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I know people will come with more of the "split division caused the blowout" stuff, and I get it. But Bryson is 29-4 this year with two losses in district to #2 Whitt-Perrin (once by 4 points) and another loss to a 5A school. It's not like Bryson is some scrub that flubbed their way into 5 playoff wins to make it this far. They beat some ranked teams in the playoffs to get here as well.

brutal.

(-11) Duncanville vs. Bellaire Katy Jordan vs. Denton Guyer (-7) (-8) Beaumont West Brook vs. Birdville (-5) Fort Bend Marshall vs. Mansfield Summit Houston Washington vs. Dallas Kimball (-9) (-7) Houston Wheatley vs. Kennadale (-9) Tatum vs. Columbus (-19) Kountze vs. Paradise (-3) Hearne vs. Meyer Lipan vs. Martin's Mill (-9) (-6) Perrin-Whitt vs. Valley (-11) Jayton vs. Bryson

Kinda ironic that I accidentally stumbled across this thread today in the most unlikely way. I wasn't looking for anything to do with West Brook or Mike Thomas. That said, there's a lot of interesting back and forth on the thread, and due to recent events I read through it all. I know the other coaches named in the thread would've found success with this talented team, but pretty much every one of them has struggled in their new positions elsewhere to varying degrees. I'm not saying they aren't good coaches, but it's safe to say that Mike T has shown everyone at this point that he was the best man for the job.

Sitting under a republican mandate, watching your programs, insane woke agendas and money pit projects get taken away... this sort of thing is all y'all have left. It's funny watching it play out in the media, and on here as well.

As a somewhat moderate conservative I had real hopes that the dems would take a lesson from this last election cycle and move back to the middle some. Not because I want to vote for them, but because with the two parties so polarized it's difficult to get a lot of things done. But I guess this is the next best thing. If everyone is doing okay at the end of 4 years Vance will cakewalk to victory in the next election. Maybe then the libs will figure out where they went wrong, I dunno.

I don't hate it, but am in agreement with splitting the districts before the season. that way it doesn't feel like teams get to "dodge" certain schools because they got lucky and two teams with higher enrollment than them made the playoffs in their district. that said, I don't hate the extra games, or the extra opportunities for schools to make a deep run. When four teams make the playoffs from each district, it's kinda hard for me to argue that the split is what's watering down high school sports. Having HF and BC girls play each other for a shot at making the state semis was pretty special a few weeks ago, for both teams and communities. If things hadn't been split it's likely neither team would've had that opportunity. I can promise you that none of the HF girls who took their team further than it's been since the 1960s were sitting around thinking "this isn't an accomplishment because they split the divisions." It meant everything to them, and to their fans.

Pretty wild that before tonight La Marque had two losses on the season, both to vidor a couple of days apart. And they had a very good chance to win this one, just couldn’t quite finish it off

Congrats on a great season, coach! You’re building something special over there!

Kountze matches up with the same school that the girls just beat in the final if I’m not mistaken.

Birdville 77, Frisco Heritage 71. Final

Mansfield Summit 48, Killeen Ellison 40. Final

FBM 47, Alamo Heights 29. Final

Houston Washington 76, Austin LBJ 56. final

Meyer 58, Ropes 51. Final

Paradise 48, City View 42. Final

So it IS possible for us to agree on something 😀. He’s done a fantastic job!

CCVM got a little dirty there at the end. The Brook did a great job not getting sucked into anything that could affect them next game. What a performance!

Fantastic season for Onalaska! Hard to go out that way, but what a year!

Just got it going, thanks

Stream working, or still down?

Wild

This is my last post on this because the argument is so dumb, but how many years did you work in Beaumont? Drive across town from home to work daily? Im not worried about when your mom drove you around when you were 11, or when you drove around as a teen from home to school or wherever you went to hang out. As an adult I drove the same route across Beaumont twice a day more days than not for TWELVE years. You may have been born there, but I know from your age and your work history I drove there a whole heck of a lot more than you ever did. More often than not it was a 30 minute commute. Sometimes a little less, sometimes a little more, depending on traffic. While I went from one end of town to the other, I wasn’t quite going to the outer edges of either side of the district map. Bussing to one high school would be a nightmare unless they built a brand new campus in the middle of town somewhere.

Kountze is unreal tonight! 68-19 going to the 4th!

Well, you’d know better than me. I only made the commute for 11 years. Actually 12 if you count the year I went to Lamar. as for your second point, I’m not arguing they’d get better, but you’d have to make a whoooole lot of changes before they’d be a good 6A team. It’s not like they combine and get to keep playing the Baytown schools