11/5/21 Last Game Of The Season?

     We could hope the season would have gone better, but it is what it is.  It was another bad loss for our Coogs, who I know give it their all and put in so many days of hard work.  Unfortunately, their is something amiss, some of these teams are just on another level.  The best reasoning we can come up with is that again in Marble Falls, like so many other of these small towns, these kids are playing organized football from a much younger age and so their level of knowledge and discipline is just better.  I am not even going to harp on the score, it was horrible and could have been worse.

    I think the coaches realized the game was out of hand and for example, Baby A did not play his normal position after the first quarter.  The center had a bad snap, so the coach moved Mijo to center for a couple series, but then he did not even play offense in the second half.  He had talked about playing defense, although he never did any practice to go through techniques or even learn the plays, from the defense side.  It was still fun to watch, he had a solo tackle and was in on a couple other plays.

    I liked hearing after the game, that some of his friends who had not gotten a chance to get on the field all season, were finally let on.  One boy we gave a ride to, after the game, had practiced much of the season as a back up lineman, even though he is kind of a skinny guy, he sounded happy that he finally got on the field and got his uniform dirty.  Things are different from practice to games, things move faster and the other team is not your friend.

    The highlight of the game, really the season was watching the last plays and seeing our big boy play fullback, something they had goofed around during practice a few times and he got a yard or two before being tackled by the whole team backwards into the endzone.  Again, it was a horribly handled kickoff return, where they got the ball at the 1 yard line with about two minutes left.  I don't know why these kids would not just let it go into the endzone and start at the 20.  Anyways, I was at the point of wanting to put away my camera, it was the last few minutes, the score was 70 something to 0, but I am glad I captured the moment.  Mijo was excited, and we were happy for him, at least it was something different, at that point, the score didn't matter.