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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, y'all, welcome into Go Fight Win, the show with
all the high school football stories you love. On this
week's episode, what is going on in the state of
West Virginia playoffs being delayed, people are pissed about playoff seating,
and a judge might determine team's fates. What the heck, y'all?
Plus a coach in Alabama suspended for his team's first
(00:22):
round playoff game because he was taking notes on his
future opponent at their game on their sideline. Classic love that,
And in the spirit of state playoff season in the
state of Texas, it's just bigger out there. Why did
this team throw a Hail Mary up double digits? It's
(00:43):
all on this week's episode of Go Fight Win. Let's
get ready to run through that banner. Well, just get
the ball of Donny Doug and let that pudge you up.
If y'all have listened to Go Fight Win this season,
(01:05):
you know that I'm a fan of Coach Dooley's List
and Coach Julie himself. Coach Billy Dooley coach me in
high school football, and he has a website called Coach
Julie's List that has a network of confirmed tested, trusted
equipment gear services for your high school sports team. I
know high school football. Maybe over for some of y'all
(01:27):
coaches listening out there, maybe you're coaching basketball or baseball.
If you need equipment for any sport and you need
a place where you can trust that it's the right stuff,
the good stuff. You're running concessions, you're in charge of
the band, you're a cheerleading mom. You need stuff. You
need equipment, and you don't need to order stuff that sucks.
You need good stuff. And that is what they have
(01:48):
over at Coach Julie's List. There's a link in the
show description check out Coach Dooley's List dot com. All Right,
on this week's episode, playoff time, baby, and that means
things get weird. Let's start in West Virginia. I love
the state of West Virginia. It's a beautiful state. Gets
crapped on a lot Appalachia Hillbilly's people hate on them,
(02:09):
but I love that state. A lot of my family
comes from there, descended from there. And right now in
their high school playoff system, things are getting weird. The
state playoffs have been delayed, and it's because teams are
upset about their seating. There are some redistricting going on.
This is from Metro News, the Voice of West Virginia.
(02:32):
The last ninety hours have been nothing short of a
whirlwind around high school football. Three days before the scheduled
opening round of the playoffs, West Virginia Secondary Schools Activities
Commission has announced the start of the postseason is postponed
in each of the four classifications due to ongoing litigation.
I think litigation may be the biggest word I've ever
said on this show. We don't typically wait into those waters,
(02:54):
but here's what's going on. We are extremely disappointed to
not be having the playoffs this week, Executive director David
Price said. We understand the frustration from all the parties involved,
and we want nothing more than to put the focus
back on the student athletes in their pursuit of a championship. However,
we must abide by the decisions of the courts in
their timeline. Blah blah blah. So all this league lead
(03:15):
is what actually happened. An injunction granted Saturday in Wood
County set the playoff rating system to what it looked
like before August reclassifications, causing four projected playoff teams to
be replaced by four teams that otherwise would not have
played beyond the regular season. Welcome back, You're in the playoffs.
It's the end of the Avengers. You're alive again. You're
(03:36):
portaling through back into the bracket. The four schools bump
from postseason as a result of the tweak Hampshire, Point
Pleasant west Side in Tulsha. They were replaced by Capital,
Saint Albans, Lincoln and Saint Mary's. The Saints on the
side of the teams that were revived. Late Monday, Mason
County Circuit Judge Anita Ashley issued a ruling ordering playing
(03:59):
games this Friday and the Class Triple A playoffs that
were to match Point Pleasant against Saint Albans in Hampshire
against Capital for the right to be among the top sixteen. Additionally,
a lawsuit seeking injunctive relief for West Side was filed
Monday in Wyoming County. Because the playoff field also changed
to the Class Double A and Class Single A, it
seemed unlikely play ins would occur only in Class Triple A.
(04:22):
As a result of different injunctions granting different rulings. The
matter is now likely to be determined by West Virginia's
Supreme Court of Appeals in the coming days. The postseason
will begin after litigation has been resolved. This is absolutely nuts.
