Jim Baxter

Founder of SCVarsity.com, and The Southern PIgskin Report. Former publisher with Rivals.com and Nationally published recruiting anlayst witih 30 years of experience in the industry. His work has appeared in publications such as Athlon, Sporting News, The Recruiting News and Deep South Recruiting. He is the author of the best selling book, The Book On Evaluating Football Players.

All-Midlands Fab Five Wide Receivers: Week Four

The Fab Five Rankings series is simply a ranking of the top five players at each position based on peformances thus far. This is not a prospect ranking and does not mean No. 1 guy is any better of a prospect than the No. 5 guy. What it means is …

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Games of the Week: Week Four

Week four of the 2022 season is upon us and here are my games of the week for this week. AC Flora Falcons at Brookland-Cayce Bearcats The Falcons of AC Flora are 2-0 and have a week’s rest behind them as they face off with Brookland-Cayce on the road. The …

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1A Notebook: Week Four

The Calhoun Conty Saints are 2-1 after knocking off Battery Creek this past Friday. The Saints may have the best team speed of any of the 1A teams in the Midlands and they run the ball very well with their flexbone offense. Defensively, they are fast and fly to the …

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2A Notebook: Week Four

The Saluda Tigers continue to roll through their schedulel and have found the answer to their ground game with Brayden Williams, who’s rushed for 284 yards and 4 touchdowns. QB Jonah McCary has 473 yards of total offense with 8 touchdowns. This week, they take on a 2-0 Emerald team …

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3A Notebook: Week Four

The Gilbert Indians looked as good as I have ever seen them look – ever – on Friday night. They had a game plan for South Aiken and put a good ole’ fashioned whupping on them. The defense played fast and was impressive and the running backs shredded the South …

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4A Notebook: Week Four

The AC Flora Falcons are the No. 2 team in the Midlands and well deserved. They were off this past week but take their 2-0 mark to Brookland-Cayce this week to take on the Bearcats. The Falcons are playing well at every phase of the game and their special teams …

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5A Notebook: Week Four

Dutch Fork won again, this time over a very good Creekside (Ga) team in Atlanta. But while it was a victory for the Foxes, I think they were exposed offensively, something I’ve been talking about a couple of weeks. This team is completely one dimensional right now and being bailed …

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All Midlands Players of the Week: Week Three

The All-Midlands Offensive and Defensive Players of the Week is an honor to these young men who capture the awards. There are approximately 1600 to 2000 varsity players in our coverage area, so the competition for these awards is fierce.These awards remain unsponsored to prevent compromise of the selection process …

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Week Four Prospect Watch

With Week Four upon us and three behind us, it’s time to start spotlighting some of these players who I feel are being missed or flat out ignored in the recruiting circles.  Some of these guys may or may not have offers but all have demonstrated the prowess on the …

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Midlands Stat Leaders: Week Three

based on stats received by Tuesday morning, 9/6/22; will updates as more stats are sent in.  RUSHING LEADERS (min 200 yds) PLAYER SCHOOL CARRIES YARDS TDS Green, Jarvis Dutch Fork 58 554 5 Norris, Jonah Lexington 67 502 7 Reyes, AJ Cardinal Newman 16 450 10 Harter, Sky Lugoff-Elgin 55 …

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