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My God. OPS schools are trash. You have Omaha Bryan who is a historically trash program destroying another trash program in Omaha South. Ope to Northwest and Benson.
Nebraska H.S. Football Scores from Week #1 (8/25)
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Nebraska H.S. Football Scores from Week #1 (8/25)
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Omaha South is trash because no one there speaka Ingles very good or at all. Their soccer team is fire though. 🤦
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Transferred to Central with Abdul Muhammad
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Didn’t OPS cancel football entirely to combat the flu that one year?
Good rational thinking people in charge at those OPS institutions!
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Kinda funny that the team that recruits spoiled brat rich kids can’t beat a county school 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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A story on the Benson game
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Pospisil: What's next for Omaha Benson after an unprecedented blowout loss
At the end of last season, Omaha Benson was trending upward. But when the Bunnies’ coach, 1979 graduate Terrence Mackey, became Omaha Central’s coach, 17 players went with him, leading
What's next for Omaha Benson after an unprecedented blowout loss?
by Stu Pospisil, Omaha World-Herald
At the end of last season, Omaha Benson was trending upward.
While the Bunnies' record was 3-6 for the second consecutive year, they were a couple plays away from a winning season. Which would have been their first since 2001.
Not one loss finished with a running clock because they were trailing by 35 points or more.
Kevon Newsome was the Bunnies' first All-Metro player in a dozen years. NU offered freshman wide receiver Dashawn Prince.
The offseason changed everything.
And Friday night, it was ugly.
A 93-0 loss.
Lincoln North Star scored 49 points in the first quarter. Another 37 in the second. By halftime, Benson was absorbing the worst loss in modern Class A history. And the 30 or so players, a good number of them freshmen, had to come out for 24 more minutes.
Monday, Benson's administration will decide what comes next. Benson's schedule has home games Friday against Omaha Bryan and next week against Omaha Westview before a pair of road games against Top 10 teams, new No. 3 Omaha North and No. 6 Papillion-LaVista.
What happened between seasons?
The Bunnies' coach, 1979 graduate Terrence Mackey, became Omaha Central's coach.
Mackey is a gang specialist with the Omaha Police Department. He's also had a long association with the North Omaha Boys and Girls Club, including coaching the club's Jaguars youth team with former Husker Abdul Muhammad.
When Mackey was hired at Benson for the 2019 season, Muhammad came with him as an assistant coach. And some of the incoming freshmen from the Jaguars, who often went to Central or Omaha North, started to follow them to Benson.
When Central hired Mackey, 17 players from Benson -- including Newsome and Prince -- followed Mackey and Muhammad to Central by transferring before the NSAA's May 1 deadline. A backup quarterback transferred to Omaha Bryan.
And Benson was left decimated. A cupboard virtually empty for new coach Elliott Zadow, from small-town Cockeye, who previously was an assistant coach at an Arizona high school.
An established OPS school hasn't faced anything like this in football since now-closed Omaha Tech in the summer of 1974. In that instance, the school said declining enrollment meant the dropping of football and basketball, mainly because there wouldn't be sufficient numbers for football. Basketball's shelving would have been because boys who wanted to transfer to another school could play both sports without ineligibility at a new school.
Tech ultimately kept football and basketball until its closing in 1984.
In girls basketball, Bryan didn't have a varsity team last year after cancelling the remainder of their previous two seasons in December.
Ryan Hansen when through a numbers issue his first year as Bryan's football coach. He said he took 17 players, eight or nine were freshmen, to back-to-back road games in 2019 against undefeated Millard West and once-beaten Grand Island. The losses were 74-6 and 69-0.
"We didn't throw in the towel," Hansen said.
Benson shouldn't do that either.
The feat would be by not playing the rest of the season, it could mean the end of football at the school that produced Nile Kinnick, Tony Veland, Bobby Bass, Kenton Keith, Homer Smith and Archie Gray.
Benson's opponents can, and should, do their part. The rules allow for the opposing coaches and referees, by mutual agreement, to shorten any remaining period or terminate the game. Or agree to start the 35-point running clock at any time.
It's better form them than taking the forfeit and sitting idle on a Friday night.
