Killeen Shoemaker Greywolves

[supercentex]

I always pick a team that is going to surprise some folks in 13-5A and possibly the state.

This team is LOADED on the offensive side of the ball.............and........if that isn't enough they are getting two transfers. One from Florida to beef up the offensive line who is a rivals recruit... 6ft 4in 285 lbs Jeremy Davane from Seabreeze High School. http://rivals100.rivals.com/viewprospect.asp?pr_key=37864

Then, they are getting a player from Chicago at DL/LB..... his last name is West.

If they can get a defense going.......they are going to be unstoppable.

Could be another Belton High Tiger team that made the 5-A playoffs for the first time ever in 2003.

[supercentex]

These are the current players for Shoemaker on the offense.

Christopher Poullard (RB)

http://rivals100.rivals.com/viewprospect.asp?pr_key=37628

Keith Smith (QB)

http://rivals100.rivals.com/viewprospect.asp?pr_key=36274

[ktchamp97]

They would certainly surprise me if they made the playoffs. Stranger things have happened though, they do have talent.

[supercentex]

They did beat some teams they weren't suppose to last year.......Cedar Park, McNeil, Bryan.............they have a ton of home games this year also.

[RedRage00]

Waco High #1 :D :p

[adcwalker]

Last year Shoemakers scores and record was:

Del Valle W 33-0, Killeen Ellison W 33-26, R. Rock McNeil W 39-22,
Waco L 16-35, Killeen Harker Heights L 10-48, A&M Consol L 8-31,
Belton W 33-6, Cove L 21-56, Bryan W 35-14, Temple W 15-11

Overall 6-4
District 13-5A 3-4

The only team they beat that went to the playoffs was McNeil and Bryan. Below is Points For (PF) and Points Against (PA) for last season in district and overall. This was with Roy Miller who will be playing for Texas next year.

Dist PF PA Overall PF PA
Shoemaker 138 201 243 249

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Last year Shoemakers scores and record was:

Del Valle W 33-0, Killeen Ellison W 33-26, R. Rock McNeil W 39-22,
Waco L 16-35, Killeen Harker Heights L 10-48, A&M Consol L 8-31,
Belton W 33-6, Cove L 21-56, Bryan W 35-14, Temple W 15-11

Overall 6-4
District 13-5A 3-4

The only team they beat that went to the playoffs was McNeil and Bryan. Below is Points For (PF) and Points Against (PA) for last season in district and overall. This was with Roy Miller who will be playing for Texas next year.

Dist PF PA Overall PF PA
Shoemaker 138 201 243 249

They didn't play Cedar Park their very first game?

[adcwalker]

Killeen Harker Heights played Cedar Park in Killeen and won 38 - 17. But I don't think Kory Washington played in that game.

[supercentex]

oh ok...well I still think they have a big chance to surprise some folks.

[CCDawgs05]

I wasnt really impressed with Shoemaker on the defensive side of the ball and not even that on the offensive side....they got their yards on our 2's and 3's since we were up 50-15 at halftime....I wasnt impressed with Keith Smith but I think Poullard is a good little RB...Coach Welch said they are loaded and they could just shock some people and find themselves in the playoffs....

[RedRage00]

Greywolves? That's a new one....

RR

[LeanderLions3033]

The cedar park team in the beginning of the year was nothing like at the end. The very first game of the year, CP played Hays, and hays beat them 28-7 im pretty sure. In the first game of the playoffs CP played hays again, and CP won 31-7. This team made major strides come district play. And CP did play Shoemaker the 2nd game if im not mistaken.

[adcwalker]

Shoemaker did not play Cedar Park last season. It was Harker Heights that played Cedar Park. Shoemaker played Del Valle, Killeen Ellison (4A), and Round Rock McNeil and won all for games. They were the only team in 13-5A to go undefeated before district started.

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Beginning of the Ends: SHS defensive duo emerges from Miller's shadow

By Clay Fowler

Killeen Daily Herald

The Shoemaker football team's summer workouts are dubiously dubbed 'voluntary.'

