Pike Road leadership committee focuses on discipline

Discipline.

It’s crucial for every football program and instrumental in getting players to focus on tasks and avoid mistakes, two key elements that will almost certainly improve performance.

A primary goal for new Pike Road coach Granger Shook, who accepted the job in late March as the Patriots’ third coach in three years, was to improve the team’s discipline. He figured the buy-in would have to start with the team’s seniors.

“One of the first things I did when I got to Pike Road was that I got the team to vote on team leaders,” Shook said, “because I wanted to know who the team perceived as team leaders.”

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