New conference motivates football team
Sara Medina
Posted on: 7/14/10 Section: Sports
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"I want to motivate and be a leader, something I wasn't last year," he said about what he plans to bring to the table in the 2010 season. "I want to bring more focus because I wasn't as focused last year."
Armed with a staff that has been together for a year, Head Coach James Kuk plans to do his best to lead his players to another bowl victory this coming season.
"Rome wasn't built overnight," Kuk explained. "We had an extra year to solidify how the program is run. It's a lot more fluid, efficient and overall the goal is always to try to get better, whether you're a player or a coach."
This is the first year that the football team will be playing in the National Southern Conference, a different conference from the rest of PCC's sports programs.
The change came when health concerns arose because of the length of the season and because some teams were advancing every year, prolonging the season even more.
Another factor that came into play was budget cuts, proving that everyone is affected by California's budget crisis.
According to Kuk, northern California football teams contend for the top spot in one round of playoffs while, up until last year, southern California played an eight team playoff format.
In this new conference though, all southern California teams are ranked from one to 37 by their win-loss record in a two year period. From those 37 teams, the top 12 are made into the National Conference, which is then split evenly making them the National Southern Conference and the National Northern Conference. This process takes place every two years when the 37 teams' records are reassessed.
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