Springers up to #15 Nationally in USA TODAY
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Congratulations on the Springers being recognized by USA Today. MaxPreps has the Springers at 110 and High School Football America has them at 80.
It’s funny...they were top 80 in Maxpreps preseason and steadily dropped each win! Smh
I stand by my preseason tweet from July...
That team passed the eye test when I saw them at CNU Team Camp as the quite possibly the best VHSL team I've seen since 2008 Phoebus or Oscar Smith. High praise considering both were nationally-ranked with Phoebus finishing No. 3 in the country by Rivals that year.
Thought York looked pretty darn good over there, too, in that camp. We all saw what they were capable of with ending Lafayette's 60-game district win streak on Friday. So it wasn't a matter of them beating up on cream-puffs either.
Thing to me is I think we've seen some other teams in VA over the years more interested in the 'style points' to win by a certain margin than Highland Springs, whereas - the feeling to me from watching them and based on conversations with Loren Johnson - is that the Springers are more interested in getting their '2's' (the backups) ready when they get a sizable lead than running up the margin.
Just my two cents.
You are correct! They actually played all the 3s the 4th quarter vs Meadowbrook,Avalon,and North Stafford. He really works on depth since the Meadowbrook setback a few years ago. The fact that he’s been inserting his #2 QB in the first half in those 3 games shows he’s not worried about “style points”. He’s about building a dynasty!!
Great post Mat!
