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Niagara Falls placing character above wins in '21
NIAGARA FALLS — Don Bass thinks Niagara Falls High School can put a solid product on the gridiron this year, but he is not focused on the standings or scoreboard.
Meanwhile, Kusmierski felt too many players were placing misguided blame during the first three weeks. He said this team is built to avoid similar problems when the Wolverines open the season against McKinley at 7 p.m. Sept. 3.
“We weren’t on the same page,” Kusmierski said. “Everybody was saying, ‘We need to do this or we need to do that.’ We just need to come together and work like we did at the end of the season.”
As much as Bass would like to win, however, his main focus will not be on the standings at the end of the season. Instead, his desire is to ensure his players become productive after they are no longer under his supervision and he will consider the season successful if he can develop quality people.
“I want to develop these young men into just that — young men. Men that you’re not afraid when you see them in the streets five years down the road,” Bass said. “... When they interviewed me, I told them on game day I would try as hard as anyone to win, but my success is determined by how I see these young men and what they do with their lives. I think there’s so much more to this than beating up a team.”
It sounds like the Sabres or the pre-McDermott Bills.
NIAGARA FALLS — Don Bass thinks Niagara Falls High School can put a solid product on the gridiron this year, but he is not focused on the standings or scoreboard.
Meanwhile, Kusmierski felt too many players were placing misguided blame during the first three weeks. He said this team is built to avoid similar problems when the Wolverines open the season against McKinley at 7 p.m. Sept. 3.
“We weren’t on the same page,” Kusmierski said. “Everybody was saying, ‘We need to do this or we need to do that.’ We just need to come together and work like we did at the end of the season.”
As much as Bass would like to win, however, his main focus will not be on the standings at the end of the season. Instead, his desire is to ensure his players become productive after they are no longer under his supervision and he will consider the season successful if he can develop quality people.
“I want to develop these young men into just that — young men. Men that you’re not afraid when you see them in the streets five years down the road,” Bass said. “... When they interviewed me, I told them on game day I would try as hard as anyone to win, but my success is determined by how I see these young men and what they do with their lives. I think there’s so much more to this than beating up a team.”
It sounds like the Sabres or the pre-McDermott Bills.
