Week 7 Artesia @ Santa Teresa

[Agent Orange]

2023 Artesia-Santa Teresa Game History

This is Santa Teresa's 31st year playing football in New Mexico and the third time the two teams will play each other. Artesia and Santa Teresa
faced off in a 2005 pre-playoff game at Bulldog Bowl which the Bulldogs won 63-7. Last year the Warriors and Bulldogs played a regular season
game at Bulldog Bowl which saw the Bulldogs win 51-0. Santa Teresa has made the playoffs the last four years. Santa Teresa currently is 0-5
having lost to Goddard (49-0), Lovington (58-7), Cobre (34-12), Valencia (51-13) and Mountain View, TX (33-0).

Overall Record
Artesia: 2 wins, 0 losses

[Agent Orange]

52-0 At Halftime ?

I can sense the enthusiasm for this game.

[95ahs]

Starters should get 28 in the first 10 mins
Pull them stick in everyone else and let them play their hearts out. Give them some build and keep the starters healthy for the showdown in Roswell. Something tells me it’s gonna be a good game then.

[dogwarden]

I definitely expect a mercy rule, but I could see a slow start. We haven’t proved to travel very well. If we get off the bus like we did in Deming (which is likely), it may take awhile to get going. The coaches have a difficult job this week keeping the team focused/excited with this match up.

[Agent Orange]

Sept 28, 2023 8:14:41 GMT -7 95ahs said:

Starters should get 28 in the first 10 mins
Pull them stick in everyone else and let them play their hearts out. Give them some build and keep the starters healthy for the showdown in Roswell. Something tells me it’s gonna be a good game then.

I think that's what everyone pre-season favorite was going into this year and it's turning out to look that way.

I think it's us and Roswell and there is a big gap to #3 & 4.

It will be a good game I believe, Roswell is the Devil that knows us, we won't surprise them or catch them off guard with a lot of stuff and vice versa, it's going to be an intense game I feel.

And welcome to the board!

[95ahs]

It’s me Randell lol the ol rice burner just couldn’t get my old handle cause I’ve been gone so long lol

[Agent Orange]

WOW

A blast from the past! You were like one of the first few members as I recall. Good to see you back!

[olddog]

Seeing this on Santa Teresa / MaxPreps home page:

“ Latest Updates
Game Results
On Friday, Sep 29, 2023, the Santa Teresa Varsity Boys Football team forfeitted their game against Artesia High School by a score …”

Have they been hacked?

[olddog]

Doesn’t look right but I didn’t want to be the last one to know! lol 😝

[95ahs]

Trivia:
Has there ever been a team artesia has played to have opening kick off returns in every single game they played against them? There is right now. Dessert warriors have had the openning kick off returned in them every single time the bulldogs have played them. It’s sad fact but a true one.

[Agent Orange]

Wow interesting. I was watching with a couple friends and I said that kick going for 6. Sure enough.

ST was bad they couldn’t do anything right. Did they even have postive yardage? Hopefully this is the last one.

53-0 game at halftime.

[superbad88]

Sept 29, 2023 20:59:24 GMT -7 Agent Orange said:

Wow interesting. I was watching with a couple friends and I said that kick going for 6. Sure enough.

ST was bad they couldn’t do anything right. Did they even have postive yardage? Hopefully this is the last one.

53-0 game at halftime.

I think it would be better if Artesia even reintroduced Portales to the schedule instead of ST. Closer in terms of traveling and would be more competitive. Heck, maybe even Canyon or Randall would like to play. Artesia would be better than them playing Clovis.

[dogwarden]

Get used to it? If the NMAA has their way- which they do!! They will be voting in “super districts” this year. Artesia, Roswell, Goddard, Mayfield, Deming, Gadsden, Santa Teresa, Chaparral.
You can expect several games that resemble last night- every season.

[Agent Orange]

Yeah we haven’t brought up the proposed realignment.

www.abqjournal.com/sports/nmaa-discusses-2-realignment-wrinkles-that-could-affect-high-school-football-across-the-state-next/article_c02145f4-580f-11ee-b022-afe83c5cd9c9.html


There could be two new and interesting football-related wrinkles on the horizon when the member schools of the New Mexico Activities Association are realigned for that sport for the 2024-25/2025-26 two-year block.

It appears that the NMAA is going to be creating larger football districts, in an effort to help teams with their schedules. This would specifically reduce the number of nondistrict games they’d have to book, which has been problematic for many schools.

Going larger would, of course, greatly reduce the number of football districts in all classes.

“(Our board of directors) asked us to look outside the box,” NMAA executive director Sally Marquez said.

The current Class 5A division is perhaps an example of how this might look.

That class has 16 schools and could conceivably be split into two huge districts. Currently, the 16 are divided geographically. The eight in the northern half of New Mexico are Valley, Highland, Del Norte, Manzano, Miyamura, Los Alamos, Piedra Vista and Belen.

But, until the NMAA receives 40-day student counts from all its schools, it cannot begin to plot new football districts, especially because there could be any number of schools whose enrollments might move them either up or down in classification.

The second wrinkle would be of particular interest to football programs who have been struggling.

The NMAA is interested in implementing something similar to that in Oregon. The Oregon model allows a team the option to petition to play down a class if that team has an in-class winning percentage of 22% or less over the previous two years.

Oregon’s 22% is based on a nine-game schedule, or two wins. New Mexico likely would go with two or fewer victories.

Marquez said there were 10 or so programs that might be able to take advantage of such a policy in New Mexico. That includes Rio Grande, a school with 6A enrollment numbers but which has been competing as an independent for the last few years.

“I think that would be real practical for us,” Rio Grande athletic director Pete Pino said. “I would favor something like that, because it would give the kids a chance for district play.”

Marquez said the NMAA is still working on creating a firm list of criteria to address all of this.

The NMAA will unveil its classification and realignment plans in late November at its next Board of Directors meeting, when that structure will be voted on for 2024-25 and 2025-26. Individual schools would then have the opportunity to appeal their placement if they so desire.