As a high school football coach, I have two favorite weeks of the year. The first is the week we play our cross-county rivals. Despite the fact that, now that I’m coaching at the newer of the two schools, we have a record against our rivals that makes WSU’s record in the Apple Cup look reasonably competitive (1-27), it’s always a fun week because everybody in the small county in which I work has a vested interest in one or both of the teams. Everybody knows everybody. And, to perpetuate a stereotype, most of them are related to each other in some way.