# @macjournalism on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/C_O87_pP8a3
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/22712928-macjournalism-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2024-08-29T00:25:09.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** McCallum Journalism (@macjournalism) — https://gondola.cc/macjournalism

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PREPPING FOR TACO SHACK: The junior varsity football team has been practicing and preparing for its first game, against the Anderson Trojans, since before the beginning of school. The team comes into school every morning at 7:30 and continues practicing into the football period, which ends at 10:15. After school, the team stays until 6 p.m. During the afternoon sessions, the team watches film, goes over plays, or runs more drills, if the weather permits. 

To prepare for its game against the Trojans, the junior varsity and freshman teams were supposed to combine to play LBJ on Friday, Aug 23; the game got canceled, however, due to a storm that rolled in. 

Looking towards the game tonight, sophomore quarterback Aiden Ilai is ready to get the season underway and expects the team to execute plays.

“I’m excited for the game,” Ilai said. “I’m just ready to kick off the new season. So far we’ve been flying around in all the practices and having a lot of fun.”

Sophomore defensive line Blaise Kizer also pointed out that the team has been practicing a lot and game-planning against the Anderson plays, which he hopes will help them during the game.

Ilai and Kizer also acknowledge the fact that beating Anderson will be hard because of the number of new players and the new positions that many people are playing.

“A couple of challenges we face are that a lot of the guys on JV are new to football, so they don’t really know what to do,” Ilai said.

Despite the amount of new faces on the team, Ilai said that the culture surrounding games has changed as opposed to last year.

“I think the culture this year is a lot more focused on winning,” he said. “This group really wants to go win games no matter who it is we play.” 

The Knights hope to avenge their 12-0 loss to the Trojans last year tonight at House Park. Kickoff is at 7:30. 

Caption by Maya Tackett with reporting by V Overstreet. Photo by Julia Copas. 

#KnightTime #TacoShack #txhsfb

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## Credits

| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| McCallum Journalism | @macjournalism | https://gondola.cc/macjournalism | Newspaper |
| Julia Copas | @julia_copas | https://gondola.cc/julia_copas | Photographer |

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tacoshack, txhsfb, knighttime

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