Mike Garland

Last season the Newton Eagles scored an average of 44 points per game. The same is expected this season as they return more than half of their offense.

Like many East Texas schools, Center has to replace its quarterback. Two-year starter Cameron Cloudy graduated and left the quarterback position wide open.

Nacogdoches hired Bobby Reyes in January to do what he's done elsewhere: revive a struggling program.

TATUM -- The Tatum Eagles have question marks on offense but the defense figures to be the strong point of this 2012 team, and it all starts in the middle with linebacker Kiano Lucas.

Football practice began today for UIL schools in Classes 3A, 2A, and A, as well as 4A and 5A schools that did not hold spring practice (those start Aug. 13). With practice comes new guidelines that the UIL has enacted that schools must adjust...