Darth Texas

Double posted, for some reason

Good point. Another thing is I think it would do us well to simplify our passing game. Short easy passes. His speed adds a new wrinkle, for sure. I think he has a good touch on his passes. I’m excited to see how the coaches prepare him. The biggest wildcard in my view isn’t Ashworth’s skill — It’s his nerves, guts, etc. Bailey has ice in his veins, and he’s seen just about everything a high school qb can see. You can’t replace that kind of experience, and it can’t be taught. With a new starter getting baptized in the second round of the playoffs (you almost can’t count the game tonight because he was already going to play the whole second half with or without Bailey), it’s a giant question mark as to how he steps up mentally and emotionally. Not to mention becoming a good decision maker. That’s football, and we’ll just have to see. He’s already showing a lot of confidence.

This is stunning. Really didn’t expect this. Sorry, La Porte. Playoffs are brutal.

I hope they keep ashworth and the first team offense for most of the second half. Ashworth needs as many live reps with the starters as he can possibly get. Time to grow up fast.

Bailey about to leave on a golf cart. Looks like his knee. Took a long time to get off the field.

Conner Bailey hurt. Looked pretty bad. I’m sure he’ll be out the rest of the game.

Yeah I’m not sure any of them comment. There may be some lurking. I wish they would talk. But, it’s been hard to get participation from anyone out of the Montgomery schools. And only a few Huntsville people join in, but they’re active enough they make for a bigger presence. The Montgomery schools, I think, would just as soon not be in our district. I agree it’s an unnatural fit, but we might as well talk while we’re together.

LC doesn’t have much firepower. They have spurts where they can be stingy on defense, but it’s nothing special. Their offense is one decent receiver, a solid qb, and a decent running back who isn’t raising any eyebrows. I might rank six RBs in our district higher than him (he’s a freshman with a good ceiling, so that’s not a knock on him). The result is pretty one dimensional, but they’ve moved the ball ok all season. Qb waits for a perfect pass to let it go, so you can get coverage sacks all night. He’s got a good touch when he does throw it. Numbers seem down over there. They don’t have the depth of a 5ad2 team. Basically, they’re a 4a team at a 5a school. The early game might be close — Despite everything we’re all saying, LC isn’t bad. They can make a game of it. They just don’t have a lot of talent or depth. So, I’m expecting it to be 14-7 to start the 2nd quarter, but it’s 45-7 by the end of the 3rd.

That would have been 5ad1 under current cutoffs, right?

Biggest weakness for Nac on offense seems to be their o-line. Absolutely no resistance to Texas High’s attack last week.

What was Iowa Colony’s number?

I didn’t say he was a bad coach. For whatever reason, the program wasn’t making any definite forward steps. Sometimes it’s a bad match, or he should have had more variety in his coaching experience (he worked under exactly one head coach). Perhaps he didn’t know or wouldn’t do some of the things that Uncle Larry had done. He only had three total playoff wins in seven years. Zero postseason wins since 2020, despite leading with strong seasons in 2017, 2018, and 2020. He finished with four or less wins three times, and two of those were his last two years. The trend was bad. It’s just hard to make the argument Nederland wasn’t at least as good trying someone else.

If it’s Barrow, it’s totally wrong. He wasn’t performing and Nederland needed to try something else

So, who are you talking about?

I don’t think Larry was run off.

Go Indians! 10-0!!

There’s a lot of pulls that don’t happen fast enough. Not nearly as sophisticated as the past few seasons .

PNG o-line is getting dominated tonight. Maybe our worst o-line peformance all season

He looked like he put hands on the png player. Moved on him like he was going to attack.

I like Dayton’s play calling

We’ve abandoned the run. Not sure why

I’m impressed with qb so far.

Is Dayton using the backups at Rb and qb?

Buna’s got a fast, athletic group coming up in the Jv. They can run something with more passing. And, since the slot t isn’t working for them there’s no reason not to try something else. I’ve watched most of the jv games this season and the slot t is a joke in buna’s hands. Varsity will be just as bad next year under this system.

Edit: After watching the entire hearing, I was too harsh in my above post. (1) I didn’t hear anyone make an allegation that Gonzalez was directly questioned about where the armband was and lied in response, so I apologize for saying that he did; (2) I don’t think his conduct is clearly a theft, and we don’t have enough to say it was. It’s one thing to take something you know doesn’t belong to you, and it’s another thing to receive something and intend to return it or at least not keep it, and then throw it to the ground because you know you’re not supposed to have it (that’s certainly dishonest, but I shouldn’t have called him a thief without hearing all the facts). Also, testimony wasn’t clear whether he knew for a fact that the armband belonged specifically to BC when he received it. I kept waiting for someone to ask him that.