 For the first time in a few years the shuttle Clark Cardinals have stability within their football program as Josh Muncie returned for his second season at the helm Shuttle Clark is coming off a two-win season. They're back in district play in class 3a after sending out one year ago It's been going great. Our numbers have been a lot better than where we were at this year and You know, we've we've got a lot of guys returning. We lost four or five seniors last year So a lot of these guys are they've been a year in this system. So they know what to expect They know what we're doing biggest improvements probably strength. We had a great off-season We had a good a good winter and spring weightlifting program and you know, we started a lot of freshman and sophomores last year We were freshman and sophomore heavy and these guys hit the weight room and and I've seen a huge improvement Got a lot better over the year since last year We I think we're a lot better than we were last year Especially offense. We've gotten a lot stronger and we can we can push farther and from one year ago I think we've we've gotten a lot stronger. We've been in the weight room all summer long We've got we've got a bunch of people in the thousand pound club now Which we didn't have in the past and I think just being stronger and stuff I think we can challenge teams a lot better now Muncie says that he has seen vast improvement from everyone in his program The Cardinals have gone through a rebuilding process over the last several years as the seniors on this ball club have only won Seven games of far cry from a team that was one went away from a state championship appearance in 2009 shuttle Clark hasn't had a winning season since 2010 the Cardinals are looking to prove folks wrong and actually earn a playoff spot Oh, well, I mean, it's you know, we've we've been rebuilding for for four years now. So You know, I'm the I'm the first Second-year coach at Sheldon Clark in the last five years, you know We we had four coaches in four years and I'm the first one to repeat. So Yeah, the rebuilding process has been tough. I My freshman year after all the seniors played the last game and stuff I actually made a promise to them that before I graduated we'd have a winning season and stuff So this year I hope to fulfill that promise have a positive attitude And you know, we usually get looked at as a pretty bad team But if we just put that away and just play some football we'll win some games It would mean it would mean a lot. It would mean a lot to the community We've seen a lot of community support these last couple years a lot of people are invested in this program And you know that they want to see Sheldon Clark back on top just as much as we want to see him You know where we were so and I think we can get there It's something else is at the beginning of the year, you know There's barely anywhere to park or anything about the MCs and we're past couple years at least the MCs and they haven't really went to games So this year the main goal is to give them reasons to keep going to all the games From the Rock in I-N-S for EKB Sports, I'm Joe Kinzer