WildcatBacker

You will be sadly disappointed lol

I'm actually ok with the rankings.  They are just for fun.  But I would like to say that Kirbyville is a 3A School with a smaller enrollment than HJ (4A) and still beat the common opponents by a larger margin. 

This is for the EC and Kirbyville fans: :D
http://www.texas2afootball.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=11065
 
 
 
Just Kirbyville fans: :(
http://www.texas2afootball.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=11064

I hope this is the way it happens. I really do. If Kirbyville or EC loses to Buna then that will take all the glitz and glamour off the Kirbyville/EC game at the end of season. Lol..

I think WO-S will be very surprised at how good Orangefield is. They have only lost 3 games so far......and ALL 3 were to undefeated teams.They were a play or two away from being undefeated themselves. Lost by 2 scores to Kirbyville, one score to HJ, and one POINT to Buna. Yea I think they are a lot better than most Mustang fans will be expecting.But who knows anymore. Lol..

I think WO-S will be very surprised at how good Orangefield is. They have only lost 3 games so far......and ALL 3 were to undefeated teams.They were a play or two away from being undefeated themselves. Lost by 2 scores to Kirbyville, one score to HJ, and one POINT to Buna. Yea I think they are a lot better than most Mustang fans will be expecting.But who knows anymore. Lol..

I don't know what your talking about. :rolleyes: LOL

Well heck, an argument could even be made for Buna to be above WO-S. Buna is undefeated, but WO-S has lost 2 games. Also, what's significant is that one of those losses came to Newton.... cause Newton lost to Orangefiled, who lost to BUNA! These rankings are fun, and interesting, and I know they are nothing more than conversation-inspiring opinions, but still....some teams have done more than others to earn the higher ranking, so it should have been given to them. 

You know what's sad? There are 3 teams in our district that would take 1st place in a LOT of other districts. But the fact is........one of them has to be 3rd. Wow. That alone tells you how tough this district is. The #1 that comes out of it will have earned it for sure.

I am lmao at where this thread has gone. Lol.. Forget I even brought it up. We'll just say one run of 98 yds that ends with a fumble on the one. Those 98 yds are nothing but a stat. They didn't help AT ALL on winning the game. THAT was my point. Lol..

I would like to see the KATS play Pilot Point. ...yea, I'm still soar!

Hey I'm right there with ya! :rolleyes:  I was at that game too. Everyone and their brother saw him cross the line except for the one that mattered....the ref. Lol.. So WO-S go the W whether they earned it or not. The next year we took it to them though.

You forgot my dog ate my playbook

What about when kville played WOS, and the scoreboard read 21-20 (I think) and Fred Ford went for a 2pt. Conversion for the win and the Ref. Said no good when the film showed that he crossed the plain of the goal line.......yea, I brought it up again d!...lol

Sometimes a team beats themselves. ...like a team that dominated the stats but not the scoreboard.

In high school football, you hear some things a LOT to help 'explain' things, like why a team lost or why the scores ended up like they did or why they get no love in the rankings, etc...etc.. Here are a few of the ones that come to mind and my thoughts on them. I'd like to know yours..
 
Strength of schedule - I know that you can tell a lot about a team by how well they do in losses to good teams, but expecting recognition or respect for losing to these teams is ridiculous. I mean come on.....you want to be ranked or given props simply because the team you lost to was TOO TOUGH?? Lol.. If rankings mean nothing to you, then ok. But if they do, then win...plain and simple. If you lose, expect to be given the due (lack of) respect.
Penalties cost us the game - I have seen many, many MANY bad calls, and many non-calls, in high school football. And I will be the first to admit that they can sometimes have an affect on the outcome of the game. But more often than not, the penalties WERE committed, so quit whining and accept the marked off yardage. It sucks, but it's part of the game. 
We had x number of td's called back because of penalties - This kinda goes along with the one mentioned just^^ above, but with a twist. There are 2 problems with this 'excuse', 1)If the player hadn't committed whatever the penalty was, then maybe that td wouldn't have happened..and 2) On those drives that this happened, how many times was a td scored eventually anyway? What I mean is, if the final score was 28-21, and somebody says "Yea but we would've won if those 2 td's hadn't been called back because of penalties.." I bet most of the time if you paid attention, or went back and looked at the footage, you'd see that those drives ended in td's anyway...so you didn't really LOSE those td's. Make sense?
Our starting (whatever) was out of the game - A team consists of 11 guys on the field at one time. If you have 11 guys on the field, then you are equal to the team you're facing. No one player should be carrying a team and if they are, then you have trouble from the start. A chain is only as strong as it's weakest link, not it's strongest link.
 
I'm interested to know what anyone thinks about these...or any others that I might have missed. 
 

I think common played teams is awesome for conversation, but it has the potential to make someone look like a fool when it comes to game time. Lol.. Take for instance this year....who thinks Buna could beat WO-S? Just the thought of it would make most people laugh their a--es off. But look...Buna beat Orangefield, Orangefiled beat Newton and Newton beat WO-S. Soooooo......would Buna beat WO-S? Don't be so quick to dismiss it as a possibility if you go by common played opponents. 

Ok. I'll ease up. I really will. I know how good Kirbyville is but I see based on me being Mr. Popular all of a sudden, that I guess I've tried shoving them down everyone's throat and that's not fun. It's not what we're here to do. I know what will happen by season's end but I guess how good we are needs to be seen and not read. So, let's talk football. I stand by my picks of 1) Kirbyville, 2) EC, 3) Buna and 4) Kountze for this district. That's what this thread was started for and I apologize for my part of getting it off track. Good luck to Buna and EC on their hunt for 2nd place. :-)

lol 2nd place ? C'mon man.

Ok. I'll ease up. I really will. I know how good Kirbyville is but I see based on me being Mr. Popular all of a sudden, that I guess I've tried shoving them down everyone's throat and that's not fun. It's not what we're here to do. I know what will happen by season's end but I guess how good we are needs to be seen and not read. So, let's talk football. I stand by my picks of 1) Kirbyville, 2) EC, 3) Buna and 4) Kountze for this district. That's what this thread was started for and I apologize for my part of getting it off track. Good luck to Buna and EC on their hunt for 2nd place. :-)

Cactus, you should probably stop now. No one following this agrees with you and it's kinda getting a little embarrassing now. It's ridiculous to say or even think that there are 'advantages' to losing. Just.....stop man. Really..