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Houston High School Sports talks about some of their big games this week: [Hidden Content]

Don’t let last year’s record fool you, they play in HISD’s district. Plus the 5⭐️ safety transferred to IMG Academy this year. I am glad to see some excitement down on the island though.

Dude, all of those teams suck. Just get the “I really don’t think FB Marshall is all that good anymore” or “FB Marshall really should’ve won” lines together.

I think tomorrow you’ll see the difference between a good program and one like BH. Crosby has 0 advantages tomorrow. New coach that runs an offense 10X more complicated than anything these kids have ever seen against a coach’s program who has one of the best records in Texas the last 5 years. 8 of the 11 starters on FBM’s defense alone already have FBS offers, most of them have P5 offers. Crosby only has two kids with P5 offers. We’re playing in Fort Bend this year instead of Crosby where we barely won in OT. We only brought back 9 starters of a 4th place 6-5 team, plus we’re on the way down in general. No reason we should have any chance in this one. I’m actually surprised you’re only picking them by 14?

We’ve actually been to Jerry World though. Only time you’ve seen it is when the Cowboys are playing. We do what I think we’re capable of tomorrow and I’m going to go ahead and clear off the Thanksgiving calendar though.

Just for reference Seven Lakes was 1-9, they’re the worst program in Katy ISD.

Never mind about the social media and chatty part. FB Marshall players fired up the social media smoke yesterday morning and it came to a head as Crosby fans tried to leave the freshman game. Fort Bend County sheriff officers earned their OT today.

Jesus Christ, you’re still here?

Crosby freshman impressive 8-6 win in a defensive struggle down in Missouri City. Nice bounce back for the youngsters after losing last week to King by 5 tds.

I guess I expected that with all the who's-who teams they cover like Longview, Carthage, Aledo, Gilmer, etc, that there would be more random traffic from around the state checking on them?

Two years ago Crosby came to The Reservation and was goal line fumble by my little guy away from dropping 75. Fast forward one year later after making one hire and they're in the title game. North Shore has always been good, but it wasn't until they gave the job to Jon Kay that they reached the level they are now. Duncanville has always been one of the most talented teams in the state but the last decade or so before Samples got there they couldn't even make the playoffs consistently. I guess I may be the only one but I think BU is also one hire away from putting a competitive product on the field.

You're right but I see what Izzy is saying too. If PNG is whipping your but then why are you clamoring for bigger games? On the flip side if you don't play those bigger games then how do you expect to raise your level of play? Tough position to be in for BU but at the end of the day they're the ones responsible.

257 guest currently online vs 90 guest out in East Texas, interesting to say the least. Maybe we work less down here?

Third week in a row I've know about the film that was sent over because this is my 6th year having a son who plays varsity football at Crosby. My sophomore nephew got moved up to varsity and my freshman son will be up there next year. So for at least 29 more weeks in a row I will have HUDL logins to view the scout film that is sent over from opposing coaches and posted to the team account for the kids to study. I post things for the Crosby fans that are interested in their team. The reason people see me around town ask "So what do you think about this week?" or "How we looking?" is because they know I do stuff like get up Sunday mornings at 5AM to go sit in the mancave and watch film for three or four hours before I get on here posting what I think about a game.

Yep, looked even worse against King last year and still beat FBM with 6 starters out. You can make 100 posts about how bad we looked and it still won't change that FACT.

Only had 18 yards rushing against King last year and still put 207 rushing yards on FBM the next week. Only had 64 total yards against King last year compared to 245 this year, and that’s with the drops. Otherwise, first rattle out of the box the offense puts up 5X the yards and 5X times the points as our offense last year that returned multiple starters including the QB from a semifinals team. Lot different personnel on this team than started the season last year, plus most importantly we’re relatively healthy for now. There’s also a lot of overall experience in this team, a bunch of the kids on the current roster played a lot as sophomores and freshmen during the semifinal run in ‘21. Some of the other seniors like Eudy actually played in the state championship game in ‘20 too. Willis may be a new coach to us but he has a good group year one just like Riordan and Prieto landed with so the expectation is a solid product. Again, I appreciate all of your concern for our program. I know it sucks for nobody to care about your team’s games until you play Crosby or PAM.

