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Silsbee 66 Faith Family 80/FINAL
JimThorpe replied to AggiesAreWe's topic in High School Boys Basketball
I hope they're successful enough to never come back down. -
Silsbee 66 Faith Family 80/FINAL
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I did really think that pressure would work against FF. But it kind of did. Makes me wonder if the Tigers had started a little earlier. -
Silsbee 66 Faith Family 80/FINAL
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The Silsbee Tigers! Your provisional AAAA 2022 and 2024 State Champions! I grant FF their 3peat and being good sports I’m sure they’ll cheerfully grant us our provisional championships. In light of circumstances it’s only fair. (and the same applies to BTW for 2023 if they so choose) The current anomaly has been apparent for some time. And now we’re rid of it. -
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Silsbee 66 Faith Family 80/FINAL
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They can do it. I’m a believer! -
#1 Faith Family vs #6 Silsbee
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Win lose or draw (and of course there won’t be a draw) this group of seniors has been a joy to watch. And they finally made it as far as you can go. Tremendous accomplishment already. But if they win this game, with the unusual circumstances that surround it, it’s the biggest win ever for Silsbee basketball. -
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Wait. That’s what I was going to say! Okay then, Tigers by 2. -
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It’s hard to believe that the Carter Cowboys are okay with it. At any rate we’re done with it. And wouldn’t it be sweet to send them off with a loss! -
If we’re going by The Price Is Right rules then my pick wins! I called a one point victory and chose last! Early in the week I thought it would be 14 or even more but after watching a few Randall games on demand my thinking changed Containing Thomas was a key and a quick glance at the stats shows how well the did that. Very well done.
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I thought the UIL had the right to send them up despite their attendance, which is well south of 800, because of charter school rules. And finally, under pressure, they decided to do it with this latest alignment. So they asked to be sent up? That's interesting. I suppose they were becoming a little self conscious about the whole thing. 4A was becoming embarrassingly easy .
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It's an upset to be sure but I don't think it would be a miracle. If Silsbee can stay out of foul trouble and stay close in the first half then a momentum thing could propel them to victory. The same is true for Randall except they have perhaps even more motivation to make it happen this year because of the health issues with their coach. And lord in heaven wouldn't it be sweet for one of us to deny FF in it's last shot at a 4A championship. The UIL got off its duff and finally did something about this aberration and it's going away. But it's happening one year to late for the seniors at Silsbee and Randall and Stafford and Carter. In light of the UIL's acknowledgement of it's blunder I would commission a trophy to be made and placed in the case and a flag to be made and hung in the gym at Silsbee HIgh that reads. "2022 AAAA Provisional State Champions." And Randall should do the same for 2023. And the winner of Friday's game along with Stafford should do the same this year. By moving FF up to 5A when the high school is really a modest 4A in student population the UIL is tacitly confessing that it SCREWED UP. How does Notre Dame with a student population of less than 9000 compete with giant schools with over 50,000? The answer is obvious. When it comes to recruiting the size of the school doesn't matter. All that matter is it's prestige in the particular sport. The link has probably been posted before but it still makes for interesting reading, especially in light of the realignment. [Hidden Content] I grant that Yates would have won state 2020 with that phenomenal team. But Argyle 2021 is not an argument. They were already a 5A school in 2021 and it was formalized in the 2022 realignment. And you know what's really galling? What's galling is listening to those announcers on NFHS calling an OCFF game pretending that everything is kosher when they KNOW it's not. They should voice a disclaimer several times during the game. Something like, "You know Bill, the UIL has made the unprecedented action of moving Faith Family, a 4A team up, to 5A despite the fact that it's student population is in the middle of the 4A pack." And I question whether or not it's going to work. The same thing might happen in 5A. In fact it should happen. They already schedule a preseason that's as tough as any 6A school in Texas. This year's was particularly brutal, hence the low winning percentage. And it's already been proven that the size of Oak Cliff Faith Family's student population has little or nothing to do with it's basketball prowess. Anyway, it's not Silsbee's problem any more. It's United's problem now.