I enjoyed a Thanksgiving with family and will finish my meetings with underclassmen on Monday and Tuesday and then I will join the rest of the staff in the recruiting process for 2011. We meet with all players and I use the surveys I give them, particularly the input from the Seniors, to evaluate the program and its’ people. Looking at this data we will try to develop a plan to improve BC football for the next group of players. It is easy to focus on what you do right, but attacking the spots where we fall short is harder, but it has the greatest impact on whether we improve. I still believe this Senior class turned us into a Playoff team that was not in the Playoffs and I will always be grateful for their efforts.
Over the Holiday, the BC family dealt with a tragic loss in the death of Julian Pierre who played for us in the to 2002-2005 era. Ju-Ju came from Immokalee, Florida and showed up as a 175 pound receiver and left here as a pretty good 225 pound TE. He was a champion every year he played, and really never left the Bridgewater area once he arrived. BC became his home and family in some sense, and after graduating in 2007, he stayed in the area to work. He was in the management program at Texas Roadhouse. If you have ever been to Immokalee, Florida you would know that in Ju-Ju’s family there is not a lot money. We have told his sister and mom that we will take the responsibility of getting the body back to Florida where they would like to have the funeral. One of the characteristics of a good program and teammates is that the people in it give back when they are needed or capable. The Pierre family needs our BC football family to help them. Beyond his smile which will never be forgotten, I remember at H-SD in 2005 when Jacob Lewis checked a 2-Protection in a (Ace) 2-TE set to throw a post to Brandon Copeland who was manned up on a HSD cornerback. We do not use that protection with that set, but Ju-Ju was smart enough to kick back out and take the Tailback’s block (who was not in the game) and block the wide rusher to the weak-side. The QB was protected, the play went for a TD and we won that game and the title that came with it. Thanks JU-JU, for that and a lot of other reasons I am donating. Always an Eagle. Coach Clark
Details of donation process will be posted on Bridgewater Football face book fan page.
