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Congrats to Coach! I think he’s going to revitalize the program. He’s done the exact opposite of what Willis did on his side of the ball. The last couple of years he’s taken the talent Crosby has produced and put together some very salty units. Numbers may not always reflect it due to how inept our offenses have been which kept them on short fields and constantly losing the time of possession battle. 
 
Don’t be surprised if you see him rob one of the coordinators from North Shore, CE King or Summer Creek or one of those guys in those “co” positions. That’s where Crosby being basically 15-20 minutes away from those schools gives us the same advantage it does with the transfers. Being from East Texas I’m sure Coach Williams has some connections out there too. 
 
My only hope would be that the administration supports him financially and gives him at minimum the same three years they gave Willis to show improvement. He’s only 36 years old and this will be his first head coaching job so I expect some growing pains having to cut his teeth at the highest level of high school football in the country while playing with the short stack. We hit big time on the last two coordinators we hired so here’s to hoping we go 3/3. 

Man, I didn’t want to mention it because I think this is a time to try to be positive but I’m extremely worried about our talent retention? I would hope the UIL didn’t do the most sensible thing and just add Crosby to the current 23-6A and add BH to the current 24-6A but if they did I could see Crosby struggling to retain some of our higher level kids. Prime example will be La’Damien DeFreeze lining up for North Shore in the state title game Saturday. Imagine him on the other side of Jordan this year? 
 
That being said, 6A is all about the trenches and all I would rate us is “above average” in 5A-D1. I would think we go back to a true spread to try to limit our disadvantage at the LOS. I think after Robison leaves next year you’ll see more read-option incorporated similar to schemes the previous two coaches ran. We have a couple kids coming who would fit the scheme perfectly. Who runs it, I think he’s going to try to make big hire knowing that’s his most important one? Coach Williams promoted Coach Harrison to DC and I kind of hope defense will be our calling card until we can compete physically on a consistent basis. 
 
You’re correct about the kids on offense though, even the big DT that started all 11 games was a freshman. I hope Coach Williams will get us back to looking like we have the talent college recruiters think we do. 

And yet you just missed the whole point of me saying Crosby would be more competitive too once we had 2,800+ kids like Kingwood? I’ve stated the same thing every time and I’ve told you why those schools with smaller enrollments can be highly competitive. You have million dollar addresses like some of the Vandy kids or a large number of heavily recruited black kids like Longview does. If your school is 72% Hispanic like North Shore you better have a big enrollment to mitigate that or have a total football playing enrollment of about 1,500. 
 
The last decade of course we’ve had 20 6A state champions; Duncanville, North Shore, Westlake, Katy, Longview, Allen, Cy-Fair and Lake Travis. None of them go against what I’ve stated and none of the 4 state finalist playing in 6A do this year either. 
This fact that you had to throw Willis in there who 1) has 2,900 kids and growing fast and 2) was 12-20 their first three years in 6A until their enrollment grew and they could close the gap on schools like The Woodlands shows you can’t “give me a list” of elite 6A programs that go against what I said. You may not like what I’m saying but as far as the THSF 6A landscape goes the numbers are the numbers. 

Congrats to Coach! I think he’s going to revitalize the program. He’s done the exact opposite of what Willis did on his side of the ball. The last couple of years he’s taken the talent Crosby has produced and put together some very salty units. Numbers may not always reflect it due to how inept our offenses have been which kept them on short fields and constantly losing the time of possession battle. 
 
Don’t be surprised if you see him rob one of the coordinators from North Shore, CE King or Summer Creek or one of those guys in those “co” positions. That’s where Crosby being basically 15-20 minutes away from those schools gives us the same advantage it does with the transfers. Being from East Texas I’m sure Coach Williams has some connections out there too. 
 
My only hope would be that the administration supports him financially and gives him at minimum the same three years they gave Willis to show improvement. He’s only 36 years old and this will be his first head coaching job so I expect some growing pains having to cut his teeth at the highest level of high school football in the country while playing with the short stack. We hit big time on the last two coordinators we hired so here’s to hoping we go 3/3. 

Congrats to Coach! I think he’s going to revitalize the program. He’s done the exact opposite of what Willis did on his side of the ball. The last couple of years he’s taken the talent Crosby has produced and put together some very salty units. Numbers may not always reflect it due to how inept our offenses have been which kept them on short fields and constantly losing the time of possession battle. 
 
Don’t be surprised if you see him rob one of the coordinators from North Shore, CE King or Summer Creek or one of those guys in those “co” positions. That’s where Crosby being basically 15-20 minutes away from those schools gives us the same advantage it does with the transfers. Being from East Texas I’m sure Coach Williams has some connections out there too. 
 
