Trophy cases are full of names nobody remembers. The habits those kids built probably lasted a lot longer.

A plaque records one outcome from one season and then stops meaning much to anyone who was not there. What those players carried away was the ability to show up at six in the morning, to take coaching, to keep working while losing. That part followed them into jobs and families where nobody had heard of the game.

Judge your season by what it is making you, not only by the record. Name the one habit you are building right now. If the honest answer is none, that is useful to know with months still left to use.