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If last week was the “joint practices” or scrimmages as they are more commonly known, this week’s jamborees are more like “dress rehearsals” for the 2021 prep football season.
For the most part, the jamborees will consist of two 12 minute halves of football, usually running time, and there will be no coaches on the field watching every play.
As Abbeville coach Roderick Moy put it, half a football game, teams put the finishing touches in preparation for the prep football season, which begins next week.

The football scrimmage Thursday night between the Class 4A North Vermilion Patriots and the Class 3A Abbeville Wildcats turned out to be a showcase for two “rookie” quarterbacks.
Both squads were starting two quarterbacks who had little or no varsity experience.
North Vermilion found itself down to one quarterback heading into the scrimmage. Projected starter Isaiah Whitlock for NV was out due to an illness.

GUEYDAN — Gueydan sophomore quarterback Cohen Guidry got the job last year as a freshman quite by a stroke of good fortune, according to GHS coach Lance Myers.
“It was a fluke thing,” Myers said. “We were at practice, and our quarterback was ill that day, and we needed somebody who could throw the ball to our receivers.
“We noticed him throwing the ball in practice, and he could throw the deep ball better than our starting quarterback, so we started working with him.”
It goes on from there.