Cox 7 completes prep football schedule

Cox 7 has issued contracts for its broadcast of high school football games this fall. If all come to fruition there will be plenty of variety.

While still waiting for contracts to be returned by some schools in its proposed lineup, Rich Reid, Cox 7's producer of the game of the week, said the 2008 contests are gradually coming into focus.

Reid said one game currently being worked on is Chandler Hamilton's Aug. 29 game in Miami, Fla., against Booker T. Washington High School. Reid said he had conversations with people in Florida Monday trying to work out a broadcast of the game, which wasn't originally up for broadcast.

"We're still talking, trying to work something out via satellite," Reid said.

Reid said the Hamilton game, if broadcast would start at 4 p.m. Arizona time. That would allow audiences in the Valley to view the game and still attend their school's game in Arizona that night.

"That would be ideal for us," Reid said.

The slate Cox 7 has in the works for 2008 would include 22 schools, with no school appearing during regular-season broadcasts more than once.

The other games Cox 7 has tentatively lined up, which are just waiting approval om the participating schools for Thursday night broadcasts this season are: Sept. 4 - Mesa Red Mountain at Tempe Corona del Sol; Sept. 11 - Phoenix Shadow Mountain at Goodyear Millennium; Sept. 18 - Avondale Westview at Glendale Deer Valley; Sept. 25 - Mesa Westwood at Chandler Basha; Oct. 2 - Phoenix Desert Vista at Peoria Centennial; Oct. 9 - Laveen Cesar Chavez at Phoenix Trevor Browne; Oct. 16 - Mesa Desert Ridge at Scottsdale Desert Mountain; Oct. 23 - Chandler at Gilbert Mesquite; Oct. 30 - Scottsdale Chaparral at Paradise Valley; and Nov. 6 Scottsdale Notre Dame at Phoenix Greenway.

Reid said Cox 7 will release the official schedule as soon as all contracts are finalized and returned.