If you judge Christopher Vizzina’s first outing of the season by the box score, you aren’t necessarily doing the five-star quarterback justice.
He went 15-of-25 for 97 yards with no interceptions in a 48-0 loss and while it might’ve not been the start to the season that the Clemson commit wanted, his head coach didn’t see it like that.
“They had a smothering defense,” Briarwood Christian School head coach Matthew Forester told The Clemson Insider in a phone interview Tuesday. “They did a really good job of locking down our receivers. The few holes that were there, he found. The few times he had in the pocket, he sat in the pocket and he found the opening. He was accurate. We had three or four dropped balls on the night. I mean, he was very accurate, it’s just receivers dropped balls…He did a good job. He did his part distributing the ball, making the right reads and there was growth in it.”
Keep in mind, that Vizzina was one of three players on offense that had played meaningful minutes the season before. Clay-Chalkville came into last Friday’s matchup as the reigning 6A state champs with top junior prospects like four-star cornerback Jaylen Mwbake, four-star wide receiver Mario Craver, four-star offensive JacQwan McCroy and four-star quarterback Kamari McClellan.
“We just had to grow as a team,” Forester said. “It’s what we needed to do. We played a really hard team because we want to have a long run in the playoffs. We’re gonna improve and get better. We’ll be fine later on. We just ran into a really good team on Friday night.”
Forester said that not only will his team be fine, but so will Vizzina. According to his head coach, the big-time quarterback prospect had a good attitude after the game.
“The big thing is, around here we got the long-term goals in mind for this season — it’s the state championship. It’s playing in the playoffs,” Forester said. “The idea that we’ll go in and we’ll come back….
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