HAMPTON, Virginia — As Donovan Rose winds down as trying a season as he has
encountered, he looks to both present and future.
Rose wants his Hampton University football team to conclude 2012 on a good note, with a win Saturday in the season finale at Morgan State. But the final couple of weeks and games are also a time for evaluation — of personnel, coaching and everything within the program.
"It's a little like a preseason game for next year," Rose said Wednesday. "We want to evaluate the people we have and see who's still playing hard and who we feel like we can count on in the future. We want to look at our coaches and make sure we're doing everything we can to put our kids in the best position.
"This will start to let us know what to do with recruiting — our biggest needs, who we have to recruit over, the kinds of players who can help us right away."
Not to say that the Pirates (2-7, 2-5 MEAC) don't have immediate goals. Running back Jeremiah Schwartz is 70 yards short of 1,000, a feat made more significant since the Pirates play only 10 games, and he missed the Howard game with an injury. He wasn't the featured back for the first several games.
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Rose wants his Hampton University football team to conclude 2012 on a good note, with a win Saturday in the season finale at Morgan State. But the final couple of weeks and games are also a time for evaluation — of personnel, coaching and everything within the program.
"It's a little like a preseason game for next year," Rose said Wednesday. "We want to evaluate the people we have and see who's still playing hard and who we feel like we can count on in the future. We want to look at our coaches and make sure we're doing everything we can to put our kids in the best position.
"This will start to let us know what to do with recruiting — our biggest needs, who we have to recruit over, the kinds of players who can help us right away."
Not to say that the Pirates (2-7, 2-5 MEAC) don't have immediate goals. Running back Jeremiah Schwartz is 70 yards short of 1,000, a feat made more significant since the Pirates play only 10 games, and he missed the Howard game with an injury. He wasn't the featured back for the first several games.
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