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I don't have definitive knowledge on this, but EVERYTHING is more expensive. A few obvious expenditures off the top of my head: a lot more free breakfasts and lunches are given out now, and they cost a lot more to make than they did 40 years ago, and diesel for busses is insane.

We blew a 3-score lead against WOS and lost a 1-point game at Silsbee. We have 4 wins against schools with a 6-3 or better record, and blew them all out. Uncle Sal is acting like we're 2-8 about to play Carthage first round or something. Every team in our path can beat us, but we have a decent shot of winning against any team in our region, and especially on our side of the bracket.

I know they graduated a lot, but they had some nice wins early in the year. Their district as a whole isn't overwhelmingly good. only three teams with winning records, and the third hasn't beaten even an average team all year

much more likely we're playing Canton first round, who's an easier opponent. But Canton could beat Athens.

with all due respect, I've seen enough of your "expert opinions" over the years to actually feel better about our odds after having read this.

Athens is a tough out who we're capable of beating. Canton is a solid team who's played a soft schedule. Their best wins are against a couple of 3A-D1 schools who are going to finish 3rd and 4th in their district. Their result against Athens will tell me a lot more about them, but they seem very beatable. Honestly, looking at our hypothetical road to the state semis, we don't have an easy game, with every team in our path capable of beating us. but we also don't have a single game where we don't have a decent chance of advancing. The region is very competitive this year, but there's not that one team who is head and shoulders above everyone and a clear favorite to advance.

To be fair, Trump’s done a whole lot of that and some of y’all seem to think he’s still done a really good job. So I guess it’s possible to multitask? But also to be fair, he didn’t really get much done with prices and the economy, so you may have a point?

Several socialists won as well

I honestly like HF's chances better against Bellville. Hopefully we get the shot to play them. We have two tough matchups and then a possible rematch against Silsbee. Would love to see it.

As concerning as I find it that Texas has a democrat for a governor, I'm behind just about everything she's pushing when it comes to public schools. If she can accomplish what she's trying to in that regard then some good will come out of all of this. Ending STAAR Firing Morath Auditing no-bid vendor contracts Ending the voucher program Pausing the accountability rating system 4/5 I'm 100% behind, and as for the accountability system, it needs a major overhaul if we're going to keep using it.

probably will be, anyway. Republicans better hope the dems aren't able to quiet the small minority of quacks that have been elected. If the democrats figure it out and move back close to central it'll be a long time before the country is red again. That said, I don't think they're smart enough to figure that out. They're gonna take the blue tsunami as a sign that the country wants open borders and government overreach, higher taxes and socialist policies. If they do that the right will be back in a few years.

has he done anything the last two years to lead you to believe he's going to be reasonable? He's the most unreasonable politician this country has ever seen, which is a big part of why we're in this mess in the first place.

work with him? Like he's worked with them? Why would they? Good news is that some socialist kooks won and are going to further fracture the democratic party. If the republicans get some decent candidates who are actually decent people into the next round of races they should gain some seats back, because stuff is about to get silly. If a third of the party continues to listen to Orange Jesus then the right is going to go further down to toilet.

won't be shocked if it passes. Trump has gone so far off the rails that being affiliated with him has become a losing proposition, as we saw last night.

More than anything I think this vote was a referendum against school vouchers, with a healthy dose of Trump fatigue thrown in.

The Dems are gonna go crazy now thinking people were voting for their policy instead of voting against MAGA

And anyone who distanced themselves from Trump was criticized and not nominated. Leading to awful candidates running in races and a lot of them are going to lose seats the right should’ve easily been able to hold.

I'll be curious to see how Silsbee handles the Shepherd offense. The Silsbee D struggled against Vidor. If they struggle again against Shepherd, you better hope someone knocks out Bellville before round 3.

Don't love it. there's going to be some matchups where both teams have to travel way out of the way to play each other, and others where one basically gets a home-court advantage while the other has to travel long distances. if they're not going to have the semis played at the state tournament then sites should be determined after matchups are determined.

Depends on how Silsbee D handles the run, and how well they can pass the ball on offense. Shepherd D is solid against the run, but we burned them all night through the air, conditions just slowed us down a lot. Silsbee struggled against Vidor earlier in the year, and this matchup should be similar, but the Tigers have improved tremendously throughout the season. I don't know that it'll be 45-16, but I expect a comfortable Tiger win.

Our running game has been pretty good this year, but it’s not a power running game. We have small shifty backs that can break off big chunks, but we’re not a grind it out kind of team. And unlike a lot of teams, our passing game sets up the run instead of the other way around. So with our passing game being somewhat hampered by the weather, and them having some mountains on the line we struggled a little to move the ball after the weather got bad.

They’re just lucky it rained so hard. We had 3 touchdowns in our first 6 or 7 offensive plays. Broussard woulda dropped 60 on them if there had been dry conditions, and that’s not an exaggeration. They couldn’t stop the pass, even when the monsoon came, it was just a lot tougher to make good throws and catch the ball.

Don’t have any stats yet, but my kicker had an incredible game. 3/3 XPs, 1/1 on FGs, 5 of 6 kickoffs for touchbacks, 1 punt for about 40 yds after fielding a low snap. All in about the nastiest kicking conditions you can imagine with a 10-12 mph crosswind pretty much the entire game

This nasty rain is the only thing that stopped this from being over at halftime