A team who hopes to dramatically change this season is Southington, who failed to win a game last season. What's more, the Wildcats allowed 46.1 points and scored just an average of 6.4 points per game. Both statistics placed them in last place among the 63 area teams.
With a new head coach, the message is to not let last season influence what lies ahead.
"Big thing I'm trying to do this year is make them believe in themselves," stated head coach Ryan Slone. "That's the first step, and I can see that in our 7-on-7s. When something bad happens, they don't put their heads down, and it's not negative. They pick each other up. We're getting that belief that I just made a bad play, give me the ball again, and I'm going to make a good play this play. And that's where you have to start with high school football, and if you can do that, we're going to be competitive this year."
"He's already turned us around a lot," explained senior Robert Rushak. [We are] a lot more organized, and I think we'll do a lot better than we did last year."
