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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

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.

For Crosby Dayton FBM Lee Gives us close games and one good opponent that won't physically beat us up before district.

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.

In the famous word of ole Coach Stewart in 2008 to Flannigan. If I had those kids I'd win state... He then proceeded to make the state finals with his own kids. For the record we had just lost 49-7

No one is forcing you to be in this thread, trust me I'd rather you not be.

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

Good luck to PNG hope you can bring it home. It's a daunting test in SOC.

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.

Aledo Stays D1 by 8 students.

Several highly uninformed and very much not press football people have indicated the 6A cutoff will be 2270 this year... Aledo? 2267. *tinfoil*

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.

I'm proud that my thread has made it all the way to realignment talk. What a legacy thread we have kept going. I thank BH fans for overreacting to every Crosby post. PAM fans for keeping it alive in the offseason and ofc 14.3 for making people angry on a near weekly manner for nearly 18 months. I'll miss this thread.

Geeze arm chair QBs need to go to sleep. PNG will get this one done. Good team great coaching just need some of the louder fans to act like they've been there before.

5AD1 mock I think they would pull Crosby over to the PAM district and make that the bigger district.

We are definitely both going to be 5AD1 again so.

That Highschool cannot hold 3800 students so the two High School talk is going to restart again. Even with the planned expansion that building is no where near big enough to hold that population. Ten year projections have been waaaay off before but perhaps this is our last alignment pre-6A we will see. When we get put in that Humble/King/NS district we are going to quickly become irrelevant in football unless there is some fantastic program building.

I'm going to take the #1 Team in 5AD2 for this one... sorry Dogs.

*dribbles* *cries* *dribbles* Well see yall in Basketball season in a 1-3 weeks.

The district described makes sense but there's not universe where you send Deer Park across the Bridge.

What? They are geographically connected districts... unlike GCM.

Looks likely that La Porte and GCM will need to be 6A, if the rest of Baytown goes up to, then we will have a wildly different district next year.

La Porte might end up being the largest school in 5A or the Smallest School in 6A right at the cutoff.

A good Coach cannot make unathletic bad players good. But a bad coach can make their athletes bad football players. A good coach is sufficient for success with nearly any student body. A bad coach will kill talent. 60% Coaching, 35% Kids, 5% other factors. Other factors can be much bigger if there is a major event. Example when Liberty Hill lost their coach they had a different level of commitment to that program and were incredible because of it. They had the other pieces as well but that other factor had huge implications. I do think these can shift.

Like we are getting the 0-8 broadcaster.