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So inaccurate. But not surprised coming from you.

A little story about the brothers Pat and Mark. One day in the weight room at the field house at Silsbee High School, Pat was about to attempt to break the school squat record. (don't remember what the weight was at the time). Several kids were getting all excited about it and gathered around to watch the attempt. Pat was successful and the kids erupted with joy. One of them ran outside and saw Mark walking by and told him his brother just set the new school squat record. Mark came in to join the celebration and saw the bar still set up with the record breaking weight. He walked up, got under the bar and squatted it twice. The coach saw this and asked if he would like to be on the power lifting team. The rest is history. Pat was a senior and Mark was a freshman.

He was one of the original admins over there but did not start the site. He left that site years ago.

Correct. He was a sophomore.

That was his freshmen year.

I thought he was better than decent. He was recruited by several big schools not just A&M.

Patrick is his older brother. Started at nose guard for Texas A&M. He was '6"2 290. Held all the power lifting records at Silsbee until his "little" brother came along and smashed them.

Lost to #19 Silsbee

Elliot is one of my 3 I was referring to.

There are 2-3 players that I could see on 2nd team over Akhtar and Parker.

Another reason why we do not do All SETXsports teams here any longer. Just too many teams in our coverage area to try to put a team together. A little easier to do a BE Super Gold as they only consider their reader coverage area schools. But I tend to agree, the teams are usually spot on.

Personally, I've only complained when Dontre Thomas didn't win the offensive award. Really thought he deserved it with his numbers. Many "non" Silsbee fans thought the same. All other years I had no complaint. I also believe the "complaining" being blown out proportion. Not nearly like what some are posting. I actually believe it's mainly been just one or two Silsbee fans. I am a voter and I did vote Miller as one of my finalists but was not surprised when he didn't make finalists. It's rare for a soph. WR to make finalists. I would have had no problem with Vidor's Smith making finalists. I did not vote for him (it was close for me with the LCM DE) but Smith is just as deserving with his numbers. The WRS award is not participated as much as it use to be. Some area coaches did not nominate players this year. As voters, we can only vote for players that are nominated. PA Memorial's Sanders is an obvious omission. He would have definitely made my four finalists and probably would have been my choice for the offensive winner. It is what it is.

Sanders would have definitely made my four finalists

Was not nominated by his coach.

Retired as an admin but still will be around some. I just know who some of the members are from the past. Got a pretty good relationship with area coaches. That I am not retired from.

Because I'm sorta of "in the know" about who some of the posters are on this site, I'll just say that some of these comments (not Reagan's) are from actual high school coaches. So actually some of the posters here do have expertise in the subject. At least more than most here.

Chad Cooper @thechadcooper · 14m BREAKING: Sources have confirmed that Lamar University athletics will leave the WAC and return to the Southland Conference. A press conference will announce details Friday morning at 11 a.m.

Lamar going back to SLC

D-line guys have made finalist many times. Never had an O-line guy make finalist and they are rarely nominated. To my memory only one O-line dude has been nominated in the past 6 years.

He was nominated.

Half 40-25 NC

Tied 22-22 than Tar Heels go on 14-0 run. 36-22 NC 2:40 1st half

I've been a voter for many years and it's rare for a WR to make finalist and also a soph. to make finalist.

These are the players I voted for: Offense Kheagan Heckaman QB Hamshire-Fannett Koby Trahan RB PN-G Dre'Lon Miller WR Silsbee Landon Corbit RB Anahuac Defense Darrius Byrd FS Hamshire-Fannett Jayron Williams LB Silsbee Leighton Foster LB Newton Amier Washington DE LC-M

Offensive finalist Lumberton QB Lucas Powell HF QB Kheagian Heckaman LCM RB Da’Marrion Morris PN-G RB Koby Trahan Defensive finalist Jayron Williams, Silsbee Darrius Byrd, Hamshire-Fannett Leighton Foster, Newton Amier Washington, LCM