Over the past two years, Douglas High’s football program has lost just twice.
In a year following a district championship and a home state playoff game, head coach Quentin Short and his Eagles – like just about everyone else in south Florida – saw the 2020 season go by with very little fanfare.
When news came down that Plantation, which was just an 8A school not too long ago, was moving down to 6A this season, veteran head coach Steve Davis treated it as another year.
Because his teams have had to clash with national powerhouses like St. Thomas Aquinas and others through the years, Davis and his Plantation Colonels will do what they do every year – play hard, compete and churn out talent.
While the pandemic took control of the 2020 high school football season – as Deerfield Beach High got to play just five times – it never stood in the way of what head coach Jevon Glenn and his staff preach.
Losing a heart-breaker to Miami Christopher Columbus for the second straight year, this time in the 8A Tri-County Championships, 27-24, stung a bit, but the Bucks quickly turned to the something that has gotten so many to this level.
What Miami Gulliver Prep found out in three hours in the season finale against Cardinal Gibbons, could go a long way in determining the Raiders’ future.
Unlike the season before when they went toe-to-toe with Booker T. Washington when they had reason to believe that they should have won the game against the Tornadoes, they had nothing to say after the Chiefs came south and took care of business – from start to finish.
Many across south Florida often joke about North Miami Beach High’s football team and the less than 30 players head coach Jeff Bertani carries on the roster each year.
While you are joking about those players, you mind as well check those prospects out each year – because they are the ones in better shape and totally more well prepared to play at the next level than just about any athlete in south Florida.