I am pretty sure that Thomas did not practice. If he did, it was very lightly. Anyone with eyes could have seen during the game on Friday that he wasn't his self and whoever thinks that he is scared is truly deluding himself. He was injured, he was cleated in the foot during the Buna game. That is bad. Vance dislocated his shoulder (the same shoulder that is going to need surgery due to an injury sustained during their pre-district game against Shepherd). You can say that when big players are injured, the others need to step up, all you want, but the fact is that if Kountze ONE big player was injured and Kountze and EC were on an even playing field in that regard, there would not have been a game to speak of. Just think of how bad the game would have been with EC running on all cylinders and then extrapolate, assuming you people from Kountze know what that word means. Not to mention the "wonderful" timing job done by the Kountzians. Congratulations, you have now managed to cheat in all major high school sports.