It's now up to the 3A and A schools
November 18, 2008Last week wasn't a very good one for our area's high school football.
Sure, Rider expectedly won. But the other four schools in action (all 2A programs) bowed out in different circumstances.
It was not surprising Bowie and Henrietta lost to Clyde and Cisco, respectively. Both of those schools played pretty competitive games, too. And Jacksboro was a double-digit underdog to Pottsboro.
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Bi-District playoff predictions
November 13, 2008Four area games are on the docket this weekend.
Jacksboro takes on Pottsboro tonight, and the three District 5-2A playoff representatives square off against 6-2A tomorrow.
Here is what I think about all four of those matchups, starting with the game that I am covering:
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It just doesn't feel like the playoffs yet
For hundreds of teams across the state, a new season starts tonight. Or Friday and Saturday, when elimination is at stake.
But for some reason, I am not feeling the playoffs yet. I think there is a reason for this.
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Week 10 predictions
November 6, 2008The beauty of high school football, or pretty much any level of football, is that nothing is planned.
There are endless possibilities on every Friday night. You begin to expect the unexpected.
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Playoff scenarios with one week left
November 4, 2008There is only one week left in the high school football regular season. Where did the time go?
Before I break down some district scenarios, it is worth noting the possibility on several unanimous district championships.
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Holliday-Henrietta and other thoughts
November 3, 2008For the second straight week, I was blessed with a very competitive game. Probably the best I have seen this season.
And there were many reasons why Holliday-Henrietta was greatness. For starters, the intensity of both defenses was incredible. There were tons of hitters on the field. You knew yards were not going to come easy. You knew big plays were going to be at a premium.
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Week 9 predictions
October 30, 2008We will start with the most meaningful game of the weekend: Holliday at Henrietta.
This will decide the 5-2A title, and if Bowie makes the playoffs, then the winner will also avoid Cisco too.
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Playoff scenarios
October 28, 2008A few teams from this area have made the playoffs. A few more will be up for grabs this Friday. And the rest will be decided in Week 10.
Here is a look at several different scenarios and possibilities for each district, and what I think will happen:
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One crazy weekend
October 26, 2008There is always at least one of the five district weekends that gets a little wild.
Sometimes, a couple of huge upsets happen in the district openers.
Or like last year -- when Petrolia surprised AC to help Windthorst get into the playoffs (or three years ago, when all three District 5-3A playoff spots were up for grabs in the same night) -- it happens the final weekend of the season.
The first two district weeks, we barely heard a peep. Not one outcome really surprised me. And then Friday night came.
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Don't look now but...
October 24, 2008Iowa Park has a shot at the playoffs. It is a long shot, no doubt.
And I know putting up 448 rushing yards against Hirschi is not the same things as beating a strong team. But it is still not out of the question the 1-7 Hawks can get in.
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I hate mistakes
October 22, 2008I hate mistakes. Just hate them.
Hate them worse than watching a stupid movie on TV because my wife wants to see it. Hate it worse than getting stuck in traffic or having mono - which I did get over the summer.
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Fewer playoff teams
October 20, 2008Last year, 15 Texas teams made the playoffs from this area.
There were 12 11-man squads and three 6-Man teams who made the cut. If I was a betting man, I think that number might be a couple fewer in 2008.
Here is a list of who made it in 2007, who I think will make it in 2008, and why:
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Henrietta can breathe a sigh of relief
October 19, 2008I talked to Henrietta coach Byron West on Saturday night and it sounds like QB Seth Crumpton's shoulder injury is not that bad.
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Must-win games
October 16, 2008It is only the second week of the district season (for most schools, anyway). Some teams are in pretty good shape after the first week. And some are not.
Here are a few teams who absolutely HAVE to win Friday to have a chance at the playoffs. If not, I would consider them done.
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The upsets never came
October 13, 2008In previewing the games for last Friday, I guaranteed upsets. I thought there were some outcomes that could surprise people.
Oh, how wrong I was.
My biggest mistake was thinking Archer City could lose to Windthorst. Since I gave five reasons in that blog why the Trojans could win, I feel like it is only fitting to give five reasons why that ended up being an awful pick.
