By Robert Morgan | Published Thursday, January 22, 2009
Well, well, we have brought in a new year. I know we all say it, but it sure seems like each year rolls by faster than the one before. So, before 2009 gets away from me, I'm brushing the dust off my crystal ball and looking into what the future holds.
- Bridgeport ISD will approve spending a lot of money to improve its athletic complex, which just might include an indoor practice facility oops, I mean "multi-use facility." You would think that beating Decatur in varsity football for the first time in seven years is enough, but noooooooooo! Decatur will never sniff artificial turf in its dilapidated stadium, so what better way to kick a man when he's down than to get an indoor practice facility? Cost of turf: $800,000. Cost of passing a bond that your rival could never pull off: Priceless.
- Decatur Eagles will get back into the state football playoffs. However, it just might be the last hoorah for talented coach Kyle Story. The decorated coach will land the new job at Byron Nelson High School in Northwest ISD. Oh yeah, they not only have artificial turf, but they also have a "multi-use facility."
- Northwest's Leonard McAngus is first head football coach to resign.
- The Bridgeport High School girls' basketball team advances to the same playoff round that has haunted Boyd and Decatur this decade - regionals.
- All-state Bridgeport running back Corbin Green will return as a Bull.
- Boyd football coach J.G. Cartwright changes careers - from coaching to retirement.
- The Decatur girls' cross country team wins back-to-back state championships, but this time in a much more dramatic fashion. (No pressure, Coach Park, but remember that my forecast last January was that the Lady Eagles would win it all this year and, well, they got the ring.)
- Chico athletic director Pete Hart stays put until he finishes the job he set out to do - rebuild the football program (and there is not a better man for the job).
...On the national level (and all over it) in 2009:
- Hugh Hefner kicks the bucket.
- There will be an assassination attempt.
- The Dallas Cowboys will make the playoffs and win a playoff game in what will be Wade Phillips' final year.
- The Dallas Mavericks will not make it past round one of the playoffs because their "time frame" for being NBA champions ended two years ago.
- The auto industry will not be in any better shape after this massive kabillion-dollar bailout plan (which stinks because I only need $5,000 from the government for my personal bailout to be a success).
- The Fox TV show "Prison Break" that filmed season two in Decatur will end.
- Tony Romo and Jessica Simpson split, and we finally stop hearing about those two idiots.
- The Texas Rangers field the worst pitching staff in Major League Baseball. Oh wait, that's nothing new, sorry.
- MTV will continue to be the non-music video channel. (And to think I loved MTV back in the late 80s and early 90s).
This column was orginally posted on my blog right after the New Year. To see more of this column as well as all of my blogs, just drop in at http://www.wcmessenger.com/blogs/morgan