They messed up the seating, they looked at it the
wrong way, and teams that didn't have a shot to
(04:43):
be in the playoffs are in in teams that should
be in or out. It is the upside down. Wade Ryan,
the Associate executive director of the West Virginia Sports Association, said,
we wouldn't determine it because if we did, we would
be in contemptive court from one judge or the other,
and we can't do that at that high point. It
(05:05):
has to go to a higher court. We would need
a higher court to step in and make the decision
which rating system we use, and as soon as they
make the ruling, we go to work and have our
state playoffs. So you've got playoffs that are messed up,
you have a decision to have play in games for
teams that should have already been in, and you have
(05:26):
judges potentially deciding what happens. Bridgeport recently wrapped up an
unbeaten regular season. They're the number three seed in Triple A.
Regardless of what happens it's the Indians first round opponent,
though that would be different between Robert Sea Bird and
Lewis County based on the rating system. Bridgeboard head coach
Tyler Ferriss said, everyone kind of saw this coming. You
(05:48):
heard about it and knew about it. We explained to
the kids that it might happen. We're not going to
sit around and whine and cry about anything. We'll find
a way to get better and whenever it's time to play,
we're going to play. We got to work on things
today we usually don't have time to work on. We're
going to use this week to become a better football
team and hopefully next week we're playing football again. That's
the big goal. If we're not playing football next week,
I might change my tune a little bit, But I
(06:09):
fully expect us to be playing football next week, So
maybe it won't be that long of a delay. Class
Quade nothing changed. State title games were supposed to be
December sixth and seventh in Charleston. It will now be
moved back at least one week, so they're thinking it
might take a week maybe longer to decide all this stuff.
(06:32):
What a mess man? How do y'all not know? How
your playoffs work. I'm dumber for having read that article.
I'm so confused, and I will keep an eye on this.
I want to see what happens. This is gonna sting man.
Anytime there's a controversy in the playoffs, it royally sucks.
(06:52):
Our team lost a really controversial game against Roswell High
School when I was in high school, and there was
a bad call in the game, and then that team
went on to split the state championship with Peachtree Ridge,
who our team had beaten in the regular season, so
we felt like we'd beaten both co state championship teams
(07:14):
and we still talk about that. Man, that stuff last
a lifetime. You are impacting the life, the lives of players,
and it's grown ups, it's adults, it's decision makers that
have fumbled the bag. Here sucks. I hate it for
(07:34):
all these players, and I hope they can find a
way to do what is actually right for the teams
that deserve it all right in Alabama, Now, this is
some Friday night lights stuff here. Opalika head coach suspended
ahead of playoff game against Hoover. This is from WSFA
dot Com. WBrC also writing this article Opeika will be
(07:58):
without their head coach Friday when the Bulldogs take the
field against Hoover in their Class seven A playoff game.
First year head coach Brian Moore was suspended for Friday's
game after using a media pass to access Hoover's first
round game against Fair Hope last week. While observing Hoover
High School's playoff game, Coach Moore used a media pass
to access the field and take notes, Opelika City School
(08:20):
said in statement. It was said that Moore, who most
recently coached for four years at Heart SL and for
two years at Jasper before that, had no ill intent
when he used the pass to access the field and
take notes. Coach Moore recognizes this was an error in
judgment and accepts the suspension. Opalaikah is nine to two
and will play at nine and two Hoover Friday night.
(08:42):
Woo buddy, this is a Connor stallions two point zero
in high school football. Maybe not stealing signs, but getting
on the field to watch the game. Yeah, you get
game tape, you get to review the film. But when
you're down there with your eyes and ears, your nose,
your taste budzs, you're tasting what they got in the
(09:04):
concession stand that week. You got all five senses. He
had his hands on a clipboard and was taking notes
on the game. All five senses a lot different than
just using your eyes to watch a film. You get
a sense of the team. You get a sense of
how they operate, what do they do on the sideline,
(09:25):
who's their biggest threat, what do their coaches do, how
do they respond, how do they coach up their team?
That's high school football playoffs. Man, you got to get
every edge you can. But dude, at least where a
disguise or something. He was in the dang Friday night
highlights show and they could see him clear as a bell,
(09:45):
right there on the sideline in the end zone holding
the clipboard. Buddy, I know it's your first year being
a head coach of the school, but act like you've
been there before. If you're gonna sneak in where a disguise,
wear a hat, don't just stand down there on the sideline.
