Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rod Whigham for October 01, 2022

Well well…looks like young Toby has an iron leg.

“Expository dialogue” in the first panel!

Yes, yes you should have.

We’ve seen this one before — kicker borrowed from the soccer team (can’t remember who). Hooper, we hardly knew ye.

Wait, do I sense a recently introduced storyline that is going to be played out?

Disjointed dialogue. What are they talking about?

Small wonder they lost. No two-a-days, no practices, a late introduction of the newest game changing recruit. Heck, they probably didn’t have any loofah drills either.

Look for the big Valley Tech game to go down to the wire with a 40 yd. field goal attempt as the difference maker. You heard it here first. Somebody go tell Vito and Big Hand Luke.

P-1: Gil & Kaz have joined a Team based Tic-Tac-Toe League and are off to a slow start.

P-2: The Mudlarks are now playing Green-Soccer by not burning coal based products, unfortunately, they forgot to check out that their ball, shoes, & uniforms, are all petroleum based.

P-3: Toby combines soccer & Tai Chi, and fatally punches himself in the temple, removing himself from this erratic storyline.

Toby? The new placekicker? Gil? Gil? GILLLLLLL???

O.K. Great. Get a sidewinder from the soccer team. No Gil and Heather pre season interview to introduce the season’s starting lineup? C’mon man!

Come on, Kaz, a touchdown from the 23-yard line was hardly a sure thing.

Then tomorrow they get a girl from the Volleyball team to block punts and fields goals. … At least that would be an original thought.

If Toby has the strongest leg on the soccer team, we’re really going to be stretching the bounds of believability.

P1: There is is on the board- confirmation that this strip has gone Left.

Shades of Necessary Roughness, a 1991 movie in which Kathy Ireland plays a soccer player who becomes the place kicker on the Texas State football team.

If Gil is trying to make Kaz feel better, he should have placed the word “just” after the word “lost.” That way, it would have conveyed the meaning of “it’s only the first game of the season,” rather than the way it’s written, which conveys the meaning of “we very recently lost the first game of the season.”

P4 “No Kaz, I was thinking it was a just a ball kicking.”

Kaz has one more season at Milford. Will he learn how to hold a white-board marker before he leaves?

Is the MHS soccer team co-ed, or is this just a bunch of kids who are kicking the ball around on the playground?

Gil, the new Captain Obvious, as opposed to the old Captain Oblivious.

P 4: “…I’m thinking that I bet soccer players would make good place kickers…. I’m a genius!…”

Classic HS football problem, all the good kickers are playing soccer.

What’s Gil thinking? Who knows? Know this: The Milford, OH Eagles cruised to a 42-0 victory over winless Walnut Hills last night, moving to 6-1 on the season and (wait for it…) a tie for second in the Valley (aka Eastern Cincinnati Conference)! The burning optimism over finishing second will flame out next week as last night’s win coupled with state-ranked Winton Woods win last night over state-ranked Kings Mills, the only team to beat the Eagles this year, sets up a scenario where Milford can be a three-way (not that kind of three-way you pervs) co-champion with Winton Woods and Kings Mills with a win. A loss will put Milford in position where third in the Valley would be theirs to lose. Big picture: This week Milford slips to sixth in the Division, Region 4 computer ranking, still maintaining a top eight seed which will net that coveted week 11 playoff home game. The fire of motivation burns bright for the Eagles in that a win next week over Winton Woods would net significant computer points which would all but assure a top eight seed for post season play.

Since when does the OC get to override the head coach?

Also, that is one talented soccer player. She can kick the ball the right leg while punching herself in the head with the left hand.

I believe we can see where this is going. Gil recruits a trans student to play on the football team. Will the student then be allowed to use the boys’ locker room for practices and games? A drama ripped from today’s headlines! (As opposed to the usual Gil Thorp dramas which were ripped from 1978 columns of “Dear Abbey”.)

Gil attends so few games and practices that he must have forgot he was head coach!

Kaz makes the crucial calls during the game, Kaz diagrams the play, I forgot, what does Gil do? And how will he survive when Kaz leaves? Unless, someone like yours truly joins his staff. And speaking of someone like, someone like me has just posted today’s edition of Mopped Up Thorp.

https://moppedupthorp.wordpress.com/

I think Kaz is intentionally trying to tank Milford this season so that the program is in a shambles when he moves to one of their opponents.

Is “ALL GO LEFT” really a pro set? Sounds like “Student body go left”.

“ALL GO” is a pass pattern – receivers all go deep.

They’re back! Episode 2 of Sign Man and Fistpump Man!

https://moppedupthorp.wordpress.com/2022/10/02/sign-man-and-fistpump-man-episode-2/

One loss already…? Looks like Milford is out of the high school BCS early this year!!

Always thought Kaz was the DC and Gil called offensive plays since Kaz roidedup and played DE in college.