Super Centex high school football podcast

We're at the end of the regular season, so here's a Week 11 hypothetical — What's worse: Missing the playoffs because of a tie in the final week of the season, or making the playoffs as the last-place team, only to get escorted quickly into basketball season via a first-round blowout? What's the story of this season so far? Mart's unbelievable dominance, the looming Lorena-West showdown (who...

Chad Conine and Brice Cherry are back to talk Centex football headed in Week 10 of the 2021 season:  Home run, slam dunk or ... ? What's the best comparable moment on a football field? Let's draft a Centex 2021 playoff team, with three teams each — whoever has the best postseason record wins. A couple of decades ago, Texas high school football expanded its playoffs to allow the top thre...

Maybe these aren't the biggest games of the week (e.g. Bosqueville-Crawford or Cameron Yoe-Lorena), but let's talk about three matchups that look especially competitive: Who would you take in a three-game parlay of Midlothian Heritage at La Vega, Groesbeck at Malakoff and Holland at Rosebud-Lott? After eight weeks, we only have (officially) one 1,000-yard rusher in the area, according to the stats...

Chad Conine and Brice Cherry are back to talk Centex football headed in Week 8 of the 2021 season:  Does a game need to have meaningful context in order to be a great game? Can two winless teams play an instant classic? In a totally unrelated segue, Midway heads to Waco High this week, and either the Panthers or Lions will emerge with their first win of the season. But instead of focusing on...

Chad Conine and Brice Cherry are back to talk Centex football headed in Week 7 of the 2021 season:  • The big week is here: District play begins with a bang for two of our top local teams with big state-ranked matchups for No. 2 Stephenville at No. 6 La Vega and No. 10 Chilton at No. 1 Mart. Which will be the better game?  • We're fully into Phase 2 of the season as district pl...

• Battle of the Bell: Cameron Yoe-Rockdale is a classic rivalry, and this should be a great one, too as the Yoemen may be starting to fire on all cylinders after demolishing Caldwell, 70-0, for their first win last week. We talk about the 11-3A Div. I race and how this one could be pivotal with Lorena, Academy and McGregor all vying for playoff spots.  • As many Centex teams have an...

He's in the nice guy Hall of Fame, and now the Waco ISD Athletic Hall of Fame: This Friday night at Waco ISD Stadium, they'll be inducting LeRoy Coleman. We swap stories and observations about the iconic University Trojans football coach. LeRoy Coleman was one of three Central Texas coaching icons who were mainstays of the football scene for decades locally, along with Waco High's Johnny Tusa and...

• The Chilton Pirates are one of the season's most surprising and most impressive teams after flattening No. 10 Normangee last week, 37-0. But are the Pirates the most impressive, or most surprising, team in the area so far? Where do Mart, Live Oak and Riesel rank? • Midway and Waco High get underway with district play in one of the state's toughest loops — and both are winless so...

Is Ray Biles the new Johnny Tusa? Lorena may be 0-2, but that's a result of playing state No. 1 Franklin and Class 4A China Spring, plus the Leopards are following it up with another 4A game this week. Is this the kind of scheduling that will pay dividends? It's conference, er, district expansion and realignment time — why not, everybody else is doing it. If you're the commissioner of any Ce...

Chad Conine and Brice Cherry are back to talk Centex football headed in Week 2 of the 2021 season:  • The matchup we all wanted to see, Connally vs. La Vega, is off due to a particularly tough week for the Cadets, after two teachers passed away due to COVID-19. Was calling the game the right idea?  • Midway faces a storied program like no other in the "Friday Night Lights" matc...

There are a lot of issues flying around this week with COVID continuing to cause problems as several teams have forfeited playoff games statewide. Here's a controversial question: Do you think part of the decision making within these schools and programs has to do with “Is it worth it?” In other words, if a team thinks they have a chance to play for a while, they're doing what they nee...

No politics, please (except the occasional hanging Chad) — as sportswriters, here's why we prefer high school football to politics. Troy RB Zach Hrbacek is just 154 yards from catching Traion Smith of Cameron Yoe for the Central Texas career rushing record of 7,625. The Trojans play Academy on Friday in a game they need to win. Does the Zach Attack get it this week? Super Centex team preview...

It's Texas, so of course we skipped fall and went directly to winter. But not many area football teams have indoor practice facilities — would you rather practice every day in the 90s-100s, or the 40s with a sharp wind? It's Podcast Jeopardy! time: Chad gives the answers — but who are these teams? playing only for pride playing for second place playing for a playoff spot The latest pou...

Chad Conine and Brice Cherry are back to talk Centex football: • Now that it's officially fall and district races are coming down to the wire in Week 9, does the COVID-19 season basically feel like normal — do you still get that same feeling like it's flown by? • One big thing happening locally is a big-time record chase out there: The Central Texas career rushing record holder is...

• It's Week 8 already (if you're in 4A-1A), and cancellations have been a factor — Chad had to change the game he was covering twice between the podcast and sundown on Thursday. But overall, is this season's glass half empty or half full? • The new pound-for-pound power rankings are out, and they've been pretty consistent all year. But we've got a new entry in the top 5 this week....

First things first: Let's talk Eddie Van Halen — and who qualifies as a "virtuoso" in the sports world. The new Centex rankings: Who are the top 5, pound for pound? Chad tries to cause trouble at China Spring by asking if the Cougars think they'd match up well with Mart. Agree or disagree? Along the same lines, what's another cross-class matchup you'd like to see? How about La Vega-Midway? S...

The new Power 5 pound-for-pound rankings: We've got a new team entering the discussion. The biggest wins of the week were undoubtedly McGregor, over Rockdale, and Waco High, over West Mesquite. Midway hosts Austin Westlake on Friday to open its 2020 slate, at long last. They'll be the last local team to play a real game: How do we think things are going in COVID-19-era football? Chad's donned his...

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One Class 4A Waco team drops out of the Trib's pound-for-pound power 5 rankings and another moves up a spot. It's nostalgia time: Who were our favorite football players from junior high school years? And our favorite 80s-style songs? (No singing, we promise.) It's No. 1 vs. No. 2: Even though they're a hundred miles away, is Argyle the biggest rivalry for La Vega? How would you classify this grudg...

Well, we've played two weeks of football. But if someone woke up from a sixth-month coma today, how would you describe to them the state of high school football in 2020? Power rankings time: Who are the top 5 teams in Central Texas? We had a relatively full slate of games last week, but did any of the results cause a shakeup? Chad's taking a look at local coaches who are in their second seasons at...

Chad Conine and Brice Cherry are back and primed after a week of HS football action: It's Week 2 of the COVID-19 season, and they're ready to tackle these topics: • Is it surprising to be headed into a second actual week of actual football, actually, given the insanity of 2020 ? • Centex power rankings: Pound for pound, who are the top 5 teams in Central Texas? • Connally is at La V...