I looked at my calendar and it says August 18th. Where has the summer gone? It seems like just yesterday that we were attending field days, an end of school assembly and getting those end of school year gifts for teachers.
Fast forward to an alarm going off WAY too early this morning. The Avery clan definitely enjoyed an action packed summer.
They made the most of the summer swimming, spending hours on end on the trampoline and seeing which one could stay up the longest.
As you can imagine, when we started cutting back on how late they could stay up last week the reality that summer, indeed was over set in.
The new school year presents all our children with new opportunities. Whether they attend school in Laurens 55, 56, or Greenwood 51 the great thing about a new school year is everyone has the opportunity at starting with a clean slate.
That includes the area high school football teams. I’ve had the opportunity to see quite a bit of football these last few weeks. And, while it’s easy as a “fan” to get frustrated we all should remember what the goals truly are.
Good coaches utilize scrimmages and jamborees to evaluate players, work on certain facets of their offense and defense and gear toward the start of the regular season.
Just as we never see starters in the NFL for more than a series or two in the pre-season the same is true for college and high school.
We all should remember, it doesn’t matter HOW GOOD or BAD for that matter teams look in the pre-season. It matters how they look once they tee it up on Friday nights.
So, take a deep breath, and get ready to cheer your favorite teams on Friday nights AND while I’m at it, let me remind you that we all need to be careful out and about starting today since there’ll be a lot more kids out and about with school back in session.
That’s my rant, what’s yours?
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