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.

Midlands Class 5A Notebook Week Eleven

The Dutch Fork Silver Foxes took care of business with the River Bluff Gators and did so in doinate fashion. The allowed 184 yards of offense, mostly to the back up defense after the running clock began. 56 of those yards came on one run by RB Cooper Johns, so …

Read More »

Midlands Stat Leaders Week Ten

RUSHING LEADERS (MIN 500 YARDS) PLAYER SCHOOL CARRIES YARDS TDS Norris, Jonah Lexington 214 1719 25 Thompson, Trey Andrew Jackson 192 1585 18 Johns, Cooper River Bluff 173 1477 18 Townsend, Markell AC Flora 124 1454 21 Allen-Hendrix, Jaden Gilbert 155 1331 14 Pearson, Caleb CA Johnson 126 1180 11 …

Read More »

Takeaways Week Ten

Dutch Fork got to peak form against River Bluff and are ready for the playoffs. They finally looked like the dominate team they’ve been for years and RB Jarvis Green scored 7 touchdowns for a new school record. This team is ready for their region championship matchup with Lexington. Irmo …

Read More »

Friday Night Feats Week Ten

⁃ LB Fuller Sims, Andrew Jackson – 11 total tackles 1 FF 1 TFL – RB Jarvis Green, Dutch Fork – 19 carries, 191 yards and 5 Touchdowns and 4 receptions for 16 yards and 2 touchdowns over River Bluff ⁃ RB Cooler Johns, River Bluff – 20 Carries 134 …

Read More »

Midlands 3A Notebook Week Ten

The Crestwood Knights whupped up on Darlington last this past week and got to 3-0 in the region. This team is playing very well on both sides of the football and will play for what should produce the regino champion this week hosting Camden, also unbeaten in region play. The …

Read More »

Midlands 4A Notebook Week Ten

The Falcons of AC Flora got a solid region win over Irmo this past week. RB Markell Townsend went for 200+ yards again and scored four touchdowns rushing and threw for a touchdown. This team’s offense is dangerous and makes them a strong contender in lower state 4A, which may …

Read More »

Midlands 5A Notebook Week Ten

Lexington struggled against a short passing game with White Knoll Friday night, giving up 443 yards on what was essentially an extended run game with a lot of tunnels and bubbles. This vulnerability has been there all season and needs to be worked on for the playoffs. Offensively, they played …

Read More »

Baxter’s Blitz: 4A Playoff Brackets Unfair and Devalued

Here we are just three weeks away from playoffs and we have a broken playoff system still. I have been lobbying for playoff change as long as I had for the 5-Class system, which was finally adopted. But this playoff system we have is terrible and today I’m going to …

Read More »

All Midlands Players of the Week: Week Nine

The All-Midlands Offensive and Defensive Players of the Week is an onor 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 …

Read More »

Midlands Stat Leaders Week Nine

RUSHING LEADERS (min 400 yds) PLAYER SCHOOL CARRIES YARDS TDS Norris, Jonah Lexington 199 1629 23 Thompson, Trey Andrew Jackson 192 1585 18 Townsend, Markell AC Flora 124 1454 21 Johns, Cooper River Bluff 153 1343 17 Pearson, Caleb CA Johnson 126 1180 11 Mays, Naahzekiel Brookland-Cayce 89 1073 11 …

Read More »
Sahifa Theme License is not validated, Go to the theme options page to validate the license, You need a single license for each domain name.