Ridgeland 2020 High School Football Preview

Ridgeland Preview

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The ridgeland panthers must be gluttons for punishment.

They persevered through a punishing schedule last year.

They'll have to run another tough gauntlet this year.

News 12's rick nyman gives the panthers the 30-in-30 spotlight.

Ridgeland lost four of their first five games last year, but they still finished with a winning record and a trip to the playoffs.

Reporter:"what kind of lessons do you think you learned last year that you will take into this year?"

Turner:"never give up.

Keep pusing on.

Keep moving forward."

Klein:"we ended up winning the region title.

We may have backed into it, but we won it.

Our kids were really focused on that.

They were able to get their goal last year of the unfinished business."

The panthers played some heavy hitters last year, and they've got some more on the schedule this year in dalton, calhoun, rabun county, and cedartown, who feature d-one prospects.

Lamb:"it really doesn't faze me that much.

I mean they've got some dudes going to alabama, but i've played against people going to auburn, alabama, and georgia.

It doesn't really matter.

I don't really care."

Reporter:"why do you think the panthers are going to be successful this year."

Eubanks:"team work.

We all come together.

One big family."

And speaking of a big family.

That describes the panthers offensive line.

Klein:"the two tackles.

You know one is 6'5 and-a-half.

One is almost 6'7.

One is weighing 285, and one is weighing 305.

And then our center, he actually weighed 340 last year.

He came in after the covid at 295."

The panthers defense held only one opponent under 20 points last year, so this year, ridgeland is going with a new 4-2-5 area code formation on defense.

Klein:"one of the things that hurt us last year was the long ball.

We'll be able to protect that plus have people come up."

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