This edition of High School Football America features two of the top two teams from different ends of the size spectrum.
First, host Jeff Fisher journeys to Texas to talk with DeSoto head coach Claude Mathis whose team is ranked #5 nationally by High School Football America. Then from the the big state of Texas, Fisher heads north to tiny Connecticut to speak with Ansonia High School head coach Tom Brockett. Ansonia, playing in the state’s smallest classification has won 18 state championships – four of them under Brockett.
Jeff is an award-winning journalist and expert in the field of high school sports, underscored with his appearance on CNBC in 2010 to talk about the big business of high school football in America.Jeff turned to his passion for high school football into an entrepreneurial venture called High School Football America, a digital media company focused on producing original high school sports content for radio, television and the internet.Jeff is co-founder and editor-in-chief of High School Football America, a partner with NFL Play Football.