Glenn happy for a chance to get back at it

Courtesy of the Pilot News.

WALKERTON — A week ago Glenn’s football team had the rare event of having a game canceled at the last minute. In this case, it wasn’t just once, it was twice.
“It was rough because our AD and administration did a great job,” said Glenn coach Ron Brown. “We had a team from Ohio that was going to come over and play us at a neutral site up until 1:30 p.m. (Friday). We had the refs, we had the field and at the last minute, they decided they just didn’t want to make the drive over.”
“It’s like you studied all week for the test,” said Brown. “You got ready, you felt like you knew what the answers were going to be and then you don’t get the opportunity to show what you’ve learned.”
“It may be a good lesson that nothing is guaranteed. You have to focus on what you are doing now because this might be the only opportunity that you get.”
It also leaves Brown and his staff in a little quandary moving forward.
“It’s very odd,” he said. “We are going into week four and we don’t really have an idea of what the team is, playing the different competition that we have than not having the opportunity to compete, it’s very strange.”
It brings a certain simplicity to practice this week as the team gets ready for a conference test with Jimtown.
“We have been focusing on us to do what we can do to get better as a program and find out our identity,” said Brown. “Until you know that it’s hard to know what to focus on weekly. We have to learn what this group of kids is about.”
He does know what Jimtown is about, a team that Glenn has faced many times and is very familiar with.
“It’s your typical Jimtown team, they are going to play hard, they are going to have second and third efforts and they are going to try to disrupt your offense by being super aggressive,” said Brown. “Cody Vincent has done a good job carrying on that tradition. He gets them ready.”
That makes the game plan simple as well.
“We want to establish the line of scrimmage, we want to have our run game prevail and have our kids show that our effort is greater than their effort because that’s what it is going to take to beat this Jimtown team,” said Brown. “If we can do that we can have a very competitive game. That was our goal in creating this conference is that week in, week out you aren’t going to know who’s going to win who’s going to lose, every week is going to be a battle.”
Kickoff at Glenn is 7 p.m.