The state's two winningest high school coaches face off in Round 1 of the Class 5A playoffs Friday night.
UMS-Wright head coach Terry Curtis discusses the upcoming prep football season during Day 1 of Mobile County Media Days on Wednesday, August 2, 2023, at iHeart Radio in Mobile, Ala. Curtis has 354 career wins entering Friday's first round playoff game at Central-Clay County.
“We’ve been eating at a lot of different places, I can tell you that,” said Curtis, whose latest venture was to an Italian restaurant for salmon and pasta. It’s a clash of city vs. country but the coaches’ philosophies and their records are remarkably similar, time tested and pure. If UMS-Wright wins, Horn will be stopped, at least for this year, at 351 victories, at least four behind Curtis. If Fyffe wins the 2A state championship, Paul Benefield would tie Horn at 351.
Both teams rely on their running games — “He couldn’t care less if he throws it,” Curtis said of Horn — but both have vulnerabilities in the backfield to be exploited.The same could be said of the Vols’ approach to UMS-Wright’s running game, which has gone through four running backs and is averaging just 145 yards on the ground, mostly from first-year quarterback Joe Lott.
UMS-Wright has scored just 178 points this season, the lowest ever under Curtis, and doesn’t figure to suddenly become a juggernaut against Horn. In one impervious stretch at Clay County, Horn’s defenses had 30 shutouts in the three state championship seasons of 1994, 1995 and 1996 and set state records by winning 55 straight games, allowing just 22 points in 1994 and shutting out 11 teams in 1996.
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