So here they are:
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Upsets brewing in Week 6 predictions
October 9, 2008Maybe I am getting a little crazy. Or maybe I am secretly hoping that these district races get really muddled right off the bat.
Or maybe I just don't want to pick who everybody else is picking.
But looking at the intriguing district matchups this weekend, I can foresee some upsets. Let's look at them:
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Midseason Thoughts
October 7, 2008In a few days, almost every area team (with the exception of 5-4A, which has already started) will begin district action.
Which means it is time for some midseason thoughts:
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Week 5 predictions
October 2, 2008There will be a lot of area stadiums with the lights turned off this Friday night. For several schools, this week is a bye, a transition from what didn't matter to what does now.
But I can tell you one place that should have quite a crowd. The Jacksboro-Henrietta matchup should draw followers from both towns, plus coaches, players and fans from Bowie, Nocona, Holliday and Paradise.
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Week 4 observations
October 1, 2008Well, there is not much a lot of teams from this area will want to remember from last weekend.
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Week 4 predictions
September 25, 2008We will make this quick since I just went 12 rounds with the lawn and am wiped out.
Here is what I am thinking for this week's games:
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Chance at perfection either way
September 24, 2008Right now four weeks into the season, there are six area teams with spotless records and seven that are still looking for its first win.
So I thought we could look at which games would stand in the way of perfection, and for the winless teams, which chance represents the best chance at a victory:
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Week 3 observations
September 23, 2008By now you know Rider is 0-3. But it is still hard to believe.
I have little doubt they will win district, especially if they beat Denton Ryan this Friday. But do these three losses foreshadow another close playoff defeat?
I guess we will have to wait and see. Other thoughts from the weekend:
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Week 3 predictions
September 18, 2008I have been thinking it for weeks. Texasfootballratings.com backed me up yesterday.
Usually after a couple of weeks, the Texas high school football website, which has ratings for every team, predicts how a team will finish if the season ended now (based on those rankings).
Then they simulate the playoffs, and the results from this area were not pretty.
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Too much time on my hands
September 15, 2008So I was sitting around the house, and after blogging about covering Bowie and Jacksboro for the first time, I decided to go back and see how many times I have covered each team.
I have been covering games since 2002 (as a full-time writer since 2004), a little bit more than a 100 or so (told you I had too much time on my hands).
Here's a list of the teams I have covered, with their won-loss record and a note with some of them. Windthorst easily leads the list with 26. Here they are:
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Week 2 observations
In my four-plus years of being the area high school football writer for this paper, I have covered lots and lots of teams.
Windthorst, with its deep playoff runs, probably tops the list. Holliday, Iowa Park, Vernon, Henrietta and Graham are all up there too.
There were still three 11-Man area teams I had not covered in person, and two of them were crossed off the list Friday as I went to watch Bowie and Jacksboro square off (Nocona is the other, FYI).
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Week 2 predictions
September 11, 2008It is about four hours until Rider hits prime time, so it is the perfect time to make my predictions for this week's action.
Two weeks of football are in the books, so some certainties have become transparent. But at about this time last year, Seymour was 1-2. No one dared think the Panthers had a state title run in them.
So a lot can happen over these next weeks. Here are my predictions based on how things are going so far.
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Week 1 observations
September 10, 2008Here are some of my thoughts after the Sept. 5 weekend:
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Thoughts on Kickoff Classic
August 29, 2008Here are some of my impressions of Burkburnett's 10-6 victory over Sweetwater in the TRN Kickoff Classic on Thursday night:
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Winners and losers of realignment
February 1, 2008If you have not heard, realignment was today. Lots of reshuffling happened (for more info on that, check in sports) -- some predictable, some not.
Here are, in my opinion, are Friday's biggest winners and losers:
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Wrong yet again
January 21, 2008If I had blogged after the Cowboys' loss to New York last week, you would have heard me rant about what a dud this football weekend was supposed to be.
After the Colts bowed out, the thought of New England-San Diego excited me about as much as taking the dog outside at 5 a.m. in sub-freezing conditions.
