friday (and thursday) night lights

What a great high school football weekend
What we found out .
1. Westside is for real - Central gave Westside everything they could handle and took them to overtime, but once again the Seminoles and Spoon Risper found a way to win the football game. I believe if you go back to my last blog I said I liked Westside because of the kicker and thats how the game was decided.
2. Tattnall- I am not sure what happened to the Trojans this weekend. They had showed signs of having a very good football team early in the year, but Warren County, not exactly a football power, beat them by 20 points or more. It looks like Tattnall may have some issue son both sides of the ball


3. Stratford- I drank the Stratford kool-aid and called for the upset over Aquinas. With Stratford being at home I thought it was a good possibility. The Eagles stayed in the game the entire way, but Mark Farriba said they still are a great football team who can find a way to win. The bad thing is that they have a lot of seniors at the skill positions and time is running out for them to get that signature win. O'Showen Williams and Cephus both had huge games.


4. Southwest- Showed what should be the most dominating duo in Macon with Jordan and Justin Slocum, who combined for three touchdowns on Thursday. Jordan , the freshman, showed a knack for getting the ball close to his big brother, and Justin did the rest, outfighting people for the ball on at least two occasions. In my opinion, Slocum to Slocum should hit it big, but the ball has to go that way more often than it does. Feed him Coach, feed him. Five targets in a game is not enough. Justin has got to touch the ball if Southwest is going to save its season


5-Central -Two heartbreaking losses to Howard and now Westside leaves the Chargers on the fringe of making the playoffs. It is true that they have a weaker part of the schedule coming up, and they should be ok , but you have to win the close ones. Derrick Evans evidently did not have any time to throw the ball against Westside and I think I read where he did not have any passing yards heading into the second half. That's almost hard to believe.
Rutland-They lost to Kendrick 20-18 and the road for them is not looking good.


MY picks didn't look too good this week. I KNOW I lost Stratford, Tattnall, Perry and Rutland, Two of the games were close and two of them were blowouts, and I am sure this will drop me down in the Telegraph pickems, which I had vowed to win. The season is still young.
Another week of huge games highlighted by Lincoln County against FPD, West Laurens against Howard, and for the GISA fan in you, Windsor against Piedmont.
I also like folks that back up what they say. A few weeks ago, I was talking to my friend Matt Chambless, the AD at Covenant, and they have Khristian Tate, a 6'0 250 pound running back , who I have mentioned a few times before. The Covenant faithful insists he is getting major college looks and runs a 4.5 40. When I questioned that time, they basically asked me when I wanted to see it, and then they followed through and I think that will happen this week. I mean, if the kid runs a 4'6 that's pretty amazing for 250 pounds. I will keep you all posted on what's happening.
Go see some football and spread the word about my blog