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I don't think they respect any of y'all in that district to be honest. They used the word "dominate" multiple times. That tells me a lot about how they're going through the offseason. I think expecting to dominate is a positive thing, not a lot of players/teams would have the stones to say that. The PAM kids seems like they could care less about having a target on their backs for comments of bravado. A lot of swagger and arrogance in their tone . . . I wonder where I've heard that before?

You're the one that said all the stuff about coaching and not needing the top tier players. I'm just saying your great coach got his but kicked by Flannigan who we fired, then called Riordan and asked if he was scared to play only to get his behind whipped again. Neumann has been a head coach for 20+ years, Riordan for only 4. Are you conceding that he's a better coach because he whips you worse than Flannigan did or do all those athletes make a difference? I used 10 years because we're trying to make it relevant BigDog. I know you would prefer to go back to the '90's where your argument holds more validity but once again, how many of the schools that played for 5A state championship last year were even around then? Those recruits helped us helped us go 5-1 against Ned with Neumann at the helm and they also helped us go 6-1 the last seven years against your district in the first round, y'all won the district and Neumann got outcoached by Jim Holley and his 4th place KP team in bi-district. Probably because Jaylen Henderson(UTSA) was a little better than Seay(McNeese) that day, or at least he held on to the ball better. You outlined my point in you very first statement though BigDog. Neumann is a great coach, yet you still have less everything. Count the extra district title if you want but I"ll chalk that one up to playing in a district with Dayton and Summer Creek.

The majority of the state is growing except for SETX which is why just one district over Crosby can be the sixth smallest of nine schools with 1,668 kids. LCISD already opened Fulshear and they'll end up being a powerhouse too, just like Foster is. Katy is Katy but tradition means very little to the kids that are too young to remember it now days. Just as an example, out of the four 5A teams to make the state championship games Cedar Park was the only school open prior to 2010, and Cedar Park just opened in 1998.

You haven't knocked off highly ranked teams. You've knocked off one highly ranked team within the decade and just like I already said in the previous post, the only reason for that was because you literally couldn't run the ball up the middle with Washington in there which is exactly what Dawson liked to do at the time. The very next year against a coach that was familiar with the game plan Ned wanted to implement, and still with Washington in the fold, Riordan put 56 on Neumann. Why was that BigDog? Did Neumann have a bad day or did Keenan Murphy(Houston) straight whip Washington head-up several times and let Walter(Rice) get through the hole for part of the 300 he put on y'all?

Yes they did. You think George Ranch had a bunch of talent but did you see Ridge Point's roster though? They had Grant Carlson(Boston College), Shyler Slaton(Air Force), Marcus Montemayor(Alcorn St.), Travis Bruffy(Texas Tech), Jack Greene(Rice), Terry Petry(Houston), Mustafa Muhammad(#8 overall recruit in Texas) and BJ Rainford(rushed for 2000). Not to mention they had a 700 kid enrollment advantage which allowed them to put a bigger, stronger and faster squad on the field than we were able to. Ozen doesn't always have D1 athletes and Ned doesn't do less with more. Ozen has one or two D1 kids sometimes but they also have an enrollment disadvantage. Ned does less with less which is why the last decade even though we've fired a coach we still have better everything than Ned; winning percentage, regular season wins, district win, playoff wins, etc. When Ned had Deshawn Washington(#3 DT in country) and the other two guys they were salty on the state level, when they don't they're run-of-the-mill. Neumann is supposed to be a great coach but outside of the district he doesn't do much when he doesn't have the better talent, he even got outcoached by Flannigan both times they matched up. There comes a point in time when it doesn't matter how well you coach or execute because the kids on the other side of the field are so good, it still won't work.

How was I basing anything off of last year's team when I said " . . . . the most athletic team we've put on the field since '09"? When I said "We only won one game by a TD or less during the regular season last year and once we start district play I think that's how it will go again this year.", it's because I believe once we get through non-district against Manvel and Houston Heights I think we'll go undefeated in district again. I can see you're a little deficient in comprehension skills. And you statement "You can brag about all the talent you want, but it doesn't come down to who has the most D1 recruits, comes down to team football with no mistakes and execution on both sides of the ball along with coaching! smh", is far from true. Once you get to a certain level in the playoffs everybody there can coach, the difference is in the playmakers you have on the roster. Do all of those have to be D1 kids? Of course not. Crosby beat Angleton 34-0 last year and it could've been a lot worse, PNG literally couldn't stop ANY play Angleton ran last year no matter what the staff tried. Is that great coaching or is it having the ability to turn and toss it to Billy Foster and let him run over, through and around much less athletic defenders PNG put on the field? You better look around the state and see who's winning in the bigger classes man. Katy does it less talent than some of their opponents but they'll still have 8-10 D1 kids throughout the roster. Lake Travis is seen similarly but have produced Garrett Gilbert(#1 QB in country and national player of the year), Baker Mayfield(Heisman candidate) and Michael Brewer(starting qb at Va. Tech) pretty recently. This isn't the '70's guy, you need players in today's game, and a lot of them.

