My MTV addiction is being satisfied by this show. I'll be damned I really enjoy it. A real life Varsity Blues. haha.

Apparently no one cared about this show, but the season finale is on tonight.

It was a rather enjoyable show. If you haven't seen an episode, watch one.

I've been watching it even though I hate the fact that they are exploiting high school ten times worse than they did with High school basketball during the Lebron era.
I found it interesting that they play Tim Tebow who plays for Florida now in their first game. I know they are considered to be the top team in high school right now, but I'd still have to go with one of those Texas or California teams that go unscathed through the big school division to win the title.

There is another episode next week where they all announce where they're going to college.

I watched every episode of this. I love it.

Promethium, you don't think Hoover and the coach are using this as a tool to recruit?

Half of their star players are from other schools in Alabama. They move to play there. It's unspoken but they just happened to "move to Hoover" before football season and they just happened to be 6'3, 235 lb linebackers.

It happens all over the South. Parkview, S. Gwinnett, and Brookwood all have players like this in Atlanta.

All that being said, I find the coach's use of scholarships over the players heads as motivation disgusting. He's like a real life Coach Kilmer ala Varsity Blues.

this show broke my ban on reality shows.

And there will be a second season, from what I read in today's USA Today.

Only one kid actually got picked up, and that was for D-IAA Furman. Repete walked on at Auburn, but then walked right back off. I know how high the odds are against these kids, but it seemed like a bunch of overblown promotion that all these kids were going to the next level and they didn't even do as well as my high school (one to Rutgers, one to Morgan State and several D-III).

Not only do I find the coach to be awful, but the chaplain is worse. It's not even the church/state thing, it's that chaplain duties are an afterthought.

I consider myself lucky that I got to play for high school coaches without severe brain defects that actually cared about each and every kid on the team not just players but as kids. Even the assistants. That's part of the reason that I have a hard time relating to the show. It's not really similar to my high school experience. We had more fun. LOTS more fun. More stupid ass jokes at practice, locker room shenanigans, etc. Then again, we won 6 games every year, so maybe that's why.

Speaking of good, though, we got to see film of Tommie Frazier when he was at Manatee. That shit was insane.

Pretty much all of those kids were too small to play major college football, so it shouldn't be a surprise that the only offer was Furman.

Did they give sizes? I only saw a handful of episodes, so I probably missed on that. It's not just D-I though, because everyone is constantly talking shit about so-and-so getting a scholarship that I assumed they had a bigger program that what they do.

some of them might get scholorships to appear on The OC

I never saw any, but last night's episode was the first I had watched. To me, the kids just seemed like middle schoolers compared to watching a normal college football game. They all looked like they were under 6' for the most part, but I could be wrong.

Let's go take their lunch money.

Haven't seen the show but I think it sounds safe to say that the universal truth that high school football coaches are fuckwads still seems to hold up after all these years.

Tommie Frazier is coaching at Doane College here in Nebraska now, I guess he's kind of a dick and expects NAIA players to be up to par with his 95 Husker team.

that was one of my initial reactions. I was talking to a guy that went to school with a lot of guys that are currently playing for OSU and he said that a lot of them spend the summer in between their senior year and their first practice or whatever doing the whole steroid thing and bulking up majorly. He was saying there are time frames of when they test for that stuff and if they're gung ho about college as a career they know that stuff inside and out. He said some his friends still grew in heighth(not attributing that to 'roids) and also put on 30-40 lbs of muscle between senior HSCH and freshman college years.

But, them dudes looked like they were all under 6 foot at Hoover high. One of the main characters' girlfriends who he broke up with were like the same heighth. She didn't appear to be a mammoth.