The Pampa Harvesters (1-8, 0-4) hit the road to wrap up the 2025 football season at the Dumas Demons (6-3, 2-2). Dumas has lost to Ranall and West Plains but beat Hereford and Canyon in district play. As I do each week, I sat down with Head Coach Floyd White to discuss last week’s game as well as preview this week.
Quick Randall recap
Randall scored early and often with the final being 62-7. However, Senior Running Back Alexander Arreola scored a late touchdown and Senior Fullback Parker Webb rushed for over 100 yards in his second consecutive game.
“That game started off in a blur. We go out there and we kickoff to them and they throw a screen pass and two people miss and then all the sudden it's 88 and out the gate. That kind of was the crux of what went on Friday night. It was us being able or not being able to make plays. In the end, you have to go back to the drawing board and try to find a way to get guys put into better positions,” White said. “You did have guys who stepped and played their hearts out. Parker Webb had another outstanding game. When he starts hitting the midline and the veer things start getting going in a hurry. Then, Alex stepped up. He hadn’t played a whole lot this year. He brought a lot of energy. Because he stepped up, we were able to move the ball down to get that score and take something positive from the game. In the end, I didn’t do a good enough job of preparing those guys so we gotta get these guys right and ready to get going against Dumas.”
Final thoughts on Randall
“The one thing I can tell you is our kids are always fighting and looking for ways to get better and improve. This week has to be our state championship game so we have to find a way to put it all together all four quarters,” White said.
UIL Snapshot
Pampa turned in a 950 enrollment number on the UIL snapshot day last Friday. The cutoff from 4A Division 1 to 4A Division 2 last realignment was 957. This means, if the cutoff stays the same or increases, Pampa will drop to Division 2 in football. All other sports do the division split for playoffs so the district would not change for those sports. This would be a huge win for the program. Pampa is the smallest team in our district by a wide margin. We would quickly become the biggest in a division 2 district.
The cutoff numbers will be released sometime in December. The actual new districts for the next two years will be released in February.
“When you start dealing in the speculation game. It's a lot of speculation. There are a lot of things that go into it. It is always fun to look at year in and year out. To try and figure out what I think is going to happen and where I think we will land. Then, I have to start scheduling based on a lot of uncertainties. This is not the first time I have had to do it. I had to do it at my first job as well. We were right there on the bubble last time and went down. I think the same thing is going to happen here,” White said. “I think we will see a 50-60 student drop for the 6A cutoff. I think we see another 40-50 student drop in 5A. There has to be a course correction somewhere. You can’t just push everyone down because everyone lost enrollment. You aren’t going to have 400 teams in 1A just because everyone got pushed down. That is not how it works. There is always an adjustment somewhere and I always believe 4A is the best place to have that because it normally has the fewest number of teams. There are usually 20-30 schools in 4A you can move one way or the other. I think there has to be a course correction somewhere and I think it will happen right there in 4A. What I think is going to happen is the cutoff for 4A D1 and D2 will probably go up just a little bit. By how much, I have no idea but if it goes up at all or if it stays stagnant we are going down. We would be in a district with potentially Perryton, Borger, Levelland, Estacado, and all those guys. People that are closer to our size. That is the crazy thing about where we are. Since the last realignment, we have lost about 100 kids. We were always the smallest of the schools anyways but now we are smaller by even 100 more. That makes it tougher. Wherever we end up at, we’re going to be excited about where we are at and going to play our tails off no matter what happens. Whether we are D1 and staying in our district or D2 and going into another district. The Harvesters are going to be just fine.”
Seniors final game
I asked Coach White to talk about the lasting impression this senior class will have on the Harvester Football program.
“The one thing I can tell you about this group of Seniors is they are going to leave the group as an example because they always worked and never quit. You can’t say that about a lot of groups but this group always had a lot of workers. Your workers worked and they worked hard and showed everybody what it takes in order to work and get to where we wanted to go,” White said. “I know we didn’t always have the most successful record but that is what we talked about last week in our breakfast of champions. Sometimes your work is not going to be immediately seen. Your work will be seen after the fact. Like with these seniors and the ones before, their impact on the program is making leaps and bounds because of what they are showing the younger groups how to do. What they are showing the younger groups is that you can play and compete with everybody and be very good. What we are seeing now is a lot of success in our younger groups. What is happening now is we are seeing a transition. Last year’s freshmen won more games than they have ever won. Last year’s JV won more games than they ever won. This year’s JV group should have been undefeated. They lost three games by a total of eight points. Our freshman group is the same exact way. They can play with anybody every week. It is just a matter of us continuing to press and push forward. That is what these seniors have done. I could not have asked for a better group to have coached this year.”
