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HH/Apollo could be a good game this year....the fact that we graduated entire O and D lines along with all our linebackers could expose a weakness, or 10. They went into 2 OT with Murray last week, Murray is always good. Dunno what to think of this game this year.

Heritage Hills (0-0) @ South Spencer (0-0) This is the 56th meeting between Heritage Hills and South Spencer. HISTORY OF THE MATCHUP The Patriots lead the overall series 43-12. The 12 wins that South Spencer has over Heritage Hills is second to Southridge for the most wins of any opponent against the Patriots. South Spencer is one of only three teams that have been on the Patriot football schedule at least once, every year, since their inaugural season in 1972. Like many of the Patriot's opponents, the Rebels dominated the Patriots in the early days of the series winning 5 of the first 7 meetings. The Patriots went on to win 4 of the next 5 games to tie the series up at 6-6. The Rebels would regain the series lead 7-6 with an overtime win in 1984 and the series would remain tightly contested through the first 21 meetings. After a Rebel win in 1991, the Patriots led the series by a slim 11-10 margin. After that loss the Patriots won the next 19 meetings before the Rebels ended the streak with a 14-0 win in 2011. The Patriots have won 13 out of the last 14 games since the loss in 2011.  PACK THE STANDS this Friday to cheer for the RED, WHITE & BLUE! 1972 HH 21, SS 20 1973 SS 41, HH 3 1974 SS 9, HH 7 1975 SS 35, HH 7 1976 SS 35, HH 2 1977 HH 19, SS 7 1978 SS 21, HH 14 1979 HH 14, SS 2 1980 HH 48, SS 0 1981 SS 19, HH 13 1982 HH 27, SS 0 1983 HH 28, SS 6 1984 SS 25, HH 19 1985 HH 31, SS 14 1986 HH 26, SS 13 1987 HH 20, SS 7 1988 HH 20, SS 17 1989 SS 35, HH 7 1990 SS 28, HH 0 1990 HH 14, SS 6 1991 SS 14, HH 13 1992 HH 23, SS 12 1993 HH 25, SS 12 1994 HH 21, SS 7 1995 HH 35, SS 14 1996 HH 26, SS 0 1997 HH 55, SS 7 1998 HH 28, SS 7 1999 HH 28, SS 7 2000 HH 14, SS 6 2001 HH 31, SS 7 2002 HH 41, SS 7 2003 HH 28, SS 3 2004 HH 42, SS 14 2005 HH 44, SS 0 2006 HH 28, SS 8 2007 HH 31, SS 7 2008 HH 23, SS 0 2009 HH 13, SS 7 2010 HH 28, SS 14 2011 SS 14, HH 0 2012 HH 45, SS 8 2013 SS 17, HH 14 2014 HH 19, SS 10 2015 HH 41, SS 13 2016 HH 28, SS 7 2017 HH 52, SS 21 2018 HH 76, SS 0 2019 HH 42, SS 0 2020 HH 36, SS 7 2021 HH 28, SS 0 2022 HH 55, SS 19 2023 HH 40, SS 0 2024 HH 48, SS 0 2025 HH 66, SS 0

While I am not Catholic (Southern Baptist here), the overwhelming majority of our community is Catholic. Maybe you are on to something.

While I realize that we have to play them, it is such a waste of a week. It does nobody any good. Our county rivals are anything but rivals. Good news for us is that this is supposedly the last year we are playing ours....but they are no longer in the conference. Princeton should get in a different conference.

Who will be taking snaps for the Titans--Zach have a little brother? Pending us getting our lives together, I do believe we will be very competitive to win the sectional. Reitz will be tougher (I think) and Jasper is an unknown. Putting a running clock on Jasper on their field in sectional was one of the most fun games I have ever watched. They deserved all that beat down. But, there is a ton of football between now and then....if the draw puts us with Jasper, they will be out for blood. Other conference stuff....For Southridge--Luke Messmer will change things for the better being on Coach B's staff. I would bet that they will be bigger, stronger and faster with him on the staff.

Tyce Winchell has been the backup behind Jett. Unless something has changed, I'd say he is the guy, which is no secret. He was as fast as Jett, but doesn't have the size. Tyce is a great kid, humble, quiet, does his job and moves to the next play. He has been a gunslinger, which comes with good and bad. Fact is you can always come up with a skinny kid to run fast--that's never the problem. What is a problem and also no secret is that we graduated 5 veteran offensive lineman who also played DL. With all that said, we do have a secret, and it is kept about as well as the new head coach secret was kept. We are getting close. I don't know if we will have anything for the Titans this year, but I think we will be competitive. Kevin's first year at HC.....it was a rocky one for Todd in his first year, I'd say Kevin may have more to work with but losing generational talent won't help.

He really is, when we played them in sectional last season I'd say he was the fastest kid on the field that night. As a freshman last season he probably didn't weigh 120 lbs, but that didn't matter, he was hard to catch and very slippery. If he sticks with it, he could be very interesting when he puts some weight on.

It pretty much is indeed the worst kept secret. They tried to keep it on the down low, but that typically doesn't work well round here. I think it will be "official" next Monday.

Alex Bettag at Roncalli, who was previously at Southport is an example. But who wants to come back? Who knows?

Ok so since you did say the name....😀 Kevin is the natural choice, but he is the Vice Principle now. There was question when he became VP if he would even be able to continue as an assistant. His VP job could possibly stand in the way of being head coach. They made Alcorn quit as wrestling coach when he became an admin.

There is a likely guy, I'm not going to say that name, most know who that would be. Outside of him there are 2 other possibilities currently on the staff. I would say that this will be opened up to the outside and see what it attracts. Like you said, our new AD really doesn't want to screw this up. A 3 win season? Yeah, that may be success at Princeton but we have only had 3 or 4 losing seasons in 50 years. We all are aware of the expectation. I have my hope for who the next guy will be.....we will see.

You can show out as the best player on the team, but if the coach doesn't put you up for it, it doesn't happen.

Things can always change, but yes Tyce Winchell is the likely QB next year. Who, by the way, I thought did a stellar job for the disaster that he was thrown in the middle of. I agree, option game would make sense and be great. Great season indeed. Roncalli was alot.

I'm not sure that'll be the problem that it would normally be. The typical people that may have no dog in the fight will likely not want to sit in 45 degree rain. If my kid wasn't playing, I'd be watching from the couch.