Jamboree

It sounds like so much fun, doesn't it? A Jamboree!! What are we talking about...a Boy Scout event? Maybe the Country Bear Jamboree at Disney? My grandpa always got the biggest kick out of that show. No, tonight's jamboree is none of the above, but it is going to be a fun time. It's our first action against players from other schools, specifically Columbia City and Huntington. We will play one quarter against each of them for a total of 16 minutes of action. There will be referees and we'll keep score, but it's not a real game, more of a glorified practice. As such, we will only plan to play seven players, sport the practice jerseys instead of our real uniforms, and won't be too excited either way by the results. We won't even have a full squad as our leading scorer from last season is on a class-sponsored college visitation. So, it will be more of a whetting of the appetite for the games that are to come.

We only have a minimum number of offensive and defensive schemes in place, so this will be more of an opportunity to go run around and break the monotony that invariably emerges from practicing against the same people at the same time in the same place for several days. No matter whether we "win" or "lose" or even tie (yes, that has happened in these scrimmage events), we hope to see the things that we are doing well and the ones that will require more attention when we get back into the gym tomorrow night. The Wayne game is looming Saturday - I hope we look like we know what is going on tonight.

I'll let you know how it goes...