 Sometimes you just got to have a little bit of, whatever that word is, tenacity and perseverance. Just keep doing what we do. Eventually good things will happen to you, believing yourself, believing your teammates. On December 6th, 2015, the Belfry Pirates picked up their third consecutive state title following their victory. Plans were in progress and expectations were already set for the Pirates to bring home a fourth state championship. Well, we want to get forward in a row. We just want to go out here and work hard. We've got to take it in baby steps and get better each day, get better each week. It's all about the climb. Right now we're not half or even close to team we was last year. We've got a whole lot of work to do to be back to where we want to be that we was last year. This place lives, eats and greets football. And of course there's going to be a lot of pressure, but we've just got to get better each day because it's a climb. Coach Haywood says it's a hill and you've got to take baby steps each day and get better and we're going to be the best we can be. You know, I think we have a big time schedule this year. I think it's going to be a lot of good teams coming in. I just felt like we've got a lot of big time players that's going to be out on the field as well. It's definitely going to be something everybody's going to want to come out and watch. You know, we're going to do whatever we can to keep the dream alive. Just hopefully when we reach playoff time, we're starting to peak and then we can just get better and better and better until we reach our goal if we're blessed to go that far. Be patient because sometimes our fans and the community expect us to come out and just be rolling maybe the way we finished last year even though we've got quite a few seniors. We're going to have some very young players out there and we may have been a little older football team last year than when we walked out there this year. Reporting in Belfrey for EKB News I'm McKayla Colley.