And then Dallas -- who had been the cream of the NFC crop until December -- decided to stink it up at Texas Stadium against the Giants.
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I'm back
January 13, 2008Just arrived back in Wichita Falls a couple of days ago after a nice, long vacation with the family in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
Beautiful place, for those who have never been. The Teton Mountains are only a stone's throw away and the snow is wonderful. One night, 10 inches fell.
And yes, it's cold. But 5 degrees isn't that bad because there's not a whole lot of wind and it's a dry cold.
Among the highlights were a trip to the National Elk Refuge, snow tubing and about five days of skiing the slopes.
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Year-end high school football thoughts
December 31, 2007I'm a total slacker. Here I am, blogging 2-3 times a week, and then when state championships are up for grabs, I disappear from the face of the Earth.
And I really don't have any great excuse other than I was writing more for the paper those weeks, Christmas shopping and the holiday season had me tied up, plus I had a couple of vacation days thrown in.
As a matter of fact, as I write this, I'm about 15 minutes from leaving work here on Sunday night and I'll be gone until Jan. 11. My family and I are headed up to Jackson, Wyoming for lots of skiing and some well-deserved rest and relaxation.
But I wanted to write a blog before I left with a couple of ending-the-year football memories.
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Some people are offended way too easily
December 11, 2007Wasn't planning on blogging today, but after what happened while I was at work, I had to feel like getting something off my chest.
When a team makes it to a state title game, we run stories on them almost every day of the week. Usually, the first one I write is a profile on the opponent that our area team is playing.
So if you read our paper today, you would have noticed a story on Alto, Seymour's opponent this Saturday.
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I have created a new word
We will get to the football action in a moment. For now, I want to tell you about my new word.
It's called mog. Half mist, half fog. (fist, obviously, was already taken). The last three weeks, I have covered two games in some cold mog: Graham-Argyle and Seymour-Sunray.
What's worse is that I have had to make a couple of long drives back to the casa here in Wichita Falls in that stuff.
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Week 4 playoff predictions
December 6, 2007My life the past four weeks can best be summarized by that Johnny Cash song "I've Been Everywhere."
While driving back from Abilene at 2:30 a.m. last Saturday, I was figuring out that I've driven about 1,500 miles the past three weeks covering high school football.
In a span of 17 days, I saw nine different games involving six different teams in six different locales.
There are four games on the docket this weekend, and I'll be at two of them. Let's break them down:
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What a game
December 3, 2007I have already written a bunch about the Roscoe-Munday game, so we won't be going into details in this blog.
But what I will say (or type) is that I usually see these kind of games only once or twice a year in the playoffs.
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Week 3 playoff predictions
November 29, 2007So I was talking to Munday coach Patrick Corcoran the other day about his showdown with another unbeaten team in Roscoe.
He said he wanted to avoid a shootout, but then added that doing that might not be a possibility.
Munday-Roscoe headlines a huge week in the high school football playoffs, as teams still alive have started dwindling in our area.
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I have a new girlfriend
November 28, 2007Don't tell my wife, but I have a new girlfriend.
Her name is the high school football playoffs. I'm with her constantly.
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Second-round playoff predictions
November 22, 2007I am totally stuffed. I am sitting on the couch watching my third NFL game of the day (plus Arizona State-Southern Cal) and I do not feel like moving.
I feel like sleeping all the way until Friday afternoon, when I have to get out-and-about to cover the Burkburnett-Abilene Wylie game.
I have basically worthless all day. Gotta love Thanksgiving.
But enough about the holidays. Let's look at this week's playoff games:
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Who has the best chance of winning?
November 20, 2007I thought about blogging about more random Amarillo stories -- like how I fell while climbing over a fence trying to get to the Bivins Stadium sidelines and how I am glad only a couple of concerned Canyon fans (and nobody who actually knew me) saw me -- but that was last week.
It is the second round of the playoffs, and while I will make my predictions in the next couple of days, I wanted to list in order which teams, in my humble opinion, have the best chance of winning to which ones have the least chance.
