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WOS has been dominating the district for a lot longer than the last three to four years.  Somebody can correct me, but I think they've only lost one district game since 09 or something like that. 
You're kinda making my point for me.... if PAMs JV could beat most of the district's varsity squads, why does PAM keep ending up as co-champs?

Open enrollment? Yes (as do most school districts in Texas)? 
Recruiting of players is a baseless rumor started by folks jealous of success.  Fact is that over the last few years, Mustangs have been poached and are not the poachers.

All jokes aside, I thought PAM would be undefeated in District play after two years.  Their larger enrollment and stable of athletes made me believe they’d be unstoppable against local 5A teams. 
Back-to-back co-district champs is what I believe they’ve accomplished, and that’s nothing to be ashamed of. I just expected domination and that’s not what I’m seeing. Overrated? I don’t think so. Not living up to my expectations? Yes. 
 

I honestly thought with the numbers and talent, after Memorial dropped down they would not lose a single district game and none of the games would be remotely close.
I was wrong

Sometimes it's just not meant to b. That's how football goes as long as we can reach the regional finals I'll b good. I like this team the front seven is good just gotta be creative on defense

All jokes aside, I thought PAM would be undefeated in District play after two years.  Their larger enrollment and stable of athletes made me believe they’d be unstoppable against local 5A teams. 
Back-to-back co-district champs is what I believe they’ve accomplished, and that’s nothing to be ashamed of. I just expected domination and that’s not what I’m seeing. Overrated? I don’t think so. Not living up to my expectations? Yes. 
 

All jokes aside, I thought PAM would be undefeated in District play after two years.  Their larger enrollment and stable of athletes made me believe they’d be unstoppable against local 5A teams. 
Back-to-back co-district champs is what I believe they’ve accomplished, and that’s nothing to be ashamed of. I just expected domination and that’s not what I’m seeing. Overrated? I don’t think so. Not living up to my expectations? Yes. 
 

Already holding true for Central.

Congrats to the Silsbee Tigers Bi-District Champs. Congrats to Coach Smith and his coaching staff on their first playoff win, one of many to come. Now own to the Area round and the Bay City Black Cats, they run an offense similar to that of Center maybe a little better. TigerNation!!! 

Way to go Xbox smh

Why did yall get in a fight?

It would be the biggest crowd there since Kapernick started kneeling.    

Silsbee wins tonight and plays Bay City next week

If I remember correctly, Lara got his first real time at FB that night. I just remember Morris having a career night. He had 226 if our 430 yards. 
When a team’s leading rusher is out and they still run for 430, you might not be that solid against the run. 
 

WEll it sure ended up being a disappointing season.

I guess that’s a Bridge City thing.

It's hard to say...  I know that RBs Denton and Baker, as well as QB Dubois will all be gone.  That leaves RBs Lara, Ply and Hamm as the base of next years offensive attack.  I also expect Skinner to start at QB.... he's shown signs that he will be fine in the QB slot, but we just haven't seen a lot out of him this year.  
I expected a young O-line this year to mature, but honestly, the o-line this year wasn't a group of sophomores like I'd expected.... we're losing several guys to graduation over there, plus most of our linebackers and some key pieces of our d-line.  
Here's the deal, and I hated to say anything before the season was up.... We'd heard rumors all spring and summer that some of (or a lot of) the kids were mailing it in during the offseason, so to speak. The story is that the team kind of expected to repeat last years successes without necessarily putting in the work.  I honestly can't say whether this true or not, so take it for what it's worth... just an opinion from somebody who probably doesn't know what they're talking about.  I've wondered how much of our injury bug was a result of half-hearted workouts which resulted in kids who were weaker and smaller and ended up injured.  We fight it every year when a lot of our kids play baseball and avoid the strength training and track workouts that really end up producing results on the football field.  
My opinion is this, and I don't want to discount the effect that the injuries had on our results, but ....  most of the group that graduated last year suffered through a 2-8 season in 2014.  They didn't like it and bought into Coach Dubois (the new coach that spring) and his philosophy.  It took a 2-8 to get the results from the last two years.  I think if the kids who return next year become leaders in the off season program and commit to improving and enjoying success, we'll be back in the mix for 2018. Or we can just continue being cellar dwellers... it'll really be determined by the team before two-a-days start next summer.

It's hard to say...  I know that RBs Denton and Baker, as well as QB Dubois will all be gone.  That leaves RBs Lara, Ply and Hamm as the base of next years offensive attack.  I also expect Skinner to start at QB.... he's shown signs that he will be fine in the QB slot, but we just haven't seen a lot out of him this year.  
I expected a young O-line this year to mature, but honestly, the o-line this year wasn't a group of sophomores like I'd expected.... we're losing several guys to graduation over there, plus most of our linebackers and some key pieces of our d-line.  
Here's the deal, and I hated to say anything before the season was up.... We'd heard rumors all spring and summer that some of (or a lot of) the kids were mailing it in during the offseason, so to speak. The story is that the team kind of expected to repeat last years successes without necessarily putting in the work.  I honestly can't say whether this true or not, so take it for what it's worth... just an opinion from somebody who probably doesn't know what they're talking about.  I've wondered how much of our injury bug was a result of half-hearted workouts which resulted in kids who were weaker and smaller and ended up injured.  We fight it every year when a lot of our kids play baseball and avoid the strength training and track workouts that really end up producing results on the football field.  
My opinion is this, and I don't want to discount the effect that the injuries had on our results, but ....  most of the group that graduated last year suffered through a 2-8 season in 2014.  They didn't like it and bought into Coach Dubois (the new coach that spring) and his philosophy.  It took a 2-8 to get the results from the last two years.  I think if the kids who return next year become leaders in the off season program and commit to improving and enjoying success, we'll be back in the mix for 2018. Or we can just continue being cellar dwellers... it'll really be determined by the team before two-a-days start next summer.

7-7 at the half. BC to receive following a magnificent halftime performance by the Bridge City High School Marching Band. 

No BC Huffman and Cleveland won’t get a trophy although one of them is going to get a pretty much guaranteed butt whippin’ Next week! 

.....and everybody gets a trophy!

Well, if you followed the team a little more closely you’d understand that it’s more than just an injured player. 
I don’t know how many kids were out last night, but I know last week I could count six kids who would typically handle the ball  that were unable to play. The seventh kid was visibly limping. That’s just the RBs, and says nothing about the other spots those kids play in, or kids like lb #2 that was out... 
Last week people were complaining about the punter... that’s not the punter! He’s out, too. We’ve been going for two because we’re about three places down the depth chart just trying to find somebody who can kick the ball off to the other team.
Last week the four kids (back two lines) in the kick return team were virtual unknowns to the Cardinal faithful. I’d never even heard of Ply before the LCM game, and I’ve never even heard of the kid that broke the 98 yard TD against Silsbee before that play. 
It’s impressive to see such a long time fan like yourself create a screen name just to take a shot at the coach. We’ve had our share of bad coaches in the past, and Coach Dubois is the best thing that has happened to the Cardinal program in YEARS. Dubois could have his pick of openings almost anywhere in the state based on his track record and reputation as a man. However, there aren’t many coaches that could have rolled into Navasota with essentially their JV team and knocked off the Rattlers last night. 

Exactly. But, for resume purposes, it's best to have made playoffs (even if 4 of the 6 teams go) than to not make playoffs.

It’s true with all coaches... but he’s a world-class coach based on his credentials. Yet people would still rather someone else in that job. 

I agree completely.