You think that you can just go down there and
take notes. Bro, this isn't You're not studying for an exam,
(10:10):
This isn't a classroom. This is coaching. This is Alabama
high school football man, you got to you gotta be
better at cheating. I don't know if that's cheating, not
accusing him of cheating. If that's not what he did.
Sounds like he didn't know what he was doing. I
didn't know. Oh, I didn't know. I could I didn't know.
(10:30):
I couldn't be down there. I thought I had the
right to go down there and take notes. Coach, screw
your lid on, tight strap up, compete, But not like that.
I wonder what kind of notes he took. I mean,
he could have legitimately written down every play yards gain,
(10:52):
yards lost, seen the formations, heard play calls. There's a
lot that goes into that. And my question is, hey,
why didn't you wear disguise? B Why didn't you just
have somebody else do it. You're the coach, You got
other things to worry about. I know your team wasn't playing,
(11:12):
but maybe you could watch some other film diagnose your team,
and have an assistant down there that nobody recognizes. Taking
notes and taking notes sucks. I had to quit playing
ball early in high school, had too many concussions. I
asked the coaches how it could help. I ran the film,
(11:33):
ran the cameras and during the games, I helped our
defensive coordinator log every single play who had the ball,
who carried it, who threw it, who caught it, who
ran it, who tackled, yards gain, yards lost, down in distance.
I'm surprised he trusted me with it, given the fact
(11:54):
that my skull had just been bruised. But here we
are coaches doing the dirty work. I respect it a
little bit. I mean, you want to take ownership of that,
But execution not great. Better hope your team executes better
than that against Hoover. Hask you. In Texas Texas Football
(12:18):
dot Com Dave Campbell's Texas Football Great publication, Greg Tepper
wrote this a hail Mary to win by twenty inside
a wild Texas high school football finish. Due to tiebreaker rules,
Pasadenadobe uses a last gasp touchdown in a game they
led comfortably to clinch a playoff spot. Under normal circumstances,
(12:40):
throwing for the end zone in the final moments of
the game while up fourteen points would seem excessive, but
for the Pasadena Adobe Longhorns it saved their season. Uniforms
are sick. They look just like Texas. In order to
clinch a playoff spot. Adobe entered their regular season finale
against man Vel needing not just to win, but by
at least seventeen points due to the tiebreaker situation in
(13:03):
District twenty two Dash six A. That's Texas for you.
That's how many districts you got. So when the Longhorns
took over on downs on their own twenty six, leading
forty eight thirty four with just eighteen seconds to go,
they had to press kneeling it out in their season.
After completion in a penalty got Dobe to the Manvel
thirty eight with just six seconds to play, Quarterback Williard
(13:24):
Joiner the third heave for the end zone, finding Tarike
Riley for a thirty eight yard hail Mary to win
by twenty clinching a playoff spot and keeping their season alive.
The result, Adobe will advance to the Class six A
Division one playoffs, likely to face Fort Bend Ridge Point
that's a Texas name for you in the first round.
(13:47):
Manvel also qualifies for the playoffs in the six A
Division two bracket, while Perland Dawson's season ends in the
most improbable way. Man see, that's what they need to
be doing in West Virginia. Settle it on the field,
not in a courtroom. By god, I'd love to be
in that huddle, just like Friday Night Lights, Mike Winchell
(14:13):
calling it up. Hey guys, we got the win, all right,
wiggle thirty four switch blade for the state championship, for
the state playoffs. I love all y'all, baby, I love
all of you. Let's go all one. Hail Mary to
the grill boom. You're in the playoffs. That's a party
(14:34):
right there. For the Longhorns. It must be a surreal
feeling too, knowing that you already won the game, but
your actual goal comes down to a Hail Mary. You
really haven't won jack unless you hit this hail Mary.
And they did it. Man, what a cannon on this
kid too. Got a link to it in the show description.