They don’t like physical football, that’s why we beat them, that’s why y’all beat them and that why BH beat them running QB draws. They’re usually and awful chatty bunch but they’ve been very quiet in social media so far this week.

Crosby lost by 56 to King last year and beat FBM the next week after them beating Klein 14-7 in their opener. Same scenario and FBM took an L to a beat up Crosby team. Lot healthier this year and better on both sides of the ball. They should have a huge edge, they’re at home and have 10 D1 kids on their roster. That’s why they’re on Crosby’s schedule.

The scout film they sent over this week is 136 plays and they don't look great on any of that either. You also have to take into account that they played a 6A school over twice their size though. That was their first game out and they're trying to replace 80% of their offensive production from last year. Outside of the times when they had Malik Hornsby and JW Ketchum playing QB their offense has always looked unimpressive . . . until you get on the field with them and understand why they have won 6 of the last 8 5A track and field state titles. FBM beats you with overall team speed and defense and their defense looks pretty solid. Not that it matters this week but Klein probably would've won the game if not for that holding call in OT on 1st and goal from the 4 yard line. Klein can't throw the ball at all but was gashing FBM with the QB keeper. Klein's base formation is pretty similar to what Crosby runs now, what I'm hoping is that they defend us the same way and we capitalize on some of the big play opportunities Klein couldn't hit.

The resources are split evenly and the facilities at the schools are comparable, GP probably even has the nicer on campus facility. I would imagine GP's coach makes more than NS' right now too since Gaston is new. In order to split up the athletes you would have to cut certain apartment complexes and subdivisions out of the center of NS' attendance zone. ISD's are always going to give preferential treatment to the flagship schools, that's why Lamar High looks like a juco campus and Bellaire got a new $140M school while Yates can't get the AC fixed.

Nobody cares about who’s bringing back what. Both teams have new transfers, both teams lost their QB and leading receiver, FBM also lost their leading rusher. FBM lost two P5 DE’s and a stud MLB to Arkansas St. out of the front seven. All returnees aren’t equal and last year FB Marshall lost to a Crosby team that had been beaten 63-7 the week prior and literally couldn’t move the football. If we had simply caught the ball Friday night we get 35+, totally different than going into this game last year. Crosby isn’t starting as a bottom feeder like y’all had to, plus we actually got the mentor instead of the understudy so we don’t really expect the mediocre results y’all strive for. Interesting that James Williams receives a lot of flak on this site for FBM not having titles but all of a sudden he’s about to out-coach a guy that does because he’s playing Crosby, lol.

North Shore’s attendance zone is extremely small for a school its size. Probably 90% of their kids live in a 3 mile x 3 mile box from HWY90 south to I-10 in between Uvalde and Federal. All of North Shore’s talent lives in that one small place too. The Galena Park and Jacinto City neighborhoods, which make up GP’s attendance zone, have a different demographic makeup. Can’t really split them up any other way, GP High is about the same distance from NS High as Crosby High is.

Man, it doesn’t get any more mediocre in 6A than Brazoswood. They’re one of those “dial a W” squads no good teams around here really even play. Every now and then they play Angleton in non-district because it’s right up the street but they’re generally viewed as so bad all they can get is teams like Sterling and Northbrook like they have this year, oh and BU. Coach Willis talked about playing well coached teams so you can steal the stuff they do. While I think we all agree playing PNG doesn’t help BU physically for what they’ll see in 6A, they may not play a team on their schedule better coached scheme wise. Those are the type things you would hope BU could take advantage of before the program got better and you couldn’t play games like that. BU also need to figure out why PNG has less talent but better football players? What I’m saying about BU vs North Shore’s football playing populations is that even with split up schools North Shore is playing with about 1,045 to BU’s 1,440. There’s no difference in the two schools economically, facilities wise yes, but if BU could manage to put a decent product on the field they could increase participation and incoming transfer rates which would lead to being successful even quicker. All that aside, even now with those numbers BU should be in the conversation.

The 6’9” DT DeMarcus Johnson FB Marshall grabbed off their basketball team: [Hidden Content]

Andre Feast game-winner in OT against Klein. If the defense can keep him and the RB #24 in check FB Marshall should have even more trouble scoring on us than they did last year. [Hidden Content]