Wellington, Kansas?

This town is about 20 minutes from my hometown, but I've never played or coached against them. However, over the years I've coached against many teams who have played them so I've seen some film and heard many things. So, what I have to say is based off of a little film and second hand coversations...just my opinion here of course.

I don't remember their schemes from the film I last saw, but knowing the head coach I'm sure they are sound, somewhat conservative in nature, and effective. The head coach there has been at it a long time, he has been very successful, and keeps things simple. He seems to focus on the basics and doesn't beat himself. Their tradition is similiar to my hometown's: successful year in and year out, kids are lower middle class mostly white, blue collar kids if you will, they aren't going to walk on the field and scare anyone with their size or speed but they will hit you and out work you.

To me they are like quite a few teams here in Kansas who are known as being very good year in and year out, but when you see them you're not blown away by anything. They consistently beat opponents who's personnel is similar or worse than theirs, but they also seem to lose to teams with speed. I'm not meaning to state the obvious, what I mean is unless your pesonnel is better than theirs, they seem to win because they don't hurt themselves, the kids play hard, there's consistency throughout the program, ton of tradition, etc.

Not to hurt anyone's feelings but IMO...

Beat Clearwater 33-23 = Similar personnel in many ways, but not the tradition and not a well coached team
Beat Buhler 28-13 = Not a lot of talent overall
Beat Circle 21-0 = Horribly coached team
Lost to Andover Central 12-16 = Better talent than Wellington
Lost to Andale 12-27 = Better talent than Wellington
Beat Kingman 50-7 = Terrible team overall
Lost to Mulvane 6-33 = More speed? This team has a good TB
Beat Belle Plaine 27-12 = Not as talented a team as Wellington
Beat Douglass 46-17 = Not as talented and poorly coached

Playoffs
Beat Andover Central 28-14 = Didn't see the game, don't know how they won this time around
Lost to Topeka Hayden 21-6 = We played this team in the first round of the playoffs this year. Their QB is VERY good and the team is well coached. My assumption is Wellington had trouble with the passing game and containing the QB's overall abilities. I haven't seen the film, but I would assume Wellington played hard, but couldn't hang with Hayden's athletes and passing game. They probably wore down would be my guess.

My two cents Coach. Take the opinions as that, just the opinions of an outsider.

Wellington has been a traditional power in Kansas for quite some time. They are running some gun read plays now and the town will travel well.

What does Gravette have coming back next year and what do they run?