My only hope would be that the administration supports him financially and gives him at minimum the same three years they gave Willis to show improvement. He’s only 36 years old and this will be his first head coaching job so I expect some growing pains having to cut his teeth at the highest level of high school football in the country while playing with the short stack. We hit big time on the last two coordinators we hired so here’s to hoping we go 3/3. 

King is 65% Hispanic. Crosby is about 50%. They’re filling up Barrett Station, not the $300k starter homes in Newport. The reason you don’t think King looks like that is because they have 3,600 kids and you don’t see any of them on the field. The closer our overall enrollment climbs to 3,000 the closer we get to the football playing demographic number of about 1,500 that we need to be competitive in 6A-D2. The completion of Sweetgrass Village and Barrett Crossing alone will push Crosby’s enrollment to about 2,800 once you include the new Newport homes. Going to suck for a while but Crosby is in an excellent position to be pretty competitive in 4-5 years. 

Schools like SLC, Westlake, Vandergrift,  etc. get around the overall enrollment with 1) money and 2) they have Hispanic populations down in the teens. For instance Highland Park’s Hispanic population is only 6.1% so their football playing demographics are very close to 6A competitive levels for Texas. The higher the Hispanic population the more kids you need to be competitive in 6A unless you can mitigate it with money.
 
North Crowley has 3,049 kids but more importantly they have 1,706 black kids to go with solid coaching. That is an unreal amount for a metro school in Texas and similar to Summer Creek’s 1,722 but under Duncaville’s 1,888. With North Shore’s demographics they would suck at football if they didn’t have 4,000+ kids. If you dropped NS’ enrollment to Crosby’s and kept their same demographic makeup they would lose about 620 of their 1,038 black kids and not be near as competitive considering the talent pool where they get 95%+ of their starters would’ve cut in more than half. Desoto has a 5A enrollment but their school is 74% black so their talent pool is actually 1.5X that of North Shore. Very few schools the last 10-15 years have broken these rules. 
 
Cedar Hill is a prime example of what I’m talking about though. Stagnant to declining enrollment since their title game appearance in 2020 and are sub-.500 in the five years since. Not that having money or demographics mean everything but they’re hard facts to stray from when 6/8 teams playing for the 5A and 6A titles look exactly the same while the 5A-D1 state finals teams are extremely similar financially. Long story short, with Crosby’s demographics we’re going to need 2,800+ before we can consistently be competitive in 6A outside of the Houston and Pasadena districts. 

King is 65% Hispanic. Crosby is about 50%. They’re filling up Barrett Station, not the $300k starter homes in Newport. The reason you don’t think King looks like that is because they have 3,600 kids and you don’t see any of them on the field. The closer our overall enrollment climbs to 3,000 the closer we get to the football playing demographic number of about 1,500 that we need to be competitive in 6A-D2. The completion of Sweetgrass Village and Barrett Crossing alone will push Crosby’s enrollment to about 2,800 once you include the new Newport homes. Going to suck for a while but Crosby is in an excellent position to be pretty competitive in 4-5 years. 

Schools like SLC, Westlake, Vandergrift,  etc. get around the overall enrollment with 1) money and 2) they have Hispanic populations down in the teens. For instance Highland Park’s Hispanic population is only 6.1% so their football playing demographics are very close to 6A competitive levels for Texas. The higher the Hispanic population the more kids you need to be competitive in 6A unless you can mitigate it with money.
 
North Crowley has 3,049 kids but more importantly they have 1,706 black kids to go with solid coaching. That is an unreal amount for a metro school in Texas and similar to Summer Creek’s 1,722 but under Duncaville’s 1,888. With North Shore’s demographics they would suck at football if they didn’t have 4,000+ kids. If you dropped NS’ enrollment to Crosby’s and kept their same demographic makeup they would lose about 620 of their 1,038 black kids and not be near as competitive considering the talent pool where they get 95%+ of their starters would’ve cut in more than half. Desoto has a 5A enrollment but their school is 74% black so their talent pool is actually 1.5X that of North Shore. Very few schools the last 10-15 years have broken these rules. 
 
Cedar Hill is a prime example of what I’m talking about though. Stagnant to declining enrollment since their title game appearance in 2020 and are sub-.500 in the five years since. Not that having money or demographics mean everything but they’re hard facts to stray from when 6/8 teams playing for the 5A and 6A titles look exactly the same while the 5A-D1 state finals teams are extremely similar financially. Long story short, with Crosby’s demographics we’re going to need 2,800+ before we can consistently be competitive in 6A outside of the Houston and Pasadena districts. 