(14:57):
Here Longhorns lining up. They're on their thirty eight in
the gun drops back to pass, Williard gonna step up
and uncork one and it is caught Tariq Riley thirty
eight yard Hail Mary. Belong. Horns win by twenty and
(15:21):
they're going to the state playoffs. Touchdown, Horns. Gotta love
Texas high school football. Gotta love playoff season. Thank y'all
for listening to this episode of Go Fight Win. If
you are a high school football coach, player, parent, please
share this show. Seasons coming down, winding down to an
(15:45):
end here. It's been a nice year, been good to
look back on some Friday Night Lights history. Maybe I'll
do a couple more of those before we wrap up
for the year. Here twenty year anniversary of the movie
Coming Out. Go back and check out some older episodes
as I deep dive on some topics from that film.
A couple of Coffeetown radio calls sprinkled in here as well,
(16:07):
and some high school football legends. It's all on this
season of Go Fight Win, and I'm just overjoyed to
share my passion for high school football amidst a busy schedule,
busier schedule than last fall. Not able to pour as
much into this one as I was last year, but
I'm grateful for the chance to do it, grateful for
(16:29):
the chance to have y'all listen to it, and grateful
for the chance to grow. We'll see what happens in
the years ahead, but for right now, you got to
be where your feet are. You got to keep chopping,
You got to keep chopping wood. You got to keep
chopping your feet and man alive. If that don't light
your fire, your woods wet. I've said it before and
I'll say it many more times. High school football is
(16:51):
the latest greatest institution, I should say, the last and
greatest institution of sports, and that brings us together. It
has not been corrupted by the nil transfer portal craziness
of college football. Don't get me wrong. I love me
some college ball. And look, there's plenty of playoff controversies
(17:14):
in college football, just like there are in high school football.
Look at West Virginia. Get it together, West Virginia. These
are my people. I need y'all. Do I need to
come up there? Don't make me come up there. But
high school football is the greatest sport in America right
now because it still brings us all together. There's some controversy,
(17:38):
there's some coaches that suck. There are some things going
on with refs and players shortages, not being able to
finish seasons, and it breaks my heart, it really does.
But this show is all about the high school football
stories that we love. If you've listened to Coffeetown radio broadcasts,
you know it's about the quirky, the weird, the uplifting,
(18:00):
the happy, and these things are what make high school
football tick. Thanks for being with me, have a great week.
If your team is in the high school football playoffs,
go get them. If they're not, go get better. God
bless see you.
Hey, y'all, welcome into Go Fight Win, the show with
all the high school football stories you love. On this
week's episode, what is going on in the state of
West Virginia playoffs being delayed, people are pissed about playoff seating,
and a judge might determine team's fates. What the heck, y'all?
Plus a coach in Alabama suspended for his team's first
(00:22):
round playoff game because he was taking notes on his
future opponent at their game on their sideline. Classic love that,
And in the spirit of state playoff season in the
state of Texas, it's just bigger out there. Why did
this team throw a Hail Mary up double digits? It's
(00:43):
all on this week's episode of Go Fight Win. Let's
get ready to run through that banner. Well, just get
the ball of Donny Doug and let that pudge you up.
If y'all have listened to Go Fight Win this season,
(01:05):
you know that I'm a fan of Coach Dooley's List
and Coach Julie himself. Coach Billy Dooley coach me in
high school football, and he has a website called Coach
Julie's List that has a network of confirmed tested, trusted
equipment gear services for your high school sports team. I
know high school football. Maybe over for some of y'all
(01:27):
coaches listening out there, maybe you're coaching basketball or baseball.
If you need equipment for any sport and you need
a place where you can trust that it's the right stuff,
the good stuff. You're running concessions, you're in charge of
the band, you're a cheerleading mom. You need stuff. You
need equipment, and you don't need to order stuff that sucks.
You need good stuff. And that is what they have
(01:48):
over at Coach Julie's List. There's a link in the
show description check out Coach Dooley's List dot com. All Right,
on this week's episode, playoff time, baby, and that means
things get weird. Let's start in West Virginia. I love
the state of West Virginia. It's a beautiful state. Gets
crapped on a lot Appalachia Hillbilly's people hate on them,
(02:09):
but I love that state. A lot of my family
comes from there, descended from there. And right now in
their high school playoff system, things are getting weird. The
state playoffs have been delayed, and it's because teams are
upset about their seating. There are some redistricting going on.
This is from Metro News, the Voice of West Virginia.
