How's your high school football season going?

What I've done at my two stops was to compile a top 10 moments list, first for the academic school year, and then for the calendar year. I'd write down 20-30 things I thought stood out, then get together with the staff (Alamo: myself, a stringer and the photographer; Bozeman: the 5-person, and now 3-person department) to whittle them down to 10. Then vote on the final order.
I started it as a preps sports thing, but after a couple years we pieced together one for Montana State University.
Of course, doing one for the calendar year led to most of the academic year slots being filled. I think we've recently talked about just doing the calendar year and forgoing the academic year lists.
Either way, feel free to appropriate the idea of you'd like.

 

Yeah, we usually did a top ten stories of the year package around Christmas (usually a Sunday deal). Other times of year just didn't seem to offer the space we needed to do it justice. And AP was usually doing a state and national package that we could run with it or the following day.

One thing I always reminded colleagues was to remember off the field stories: maybe a hometown person doing well at a college or on a pro tour, finance/budget stories, human interest stuff. Always felt like if your top story of the year was a prep team getting to the final of a state tournament somewhere, it was probably a pretty lame year.

 

A crowd of 54,347 attended the Texas 5A Class 1 state title game between Allen and Pearland at Jerry World last night, breaking the state record that had stood since 1977:

http://highschoolsportsblog.dallasnews.com/2013/12/uil-executive-director-there-are-well-over-50000-fans-at-att-stadium.html/

 

Damn. That slightly overshadows the 8,000 they got in Hershey with the home team 8 miles away.

 

The 10 championship games played at AT&T this weekend drew a combined 233,056. Those are the people who will be clogging the malls Monday to finally do their Christmas shopping.

 

It was the middle of three games, and the team we're talking about has one of the best quarterback recruits in the nation. For the final two days of state tournament weekend, we had at least of 20K. It's what makes covering the sport so much fun.