TheMissingBand

I was just about to report this post for vulgarity, but thought it wiser to just be thankful and mind my own business. 🤣😂🤣

We’ve been back and forth between D1 and D2 a few times. Truth be told, we’re a better fit as a school in D1. Our band and drill team are bigger than most D1 schools, plus we travel well. We’ll be fine wherever we end up.

It’s not a good insult to say “BC took the easy way out by opting up to whip our tails and go three rounds.”

It’s just a weak mindset. If you asked the PNG community if they’d rather go four rounds with 3rd or 4th generation Indians, or instead take transient talent from anywhere and proudly proclaim themselves the “MECCA” just to win against their crosstown rivals and even get another ring…. They’d be Faithful. But…. For my friends from DTX. A house built on shifting sand doesn’t last forever. In a few short years the winds will shift and all of that “talent” won’t be suiting up for SOC. They’ll be on to the next big thing. It happens over and over, and you’re nothing special. In a few years people will be asking “do you remember when SOC was good? What ever happened to them?”

Good job, Titans!

It’s not about demographics. It’s about stacking teams. And it’s currently within the rules, which is unfortunate to teams who don’t have the the ability to consolidate the athletes from six high 5a high schools onto onto one team, but still play 5a D2 football against teams who don’t have the ability to consolidate players to a single team. It’s just not anything to be proud of… that’s all I’m saying. How did TJ, Lincoln and SFA stack up against the Indians back in the day, before they consolidated into PAM?

Like I said… it’s a different way of thinking and it’s unreasonable to expect you to understand.

You’re missing my point. If a Golden Triangle school could pull athletes from the entire Jefferson/Orange/Hardin County area while still maintaining a 5A D2 sized enrollment, they’d be competitive, if not beat SOC. The athletes would be comparable, but facilities, community support, coaching, etc would outdo what SOC can offer. But geographically it’s not possible here in SETX, but it is possible in Dallas because the attendance zone is smaller in geographic size. The situation isn’t wrong, but it’s not really fair, either. But using a magnet or charter system to form a super team, then being proud of the fact you beat teams who aren’t able to consolidate athletes from a 6 school attendance zone isn’t anything to be proud of. Example…. Our local youth football league (STJFL) takes on all players, then fields teams accordingly. Some cities like ours (population 8,000) would field two teams for each age range because that many kids signed up. Then you have one of our neighbors (population 50,000) put together a single team. They hold tryouts, cut kids, etc…. It’s a select team. If your select team drawn from a pool of 1300 kids is beating the 30 kids assigned to a team from a pool of 90 kids… it’s nothing to be proud of. But I think it’s a flaw that isn’t seen as a flaw in some communities. But y’all have recruited another fine team this year. Congratulations on your “win.”

Any team pulling from a population zone whose size matched the zone that SOC pulls from would be equally stout, if not more so. It’s the reason that Newton can’t compete with Allen. When you have 300 kids to pick from, you get a certain level of talent… if you’ve got 15,000 kids to pick from, you’re going to end up with a team that wears out teams who have 2200 kids to pick from. That’s not coaching, that’s not talent… they’re not breaking the rules, it’s just not something to be proud of.

It’s comical to me when places recruit a super team then feel pride despite the fact that they couldn’t win with the talent they had on hand. Especially when you think what would happen if schools like PNG were willing to ignore the rules with all of the resources at their disposal. I’d rather lose with our kids that grew up here than win with some kids who stopped here for part of a season.

Does your team have a game thread for their matchup today? 😂🤣😂

Let’s be honest. LCM quit.

Well… our kids are gonna pile onto a couple of buses and head over to New Caney. When they get there, they’re gonna put on the red and white, bite down on their mouthpieces, and get after Kilgore for 48 minutes. It’s a game that nobody expects BC to win…. Heck, most people are predicting a blowout. But I don’t think so. It’s a chance to see how we stack up against the best- if you ask me, this is the true state championship game. Whoever wins this one should have a cakewalk on through to Jerry World.

That’s the team that I’m thinking about. I wasn’t sure of the year.

Nice work, Neighbors… it’s good to see y’all back where you ought to be-headed deeper into the playoffs.

There was an even better one ‘09-ish that caught Coldspring in the first round when CS was really good. We lost one of the defensive ends tonight, plus my understanding is that Breeden was a maybe, but suited up…. But not at 100 percent. We weren’t as dominant as we have been-didn’t get a lot of pressure on their qb. I didn’t see spending much time in their backfield at all. Good game, but we left the door open for them to come back and make it a game. To their credit, Nav didn’t give up, even when down by 3 tds in the third. I felt like we got a little conservative in the same stretch, but up by 3tds, you should. Nav just didn’t roll over like they were suooosed to. *im supposed to mention that #68 in blue was a class act after the game.

14-35 BC. Powder their butts and put ‘em to bed.

Cards receive to start the second half.

I think Livingston got less hate when they got caught fudging their numbers so they could play down a division. The difference is that they weren’t going to beat anybody in either division, while we broke records and hurt feelings.

The lone blemish on our record came from a game in which our opponents were punished for cheating. Did it cost us the win? I think so, but who cares? But it’s definitely “asterisk worthy.” Why did we move up? I don’t know… you’d have to ask the AD/HC who made that decision-and he’s not in BC anymore. Last I heard he was pimping snocones outside the XYZ gate at Motiva. I’ve given my reasons why I think the move makes SOME sense, but that’s just my opinion. But only a hater would see a school opting UP to face larger schools, then winning district, then notching a playoff win a division above their attendance-based classification as a bad thing.

Nice job OF… They might have beat you, but you gave ‘em what you had. Way to represent.

I think as long as Fedora is calling the plays, you have to pick Navasota. Heck of a Coach.

Yeah… that’s us, bro…everybody else from 10-4A D1 has been eliminated. It’s us against the world AverageJoe…. We opt up to play larger schools and that’s “running from competition.” We beat schools in our district and that’s “bullying” those bigger schools. Everybody picks Chapell Hill to beat us, but when we knock them off, it’s “oh, CH isn’t CH this year.” We opted up a division, went 9-1 in the regular season, with that lone loss being the result of cheating that resulted in our opponent being punished by the UIL. We won our district. Then we won a playoff game against an opponent that everyone agreed was going to smoke us down. But somehow we’re the bad guys. If think BC has earned some respect this year, and if y’all don’t feel that way, we don’t care. We’re going to support our kids and recognize and defend what they’ve accomplished, whether y’all do or not. And I won’t apologize if that rubs you the wrong way.

Kilgore better worry about the second round.

PNG also has an undefeated record. 5 of their opponents they faced this year ended up with losing records.. only five had winning records. And PNG didn't opt up a division, either. I don’t get your point. What could we have done to dominate more?