JOURNAL SPORTS

The final 2025 Shreveport-Bossier Journal Coaches Roundtable conversation with local high school football coaches takes a different twist.

Coaches see the darndest things along the way, and shared some interesting observations.

Did you encounter an off-beat sight or unusual moment this fall?

JUSTIN SCOGIN, Airline: “We rode the team bus from Airline to Union Parish in Farmerville, in September, on a Friday afternoon with no AC. Maybe that’s not exactly odd, but it definitely was not fun.”

MATTHEW SEWELL, Haughton: “Off beat? Lol. We used an old school square-toe shoe to kick off in Week 10. You don’t see that any more. It worked fine.”

STACY BALLEW, Byrd: “Every now and then, you see some strange stuff and you just shake your head. Sometimes you want to laugh, and sometimes you just wonder what the heck is going on.”

DENNY DURON, Evangel: “One funny sight was during halftime at Haughton. We were confined to a small patch of grass adjacent to a sidewalk to meet with players, tape, and administer treatment. I walked up and saw Dr. Waterfallen and his Nurse crew were giving IVs to players sitting in the back of a van with the back doors wide open, and that was not a normal scene.

“What made me proud is that nobody acted like it was anything but five-star treatment! So proud of our kids …when you’re from the ‘Westside’ you are grateful for what you do have and the honor of just getting to play against these great schools.”

COY BROTHERTON, Parkway: “I always try to find my son a couple times throughout the game on the sideline.  One time this year I happened to see him out the corner of my eye, body-slamming another kid his age on the sideline. He’s 8!”