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The battle to see who gets blown out by the eventual state champion 👀

Correction. Cannot bash You can talk about them, even in a negative way. You seem smart enough to figure it out. But then again......

This is true but the players are not the same as they were back then neither. No shade just factual.

Nederland has improved this year, but I think they finish the year on a 4-game losing streak, starting with this one.

Y’all need to stop ragging on Weak Brook and instead send them all the positive energy that you can so that they can become Strong Brook and beat New Baytown on Nov 8. BTW, for those who don’t know, nothing irritates a Mont Belvieu/Barber’s Hill resident more than calling their town “New Baytown” and their High School “New Baytown High”. I’ve already got an Old Man in my inbox on here mad because I slandered his precious team. Just thought I’d mention it since we’re discussing school nicknames and stuff like that.

And don’t forget an intellect.

You have no idea... Lol. Try following up a Friday night Raiders game with watching the Cowboys on Sunday. Almost unbearable!

Bad ankle so held him out a week. Should be good to go for Liberty, although I’m really liking them back running north and south with #22!

I believe he could win a state title this season or next and some will still want him fired.

Even though there will be 2-3 more games after this week for these two teams, a playoff spot and seeding rides heavily on the outcome of this one. Current standings have Deweyville and Sabine Pass at 3-0. Evadale, West Hardin and West Sabine are all 1-1. A Sabine Pass win Friday night will clinch a playoff spot for the Sharks. They would finish no worse than the 3rd seed. A West Hardin win gives them the inside shot for a playoff spot. A win by 8 points or more could land them a #3 seed. Sabine Pass has two games remaining (home vs. Deweyville and at West Sabine). West Hardin has 3 games remaining after Friday (at Deweyville, home vs. West Sabine, at Colmesneil) Big game for both of these teams this Friday, I will be there for sure.

[Hidden Content] Coverage area teams in this week's rankings: 6A #2 North Shore #4 Atascocita #8 Summer Creek 5A DI #8 Galveston Ball #9 Lufkin 5A DII #1 Port Neches-Groves 4A DII #10 West Orange-Stark 3A DI #6 Palestine Westwood 3A DII #9 Newton

Another discussion for another time, but college for most kids (not all, but a great many) is a waste of time, money & resources... That being said, trade schools, vocational schools & technical schools are of greater value. Just my opinion. That being said, I don't think the non-football school in Beaumont is a bad thing at all.

Something like a cross of bluegrass, Kentucky bluegrass, featherbed bench and northern California sensimilla if I'm not mistaken.

I damn sure will work that into my lexicon. Besides, we use to beat Cove of the regular when they were 3A. I like to think they aspire to be South Lake or Westlake but in reality, they are a newer version of Deer Park w/o a Correy Pulig. I don't remember any D1 player from #newbaytown that made a name for themselves in the NCAA. I'm sure the NB folk will pull up a name so I don't wanna be too disrespectful

Does Weak Brooke still do that same halftime routine they've been known to do ever since Noah had his Ark?

Yeah, down here in the Dirty Bay we all know it’s better up on The Hill! It’s all good. If we didn’t love y’all we wouldn’t give you any 💩!

Can we get on to the current week's game? 😎

I hope they get the coaching & community support they need. It takes more than players unfortunately.

Here’s the backstory. BH is adjacent to Baytown. For many years was Baytown’s Country Cousin. Folks in BH loved to brag about how great Country living was compared to the Big City but always had a chip on their shoulder about being the smaller, Country, community next to Big Bad Baytown. As Baytown’s School District, GCCISD, has allowed Baytown schools to get worse and worse year over year, more and more Baytonians have moved to Barber’s Hill or used addresses of relatives to send their kids to Barber’s Hill or take jobs with BHISD so their kids can go there. There is a MASSIVE new residential/commercial project going on right now called Riceland. It’s on-par with Kingwood/Woodlands in size and scope and is right smack dab in the middle of Mont Belvieu/Barber’s Hill. Tons of folks are flocking into that and buying $500k+ homes because they want the illusion of Country living and they like Barber’s Hill’s strict School District that’ll spend millions fighting a kid all the way to the State Supreme Court over a haircut. Barber’s Hill enrollment is only 100 or so from the 6A cutoff, they’re growing at a HUGE rate and a lot of it mid-to-high end stuff that is totally alien to the folks who have lived there for generations. Because the tables are turned, BH residents LOVE to thumb their noses at poor ol’ Baytown but when you remind old-timers that Baytown is basically on their border now plus half their residents are folks who moved from Baytown and brought their Baytown ways with them, plus the fact that they’re no longer really Country and just wearing a costume they get REALLY PO’d about it. Hence why “New Baytown” and “New Baytown High” gets them all worked up. Try it, see what happens.

