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Good to Great...Dakota Ridge XCTF

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Good to Great...Dakota Ridge XCTF 2017-2018 Good is the enemy of great And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. We don't have great schools, principally because we have good schools. We don't have great government, principally because we have good government. Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life. The vast majority become quite good-and that is their problem.   ------Jim Collins (Good to Great 2001)  In Cross Country...We are a good program...and recently we have settled for being just that.  For Track and Field, we are  not  a good program yet (mediocre) and we are still searching for an identity.  As the 2016 school year ended we met as a school athletic program for our annual Athletic Legacy awards night. Every year we rightly honor the fantastic efforts of our schools student-athletes and coaches who had success throughout the school year.  I sat