I think Katy is going to have trouble in D1 with North Shore, The Woodlands, Pearland, Dickinson, Cy-Ranch and maybe even Cinco Ranch from their own district. I think it will take a year for them to get the defense back to suffocation status but you never know? I definitely think they get one with Glass and I also think he'll finally be the highly rated Katy back that produces in college comparable to his star rating coming out of high school.

6A-D1 - Trinity over Katy 6A-D2 - Desoto over Cibolo Steele 5A-D1 - Denton Ryan over Cedar Park Well . . . . Y'all knew it was coming. 5A-D2 - Crosby over Aledo

Great discussion, being an Econimics major I have some different view points I would like to discuss in this forum but I never have before and won't anymore. Politics makes you lose friends, lol. Hopefully this kind of stuff ends in my lifetime, have a good one and peace out.

All in all what you just said is that you're scared which is my point. You're scared and nervous when you show up before even knowing the situation and you end up acting accordingly which is exactly what you're trained NOT to do. My wife smarted off because there was another white couple smoking cigarettes on the other side of the garage and he never stopped to mess with them, she never used one profane word but she did bring up their race in which his comment was "well maybe YOU shouldn't be here." Which is when I stood up empty-handed, tired of walking all day and annoyed he was bothering us. No matter how I stood up he was going to interpret like I could beat his ass, which I easily could've in a different setting. No taser, no mace, no radio, just instant fear and hand straight to the weapon. Thats weak as hell and you're weak as hell too. You're exactly the type guy that doesn't need a badge or gun but exactly the type guy that gets them sometime. I guess that's what makes America great though, we can all believe whatever makes us feel good.

One of my best friends live in north Dallas and told me there are people supporting the killer, some have R.I.P signs. It's ridiculous. I think his is what 300 years of systematic racism looks like as it comes to the point of a near civil insurrection though. My surname is a Louisiana slave name from circa 1718 in the New Orleans area. My grandma will tell you we arrived in chains, broke free of those so they lassoed us and hung us from trees, cut down the trees so they put up a fence(Jim Crow/segregation), jumped over the fence and now we're too close to the porch so they shoot us for being on their property. All of this takes place over a quarter-millennium but we're truly only given 50 years to juxtapose the position for fear of being seen as lazy or a drain on society. That's a tough ask for a group of people that were legally devoid of any education or financial holdings for the first couple of centuries of their "immigration" if that's what you want to call it. I don't support the BLM movement at all, more black people are killed on the south side of Chicago every year than the police could ever kill in that time frame. I already knew but the information BigDog posted is good too. Questionable killings have been going on since Reconstruction, now we just have cell phone cameras to record them. When you still have people that vividly remember police officers being involved in things like the murders of the Freedom Riders or can recall times they were hosed down for trying to organize voters I think those types of incidents mixed with what's going on today will create a radical culture for some, such as the guy last night, to identify with.

Yeah, it even hit here too. One of the slain officers was our defensive coordinator's brother.

I don't. I'm of the opinion that if a black guy shot 9 people worshiping in a church in the south that he would have killed being taken into custody, no matter what his actions were. Then there would have been a "fact" justifiable in your eyes for him to be killed. Same as the way you obviously feel there was a fact that's got Mike Brown killed, he roughed some people up prior and was probably a thug but a trained professional officer should be able to handle that situation without using his weapon on an unarmed man. You probably also feel there was a "fact" that got the 17 year old killed after being shot 16 times with the gunfire being initiated by an officer who was on the scene less than 30 seconds. It's not rocket science man. I have a good buddy at work who used to be a cop and still volunteers in Chambers County sometime. I told him about a time I got pulled over on the way back from New Orleans by a DPS officer in which he made me get out of the car for a speeding ticket. The officer cuffed me for "his safety" while he ran my information. He gave me a warning for doing 5 over and told me they had been having problems wit guys running drugs on that stretch of I-10 as he uncuffed me. My buddy said that was completely the wrong way for the cop to go about it then said, "the bleeped up part about it is I would've probably done the same thing given the situation." I had on a muscle shirt, I have several tattoos and I bench press a little over 400lbs. He admitted there's an intimidation factor. Something similar happened to me this past weekend while at the Essence Festival. I was staying at the Westin on Canal street and from about the 7th floor in our parking garage there was a good view overlooking the Harrah's casino. My wife was standing taking pictures and I was sitting in front of her tired on one of those parking blocks. This officer kept rolling by and she mentioned "I bet he thinks we're not supposed to be here". I told her he was doing his job, then he stops and gets out of the car. He asks us what we're doing here, just like she mentioned. I was pissed, one because she was right and two because the guy was now obviously just messing with us because we didn't fit the profile of who should be there. I was going to let him pass because I've dealt with stuff like that before but my wife sort of smarted off and he said a few more things so I stood up off the parking block somewhat agitated but far from aggressive. He immediately started studdering, unstrapped his weapon, and kept his hand on it. No doubt in my mind I get shot even if I do so much as reach for my wife's hand to tell her let's go. I smiled, shook my head and said "chill man, I'm about to walk over to the elevator, we're staying on the 28th floor and here's my key." His whole tone changed, he said "Aw man there's no problem, have a good time." The problem isn't that the officer stopped, we're too far gone as a society to change that. The problem is that you don't see a problem with what he did in the first place. A situation where I could've easily been killed by a nervous cop and a situation you would've never had to deal with.

