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  1. Angleton, La Porte and Friendswood likely be the DCTHSF pick for top three in district. It's a put up or shut up year for my cougars no way around it. You got your excuse year as a coach, didn't get to hire your people, didn't have an off season, didn't have a spring. Now you've had it all, we either execute and play well or we don't and ultimately that's the challenge for everyone at Crosby. 

     

     

  2. On 2/1/2024 at 3:01 PM, Cougtalk said:

    This district makes absolutely no sense Crosby and Angleton should have been switched but the UIL is dumb. 

     

    Crosby

    Fort Bend Kempner

    Friendswood

    Houston Spring Woods

    Humble Kingwood Park

    La Porte

    New Caney Porter

    Pasadena

    Springwoods replaced by Angleton 

    new district 

    Crosby

    Kempner

    Friendswood

    Kpark

    La Porte

    Porter

    Pasadena

    Angleton

     

  3. On 2/1/2024 at 3:02 PM, Cougtalk said:

    Angleton

    Baytown Sterling

    Beaumont United Beaumont

    West Brook

    Galveston Ball

    Mt Belvieu Barbers Hill

    Port Arthur Memorial

     

    Angleton in this district is geographically dumb. 

     

    Who takes the district? 6A's dropping? 

    Angleton is out Lufkin is is. 
     

    9-5a is 

    Sterling

    United

    Westbroom

    PAM

    Barbers Hill

    Galveston Ball 

    Lufkin*

  4. 13 hours ago, lcm93 said:

    6a

    Channelview 

    Goose creek memorial 

    Sheldon king

    Galena park north shore

    Humble 

    Humble summer creek

    Humble Atascocita 

    Humble kingwood

     

    So um... GCM agrees to play everyone's JV's and forfeits the district? Because that looks like GCM athletes getting injured before Basketball/Baseball season. 

  5. I have no dog in this. 

    That picture shows a PI. 

    If a ref from Groves was on the state championship crew he shouldn't have been and the UIL needs to fix their process to prevent this because even if he was completely objective it will never look objective. 

    I also believe the people who are eligible to ref a state championship game are substantially less than the general ability to agree upon officials in other playoff games, that also the UIL's fault. 

    If I am PNG I not only think it's UIL and SOCs fault a Groves official was on the field but if your PNG you also would not want that and should have pointed it out prior to the game. I'm assuming that PNG staff and crew just simply didn't know that specific information. 

    That being said this is and should not be a grievance with PNG but with UIL. 

  6. 21 hours ago, Cougar14.2 said:

    How do you expect to be a serious program with issues like this? I've already heard of some of the ones leaving, smh. As if three head coaches in 6 years wasn't bad enough it's going to be a revolving door with assistants. Some of the reasons those guys can't coach come from the supt.'s policies herself which makes it even more headscratching as to why you hire a guy who can't make a single guarantee regarding the staff he's bringing in?

    I think part of the issue is the control he exerts over his coaches. Prieto and Riordan basically let the coordinators run practice, as it currently sits Willis runs both sides of the ball. During practice we literally switch from offense to defense every 4/5 periods and Willis runs the whole show. Maybe something changes this year but from Flannigan to Prieto or any of the coaches I ever played for I've never seen practice approached that way. Lots of downtime for one side of the ball when they could be getting reps. 

    I don't think he trust his staff. That's what that tells me. 

  7. Just a thought here and I understand there might be some controversy around this. 

    I think Crosby's implosion and PNG's ascension should teach us a couple very important lessons. 

    1) We overvalue the effect of athletes (bo's and joes) on the success of a program and undervalue the effect of coaching. 

    2) Great coaches will get the enrollment involved and working. At the end of the day the single most important thing for late playoff success is depth and coaching. Yes losing a great QB/RB/WR/LB can end a season early but if you don't have depth at all the "not superstar" positions and if the backups aren't just as willing, able and wanting to play as the starters you cannot have success at the highest levels. 

    I think this is true because of a couple of reasons, Winner win. If you are successful and win others want to be a part of that, from that 6'8 300 lbs kid that's never touched a football to that 5'6 kid who will run through a wall to get his chance. They all are important and they all need to feel like part of the team. If you win then no one cares about being the backup. If you win people will be happy to just be on the team. If you win you can have 65 athletes on Varsity every single year. 

    Even a team without elite athletics' talent can execute plays at a high level if they are well coached. Practice times, culture of work, and accountability set the standards for developing 14 year old's into athletic 17 years old's. That being said great coaches can overcome program deficiencies that previously existed. 

     

    Crosby and PNG prove this. PNG has no more talent now than it has for the last decade. Crosby has no less talent than it has for the last decade. It's about how that talent is coached, brought through the system, and executes daily. 

     

    My ramblings. 

     

  8. Liberty Hill looks to be at the opposite stage as last year. Last year they looked dominant and lost key players throughout the playoffs. This year they didn't look dominant but just beat one of the teams that beat them earlier in the year and seem to be playing their best ball coming into the stadium. 

    I speak from experience this is a very hard team to beat twice. I think LH pulls the upset. 

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