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Lamar drops game 17-7. 

The 2 teams that are undefeated in confence, Nicholls and UIW face off next week.  This game will likely determine the conference champion and automatic qualifier for the FCS playoffs.  If UIW loses and wins out after that, the conference could still secure 2 spots in the playoffs.  That would be an interesting outcome based on the conferences overall low ranking among other FCS conferences. 

Lamar host Commerce needing to win 2 of the final 3 to secure a winning season.  The 2 remaing games are a trip to Nicholls on the 11th and the finale at home against McNeese on the 18th. 

McNesse travel to SELA in the other matchup. 

HCU @ Northwestern State is cancelled. 

LU falls 17-7. Two empty red zone trips, but also UIW nearly doubled Lamar with 459 total yards to 248.    Overall a decent showing against a highly ranked team. 

HCU making improvements as they move to 4-4 overall and 2-2 in conference with a win over Commerce.

Nicholls falls to SE Missouri giving the SLC another out of conference loss.

Bird v Bird still in action with Lamar keeping it close. 

16 minutes ago, AggiesAreWe said:

With West Brook turning in 2232, they have a real REAL good chance of dropping down to 5A. The cutoff last realignment was 2225. Usually it moves up 15-20 each alignment.

I'm thinking cutoff will be at least 2235 which will make West Brook one of the largest 5A's in the state.

Now, will United follow?

1988-90 (including spring sports) HF, EC, Hardin, Anahuac, PA SFA and Barbers Hill played in the same district. Now, we are staring at a possible United and West Brook alignment with Barbers Hill.  

Time marches on and things change. 

Not expecting a massive turn out for the "Battle of Redbirds" as many are still in a "wait and see mode" on Lamar athletics in general. However, no massive marquee TV matchups in the time slot (3:00) of this game.  It would be nice to see Lamar's crowd hit or exceed an attendance of 7000.  Haven't hit 6000 for a home game this year with 5321 being the highest home total according to ESPN. 

For those goofy (me) enough to track things like this, 5000 plus for FCS games is actually a decent number. Now, is Lamar drawing that many or is that tickets sold with large no show numbers???

Extremely tough matchup on paper, but UIW really struggled against McNeese last week. Had to have a huge comeback in the 2nd half to remain unbeaten in conference.  Winner today will stand with Nicholls as the only unbeaten teams in conference as Nicholls hosts an out of conference game. 

Go Cards... the ones from the Golden Triangle. 

Games for 10/28. 

HCU welcomes TAMCommerce for Homecoming at CVS Stadium.

Nicholls plays at home against SE Missouri (Ohio Valley Conference).

Birds vs Birds in Beaumont as Lamar hosts the #4 ranked and 2022 FCS semi-finalist UIW Cardinals. 

Northwestern at McNeese is cancelled as Mr. Buddy Garrity's posts mention. 

Dave Campbell's is reporting Tarkington up 25-22. 

10 minutes ago, AggiesAreWe said:

You really need to do some research on this particular situation. It will surprise you.

They are not getting the money like you think they should.

And no ISD can be prepared for that kind of growth. That's over 850 student increase just at the high school in 2 years. That's a 4A additional school to their high school. Sorry, but nobody can prepare for that increase.

Perspective based on the 850 in 2 years Aggie points out.  Katy ISD has 9 high schools. At the same PERCENTAGE rate of growth of 27% (give or take a few) every 2 years were occurring there, Katy would go from 9 to 14, yes 14, high schools in 4 years.  

1 minute ago, BMTSoulja1 said:

I call bull.  You seen this growth several years ago.  More student enrollment, more state funding.  More state funding, more money to build.  I think they’ve just built a new high school.  But now I’m sure they have enough money to build new schools.  
 

All those other problems you’ve stated with the teachers…. And students…. That’s all on the district and poor preparation.  
 

I wish that schools in our ISD would experience that kind of growth.  I guarantee you NO ONE would be complaining…

The growth there is not growth you want.  There are several of us on here trying to not go political with this. I beg you to research what is going on there and the rate of growth makes no economic sense as their is no industry to justify it. 

Smashmouth got in trouble! Smashmouth got in trouble!

Sorry, but the juvenile within me couldn't resist. 

5 minutes ago, AggiesAreWe said:

 

5 minutes ago, AggiesAreWe said:

The both of you @SmashMouth @Unbelievableee need to cool it. This is about snapshot numbers, not personal stuff.

Both of you crossed the line.

I was headed to Dairy Queen to watch.  Party pooper!    Probably was the wrong DQ anyway. 

1 minute ago, SmashMouth said:

You may be correct. I sure hope so...

Not me being silly claiming he stated it.  That truly is a statement he made. He posted an article quoting his own statement on Elon's toy. 

On 10/26/2023 at 11:03 AM, SmashMouth said:

I'm glad that circus is over...

"I believe history will assess the  past 3 weeks as the most productive weeks of the 118th congress."  Quote from Gaetz. 

On 10/26/2023 at 11:14 AM, 89Falcon said:

7-1 and possibly “going home”?

I found that surprising as well, but they still face 2 of the better teams in district and a 5-3 record could see them out of the playoffs.  Tie breaker scenarios don't look good for them. Would be a tremendous feel good story if they can beat Sterling.  

5 minutes ago, AggiesAreWe said:

There is simply no way their school infrastructure was ready for this kind of growth. And not just in the last 2 years.

