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By Kim Goss
Published: Spring 2000
Jack Hatem had a lot of work to do when he accepted the job as head football coach at Ohio's New Albany High School in 1998. He had to get used to working with the administration and coaching staff and learn the strengths, weaknesses and personalities of each member of his new football team. Hatem's task was made considerably more difficult because he had inherited a team that had won only six games in the past six years.
The kids who were playing football here were ridiculed, says Hatem, Absolutely the worst thing you could do if you were a kid at New Albany was to play football. The attitude of the student body and the community was that nobody thought you could win, and there were all kinds of excuses. What we wanted to do first was create a situation where kids wanted to be here and wanted to be involved in football.
It's this same positive approach to coaching that enabled Hatem to turn around other broken high school football programs. Prior to New Albany, he took over a football program that had suffered a 19-game losing streak and brought them out of the cellar to a 6-4 record. Before that, he brought a team that had won only 11 g