Having five seniors can be concerning, but Patrick is getting good work from his group. “My seniors have done a great job,” he says. “They have done everything that we’ve asked them to do. They’ve been to all of the workouts. They’ve done a great job of leading. It’s been a good group, it is just extremely small.”
Patrick wants the community to know it’s not just about football with him. “I want to have a program that makes the community proud, both on and off the field,” he says. “We have a huge responsibility as coaches to not just building great football players but also building great young men, and that’s something I feel really strongly about. We share the gospel here, and I feel that that’s important because at the end of the day when I die and go to Heaven, God’s not gonna ask how many football games I won, he’s gonna ask what I did in the name of Jesus. We do a good job here of trying to develop the whole person.”
“On the grass, we have to be hard-nosed and physical,” Patrick believes. “That has to be our M.O… We’ve got to outwork people and our kids are kind of seeing some of that now, we get after it. We don’t have any dead time, it’s go, go, go, go. And hopefully that bleeds over to Friday nights. I genuinely believe that if we lift fast, practice fast, and then we’ll play fast on Friday.”