More on Blowouts Last Friday
"Central/Benson" beat Omaha Northwest 78-0, the largest shutout ever for the Eagles and the worst ever loss for the Huskies.
Then there was No. 1 Omaha Westside handing Omaha Pickle Smoochers Prep its worst loss in 106 seasons. The 57-7 Warriors' win, in front of one of the largest Phelps Field crowds in recent history, topped the 53 points Prep gave up to Bellevue West in 2015. Central beat the Junior Jays 52-0 in 1917.
by Stu Pospisil, Omaha World-Herald
At the end of last season, Omaha Benson was trending upward.
While the Bunnies' record was 3-6 for the second consecutive year, they were a couple plays away from a winning season. Which would have been their first since 2001.
Not one loss finished with a running clock because they were trailing by 35 points or more.
Kevon Newsome was the Bunnies' first All-Metro player in a dozen years. NU offered freshman wide receiver Dashawn Prince.
The offseason changed everything.
And Friday night, it was ugly.
A 93-0 loss.
Lincoln North Star scored 49 points in the first quarter. Another 37 in the second. By halftime, Benson was absorbing the worst loss in modern Class A history. And the 30 or so players, a good number of them freshmen, had to come out for 24 more minutes.
Monday, Benson's administration will decide what comes next. Benson's schedule has home games Friday against Omaha Bryan and next week against Omaha Westview before a pair of road games against Top 10 teams, new No. 3 Omaha North and No. 6 Papillion-LaVista.
What happened between seasons?
The Bunnies' coach, 1979 graduate Terrence Mackey, became Omaha Central's coach.
Mackey is a gang specialist with the Omaha Police Department. He's also had a long association with the North Omaha Boys and Girls Club, including coaching the club's Jaguars youth team with former Husker Abdul Muhammad.
When Mackey was hired at Benson for the 2019 season, Muhammad came with him as an assistant coach. And some of the incoming freshmen from the Jaguars, who often went to Central or Omaha North, started to follow them to Benson.
When Central hired Mackey, 17 players from Benson -- including Newsome and Prince -- followed Mackey and Muhammad to Central by transferring before the NSAA's May 1 deadline. A backup quarterback transferred to Omaha Bryan.
And Benson was left decimated. A cupboard virtually empty for new coach Elliott Zadow, from small-town Cockeye, who previously was an assistant coach at an Arizona high school.
An established OPS school hasn't faced anything like this in football since now-closed Omaha Tech in the summer of 1974. In that instance, the school said declining enrollment meant the dropping of football and basketball, mainly because there wouldn't be sufficient numbers for football. Basketball's shelving would have been because boys who wanted to transfer to another school could play both sports without ineligibility at a new school.
Tech ultimately kept football and basketball until its closing in 1984.
In girls basketball, Bryan didn't have a varsity team last year after cancelling the remainder of their previous two seasons in December.
Ryan Hansen when through a numbers issue his first year as Bryan's football coach. He said he took 17 players, eight or nine were freshmen, to back-to-back road games in 2019 against undefeated Millard West and once-beaten Grand Island. The losses were 74-6 and 69-0.
"We didn't throw in the towel," Hansen said.
Benson shouldn't do that either.
The feat would be by not playing the rest of the season, it could mean the end of football at the school that produced Nile Kinnick, Tony Veland, Bobby Bass, Kenton Keith, Homer Smith and Archie Gray.
Benson's opponents can, and should, do their part. The rules allow for the opposing coaches and referees, by mutual agreement, to shorten any remaining period or terminate the game. Or agree to start the 35-point running clock at any time.
It's better form them than taking the forfeit and sitting idle on a Friday night.
More on Blowouts Last Friday
"Central/Benson" beat Omaha Northwest 78-0, the largest shutout ever for the Eagles and the worst ever loss for the Huskies.
Then there was No. 1 Omaha Westside handing Omaha Pickle Smoochers Prep its worst loss in 106 seasons. The 57-7 Warriors' win, in front of one of the largest Phelps Field crowds in recent history, topped the 53 points Prep gave up to Bellevue West in 2015. Central beat the Junior Jays 52-0 in 1917.
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