“They don’t know my hustle,’’ senior cornerback Josh Ross said. ‘’So why knock my grind?”

After finishing the season winless, a lot of the varsity football players were criticized. Game after game, players were criticized for what they didn’t do on the field to produce wins. From social networking sites to students in groups around the school, the Raiders varsity football team was the topic of discussion. At school the student body would constantly bad mouth and crack jokes about the football team. Some students would talk about how the players don’t work hard at practice and aren’t’t good individually. Other students would talk about how they could do better than some of the football players if they suited up themselves.

After going through a season without wins and dealing with the slack they received from their fellow alumni some of the players came out and spoke up about how they felt, most notably seniors Chad Wesley and Larry Love lll.

‘’It’s easy to talk about it, but harder to be about it,” Wesley said.

Wesley, the quarterback, voiced his displeasure on how people think that playing football is easy, when it’s not. Love believes critics are not able to fully understand players unless they go through the same.

“They weren’t out there on the field giving it their all, coming to practice every day sacrificing, things,’’ Love said. “They weren’t doing anything, so they shouldn’t talk about what we didn’t accomplish.”

Other football players shared the same feeling. The players also jumped to the conclusion that the students who aren’t playing football should only support and uplift.

“We’re all Raiders,’’ senior cornerback Mike Simpson said. ‘’We should all be in this together.’’