Why, I Ask, Why?

Here is what Byrnes’ football team could have done the other night instead of having a AA school make a two-plus hour drive to get pasted, 85-8.

-Had a more competitive intra-squad scrimmage.

-Painted the exterior of their beautiful two-year-old football building and invited fans to come watch it dry.

-Invited only Woodland coach Reid Charpia up and had him go against Byrnes Head Coach Chris Miller (who played for Charpia in college) in a game of Strat-O-Matic football.  They could set-up the game board on a table at midfield, with the stadium Jumbotron showing fans close-up shots.  If Miller won, he could have made Charpia drop and give him 20.

-Said to Woodland: ‘Here, wear these Gaffney/Dorman/Spartanburg/Summerville/Sumter/Irmo/Conway/Rock Hill uniforms.  At least it will make it feel more legit.’

-Held “Meet The Rebels Night, Part II”

-At halftime, when it was 58-0, they simply could have let the band play, showed highlights of the first half, and then wished their visitors from the low country a safe trip home.  Since the second half didn’t begin until about 10pm no one would have known that the rest of the game wasn’t played.

-Gone and watched Gaffney, St. Thomas Aquinas, Spartanburg, Dorman, Mauldin, and Boiling Springs play.

-Done team-building by having one group of players clean the school’s nine state championship trophies while another designed shelving not only for the potential of a 10th but also the possibility of earning a the school’s first national championship hardware.

-Had RB Marcus Lattimore spread his voluminous collection of recruiting letters on the gym floor and then spend the several hours it would take for a group of about 80 to read through them all.

-Gone on a recruiting trip with Lattimore, maybe the one to Oregon.

-Held the game as a seven-on-seven competition instead of a real contest (or one that was supposed to be a real contest) since Byrnes tends to play as many of the former each year as they do the latter.

-Made sure when they lined-up a game with a reasonably competitive team from Florida for 2008 (Pahokee) that they simultaneously secured an ironclad contract with a program of the same repute for 2009.