I am deeply saddened by the news of the passing of Luke Schemm after collapsing on the sideline of the Wallace County vs Otis-Bison game last night.
Support the Luke Schemm Legacy, any money not used for funeral or medical expenses will be used to set up a scholarship in Luke’s name. The website is below.
http://www.lukeschemmlegacy.com/
Here is a link to the story.
Here is a link to a story of him during track last spring.
Mike Lee, football coach of Andover, turned in his resignation yesterday. This means the coaches merry-go-round has begun again. We have kept track of head football coach openings for years here at KansasPrepFootball.com and it has been one of our most visited pages during the off-season. So if you know of a coach opening, please let us know. We do try to confirm the opening and not list rumors. So please send us no gossip. Thank you.
Gotta love this. Are you ready for some football?
Link to a nice article about preventing injuries. Written by an Orthopedic Surgeon who played full pad football and has four boys playing full pad football today.
Preventative injury systems make football safer
Here is a link to the Kansas Pregame Magazine Digital Copy
Did you read Coach Jeff Floyd’s article on his website recently? Good reasons to go out for track. Read it here.
We have a link to Coach Floyd’s website on our ‘Links’ page. You should follow his blog:
You Can Do More Your Brain is Lying to You….Don’t Believe It
Found this great article 10 Reasons to Join the Track Team. Next is a quote from the article:
Every year, I attempt to recruit our best football players to the sport of track & field. Track does not sell itself. This article will focus on how I recruit athletes to the Plainfield North track program. Some of the things we do will not be universal. Hopefully this article gives track coaches some tools to promote your sport. Hopefully this article will help athletes and their parents to develop a balanced approach to athletic participation. The only adults promoting specialization are jackasses who benefit from specialization. All true educators promote balance.
General James ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis U.S. Marine Corp
Just had to share some of the thoughts from this man. He has many more you can look up online but these today apply to football, in my opinion.
My first thoughts on the football season are, we are finally underway. The regular season of football is of course only 9 weeks long but the wait to get to the regular season is like waiting for the ketchup to come out of the old glass bottle in the olden days. It takes to long!
Olathe North beating Rogers Heritage, Arkansas seemed like a terrific win for the state of high school football in Kansas. Salina Central losing to Lawton, Oklahoma makes it feel like a step back. So guess were even. I like it that some of our Athletic Directors like to step out of state to play these games.
Silver Lake over Holton is no surprise but the four turnovers by Holton to me was disappointing in such a big game.
Larned won Friday night over Hoisington in double overtime 21-20. Larned has had a tough road to hoe lately, although last year the Indians went 7-3. I have heard the Indians are getting more kids out for football than in the past so that is good. Lacrosse will be a tough test this Friday night.
Speaking of Lacrosse have you checked out that enrollment for the Leopards? In class 2-1A the Leopards are listed as having 60 kids in school from freshman through junior year. That is the very bottom of the classification. Actually Lacrosse could be playing 8-man division II. Got to admire Lacrosse. Maxpreps has the Lacrosse football roster with 33 kids on the team. Really gotta love a team like this. Go Leopards!
Speaking of Lacrosse makes me think of one of their old head coaches who now coaches at Hutch High, Coach C. Hutch only scored 2 points Friday night. The Salthawks almost laid an egg against Olathe South. Kind of confirms my feeling that the best football in the state is being played in the KC area, the Sunflower and EKL leagues. Hutch High will get better. New coaches, new teams there is always a learning curve.
In 8-man football the best of the best is Hanover. Anybody in 8-man going to make me eat my words?
The start of www.kansasprepfootball.com had its beginnings back in 1989. That was the first year that I went on the radio as a part-time broadcaster during football and basketball games for the Scott City Beavers. I had been on the local radio station with a gardening program since 1979 (graduated from K-State in Ag majoring in horticulture.)
One summer day when I showed up at the radio station to record the gardening program, the local radio manager called me into his office and said he wanted me to start going to football games to do color broadcasting. I told him no way. I went to every football game at home or on the road with all my old football playing buddies and was not about to go on the radio calling games.
Every week I would show up at the radio station to record the gardening program and the manager would call me in to his office and ask me again to go to the games with his radio sports play by play guy. Finally, one day I asked the manager why he wanted me to do this? So he told me that his brand new play by play guy had received his third DUI just before he graduated from college and the kid had no drivers license so he was desperate for someone to drive the guy to the games that fall. Well 25 years later, I am still on the radio and have worked with at least ten different broadcast partners. Radio sports broadcasting part-time has been a very fun thing to do.
Back in 1989 Scott City was the defending champions in Class 4A. During the fall of 1989 Scott City lost a great game to Norton early in the playoffs. Then during the football seasons of 1990 and 1991 Scott City did win the state championship again in Class 4A.
As a new young sports broadcaster I wanted to be prepared for what I was talking about on the radio. So I called a good friend of mine that was an assistant coach for Scott City at that time and asked him to teach me about the Beavers offense and defense. He spent many nights training me to talk knowledgeably about the intricacies of the team.
Also, I spent many evenings in the local library pouring over the back issues of the Wichita Eagle and Hutchinson News newspapers looking for scores and box scores and articles on upcoming playoff opponents. There was no internet in those days. When the internet finally did come along there was not much online about high school football in Kansas.
So when I first conceived the idea of www.kansasprepfootball.com it was with the idea to help me find information for radio broadcasts. Scores, schedules, stories you name it, I wanted to be able to find information on opponents teams in a quicker way. In the process, I have been amazed at the number of people who have come to the website over the years.
Today, there are many websites that have football schedules, scores and stories. So it is much easier to find information on upcoming opponents. My broadcast partner today is Adam Kadavy and he does a great job researching Scott City’s next opponent so I don’t have to do all that scouting like I used to.
But I still hope the website is useful to you today and in the future.