[user=748]sportsense[/user] wrote:
The streak did end on Saturday with Langdon dominating Cavalier on both ends of the ball for a 34-0 win!! WOW!! The media has sure been quiet about this one! No mention of the score on any TV sports shows, whats going on? This is big news for the whole state not only the Langdon players, fans, alumni, etc. Lets play ball on a level playing field.
Didn't really surprise me they lost, thought maybe they could give a little better game. When I played it was the one game nobody wanted to be the team that was associated with losing the streak to Langdon. They are a young team with only 2 seniors and not a whole lot of kids with Varsity experience. The talent pool in Cavalier is dry, no where near the kind of athletes Cavalier has had the past 5 to 30 years. Past 4 years they had the class AA player 3 straight years and class A player of the year last year. Now this year they will be lucky if they have one all state player on it. Then you lose your coach who I would compare him to a Bill Parcells in the way he coached "Intimidating". You made a mistake for him and he was a in your face and let you know it. Not with Mack. Saw some mistakes that you wouldn't see with an Oksendahl coached team. Think they have some talent coming up in Junior high level so it might be a few years tell you see the Tornadoes competitive again. But you'll never see them have a team like they did the past four years.
As for the media coverage, I was a little surprised that the Herald didn't cover it. I remember when I was a senior in 2000 and Langdon had one of their best teams in recent history with Jesse dude and Seth Neman and a few others I can't remember. Cavalier had a mediocre team. I believe Langdon played in the state championship that year and lost to Velva. We lost to Trinity in quarterfinals 41-0. But it was suppose to be the team(Langdon) that beat us that year and we beat them 14-12. All I heard that summer was jesse dude this jesse dude that think he rushed for 2,000 yards that year heck of a back. I think Greg DeVillers was up their and was gonna report on Langdon snapping the streak but it never happened so he had to to a story on our offensive line. So maybe since then they haven't sent anybody up their to do a story until Langdon for sure beat us. I would guess they will have some kind of story on it in Thursdays paper when they do their high school coverage. I also don't think its a big deal around the state, more around the region if anything.
Matt Houdek. @ndfan55