 Belfry football coach Phillip Haywood is entering his 43rd year on the sideline his 34th on Pond Creek the all-time winning as coach enters 2018 with 428 wins. Belfry is coming off a regional championship loss on the road last year to Louisville Central as the Pirates failed to make the state championship game for the first time since 2010. Well I think Hungary is a good word that based on what our team accomplished last year which we had a heck of a year you know we were 11 and 2 and as I tell people you know the New England Patriots don't win the Super Bowl every year you know they've had a tremendous track record but they don't win it every year they didn't last year so so it's one of those things that happens sometimes it brings a little hunger to the program and you realize that you just don't show up and win it every year there's a lot of things that go into it and you know injuries and just different things that can take place on your way to the championship but I think our kids have worked hard and they realize that it just it just isn't handed to you're gonna have to go after this thing and there's a lot of good teams out there so we have to really prepare hard we have to work hard in the offseason and then we have to get back to the process of which is getting a little better each day. We have to work that's just the key thing we have to work and we have to come together right now we are building our leadership skills we're working hard we're getting physical but we we got to put in that work and everybody's got to have that determination and we already have a chip on our shoulder we didn't even make it last year and that honestly that makes us mad but we will be back. Coach Phillip Haywood doesn't want to put any pressure on the program as the season is a marathon and not a sprint. It's a process and it's it's a matter of believing in what you do and taking it one step a day don't don't try to shoot big goals out there say well here's what we're going to do this year next year or anything like that but it's trying to get a little better each day and everything that you do as a players a coach as a team as a program and if you can do that and continually build on that then you have a chance for some pretty good success. Belfrey has one of the most radical compassionate fan bases that eats breeze and sleeps football the 12th man you got it right the Poncret Nation. Feeling to be a part of something that is bigger than you and I think this program we tell our kids this all the time this is bigger than you and you you're a part of it you're a part of the cog and I really feel like I'm a part of the cog I'm not the program I'm just a part of it. There's no other field than having Belfrey cross your chest and Friday night and just Friday night lots it's unbelievable feeling. It's just it's a different world up here it's like it's just unbelievable because you got every program has their one thing but here it's just it's a life I mean you eat very sleep it's amazing and you gotta love it.