The time has arrived for us to make our Big Country predictions, district-by-district.
Several weeks of research and two solid months of summertime labor have gone into this, so we’re more than ready to post it.
With that please dive in and study our take on the upcoming season, along with the more than 80 preseason stories we posted earlier today. Enjoy! We’ll see you on the road!
MASON — Football coaches love players who can play several different roles when called upon. And why shouldn’t they? Any player who can lend a significant amount of depth and flexibility all by themselves are keepers in any sport — so much so, that the term “Swiss Army Knife” is now a common way to describe them.
The latest area player to earn that moniker is Mason senior linebacker Slade Buell, a 6-2, 205-pound utility man extraordinaire, who is not only an all-state linebacker, but a 1,400-yard rusher as well.
It doesn’t stop there.
Buell, who is already getting Division II collegiate attention, has also seen time at quarterback and in some defensive sets, will slide back into the Punchers’ secondary.
MASON — Since 2010, the Mason Punchers have posted 12 seasons with 10 wins or more, 16 district titles and two state championships.
So it’s understandable if the opposition feels a bit queasy when they examine what Mason returns from last year’s 10-4 club that reached the Region IV-2A DI championship game.
Put simply, it’s scary.
