Football Season

Coach Huckins and his staff watch their inaugural game against Breckenridge.

This post is about three weeks late. It was going to be a post about how time flies (did that one) and change happens (haven't hit that one yet.) Maybe I'll combine both eventually, but a few weeks back, Vestaburg High School played its first football game under its new head coach.

Back in my younger days, I was the athletic director at the small Class D school in Montcalm County. It was an interesting two years. The previous AD had hired a football coach in December and he had taught on our staff for one semester. Then, he quit his job at Vestaburg and moved to a football job at his "home" district. We then hired another coach — and it turned out to be a controversial decision. For many reasons. One staff member from the previous regime stayed on, a young 19 year old former Vestaburg star, John Huckins. We eventually hired him as a paid coach. Ten years later, he made his debut as a head coach. The Wolverines won. Ten years earlier, wins did not come as easily as the change from one system to another was difficult.

The Wolverines now win often and have made the playoffs several years in a row. A system is in place. But the system has been handed down, changes have been integrated, and a new era is beginning.

I said to someone the other day, "Wow the last five years have been a blur." And the last ten ... pretty much the same.