100 miles an hour to zero
It's amazing how quickly things go from full speed ahead to zero. I spoke with Birmingham coach Ed Croson Sunday night, after he'd found out that the Patriots weren't selected to play in Saturday's state bowl game and already, he sounded different.
Croson said he was taking the rest of this week off, to rest. The school goes on winter break after this Friday, so it's really more like getting a jump on winter vacation. But he takes this week off because there's a lot of grunt work to be done over the break with turning in equipment, recruiting, and just general transition stuff.
The one thing he said that was incredibly striking to me was that he'll only see this year's team, altogether, three more times. Today at 2 o'clock when the team meets to hand out their weekly awards, the team banquet in late January and sometime in the spring, when the team meets to pick up their championship rings.
``Everyone really starts scattering to the wind,'' he said.
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Something needs to be done about how they put teams in the bowl games. If Baseball, Basketball, Soccer, Tennis, Vollyball, NFL, Hockey all have playoffs, why in the world would we not have it in high school football. It should truly be a NORTH vs. SOUTH Bowl game. Those boys deserved to be in the CIF bowl game. Now they will never get a chance. I went to BHS and our football team never played as great as these boys have played. Even last years offense was awesome, but they lost 1 game too many to make it. They too will never know what it's like to play in bowl game.
Posted by: Karin Buchak | December 11, 2007 5:13 PM