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The right is offering a clean bill. The left, who as you point out has zero branches of control, is trying to hold the bill hostage to force liberal policy. But it's the right's fault. It's wild watching you guys spin it. It's gonna hurt y'all in the long run, though. The fringe lunatic left are the only ones actually buying it. I guess it makes sense that the party of entitlement thinks they're entitled to get something they want out of an unrelated bill to keep the government open and then blames everyone else when they don't get it. But hey, keep alienating those swing voters and moderates. Y'all already have the SNAP vote, so the republicans aren't losing anything there. Besides, it's not like most of them can't figure out who's really behind this all anyway.

and that game will be 1 hour and 45 minutes.

I hope you are right but you can’t even Spell sophomore.

I imagine better opportunities could have come up for that weekend for those teams. In Barbers Hill's case, they are playing in the McDonald's Invitational the weekend before. May be about too many games for them. West Brook is playing in the Texas Jamboree that weekend vs. Dallas Kimball. That is a much better deal for them. Port Arthur Memorial is also playing in Texas Jamboree vs. Houston Washington. Silsbee is playing at Texas Jamboree as well. I believe all those schedules are more than sufficient to explain why they are not playing at Border Battle. As for Lumberton, again they may not have been invited.

Pretty amazing the progress, hopefully future presidents are taking note. Future Republican presidents at least, democrats can’t wait to undo anything advantageous for the US.

You might need some Probiotics for that gut.

We’ll see where they wind up. People also assume LP is gonna lose to Angleton. They forget LP is the team that hasn’t lost a district game in over 2 years, has better O & D numbers than last year, is more balanced, and has actually played PO teams & teams with winning records. Angleton’s opponents to this point are 21-45, and none have a winning record. LP’s numbers all around are better than last year, even though they’ve had some mental lapses. Similar to last year, Angleton’s numbers are better. But, they lost to LP in district last year in a game that wasn’t as close as the final score, and had to have miracle comebacks in every PO game I remember to get to the rematch with LP while LP doubled up—at least—on everyone in the PO’s until letting Angleton come back on them in the rematch. The Angleton/LP tilt Friday was a toss-up to me before injuries. Now, I have no idea because I don’t know what to expect. I have no idea what Angleton team we’ll be seeing.

All-district a lot of times is coaches in their feelings. We got hosed last year lost 1 game in district and win district championship but because of how we played we got penalized. We had 1 superlative (a team that didn’t make the playoffs got the defensive mvp superlative). And I didn’t come close to winning coach of the year. All stuff the kids and I still remember and will make sure shows up come district time.

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

It is tomorrow. Just posted the prediction thread. This is not the game thread.

It's on our schedule. Game and broadcast thread will be posted later.

According to AP wire reporting, between August and now the National debt rise $1 trillion. That’s faster than any time aside from the pandemic in history. How’s that fiscal responsibility working for all you Weasel heads (insert something else that is not breaking a rule)?

IMO the final scores were similar, by my definition of similar, as reflected by the comparisons we're making. But regardless, it's fun to run the numbers and guess the scores, which is why we are all participating on this forum in the first place. It's up to the boys to play the game. Like someone said up above, it should be a good game. Hoping for good weather, no injuries, and cheering for PNG.

Someone on the 5A forum just asked who my final 4 were. I said Aledo, Lone Star, PAM and Smithson Valley. Toughest pick was yall or La Porte.

Republicans try to have those conversations on a regular basis, democrats do not. To democrats, those folks that remain on the public dole represent votes and a means to keep them in power, plain and simple. Crumbs for votes, sad. Thankfully, Trump is attempting to pass this responsibility to the states, all while democrats are kicking and screaming against it.

Passing game. I have light concerns.

I really want Hardin to do good in the playoffs, but their strength of schedule they played this season is very weak. I hope I’m wrong, but in my opinion they’ll be lucky to get out the second round.

An outstanding player and young man who is extremely fun to watch. Senior year is sure to excel.

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Highly doubt Provost Humphrey will be.

Maybe they didn't get invited this year.