(02:32):
The last ninety hours have been nothing short of a
whirlwind around high school football. Three days before the scheduled
opening round of the playoffs, West Virginia Secondary Schools Activities
Commission has announced the start of the postseason is postponed
in each of the four classifications due to ongoing litigation.
I think litigation may be the biggest word I've ever
said on this show. We don't typically wait into those waters,
(02:54):
but here's what's going on. We are extremely disappointed to
not be having the playoffs this week, Executive director David
Price said. We understand the frustration from all the parties involved,
and we want nothing more than to put the focus
back on the student athletes in their pursuit of a championship. However,
we must abide by the decisions of the courts in
their timeline. Blah blah blah. So all this league lead
(03:15):
is what actually happened. An injunction granted Saturday in Wood
County set the playoff rating system to what it looked
like before August reclassifications, causing four projected playoff teams to
be replaced by four teams that otherwise would not have
played beyond the regular season. Welcome back, You're in the playoffs.
It's the end of the Avengers. You're alive again. You're
(03:36):
portaling through back into the bracket. The four schools bump
from postseason as a result of the tweak Hampshire, Point
Pleasant west Side in Tulsha. They were replaced by Capital,
Saint Albans, Lincoln and Saint Mary's. The Saints on the
side of the teams that were revived. Late Monday, Mason
County Circuit Judge Anita Ashley issued a ruling ordering playing
(03:59):
games this Friday and the Class Triple A playoffs that
were to match Point Pleasant against Saint Albans in Hampshire
against Capital for the right to be among the top sixteen. Additionally,
a lawsuit seeking injunctive relief for West Side was filed
Monday in Wyoming County. Because the playoff field also changed
to the Class Double A and Class Single A, it
seemed unlikely play ins would occur only in Class Triple A.
(04:22):
As a result of different injunctions granting different rulings. The
matter is now likely to be determined by West Virginia's
Supreme Court of Appeals in the coming days. The postseason
will begin after litigation has been resolved. This is absolutely nuts.
They messed up the seating, they looked at it the
wrong way, and teams that didn't have a shot to
(04:43):
be in the playoffs are in in teams that should
be in or out. It is the upside down. Wade Ryan,
the Associate executive director of the West Virginia Sports Association, said,
we wouldn't determine it because if we did, we would
be in contemptive court from one judge or the other,
and we can't do that at that high point. It
(05:05):
has to go to a higher court. We would need
a higher court to step in and make the decision
which rating system we use, and as soon as they
make the ruling, we go to work and have our
state playoffs. So you've got playoffs that are messed up,
you have a decision to have play in games for
teams that should have already been in, and you have
(05:26):
judges potentially deciding what happens. Bridgeport recently wrapped up an
unbeaten regular season. They're the number three seed in Triple A.
Regardless of what happens it's the Indians first round opponent,
though that would be different between Robert Sea Bird and
Lewis County based on the rating system. Bridgeboard head coach
Tyler Ferriss said, everyone kind of saw this coming. You
(05:48):
heard about it and knew about it. We explained to
the kids that it might happen. We're not going to
sit around and whine and cry about anything. We'll find
a way to get better and whenever it's time to play,
we're going to play. We got to work on things
today we usually don't have time to work on. We're
going to use this week to become a better football
team and hopefully next week we're playing football again. That's
the big goal. If we're not playing football next week,
I might change my tune a little bit, But I
(06:09):
fully expect us to be playing football next week, So
maybe it won't be that long of a delay. Class
Quade nothing changed. State title games were supposed to be
December sixth and seventh in Charleston. It will now be
moved back at least one week, so they're thinking it
might take a week maybe longer to decide all this stuff.
(06:32):
What a mess man? How do y'all not know? How
your playoffs work. I'm dumber for having read that article.
I'm so confused, and I will keep an eye on this.
I want to see what happens. This is gonna sting man.
Anytime there's a controversy in the playoffs, it royally sucks.
