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June 24, 2008I was able to spend another day today checking out Dave Campbell's Texas Football.
And with a deeper inspection came some more thoughts and a couple of corrections I have to point out.
* I knew Quanah's Tevin Mitchell had a great year last year. But there was no way he was a 2,700-yard tailback, especially in only 12 games.
Sure enough, going off what the Indians coaches turned in, Mitchell ran for 2,178 yards. Still the second most of the returning Class A players, but more than 500 yards short.
Another mistake in the Quanah section -- Chris Carter's first name is listed as Christ. Whoops.
* Electra, which went 0-10 last season after going 6-7 the year before, was left out of Class A's "Negative Swing" section.
* Was checking out Bridgeport and Decatur profiles, and noticed where it said Bulls QB Cameron Green was the district MVP a year ago.
Thought that was odd considering stud Argyle QB J.J. Harp was in that district, too. Sure enough, Green was actually the 8-3A Offensive MVP.
* I covered Hirschi some last year, and saw Demetrion Cooper run at a handful of track meets last year too, even talking to him a couple of times.
So it is with great certainty I can report that Cooper is not 6-10, which is what the magazine listed him as. And a couple of Hirschi names later, there is a Demetria Cooper listed as well.
I would be willing to bet my house that Demetria Cooper does not exist.
* District 5-3A gets a bye in the first round of the playoffs. That is the good news.
The bad news -- No. 1 Liberty Hill (two-time defending state champs), No. 6 China Spring (state finalists) and No. 15 Glen Rose will await in the second round.
* And finally, with the prolific spread offenses seen in football nowadays, I am still shocked that the state record for most completions in a game is held by a Henrietta kid and has stood for 12 years.
In 1995, Brian Parrish completed 48 passes (I think there were some entire years where Henrietta's team didn't complete 48 passes) against Electra. That is remarkable.
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