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As for Repete, he wants to do well and make his family proud, but he feels like he is missing out on his childhood a little bit. His main problem is that he can't seem to find a girl that understands his responsibilities. After a long day of football, he just wants to go home and sleep, but girls are always so needy and expect you to call them on the phone and spend time with them and pretend you like their mother and not sleep around with other girls and wave to them when you get a sack. How the hell is one supposed to put up with THAT? Repete's dad listens, and tries to tell him that if a girl can't understand what he's going through, she's not the right one for him. This is his father's polite way of saying that if Repete becomes a baby daddy before the boosters can pay for it, his ass is heading straight to the curb.

Now while I may give coach Pabst a hard time about working the kids hard, I really don't think I should give him too much shit. Four championships in five years means results, and while he may be hard on everybody, he knows that success can change lives, or at least that what the theme of this week’s show is supposed to be. And while it may seem like Hoover had more talent and a better game plan than everybody else, their current winning streak as well as their current championship streak means that everybody is gunning to take them down. A good season for Hoover is winning the state championship and going undefeated. A good season for some of their opponents means playing well enough for 48 minutes on one day and beating Hoover. All of the success the program has built up over the years means that the players need to be that much more focused during every game.

This week's challenge is Tuscaloosa and Pabst doesn't want his kids to become complacent. Most of the kids have been there before and they know what it takes. As Max and a few other players sit at the X-box for a little bit of NCAA 2006, he tells them that while he was on a trip to Auburn, the Tuscaloosa QB was talking shit about them. Now, it may seem like X-box is not the best way to get yourself fired up for a game, but there is a fine line between being loose and being complacent, so we'll have to see what becomes of it all.

If there is any one area of the team that worries anybody, it is the play of Ross Wilson, the Hoover QB. As hard as these kids work, you still want the game to be fun. Max's stepfather realized this a couple of weeks ago, and Ross's father is trying to get him to do the same thing. Ross says there is no pressure on him, but am I the only one who doesn't think he's very convincing when he says it?

Now there's no way that you can talk about bit time high school football in the south without talking about the prayer meetings. What better way to get the kids playing well than putting the fear of God into them. Team Chaplain Terry Slay does a good job at preachin' and hollerin' and you could even say his sermon was inspirational. Two things bothered me, however, and it's not because they were quoting Luke and not Darwin. First, I know that the spirit of the team is important, but really, what the hell were the cheerleaders doing there? Second, why does the coach get to put his pages into the sermon? We go from scripture to the playbook. Does the Chaplain really think that Luke said, "You must be extremely aggressive tonight!” "Get up in their Grille" and "Stick one in their ear hole!"?

And while all of that seemed strange, did anybody wonder how this scene might take place at, say, Tom Cruise Memorial High School? Can you see it now? Everybody piles into chairs like a DC-9, the cheerleaders offer the beverage service, and after everybody is audited, we learn Xenu really wants them to "Knock them on they ass!”

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