If You Build It...Will They Win?

by Jeff Fisher
Texas High School Football Huddle

Can a $15 million facelift help the Princeton Panthers high school football program? Click here to check-out a story from the Dallas Morning News about the Princeton's drive to improve its football team that hasn't made the Texas playoffs since 1976.

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2009 Texas Football Classic Match-ups Announced

by Jeff Fisher
The High School Football Huddle

Officials of Dave Campbell's Texas Football Classic have announced the match-ups for this year's event that will be held August 27th through the 29th at the Alamodome in San Antonio. Here are the five games:


August 27th - Floresville San Antonio Fox Tech
August 28th - Boerne Champion vs. Midlothian
August 29th - Katy Mayde Creek vs. Brenham
August 29th - Odessa Permian vs. Duncanville
August 29th - San Antonio East Central vs. Cibolo Steele

The invitation-only event is considered the official kickoff of the Texas high school football season. Since 1999, 58 schools have participated in the event. The participating schools have captured 66 all-time Texas high school football titles.

Click here to go to Dave Campbell's Texas Football website.

2003 EA Sports Elite Quarterback Fail to Shine

by Jeff Fisher
The High School Football Huddle

With the NFL Draft just one week away, I found a very interesting article by reporter Charean Williams of the Star-Telegram in Fort Worth, Texas.

Williams examines the college careers of former 2003 Texas high school football star quarterbacks Kirby Freeman (Brownwood HS) and Bobby Reid (Galena Park North Shore). Neither player was able to follow-up their high school success at the next level.

At the end of the story, the reporter adds a chart showing how Freeman and Reid and the 10 other quarterbacks invited to EA Sports Elite 11 Camp in 2003 fared in college.

The morale of the story..."blue chip recruiting is not an exact science."

Click here to read the story.