul seeking. Together, with God leading the way, we stood tall!
God has blessed us! He has blessed us as individuals and as a team and a program. God stands in front of us as a protector, as a mentor, as a leader, as a guide, and as our Father!
He told me this year, in a passing moment of fasting and searching, that it is our time to plant the seeds and He will choose the season for the blooming.
You know what? I believe Him.
HOW GREAT IS OUR GOD!

The Foundation of Which We Stand

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A multi-sport star at Covington high school, in Covington, Tennessee. He attended college at Murray State University, led the Racers in pass receptions during the 1976, 1977, and 1978 campaigns and earned Small School All-American honors as a Senior in 1978. Spent some time in the CFL and NFL and then began coaching in 1983. Began High School coaching at Henderson County High School in 1987, came to Louisville in 1990 and coached at PRP, from 91 - 93, at DuPont Manual from 94 - 01, at Doss High School from 02 - 04 and took the Head Coaching position at Evangel Christian School at the start of the school year in 2005. Dave Thomas’ commitment at Evangel Christian School (and now with the Eagle Football Program) is to raise young males up to a point where Christ may use them for His glory and honor. The football program that is God driven, in to the future, is built on a foundation of hard work, discipline, and Christian values, with an emphasis on service to others. “Our young men become leaders through commitment and dedication and I am very proud to be associated with each and every one of them.”

The Eagle Philosophy

Eagle Football 2012

Mission Statement: We will influence young men and women in Christ like ways, by using athletics as our vehicle, so that together we may build strong Christians, a strong educational system, and a strong Christian based community.

1. Build individual and program character.

2. Encourage players, parents, and staff to create positive goal oriented values and philosophies.

3. Develop student-athlete relationships.

4. Create within the program a sense of growth of all involved personnel.

5. Teach personal conviction and a high work ethic.

6. Lead members to understanding the scope of a purpose driven life.

7. Promotion of Pride, Team, and School and Community Spirit

8. Instill a Vision of success.

1. Build individual and program character

This program is and will continue to be built on the idea that character is acting in the appropriate way when no one else is watching. In other words, if we can learn and can teach every one in the program to be accountable for themselves, the team, the school, and Jesus Christ we as a program will be a success. The first thing we must teach and learn is, if everyone involved does what they are suppose to do, not only will everything be done in a wonderful manner but everyone will establish within themselves a pride and a honor for the commitment to all of the people involved in that commitment.

It goes without saying that every person involved has been introduced to a varying set of rules and ideas on the best way to live ones life. Within the understanding of this fact, it is necessary that we establish our team rules, that will predicate our team character.

We must also manifest the idea that this commitment to character be carried over to each and every persons own individual lives.

These ideas are manufactured by;

a. the common sharing of team tasks

b. team study hall

c. team dress codes

d. team discipline and action expectations

e. team practice schedules

f. team calendars

g. team itinerary

2. Encourage players, parents, and staff to create positive goal oriented values and philosophies.

We will schedule team and parent meetings so that every member of the program will have the opportunity to be an influence in the program.

Parents are invited to contribute to the goal setting, goal seeking, and goal reaching process. This is established through the scheduled meetings and through the ongoing student-athlete functions. The seniors are invited to participate in a one-on–one goal setting meeting between the player, their parents, and Coach Thomas.

Each player will establish annual goals and they will be evaluated as the student-athlete progresses through school and the program.

3. Develop student-athlete relationships.

The goal for all students should be to be successful. I think that one common thread runs through all adults. That would be that sometimes in life we need help. Our goal is to help students to learn how to be successful through gaining help in the team.

By teaching a student that the team consists of teachers, parents, coaches, and other classmates, we as a program can help the student-athlete gain understanding that help at being successful is all around them. Many times students do not thing that seeking help is a good thing but by sharing stories, gaining confidence, and by involving the students themselves in the process we can help them become the best they can be on and off of the field.

Through the organization of groups, visitation of colleges, and public service time we will insure each and every student has an opportunity to develop meaningful, positive relationships.

Do it Right the First Time.......Every Time!

Sunday, September 4, 2011

A message from the Coach

May Grace be on you and your family!

As far as the East is from the West, is as far as He will remove your transgressions.

We all have things we deal with, this fact was something I came face to face with this last Friday.  I stayed after school to help a young man with his studies, and I witnessed the most beautiful, most free, expression of emotions I have every seen.  As the young man struggled to grasp the fundamental school concepts that, I was trying to teach him, he began to cry.  I could tell that we (he and I, together) had tapped in to something that was much larger than I would ever know or understand.  As we worked, together, he wept more and more, to a point where he could no longer control his crying.  As I tried to verbally comfort him and assure him that he would understand and there was no real need to cry, I began to understand that this young man needed love and understanding much more than he needed to be taught school subjects.  He needed to know that a teacher cared for and about him.

Through it all, I was the one that was touched, and I was the one that learned, from this young man of God's creation.  Isn't it amazing that God can take a situation and turn it around where you can be blessed, when the entire time you thought you were doing the blessing?  I am the one with the problem; of not being able to open up to God, with all that I need to open up with.  I wish I had the emotional presence to let my feelings out like this young man has.  I have so many things that are so deep within my mind, my memory, and my heart that I will not share them with God.  This situation, brought about one BIG question, Why not?  I prayed that night that God would grant me the ability to open my heart to Him, with my problems, with my desires, with my faults, like that young man opened up to me.

I prayed to God for the ability to show that young man that God is the answer to all of our faults and problems and desires.  God has grace that is enough for each of us in all of our situations.

Hebrews 12:15            “see to it that no one misses out on the grace of God”
 

1 PETER 5:10              "Jesus is the provider of all GRACE"

I pray that each of you find grace today...through the search to become closer to God and through relationships that you build, with love, on this earth.

To Love someone is to view someone as Jesus sees them.

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