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Through 4 contests PNG is only averaging 22ppg. PNG has also given up 40ppg the last couple of weeks. I’m not saying they will but Dayton is more than capable of getting 30+ points on the Indian defense. Dayton also did a good job against the run when they played Crosby, if they carry that same energy into this week’s contest it’s going to be a ball game. If you were to watch the film you would see that Dayton and BH have extremely similar personnel.

I think whoever loses this one is going to have an awful tough time getting into the playoffs. I’m lookin for Dayton to give PNG a very tough game, wouldn’t be surprised to see it turn into a shootout. Dayton’s qb already has over 1,000 passing yards and some decent personnel to work with.

One thing you usually have to do if you want to go deep in the playoffs is run the ball and play defense. I think Abseck is making that BH’s identity. Haggler just had another huge game, 231 yards on 20 carries, and BH rushed for over 400 as a team. Considering the way BH leans on the run game and the way Crosby has been stopping it this year I like our chances there. Another thing that keeps popping up is the rate the BH qb turns the ball over at. Throwing three picks against KP doesn’t bode well when you consider Holdren is going to see a lot better pass rush this week against Crosby. Dayton sold out to stop the run against Crosby and got burned in the passing game. BH’s weakest position group is probably their dbs, if Myles is going to be as accurate and decisive as he was with the football Friday night I think BH is going to have trouble covering Kirkwood and company. I think BH needs to come out and score some points early or this one may get away from them. Crosby’s defense is good and if BH becomes one dimensional on offense it could be a long night for the Eagles.

After losing seven in a row Barbers Hill has won two of the last three contest against Crosby. Last year’s game was more of a regression to the mean with The Hill losing by 27 points in The Jungle. This year Crosby travels to Mont Belvieu in hopes of starting a new streak. Knocking off what looks to be a solid Cougar team would be a great win for the Eagles early in the Abseck era.

@Mr. Buddy Garrity I didn’t respond in the other thread about the BU vs Sterling game because I thought you were being a little harsh on Soulja’s boys. IDK though? I think this game, Friendswood and GCM are probably their only chances at a win though? 0-10 may be more beneficial in the long run though. You hate it for the seniors but at that point I think the AD would have to review what he has going over there. I’m sure there are some young coordinators around that could have BU actually playing like they look.

Quick stats from the game vs Dayton: Cyrin Myles - 7/7 252 yards and 3tds Kameren Kirkwood - 3 catches for 177 yards and 3tds Luke Smith(#2) - 5 catches 83 yards 1td OLB Tyler Cooper(#5) - int return TD He doesn’t really get the notoriety some of our other kids do but Braden Womack is the truth. Kid goes both ways darn near the whole game and plays special teams too. Returned a punt for a TD last night and also had one of Crosby’s 5 ints.

Unless you lined up against them, which Crosby had the pleasure of doing twice, you’ll never understand how good of a high school tandem the Bobino brothers were. Huntsville got good because of that defense and the fact that they had Matthew Southern, which was the head coach’s son, at qb for three years. They dropped 54 on Crosby in the second round in ‘19 and 43 on FB Marshall in the regional final in ‘18. Outside of that they’ve never really been able to score on good defenses. For as big as the Hornets are they play a pretty finesse style of offense. On top of that it’s not very complex because in recent years 21 points has been enough to win them a bunch of games. When Eazy said Maxpreps had rhe 5th best team in the district ranked I guess he was taking about Huntsville?

Dayton really isn’t that bad. They look a lot more like the Bronco teams we used to play physically. Dayton has played the Crosby run game better than anybody so far this season, their dbs are just struggling to cover the Crosby receivers. Dayton had some confidence coming into the game but Crosby has put their best half of the season together so far. At this point both teams just need to be trying to get out of here healthy.

People actually forget that KP has the largest enrollment in the district at 1,888. Texas City also has a larger enrollment than both Crosby and BH. It could be as much as half of the current district that has D1 numbers at realignment. I’m sure the caps will go up so it will probably keep at least two of the four in D2.

Soulja got me worried now. Texas City beat Clear Lake 30-0 the week after Clear Lake beat La Porte. I guess I need to consider TC a factor now if La Porte is that good. They do have Crosby’s old DC as their head coach now though, maybe they’re improving.

Depending on the up coming snapshot numbers from Crosby, this game may go the way of the Sherman/Denison rivalry. Border towns that had been in the same district forever but with the splits to 5A their Battle of the Axe game has become a non-district contest. I’m sure the fans and players would want to keep the game on the schedule as a non-district contest but I’m not sure Coach P would? With a move up in class he may favor playing more challenging teams. I could see us possibly going something like Carthage, CE King and Manvel in non-district and leaving the feel good game with the Broncos off the schedule.

