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I'm struggling to understand the mental gymnastics it takes to blame this shutdown on anyone other than the left when the right has already passed a clean CR pushing no republican agenda to open the govt back.

I appreciate this explanation of the mental gymnastics, but I already knew what it looked like. Are you dizzy yet? The fact is Democrats are trying to hold the country hostage and force through policy that they can't pass through regular means because their party is such a dumpster fire they've managed to lose control of all branches of government over the last 4 years. They then have the gall to blame republicans for democrats not giving the votes needed to open the government back up, and a lot of their base is dumb enough to believe it. The problem for the left is that the moderate voters are NOT dumb enough to believe it. So while the lunatic fringe may rally around this foolishness and go join a protest and burn something down or whatever it is they do when they're mad, the left is hemorrhaging even more swing and moderate voters through this stunt. The left is like a kid who isn't good enough to win so they take their ball and go home so nobody can play and then blames everyone else for the game ending.

I agree about the opt up. It should only be for schools with major travel issues. (i.e. El Paso, etc.) Not for schools that are are only traveling 60 or less miles. BC, HJ and Liberty all opted up for competition reasons. Not travel. You'll never convince me otherwise. I can see BC opting up because they are actually very close to DI numbers anyway. HJ and Liberty are not even close. Also, I am not all that hip on all the other sports going to divisions but if that is how it's going to be, then have divisional districts like football and not decide the divisions after district play. That actually allows a larger school to get in D2 depending on who makes playoffs. If they do go with divisional districts this next realignment for all sports (I am hearing they won't) then schools that opt up for football should have to play all the rest of their sports in that football district. You shouldn't be able to pick and choose what sport you want to opt up in and not.

Meh, i'd still give the advantage to Shepherd.

May I add the ACA was passed with not one Republican vote, along with 34 Democrats joining Republicans in the NO vote.... ACA is 100% a Democratic problem. They are holding out to continue to fund this bill that was not as promised.

because you're the one regurgitating the mental gymnast talking points. I thought you might be dizzy from all that spin.

Zero chance HJ would have made the playoffs in D2.

Absolutely no idea. I don't follow all the rest much, until the seedings and playoffs arrive. All I know is region 3 is strong, and the local district teams have not won a first round playoff game in a few years. I think Hardin can at least get a playoff win. Physicality will matter. Whatever the case I am happy for Hardin.

Its never happened before but I think Hardin gets to the 3rd Round

Landon Smith - Senior combo guard at Brookeland - special player if you have not seen him yet Three time District MVP, Three Time TABC All Region Team, Two Time TABC All State Team Will surpass 3000 career points early this season and will become the All time Leading scorer in the history or Brookeland Basketball Career Record as a starter at Brookeland 87-23 (41-1) 27 points, 4 assist, 7 rebounds, 3 steals per game last season

[Hidden Content] Coverage area districts 23-6A 1. Atascocita 2. Summer Creek 3. Humble 4. North Shore 18-5A 1. Kingwood Park 2. Crosby 3. Porter 4. West Fork 19-5A 1. United 2. West Brook 3. PA Memorial 4. Barbers Hill 18-4A 1. Bridge City 2. Silsbee 3. Vidor 4. WO-S 19-4A 1. Huffman 2. Hardin-Jefferson 3. Hamshire-Fannett 4. Livingston 21-3A 1. Huntington 2. Central Heights 3. Pineywoods CA 4. Pollok Central 22-3A 1. Orangefield 2. East Chambers 3. Buna 4. Kountze 23-3A 1. Onalaska 2. Crockett 3. Trinity 4. Coldspring 24-2A 1. San Augustine 2. Chireno 3. Woden 4. West Sabine 25-2A 1. Evadale 2. Big Sandy 3. West Hardin 4. Danbury 28-1A 1. Brookeland 2. Spurger 3. Hull-Daisetta 4. Goodrich

If those schools don’t have to make multi-hour trips just for district games, then yes I would support that. I realize that I might place a higher value on reasonable travel compared to most in this forum. Long travel distances can become a significant burden for districts and the community.

Fact!

