First, thank you for reading the story and for liking it enough to point out what you think is a flaw. Don't worry — you're probably right about the length. However, I do have an outline for the overall story; unfortunately, the outline has several lines, such as "filler of da story goez in heer."
I treat "filler" as fluffing out the insides of a story and/or character and their life in the story. It might not be super important for some of it, but I think it needs to be there to flesh out the characters fully. Otherwise, you are in danger of leaving them as cardboard cutouts and not memorable characters.
I admit I made one big mistake, which I may correct in a future "Bookapy" version. (That'll actually be a perfect way to make the one for purchase different from the one everyone would have read. Let me write that down really quickly. I hope I don't lose that Post-it note!) I killed off A-Train waaaay too quickly. I should have left him as a problem instead of having him be killed off. I apparently also did a poor job of fleshing out Tommy to be an equal combatant for Tim in the future. I'll DEFINITELY be fixing that in a later revision.
Now, I also don't think the second semester will be that extensive of a story because the popularity of football in Texas is a story character all on its own. Texas is king. God, family, Texas, and football... true Texans follow that covenant, but many others move the order around as needed.
Once again, thank you for reading the story and, mainly, for taking the time to write out what you felt was necessary to point out. You were correct; it was necessary to be pointed out.
For now, it's back to the MILF porn for me since I spent a large chunk of the night writing.
--Shinerdrinker