What I’m saying is I don’t believe Durley ever gets the Westbrook job in the first place if he doesn’t win that title in ‘76 at Hebert.

Those facts hurt, huh? Smh, something this imbecilic doesn’t even really deserve a response but I’ll oblige. I’m probably the only racist you know that spends three hours a night watching Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O’Donnell and Brian Williams consecutively while voting for moderate democrats like Hilary and Biden. I don’t know what your obsession is with me but it’s pretty sad in itself, lol.

There were actually 16. I believe all but one or two at the time had played for Smith or Ozen. I’m pretty sure Smith coached 22 pros by himself in total. Hebert’s 1976 UIL title is what I believe ultimately led to Westbrook’s 1982 title, but Beaumont unquestionably had the talent to win several more.

You can’t resist saying stupid stuff like Lake Travis lost to 4th place Round Rock, can you? At least the stuff I say can be backed up with actual data, in this case a court order. But to answer you question, yes. I find it very damning that some of the best athletes in the entire country at the time weren’t allowed to display their talents in the UIL.

PNG could have freshman classes of 500 kids for the next 6 years and wouldn’t move up to 5A-D1. PNG turned in 1,505 on their last snapshot and their enrollment has been stagnant or declining for about the last 20 years on average. They would have to have added 700+ kids in six years to potentially make the D1 cutoff during the ‘26 alignment and I don’t see that data trend anywhere in SETX right now.

I think the folks in Beaumont back then were good with taking L’s as long as their kids didn’t have to go to school with the ones Willie Ray and Clifton J. were coaching.

If I’m interpreting the article correctly, in order to make a 6A split solve the problem adding a 7A class would then the 6A class as a whole would have to have about 330 schools in. It would pretty much be impossible to align 165 schools into 16 districts. However, if you pull the largest 80 schools out of the current 6A to make 7A, keep 250 in 5A and 6A, then you will get a trickle down effect that will close the enrollment gaps in the smaller classes which I think is the UIL’s ultimate goal.

I think the bigger the enrollments the more diminishing the returns from the enrollment gaps. For instance, when Crosby and CE King we’re in the same district we used to beat King a lot. Now King has about 800 more kids than Crosby and has a pretty decent talent advantage. Adding a 4A school(800 kids) to one team that already has pretty equal talent to the other is devastating at an 1,800 student enrollment. On the flip side, if you were to double Crosby’s current enrollment we would have about 800 less kids than North Shore. As it stand right now North Shore would murder Crosby every time we lined up but if you doubled our current talent I don’t think we would have any issue playing with them. North Shore’s advantage of 800 kids with Crosby sitting at 3,600 students means way less than King’s advantage of 800 with Crosby sitting at 1,800. You can only play 22 at a time so I think Allen’s huge advantage is depth that can mitigate injuries, not necessarily quality of the starting talent.

My guess would be October 22nd or October 29th based on the past few realignments. Looks like it's been the last Friday in October recently.

More detailed explanation of what Stepp was talking about in regards to 7A. Also gives examples of who would be in the districts: [Hidden Content]

Well, GCM fans should be somewhat excited. I was at the 7th grade game last night and that new E.F. Green school that just opened on side of GCM has some freaking studs. Other than Cunningham in North Shore I haven't see a group of kids that looked like that in middle school. Their running back will probably have to play varsity as a freshman if he stays at GCM so hopefully we can get him over to Crosby before he needs a PAPF.

Montgomery finished second in that district last year. Montgomery looks better or equal to last year and Huntsville has taken an obvious step back with out the Bobinos and Woodberry. A&M-C got beat by a Willis squad that's not even going to make the playoffs in their six team district. I wouldn't at all be surprised to see Fulshear or Lake Creek knock off one of the top three teams from that district, it's probably more likely to happen than not. Maxpreps is an algorithmic ranking system so their accuracy improves week to week but one thing I always find them good for is identifying teams having plus seasons and putting them on the radar early.

That's because Ennis took Aledo to OT in the 2019 regional final. DC's had them ranked preseason #1 over Aledo and they went undefeated in the regular season which is why Aledo was ranked #2 when we played them in the title game.

I wouldn’t argue with much on there. You know FB Marshall isn’t #13 though and there’s no way Denison should be #6 after getting beat 49-7 at home by Lovejoy last week. The algorithm Maxpreps uses to rank teams probably needs a couple more weeks of data collection. For instance, Crosby was ranked #8 after the PAM game. We didn’t even play last week and 4 of the DCTF 5A-D2 top ten lost, yet we still dropped two spots in the Maxpreps rankings because teams were able to collect more strength points while we sat.