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Lufkin/BH will be the best game, and the history re: the Lufkin coach gives some added flavor Carthage would be fun to see, but it will be 60+ win and over by the first quarter

The most interesting matchup in 8-5aD2 this week. My gut says Montgomery but this one feels like a 50-50.

Nederland 21-7.

I'd love to see some game film from Lake Creek but I haven't seen anything on youtube or TexanLive. I don't get the impression they're very deep, or doing anything special on defense. They return everyone from last year' o-line. New qb, new RB. Lake Creek likes to go fast, coach says he tries to have about 80 offensive snaps a game. I think they'll try to win it in the air. PNG's secondary will get tested. This one will be lower scoring than last year. I'm thinking PNG 35-17.

Titans 58-7

I’m not confident West Fork won’t finish higher than Nederland. Ned only has four TDs all season, and the competition will only get worse.

I don’t know if you could find a single WOS fan on this forum who is happy with the direction of the WOS program

Huntsville definitely hasn’t been playing slouches, especially the first and third game. I wish I could get hold of some film from the Montgomery schools.

For PNG, I’d like to see the O-line continue to gel in the run game. La Porte was a big leap forward in how we moved the ball on the ground. I was worried we’d get stuffed all four quarters. The secondary needs work, of course, but it’s much better than last year and the open-field tackling has been back to 2022-2023 form. I hope the state ranking and the big win over La Porte don’t cloud our vision. It’s a tough district, and preseason records don’t tell us everything about how a season will go. I haven’t seen much of Dayton, and nothing from the two Montgomery schools. I think Lake Creek is down from last year. We’ll find out next week. Just going off game results (and Dayton’s first game, which I was able to watch) Dayton and Montgomery are looking good. Huntsville has some issues, especially tackling and the blocking has been spotty, but they’re fast and big and if they tighten up they should be solid. Nederland has to figure out some offense. Until we see if that happens, it’s hard not to wonder what will happen against district opponents. West Fork looks fundamentally sound - I think they’ll surprise some people. Splendora is Splendora.

You don’t have to call him a “starter” - The idea is Joseph is willing to use his tools on both sides of the ball when needed.

With no games this week, I figured we could chat about the district as a whole, how things are going, what needs to improve, etc.

Even the situational use is more than we did under the last coach. Reid Richard barely came off the field in the playoffs during the 2023 season. And, when there is situational use, it’s clear the player has been trained well even in their temporary role.

I agree that larger enrollment gives an advantage, but WOS used to negate that advantage with discipline, conditioning, and coaching. Pick any year before 2022 and no one would ever think, “WOS is going to lose to PNG because they’re so much smaller.” WOS is less than half the size of PNG. Smaller than Nederland, Silsbee, Vidor, LCM, Lumberton, Bridge City, - probably everyone outside of the small rural schools. For decades, none of that has mattered. Now smaller enrollment IS a factor. Five local teams have or have had two-game win streaks against WOS since 2021: PNG: 2 (2022, 2023, haven’t played since) Nederland: 2 and counting (2024-present) HF: 3 and counting (2022-present) Silsbee: 2 (2022-2023) Jasper: 2 (2022-2023) I’m confident there’s never been another era of WOS history where FIVE local teams enjoyed multiple wins in a row against WOS within the same 3-4 season period.

They absolutely should have beaten Cuero. An awful no-call on a big completion by Cuero when the QBs knee touched the ground. Silsbee was better, just didn’t go their way. Carthage would have killed them in state, but it would have been awesome to get to go.

That game had me convinced WOS was back. They played us so hard, and we barely tied it up in time.

It speaks to the quality of coach Neumann was. When Joseph started playing guys both ways, it was immediately clear what a difference it made. Seemed almost too obvious. We should have been doing it all these years. Few, if any, high school teams have the depth to have exclusive specialists. It’s arrogance to assume you’re so good you only need to use your best tools some of the time.

It was on TexanLive. I had it on the whole game while at the La Porte game.

WOS has never been as big or bigger than PNG and are 20-9 all time vs PNG. That includes beating some very good PNG teams, including the year we went to state in 1999. Something is different at WOS and it’s not enrollment.

The stadium is really, really beautiful. A palace. The seating is comfortable too. My only complaint was the concessions didn’t have any pizza.

Good game La Porte. Every time Simon or Ruffin touched the ball I held my breath. Ya’ll have a super good team.

Guess I was wrong about a high-scoring game

Simon is one of most difficult runners I’ve ever seen. PNG is reading nearly every play just right and he’s just plowing through contact. He should be a much higher prospect. Micah Rhodes isn’t as good as him.

Simon and Ruffin are lethal. Grown men.

This stadium is amazing

A teacher from goose creek ISD , Jennifer Courtemanche, was on X mocking Charlie Kirk and blaming him for getting killed. I hope the ISD hears about this. I don’t think someone celebrating a political assassination should be anywhere near kids. I took a screenshot, but it won’t let me upload the picture because it’s too big