The district picks are 100% voted on by the coaches in the district themselves. They take the average place for each team and then seed from there. So the majority of your opposing coaches in your district agree with you all winning district and for good reason. @Cu Chulainn

The only question he asked was “Are you dizzy yet?” The rest was a very informed post to counter the Jeffries garbage.

How am I the one dizzy when you’re the one with all the questions?

Jeffries lies with the best of them! So...

While that 2011 is the best Memorial team as far as playoff success goes, they gave up 20 ppg over 15 games with no shutouts while this bunch is giving up 12 ppg with 3 shutouts and one outlier game against Spring Legacy. That 2011 team was chock full of players but gave up 44 to Channelview. This bunch has a chance to reset the standard because of the defense. Going to Lufkin and shutting them out for the 1st time since either '78 or '89 is something special. And from what I've been seeing in possible playoff matchups, I like PA's chances getting to the 4th round and dare I say, beyond........

They all lead back to the Orange man. You make valid points. 😂

Spotlights on conald due to him campaigning on this! I wanna see D's and R's held accountable I couldn't even imagine defendiing pedophiles

Don't forget Sterling beat BH.

Forgot about Huntsville. My bad. Yes this would be for 4th. 21 point cap is a total points cap differential in a singular game. Some districts have 15, 18 and 21. It's in place so that teams cannot "run up" the score to improve their playoff chances.

Best of luck to LaPorte

Read on DCTF [Hidden Content] Current 5A DI possibly moving to 6A: Baytown Sterling, LaPorte, Angleton, Austin Anderson, College Station Current 5A DII possibly moving to 5A DI: Richmond Randle, Iowa Colony That would change the landscape of 5A DI Region III, IF that happens.

I don't think Angleton will stop throwing to him, even with Duron out. They may not pass as much. Angleton uses a lot of end arounds and Jammer has carried 11 times for 94 yds. I suspect they may use more this game. Jammer is 1 for 1 passing for 12 yds. Jammer is also a threat on kickoff return, both he and Ace Simple. Angleton's OC is excellent at coming up with concepts. He has been with the team since 2011 except for three years. He left in 2015 irc to take a head coaching job at Boling where his team went deep into the playoff both years with playing in the state championship game the second year. He must have decided after that. that head coaching wasn't for him and for one year took an OC position at George Ranch. The next year when Brittain became head coach and Berneathy left for Dobie that there's "No place like Angleton" and reclaimed his old OC job.

Apparently, they don’t read the news, shocker.

Goes to positive points. I believe this district point cap is 21. Based on the one result (LC beat Dayton, 50-26) we already have, these are the current point totals for those three teams: Lake Creek +21 West Fork 0 Dayton -21 With 2 more results to be determined, those point totals will change. Let's say Dayton beats WF by 17, then they will finish with a point total of -4. WF would current be at -17. Then let's say WF beats LC by 7. Then WF would finish at -10 and LC would finish at +14. So with those results, LC would be #3 seed, Dayton #4 seed and WF out. But, I do not know if this is one of those districts that only uses positive points just to break three way then go head to head with remaining two teams. If that was the case, the seeds would still be the same with the example scenario that I posted. Of course, those two games yet to be played could change the point totals quite a bit from my example. Only thing for sure we know is the current point totals for Dayton and Lake Creek.

Weird how that happened and timing, I say no coincidence... government is so crooked its sad, both sides are guilty.. taxes dollars wasted on so much stuff its ridiculous..

If it's strictly about budget and travel purposes, then just make the districts whatever 5-8 schools are closest to each other. Regardless of enrollment. See? That's ridiculous. Having schools in your UIL competition district that are closest to your enrollment size, even if you have to travel a little further, is not ridiculous. It's equitable. There are always exceptions, but if it's true that schools are potentially better/worse depending on their pool of students to draw from... then there needs to be split divisions. For every UIL extracurricular event. You can't pick and choose when it's fair.. or for what sport it's fair for. Or even when to ignore the fairness in the name of saving money. Playing against the same size schools is either fair or it isn't. If that's fair, then it needs to be that way for every sport.

What do you mean what’s the problem? They played for a state championship last year… Are you saying they should be doing better this year? Or as whole before this year?