The scores weren’t similar at all between Montgomery/Huntsville and PNG/Huntsville. Montgomery had the game won by halftime. There was about a quarter (the first one) where they traded punts and it looked like Huntsville could be in the game, and then Montgomery gave them absolutely no breathing room. PNG, after the comeback from 21-10 at the half, didn’t have the game fully in hand until the beginning of the 4th quarter. And of Huntsville’s three scores against Montgomery, two of them were in garbage time. There’s not any real comparison between those two games. Admittedly, Huntsville lost three starters in that game, so they might have played better in a different week. Comparing those two games doesn’t tell us anything, and if it does, it’s that Montgomery is really good and PNG better forget about La Porte and Huntsville and get ready for a war.

My picks for our coverage area districts: 23-6A 1. Atascocita 2. Summer Creek 3. North Shore 4. CE King 18-5A 1. Crosby 2. Kingwood Park 3. Porter 4. Dayton 19-5A 1. United 2. West Brook 3. Barbers Hill 4. Port Neches-Groves 18-4A 1. Bridge City 2. Silsbee 3. WO-S 4. Vidor 19-4A 1. Huffman 2. Hardin-Jefferson 3. Livingston 4. Hamshire-Fannett 21-3A 1. Central Heights 2. Huntington 3. Pineywoods CA 4. Diboll 22-3A 1. Orangefield 2. East Chambers 3. Buna 4. Kountze 23-3A 1. Onalaska 2. Trinity 3. Crockett 4. Coldspring 24-2A 1. San Augustine 2. Chireno 3. Shelbyville 4. Hemphill 25-2A 1. Big Sandy 2. Evadale 3. West Hardin 4. Sabine Pass 28-1A 1. Brookeland 2. Spurger 3. Chester 4. Hull-Daisetta

Should be a quick match. Angelton struggled quite a bit against common opponents that BH dominated. Only hope for Angleton is if BH is looking ahead to College Station.

High scoring game, Huffman with the upset...just watch.

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Talent. The JR and SR class have been terrible since they started in Junior high. Jasper current FR class is loaded, they will get back to normal shortly. ***They will beat Tarkington similar to everyone else.

Why are illegals getting food stamps?!

Just think what Peevy could do with WOS talent

I think they make you go online now and pay an inconvenience fee. It seems like just the smaller schools still have tickets at the gate now. I sure miss the days of the $5 dollar bill at the gate.

Strictly a 'gut feeling' but I think Nederland wins.

Schools always can opt up to play closer to home....so for example PNG could opt up to D1 and play in 9-5A D1

Shepherd in our computer models is a 4-point favorite over H-J not unrealistic by any means

True some districts they have to make up since some coaches don’t submit any info or votes.

I’ll be watching the Dawgs & Kittens on LPsportsNET from my recliner with Mama.

I agree. It sometimes gets political with the all-district picks. I also know that these TABC district predictions is not always 100% coach decided in some of these districts.

Good chance for some starters to get rest in second half, to prepare for the following week and more importantly playoffs, I would imagine being the most important thing on hardin's mind.

I believe that records documenting the flow of money into Epstein’s accounts from persons who may have been involved in his sexual abuse of minors. ( from the article) If this reveals the names of the parties involved and the Congress women is sworn in, a lot of people may be in for the shock and awww.

It's funny though. Some are okay with these district predictions by the coaches, but then get upset with these same coaches when all-district selections come out. LOL

You're ok with schools playing another school with double their enrollment in district competition? Think about the top enrollment number of 5A D1 (2274) compared to the bottom number of 5A D2 (1315). Bottom of 4A D2 (545) vs. top of 4A D1 (1314). Bottom of 3A D2 (254) vs. top of 3A D1 (544). etc.. Whether it two schools with 6A numbers or 2 schools with 1A numbers.. in the average athletic/academic competition, the school with twice as many students to choose from will have somewhat of an advantage. Surely you're not saying that's not true.

This is my version from region 3 5A D1.

Only ones that have any kind of chance would be Lumberton and Vidor. Don't expect either to go up.

100% agree with that. If you opt up in football then you opt up in every sport. It should be that you get to pick and choose who you play.

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.

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.

Mid county schools traveling to Huntsville for a district game shouldn’t have ever happened… just like Mid County and Port Arthur Memorial a few years ago round 1 playoff games from the bottom of the state to the top of the state matchups. Hopefully UIL gets it together… no reason setx schools should be in region 2.