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Restoring the ROAR!!!!! 2008

By Jason McGrew
September 26, 2008

Welcome all to 2008 blog for our Abilene Cooper Cougars, a bit of delay with ARN but we are finally ready to go and I'm ready to start typing. Hard not to be excited this year with the monstrous defense led by Will Ford and company, and believe you me even listening on the live feed you know when Will Ford has hit somebody. The offense still has enough new faces that its going to make the last game of the pre-season very interesting. The Coogs suprise, suprise to most of us life long die hard fans have fallen out of the top 10 poll again. I do believe that after the grueling 3 game string of rumored playoff bound 5A's and one more tough test ahead, that the Coogs 2-2 record is definitely misleading to say the least. So by all means drop the Cougars out of the poll because the waiting storm that is the Cougars is ready to hit a very unprepared 4A division.

That doesn't mean that the Coogs do not have some work to do before district play starts, and first things first is all the penalties. The Coogs have basically given away some wins to some teams that I felt really fell short of the hoopla that is bestowed upon them. I think that as the offensive line gets more and more used to Ryan Heslep's cadence a lot of the false starts are going to fade away as time goes on. The team as a whole is going to mature and so I expect to see very few penalties in the homecoming game against Lewisville Hebron. The offense is also going to have to get on track, and start producing in the red zone and watching the fumbles. Some people have called it bad play calling but I think the offense as a whole needs to be confident that every time there in the red that there going to score. They will gain that over time and Cougar fans need to give them that time. I would still like to see our receiving corps unleashed though a little bit more than what they have been. Sonnier, Bowman, and Powers are going to beat most corners down the field. I also think that the Spradlin has been in the game long enough and has been holding them back to a certain degree to have a few suprises left. I expect when district play starts your going to see a very productive spread offense in action.

Lets get excited about Saturday's game and everybody where there red and blue and lets show the doubters in Abilene that Cougar pride is still strong, and that we do not need rude t-shirts to make a point. We have been there before and we are going to be there again, so lets make some noise on Saturday and remember your faithful blogger listening to live stream up here in Indianapolis wants to be able to hear the screams.

If anybody sees any mistakes definitely let me know this is my first time doing this and if I miss something I would like to know about it so I can fix it. Lets get this blog going again.

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