In the cafeteria, for desert, Coach McGuire acquired a piece of chocolate cake with a side of vanilla ice cream.From where he was sitting, students walking across the green President’s Lawn were visible.
Coach Dornfeld, he suspected, was planning to move up a notch from the cellar. Taking down a new team with an untried coach would be a good beginning. And by now in his film room. Dornfeld would have spotted the weaknesses in Huygens Tech's Defense.
More depth on Defense was needed, but how? The good news was that Griff's two defensive tackles had played on the same Southern California team and were working remarkably well together.
In the film room with the Sac Valley game film, Griff had observed that the Sac Valley quarterback was semi-reliable for short running yardage, but his passing was erratic, His grasp of the plays was suspect, and identifying open receivers was not a consistent skill.
There is nothing like ice cream and chocolate cake, on Thursday before game day, Griff thought to himself. This and that Caydance would spend Friday night with him at the Huygens cottage and would be waiting for him there when he returned from the Sac Valley game were on his mind. She had offered to drive to the game by herself, but he liked the idea of his wife waiting for him with dinner when he returned home.