Tallassee puts on pads, starts countdown to football season

With the start of official practices and only 16 days until the first game of the season, questions and outside expectations about Tallassee football are piling up. After the program’s monumental turnabout last season with now second-year coach Lawrence “L.A” O’Neal, the people want to know: will the success continue this season?

“The biggest expectation is the ones that we put on ourselves,” O’Neal said. “We expect to be a competitive ball club each and every time we take the field. We set the expectation high within our program, because if you have low expectations, you meet those. But if you have high expectations, then most of the time you meet those as well.”