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Finding the Future Stars For the Blue and Gold

"We aren’t going to bring in a player just to strengthen a team. If we have a younger boy who has a pathway to the pros we believe in, we will play him up to really challenge him, rather than bringing in another player just to strengthen the team. That in a nutshell what this is, we want to produce professional players. To put it in a team framework, we want our teams to be strong as we should be successful and there’s an expectation that we will win, but it is not about building teams, it’s about putting players in the right situations to be successful.