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Creek returns kickoff inside Sterling 5

Creek fumbles kick off to start 2nd half recovered by RSS. Sterling scores to tie the game at 7

Creek 7-0 at half

Nah, he didn’t throw his shirt to the ground. Just took it off on the field when he was still representing the team and school. He had a plain shirt underneath but it’s just a bad look, especially after a loss.

These unsportsmanlike penalties by RSS have got to stop.

Baytown Sterling head football coach and campus athletic director took off his Baytown Sterling shirt at mid-field prior to walking off the field after loss to North Shore. If he is that weak and that disgusted, leave! Our city, school district, school and student athletes deserve better. A leader is supposed to instill integrity and character to our student athletes. NOT THE EXAMPLE THAT I WANT FOR MY CHILDREN!

Exactly. Great coaching move there.

None of the coaches addressed the players as a group at the end of the game. Not the HC, not the DC, not the OC. “Bus leaves in 10 minutes boys, lets go.” That is it. A home game. Wow, I am pissed.

It is totally unacceptable for a head coach to take his Sterling Rangers shirt off at mid-field while walking off the field. TOTAL DISRESPECT AND NOT THE TYPE OF LEADER I WANT FOR MY KIDS!!!

We can’t even get the correct number of kids on the field for special teams. Absolute worse set of coaches that I have ever seen in HS football. Most undisciplined disorganized team I have seen. Zero, I mean zero direction for these kids 63-3, start of 4th

49-0 at the half. RSS has 1 first down due to NS penalty

North Shore has run 7 offensive plays and have scored 5 touchdowns. Their D has scored 1. RSS has run 9 plays for a total of -30 yards. 42-0, beginning of 2 Q

Let’s get real here, a good showing for Sterling could be measured by... Defense - hold NS to multiple 3rd and long situations. Multiple punts would be big. Offense - have multiple drives where we are able to put together at least 3 first downs. A score would be big. Special teams - do not allow a kick or punt returned for TD. Play with more discipline than last week cut out the nonsense penalties.

My thoughts exactly. I don’t think I have seen a Sterling team with such lack of discipline. We probably had more penalty yardage than offensive yards. The penalties tonight should have been corrected by this time of year. The negative yardage trying to run backwards to try to out run the D and intentional grounding was horrible. 2 touchdowns in 3 district games...make it 4 after NS next week. I see no passion, no fire from this coaching staff.

19-0 LP end of 3.

LP 9, RSS 0 @ the half

This could be the only district win for one of these two teams. So, who wins and what is going on with LP?

Hill is a great running back. Hawkins is a good RB and even better receiver. Hill did attempt several throws against Channelview...all to Hawkins. You just can't put a square peg in a round hole. They have some decent receivers. Everyone knows Hill or Hawkins are getting the ball 90% of the time. Assign 2 LB to each, corners/DE's contain and you get what we continue seeing. 3 and outs and a dog tired D.

United surprised me for sure. I though RSS would be more competitive. The United D line manhandled our O line. Our special teams were horrible. The one punt returned for a TD where no one downed the ball even though it was bouncing back toward us should not have happened. The other punt return was very similar. The kick off returned for TD was poorly executed and everyone collapsed leaving wide open running. Our offense is going to struggle as long as there is not a threat of a passing game. If opposing defenses only have to key on Hill with the linebackers and let the rest of the team worry about Hawkins pulling and running then it makes for a long day for our defense. RSS did put one drive together when 3rd team QB went in and connected on several passes. I believe that one drive was more than the rest of the game combined. If we can keep defenses from keying on Hill only then we can be a bit more competitive. Our defense was on the field way too long and not enough depth. Our D line is respectable. Our secondary wound up getting burned trying to play the run and then giving up passing yardage. I thought United did an excellent job in the red zone. Too many weapons...running and passing. United QB played well and made plays.

NS 60, King 7 WB 35, United 14 RSS 35, CV 28 DP 18, LP 12 (yep, another Sterling fan here)

KP - I couldn't agree with you more. I know it goes deeper than just the HC.  Players have to take responsibility as well.  But, it starts at the top and the turn over for the past 3 years sure doesn't set much of an example for the kids.

Not the DC.  It was one of the defensive coaches but not the DC.  Coach Carter moved on to Pearland Dawson.  This guy is a rising star.  The kids would run through a brick wall for this guy and then ask where the next wall is.  I have heard from many people that they would love for Coach Carter to be the next head coach at RSS.  He is the type of guy that kids WANT  to play for, they WANT to work hard.  There are just not enough good things one could say about coach Carter. This is why I wish GCCISD would have reassigned or let Addudel go since he has stated this is his last year.  Whoever the new coach is next year will bring in a lot of his own guys.  I do not blame coaches jumping ship for a better or more stable situation.

I think there was only 1 ref that ever threw a flag.  We were hoping that he would tear off a couple pieces to share with the other guys.  :) I thought they could have called pass interference a lot more than they did.  Maybe they just let a little more of that go during 7 on 7.  There were also a ton of false starts that were not called.

I saw that but it looked like it was brought under control pretty quickly.  Maybe there was more to it up close and personal that we couldn't see or hear from the stands.

I know 7 on 7 does not mean a ton but for RSS this was big for their morale.  Having a new OC and going to a pro set offense has the kids displaying a bit of excitement they havent had in a while.  This small taste of success can do nothing but change the culture. They still have a long way to go to be able to beat the top teams in District.  But with continued improvement hopefully they can at least be in some of the games.