Naw I can’t live with that one. I can live with my defensive unit coming up short and not getting the stop. I can live with coming up short in OT. But knowing I took away the points we needed after we already had em. Na. 

Coach must’ve made a bad bet against his own team

Crosby drive for a TD. PAT Good, thank goodness, but flag on AMC and Crosby accepted the penalty to go for 2. 
2-point attempt failed. Now Crosby is down by one because of the sideline coaching. We already had the tie plus a 15 yard penalty on the ensuing kickoff !!!!!  DUMB !
 
AMC 27
Crosby 26

One hell of a football game played by my Cougars👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Joe Willis leaves a lot to be desired as far as being the head coach at Crosby but far as the ultimate no no of taking points off the board, I would’ve gone for the win at that moment too. Solid play call on the conversion attempt too, just came up a foot short from playing one of our old district mates. 

Crosby would be a state ranked program again if we had a coach that could coach offense. Different game, another big opportunity, same story .  .  .  

Crosby would be a state ranked program again if we had a coach that could coach offense. Different game, another big opportunity, same story .  .  .  

I was talking to my cousin last night who coaches at Angleton and he told with the injuries they have on offense that they’re planning to try to run a bunch of Wildcat. If that’s the case and Jammer has to play QB along with the big X receiver on the outside hurt I like Crosby’s chances for defensive success. 
 
With the 12-5A-D1 positions pretty much locked in, with a win Crosby would get to host a College Station that tailor-made for the way we’re playing this year. Willis keeps falling into opportunities, let’s see if he can finally capitalize? 

Saturday morning headline:
”Crosby Players Continue to be Handicapped by staff”

Crosby spiked ball with 1:20 left was unnecessary.  It cost them a down inside the Laporte 25.
 

I think we’ve improved because we’ve been playing teams that don’t have as good of coaching and players as the ones we lost to in non-district. 
 
I think Nemo Jordan is probably the best receiver in the district and my nephew has finally been running that ball like he’s part of the family the last couple of games but our offense still isn’t very good. 12 is only a junior but he’s still not seeing it the way you want. Too many throws into coverage that teams like LP will capitalize on and too many times in critical situations where he doesn’t recognize what he does have.
 
How I see it is Willis basically has a month to get the team ready for A&M Consol. I don’t think the LP and Angleton games will be very competitive because the offense will look closer to what it did in the non-district but I feel like we might have a chance in the first round. 

It’s even poor at the home games too now. 0 energy in the stands which matches our low energy coach 

Game 1 we scored 20, game 2 we scored 17, game 3 we scored 14. If we can keep it up we should score 11 points next week? Like I said three years ago when we hired him, his offensive system doesn’t fit the personnel the Crosby community currently produces. Some people needed to see us lose all these games because we can’t score anymore before they can finally admit they didn’t know what they were talking about. 
Good dude and really looks out for the players but any games Crosby is winning now are in spite of Willis, not because of him. We’ve been at a disadvantage on the sideline for three consecutive weeks. Now the losses are becoming part of the culture. The casual fans aren’t attending anymore, nobody donates to the fundraisers, there’s no anticipation of a big win Friday nights, etc. 
This hire has gone pretty much as bad as it possible could. I heard a rumor that this was his last year but rumor or not if Crosby misses the playoffs for the 2nd time in three years I think he’s done/reassigned anyway. Either way, you’re looking at another sub .500 season in year three and with a loss to Friendswood potentially a regression to 4-7. 

Is this the kid that the old coach told wouldn't be a star at Crosby? 
 
when I heard that story from the most reliable possible source I just bowed my head into my hand

We’ll see what happens against FB Marshall but it’s highly likely that after next week Crosby will be 0-7 against 5A-D2 teams in non-district play during the Willis era?
 
It’s disappointing because he’s been gifted some of Crosby’s more talented teams recently but will probably finish his first three years here with a 12-20 record at best. Now we have studs like Landen Hammer transferring out of the program which is what I warned about a couple years ago. 

This is year 3 for those that were wondering? I hate it for the kids because they get tagged with the “Well, maybe Crosby doesn’t have the talent anymore?” moniker. It is what it is until we decide we want to be competitive again. 

This is year 3 for those that were wondering? I hate it for the kids because they get tagged with the “Well, maybe Crosby doesn’t have the talent anymore?” moniker. It is what it is until we decide we want to be competitive again.