(06:52):
Our team lost a really controversial game against Roswell High
School when I was in high school, and there was
a bad call in the game, and then that team
went on to split the state championship with Peachtree Ridge,
who our team had beaten in the regular season, so
we felt like we'd beaten both co state championship teams
(07:14):
and we still talk about that. Man, that stuff last
a lifetime. You are impacting the life, the lives of players,
and it's grown ups, it's adults, it's decision makers that
have fumbled the bag. Here sucks. I hate it for
(07:34):
all these players, and I hope they can find a
way to do what is actually right for the teams
that deserve it all right in Alabama, Now, this is
some Friday night lights stuff here. Opalika head coach suspended
ahead of playoff game against Hoover. This is from WSFA
dot Com. WBrC also writing this article Opeika will be
(07:58):
without their head coach Friday when the Bulldogs take the
field against Hoover in their Class seven A playoff game.
First year head coach Brian Moore was suspended for Friday's
game after using a media pass to access Hoover's first
round game against Fair Hope last week. While observing Hoover
High School's playoff game, Coach Moore used a media pass
to access the field and take notes, Opelika City School
(08:20):
said in statement. It was said that Moore, who most
recently coached for four years at Heart SL and for
two years at Jasper before that, had no ill intent
when he used the pass to access the field and
take notes. Coach Moore recognizes this was an error in
judgment and accepts the suspension. Opalaikah is nine to two
and will play at nine and two Hoover Friday night.
(08:42):
Woo buddy, this is a Connor stallions two point zero
in high school football. Maybe not stealing signs, but getting
on the field to watch the game. Yeah, you get
game tape, you get to review the film. But when
you're down there with your eyes and ears, your nose,
your taste budzs, you're tasting what they got in the
(09:04):
concession stand that week. You got all five senses. He
had his hands on a clipboard and was taking notes
on the game. All five senses a lot different than
just using your eyes to watch a film. You get
a sense of the team. You get a sense of
how they operate, what do they do on the sideline,
(09:25):
who's their biggest threat, what do their coaches do, how
do they respond, how do they coach up their team?
That's high school football playoffs. Man, you got to get
every edge you can. But dude, at least where a
disguise or something. He was in the dang Friday night
highlights show and they could see him clear as a bell,
(09:45):
right there on the sideline in the end zone holding
the clipboard. Buddy, I know it's your first year being
a head coach of the school, but act like you've
been there before. If you're gonna sneak in where a disguise,
wear a hat, don't just stand down there on the sideline.
You think that you can just go down there and
take notes. Bro, this isn't You're not studying for an exam,
(10:10):
This isn't a classroom. This is coaching. This is Alabama
high school football man, you got to you gotta be
better at cheating. I don't know if that's cheating, not
accusing him of cheating. If that's not what he did.
Sounds like he didn't know what he was doing. I
didn't know. Oh, I didn't know. I could I didn't know.
(10:30):
I couldn't be down there. I thought I had the
right to go down there and take notes. Coach, screw
your lid on, tight strap up, compete, But not like that.
I wonder what kind of notes he took. I mean,
he could have legitimately written down every play yards gain,
(10:52):
yards lost, seen the formations, heard play calls. There's a
lot that goes into that. And my question is, hey,
why didn't you wear disguise? B Why didn't you just
have somebody else do it. You're the coach, You got
other things to worry about. I know your team wasn't playing,
(11:12):
but maybe you could watch some other film diagnose your team,
and have an assistant down there that nobody recognizes. Taking
notes and taking notes sucks. I had to quit playing
ball early in high school, had too many concussions. I
asked the coaches how it could help. I ran the film,
(11:33):
ran the cameras and during the games, I helped our
defensive coordinator log every single play who had the ball,
who carried it, who threw it, who caught it, who
ran it, who tackled, yards gain, yards lost, down in distance.
I'm surprised he trusted me with it, given the fact
(11:54):
that my skull had just been bruised. But here we
are coaches doing the dirty work. I respect it a
little bit. I mean, you want to take ownership of that,
But execution not great. Better hope your team executes better
than that against Hoover. Hask you. In Texas Texas Football
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dot Com Dave Campbell's Texas Football Great publication, Greg Tepper
wrote this a hail Mary to win by twenty inside
a wild Texas high school football finish. Due to tiebreaker rules,
Pasadenadobe uses a last gasp touchdown in a game they
led comfortably to clinch a playoff spot. Under normal circumstances,
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throwing for the end zone in the final moments of
the game while up fourteen points would seem excessive, but
for the Pasadena Adobe Longhorns it saved their season. Uniforms
are sick. They look just like Texas. In order to
clinch a playoff spot. Adobe entered their regular season finale
against man Vel needing not just to win, but by
at least seventeen points due to the tiebreaker situation in
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District twenty two Dash six A. That's Texas for you.
