Coupeville Sports

Brett Arnold (40) and Nick Streubel don’t think much of the Cascade Conference decision to snub them. (Nanette Streubel photo)

  Despite being visibly held, Wolf lineman Nick Streubel holds his own against King’s Mason Friedline, one of the best linemen in the state. (Photo courtesy of Nanette Streubel)

Spoiler alert! The Cascade Conference has its head up its butt.

When the Coupeville High School football team meets tonight for its season-ending awards banquet (yes, I know the award winners and no, I’m not telling!) one big thing will be missing. There will be no All-Conference honors handed out to any of the Wolf players.

So, Jake Tumblin and Brett Arnold were among the league leaders in rushing. Linemen Nick Streubel and Caleb Valko spent the season pancaking opponents left and right.

To the Cascade Conference, that, apparently, means diddly and squat.

Before this season began, Coupeville, by far the smallest 1A school in the eight team 2A/1A conference, made a deal to remove the three biggest foes — Archbishop Thomas Murphy, Lakewood and Cedarcrest — from its schedule. The Wolves still played 2A schools Granite Falls and Sultan and fellow 1A rivals South Whidbey (who they beat) and King’s, which went 9-0 and won the conference.

But now, because the Wolves didn’t play a complete seven-game tilt against their league rivals, conference officials decided to leave Coupeville out of voting for All-Conference honors.

“Don’t get me started…” said an understated Wolf coach Tony Maggio.

Fine, I’ll start and finish for you, coach.

The Cascade Conference should be ashamed of itself. Even if you ignore the other six games the Wolves played and just look at the four games Coupeville played against league opponents, they have the numbers to be considered against the rest of the league.

Tumblin ripped off games of 130 rushing yards against Sultan and 114 against South Whidbey, while also hauling in 72 yards through the air against King’s — the best school in the league by far. Arnold piled up 88 yards against Granite Falls and another 76 against the Falcons in Langley.

Heck, Streubel held his own with King’s man-mountain Mason Friedline, who will, undoubtedly, be the top lineman in All-Conference voting.

To not even consider these guys, to not even put them on the table and see how they compare against players from Cedarcrest, a team that went winless in the league, and South Whidbey, a team Coupeville soundly BEAT, is asinine.

Don’t get ME started…