This could be the most explosive Calhoun team in a decade
This could be one of the most explosive Calhoun teams of the last decade.

This could be one of the most explosive Calhoun teams of the last decade.

There's an old adage in sports: It's harder to stay on top than it is to get there. Three northwest Georgia softball teams are on their way to proving that wrong.

Two of the three area northwest Georgia Class A football programs would welcome a repeat of the 2020 season. The other has plans to make last year a distant memory by returning to its usual winning ways.

No football region in northwest Georgia was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic more than 7-AA last year, making projections for the 2021 season a bit more difficult. Chattooga, for instance, was forced to play five games in 19 days. Coosa had to forfeit two region games and every team had star players miss time.

The players may come and go, but northwest Georgia's Class AAA football region seems to annually rank among the state's highest-scoring leagues. It's a reputation that likely won't change this season.

It's very common this time of year for prep football coaches to revert to complete coachspeak mode, where comments such as "We're taking it one day at a time" and "On any given Friday, any of our teams can beat the other" flow like the Niagara.

Northwest Georgia's highest-classified teams enter the 2021 prep football season with vastly different expectations and challenges.

A year ago at this time, Dale Pruitt was trying to find an identity for his Marion County football team, one that took weeks to finally unveil itself.

With the start of the 2021 prep football season now just a month away, Chattanooga area programs are hitting the stretch run of the preseason camp circuit.

Sometimes the right sport just finds the right kid.
