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Thank you to everyone who has followed along and read my stories this season. I really appreciate it and I had a blast covering everything.

Thank you to everyone who has followed along and read my stories this season. I really appreciate it and I had a blast covering everything.

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Jones brothers from West Brook signed with Lamar

Whoever provides the most money to the BE sports writers.

No lie, that story almost brought me to tears. He's a great man and with all he's been through, winning state on Thursday would just be even more amazing.
Funny enough, I'm tagged in a picture on Facebook with coach Johnston and who I now realize is Darwin Barlow. Funny, had no idea that little kid would be such a major component of a state title run 4 years later.
 

And he was getting blanketed in coverage quite often.

Full list of Super Gold first and second teams.

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I'll go in and fix that. Thanks!

Wonder if he'll end up signing early like he said he was going to.

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Roschon.

Jarron Morris interview
 
 

Chaka Watson interview.
 
 

To put in perspective how impressive WO-S has been the last couple of years. They're in the top 10 for longest win streaks in texas hs football history.
68 - Celina (1998-2002) 
57 - Allen (2012-15) 
49 - Bremond (2014-17)
49 - Southlake Carroll (2004-07)
49 - Abilene (1954-57)
48 - Lake Travis (2007-10)
44 - Cuero (1973-75)
41 - Hull-Daisetta (1936-39)
39 - West Orange-Stark (2015-present)
38 - Liberty Hill (2006-08)

Perk has made over $100m in his career, just in salary.  Millions more in endorsements.  He's invested well, and no longer NEEDS to play the game.  It's nice to see the passion is still there for him, even as he approaches his mid-30s.  I would guess he hasn't played his last minutes in the NBA.  If nothing else, he has long been known as a great locker room guy.  Sounds like the young ones in Canton are benefiting from this now.

This is just our first team for football. Second team will be released on Sunday in the newspaper.
13 selections on offense (2 QB, 3 RB, 2 WR, 5 OL, 1 K), 13 on defense (4 DL, 4 LB, 4 DB, 1 P) 
Football is slides 1 to 24. Five players were not at the event (Kalon Barnes, Silsbee | Jonathan Hageon, Silsbee | Elijah Hines, Memorial | Preston Riggs, PN-G | Paul Ivory, WO-S)
Superlatives also included in the slideshow.

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This is just our first team for football. Second team will be released on Sunday in the newspaper.
13 selections on offense (2 QB, 3 RB, 2 WR, 5 OL, 1 K), 13 on defense (4 DL, 4 LB, 4 DB, 1 P) 
Football is slides 1 to 24. Five players were not at the event (Kalon Barnes, Silsbee | Jonathan Hageon, Silsbee | Elijah Hines, Memorial | Preston Riggs, PN-G | Paul Ivory, WO-S)
Superlatives also included in the slideshow.

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Grade school to a full-time job in six years? I'll take it.

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Talent is nothing new for Newton, but having this many, and this many possible highly rated players is somewhat new.
i played against Andre Horn and a Chris Brooks and they were both D1 talent in 1996.  David Walker, Tim Kennebrew, and the big time safety hey had in 98 also come to mind.
And the most infamous player they had, for Orangefield guys anyway, was Anthony Byerly!  He single handedly destroyed Orangefield’s state title hopes in 1981 by himself, then went to Texas!

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Facts:
1.   Since that 2011 season, Kelly Catholic has gone 9-41 (a .180 winning percentage).
2.  Since that 2011 season, Kelly Catholic has gone 2-21 in district play (those two district wins were against Katy St. John XIII, which went 0-9 and 1-9 in those seasons that they lost to them).
3.  The lack of players is not something that is new under Coach Smith.  His predecessor Al Rabb, always lamented to me in his years at Kelly that he did not have the manpower to compete with the St. Pius' and St. Thomas' of the world.
I am sure that Jason Smith wishes he had the answers to it.  I think that by stepping back and rebuilding, he thinks it might be the answer.  And yes, at one time, very recently, Kelly was able to compete with these schools.  But the last few years have shown that not to be the case anymore.
Hopefully, they will be able to rebuild to the point where they can.

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