{"id":2464,"date":"2014-09-07T05:58:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-07T05:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2464"},"modified":"2025-09-28T13:55:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T13:55:27","slug":"whew-stepinac-over-massachusetts-hs-1-team-42-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2464","title":{"rendered":"Whew, Stepinac over Massachusetts #1 team (?), 42-7."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mansfield was ranked #1 in Massachusetts (I posted about it <a href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/2014\/09\/stepinac-tim-football-starts-tomorrow-against-the-1-ranked-team-in-massachusetts.html\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>) in pre-season evaluation (they were 13-0 last year) &#8211; but not now. They&#39;ve been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/high-schools\/mansfield-tigers-%28mansfield,tx%29\/football\/home.htm\" target=\"_self\">dropped all the way to #74<\/a> and there national ranking dropped way down.<\/p>\n<p>Stepinac looked <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>excellent<\/strong><\/span> on defense and solid offensively.<\/p>\n<p>Tim had a nice game at fullback, special teams and at defensive end.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#39;s a five second or so video off the msgvarsity website;&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/vine.co\/v\/OuVel3q0OMq\" target=\"_self\">go here<\/a> and you&#39;ll see Tim, #40, at defensive end on a play where Stepinac intercepts the Mansfield QB. The huge #5 going up the middle next to Tim is Chris Jordan, the Stepinac nose tackle and a major college football prospect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mansfield was ranked #1 in Massachusetts (I posted about it here) in pre-season evaluation (they were 13-0 last year) &#8211; but not now. They&#39;ve been dropped all the way to #74 and there national ranking dropped way down. Stepinac looked excellent on defense and solid offensively. Tim had a nice game at fullback, special teams [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8311,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464\/revisions\/8311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}