sider wrote:Wow, am I sick of the rain excuse, for the game last year against burg (and don't get me wrong West might be one of the worst schools around for making excuses, but its over focus on next year)...but, anyway I would imagine that their won't be a lot of rain this year come football season, it has rained too much too early for there to be a lot left. This could benefit, some of the smaller teams in the soc.
It seems like the people from West are the only ones still talking about the rain.
West will be good, but not nearly as dominant as they were last year. They lost a ton of seniors (some that were held back a year to begin with) and although their program looks like it is getting stronger, they still have to have kids step up and fill in the gaps.
Burg and Minford will be solid teams again this year. Burg returns less, but they are always reloading, not rebuilding.
Valley is going to have a scrappy team next year and could easily knock off West, Burg and Minford. Will they? I dont think so. I dont think Crabtree can win the big ones without loosing his cool.
Waverly......well its Roback vs the SOC. They may be surprising, but I think every SOC II opponent will find a way to stop Roback and slow them down. Burg and Minford will have very quick teams, I dont see Roback getting outside on them much. Lets face it, he cant run the ball every play.
Northwest.....I see them winning a few games, they are not the SOC II caliber team they once was back in the early 90's. Too big of a school district, many kids cannot play because of problems getting home after practice, etc. It will be quite some time before they get anchored in and develop a solid program.