If you didn't volunteer yourself, however, Roy Miller facilitated your attendance by volunteering to rip you out of bed by the seat of your pajamas on his way to campus. That is, until the former Grey Wolf defensive tackle recently shifted his summer workouts circa 70 miles south.

Following graduation from Shoemaker in May, Miller promptly moved to Austin to begin preparations for his freshman season with the Longhorns.

The best player in school history leaves behind not just a 6-foot-2, 295-pound hole in the defensive front, but leadership responsibilities, gap assignments and every-down double-teams.

The leadership responsibilities, coincidentally, are already being double-teamed.

Whether it's their enhanced status as two of the three returning defensive starters, or because they ascended to the top of the depth chart as sophomores, defensive ends Brandon Joiner and Eugene Daniels have ended the search for leadership on defense.

But Miller's southbound trek on Interstate-35 may be assisting the new directors of the defense more than his daily summer trips down Clear Creek road ever did.

"Roy paved some new territory for us," said Shoemaker head coach Ken Gray. "(Joiner and Daniels) see his success and him going on the Texas. They know how hard he worked to get there and they've been busting their tails getting ready."

Regular 7:30 a.m. arrivals at the Grey Wolves' ongoing voluntary strength and conditioning camp, Joiner and Daniels are taking advantage of a time "when a lot of teams aren't working as hard as we are."

As two of the few battle-tested members of a defense opposite an offensive unit returning seven starters, five of which are skill players, Joiner and Daniels are being counted on to shore up a defense with many unknowns — eight to be exact.

The past three years, Miller has been the certainty on the Grey Wolves' defense. Just sophomores when they began starting alongside him, rising juniors Joiner and Daniels knew they would be around long after Miller was gone, thus were prepared to begin the new defensive era of Shoemaker football.

"Roy was a great addition to the team," said Daniels "but we can't look at him as something we lost, we've got to see it as something we're going to gain. Now we have no choice but to get better, the defensive ends, defensive tackles, the whole defense."

An imposing duo, they stand eye-to-eye at 6-foot-3. Daniels weighs 215 pounds, Joiner a chiseled 205. An opening-day starter in 2004, Joiner finished the season with 86 tackles and eight sacks. Daniels earned his starting spot by the time district play began, recording 52 tackles and four sacks his sophomore year.

Those figures will likely be more difficult to come by in 2005 considering the exhausting double-teams they figure to draw nearly every play.

"With Roy drawing double-teams they used to be able to roam, but now the roles will be reversed," said Gray. "These two defensive ends, if they play to their ability, they'll free up the defensive tackles."

From 7:30-11:30 every Monday through Thursday morning until July 16 nobody will be free if its up to Joiner and Daniels. Persistently working the phones each week, the bookends have officially taken over Miller's volunteer duty.

"It just comes with you being a veteran," said Joiner. "Some people think they're not important but everybody counts and it's your job to get them up here. (Miller) used to be like a big brother. When you wanted to give up he'd pour water on your face and tell you to get up."

Judging by the camp's turnout Joiner and Daniels have been doing their job.

"We've got more people coming to these camps than Killeen, Ellison, any of the other schools," said Daniels. "And it's not just football, all kinds of sports are coming out.

"We've even got cheerleaders out here working out."

Leaders of another kind too.

[PonyExpress81]

The only way that Shoemaker will make the playoffs is if the UIL takes 6 teams from each district this year! The whole district is loaded - it would take a whole lot of Florida Gators transfering to Shoemaker to get them past their district foes.

I always pick a team that is going to surprise some folks in 13-5A and possibly the state.

This team is LOADED on the offensive side of the ball.............and........if that isn't enough they are getting two transfers. One from Florida to beef up the offensive line who is a rivals recruit... 6ft 4in 285 lbs Jeremy Davane from Seabreeze High School. http://rivals100.rivals.com/viewprospect.asp?pr_key=37864

Then, they are getting a player from Chicago at DL/LB..... his last name is West.

If they can get a defense going.......they are going to be unstoppable.

Could be another Belton High Tiger team that made the 5-A playoffs for the first time ever in 2003.