I'm so ready for the ridiculous killing plotline to end.

They did address this with the scene with Riggins and his brother talking to Tami in her office. He's way behind with his assignments.

and they can even keep riggins in high school another year. Mrs. Coach said he could have to repeat the year.

Why not? They already kept him around this season even though they said he was a senior last year.

well, i don't think they ever flat-out said he was a senior... although he was best friends with Street and Lyla.

But that is one of the whole 'points' of the show and small town Texas is that hardly anyone leaves. It is the whole Street plotline that he thought his out was football and now he is hopeless. Do you really think that Riggins or Tyra or even Layla would leave to bigger and better things in real life. Granted most of the other main characters seem smarter than the average Dillioner.

On the same note, have we ever seen Coach Taylor teaching a class? I always wondered about that ...

I know most High School coaches are also teachers, but I think Eric was hired solely to be the football coach.

Yeah, I think the assistant coaches have to teach (as we saw last year) but not the head coach. I was expecting them to come up with some ridiculous teaching assignment to get Coach more money, but the AD stuff is gold (who didn't see the angry woman's coach tirade coming once he took the AD job?).

As far as the kids not all hanging out together... they were pretty much in different cliques last year too, just came together after football games and after practice. So far, we haven't seen that much football, and I'm wondering if that was a conscious effort on the part of the creators to give the show more appeal.

I liked that Riggins didn't get an easy out with Coach. I also liked that he didn't just stop teaching the convict after Coach left the field.

To me, the whole Julie thing was a show-killer, and I'm actually happy to see her pining for Matt. Though Tyra seems to have changed a lot, the last thing I expected her to do to cheer her up was to offer to down a vat of ice cream and cry together.

Still no other underclassmen introduced, though we'll probably find out that convict's really a freshman or something.

Where did that rack on Juliue come from?? Have I been missing those all season? When she was wearing that "shirt" from her aunt, I almost lost it.

The boobie fairie was very good to Julie over the summer.