Tried to give everyone a hint before pick’ems were turned in. Mentioned in thread discussing 5A R3D1 PO’s about my positive thoughts on 11-5A vs 12-5A maybe not aging well. I didn’t want to start this game thread, or do the usual weekly summary I do for 11-5A until an Angleton poster mentioned the injuries. That’s why they weren’t up yet. Angleton is still a very good, dangerous club. But, obviously, this hurts. I just don’t understand why—with the biggest game of the year so far coming up—way ahead of an inferior opponent with your BU QB already out for the season—you haven’t pulled up the 3rd string QB to get reps in varsity action with game experience and protect your starter. Would seem a lot more important. But, I’m not the coach.

Man id love to see Obama wipe the floor with his ###! Well of course if Obama isn't in prison 🙄🤣🤡's

Yeah I missed that comment. Thats not even close to being correct on any planet lol

competitive equity....if you have a district say 7-4A D1 and those teams were all in the same combined district you'd have a school with 1,200 kids in the D2 bracket because the top 3 teams are all over 1,200 playing schools with 600 kids....huge difference Its the biggest complaint about 6A is occasionally you'll get a really large school go D2 (Katy for example) and they dominate

I stay away from Tues-Thurs. college games. Every now and then play some Friday games when they are lumped in on my high school ticket.

Why didn’t anyone tell me that Texas State was gonna turn the ball over 4 times and play zero defense?

You’re not wrong. My point is the only thing Ned’s defense has been good at is being aggressive attacking the runner and getting to the backfield. That lines up well with what Huntsville is trying to do. PNG, Montgomery, and Lake creek were very successful being aggressive against the run, and Huntsville doesn’t really have a plan B. They’re not good passing. So, Nederland needs to sell out completely against the run. Force them to win through the air. Yeah, Ned’s secondary and linebackers aren’t good, so just have the linebackers attack gaps and tell the secondary to do their best. That’s basically your best shot and it plays to the only thing Ned’s good at on defense.

I know Silsbee as a team had 229 yards rushing in the game.

Have not seen his numbers other than passing. 9-15, 87 yards, 2 TD's.

My good poster Darth Texas If you have watched the Bulldogs then you know that they are absolutely horrible on defense. I am talking the entire defense especially LB’ers and Secondary. DL is better, however not by much. They are giving up 38 points per game in district. I look for Huntsville to score 35 are more and Montgomery 50 plus

Saw a guy who took job applications to SNAP protest.

I dont see either of them opting up. Those schools don't run from competition

This might be an unpopular opinion but the idea of d1 and d2 during the regular is ridiculous for travel and budget purposes. 2-3 hour drives to play some district games is insane.

Also, no job is beneath you when you have no job.

I think this is the elephant in the room that no one wants to address. There are so many people that work crappy jobs to support themselves and their families and never think getting government assistance. Yet there are TOO MANY that just accept Government assistance. We somehow have to convince people they will he happier and have a sense of pride when they work and EARN a living..... My Father taught me several things, but his most important were life lessons......here are the ones that stuck with me (that I also taught my Son) 1. There is no embarrassment in having a low wage job - embarrassment is when you have no job. 2. When you are at work, if there is nothing to do, grab a shovel and dig a hole......when you're done, if there is still nothing to do, fill it up. Repeat until there is something to do lol 3. Never place your hands in your pocket when you are at work, that is a sign of lazy. So basically his thoughts were there is no reason to not have a job. He worked an instrument mechanic for "Gulf" and very good at that job. When they would strike, he would go work at the Orange Rice Mill slinging sacks of rice off the trains, or work at a body shop, painting cars. He was a worker! THAT is the mentality we need to establish in 2025 - too many people expect things for free and the Government has also been a player making it too easy to get free stuff.

One thing people are seeing during the schumer shutdown is how many people rely on the government for food. 3.5 million Texans alone will lose food stamps. In a state of 31 million. 11% of Texans rely on federal money to eat. That is not help and assistance, that is lack of drive and will power for one's self and family. Living off the government has become a career for many (not all but many). As with everything the government touches it cannot properly oversee and run things. And they want to oversee our healthcare.

This game will not be a blowout at all and I like both teams but Montgomery will be at home... Give me the Bears 34-31.

Chester