Written by Charlie Beuttel Twitter: @charlie_cds3 Three weeks ago the Missouri 6A playoffs started with 32 teams, now there are just four left standing as the semifinals kick off this Friday night to find out who will play for the state championship in St. Louis on November 27. The four teams remaining Blue Springs South, Kirkwood, Kickapoo and Christian Brothers […]
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Written by Charlie Beuttel Twitter: @charlie_cds3 Its playoff time in Louisiana as the 32 best 4A schools are set to battle it out for a chance to play for the state championship in New Orleans on December 12. The first round starts Friday all over the state and every team has their eye on winning on the ultimate prize. Last year, […]
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Written by Charlie Beuttel Twitter: @charlie_cds3 It’s playoff time in Louisiana as the LHSAA have released the playoff brackets. The 5A playoffs kickoff this Friday as the 32 best teams are battling for a spot to play for the state championship on December 12 in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans. Acadiana won their second straight 5A state title last year […]
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Written by Charlie Beuttel Twitter: @charlie_cds3 It was an exciting first week in the Kansas 6A playoffs as there several exciting games including Olathe North’s 35-28 victory over Blue Valley North and when Lawrence beat Shawnee Mission North 56-32 in an offensive shootout. There were also some great performances in the eight games played on Friday and eight teams clinched […]
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Written by Charlie Beuttel Twitter: @charlie_cds3 It was an exciting night on Friday as the Kansas 5A playoffs kicked off all over the state. Mill Valley and Pittsburg both shutout their opponents to set up an exciting quarterfinal matchup. There was also an upset as Goddard-Eisenhower escaped past Kapaun Mt. Carmel, 20-14. Finally, St. James Academy and Goddard-Eisenhower won a playoff game […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA An area long known for change and positive forward momentum is in the process of another turn in a long history of greatness. Berkeley is in the midst of reclaiming college football gridiron glory one standout recruit at a time. One of the members of the 2016 recruiting class, Markus Wright, is ready to […]
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Written by Charlie Beuttel Twitter: @charlie_cds3 Missouri produces talented college football recruits every year and the Class of 2016 is no different with highly regarded athletes across the state actively being sought out to play college football all over the country. Top Class of 2016 recruits already verbally committed include Fort Osage quarterback Skylar Thompson (Kansas State), Rockhurst athlete A.J. […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA Oxford – A college football highlight that will be played time and time again and a quarterback duel between Arkansas’ Brandon Allen and Mississippi’s Chad Kelly ended in a 53-52 overtime thriller for the Razorbacks Saturday night in Oxford. Arkansas (5-4, 3-2) head coach Bret Bielema picked up his second SEC road win over […]
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Written by Charlie Beuttel Evangel Christian Academy in Shreveport, Louisiana has a reputation of producing great football stars including former NFL running back Jacob Hester and current Louisiana Tech wide receiver Trent Taylor. One of the next big stars to come out of this great football program is junior wide receiver Johnathan Jones. Jones is one of the weapons of the Eagles offense […]
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Written by Charlie Beuttel Twitter: @charlie_cds3 Parkway Panthers (9-1, 5-1) 28, Airline Vikings (7-3, 3-3) 0 With the victory, Parkway is tied with Byrd and Evangel as co-District 1-5A champions. Airline suffered their third straight defeat to close out the regular season. Both teams will be in the 5A playoffs that start next week but only the Panthers are guaranteed a home […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA Criteria for recruiting rankings are never fully revealed but when the new rankings come out for the 2017 class, Fayetteville High School standout quarterback Taylor Powell deserves to be in the national discussion. As a sophomore he helped lead the Bulldogs to an Arkansas state championship runner-up finish and has his team sitting at […]
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Written by Charlie Beuttel Lee’s Summit West has gone through two straight six-win seasons after winning the Missouri Class 6 state title in 2013. The 2015 season ended in disappointment as the Titans fell to Kickapoo in the second round of the playoffs, 26-7. The strength of Lee’s Summit West’s team this year was a defense that only gave up 19.5 […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA Central Catholic High School in Portland is at it again in 2015. The Rams steamrolled through the 2014 season with one loss to California powerhouse St. John Bosco but sliced through all Oregon high school competition on the way to a 13-1 record and a second consecutive state title. The Rams lost their first […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA A coaching change can either be good or bad for players on a given team, but for Class of 2016 kicker/punter Alex Woznick that change has made all the differences in the world. Woznick has been a part of the Eastside High School football team for three years now but not until the 2015 […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA The interim South Carolina coaching staff has not slowed down in their attempt to keep pulling players to Columbia despite the pending unknown of a coaching change coming at the end of the 2015 college football season landing Birmingham, Alabama, standout defensive end Griffin Gentry. Homewood High School finished their