You’re being very nice to your neighbors in Shepherd 😂

Aggie, football, and talking smarts don't really go together... lol... Just Kidding... Having a bit of fun... *Vidor's coach has received unsatisfactory remarks from most of the Vidor faithful.

Hysterical. New Baytown? What's the back story cuz I like Cove becuse of their history as a sundown town........

56-0 Silsbee

What a tough 5A district with 4 teams ranked in the top 20. Should be fun to see it play out.

BH has those UIL connections… they won’t be in that district. They avoided coming to the golden triangle for years, until forced. Schools had to drive and pass up BH on the highway to go play a couple district game down the road….

They lost one of those 3 out of district games too, to Deer Park in double overtime. See, it’s not just about BH moving up to 6A, it’s about what 6A District they’re going to go into. GCCISD is redrawing attendance zones this Summer to get GCM back down to 5A when UIL redraws Districts in 2026. That means UIL will have to fill that empty spot and BH is only 15 minutes from GCM so they’d be the obvious choice. Oh yeah, did I mention that the 6A District I’m talking about is District 23? The toughest District in the state? #3 North Shore, #5 Atascocita, #20 Summer Creek, #60 CE King, #150 Kingwood, #160 Humble all in that District. #734 Channelview is the only easy win in that District after GCM drops down. If GCM ends up dropping down and BH goes up it means no more playoffs for BH, they’d be permanent 5th-6th place if that happens UNLESS they find a way to REALLY toughen up. Better to do it now before they make the jump.

Forgot they had a Tias over there… thanks for suggestions guys 🤝

They are probably 11. Brenham beat them, so the Cubs get 10.

BU’s game vs PA was the first district game, improved defense and still struggling offense. The Ball game was after a bye week. Apparently, found something to move the rock. Apparently pretty good against a salty Galveston defense. And pretty good to say that 3 starters got hurt…

This also was discussed in the executive meeting: With huge number of transfers statewide, UIL gives state executive committee power to investigate schools with inordinate number of PAPFs. UIL can now impose penalties on DECs that don’t act in a manner consistent with the rules.

It looks like that because we played better overall. He’s been moving some players around the last couple of weeks and actually trying to get some of his athletes the ball which is a lot more “offensive coordinating” than he’s been doing during his time in Crosby. We’ll take the progress where we can get it though. We’re 3-0 in district play because we have better football players than three teams we’ve played. Again, you take the progress from the beginning of the year where we were losing to a team like Dayton who has half the talent we do. The issue is being consistently blown out by teams with equal or slightly better talent. Crosby is benefitting record-wise from a weak district but it’s helping us learn to win again. Thursday was the most swagger I’ve seen a Crosby team play with since Willis has been our coach. Wins are wins but if you’re objectively looking at what Crosby is considering progress after a year and a half under Willis it’s a game where we play two good quarters and then get shut out until late in the fourth quarter against a team with not near the personnel of La Porte or Angleton. Crosby could be a lot better than we are but I will admit this is the best we’ve looked under Willis. I guess it’s just going to take the kids overplaying his system and play-calling to achieve the results the last two coaches did?

Not that it’s not a fair question, but it comes up almost every year. You did not follow your own advice. You said which surface (grass), but not why.

You guys are spot on about BH. My kids are grown, but hopefully for the younger generation, they change some things. I was told they have 5:30 am practices all year long. From what I’ve seen the last couple of years, I’m not sure how productive those early morning workouts are. It appears the boys aren’t retaining the information, soft workouts, or coaching quality isn’t there. Not sure which one, but scheduling soft 6A teams and beating them doesn’t make you 6A ready. Now saying that, all of our sports can compete at 6A level right now with exception of football unless we’re put in Pasadena district.

From what I hear, the RB’s and QB will be back. BU’s defense is balling, just need consistency on offense. We moved the ball well against Galveston Ball. But those 3 fumbles which resulted in 21 points doomed us.

I bet the gateway pundit posts it before they do, lol.

Tia Juanita's or Rikenjaks is where I would go. Nice Guy Ricky's isn't bad either. Haven't had anything bad at the first two ever though.

