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Larger enrollment has an advantage. La Vega with 877 kids vs WOS with 656 means more kids (221 more) to choose from. I know there are exceptions. The two largest 3A2 schools in that class played for the state championship. It is not all about staff or coaching..

Congrats United.

Dang I guess Ark isn't ready to go against Texas football.

TY for the very welcoming environment, the kind treatment and the absolute great sportsmanship from you team and coaches.. What a great group of kids. LaPorte is a class act and I hope we keep playing you guys. Thank You.

Grats

Last year, this same school hung 66 on BU. Even the point spread had BU losing by 24 last night. Instead, they win by 24...

Celina 43 Gunter 19 F

Way to go Indians from a PNG grad. of class of ‘61

Kilgore 66 Gilmer 6 Jefferson 35 no. 13 Dekalb 0 Madisonville 38. Malakoff 24

Going into the bye week: Bridge City 3-0 Huffman 2-1 Livingston 2-1 HJ 2-1 Lumberton 1-2 Liberty 1-2 LCM 0-3 Vidor 0-3 How are we feeling going into district?

BC beats Orangefield 21-14 HJ beats Buna 47-12 Huffman beats Splendora 56-14 EC beats Liberty Iowa, LA beats LCM 28-8 Nac beats Livingston 29-23 Lumberton beats Jasper 31-28 HF beats Vidor 49-28

Sorry about the loss West Orange Stark. From central Texas with a report on La Vega since they were an old jr high rival for us Marlin Bulldogs. I now live 10 from the school and watched a couple of practices during 2 a days. Met their HC, Coach Hyde I believe is his name , this summer at 2 a days and congratulated him on last year. They played Carthage very well last year at Jerry World for the state championship. He shrugged and said we gotta play better, kids and coaches got to work harder. On Thursday I reffed a quadruple header at La Vega versus solid football program China Spring, a recent state champ. China Spring is like Waco s version of PNG. La Vega easily won 7B ( I was only ref of my crew arrived at 4:30, 3 Pirate varsity assistant coaches put on stripe shirt and help me ref. The HC and coordinators were there also ( supposedly there were fights a year ago because of a big rivalry and hatred btw the 2 . I was the head line judge but at Coach Hyde s request the chain crew were on the home side. So I got to witness their junior high and varsity staff in action. They had five – – maybe six junior high coaches, and I critique coaches, so I’ll payed close attention to their demeanor. Their kids were discipline and disciplined when they misbehaved or exhibited attitude. Their older jr high coach was about 60 and a Jefferson Moore graduate while the other 4 were La Vega or Connally products. The varsity coaches were there helping, 3 ran my chains and the other 3 were behind the bench and coaching up kids but not stepping on jr high coaches authority. It was VERY impressive. And La Vega and also China spring had athletes but the pirates skill was awesome but discipline. The stands were very crowded but filled out quickly with no incidents. In the end highlight gamee La Vega won by 7 in the 4th. Most coaching staff that go to junior high games, often will just sit together in a pack and watch. That always bothered me because I believe it’s great for the junior high to see varsity coaches helping in anyway possible. And that is what La Vega did. Was very impressed and with Athletes they have Las Vegas gonna be a power For the next few years as long as the staff stay together. The head coach and the high school staff are so important to development of a program. And since I’m not coaching anymore, I love to watch this and compare, but I have to be honest for a junior high staff – – I don’t think I’ve ever seen a junior high staff as a whole, coach as well as the La Vega staff. Just organization and delegation of responsibility was superb. La vega has a 7 grade and then an 8 th grade receiver close to 6 ft each and great athleticism and technique ( route running by these 2 was impressive. Just from this junior high exhibition, I can predict that La Vega will be in the hunt for the state championship the next four or five years. They were very impressive – – maybe they’ll give cartage a little more run for the money if they get to meet. Anyway, I just thought I’d give y’all that report cause I know some of y’all were complaining about the West Orange staff – – and coaches don’t like to admit but often times the people in the stands can see a poorly run unit.. La Vega is NOT poorly run, to the contrary they are an exceptional staff + great players = state contender!

Both on the DLine

WOS .7872 SLC .7854 -0.0018 LOSE NEXT WEEK AND ITS GONE

Now the big question is: Will a 0-3 start be enough to get the Head Bear to finally put on a headset and get involved more with the calls on Offense and Defense?

Huffman/Lumberton/BC & Who else?

The whole district has a chance. There's about 4 teams that are pretty even and I bet it will be a wild race to 1st.

He actually lost to them his last year at Orangefield.

Hmmmm......great night for a few teams tonight. 😎

L-Train with a big W. Do they have a chance to win the district?

Yessir.... another Friday & another W for the Bucs, Liberty is not a bad club.

Smalley turning around 2 programs around so quickly is impressive.... wasn't he smacking around BC before he left?

My plays for this list of games: A&M +6.5 UGA -4 LSU -7 Clemson -3 Ole Miss -6.5 SC -3

Wow!! Astros won 80 games with 14 games remaining. Never a doubt. Well except for the extreme resident pessimist.

Doesn’t matter how many they were missing, they did not play good and yes they had to be on the field too long. The penalties are inexcusable, but they just can’t move the ball on offense. 10 appears to be their only offensive weapon. Unless they can keep district opponents to 7 or less, they don’t have much of a chance this season. I just can’t imagine that offense scoring more than 14 in a game I knowing they are young, however they are not very good. Sorry but that’s the reality this season I I think the coaches are doing a good job, but it is hard to overcome a ton of penalties and major mistakes on special teams. It certainly is tough when you have very little offense