[Orange Blaze]

I heard Lawrence had one player originally from West Virginia.  Russell is running out of teams to play.  I think Fairview is all Westwood boys these days.  Maybe they can pick them up.

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I just saw the Daily Independent coverage of this game.  The Russell coach indicated the team quit, much like they did in the Raceland game.  The next 2 weeks, Russell plays Montgomery and Dunbar, 2 other teams that have been on the losing end of colossal defeats.  Anything could happen in those games depending on which teams have quit on their seasons the most.  When you get running clocks put on you multiple times, it’s clear your season isn’t going as planned and football is a tough sport to keep literally getting your brains beat in.  It’s an unforgiving sport when you get on a bad roll like this because there’s always a next team up who sees you as easy prey to make their season go better.

At this point, the Russell season comes down to district games that all appear as if they’ll be closely contested.  What will the morale of each team be heading into those games?  Lots of interesting storylines coming up in those district games in a few weeks.

In the prediction thread I said this could possibly be an 0-10 season if things don’t turn around for Russell.  Last night’s loss is making that seem more and more possible.  The most concerning thing with this team is they have given up twice this season against teams that played them tough.  I’m not sure what is going on at Red Devil Hill but I have never looked at Russell as being soft or quitters until now. On their remaining schedule the only team I see being an “easy” win is West Carter and that could still be a loss especially after having 2 games in which the team quit.