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You’re right. A blind squirrel may find a nut. He’s not finding one four weeks in a row against an undefeated #5, #4, #3 and #7 when nobody else has all year though. You’re saying “anybody in their right mind . . . “, but Crosby came into last year preseason top 10. DC’s said we were loaded and we eventually started playing like it. You look at the last 10-15 years of 2nd round losses Crosby has had and you figure we would learn something, mainly to play defense. The law of averages says we’re eventually going to win some. As far as last year’s run there wasn’t really anything flukish about it. We had just as good or better personnel than everybody we lined up against in the playoffs except Aledo. Again, I point to the 4x100M state title to highlight what type of athletes Crosby had on the field. I said three years ago teams like Crosby would be huge benefactors of splitting the class into two divisions. In 2015 Crosby was 11-0 when they faced FB Ridge Point in the 2nd round. Carlos Grace had torn his ACL which already put us at a huge disadvantage but either way we were blown out once again in the 2nd round of the 5A-D2 playoffs. The very next year Ridge Point went 11-1 and lost by a FG in the 2nd round of the 6A-D1 playoffs. We were in a 5A-D2 playoff game with nearly 1,000 less kids. That was one of the more extreme examples but those are the type situations we would run into. At the end of the day a loss is a loss though. The UIL gave Crosby a break with realignment and we were good enough to be able to capitalize a few years later, mainly because of the increased impact of our personnel with the cut down enrollments. As long as we’re in D2 Crosby is going to be a factor. A good season for us this year would be going 9-4/10-3 with a third round loss to FB Marshall but two or three years from now don’t be surprised to see us right back in the title game if we stay in D2.

True, but the whole issue here is that they’re going to give it to him now just based on the hype. Meaning he can cash in before they know he can’t play. Same with Bryce Young at Alabama this year. He’s the starter for now but may get beaten out down the road. Doesn’t matter though, he’s already signed nearly $1M in NIL deals. [Hidden Content] I can see a bunch of big time recruits like Ewers reclassifying down the road to take advantage of financial opportunities. I know if I was one of these players’ “agent” I would want him to. Offers may not be there if the kid tears his ACL his senior year. Probably see more kids sitting out like Jaydon Blue did this year too, have to protect near future earning potential.

Exactly. Before last year he would’ve said “Crosby will never play for a state championship anytime soon.” I hope we don’t have to make another run like we did last year. I hope we get to play two 4th place teams, a second and third place team like we did in ‘14. We got the district champion rounds 2-6 this year.

We’ve won just as many as Manvel? I really only count state titles post PVIL, I think it more accurately reflects the modern era. In that case I saw zero for the four Port Arthur schools listed. Lol, it’s crazy that when a school has a supporter articulate enough to highlight the work the kids and staff put in that sarcasm is the de facto reply. You would think they could at least conjure a formative rebuttal. Undoubtedly not though?

I think when he says it's "unfortunate" he's alluding to the Texas high school NIL rules that would negate his eligibility which is his whole reason for leaving. Not unfortunate that he's going to either make money or compete for a state title. I think he's being honest that he would've preferred to stay but is being forced to make the smarter decision by taking the money instead. I always revert back to "What if they find out down the road he can't play?". He would've missed out on a huge payday for another semester of high school memories he probably already has plenty of.

Wow, this is a Nostradamus level epiphany right here. Now tell me the reason they would want to give this particular teenager seven figures if he couldn't play football?

My sentiments exactly. We were going to scrimmage the Cowboys but they backed out because they were worried about Dak being ready for the pass rush coming the ankle injury.

Crosby vs Mosquitoes 8/19 in Angleton

So basically you’re saying over the last decade Crosby has been blown out once each by Pearland Dawson, Elgin, Cedar Park, FB Ridge Point, FB Marshall, Manvel and Aledo? Outside of that they’ve they’ve pretty much mopped the floor with the Houston metro. Even though we’ve literally cleaned out all the other 5As in the Houston area outside of Manvel, FBM and Foster we “usually get our clocks cleaned” when we head west of the San Jacinto? There a WHOLE bunch of teams west of the river that would beg to differ. Doing some rough math our win percentage is about .750 against Houston area teams the last 10 years or so.

Two regional titles in the last 7 years sounds better to me but to each his own. You can reach all the way back to '57 if you need to but it still won't change the trajectory Crosby's on or the surrounding THSF landscape. We got a late start after Brown vs Board of Education and were hampered with Jimmy Dickey. Looks like we may have all that stuff figured out now.

Over these recent alignments Crosby is averaging about a 5-6% growth rate. Taking an average of 5.5% x our stated enrollment of 1,818 would put us at 1,918. The current D2 cutoff is Waltrip at 1,918. I'm hoping the D2 cap moves up to about 1,940 but there's a good chance Crosby has outperformed it's recent growth numbers and could come in closer to 1,950 though. Here's to hoping we're the Highland Park of D2 this year.

Dayton is still Crosby's rival. BH is making some headway into the conversation. The team that gives Crosby the most issues on average is Nederland though. They don't run that same gimmick stuff Vidor does but they slow play us with the just enough from the run game and frustrate us like Vidor does. I still think Texas City actually IS but Nederland also plays the closest to Crosby in terms of talent.

