1 hr 25 min
2023 CIAC championship recap and season finale show The Meat Grinder
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Welcome to 16th and final Season 6 episode of The Meat Grinder, your weekly dose of high school football in Connecticut, brought to you by GameTimeCT and CT Insider.
After six great championship bouts ad CCSU and UConn’s Rentschler Field, we’ve crowned our 2023 champions and voted in the final GameTimeCT Top 10 poll and the STAPLES WRECKERS are No. 1 following their thrilling, 21-20 Class LL championship victory over West Haven.
Join hosts Sean Patrick Bowley and Pete Paguaga as they run through everything that happened during championship weekend, including recaps of all six state championship games and how they voted in the final top 10 poll.
This week’s special guest star, our first in over a month, is none other than newly crowned No. 1-ranked Staples coach ADAM BEHRENDS.
The Iowa native arrived in Westport from IMG Academy in Florida just four years ago and, after a near-disastrous 2-8 season in 2019, Behrends quickly molded Staples in to a contender.
But after a 1-point loss to Fairfield Prep in the 2022 quarterfinals, the Wreckers developed a 2023 Mantra: Find the Point. And they did just that, avenging their playoff loss to Prep by a point and then avenging their Week 1 loss to West Haven by a single yard and one point: 21-20.
We also run down some of the candidates of the upcoming 91st New Haven Register All-State football Team.
So — for the final time in 2023 — join us, won’t you?
RUNDOWN
0:00 — 2023 CIAC Championship Montage
4:23 — Staples finishes No. 1
10:42 — The Final 2023 GameTimeCT Top 10
13:11 — Poll Comparisons: Pete, Sean, Coaches
16:43 — Class LL Championship recap
20:46 — Class S championship recap
23:15 — Class MM Championship recap
24:29 — Class M Championship recap
25:59 — Class L Championship recap
28:40 — Class SS Championship recap
30:47 — Championship weekend takeaways (crowd comparisions)
36:37 — Interview with Staples coach ADAM BEHRENDS
1:06:46 — Final championship thoughts, 2024 look ahead
1:15:17 — 2023 Players and Coaches of the Year?
1:23:58 — Will Aldam wins the picks and Season 6 wrap
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Welcome to 16th and final Season 6 episode of The Meat Grinder, your weekly dose of high school football in Connecticut, brought to you by GameTimeCT and CT Insider.
After six great championship bouts ad CCSU and UConn’s Rentschler Field, we’ve crowned our 2023 champions and voted in the final GameTimeCT Top 10 poll and the STAPLES WRECKERS are No. 1 following their thrilling, 21-20 Class LL championship victory over West Haven.
Join hosts Sean Patrick Bowley and Pete Paguaga as they run through everything that happened during championship weekend, including recaps of all six state championship games and how they voted in the final top 10 poll.
This week’s special guest star, our first in over a month, is none other than newly crowned No. 1-ranked Staples coach ADAM BEHRENDS.
The Iowa native arrived in Westport from IMG Academy in Florida just four years ago and, after a near-disastrous 2-8 season in 2019, Behrends quickly molded Staples in to a contender.
But after a 1-point loss to Fairfield Prep in the 2022 quarterfinals, the Wreckers developed a 2023 Mantra: Find the Point. And they did just that, avenging their playoff loss to Prep by a point and then avenging their Week 1 loss to West Haven by a single yard and one point: 21-20.
We also run down some of the candidates of the upcoming 91st New Haven Register All-State football Team.
So — for the final time in 2023 — join us, won’t you?
RUNDOWN
0:00 — 2023 CIAC Championship Montage
4:23 — Staples finishes No. 1
10:42 — The Final 2023 GameTimeCT Top 10
13:11 — Poll Comparisons: Pete, Sean, Coaches
16:43 — Class LL Championship recap
20:46 — Class S championship recap
23:15 — Class MM Championship recap
24:29 — Class M Championship recap
25:59 — Class L Championship recap
28:40 — Class SS Championship recap
30:47 — Championship weekend takeaways (crowd comparisions)
36:37 — Interview with Staples coach ADAM BEHRENDS
1:06:46 — Final championship thoughts, 2024 look ahead
1:15:17 — 2023 Players and Coaches of the Year?
1:23:58 — Will Aldam wins the picks and Season 6 wrap
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1 hr 25 min