You can say one thing about him, he doesn't beat around the bush.
Putnam coach Tony Falzarano's quote to Norwich Bulletin freelancer Josh Barton was just about priceless on Saturday after his team lost to Tourtellotte for the first time since 1992 in boys basketball.
"You can't make chicken salad out of chicken-you-know-what," Falzarano said.
While some may want to try and take offense out of that statement, it does illustrate one thing clearly- it's not easy to win year in and year out in a small school.
The Clippers went to an unexpected state championship game a year ago but that, essentially, cleaned their closet of a group of talented players who had been together for awhile. Konrad Lueders, their foreign student from Germany, is also gone.
That left only Tim Sabourin from the starting group and a host of players who were involved in supporting roles at best last season. It also accounts for the Clippers woes this season as it isn't easy to start all over again in a school that has less than 200 boys in it.
Sabourin has added to those woes as well as he has been fighting to get back into playing shape after an illness scare followed by a back injury. Travis Godley had been providing much of the offense for the Clippers early in the season but the opposition has become wise to him and Putnam needs someone to step up. Putnam has averaged just over 40 points a game this year and that won't win you too many games in the ECC.