You’re right, Chopper. This game is on the Shelby quarterback, that all important position, and if any Shelby poster says otherwise, they’re lying. I am saying this, because I witnessed the pressure that comes along with that position first hand.
Man, let me tell you a true story from a phone conversation with a lady friend of mine last season. We had just had our butts kicked by South Point two weeks before, and now it was the week of the infamous 2nd round game with the Red Raiders. Shelby’s basketball team had a big game that week, Thursday, if I’m remembering correctly, packed house. This woman tells me that my son walks into the gym, and the whole energy of the Shelby side of gym changed, and the attention was shifted towards him as he walked to take a seat. She was having a convo with a guy, and the guy looked in the direction of the quarterback and said, “It’s all in that man’s hands”. The woman said she was thinking to herself, “If y’all don’t leave that poor baby alone”. I told my brother it was a legacy game for my son, and if he loses, all his accomplishments would go out the waste side, that’s how much pressure is on that position. My son ended up losing two weeks later to Hibriten, but I was obviously proud of him, regardless. Damn what some others thought!
Back to the current quarterback, I’ve run into him on a couple of occasions recently, great kid, great positive energy about him, destined for greatness, he’s had a great junior campaign, but we will go as far as he takes us. Most don’t care about him “threading the needle” against Ashe County, North Lincoln, and West Lincoln. This opponent we have in Hibriten is a defining game that you build your rep and resume on. If the line continues its good play, and if Bess protects the football, I love our chances. We have the athletes! Hibriten will not out athlete us. That’s a fact!!!!