regular season 8-2 and […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA The San Jose State Spartans have been heating up the recruiting trail throughout California to start the month of November landing three recruits in four days. The Spartans have scored first with defensive end/tight end Johnny Rojas and offensive guard Michael Grandy and then landed speedy receiver Tre Webb on Wednesday. Grandy and Rojas […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA The Auburn Tigers made a curious move on Wednesday taking a verbal commitment from junior college dual-threat quarterback John Franklin III adding a second quarterback to the 2016 recruiting class. Franklin, originally from South Plantation High School in the Fort Lauderdale area, was a contributing member of the high-powered East Mississippi offense in 2015. […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA A football beast was unleashed on the Nevada high school football fields in 2014 when Anthony Smith’s natural talent collided with an emerging self-confidence. The results from a third-party perspective was overwhelming seeing Smith named Nevada D1-A Defensive MVP 2014 and First-Team All-State 2014. Looking to improve upon his great junior season stats when […]
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Written by Charlie Beuttel Twitter: @charlie_cds3 Parkway Panthers (8-1, 4-1) @ Airline Vikings (7-2, 3-2) These two teams will playing for higher playoff seeds as the regular season wraps up in Louisiana. Parkway could finish as high as tied for first in District 1-5A while Airline could finish as high as tied for second in district. Both teams have explosive offenses which […]
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Written by Charlie Beuttel Last year the Airline Vikings finished a disappointing 4-7 season and lost in the first round of the playoffs. As the 2015 season was approaching the expectations around this team were rising as the Vikings returned a big group of talented and experienced seniors. When the season started Airline proved they were no fluke as they opened […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA Starting for any high school team at the top classifications of the bigger states in the country is always an accomplishment. Playing at a high level as a starter is an impressive feat. Starting as a sophomore for Bishop Amat, a Los Angeles area school, is pretty amazing but doing more than just holding […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA With just five weekends left for college football teams to prove their worth for the second annual FBS playoffs, the 12-member selection committee ranked their Top 25 teams Tuesday night laying out the work that may need to be done for some to leapfrog into the tournament. The playoff selection committee’s rankings were not […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA When South Carolina lost head coach Steve Spurrier to an abrupt mid-season retirement after their LSU game in Week 6, they also lost 4-star safety recruit Marlon Character. On Monday, Character completed his de-commitment from the Gamecocks verbally committing to the Auburn Tigers. Auburn seemingly had been in the running for Character all along […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA St. Thomas Aquinas, one of the best teams in the nation, will have to brave the rest of the season without defensive end Nick Bosa after reports the 5-star recruit is out for the rest of the season due to a knee injury. Bosa, the younger brother of Ohio State’s Joey Bosa, has been […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA The recruiting battle to land Snow College (7-1) sophomore offensive tackle Garett Bolles is reaching a frenzy with several top Division-I programs giving their all to forge that meaningful relationship in hopes of landing the 4-star recruit. Schools like Boise State, Kansas State, South Carolina, Washington State, Florida State, Cal, Missouri, and Michigan State […]
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Written by Charlie Beuttel Twitter: @charlie_cds3 It’s playoff in Kansas as 16 teams are battling it out to be named champions in Kansas 5A. In 2014, Bishop Carroll beat St. Thomas Aquinas in the championship game to cap off an undefeated season. This year those two teams have the ability to make a return trip to the championship however there […]
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Written by Charlie Beuttel Twitter: @charlie_cds3 Its playoff time in Kansas with the 6A playoffs kicking off this Friday all over the state. Sixteen teams will battle for the chance to be named the 2015 Missouri 6A state champs. In 2014, Shawnee Mission East capped off an undefeated season by beating Hutchinson in the championship game 33-14. This year may be […]
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Written by Charlie Beuttel Twitter: @charlie_cds3 There were 16 games in the second round of the Missouri Class 4 playoffs and half of them were really exciting games including seeing 5-time defending champion Webb City barely getting by Carl Junction 14-7 and St. Dominic squeaking past Riverview Gardens 3-0. An upset in the second round happened when Vashon beat Gateway STEM […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA Picking a college to attend for any number of reasons just to receive an education alone can be very difficult. Add on the pressures of being a student-athlete picking the right fit not only with academics, fit in style of play, connection with campus, and relationship with various head coaches, the decision can become […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA The 2015 high School football season across the U.S. is starting to come to a close after two months of a lot of blood, sweat, and tears by thousands of kids. Week after week and game after game the unexpected continues to happen making each week all the more exciting and while making preseason […]
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