Archbishop Carroll’s new head coach Kyle Detweiler will have the tough task of turning around a program that hasn’t produced a winning season since 2007.

Kyle Detweiler knows the situation he’s walking into as the new head football coach at Archbishop Carroll. It’s not good. It has been a little while since the Patriots have had a consistently winning team. Detweiler feels he can make a difference, taking over for Dan Connor, who took a position at Widener University.

This will be Detweiler’s first head coaching position—and he’s facing it with a confident attitude.

There is nowhere to go but up for the Pats, after a fairly young team finished with a 3-8 overall record and went 0-6 last year in the Philadelphia Catholic League Red Division, playing with the big boys, St. Joseph’s Prep, Archbishop Wood and La Salle, which combined ended the year with a 32-7 record.

Detweiler previously coached at Central Bucks South the previous seven years as the program’s defensive coordinator. The 2006 Souderton High School graduate, where he played for Ed Gallagher, has a good nucleus returning, starting with junior-to-be quarterback Kamal Gray.

“In terms of rising juniors and seniors, we have a lot of young talent coming back,” Detweiler said. “We’re definitely going to be all over the board. It wouldn’t be surprising if we played a number of class combinations together on the field next year.

“The rising seniors are a good-looking group with talent. We’re going to take advantage of our player’s strengths and put our kids in a position to be successful. We feel really good about the depth we have at our skill positions, and ultimately, we want to give those guys a shot at open space and let their athletic ability take them the rest of the way.”

It will be a struggle, though.

Carroll is in the same division as Prep, Wood and La Salle.

But Detweiler isn’t looking so much as what he’ll be going up against in the fall, rather than what the Pats have to do to make themselves competitive again.

“My first message to the guys was that this is always going to be about them,” Detweiler said. “This is always going to be their team, and bigger than any one person, whether it’s me, whoever is here. Our job is make sure to provide the tools for them to be successful. It’s going to take some time. We have to provide all of the support that we can give them and let them play.

“It’s always going to be about the players and it’s always going to be their team. Regardless of where we go, or who will be steering this ship, it’s always going to be about them, and never bigger than any one person.”