As a father of a senior from the HC state championship team from last year, my opinion of this year's team is simple - not very good. There were 12 seniors on last year's team, with about 8 of them playing 2-ways and the others playing significant roles to the team's success last year. This year's team has seen Vinnie Pangallo out for the season, with Jalen Beal and Burt Pouncey banged up. Those 3 provide a lot of fire power on offense. Then with the quarterback position is disarray, the new kid Trail replacing Gabbard - not very impressed so far. The defense has played pitiful in that the d-line are slow, the linebackers cannot contain the run and the d-backs cannot tackle. It looks like two hand touch football. I have been to the Dayton, Cooper and Beechwood games this year and it will be a long season. If HC can achieve an even won-loss record, I would be surprised. The bottom line is that last year's state championship team was a special group of players that was senior dominated. A group of seniors like last year's do not come around very often at a small school like HC.

As a father of a senior from the HC state championship team from last year, my opinion of this year's team is simple - not very good. There were 12 seniors on last year's team, with about 8 of them playing 2-ways and the others playing significant roles to the team's success last year. This year's team has seen Vinnie Pangallo out for the season, with Jalen Beal and Burt Pouncey banged up. Those 3 provide a lot of fire power on offense. Then with the quarterback position is disarray, the new kid Trail replacing Gabbard - not very impressed so far. The defense has played pitiful in that the d-line are slow, the linebackers cannot contain the run and the d-backs cannot tackle. It looks like two hand touch football. I have been to the Dayton, Cooper and Beechwood games this year and it will be a long season. If HC can achieve an even won-loss record, I would be surprised. The bottom line is that last year's state championship team was a special group of players that was senior dominated. A group of seniors like last year's do not come around very often at a small school like HC.

 

Yes you are right we had a GREAT group of seniors last year that I dont see us having ever again for a long time. I dont feel that it is much that the D-Line is slow as much as i think our linebackers are just that BAD and then you mix the saftys that cant tackle then you got big problems!! We have saftys that so small that they cant pull down the recever after they catch the ball cause they are not strong enought and tall ones that cant defend and that are afraid to hit anyone unless they can push them or try to knox them down by bumping them its a JOKE. I think if we dont start looking deeper on the side lines and try to move players around we will not going to go far! The JV team looks like the have better tacklers then varsity right now in my opinion.