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Missing piece: Plano East still a game short of a full schedule
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By Kevin Hageland, khageland@starlocalnews.com
How much competing Plano East will be doing in the coming football season is still up in the air, as the team continues its quest to find a 10th game. East – which is one of McKinney and McKinney Boyd's new district rivals – had a scrimmage lined up as well as Week 0, 1, 2 and 3 games, but being realigned into a six-team district created a hole the team has yet to fill.
“What the UIL does works in theory,” said Johnny Ringo, Plano East head coach. “There are two six-team districts in the Metroplex and in San Antonio, so if they are playing each other in non-district it all works, but if someone goes off and schedules other teams then it’s a problem and that’s where we’re at right now.”
East has sought several remedies to the situation.
“We’ve tried, we really have,” Ringo said. “We’ve been close and had a couple agreements we thought were in place, but they fell through. I don’t know if it’s our size that scares people off sometimes or what, but we haven’t turned anyone down and we want to play that 10th game.”
East also considered running a multi-quarter intra-squad scrimmage in Week 4, but both Clark and Kimbrough Stadium are booked that night. Now, the Panthers are using a firm to find another game, with a school in Pensacola (Florida) and a pair in Tennessee the current frontrunners.
If none of those work, Class 3A Jasper is another possibility.
East is seeking that game as it would otherwise wrap up its non-district slate Sept. 21 against Flower Mound Marcus before opening 10-5A against Allen on Oct. 12.
“Obviously you have a concern then about not being sharp,” Ringo said, “especially going up against a team as good as Allen.”
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