Hamburger Depot, Brick Oven, The Tree, 10 De Mayo and Tia Juanita's

I lived there from 2000 - 2015, and didn't really have a dog in the fight, so I didn't follow the football too closely, but I recall that BH moved up rather quickly from 3A I think, to 4A, to 5A. The head coach and other coaches and trainer, had been there a while, and always seemed just a game away from going to state. Then the HC got fired, more or less, others moved on, retired, or passed away (I knew one coach personally, who lost a hard fought battle with cancer). The area has really grown very rapidly, and I'm not sure what old traditions are still there, just looking from a distance.

It won’t be done until BH Coaching/Admin gets it done which they won’t because they’ve grown complacent and believe their own hype. The fact that the 3 nearest programs to them, (REL/RSS/GCM), aren’t nearly on their level lends to this mentality of BH being the best and if they already believe they’re great why push harder and work out in that hot sun when they’re already great? 20-30 years ago, BH was a country-boy team. Hard-nosed, scrappy, and surrounded by other decent programs so BH always had a chip on their shoulder and something to prove so they’d outwork those other big-city programs. Today? BH becomes more and more high-dollar suburb with each Riceland house sold and all the BH Coaches and players hear all day long is how great they are. Well, if that’s all they ever hear, and they coast into playoffs each year due at least in some part to the schedule they play and quality of their opponents, then there’s no chip on their shoulder. They need to get that chip back on their shoulder. BH keeps low-key signaling that they’re 6A ready, like scheduling all 6A opponents in out-of-district this year. They’re never going to be if they don’t do just like other posters on here are saying and toughen up. Can you imagine what would happen in 2026 when UIL redraws districts again if they dropped GCM down and bumped BH up in GCM’s place? It won’t matter how nice “The Indoor” is or how much they pay their Coach. BH enrollments are already close to the 6A cutoff and if they don’t get right they’ll get humbled in 6A

Just off the top of my head: Silsbee, Hamshire-Fannett, Hardin-Jefferson, Nederland and PA Memorial

I really want Nederland to win this, but my gut tells me LC will come out with the win. I hope not. Go Bulldogs!

Beaumont isn’t doing very well in football so this gives them a chance to say: We’re number ☝️! We’re number ☝️! We’re number ☝️!……

I'm not sure who you are Separation Scientist, but you and I are on the same page entirely. BH has not played tough, physical football for 4 full quarters in years (before the Gage hiring). I feel it has 99% to do with how we work in the offseason. I know we lift weights and spend a great deal of time lifting those weights and doing footwork drills, etc., ......but are we hurting and learning to fight through the pain and get to that next level and continue on? I firmly believe in quality over quantity. Do the coaches work the kids until exhaustion and then continue pushing them? I know the answer.... they do not! We practice in an indoor air conditioned taj mahal even when the weather is great. It is much different than what the BH offseason program was in the nineties and early 2000s....and the programs of Katy and PNG of today. We worked through multiple agility, plyo, mat drills, bleachers, hill training, weight training circuits until we were puking and after we finished non-stop motion for 50 minutes all groups would meet on the track to run a quarter for time. If you didn't make the time you had to run it again. We did this every day and would routinely test strength and speed (included a mile run for time...which hasn't happened at BH in years...yes, big boys can run a mile) ....and 90% of all athletes would improve in both strength and speed throughout the offseason. This all took place in 4th period of the school day, and it got results. We didn't have any big, sloppy dudes because they couldn't make it through the offseason (they lost weight and became hosses.... or quit) and our numbers were streamlined to only include those that really wanted to be there and put in the work. One thing that didn't happen is we didn't have kids lay out injured on the field. I do not remember many, if any, ever getting hurt or missing a game. I contribute that to how we worked in the offseason. Until we get the program back to this way of thinking and working, we will continue to be mediocre. We have twice the athletes and numbers today than we did then so it would be fun to see the results. It can be done. Not sure it will be done.

Relax he's obviously joking and is more than fair talking highschool football.

Can't win a Kentucky derby with a mule. I don't care who coaches.

Chill bro,you’re right about it not having anything to with being an outsider but it does have everything to do with him dumping the entire program(that took over 40 years to build )upside down in just a couple seasons

2-4 but played carthage and chapel hill? Yep I can respect that more than their record shows.

Season low for the Bears. They averaged 49 points coming in. It will be a challenge to score 30 on this Huntsville defense.

It reminded me of the Deer Park game. I'm not sure what they were doing. Still don't know why they passed the ball at the 2 in the 1st half when 26 was getting around 3-4 yards a carry.

So why, exactly, did BH not go for the field goal at the end of the game? I know they got down to the 2 and then got sacked twice but did they not have any time outs or did Coach Abseck lose track of the clock or something else happen, or what?