Season Updates

Prelude to Season Opener - 9/10/04

The 2004 Greenville College Football season will mark the most ambitious football schedule in the history of Greenville College Football (which fielded its first team in 1987).

Besides our regular conference schedule of 7 games (the Illini-Badger Conference spreads from Southern Illinois to Southern Wisconsin), we will also be facing 3 national caliber play-off teams: Trinity International University (NAIA Top 25), Wheaton College (perennial Division III power) and Washington University – St. Louis (a multiple-time league champion).

Our reason for having this most challenging schedule was because we desire to become a play-off caliber team as soon as able, and the way to “get good” is to play good people.

Our team is “up” for the challenge of “playing up” a number of levels, and I anticipate that the kids will respond SUPER regardless of the game circumstances and outcomes because they have such great character and attitude.

Our attitude is:

We prefer to win,

We prepare to win,

However, we will not fear losing in our AIM FOR PERFECTION.

For as we believe, if you “fear the battle” and are unable to be willing to learn how to compete at the highest level of your sport………..you’ve lost before you’ve even begun to compete!

AND COMPETE WE WILL

Wrong or right, wise or unwise………..we with Greenville College Football would rather get crushed 10 times by great play-off caliber teams than go undefeated against all the others. That is simply our football program position when scheduling.

Our Football Program has higher goals than merely “winning”. Winning is too low a goal for us.

For as OUR MISSION STATEMENT READS IN PART, “The Goal of the Greenville College Football Program is to Glorify God in all things and at all times. We intend to use the sport of college football to TRAIN LEADERS, TO BUILD TEAM, AND TO GROW MEN

This is the primary position of our football program, and this is the position we will hold.

May the games begin!!!

Coach Kess