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Randomness in Amarillo
November 18, 2007Before I head back with Jason Palmer (a TRN photographer) to Wichita Falls tomorrow, I thought I would share some things football and non-football related I witnessed here in Amarillo the past two days.
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Bi-District Playoff Predictions
November 15, 2007Just because the playoffs have started, don't be surprised if you see a few blowouts this week.
But for the most part, I expect there to be some pretty tight, competitive matchups on Friday and Saturday.
Here are my thoughts on the playoff games involving area teams:
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Amarillo by Friday morning
November 13, 2007After I cover Holliday-Boyd Thursday night in Graham, I will be headed to Amarillo Friday for Burkburnett, Vernon and Graham's games against Panhandle teams.
This is the fourth year I have covered high school football full-time at the paper, and the third time I have made the trip to Amarillo.
It is one I usually like making because I get to see 2-3 games in a 24-hour span. And I will never forget the first time I made the trip back in 2004.
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Discussing my Red River 22 team
November 12, 2007Now is about the time I sit down and start penciling a rough draft of the Red River Small School 22 team.
To those who've been living in a cave (or just not in the area) the past few years, that's our all-star team that comes out on Christmas Day.
The reason why it comes out so late is because the playoffs are factored into the equation. I may know of some shoe-ins now, but some more guys will emerge once the postseason starts.
I don't want to throw out any names who I think will be on the team right now (just in case I change my mind. Wouldn't want to hurt anyone's feelings), but I will tell you a story that happened a couple of years ago.
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Five things we learned as the season comes to a close
November 11, 2007*That there is Rider, and that there is everybody else.
Imagine this: You are playing your bitter rival, who is also good enough to be a playoff team. And you are up by 50 points late in the third quarter. Simple incredible. Stephenville and Everman, the two toughest teams in the region, better watch out.
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Week 10 predictions
November 8, 2007OK - this one is going to be short and sweet.
And I have a good reason for this. I just spent 40 minutes writing a long version for you from my home computer (which I was finally able to get on with my password).
When I went to post it, it said I had to relog onto the system, and when I did that, all my work was gone. So to say I'm ticked off right now would be an understatement.
Anyway, I have to do some stuff around the house, or my wife will be very angry. Anyone who is married knows what I mean. I will be blogging more once the playoffs start and I get my power cord back (for an explanation, read the blog before this one).
Onto the picks:
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Some quick thoughts and my screw-up
November 7, 2007I want to rehash some things I saw/noticed over the weekend in high school football, but I have to be brief about it.
That is because I left my laptop power cord in the Graham coaching office on Friday night, and my laptop juice is almost non-existent. And the problem is, my blog password is only remembered at my laptop.
Not my work computer. Not my home computer. Luckily, I will be covering the Burk-Graham game this weekend, so I will get it back Friday in time to write the game story.
The laptop battery was not my only mistake from that night.
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Week 9 Predictions
November 1, 2007There are two weeks left in the regular season, and this is the week lots of teams should lock up playoff berths and three of the area's ranked teams square off against tough opponents for district titles.
Let's look at the three big games on Friday's docket: Denton Ryan at Rider; Vernon at Graham; and Munday at Seymour.
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Crunching the numbers
October 30, 2007I did some numbers-crunching on Monday, talking with area coaches on how their teams can make the playoffs.
The crazy thing is out of the area's four main districts (5-4A, 6-3A, 9-2A and 9-A), there is a somewhat decent chance 11 of the 12 spots up for grabs are filled heading into the last week.
Compare that to last year when five teams -- Graham, Vernon, Alvord, Henrietta and Archer City -- all qualified for the postseason on the last week.
Here's what we know (calculators sold separately):
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Holy cow! Some craziness in 9-2A
October 27, 2007We're at the time of the season when you can finally see how things will play out. Teams are headed in different directions, and it gets easier to pick the games.
Or so I thought.
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Commenting on no comments and my Week 8 predictions
October 25, 2007Before I look at Week 8's matchups, I have to inform my diehard readers (all two of you) about this.
So I've been doing this blog since football season started, and I have received no comments. I figured I must have made someone mad by picking against their team, right? But then someone brought to my attention that there was no link for anyone to make comments (Why -- I have no idea).
