Comments about ‘High school football: Cottonwood takes control early in victory over West’

Enough is enough. Personal Foul penalties are a major sign of a noin disciplined team. I agree with aggressive defense but to keep getting Personal Foul is WRONG. It will come to hurt us in a big game and we will not be able to recover. The coaching staff is great at honor and disipine in so many areas, where are they in this PROBLEM as i see it

"We've still gotta clean that up," Thomas said of the infractions.
How many games are you going to end with a bad taste? The Cottonwood team is better than this! It is really disappointing to watch Cottonwood win "ugly" because they can't get their penalities under control. I've seen so many games that Cottonwood should have won, or should have won bigger but came up short because of penalties. Please "clean that up" already!!!

Cottonwood is the best 5A football team in the state, so watch out during playoffs Hawks and Miners. Everyone else is forgettable.

Feel the STAMPEDE!!!

the caoches must teach that or have no control over their team, cwood by far is the dirtiest team i've seen in years of watching high school football.

Are you kidding me!!!!! To previous comments. Guess who won the sportsmanship of the year award given by officials at the coaches clinic this year???? C-wood! So the dirtiest team in Utah ha ha I don't think so. Maybe if this team was a bunch of softies we would point out every little thing another team did to us during a game this isn't flag football we are playing. I'm so bent and tired of the lame non factual comments that are made about this team, but hey the second people stop talking is when you should worry. Envy can eat your insides!!! Go Colts

Go Colts!!! Take it to Hunter next week!!!

Get real. Did you go to the games v Alta and Bingham? If so, you can't honestly think they will beat either of those teams. Alta w/o their QB, we might have a shot, but Bingham just flat out dominates. Might not want to start talking trash to teams that smoked us. We can make a run, maybe to the final 4, after that you never know.

Its obviously west needs better coaching. Its true that west do got the most talented players in Utah, especially Tana Afeaki. One of the greatest running back/receiver I ever seen. If These coaches can pick it up, West may be up there with Cottonwood, maybe better. But thinking about this game... Was the Officials being even??? Were they making calls that should of been called???
Well lets see what happens next week..

I also agree that the Personal fouls on the Defense has become a Big Joke. The D has the other team stopped and then a stupid penalty. The only one I saw last Night that was questionable was the Shane Hansen PF, He was pulling up and hit the runner a second late and they threw the flag. The rest are a Joke and need to be Cleaned up by the defensive Coaches. You don't see the Offense getting all these stupid PF penalties. Clean it up Coaches before it is to late to recover in a big game

Actually, the West player hit Shane Hansen a second late but Shane got the foul.

All I can say is that CW has a reputation for being dirty and they didn't let us down when they played us.They were by far the dirtiest team we have played.To the coaches wife,CW has this problem with lots of teams,it's a fact,it can't be everyone else all the time,clean up your act!

I disagree with Coach A. i think west coaching is fine the atheletes need to disipline themselves by going ti class and coming to play every night and not be intimidated by C-wood or big schools

Tana Afeaki, Tevita Fangupo, A.J. Thomas and so forth are extrodinary athletes.. it all comes down to discipline. the coaches have to push them more if they want to win and become one of the top teams in 5a

The flags you are seeing are not flags thrown as a result of Cottonwood (defense) kids being dirty, they are flags that are thrown as a result of judgement by refs who do their best to protect players .I.E. late hit on the QB in the pocket with 5 O linemen and 4 or 5 defenders around, might be called, might not, ruffing the passer, might be called, might not. This is an area of constant focus with any football team as I am sure it is at Cottonwood. Play hard and fast , play to the whistle. I never hear anyone say that C wood is dirty when they get beat, maybe that is because that has only happened 5 times in the last three years. If you tally the Soph. JV and Varsity teams the program is 69 and 6 over the past 3 years. Oh yeah with the same staff....sooo really do you think this is not being addressed ? Keep getting better Cottonwood... Nice job

When players/people put little effort or intensity into a contest or life they struggle, get beat, lose or quit.(too much of that in the world today if you ask me) Effort is the one thing that must be demanded from everyone in everything, math, english, sports, family, love, friendship, faith.... EVERYTHING.

Once effort is substantiated than the refining of the outcome can proceed. What you are seeing with the Cottonwood Defense (which is effort based) is that very process... So much more here being learned than football X's and O's.... People wake up, demand your children to try with everything that they are and if they make mistakes in that process, than refine, refine, refine but never break the desire to compete with intensity in all they do. Boys you all keep playing harder and harder, it will serve you well in part as your foundation to overcome all life throws your way ! Listen to your coaches and refine................. for your effort will do the world proud someday as fathers, husbands and men.

Thanks D Wood coaches for all you do ! Builders of men !

Good Luck D_wood

True, Coach Joe has taught me much more than football while he has coached me, and i'm grateful for it. He makes all of us better people by teaching us life lessons, not just winning games