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Dying West Texas town near Lubbock. if you are old enough, you might have heard of Sheryl Swoopes who was born and raised there.

What they have is a great school district, a nice community, and a commitment to all athletics from the school board down. But the biggest draw for them I think is location. For families in the Fort Worth and Denton area that are looking for a smaller/suburban setting there isn’t a better choice right now. The growth going north of Fort Worth up I35 towards Denton is absurd. And Argyle is the benefactor. They are basically Southlake Carroll 25 years ago. It also helps they probably occasionally get a transfer or two from Southlake, Keller, Flower Mound or Northwest ISD. I don’t expect Argyle to stay 4A much longer.

It’s been awhile. What happened?

Ha. I don’t know anything about this years Vidor basketball team. Have zero ties to the school. I’m positive I’ve never spent more than 5 minutes of my life inside the city limits of Vidor. But the way this guy updates the games and describes the action keeps me coming back each week to see how the Vidor Pirates did.

Who is it? L. Hand?

Did he coach at Orangefield back in the day?

Was there not a JV team your sons freshman year at Deweyville?

Calvert is 6 man.

Lol what? Is this how the game ended? Tell me that’s not true. Who is Christian Academy and where are they from? I am not a fan of playing stall ball one game into the season because there are so many other things to work on this early, but that’s absurd if the other team just walked off and quit.

Decatur made the semifinals last year because they play in Region 1. And they realistically only had to beat their own district champion (WF Hirschi) to get there, whom they already beat in district.

What a shame.

Welp Decatur didn’t do their part. Ugly game. Good luck to the remaining teams.

You seem confident it will be a blowout. So set the line and give me Decatur and the points. No go on Liberty Hill. It’s funny how these slow, unathleitc, half court teams like Brock, Ponder, and Argyle don’t look the part yet seem to keep winning championships. Decatur will give Yates/FF a game. I will be shocked if they don’t.

I think Decatur might surprise some people and it might not be as big of an upset as some think if they win it all. They have some length, play very solid defense and are well coached. Similar to Argyle teams of the past. But one difference is I think they will push the ball and look for easy baskets more in transition than your typical walk it up the court and run your half court sets. Yates/FF May negate that though. Should be interesting.

Today’s games- Nazareth Slidell East Chambers SA Cole Timberview Wagner

Somewhat surprising but Argyle was not as strong this year as years past. I think Decatur is a team that “could” possibly give Silsbee a challenge. Not sure If they have enough to win but I think it could be interesting.

So if you were the coach of Lumberton, you would try to run and gun with Silsbee? You have to put your team in the best position to win the game. Trying to run with Silsbee isn’t it.

Explain please?

I’m GUESSING Duane moves on after this year. I don’t see him sticking this out if the cupboard is as bare as everyone is saying. A coach like him won’t have trouble landing in a better situation.

Actually they played Three Way. It’s a tiny ISD outside of Stephenville.

They might come out of Region IV because it is generally the weakest region, but I was extremely unimpressed the one time I saw Liberty Hill this year. Silsbee would run them out of the gym. Decatur is an interesting team who looks to be the favorite out of Region 1. They have a 6’7 or so post that can play, a guard/forward who is solid and they play really solid team defense. Most importantly they play really well together and are extremely, extremely well coached. I think they had a better team two years ago. They were district champs that year, Argyle finished second and we know how tough they were at the state tournament. Anyways, Silsbee/Decatur would be an interesting matchup similar to the matchup with Silsbee/Argyle two years ago.

Was that A. Farias led team? He could play.

Hardin and Anahuac fluctuated between 2A and 3A in the 90’s and early 2000’s. EC stayed 2A.

They had some kids they could go from 2000-2004 ish. Think they moved up in class around 2004 which slowed their success, then the loss of Joubert obviously hurt.