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If PAM is even semi-competent on offense this year they should be able to muster 40-50 points against KP's defense. They're very PNG-like where most of their good athletes play on the offensive side of the ball, they haven't had a decent defense since 2014. I think if KP finishes 3rd it's going to be because they're better than people are predicting, not necessarily because the district is worse. I don't think y'all will have much issue with Lee. I was looking through some of their stuff and didn't realize how much Trudell Berry impacted their outcomes last year. He was far and away their best player and signed with Vanderbilt after being recruited by Aston Walter. I love Lee's coach but they simply don't have enough at the line of scrimmage to consistently compete.

I was feeling like Baytown Lee would probably be the 4th place finisher this year but I think I’ll switch my prediction to Kingwood Park. I liked the sophomore QB they put in against Crosby and eventually finished the season with. I didn’t realize that #4 kid that played receiver for them had that great a year? He had 1,004 receiving yards on 62 catches with 11 tds on a not very good team. The thing I value most when making a prediction about a team’s season is if they have a returning QB. KP has that, IDK what their returning linemen look like but assuming they start Jaxson Sims(sophomore) they still have the 6’5” kid who started the season at QB and will probably be a factor somewhere else? KP may give somebody some unexpected trouble this year if they figure out how to make a stop or two during a football game.

Saw Jahmar Sanders go 10.5 in the 100M at the area meet in Barbers Hill last week. Glad we won’t be seeing him next year in district play. List of Houston area kids from our district to look out for in 8-5A-D1:

I’ve said it countless times over the years but two things I hate placing any value in are JV records and 7on7 scores. That being said, to somewhat break my own rule I’ll say based on what I saw yesterday at the 7on7 tournament in Dickinson that Crosby has more than sufficient talent to cover the losses at the skill positions from last year. The two places I was concerned were the defensive line and the secondary. Even with the loss of Kirkwood it looks like the secondary will be better overall. We’ll see about the d-line in Spring ball, which starts next week, but the LB core looks so solid with the Summer Creek transfer finally being eligible that we just need to find three guys to keep them clean vs a McCoy Casey type dominant replacement up front we were going to miss. Myles threw for 32 tds and 3 ints last year. When a kid knows he can take off and most likely pick up the first down it’s hard to get him to take more chances with the football. However, I would gladly take two additional interceptions added to that total if it meant the opportunity for another 8-10 touchdown receptions by our receivers. 40 tds and 5 ints doesn’t sound that bad. As long as we stay/stayed healthy Crosby was going to be in good shape this year just due to the talent in this range of classes we have playing varsity right now. Depending on how the line of scrimmage shakes out between Spring ball and Fall camp, we might be in very good shape.

I was in Dickinson last week at the track meet and was informed by a PAM fan that they would be rebuilding this year and not to expect too much from them🤷🏾‍♂️ Later on in the conversation he tells me that moving into the district with PAM was the best thing that could’ve happened to Crosby because they would “really” get us ready for the playoffs versus the district we played in the last couple of years🧐 I know some people didn’t like Kenny Ray but this guy made a very good argument for why they should’ve kept him in relation to all sports results, not just football.

Maybe Coach Poth? Coach Prieto is already an AD, is winning big, has a bunch of talent coming though the program and won't at all be impressed with Huffman's facilities in comparison to Crosby's. Coach Mac was there 16 years and had a .601 win percentage, two 10-win seasons and only one district championship. Right now it's not a job that's going to move the needle for a high level coach. It's absolutely a solid job but if y'all don't hire from within then you're probably going to end up with a smaller school coach looking for a pay day or coordinator/lower level AC looking for an AD job. Even the last three BH "splash" hires were guys coming from AC positions that got the AD bump.

Not being investigated doesn't mean you didn't have knowledge of what was going on. Moreover, not knowing your team is committing felonies shows a lack of institutional control. It's no different than SMU coaches not knowing players were receiving additional benefits and the school receiving the death penalty for their lack of institutional control. Nobody but their defenders believe the SMU staff didn't know what was going on, same for Baylor. Does it sound a lot better to say Briles had kids on his teams for years that he didn't know were committing felonies? The last person I would want on my sideline overseeing kids is someone who was so disconnected from the happenings that he didn't realize his players were raping people. None of that was the case with Briles anyway though. One of the assault victims has texts she exchanged with Jeff Lebby, who was the OC at the time, detailing the attacks. Maybe Lebby didn't tell Briles(which he absolutely would've told his boss)? In regards to another victim she said the player told her "Briles already knew about it" and just told him to "stay away" from her. Most times when organized crime bosses get indicted it's not from they themselves being investigated, it's due to the crimes of their underlings. There are also lots of times when those guys skate by because there's not a direct connection made, doesn't make them any less culpable though. I went to Crosby High, South Dakota State and Texas A&M-Commerce so I never had my cheeks clapped by any team Briles coached. Most of the cheek clapping I'm aware of on here happens to the Bride City cheerleaders they dress up as players for Friday nights.

