DALTON, Ga. – Nothing the Christian Heritage School varsity football team did a week ago may end up showing positive results in the win-loss column this season.
Jay Poag knows that. After all, a team having to rely on several freshmen and sophomores playing in one of Georgia’s most difficult Class A regions is likely to have serious growing pains.
But the team’s two-day trip to Nashville, which included cheerleaders and some players’ families, was as much or more about the future as it was about the 2017 season.
“I describe it as a business trip with a little entertainment,” said Poag, the team’s second-year head coach. “When I took the job, I wanted to tie a trip like this into our season so that it gets our kids outside of this bubble we live in and lets them experience the world a bit.”
Included on the trip were stops to tour the University of the South in Sewanee, Belmont University and Vanderbilt University, where the team was allowed to practice. It ended with a scrimmage in Manchester against TSSAA Class 6A member Coffee County.