Summary of last season:
Coach Rocky Hidalgo led the Terrors on another deep run in the playoffs in 2016. Glynn’s season was bookended by loses but it was the 11-game winning streak in between that led to a Region championship and a number one seed. Winning their first region championship since 1972, the Terrors played Pomona High School out of Colorado in a game played in Orlando, Florida and also defeated Camden and East Jackson then winning the first two rounds of the playoffs before falling to Northside Warner Robins.
The Coach:
Rocky Hidalgo came to Glynn Academy in 2014 and has led the Terrors to deep runs in the playoffs each season, including a trip to the state championship game in 2015 when Coach Hidalgo was named In The Game SEGA’s Coach of the Year. Each year the Red Terrors have gone to at least the quarterfinals under his guidance.
Outlook for this season?
Deejay Dallas has graduated and enrolled early at the University of Miami so the Red Terrors will be looking for a way to replace the all-purpose quarterback. One answer may be receiver returned to quarterback Randon Jernigan who had 1,000 yards rushing and passing and was named the Region’s Offensive Player of the Year as a freshman quarterback. Defensively, linebacker Hunter Hall will lead the red and white this year when he is not running the ball on offense. “I believe that we have a great opportunity to be as good as we have been recently,” Coach Hidalgo said. “We are young and inexperienced in some spots, but they are talented players. At the end of the day, our overall success will depend on the development of our young offensive linemen and if we are able to stay healthy throughout the season.”
Big games this year:
“Take your pick: Brunswick, Benedictine, Ware, Tift, Camden, Richmond Hill, Wayne, Effingham,” said Coach Hidalgo. The Red Terrors start at home against AA state champion Benedictine in a rematch of one of Glynn’s only losses last season. An always tough Ware County then visits Glynn County Stadium followed by a trip to Tift County. All Terrors’ fans have October 13 circled on their calendars for the annual city championship against Brunswick.
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Terrors Look For Another Deep Run
