MackLewis

Great season Mustangs! Nothing to hang your head about. Can’t and will not win them all. If you ask me, taking a team with 2 returning starters to the state title game is great coaching, and a testament to Coach T and the staff. Not many people picked them to be this far, and not many coaches could have done the job he did. This Mustang team wasn’t gonna beat Pleasant Grove today if Tom Landry was coaching them. Too small!

Super proud of what Newton accomplished, and who they did it against. Absolutely no doubt who the most dominant team in 3A is.. and next year they might be better. Such a great moment for Coach Johnston and his family. It’s awesome that Drew got to play for him, and now coach with him. For someone who has gone through what he’s gone through, against all the odds, and told he had very little chance to survive... couldn’t have happened to a more deserving and better person. And I guarantee, Coach Barbay is smiling down from above! Congrats Newton Eagles!

That’s what I’m taking about. GATA for 9:35 more!!!! This Newton team is playing lights out. Should be up 4 td’s! So proud for WT and his staff!!!

Manvel on paper wins. But you can’t count out the heart of a champion. That’s the main reason I believe WOS will beat Pleasant Grove. Highland Park won last year, and has won other titles. They expect to win, and have been there before. This is unchartered territory for Manvel.

You tell me? A 5 hour bus ride vs a 30 minute bus ride? Who has the advantage? A 3.5 hour bus ride vs a 1 hour bus ride? Who has the advantage? A team that plays in a certain NFL stadium 3 or 4 out of 6 playoff games, versus the other that plays there once a year, or may have never played there. Does that make a difference? You don’t think you that a team like Katy would have preferred to play at NRG? Their home away from home.. these are high school kids. You obviously have forgotten, or don’t have any. And I highly doubt you’ve ever coached, and dealt with teenagers.

I agree. Education is the main propose. But this is also Texas. The best high school football state in the USA, and a great importance and priority is placed in high school football. If you don’t like it, jump on the bandwagon of the progressives and try to abolish it. Until then, football will remain king in Texas, and the ones great at coaching it will be paid a handsome salary. You can also run for your local school board, or state representative and make all the changes you want. I just wouldn’t let your platform be known. You WOULD NOT get elected.

Always the response. And never a good one. Head coaches that are athletic directors are considered administrators. Same as Principal’s. Head coaches that are campus directors, or whatever other title they may hold, maybe considered that as well. They also are in charge of over 200 student athletes at many places, and some places way more. They are also under massive public scrutiny. Teachers not so much. At probably all the schools mentioned in the article, they probably bring in close to 100K $ per home game. Teachers don’t.

Regardless of your smart aleck quips, you have no clue about TXHSFB. You’ve shown that over and over. You attempt comedy to cover up ignorance. Manvel’s 5 hour bus trip is no big deal. Hell, it’s as convenient and as simple as HIghland Parks. Should play no impact whatsoever. I’ve been to see Katy play dozens of times, and watched on TV several others. What you saw yesterday was very uncharacteristic of Katy, and no ZERO to do with playing a 2016 state champ. LT is a fraction as good as they were last year, so them winning anything last year was meaningless in yesterday’s outcome. LT was the better team in SA, and that’s all that matters in 2017, if the game was in Houston, and the travel was flipped, there woulda been a much different outcome. And your film study would have shown it, I’m sure of it.

Should be a great game, and I believe Kennedale has a chance. If they can keep Carthage under 28 points they will have a chance.

WOS/Carthage is a good game any year. Wish they could play this year. IMO Carthage is the best 4A team this year regardless of division. But WOS would give them a great game. And a WOS/Manvel game would end up like the last time WOS lost a game. They got manhandled by Richmond Foster. WOS don’t have the depth to beat the better 5A teams anymore.

If you think Katy plays that sloppy, inside at NRG, which is basically their 2nd home, you don’t have a clue about high school football. I’m sure the 180 mile bus ride the morning of the game, played ZERO impact. And I’m sure we will agree Manvel should beat the mess out of Highland Park. But Highland Park playing at Grandpa Jerry’s castle nearly every week of the playoffs, and it being home away from home, has to be some sort of advantage... 30 minute ride beats a 5 hour ride, except to you that is.

Katy played very sloppy. LT scored on 2 trick plays (double passes). LT deserved to win. It was about 40 degrees and raining. Think that woulda hurt LT but it didn’t.

Lake Travis 21 Katy 7 halftime. Game is in San Antonio. Much more of a home field advantage for LT, but we’re suppose to believe that don’t matter.

Wow! Prayers and best of luck to you. Hopefully the Lord meets your needs and you get the phone call soon! And watching from your own living room ain’t a bad option either.

I’ll have the best seat in the house....my house anyways. Gonna watch on TV. FoxSW does a great job covering the state games. Blessed to be from Texas and have the best high school football in the USA!

Great team win WOS. Played better in special teams! WOS couldn’t be happier than Pleasant Grove runs the wing/slot T! WOS seldom has trouble with those teams. I picked Pleasant Grove to beat WOS 2 weeks ago, and now I feel like a fool. Although I think it will be a 1 score game either way. PG has a really good defense and won’t make it easy on WOS.

Common sense tells you it woulda been a much better game if the QB don’t get hurt 1st series. And this discussion is silly, and pointless if team A is WAY better than team B. If University of Georgia plays on the road at Oregon State, home field and travel might not mean as much in the final score. They were gonna win regardless. They travel to play USC, a team more evenly matched and the issues of traveling, playing 3 times zones away and everything else may make an impact. But, it’s hard to talk logic to the south end of a north bound donkey.

Wow! You really work fast. Assuming a RGV or El Paso team are ever good good enough to make the state championship, I’m sure the 12 hour drive would have absolutely no impact at all, right?!

Met and fished with Coach Massey at a clinic in Jasper some 15 years ago. Super great guy, and a great coach. Long time O-Line coach at Katy when I met him.

Have you finished polling the coaches yet, Skippy?

Since you’re so well connected, and a self considered genius, call up all the 5A and 6A coaches and ask them if home field matters. You seem to be the only one that believes it plays no significant part in high school football.

Did you ask him about travel or home field advantage. I’m sure he said he’d rather play at NRG, Austin, or El Paso instead of playing in Dallas.

That’s part of it, sure! I’m not gonna argue that. If you don’t believe a 45 minute drive, and sleeping in your bed, having a home cook meal, and going through a normal routine is way better than a 5 hour drive, and nothing but a normal routine, then no need to talk to you. Playing in your back yard is an advantage regardless if you can see that or not.

Crazy stat! Things are about to get way tougher though. Outside of Madisonville, the playoff competition has been suspect. Both Wimberley and the state title game, the offense will have to play much better, and the special teams. Can’t give these teams short fields!

I think back to Katy losing to Cedar Hill in back to back games a few years ago. Katy made very uncommon mistakes for them. Don’t get me wrong, Cedar Hill deserved to win, but if the game was played in Houston or a more neutral site, the outcomes could have been very different.