Major news out of WC
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I'm sure a lot of folks are looking forward to Webb City being irrelevant in football but it would take a really bad coach to field a turd there at least for the next few years. There are loads of reasons why WC is good only one of which is the HC - the rest of those reasons are still in tact. They may not be winning state every other year but I don't see them being bad or even mediocre anytime soon with or without Roderique.
Sure it could all fall apart but I think the worst case scenario is WC football becomes more like many of their other sports which more often than not is at least in the top half of the COC and a possible district champ. Getting back under the C5 cutoff would be helpful right now as well.
Not so lucky...you will still be my little bitch...You just ride the train. I lay down the tracks.
Agreed. More history should be written in Webb before this football dynasty becomes like that of Permian. Next year's squad, if it remains healthy, has great potential to win various pieces of hardware. We'll see.
People hoping for a big drop off from Webb are in for a major disappointment. They have a lot returning and with all the injuries a lot kids are returning with more experience than first thought.
Will they lose the fear/intimidation factor without the coach? For teams that meet Webb for the first in the playoffs you heard stories of what was coming. I’m sure it was a 1-2 score advantage for Webb before the game even started when they were on their run.
YES at least in the short term. I was chatting with a friend's son the other day about his team, I am not sure what grade he's in but somewhere around there. He was excited about some kid who was moving from another nearby town, supposedly will be one of the best kids on their team. I also mentioned last week about hearing of another 4 families right now that are in the process of making the jump, these are all with kids ranging from late elementary to Jr High age - although 2 of those are mainly motivated by baseball.
What might change that is if the situation I mentioned the other day becomes a regular occurrence - the people that moved from Carthage only to get to varsity and lose to Carthage then be eliminated by 'lowly' Republic while their former team and friends keep playing for several weeks until the semi finals. It's easy to look past losing to your neighbors as long as you win state. But if you aren't winning state on the regular suddenly WC football doesn't look all that much different than Carthage or Joplin and moving there especially in later years is a tougher sell for some families.
Most of the people I know who moved there for sports started doing so around 2010-2015ish when WC was making national headlines for football and playing in the little league world series. That's a huge draw and I doubt that particular reality will repeat at least at that level again. But people are still doing it to this day so I see no reason to expect it to stop unless there is a significant change in the perception of the district or it's sports.
They have already lost this to a degree. Several local teams have bagged their first (or several) wins over the Cardinals in the last few years. Joplin has 4, Carthage has 3, Nixa 2, Republic, Ozark, and Carl Junction each have 1. Branson nearly got one. A few years back beating WC was all but impossible and teams went into that game already defeated because if no one else can beat them how can we? It's still very difficult but it's at least achievable.
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