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Woodville does play Hardin.

3A/4A cutoff is going to be very interesting. Right now there are seven schools between 530 and 536. Only two in the 520's. My guess is the cutoff will be 525, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was a little higher or a little lower. Possible it could stay at 515. I don't know how often the number has stayed the same between alignments. It's going to be a very interesting.

2018-2019 was their first year as a 9-12 campus I believe.

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Hardin, Huffman, and BC were in the Blue Pools. YMBL normally splits 1A-3A and 4A-6A unless a smaller school wants to play up. They did not do that this year. However, most of the 4A-6A schools were in the Blue Pools. I'm not sure how they split it up this year.

They should be just fine. They return just about everyone from last year, including one of the best freshman players in our area.

Liberty is looking.

I wouldn’t say most, but there is a lot. Much more common when you get out of our areas.

Absolutely! How many AD’s have passed through while she has remained? How many straight years did her volleyball teams make the playoffs? How many state championships? Oh, and she happens to have more career victories than any other volleyball coach in Texas history. She still does a lot more than coach golf. A lot of schools have girl coordinators/AD’s.

Nope. Just the name of the city.

Ahhh okay. So he has lost four starters from the beginning of the year?

I agree. I've always thought he has done a very good job. So all three sisters were starters? The girl that broke her hand came off the bench?

From my understanding Buna had three players move (two of them starters), and another starter break her hand. The fact they are still the three seed after losing that much is pretty impressive. According to MaxPreps they beat Silsbee and played Lumberton close when they had their entire team. Those two teams tied for the district championship 22-4A.

One year I was coaching boys basketball and our freshman team was not very good. We had zero A team players from JH and our second best player had not played since he was seven. However, we played extremely hard. There were two games we played that year and I didn't know if we were going to score before halftime. We had trouble breaking the press, and when we did couldn't make a shot. Never did I expect the other team, at any point in the game, to start playing different. It was our job to break the press and make a shot. It was not their job to stop playing the way that they play. Even when their subs came in, those young men needed to play the same way the starters did. I've never understood why people expect the other team to just stop playing. I have been a part of volleyball scores 25-1, 25-2 (both sides of this score), and no one ever expected the volleyball team that was winning to stop attacking the ball. No one expected them to just start sending free balls to give the other team a chance. You have to perfect what you do and Coach Fogo is preparing his girls to play four quarters. If he pulled his starters and stalled once his girls were up big they would only play 1-2 quarters nearly every game. You can't get in game shape that way and that will possibly come back and hurt him in the playoffs when the girls have to play a hard four quarters. I don't see any problem with teams winning big as long as there isn't showboating and gloating going on. As long as they are playing hard, coached hard, and trying to perfect their game I'm okay with it. I coached HF's current girls basketball coach in volleyball and track. She was a very good player and is a very good coach. I promise you she isn't upset about the score. She wants her girls to get better every second and face tough competition. That's why she scheduled HJ in a non-district match-up as well Anyway...just my thoughts since I have been around both of these coaches for 15 years.

Could be because he made the playoffs 6 times in 12 years. In the previous 53 years or so they had only made it 6 times. I know it’s much easier to make the playoffs these days.

How many carries did Wortham have?

I would say 28-18 would constitute as not getting ripped. If I remember right it was 28-12 when PN-G scored. Went for 2 but did not convert. Could have been a one score game. I worked with a guy that was on the offensive line for that PNG team and he said they felt like they were running the ball very well and had they stuck to the run they would have probably won. Maybe Ashly has some running stats from that game. I'm surprised that's all Kendall had on the ground. I felt like he ran for 200 yards.

8 years ago or so Lucas Lovejoy was the first team in UIL history to win state at one classification, move up the next year and win it again. That was part of their 5 straight state championships as they won three in 4A and then 2 in 5A. It would be cool to see it done again.

Back to Back and should win again. The team was mostly sophomores when they won the first title, but they do have a new coach this year.

The only way he wins is if he get Nevada somehow, or there is some type of voter fraud in Arizona, Michigan, or Wisconsin that gets taken to the Supreme Court and they fix it somehow. I'm amazed at what people are voting for.

Personally I do think attendance matters. A true rivalry shuts cities down and everyone is there. It’s not a question if you are going to the game, it’s assumed you are. Of course there are only so many seats. I’ve been to games that had everything that I said, shoot I have coached in volleyball games where the players couldn’t hear you five feet away even if you screamed what you wanted to tell them. I know a lot of basketball games in our area get that intense. But, for me, for it to be rivalry...this has to be the atmosphere every year. One year I’ll have to check out that game. I imagine it’s pretty intense. Two biggest cities in our area facing off.

My thoughts on atmosphere would be everything. The number of fans, the intensity on the field, the bands and drill team in the stands, the thickness in the air, etc. A true rivalry atmosphere doesn’t begin the day of the game. It’s looked at and marked the day a schedule comes out. The atmosphere begins to build then. Each week leading up do it the excitement and nerves get larger. Finally, when that game before is over everything immediately changes in those two school districts. I’ve been to several rivalry games and I’m not sure if anything compares to PNG and Nederland. I haven’t been to all of them so I’m not 100% sure. There is just something different about that game.

Why doesn't atmosphere matter?

I don't know, but I like that decision if true. Randy and Regina have been the heartbeat of that school for years. EXTREMELY successful in the sports they coach and the girls program is successful. The road they have been taking seems to lead to a new AD every few years, and that is not going to work. Why not try something new? The only reason AD is attached to HFC is for money. Someone can be a great HFC, but that doesn't mean they will be a great AD. Someone could also be a subpar HFC but great AD. It's not easy to find someone that's good at both. School systems are stuck marrying those two things and it doesn't always work. It's pretty difficult when new leadership, new vision, and new beliefs come in every 2-3 years. You have to have consistency.

Good hire