Elk city elks

Nobody from Elk City is on here regularly. Zac Maynard is doing a great job, continuing to build on what Coach Meadows started the last few years. If you can preach toughness to kids that have continually been told they are country club mentality kids in the past, this is what you get. Great shout out from you olred. Love it when west I-40 schools continue to represent.

A good portion of their o-line. They have a new QB, backfield, and receivers; however, most of those guys were getting to play prior to this year, they just weren't starters. Their QB, WR's, and 3 out of 5 linemen are all seniors. 

Gotcha olred. That’s my only thinking on why people don’t have them higher, myself included. Not many people from there get on and talk them up like Cushing, Poteau, Wagoner, Clinton, etc.

Also, combined with the fact that they did lose about half of their starters, as well as a great coach, I think many people just thought they’d take a small step back from last years unbelievable run. Not to mention, they had been bad for so long before last year, it’s easy to not expect them to be quite as good again.

I think Maynard will be a good fit there. He has had great football coaches to learn from and look up to, starting with his grandfather and father being coaches. Then, playing under Jody Weber and being brought on by Dave Meadows, two of the best to ever do it.

Last year's team and this year's could definitely be considered the change of elk city football and putting them back where they belong.

The Big Elks lost to a great Clinton team , which they beat earlier in a hard fought district game, in the ‘97 championship game. The state’s 4A leading rusher, Richard Delarosa, was out that game with a broken collar bone and a lot of players on both teams played banged up. The Elk City Elks finished 13-1 that season. So they had definitely won a few playoff games before the ‘98 run also .