Lions Pride 2021

39 minutes ago, TxHoops said:

Not bad actually.  Nimitz is pretty good this year.   Beat a good Kingwood team and barely lost to a really good Bryan team.   And they are always well coached with Nathan Toon steering the ship.  

I agree. No. 2 and 21 were awesome. 

We kept them honest and by the middle of the third, the game wasn't so fast for the Lions.

It was a big step up in weight class.

No offense to the well coached teams we played so far, 6A is a different animal. I think we got more out of this loss than we would have gained playing an undersized Kountze.

Hopefully our friends in Hardin County get well soon.

Livingston traveled south to play the Nimitz Cougars. 

A good learning experience.

Thanks for the game Nimitz. Good luck the rest of the way. On to Porter.

32 minutes ago, Setx fan said:

Lol I’ll take that as meaning your not too sure. Just checking your temperature. Good luck to both teams 

Gosh. How many ways you want me to say it?

I called CSO out by it's full name and included the address. When I was a kid, being called by your full name was a sign stuff just got serious.

I'm writing in English, the common language of the land, so maybe you need to work on comprehension. Just a suggestion.

2 hours ago, Setx fan said:

How sure are you of that? 

🤣

15 hours ago, TrojanWarrior08 said:

He will confirm it if they beat us don't expect anything less than that lol

 

Sunday is a day of peace and reflection.

I'm on record saying Livingston is beating the Coldspring-Oakhurst Trojans. For those who couldn't infer that from my last post, I am clearly stating Livingston will win in its visit to San Jacinto County's seat of government.

3 hours ago, TrojanWarrior08 said:

I honestly expect Woodville to be in the mix after the game with Livingston @Lions Pride 2021 I'm waiting on you buddy to make an excuse about that game as well

Why brag about a game you're supposed to win. 

We're coming your way soon. 

Game cancelled.

Livingston plays at Woodville Saturday at 1:30 pm.

This is sad to hear. Hope it gets better down south.

Livingston made the trip west on US 190 and beat the Madisonville Mustangs 64-56.

Good luck Mustangs on the rest of your season.

Livingston won the dunk count 1-0, in case anyone keeps up with that kinda thing.

Y'all don't read.

Leggett basically played the Frosh/JV team because the starters were playing football. 

Beating Leggett is nothing to be proud of if you're a 4A school.  You're supposed to beat a super small school. Even when you're shorthanded, like Livingston was.

Livingston's student body,(or any big 4A school, for that matter) is probably at least 20 times bigger.  The very reason we have classes is so schools like Leggett can play against a level field. And they do a marvelous job in 1A.

Being happy about that win would be like LSU fans rushing the field after pounding McNeese or Texas pulling up goal posts after hammering Lamar by 50.

I might have been the only one on the Livingston side at Trinity that wasn't whopping and hollering during the blowout because Livingston was supposed to win that game and win big.

But again, I ain't from here, and I expect a little more. Being good enough to beat Polk County schools ain't good enough to win in district.

Ain't no shame in losing to Nederland and Brian English.  That guy is a heck of a coach.

1 hour ago, RaiderRed30 said:

So I have been debating whether to reply to this is not. 

You state that no way a 4a school should be scheduling a 1A school unless they have a star play. Ok so explain 2017. Silsbee won state in 4A. They beat Argyle in the semifinals by one point. Lipan a little ole 1A school played that same Argyle team and won by five. Not a single Lipan player played Division One basketball on that team. There was no star player. Next year Lipan beat multiple 4A and 5A teams again no star player. Brock is next door. They are a small 3A school. Almost every year they are beating 4A and 5A schools as well. 

Then look at Silsbee itself by your logic shouldn't be playing with and beating Yates because Silsbee has 800 students while Yates is in Houston ISD, which has a rule that you can start at any high school and not have to sit out a year. That means 20,000 students that Yates might have available. Not just Yates but all of those 6A schools they beat the previous years. They did not have stars like Kendrick Perkins or Stephen Jackson. Yes they might end up with 1 NBA player and 1 NFL player on their rosters those years, but no one was recruited to Kentucky or even a Big 12 school for basketball. They had great players. Talented players, but no one star. Only last year could you say that really. Just a really good team.

I have seen ranked 1A teams almost beat ranked 5A teams. Played them within 10 points. That 1A team had 5 good players in the same grade that all grew up together. They had 1 player who scored about 25 a game, but that night she had the flu. It was still a close game. There are certain 1A schools (even 2A with Big Sandy) that can play with 4A, 5A and some 6A. Size doesn't always matter. Year in and Year out they are good. 

Leggett is one of those schools. They do not play football. They run cross country and play basketball. They are proud. To sit here and say Livingston (with a lot of players still in football) should not be playing a school like Leggett is disrespectful and a little arrogant. They have been practicing all year with everyone. They are good every year. The past few years even if Livingston was at full strength in December, Leggett probably would have won. They are one of those schools that you respect the tradition. 

I end my rant with one last note to demonstrate Leggett and 1A tradition. Goodrich and Leggett close rivals. Goodrich for four years had Adrian McGowen. She graduated. Leggett then had Brittney Jefferson. Two of the best players in state history played on both sides of Livingston. They can play ball in those towns both boys and girls. So to say no way Livingston should be scheduling Leggett just because they are 1A does not hold up.

 As a Livingston parent, that game does nothing to prepare the Lions for district, which at the end of the day is all I care about.

Sure, you can find exceptions to the rule, but for the most part, 4A teams shouldn't be scheduling 1A schools. 

I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who feels this way.  Get out your feelings.

