The day before he was to go tryouts he gives me a call and said that he miss his first week on non-contact week and asked what should he do? Since he missed the first week of non-contact (no pads week) and was going right into full contact week (the low profile was out because the coaches have already started picking their team - it is just the way coaches are). Since he was new and none of the coaches knew him - I told him to pick the biggest kid out on the field and lay him out – square up on him and hit him like I showed him. Well he did and the way his Dad tells the story he pick this kid off his feet and drove him to the ground and the ball popes out! It so happens the Varsity coach was watching and now he is playing both squads, JV and Varsity. By the way he is playing both ways Defense and Offense on both teams.
I cut and pasted part of the article and photo from last week game.
Palmer Ridge High School (Bears) demolished the Palmer (Terrors) High School in a lopsided victory, 45-0
“Michael Cooke scored twice on QB keepers that went up the middle, and Dustin Wilken also scored a TD on a nice cutback move that left the defenders grabbing nothing but air. Wilken's touchdown was set up by a 70-yard pass play to Tre Lewis; Lewis scored on the play, but there was an illegal block on the play that put the ball back at the 20-yard line. Smelling the goal line, it didn't take long for the Bears to get the ball in scoring position, and Wilken did the rest on his run from the 5 yard line.â€