After telling the Internet guys at work about it, it is finally fixed. So anyone is free to make comments. Now onto the weekend:
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Here's what we learned this weekend
October 23, 2007We learned a few things form this past weekend of high school football. And while I was out of town (in Dallas for one of my best friend's wedding), I kept up with the Friday night happenings enough to know how things played out.
Here is what we found out:
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Week 7 projections
October 18, 2007Before I take a trip down memory lane to help make some key projections this week, I must tell you why I am going to be absentia from Friday night's action.
Normally, I would be covering the Henrietta-Holliday showdown for first place in 9-2A, but instead I will be here in Dallas (the wife and I are currently at my parents' house as we speak. And I must say, there's a ton of good food hanging around in the kitchen.) for one of my best friend's wedding. I have known the guy since we were 8 (or however old third grade is).
So it will be a little weird not being in a packed stadium watching a football game on Friday night. But you can bet I will call the office around midnight and get the lowdown of the night's events. I do not suggest you do the same - we get pretty annoyed by the time the 20th person calls wanting to know a score, especially when we are trying to put out a paper.
Anyway, back to looking back at the past to help with my predictions:
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Things are clearing up (for the most part)
October 15, 2007Maybe I'm going out on a limb with this statement, but after the first week of district play (or three weeks, for some ones), I think I have a pretty good idea on who is going to make the playoffs.
And for three of the four main districts in the area, I'm ready to go out on a limb and tell you which teams have a date with the postseason.
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Week 6 predictions
October 11, 2007If you ever watch college football on ESPN on Saturdays, you will notice that they always have a slogan to describe that weekend's slate of games.
"Showdown Saturday." "Rebound Saturday." "Shake-up Saturday." They give an angle to how the key games are viewed.
Well, I am not going to be as corny as ESPN, but I will say this much. This weekend, with many districts opening, will tell us a lot about some area teams who have some uncertainty surrounding them.
Before I get into all my district picks, here are a few of the games I am talking about:
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Breaking down the district races
October 8, 2007I felt a cool breeze when I took the dog out tonight. Not a crisp wave of frigid air, but a nice feeling.
Usually when this happens, that means district football is upon us. And when this happens, I feel compelled to make some fearless high school football predictions.
I wrote some thoughts in my column in Monday's paper, but here is a more-detailed breakdown:
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Week 5 HS predictions
October 4, 2007Before I break down this week's games, let me correct a mistake I made earlier this week. I had written the other day that Windthorst remained ranked since early 2004, when they had started 1-2 after Brad Green had suffered a collarbone injury.
Well, as it turned out, they fell to No. 10 (where they are ranked now) after being shut out to Electra. So 2003 was the last time the Trojans were not ranked.
Now onto Week 5 games:
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Shockers and Surprises
October 1, 2007It was an absolutely crazy weekend for college football, but the area's Friday night action had some scores and happenings that raised my eyebrows.
Here are some of my thoughts after Week 4:
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Week 4 high school picks
September 27, 2007I wasn't able to make my predictions last week because of a death in the family, but I'm back and ready to break down this week's action.
It is District time for 5-4A and 9-2A, which means now the games finally matter. And that is what makes these next few weeks even greater.
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Six area teams ranked
September 26, 2007The other day, I wrote a column about how the area is thriving with six football teams ranked. But who has the best chance of finishing the regular season still ranked between Graham, Holliday, Rider, Vernon, Munday and Windthorst?
Here are some of my thoughts on the matter:
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Week 1 thoughts and my love for 8-team districts
September 12, 2007A lot happened during Week 1 (aka the second week of the season). Here are my quick thoughts from last Friday night:
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Looking back at Week 0 and looking ahead
September 5, 2007Just finished up with my all my weekend-early week work for HS football. So it’s time to provide thoughts on the first weekend.
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Five thoughts from the TRN Kickoff Classic
The regular season for high school football is finally here. After watching Holliday roll over Windthorst in Thursday’s TRN Kickoff Classic, here is what caught my attention the most:
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