Crosby is the only team in the district that finished above .500 that also brings back their starting QB. Myles had the best statistical season for any QB in Crosby's history last year, if he improves the way Walter, Cotton and Howard did between their junior and senior years I don't think Crosby will lose any regular season games. Walter, Cotton and Howard went a combined 28-2 during the regular seasons of their senior year. I think the benefit of having an additional year of practice over the last two seasons will really show this season. Crosby's average margin of victory in district play was 33.3ppg last year and I really don't see that dropping much this year. That long bus ride to PA is going to suck though.

What's the difference in believing Jameis Winston's accuser versus the women at Baylor? Why are you putting stock in what the news said about him? Winston was never charged with a crime even after an investigation while it was documented that Art Briles knew about and helped cover up multiple felonies from 2012-2016.

That’s the issue. Crosby is a real good team and definitely state tourney caliber, but BU is a great team and the defending state champion. Maybe PJ goes for 50 and we win on a buzzer beater though🤷🏾‍♂️

Unfortunately I agree. Boys basketball is the only UIL sport BU can beat Crosby in. Both PJ and Elkington need to go bananas and even that probably won’t be enough. We were one game away from state in football and will probably fall one game shy of the state tournament in basketball too. Who knows though, maybe BU comes out overconfident because of the last two games and Crosby puts some medicine on them?

Not really. We already beat them earlier this year when they were ranked even higher.

The dude literally injected himself in the conversation to bring up BH. He knows absolutely nothing about the schools we were discussing. If I was hating feel free to point out anything I said that was untrue. BTW, I bet there are a bunch of people in Barbers Hill that would love to live by Andrew Luck in Memorial, some of the big execs. in West University Place or by some of the professional athletes in River Oaks. Most of those refinery salaries won't cut it out there though.

I think Flannigan really wanted the job and probably would've been the best hire PNG could've made. I'm pretty sure he's on the back 9 regarding his coaching career and may have been looking to get closer to his eventual retirement destination. He would also get the administrative AD position which he hasn't had since he coached at Crosby which was probably appealing also. I doubt it was about the money, he could've flirted with bigger openings in the Houston area if that was the case. I understand the excitement over the last name but it kind of feels like the Jeff Nations hire by Dayton after he had been out of football for a while. Nations was an elite level OC when Jerry Stewart was there supervising, he wasn't a very good head coach though. I hope it's a grand slam hire for PNG but the main question I have is what kind of staff will he be allowed to bring in/build with a bunch of guys already there that have ties to PNG? Is the PNG administration good with him coming in a firing everybody so he can build his version of a winner?

I don't think you're making that up at all. I'm saying it sounds like a fairytale compared to both sets of my grandparents' stories. My dad worked at the same place I do. When he hired on in April of 1977 as a 19 year old they used to scald the water fountain after he drank from it but he came from nothing so he dealt with it. In the same control center he worked for 37 years there's a picture of my grandpa circa 1950. He was called an "operator" but only made a fraction of the wages because of his color. Both sides of my family come from Louisiana plantations and my great grandpa share cropped in Big Cane on the same fields his family worked. When my grandpa was young the Klan burned down his school and he never went again because they never built another one. Plessy vs Ferguson made that common throughout the south though. Imagine being my uncle and having to fight the world's greatest racist in a segregated military then coming home and not being able to drink from the same water fountain as a German POW? I'm not going to really get more into it than that but that's the soft side of things. To understand the crime situation in the cities you named you would have to first understand the timeline from Reconstruction though the Jim Crow era and the reasons for their flight to those cities. If you're a share-cropper with no education things don't change a bunch because you moved to Chicago or New York. You go there because you can go to a better school or not get a cross burned in your yard for trying to register to vote. I know people like you will never understand this but you don't go from the vast majority of the population not being allowed to learn to read to even where your grandpa was in one or two generations. Not to mention not being able to own property, get a loan or be considered for gainful employment at a fair wage. Imagine how much better off my dad and his siblings would've been if my grandpa was paid a fair wage and could buy a house and property that appreciated in value to hand down? I never said poverty was an excuse, I said it was the main reason along with some other things you would disagree with like much easier access to guns. If you don't understand the reasons just say that because I can absolutely guarantee you've never pulled up in a housing project on the south side of Chicago and talked to the residents like I have, or hung out on Crenshaw or in Inglewood in LA like I have or been in those 40 story housing authority buildings in Brooklyn like I have. You're making generalizations based on sketchy data analysis but I wouldn't expect anything more from you. You can have it though, it's literally not even worth the time anymore these days.

