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With football season opening for schools in Western Arkansas Aug. 31, we wondered what it was that kept coaches coming back year after year despite the headaches that come with the title. So we asked four area coaches, what’s the most exciting part of the game for you?
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With football season opening for schools in Western Arkansas Aug. 31, we wondered what it was that kept coaches coming back year after year despite the headaches that come with the title. So we asked four area coaches, what’s the most exciting part of the game for you?
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Danny Abshier
Prairie Grove football coach
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Great effort. That’s what people come to see — the superior efforts, the great hits and the great catches. The all out, great efforts that come from people really trying hard. I always look at the guys saying [to the fans] ‘Raise the roof, start clapping.’ I say, ‘Why don’t you do something big and then they’ll stand up cheer?’ And it’s especially fun to score a touchdown.
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Mike Adams
Farmington football coach
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Most exciting for me is probably seeing kids develop from the time they start as ninth graders to seniors. See how they physically mature and mentally mature and how they get better. See them have success. It’s a lot more satisfying to me than having the guy who is the great athlete who wins all the awards to see a big kid who is overweight and not sure he wants to be out there as a ninth grader, but he hangs in there and by the time he’s a senior, he’s a starter. Those kids are the ones who excite me the most.
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Aaron Clark
Elkins football coach
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I’d be lying if I didn’t say the whole Friday night experience. The whole pressure I feel and the kids feel going into the game. The thing I like the most being a coach is seeing my kids make play that I didn’t think they could make or they haven’t made. The excitement they feel after doing something great. That feeling I knew I felt when I played. Watching them go through the situation, just going through it and seeing them get excited about doing something great.
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Tracy Sutton
Greenland football coach
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We turn the lights off in the weight room and say the Lord’s prayer, then when I walk through the gate onto the field, I still get goose bumps. I put on the headphones, see coach (Lee) Larkin and then see our team bust out of the run through coming right at me. With all their hard work all week and all year, I know what’s about to happen. It’s on. We’re about to go to war. If I ever lose those butterflies, I’ll retire. It’s a great feeling.
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