That's how many districts you got. So when the Longhorns
took over on downs on their own twenty six, leading
forty eight thirty four with just eighteen seconds to go,
they had to press kneeling it out in their season.
After completion in a penalty got Dobe to the Manvel
thirty eight with just six seconds to play, Quarterback Williard
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Joiner the third heave for the end zone, finding Tarike
Riley for a thirty eight yard hail Mary to win
by twenty clinching a playoff spot and keeping their season alive.
The result, Adobe will advance to the Class six A
Division one playoffs, likely to face Fort Bend Ridge Point
that's a Texas name for you in the first round.
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Manvel also qualifies for the playoffs in the six A
Division two bracket, while Perland Dawson's season ends in the
most improbable way. Man see, that's what they need to
be doing in West Virginia. Settle it on the field,
not in a courtroom. By god, I'd love to be
in that huddle, just like Friday Night Lights, Mike Winchell
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calling it up. Hey guys, we got the win, all right,
wiggle thirty four switch blade for the state championship, for
the state playoffs. I love all y'all, baby, I love
all of you. Let's go all one. Hail Mary to
the grill boom. You're in the playoffs. That's a party
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right there. For the Longhorns. It must be a surreal
feeling too, knowing that you already won the game, but
your actual goal comes down to a Hail Mary. You
really haven't won jack unless you hit this hail Mary.
And they did it. Man, what a cannon on this
kid too. Got a link to it in the show description.
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Here Longhorns lining up. They're on their thirty eight in
the gun drops back to pass, Williard gonna step up
and uncork one and it is caught Tariq Riley thirty
eight yard Hail Mary. Belong. Horns win by twenty and
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they're going to the state playoffs. Touchdown, Horns. Gotta love
Texas high school football. Gotta love playoff season. Thank y'all
for listening to this episode of Go Fight Win. If
you are a high school football coach, player, parent, please
share this show. Seasons coming down, winding down to an
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end here. It's been a nice year, been good to
look back on some Friday Night Lights history. Maybe I'll
do a couple more of those before we wrap up
for the year. Here twenty year anniversary of the movie
Coming Out. Go back and check out some older episodes
as I deep dive on some topics from that film.
A couple of Coffeetown radio calls sprinkled in here as well,
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and some high school football legends. It's all on this
season of Go Fight Win, and I'm just overjoyed to
share my passion for high school football amidst a busy schedule,
busier schedule than last fall. Not able to pour as
much into this one as I was last year, but
I'm grateful for the chance to do it, grateful for
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the chance to have y'all listen to it, and grateful
for the chance to grow. We'll see what happens in
the years ahead, but for right now, you got to
be where your feet are. You got to keep chopping,
You got to keep chopping wood. You got to keep
chopping your feet and man alive. If that don't light
your fire, your woods wet. I've said it before and
I'll say it many more times. High school football is
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the latest greatest institution, I should say, the last and
greatest institution of sports, and that brings us together. It
has not been corrupted by the nil transfer portal craziness
of college football. Don't get me wrong. I love me
some college ball. And look, there's plenty of playoff controversies
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in college football, just like there are in high school football.
Look at West Virginia. Get it together, West Virginia. These
are my people. I need y'all. Do I need to
come up there? Don't make me come up there. But
high school football is the greatest sport in America right
now because it still brings us all together. There's some controversy,
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there's some coaches that suck. There are some things going
on with refs and players shortages, not being able to
finish seasons, and it breaks my heart, it really does.
But this show is all about the high school football
stories that we love. If you've listened to Coffeetown radio broadcasts,
you know it's about the quirky, the weird, the uplifting,
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the happy, and these things are what make high school
football tick. Thanks for being with me, have a great week.
If your team is in the high school football playoffs,
go get them. If they're not, go get better. God
bless see you.
Host
Wes Blankenship
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