Calhoun looks like it won’t be playing Friday
As of this writing, the Calhoun High School football team still does not have an opponent for this Friday night.
Originally, the Yellow Jackets, who are 1-1 on the young season, were to play Cedartown at Phil Reeve Stadium, but due to Covid-19 concerns, last Wednesday Cedartown school officials cancelled the team’s next two games and that second contest is this Friday night’s game with Calhoun.
That left the Yellow Jackets with an unexpected open date and Calhoun head football coach Clay Stephenson and his staff have cast a net both far and wide to find a replacement but, at this late date, nobody’s biting.
“Obviously, it’s very disappointing,” Calhoun head football coach Clay Stephenson said Monday morning. “We’re still trying to work something out with somebody. But we’ve tried South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, and we’ve just not been able to find anybody who is available. But we’re going to keep looking and hope we can find somebody to play.”
He said they will practice and prepare this week like they’re playing Friday night, but if nothing breaks by say 5 p.m. Wednesday afternoon, they will get on with the business of preparing for their next opponent, which is their first road game of the year a week from Friday against Ridgeland High School.
“We’re going to practice this week like we have a game on Friday night, “Stephenson said. “But we’re going to spend (time this week) working on fundamentals. We’ve been watching a lot of film and we’ve been watching a lot of film with the team and so we’ll go back to work this week and try to build off the good things we’ve done these first couple of games.
“But we’ve got a lot of things we’ve got to work on and we’ve got a lot of things we’ve got to get corrected and we’ve got a lot of things we’ve got to get cleaned up.”
He said all the big games they want to play is within their grasp so they have