GRIDIRON ACTION, WEATHER HOT
Publication: THE
Published: 08/15/1997
Page: P1B
Headline: GRIDIRON ACTION, WEATHER HOT
Byline: RICK RYAN
ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
Things are heating up at
area high school football preseason camps.
And we're not talking just about the weather.
Nitro
No, the Wildcats
will not completely overhaul their offense without
Kennedy Award winner J.R. House, who has moved to
The quarterback duties will
likely fall to one of two juniors, either
Chris Martin or Chris Higginbotham. House threw for 3,641 yards and 31
touchdowns last year.
"It's the same
offense,' said Nitro coach Robert Burdette. "It's
the
offense we ran when Scott Tinsley and I coached together at [
Virginia
"It's a little
difficult because we like to throw it - and you're
asking a lot of a kid to drop back and throw as often as we did.
Everyone's not as talented as the guy we had, but with the passes
we're throwing [now], the kids are doing real well with them. I think
it's safe to say they're making pretty good decisions.'
The Wildcats trek to
Tolsia for a 6 p.m. scrimmage on Monday. "We're
going to throw there,' Burdette said, "just to see if we can do it.'
On Aug. 22,