Well, let me know when you at least win the region instead of getting there and getting donkey stomped again? Just stay tuned though. The UIL is about to let us stay in D2 with nearly 2,000 kids next alignment, they'll be the most talented teams you've seen on the field at Crosby. Go ahead and get your subscription to Fox Sports Southwest if you don't already. That's the channel they show the 6th playoff game on.

That's not the case with Ewers though. He's earned everything that's being awarded him right now by working his butt off the become the #1 recruit in the country. I agree it's stupid to buy a BMW after only inheriting $100k and paying the inheritance tax. That's probably somebody that never had anything though. True, Ewers may pull a Manziel and just go off the deep end but already being from Southlake I doubt his support team is going to allow him to make bad decisions(Yes, I know JF came from money too). I think if you give kids an appetizer(NIL money) it sturdies the focus on the main course which would be graduation/good job or the League. Players often make bad decisions in school because they're broke. I had a teammate in college that broke into the convenience store in the dorms so he could get something to eat. This is after he sent most of his Pell grant money home so his mom could keep the lights on. He ended up going to jail for 5 days and being suspended for the season opener. Couple grand on an NIL deal from Daktronics probably would've prevented that situation and saved his record.

Unless you're a SLC fan, how is this a bad thing? A 17 year old has seven figures sitting in from of him, to some families that is life changing. For the player, he gets some money up front. What if he tears his achilles next Spring and end up getting beat out by another 5 star and never plays, meaning he never hits the league and earns the money some are saying he should wait on? For Ohio State it's definitely a win. Your prize recruit doesn't have to risk injury his senior year and you get a head start working with him. Everybody is always for capitalism until it starts to delve into areas that they don't like. As of right now NIL is the most fair way to compensate the employees who are bringing in hundreds of millions into some of these companies.

Alright, cleared out my inbox like Grad said. Maybe try now. I had some good conversations in there too.

Just went to go re-verify and he is from Summer Creek, will be going in to his junior year. DM me who you're talking about and I'll try to find out later today.

It's hard to get too excited until we actually see him play. The biggest question for me on defense was if we could find two more d-linemen to go with Casey? Next question behind that was "who replaces Michael Ray?". I think this kid could possibly be a bigger/faster version of him? Really don't know until we see what the new defensive staff has in store though.

Summer Creek. Crosby seems like they may be developing pipeline from the beltway.

I wish. We've only made it twice, won the region both times. Time before that was a TD loss to Dawson in the third round in '09. With the division split and our enrollment growth we're not lining up against squads like Ridge Point in the D2 playoffs with nearly 1,000 less kids anymore. Question I would ask is what other 5A squads from the Houston area have two regional titles in the time period? I'll save you the leg work, it's Manvel and FB Marshall. I think Foster might but they were playing in region 4? Crosby is 10-2 the last thirteen years in bi-district play. If it's nothing just show me the other 5A squads around here matching it? If in 2011 after we lost in the first round to Vidor you would've told me that over the next nine years we were going 7-1 in bi-district, would get to play 22 playoff games, win two regional title and earn a state finals appearance, I would've absolutely taken it.

It is what it is. North Shore has robbed a bunch of Channelview and CE King kids over the years. Katy has done it to their entire district. Allen and Desoto have been notorious landing spots for DFW free agents, Duncanville is now that team. On a less notable level Dobie has robbed PISD squads of talent for years. If you're good they'll start coming. I'm not aware of any Baytown kids that will start for Crosby this year? We have a couple of transfers from Humble ISD this year, one looks he's going to be a stud and one looks like he's already folded under the competition. People can beat their chest all they want about having all homegrown talent. When you're lined up across from squads like FB Ridge Point, FB Marshall, Pearland Dawson, Manvel, Cedar Park, Aledo, etc. getting your behind whipped with their transfers that sentiment changes real fast.

Yeah, this is often the response when you lay the facts out. No exaggeration, in 10 years on this site I’ve probably seen this response over 100 times. . . and then the boys go take care of business.

I would normally be worried too but we have all the pieces to replace them. This year’s team is going to have more raw talent, they’re just going to be young. Season will depend on how fast they get up to speed? What I would point out is that before we played Nederland last year our average margin of victory in district play was 40ppg. It’s not like we were winning squeakers. Even with some regression does that mean we only win by 20ppg this year? I wouldn’t be surprised if we started 0-3 but I also wouldn’t be surprised if we started 3-0. By the way, I’m hearing we may have a new free agent from 21-6A to help ease some of the losses on defense. Goes about 6-3 215lbs and will line up at OLB.

Just so I could be filled in, what is major question mark around Crosby? Crosby has won outright or tied for the district championship 5 of the last 7 years, the only two we didn't were due to a torn ACL in Vidor's mudpit and then the financial crisis during Prieto's first year. We have the most talent in the district and play the toughest non-district schedule which should have us the most prepared entering league play, same way it did last year. Unless we lose the last game of district play like we did in '14, '17 and '20 I expect us to be coming off at least 9 straight victories when we line it up against FB Marshall in the third round.

IDK, kind of hard to play Cherokee when you're down 54-14?