KilgoreAggie98

I can assure you that the teams that live in the top 10 every season don't put any stock in those rankings.

So then you can probably tell we don't live there very often.🤪😆

I've had my eye on Lumberton for several weeks now and they have not disappointed. Very good football team on both sides of the football. A district championship and 3rd round playoff appearance echoes that. Historic territory for L-town. I think Lumberton is capable of winning this game.
That said.... Chapel Hill is a dangerous animal. They may look sloppy on film a lot of the time with turnovers and penalties and such. But make no mistake, they can score the football from anywhere on the field at any time... and their defense can absolutely get after you when they want to. Soph RB Ricky Stewart is the guy you really have to worry about. Kilgore's defense is one of the best in the state and Stewart gashed us for over 200 yds rushing. If you key on him then the QB Brisbon can hurt you just as badly with his legs and arm. They have 3 WR's that are dangerous (not even counting the D1 receiver they lost in week 10 for the season). IMO, the best player on their team is #52 who plays offensive and defensive line. They can definitely be beat, but you'll have to play very clean and be + 2 or 3 on turnovers.
 

I've had my eye on Lumberton for several weeks now and they have not disappointed. Very good football team on both sides of the football. A district championship and 3rd round playoff appearance echoes that. Historic territory for L-town. I think Lumberton is capable of winning this game.
That said.... Chapel Hill is a dangerous animal. They may look sloppy on film a lot of the time with turnovers and penalties and such. But make no mistake, they can score the football from anywhere on the field at any time... and their defense can absolutely get after you when they want to. Soph RB Ricky Stewart is the guy you really have to worry about. Kilgore's defense is one of the best in the state and Stewart gashed us for over 200 yds rushing. If you key on him then the QB Brisbon can hurt you just as badly with his legs and arm. They have 3 WR's that are dangerous (not even counting the D1 receiver they lost in week 10 for the season). IMO, the best player on their team is #52 who plays offensive and defensive line. They can definitely be beat, but you'll have to play very clean and be + 2 or 3 on turnovers.
 

We've all been there at some point. We had a decent, yet injury ridden season several years ago but were still relatively competitive. Jasper took us behind the woodshed in a 1st round game and we looked like we had never seen a football before.

Carthage could probably go toe-to-toe with 95% of the 5A teams in Texas. But, the elite 5A-D1 and 6A teams would just be too big in the trenches for them. But as far as skill players... and probably LB's... they're as good as anybody.

If the Tigers survive it doesn't get much easier.   Counting Carthage, 9 of the top ten in Div 1 made it thru the Area round.  Only Estacado has been knocked out.  La Vega, the Stepford Children at Argyle, Midlothian, Kennedale, all the usual suspects.  On any given night any of those top schools is capable of beating the others.
It's a spectacular Regionals weekend in for 4A Div 1. 
No. 3 Argyle vs. No. 8 Stephenville
No. 4 Kennedale vs. No. 5 Midlothian
No. 2 La Vega vs. No. 6 Canyon Lake
No. 7 Liberty Hill vs. No. 10 China Spring
Carthage is the only surviving top 10 team not facing another top 10 team.  Isn't that interesting?  Is it an easy week for the Bulldogs compared to their fellow Top 10'ers.  Objectively you'd have to say yes.  But.... who knows?
Carthago delenda est.

I don't think anyone will argue that Silsbee will have the fastest, maybe 2 fastest players on the field (although that Ingram kid can burn). But they will have to beat Carthage deep several times to even have a chance in this one.
 
I believe someone posted earlier that Carthage averages 46 ppg on O. What's more impressive than that is that their low is 41 and their high is 50. And they had to start tapping the brakes in the 3rd qtr (or sooner) in 11 of their 12 ballgames just to stay under 50. What's even more impressive than all of that is that 4 of the teams they took behind the woodshed in the regular season are playing in 4A Regional Semi-Final games this weekend.

You know we're all hoping our teams can catch fire and make a deep run in the playoffs.... but those of us from Henderson and Kilgore know what lies waiting in the Regional Finals and it's a scary, scary thing.

Looking forward to the game... I always like seeing us play teams we've never played before. Wise Old Owl was pretty spot on in his breakdown of Kilgore. We do not have the defense we normally have but we do have a very explosive ground game. Turnovers have been a problem, but that's the cost of doing business when you pitch the ball as much as we do.

I apologize for the oversight.... I know Draper is a hoss, who else totes the rock for BC?

I think he only had 450 yds on the season, with 200 coming last week. 

We did a much better job tackling the 6'5" QB than we did the 5'7" QB.
 
 

There is a pretty big drop off in our district after Kilgore and Carthage. Brownsboro is basically a one-man show with their QB. Chapel Hill is finally healthy and playing better, but they've still got warts. Henderson went in the toilet after Carthage thumped them in the district opener.

They were healthy against Carthage. Their 2 best players were out against CHill. 1 of them was out against Bboro.

Who wants to drive in Austin?

Jerry World is the only stadium with enough locker rooms for 4 teams.

Who wants to drive in Austin?

Jerry World is the only stadium with enough locker rooms for 4 teams.

Look back at 2012, Gilmer cruised through the playoffs without breaking a sweat. Then they ran into a fast, mean Navasota defense that totally shut them down. 3 pts. I think WOS has that same type of defense.

WOS defense matches up better against Gilmer than any other team has.

Look back at 2012, Gilmer cruised through the playoffs without breaking a sweat. Then they ran into a fast, mean Navasota defense that totally shut them down. 3 pts. I think WOS has that same type of defense.

WOS defense matches up better against Gilmer than any other team has.

Tatum was not very good. Daingerfield went 1-9. Gladewater was very good, gave up a go-ahead TD to Gilmer with 0:09 left in the game.

Congrats Jasper! Good luck going forward.