High School
Life after state in Port Neches-Groves: The necessary struggle through the offseason that made them champions
A two-day glimpse into the Port Neches-Groves' offseason program that Jeff Joseph has crafted displays a team refusing to let the first state championship since 1975 blind them to the little things.
Jeff Joseph ceded the locker room floor to his father ahead of Port Neches-Groves’ third-round playoff game against Montgomery Lake Creek. Gary, the legendary Katy head coach who ditched his signature red for the PNG purple, chose to talk about butterflies.
In the ancient parable, a man finds a cocoon with a small opening and watches it shake for hours while the butterfly struggles to free itself. Then, the cocoon stills as the butterfly’s progress stops. So the man takes a scalpel, cuts the rest of the cocoon, and frees it. But the new butterfly cannot fly. Its muscles didn’t develop because it never completed the struggle from the cocoon.
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