Sometimes you just have to go back to the basics, and that’s exactly what ninth-ranked Weymouth did at the beginning of this season.

For coach Kevin Mackin, it was about how his team would adapt after graduating All-Scholastic wide receiver Khary Bailey-Smith (UMass-Amherst), who caught 14 touchdown passes last season, and quarterback Cam McLevedge (Saint Anselm), who threw for a school-record 2,700 yards and 41 TD passes in 2011.