The Wayland varsity football team is closing in on a couple of milestones it probably doesn’t want to accomplish.

The Wildcats are very near yet another 0-9 campaign, which has been happening all too frequently in the last 10 years. If they can’t get past Forest Hills Eastern next Friday night, it will be the fourth time they’ve gone winless for the season since 2012. And they’ve won only once in a season four times since 2009.

But there’s another statistic Wayland may find worrisome. With its 45-20 defeat at the hands of a Middleville Thornapple Kellogg team that arrived Friday night with a 1-6 record, it now has yielded 331 points in eight games, an average of nearly 41.5 per contest.

The 2019 squad that went 0-9 yielded a school record 365 points, or 40.5 per game. That performance led to the firing of head coach Mike Doupe.

If this year’s Wildcats give up 34 points to Forest Hills Eastern, they’ll tie a school record they’d rather not.

The irony is that current head coach Tim Gibson left Wayland almost 20 years ago to coach Forest Hills Eastern and was fired several years ago before returning.