New season. New swagger. New expectations.
Last season, San Marcos went 10-24 on the season and 3-11 in district play. This year, the team enters the season with intentions of challenging everyone that steps on the court with them while building the future of this program up for high expectations. The Rattlers introduced head coach Steven Pinchback to the program this offseason, with 14 years of coaching experience and two state championships under his belt. They also brought in assistant coach Jason Napoli, who has state championships in basketball, football and track. Pinchback and Napoli, both former assistant coaches at DeSoto, plan to push their players to the limits in order to get them ready for one of the tougher districts in the state.
“We gotta bring an edge, some mental toughness, a little swag. We gotta have it. I’m trying to relate it to how they can understand it but where I’m from, when we step on the court, most of the time the kids on the other side were already beat. But that’s a mentality,” Pinchback said. “You carry yourself that way. That’s the part that we bring that’s going to rub off on the kids. They’re gonna start walking a little different, talking a little different because they’re gonna have confidence and they’re gonna know these guys have been there.”