Dumas Offense
“Up front they are pretty big. Out at the tackle spots they are like 6’3” 280-290. The guys on the interior aren’t quite as big but they move around pretty well. They are catalyzed by their quarterback Colton Mills. He’s a great quarterback. Probably between him and the guy from West Plains are the two best quarterbacks we have seen all year long. He can throw the ball and run the ball. He can do a lot of things. What we have to try to do is get him off of his spots. We have to keep him contained and make him quarterback from the pocket if we can,” White said. “They have a tailback #7 (Yara). He was a sophomore last year and he took us by surprise. He is a good hard runner. If we can get him turned sideways and not let him run up the middle we should be good. They are also good at receiver #1 Blake Robinson. He’s a dang good receiver and Mills throws quite a few balls to him so we gotta know where he is at all times.”
Dumas Defense
“Defensively, last year we could move the ball fairly well on them. We ran for about 250 yards on them last year. We just gotta really make sure as we push through and get going we get bodies on bodies. They are pretty good up front. They got three good lineman. They are really a lot better at the secondary spots. The secondary for them really makes a lot of plays. They play a lot of man coverage. They put a lot of people in man-to-man situations. They get out there and really start running,” White said. “It is just one of those deals, if we can get a crease and get an edge and people moved where we want them to, we can really make some good things happen. We can get bodies on bodies just like we do every week. I’m hoping we will be healthy enough with everybody to make a good push and let’s go ahead and finish this thing off right.”
Keys to the game
Eliminate Turnovers
Capitalize on 3rd down stops
Create Turnovers
“Last week we had 5-6 turnovers. We can’t put the ball on the ground offensively because that puts us in a bad spot defensively. Defensively, we have to capitalize on third down. We get guys in third down situations and we have to be able to get them off the field. We got some specific pressures we are going to get out there to try and eliminate that. We have to continue to create takeaways. We did not create enough last week and that got us behind the 8-ball as well. We have to make sure we take care of those three things and if we do I think we will have a chance to be very, very successful,” White said.
Final thoughts on Dumas
“I am just ready to go out there and get those guys out there. Let’s see what all we have left in the tank. I really feel like this group is really hungry and want to treat this game like a state championship. Like I told them last week, you gotta treat this game like your state championship. You go out there and give yourself a chance and win your state championship. Let the chips fall where they may but don’t ever let anybody tell you you didn’t give it your all in your final game,” White said.
Dase Scott
I am also highlighting one player each week to end the interview. This week is #28 Senior Linebacker Dase Scott. Through the West Plains game, he has recorded 40 tackles, one forced and recovered fumble and one interception.
Here is what Head Coach/Linebacker Coach Floyd White had to say about Dase:
“Dase was kind of an enigma when we first got here. We didn’t know necessarily what we had with him. When he would get out there he would fly around and make plays here, make plays there. But as he got more comfortable with what it is we needed him to do, I can tell you he is one of the smartest players I have ever coached. All I have to say is ‘hey Dase, I need you to do this and he gets it done,’ or ‘Dase, can you do this?’ and he will get it done. It doesn’t take a lot of explanation. It is pretty refreshing to have kids you can coach like that. Because now, you can focus on other things and you know that he is going to get it done. While he is not always the most vocal guy in the room, he is definitely a leader. All those guys look to him because he is going to come out there and do everything exactly like he is coached to do and if it’s not exactly like he is coached to do, it is pretty dang close. Him going off to college and doing all those things, it's going to be hard to replace a young man like him because he does such a tremendous job in everything he does. I know with the work ethic he has and the person he is, the sky is the limit,” White said.
You can find HSN on Youtube: www.youtube.com/@HarvesterSportsNetwork/. You can also follow them on Facebook: www.facebook.com/HarvesterSportsNetwork. Lastly, there is a Twitter/X page: www.x.com/PampaHSN. Kevin Hunt and Ethan Hunt will be calling the game. The game will also be broadcast locally on 101.3 Legends Classic Country. That station will be piped through the YouTube feed. Live stats can be found here: https://www.turbostatslive.com/football/webcast/08002511465744. Season stats can be found on the team page: https://www.turbostats.team/site/2/team/football/pampahighschool/pampa%20good%20file%202025. The pre-game show will begin on YouTube and 101.3 at 6:45 p.m. and kickoff is set for 7 p.m. A weekly radio show with Coach White called “Whiteboard Wisdom” with Zac Green interviewing him will play early this week around 6:20 p.m.