I don't think there are many moderate Americans in SETX to begin with. It's heavily conservative and then there's just the "other side". I do somewhat agree with what the gist of your point is though, and that's coming from a guy who had his uncle hung for wearing his military uniform. It's pretty sad JFK gets killed in the segregated southern city of Dallas for supporting legislation which is basically a synonym for the current BLM movement, then over a half century later 5 police officers get killed right up the street in the same city for the same legislation Kennedy died behind not being ratified. The moderate Americans you speak of realize there's a problem when a guy can kill 9 people worshiping in a church and the police do everything possible to bring him into custody alive, yet a guy gets killed on camera with his daughter in the back seat and we "have to wait on facts." I'll continue to wait and be moderate for the 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown vs Board of Education that says "separate is inherently unequal" to come to fruition . . . Others won't.

I mean, that's kind of a solid post. You're going in way too much on Harrison but I think you hit every other topic squarely. I think you're going to find that against 5A level competition, all of a sudden he'll be a lot better coach in your eyes. I think the hire from the Crosby staff will also help out. As far as the other topic it's funny how you mention the things you did about the teams you did. Make a long story short we talked about different views and expectations in different places. The crescendo to the conversation was how many places in Texas, much less SETX, would basically run two coaches out of town after going to the playoffs for 12 consecutive years if you combine the end of the two tenures. It's exactly what Crosby and Dayton did, I think that says a lot about how winning is defined in different places which reverts back to your post, minus the Harrison stuff which I don't agree with.

The recent data says otherwise but this look like a year 22-5A is pretty close. 21-5A's strength will be solely dependent on how well Humble, New Caney and Kingwood Park perform.

Grace looking nice in preparation for his last year as a Crosby Cougar before he suits up for the UH Cougars in '17:

Crosby QB interview :

I didn't realize the other one was old yet, but we have a new, bigger and better replay board going up replacing the old one. There will also be endzone bleachers which I would imagine brings the stadium capacity pretty close to 10,000. As far as single high school districts go, I think it's going to be pretty hard to compete with Crosby's facilities once everything is finished.

There are guys that are known for hitting hard and there are guys that deliver what I like to call "decision makers". Meaning after he hits you, you have to decide rather or not you would like to continue playing football. He's already rated as the #55 overall CB prospect in the country and most likely a couple of inches away height-wise from being a national recruit like Netherly and Williams. Either way I know there are a lot of backs and receivers that will be glad this is Taylor Perry's last year terrorizing 21-5A: [Hidden Content]

. . . . And if he's healthy I think Dayton will be trending up towards the end of the season. I just worry the same thing with Nations not calling plays might effect him too since he basically hasn't taken any qb reps for two years. Offense wasn't really the problem anyway though, Dayton has always seemed to be able to scheme up points on you. Their problem the last few years has been stopping the other team's offnse.

Lol, yeah if that's how you want to look at it. With Splendora, Porter and Caney Creek in the district I would imagine y'all only need two legit wins to get in the dance. Hopefully y'all find some physicality so we can get back to tag teaming Mid-County like we're supposed to.

Newton wins title over Canadian is their prediction.

They only ranked 4A-D1out to 20 teams. BC not in the rankings.

22-5A 1. Nederland 2. PA Memorial 3. PNG 4. Central 5. Lumberton 6. Vidor 7. Ozen 8. Livingston 9. Lee What enrollment number did Central turn in this year? According to this prediction they would go D2 with 1,471.