This is the third game of the year, if we count the first game that was cancelled and turned into a scrimmage. Let me say, something happened in this game that about broke my son's spirit and it was worrisome. The score was another blowout, I honestly stopped looking at the score board and even stopped recording as it was almost like watching a pee-wee team against some bully college team. The score was somewhere in the vicinity of 70-0, but even worse, our son barely played but a handful of plays interspersed here and there. Last week he went in on defense for a couple series at the end of the game. This week, they used him during fourth down punting formations as a guard and then for a handful of plays on defense, but I honestly didn't even notice those.
It was equally as bad on our end, last week we arrived with plenty of time to seat and get comfortable, even talked with some of the other parents before the start of the game. This week, Wife's boss man decides to have a meeting at 2:00pm, so she was stuck at work until 3:15pm so she was already taking off later than planned, then she ran into construction before showing up here at 6:30pm. The game started at 7:30 and unfortunately we missed kick-off and arrived about ten minutes into the first quarter. The score was already 33-0, or something like that. I have to admit, from Liberty Hill's perspective, it is a beautiful campus/field. It was all laid out and newish, with a good looking artificial turf as is the norm nowadays.
I said the game broke my son's spirit because he usually walks away from these games complaining like he does, with some sass and assurance that if he had only played more, the score would have been better. Tonight, he was just pissed when we got him in the car. Wife suggested he eat before talking and that helped a little to calm his little angry ass down. He said the team was outplayed/intimidated before the first kick-off, it sucks to play state champion caliber teams when you struggle to win one or two games a year. He said the guys were just not in the right mindset, the defense was at least taking it seriously, but the offense was acting all goofy and not focused in the team meetings before the game.
It would have helped if the guys had done a better job handling the football. Every decent play was quickly followed by a botched snap, or a series of dropped balls. Liberty Hill was not a team of big intimidating players, which I think was part of the problem. It was a bunch of white boys, but they were disciplined, organized, very fast and efficient. I didn't see the linemen looking bigger than our guys. Even Baby Jesus said that on the plays he did go in, lining up against the center he was stronger and could push him at will. But they came running out of the huddle, set up in half a second and snapped the ball almost instantly. This was unsettling in that they were already in the secondary by the time the defense started reacting to try and tackle somebody.
The only thing I can say is that if Crockett is just going to play anyone in the area, be smarter and choose teams that are more your speed. Don't play the state champions if you struggle to win any games. I put this on the coaches/administrators who set this game up. There are plenty of other teams that are just mediocre and that is who our guys should be playing. Last year, we only won one, but we had a chance and were in it in at least four other games that could have gone either way. This year, so far, it is two blowouts, 66-8 and this 70-0, or something like that. This breaks kids when they see that they can't compete, it isn't good for them. I don't care about a loss, when they can compete, but these losses where they are overwhelmed seem like too much week in and week out. What are the kids going to take out of this, I know a loss builds character, but an ass whipping every week makes one question why are we sacrificing our bodies and time in practice for? Here's hoping next week is more evenly matched.
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