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“It kinda just came to me,” newly hired football coach Seth Bass
said of Lincoln’s new football motto ‘Raise L’.
“Just the notion of raising a program, almost from the dead…and how
it kinda sounds like another less appropriate phrase,” Bass added.
About 125 football players, football boosters, and football families
raised the first L Saturday when Bass met with his team at Lincoln
High School.
If you’re wondering how the ‘Raise L’, the coach said its simple.
“It’s whatever you want to do, flash the L or raise the L,” Bass
said you chose whether you want to raise your right hand or left
hand, but the index and middle fingers go up and the thumb juts out
to the side.
“It’ll really be a rallying cry for us,” Bass told his new team.
The new coach said he’s also laser focused on the the second L for
the 2015 season: Lanphier High School.
As in beating Lanphier High school.
“I know (the Lanphier game) is a pretty big game for the basketball
program, it’s a rivalry,” Bass told the crowd Saturday his first
goal is to take it a step at a time. His second goal is to beat
Lanphier.
“I don’t know if they know it or not,” Railer offensive coach Jake
Harnacke said in anticipation of the Lions and the new football
rivalry.
Lanphier beat Lincoln 47-14 in the last game of the season last
year.
“It’s a big change,” quarterback Garrett Aeilts said of the new
coach, the new focus, and the new season. “(It’ll be my) senior year
and you know there’s a big change, so there’s a little bit of a
worry. But (there’s also) a lot of excitement hearing about how the
program is going to change. We’re really anticipating the season.”
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It’s not only the players who are excited.
Dozens of families, and youth football players, also squeezed into
the auditorium at Lincoln High School over the weekend.
Activities Director Sam Knox says that community involvement is one
reason why LCHS chose coach Bass.
“I’m excited that coach is willing to come here in the middle of
February from the middle of Missouri to meet people and get things
rolling,” Knox said Saturday.
Bass told Splitters players he expects them to be busy this spring
as he transitions to Lincoln, that’s playing a spring sport.
Bass said he hopes to be at the high schools and ready for summer
conditioning and camp by June.
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