This school was a middle of the road 4A school just 10 years ago.

Very odd situation for more than just the school.  Not the forum for it, but if interested you all can search out the reason for growth in Cleveland on the internet.  

29 minutes ago, pine curtain said:

I was talking about Newton

Schools should not have the option of what class they are in unless you are a 6 man school wanting to play 11 man football

Some do it because of budget concerns and time missed from school.  It can be a real problem in sparsely populated areas for in school week travel. 

All sports and Jr High even has to be considered for smaller classification scholls. 

15 minutes ago, Big girl said:

 

Credible doctors don't post on Facebook or YouTube. They post their findings in medical journals.

As a published college professor, I can tell you that they spread information that they publish outside of the journals. Good try.  Yes, our side is educated too.   

Your attempts to belittle here are misguided.  

McNeese takes a 24-7 halftime lead, but UIW shuts out McNeese in 2 half while scoring 3 touchdowns in the 4th. UIW wins 35-24. This sets up next Saturday, when LU welcomes UIW for a game between 2 of the 3 remaining unbeaten teams in conference. Nicholls is also 3-0 in conference. 

SELA  beats Northwestern in Thursday night.  Nicholls knock off A&M Commerce.   University of The Incarnate Word and McNeese kick off at 7.  

14 minutes ago, WOSdrummer99 said:

I still don't understand how hard is it to make all the divisions and districts even. My idea is for 7A to take the largest 64 teams. 8 districts with 8 teams and everyone makes the playoffs. That levels off the top of the mountain. Then have 2 divisions for 6A. That's the only way to get the gaps between top and bottom of each division closer. It's basic math not rocket science.

That isn't a bad idea and have thought about similar things. Problem is getting the superintendents to agree to it. The UIL can only do so much. 

Much more growth in the state and we could see a 16 district 7A.  Simply give 7A a off week before playoffs and all state tournaments for other sports could include 7A on the same week. 

Playing with the numbers (meaning number of schools in those groups combined before splitting) in present 6A and 5A D1, your scenario is the only one I see that makes mathematical sense at present if you don't have empty districts in some classifications.  Not sure if the all making the playoffs is great, but the number set up could be worked with for sure. 

21 hours ago, Gameday2 said:

United projected to drop and West Brook possibly. But UIL always seem to move numbers a little to balance out number of school in classifications. Crazy how fast some areas around the state are seeing big population growth. 

What is going to get interesting and a nightmare for alignment will be the 4A schools that are becoming more suburb town than rural and thus moving up in classifications.  To keep all 4A districts "full" may require a wider number from top to bottom enrollment. 

I am thinking there was a time when 4A (today's 5A) had some "empty" districts and some districts had first round byes.  Think this was an 80's thing.  Someone here will confirm or let me know I'm full of bovine fecal matter. 

Go look at some of the teams HF and Newton in old 3A of the 90's faced in the playoffs. One comes to mind for me of Montgomery that in the 90's was a small town and now has 2 5A schools.  Southlake Carroll was a 3A state champ in 93.  Who knows how quickly, but the state is becoming more and more uburan, thus more larger schools and issues for athletic alignment simply follow.  

I know I'm bringing up 30 plus years ago but a trend that started then with some towns is getting much more common. I know people rip on the UIL, but setting the numbers and building 32 districts per classification is a nightmare.  Especially when setting 4 regions with 3 massive population hubs (Houston metro, DFW metro, and San Antonio/Austin). 

I realize this is long, but come sit in a class I teach and I can bore you even more looking at stuff like this for hours. 

54 minutes ago, Big girl said:

Punished for what? Paul is an idiot, he is an optomologist. Fucci is an infectious disease doctor. He is one of the reasons that HIV is now a chronic disease. Smh

For lying to congress. Fauci has consistently lied about origins and research funding.  Simple and yes contrary to what you will state or what news organization you push to dispute both are facts. 

Your side loves to throw out resumes at people, but other infectious disease doctors that agree with Paul you will also dispute.  Guess the practicing doctors that twitter and Facebook shut down disputing Sir Anthony are all idiots as well.  

I don't agree, ASSUMING, the statement means those that do so still get to stay.  Deport, deport, deport!

5 hours ago, DonTheCon2024 said:

You don’t make enough money to be caring about politics this much. Stop picking sides 

I may be a trust fund baby. 

7 minutes ago, DonTheCon2024 said:

What ya gonna do.. threaten them for not falling in lockstep? Yesterday, this was a positive trait. Today, they are apparently RINOs 🤦‍♂️ 

Their constituents call their offices and voice an opinion. People that work for the representative start talking to them about possible primary opponents.  Other politicians talk to them and deals are made as sadly most political situations require.  No threats.  You, a highly knowledgeable individual should know this.  

Honestly, I like ugly politics.  You learn much about many of the representatives in a party.  2016 will live on in slowly changing the R party where the representatives will be forced to live up to the word representative and not lock step vote with the liberal university graduates hiding behind an R.  Let it be nasty!

The days of Mitt, the Bush family, Liz, and dare I say our own state rep, Drunk Dade, are coming to an end. It will get worse in the next few years, but it is changing. 

Things are still positive. Reps are showing their true intentions and primary challengers are ready. Let Jim Jordan have his fight.  He's up for it. 

Your turn...find a typo...a grammar mistake and have a cute comeback.