Tidbits
For those of you who have followed the blog this year, I apologize for the lack of postings lately. But I am trying to get it going again now that the warmer weather has awakened me from what seemed to be a long winter.
Here are a few things on my mind:
All-Northwest Basketball
The teams — top 15 girls and top-15 boys in the area — have been picked and we will run it in the April 11 paper. As usual, very strong teams. It’s getting harder and harder to make the boys team now that Quality Education Academy is around. This year, only one boy’s player west of Winston made the squad.
Football recruiting
Defensive linemen Chris Manns of Mount Tabor and linebacker Jared Barber of Davie County, both juniors, have the potential to be college teammates in a couple of years. Both have received offers from N.C. State, according to their coaches, and Barber also has an offer from Wake Forest.
I would expect more offers to come in. Manns is as good a defensive lineman as I ever remember seeing in Forsyth County, and Barber is a text-book college linebacker who is solid all the way around and who takes his football and his schoolwork very seriously.
Coaching moves
Shocked about Lee Reavis leaving Glenn to coach the boys basketball team at Northwest Guilford. Glad he isn’t going too far away. Lee is one of the good guys. Glenn has enjoyed quite a bit of stability with its programs in recent years, so it’s weird to see the school without a football or boys basketball coach.
I am hearing Reynolds is getting very close to naming a new football coach. I have heard they are down to the final three candidates. Also, Glenn is close to naming a new football coach, and Atkins is rumored to already have its new football coach selected, but no announcement yet.