New coach, familiar face for Mohawks football

New coach, familiar face for Mohawks football

After the break.xxx sports insider 2020 continues today with a look at the man who hopes to bring back a tradition of success to the mason city football team.... plus the changes coming to iowa cross country.

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Here at newman catholic where we'll talk about the cross country team in a moment.

Let's start with the mason city football team.

Things have not been easy for the mohawks in the past decade ?

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Kimt news 3 sports zach gilleland spoke to new mason city football coach john lee, and has our story.xx for the second time in as many years, mason city has a new man guiding their football team.

No stranger to the sidelines, john lee begins his second tenure with the mohawks ?

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"* he was previously the coach from 2000 to 2009.

"things come back to you slowly here and there all of a sudden you remember a coaching point you used to make, a saying you used to use.

I would say it's like riding a bike but there's still a lot to be learned, a lot to kind of remember."

A decade away from the game, it's not the same mohawks team from when he left ?

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"* lee is relying on staff to help him get to know his players.

"i've leaned a lot of these assistant coaches to help win the players over and the players have responded well and i think we've got a good thing going."

He's got the background ?

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"* mason c last winning season was when lee was at the helm ?

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"* hi players are buying in to the program.

"having a guy that knows we're going to win and has that confidence every game, it's really big and it gets in the guys heads and that's a great thing for us."

"it really just makes guys buy into the program, it makes it a lot easier for guys to like want to play for him.

It's no secret ?

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"* mc has struggle the past decade ?

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"* the te hasn't won more than three games in a season..

In 11 years.

Lee says the road to success starts with fall camp.

"wins and losses are actually won in the summer, you're just there to collect it on friday nights.

The kids have put themselves in a position to make something great happen."

This friday against marshalltown, the mohawks are ready to show the hawkeye state what they're made of.

"i think our offense and defensive gameplan are perfect and i think we'll get out there and hopefully execute well."

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