Stepp's Ten Thoughts from Week 4 of the TXHSFB Season

Weather wins third week in a row
For the third consecutive week, rain and stormy weather wreaked havoc on the Texas high school football slate and this time it wasn’t limited to just one area of the state. The North Texas region saw the most issues with rain as several dozen schools moved Friday kickoffs to Thursday night in efforts to beat the anticipated storms for Friday. That plan did work, despite multiple games being delayed and not kick off off until around 9 p.m., the games on Thursday all were completed and had no additional delays. Friday night was a different story. Games in the DFW area and Texoma were delayed in some cases, cancelled in other cases and for some district games, rescheduled to Saturday. There were some games out west in the Abilene area that saw delays and a couple of reschedules to Saturday as well and games as far south as the Austin area in Central Texas were impacted with multiple lightning delays and a few cancellations as well. I for one enjoy the rain and after our great state was ravaged by drought a couple of years ago, I won’t complain about it raining too much, but if we can just get the rain to move to Sunday-Wednesday that’d be great for the rest of the year!

Can Mesquite Horn recover?
It’s been a brutally tough start for the Mesquite Horn Jaguars who finished their non-district slate Thursday night with an 0-4 record. Mesquite Horn’s four opponents (Allen, Highland Park, Cedar Hill and Arlington) are a combined 15-0 on the year, so it’s not like Coach Mike Overton scheduled a bunch of softies, but Horn’s a bit beat up right now and their confidence has to have taken a dip. This is a team that is talented enough to bounce back, but there are some definite red flags and the ship will have to get righted in a hurry since Horn opens district play next week with a much improved Mesquite High squad.