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SOC and PNG are mirrors of each other, though SoC is more talented. I think there’s some coaching tree overlap, I just don’t know how much. Coach Joseph and the defensive coordinator at SOC coached together at Southlake Carroll, at least.

Where did you watch the game? (I’m assuming you watched online)

[Hidden Content] i don’t know if this is the main chat, but it’s had a little activity today

Long posts are welcome. I’d especially like to hear what folks over there are thinking about this game

Wow

That’s wild

Anyone know if there’s a livestream for this one?

I think the UIL should adopt a rule that if two stadiums are proposed and both are available (and relatively equidistant) the one with the largest capacity must be selected. Easy peasy.

Sorry - I’m being too salty. Apologies

Or, I can do what you’re doing and express my opinion here. Don’t act like you’re “above” this. No one’s forcing you to be here.

There should be crying - It’s horse crap to arbitrarily deny fans the ability to watch the game. The whole point of high school football is community involvement. It’s not our fault our playoff opponents don’t have communities (including our friends from the surrounding SETX community who show up for each other) that care about their team enough to get on the road and watch. The gamesmanship of trying to find smaller stadiums to leave PNG fans out is pathetic and cowardly. If they can leave us out, how about just have no fans at all? If PNG has to turn 2,000-3,000 fans away, Liberty Hill should have to turn that many away as well , but everyone knows they would have no fans at all if they had to do that. The fact is you could hold this game on the moon and we’d still show up, and most other teams struggle to fill up their home stadiums. And, it’s going to backfire - Now Liberty Hill will be utterly surrounded by PNG in a more confined space. They’re going to have PTSD from hearing Cherokee.

Did anyone get pictures from last night at buccee’s?

Watching more of last night’s LH/Pieper game, I think Pieper would have beaten LH with a healthy qb. LH didn’t do anything special on defense, they were just up against a team with a guy throwing from a hurt leg - He could barely move, and it seems to have affected his accuracy.

I’ve always wanted to do that, to see PNG from the other side.

Liberty Hill should put her on a shirt

Their defensive line is shockingly small. I’m having trouble imagining a scenario where they stop our run game.

Liberty Hill has probably had a rematch with PNG circled all season. Let’s get it going.

Great season, Jasper! We were pulling for you.

They played us really tough.

Refs helped so much on that drive

Specific to this game, you’re right that it’s not really accurate to call a Huntsville win an upset. They’re where they are for a reason, ranking and records don’t matter. Huntsville doesn’t have to be the best 6 weeks ago to beat us. They have to be the best this week.

Good point.

I’ve been watching some Huntsville film. I’m predicting a grinding, slobberknocker game similar to the one PNG had against West Orange. Huntsville is big on the defensive line, and they don’t give up big plays. They’re also fast on the D line, with quick hands. Number 55 has multiple long runs after fumbles or interceptions. And they’re capable of closing off the run game similarly to Lake Creek. In the playoffs, their defense is a mirror to PNG’s (though we played the best offense in the region in Lake Creek). Looking only at their playoff performance, they’ve given up an average of 16 points a game, identical to PNG over the same period. That being said, PNG’s offense has been better than Huntsville’s, and I think that will make the difference. I see two likely scenarios: One, PNG plays stiff defense and is able to move the ball relatively consistently, slowly inching up the score board for a final score around 21/28 to 7/14. Two, Huntsville keeps it to a close, one-score game and whoever wins does it by the skin of their teeth. Huntsville wants a low-scoring game, of course. I think we have the advantage in a shootout. The later the game goes with a 14-7 or 7-0 score, the more I start to see a Huntsville upset. Richmond and Texas City showed that if you let Huntsville hang around they can take advantage of it. We just have to come out clean, get up by a couple scores, and hang on. As improved as Huntsville’s defense has been, they haven’t shown the same leap on offense. If they have to play catchup, we control the game.

I miss those royal purple helmets.