Crosby's average margin of victory in district play last year was 33.3ppg and considering what we bring back I expect similar results in this district if we stay healthy. I think those two games you mentioned will certainly be our toughest but I don't expect them to be near as hard to finish as they were last year. While BH may finish with a slightly better record I don't expect their team to be as good overall. Their stats aren't all the way complete but from what I can make of it they're losing their top 8 tacklers on defense, a couple of good o-linemen, the best backfield I've seen them with and now their top receiver for most of, if not, all year. It's going to take a solid coaching job just to make sure they don't lose to anybody they're not supposed to, especially early in the year. PAM probably had the best QB/receiving group combination in the coverage area, yet they become very Spring Westfield-ish when it's time to score on good competition. It's odd that with that caliber of athlete they don't score more efficiently when called for but it's kind of been their M.O. lately? Still, it will be a long ride down to Jefferson County and it's always going to be interesting with the type game-breakers they can put on the field. Who knows though? Crosby has a history of going through district play undefeated only to lose the last game of the year. Maybe GCM pulls the shocker?

99 is saving us from what? We're getting more benefit from the development of Generation Park in Sheldon which is the main reason CE King's enrollment has exploded. Sheldon is one of our neighboring districts, 99 is miles away from Crosby and doesn't have much to do with the flow of people leaving East Houston to move there which has been happening for 15+ years. If anything Crosby is becoming a less desirable place to live for some due to the traffic and steep rise in housing costs.

That's not really why the coach quit, plus we got a state finals appearance out of the deal along with another trip to semis. I think everybody salvaged the situation for the best at the end of the day.

Surratt is a great coach but let's not act like most years he doesn't have the most talent in his class. He's not going to Deer Park where he'll be three deep at every position due to them have 4k students and beating Jon Kay at North Shore. Rick Rhoades won three titles in his first six seasons at Cameron Yoe and lost in the title game in his 7th. I'm sure the folks in Cameron thought he was on a similar path and the best thing since sliced bread. He moved up a couple classes to Gregory Portland, had a deeper roster and never even made the playoffs in his five year stint because his talent comparable to the class had dropped so much.

It would be very, very hard to find someone that lived in Katy or Cypress who wanted to move to Mont Belvieu which would be a better comparison size and school district wise versus comparing Arlington to Houston. Mont Belvieu is just refinery workers from Baytown that wanted to live in a more homogenous community. That's why they're mad about those "cheap" $200k houses being built that's allowing more democrats to move in. I was watching the middle school track meet last week and couldn't tell the difference between the Barber Hill and Cunningham's relay teams except for the BH teams were usually in the back.

Well, we can agree that's the case for some parents. I just know if I'm a parent with a big time player that he's much more likely to have success post high school playing at other places so that's where I would take him. Just watched players from Arlington Lamar, Arlington Martin and Arlington Heights all playing on the same team win Super Bowl rings. Forget the superstars like Myles Garrett coming out of Martin, imagine how many "average" kids you have to pump out just hit those numbers? Imagine being Ryan Newsome(mysterious 4* transfer from LD Bell) and transferring to play your last two years at Aledo only to have to come back after you become a pastor and do an event in support of kids other Aledo students were "auctioning off"? I'm good with that, those parents with star kids who prefer that can have it. My kids already make A's so I'll just stop in Arlington and deal with the traffic so he can play against better competition.

Love watching 7v7 but not a huge fan of my kids playing it outside of school settings. Hearing BH may have just lost their best returning player to an ACL at a recent tournament. Hopefully he can have an Adrian Peterson type recovery, I would prefer to beat them at full strength.

I didn't dramatize anything. Watch the documentary. Aledo got two transfers that were ruled eligible. The qb they beat Crosby with was a transfer and was ruled eligible, meaning they legally acquired the kids. This isn't string theory bro.

A northern Houston area high school too?

If you can't understand something as simple as what a good or bad coach is then I definitely don't expect you to understand things like talent acquisition.