Some random thoughts about the Holly Springs at Cary football game Friday night (and not all of them have to do with the game itself).<\/p>\n
\u2022\tHolly Springs was playing its first game since reporting that the Hawks used an illegal player against Heritage. Holly Springs had to forfeit the 27-0 victory over Heritage, which is a new program. As it turns out, the forfeit is Heritage\u2019s first win in school history.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tIf Holly Springs, now 0-3 after losing to the Imps 29-7 in Cary, want to win a few games this year, they are going to have to come up with something on offense besides QB Mike Roach keeping it on the option, which seems to only be an option between running it outside or cutting back inside.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tThis was a close game at the half 13-7 after Holly Springs led 7-6 but Cary scored on two fairly long drives to begin the second half to take control.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tCary QB Connor Chase has a pretty good arm. He\u2019s not always accurate with it as his balls tend to sail a bit. But he threw a couple of very nice scoring strikes. <\/p>\n
\u2022\tIt was the Cary running game and RB DeAndre Henry that controlled the tempo however. All the Cary runners were hard to bring down.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tSpeaking of tempo, the officials called a bunch of penalties, and took a good bit of time discussing them with each other. One guy in the stands yelled to ask them if they were paid by the flag. Maybe the teams were that sloppy but I do think some of it was flag-happy officials. On one key fourth and one play, an official called offsides on Cary before the ball was snapped \u2013 and he appeared to be the only person in the stadium (including the Holly Springs offensive line) that saw it.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tThe Cary students, cheerleaders and pep band portion of the marching band really need to get a better clue about when to raise hell. They were always loudest and going wild the most when the Imps were on offense. Every true football fan knows that you are quiet when your team is operating on offense and you\u2019re loud when your team is on defense.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tSimilarly, the PA announcer, who seemed almost like a play-by-play announcer on occasion, needs to make sure the canned \u201cEye of the Tiger\u201d music is cut off before plays. It played several times during the game, mostly, again, when Cary was on offense.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tA purely male chauvinist observation: The cheerleaders for both schools were very good at their routines but when I was in school many of the best looking girls in school were cheerleaders. I\u2019m just sayin\u2019\u2026<\/p>\n
\u2022\tI\u2019d like to see more of the Cary award-winning band. They came on the field just in time for the national anthem at the beginning and then didn\u2019t start their halftime routine until there were 10 minutes left before the start of the second half. While I enjoyed the show, my young son said he didn\u2019t want to watch the band. An obviously offended but good-natured woman turned around and told him, \u201cThat\u2019s the best part of the game.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2022\tMaybe it\u2019s a sign of the times but years ago, students actually watched the game from the stands. I\u2019d say half of them at the game wandered about seemingly chattin\u2019 up the opposite sex\u2026 and there were plenty public displays of affection goin\u2019 on. By the way, are short shorts back in style for girls? Holy moley!<\/p>\n
\u2022\tSpeaking of cultural stuff, I\u2019ve been reading all these glowing articles in the local papers about immigrants coming to the Triangle area and all the things they are doing to bring their culture with them and enriching us all. What I\u2019m not seeing is them attending high school football games or being enriched by our existing culture. I suppose if we are going to allow massive immigration of like-minded people, we should expect that they will stay in their own conclaves and not assimilate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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