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The new OC will definitely will definitely bring the offense back from the Stone Age. Was kind of surprised he would leave Colorado State and come to high school but that's the pull of Coach Williams already paying dues. At the end of the day math just doesn't math though. With our demographics we just don't have the enrollment to play with the top 4 teams in the district and probably not with Kingwood either. Have to remember Kingwood backing into the playoffs a couple years ago with a shocker over CE King and making the regional final. SEC commit in the middle of the defense and a 5* A&M commit at left tackle anchoring a very good offensive line and they have 0 shot. That's life outside the top 4 in this district. North Shore is ranked #2 but I think Summer Creek might be the best team in the district and by far the team set up for the most success over the next decade? They couldn't deal with the CE King run game last year but I'm not sure they don't win a state title if they had went D1. That being said it's almost crazy to think CE King will still field the best collection of skill players in the district and IMO opinion the favorite out of all those teams to win a state title now that Desoto has dropped to 5A. Atascocita is the wild card, for the first time in over a decade they'll get to play D2 and their new coach already has experience coaching high level kids being that he was on staff for Desoto's 2022 state title. Not that the record would reflect it in the next four or five years but I think Crosby is going to get very good relatively fast playing in this district similar to CE King's rise simply because of what it's going to take every Friday night just to be "competitive".

Muslims never immigrate to other Muslim countries. They always immigrate to Christian (or supposedly Christian) countries. Almost seems like its on purpose, doesn't it?? What could possibly be their reason??? LOL

I don't exactly disagree with your picks, but it would be nice to hear your analysis for how your top 4 choices fit your criteria.. From a Lufkin guys perspective, the Panthers are loaded on defense, however there are many unknowns on the offensive side with all the key skilled positions fielding all new starters. The OL will be pretty good. I believe Lufkin has much to prove this year, they will be really young, there were 38 Freshman who played on the Varsity in the Spring game who will be sophomores in August,. There are 27 Seniors and 34 juniors on the 2026 team. Several of those Sophomores and Juniors of course will be on JV. PAM only has 2 O starters returning, while WB has 7 and United has 6 and LaPorte 7. WB and United only return 4 starters on D each. PAM lost a couple key players but they still return 7 from that D who played in the Semi Finals last year. That is significant. LaPorte returns a potent offense. Your top two choices are solid. I think GC dropping down from 6A and after playing NS, SC and CE King will surprise this district, they return 6 on O and 9 on D. You can't tell me they won't find some advantages to that move down. Now Sterling also returns a ton of starters on both sides too (8 O/6 D) who will be looking to improve on last seasons success. Can't comment on NC or Ball, DCTF has picked them at the bottom of the district. Anyway, I look at returning starters and where they finished in 2025, head coaches and who they played last season. When you look at those factors you can see the makings of a competitive district. Although I've done analysis many years now, I'm still looking at this 9-5A district from afar, and with Lufkin located from 110-140 miles further North of our SETX opponents, it makes us a little isolated from that football corridor information.