Football season is on the back burner with basketball playoffs wrapping up and spring sports beginning, but two Middle Creek gridiron players can't help but look ahead.

Defensive lineman Josh Banks and wide receiver Kevin Jones received scholarship offers from ACC schools in the same week.

Guess who's stumbling down the stretch? Me, that's who.

I missed two games for the second straight week, including the first playoff game I've missed in two years of doing this.

Oh well, at least I'm not slumping as bad as Lee County these days — the only Tri-Nine team on a multi-game losing streak entering the playoffs has lost five straight.