On 11/21/2020 at 3:07 PM, TrojanWarrior08 said:

But the final score doesn't reflect on how really close this game was... Here you have a highly ranked 1A team in Leggett vs. a slightly decent team in 4A (Livingston) who will probably place 4th in district and Leggett still kept the game close and could have won then what... (I don't expect them to beat HF, HJ, or Huffman in district at all and from the looks of things if Shepherd keeps winning Livingston will be on the outside looking in.) This is not the Lions of the past so if the head coach had scheduled "soft teams" then so be it. And just by looking at the Lions' schedule y'all may need those early wins in non-district y'all may compete with Jasper but definitely losing to Lufkin and Coldspring and as for district goes I've already stated that but y'all may split the Shepherd series.

We're beating Coldspring. 

Lufkin will be tricky but is winnable. Im glad New Caney and Porter are on the schedule.

Shepherd will lose both games to Livingston. Probably badly. They ain't want nothing in football and they definitely don't want none in basketball.

Livingston is doing no worse than second in district, depending on tie breakers.

Again, 4 out of 5 starters and a few key bench players were playing football. If those guys were there, it would have looked like the game in Trinity. 

No way a 4A school should be scheduling a UIL 1A school for a game unless Kendrick Perkins or Stephen Jackson is suiting up for them. Leggett is awesome for 1A, but only one kid on their team would be starting for an average 4A team.

I don't say this to be mean; I only think 2 -3 of our kids could start on a good 5A team and maybe just  one on a 6A team. Level of competition is just higher.

I hated these types of games when I was a student, when I was a sports reporter and I hate it as a parent/spectator.

I've gone as far to say I hated that West Brook was forced to play Central and Ozen in football because it wasted games the Bruins could have used to get ready for district.

I'm not from the area, so I don't care that the other polk county schools want to play Livingston. They're too small and those schools should probably be absorbed into Livingston. it would give those children better facilities, more class options and better opportunities.

88-33 Livingston. Lions pulled starters with 6 minutes left in Q4. Trinity played last four minutes with just four players due to foul trouble.

Livingston plays at Onalaska Tuesday. 

On 11/16/2020 at 10:37 AM, TrojanWarrior08 said:

For Leggett to play y'all close like this there's a reason why this game was on y'all schedule

Four of the the five starters were playing football. It was basically JV/Frosh Livingston.

Its a no win situation. If you don't win by enough, you're not good and it generates dumb comments. If you blow them out, then why are you playing them?

Trinity, Leggett, Onalaska and Goodrich shouldn't be on this team's schedule. 

I hate Livingston's schedule.

There is absolutely no reason for this game to be played.

Good game by Leggett.

it was a great season.

As a long time follower, if you told me before the season started they'd fall short in bi-district I would have taken it every day of the week and twice on Sunday.

They grew a lot, I didn't think they would get this far when the year started. Hopefully this is is the beginning of many good things.

My time obsessing over HS football is over. It's been a pleasure. On to basketball and then graduation!

I know people in both towns so I'm staying away from this one. I'm predicting a good, close game.

10 hours ago, EAGLEFOREVER said:

Will there be any tickets sold at the gate for this game?

you will have to buy them online from the New Caney ISD Website. 

I think the sale starts tomorrow.

That goes for all games at Randall Reed.

Livingston fan here. I've stated ad nauseum that Jasper is probably better due to the size of the offensive and defensive lines.

But Jasper isn't head and shoulders better and I'd give the Lions a good shot of beating the Dawgs.

As far as this game, Livingston should win. And they should win next week too. I think the end of the road is a match with Lindale, which could be a shootout.

I think the district of Doom is a little overated outside of Lindale and Kilgore. No one played defense. It was a track meet every Friday.

Huffman can definitely beat Palestine. Livingston's ill advised fake punt in the back of its end zone was the end of that game.

4 minutes ago, Boneyard Boys said:

They finally ditched the pistol and changed the offense back to the old under the center style for the HH game and it started to look like old days again. We still make too many unforced errors with the ball handling at times. Can’t have any of that this week, got to clean it up. The one thing in noticed about that district is they have very high scoring games. Could there be a lack of good defense in their teams or just high powered offense, we will find out this week.

They have people that can catch the ball. Livingston was very lucky no one knows how to catch in 10-4A-I

2 minutes ago, Boneyard Boys said:

Yea I agree, our D is our strongpoint but they have game breakers. Hopefully we can at least move the ball well enough on offense to keep the clock running and give them long fields to work with. We started punting the ball this week with a kid who can boot it. Only had a couple of punts this week but they looked well executed and had Lumberton starting drives around their 25. The way we were doing the pooch punt with the QB wasn’t working, teams were getting the ball around the 40 way too often. It looks like Vidor has been working a lot on the kicking game, all 6 extra points executed successfully last night. We’re going to need that aspect of the game, if we are to hang close with a good team. Only discouraging thing is we had another failure on punt return this week that set the Raiders up for a score. That’s 3 weeks in a row, it kills the defense when you force a 4th and long only to be right back on the field. Or even worse give up a TD on the 4th and 43 from deep in their own territory, gutsy play call by the Livingston coaches. Well played, good luck to y’all this week by the way and congrats on the DC.

Lufkin TV has called it the district of Doom all year. 

They're good, but I think they can be had.

I expect Livingston and Hargrave to win. It may be close, but a win is a win. And if Vidor limits turnovers, things could get interesting.

Friday was the first time in a long time that Vidor looked like Vidor. That Vidor is a dangerous team.

Carthage has a nice stadium. Been there a few times over the years and is a great setting.

Lindale is high flying. Anything you can do to shorten the game will help. That means run the ball and don't snap it until there's a few seconds on the play clock.

And by all means, don't over pursue on defense. Do this and y'all can make it a game.

9 minutes ago, Uncle Pig said:

It’s amazing what a great coach can do for a program 

Vannover has done a tremendous job of turning this thing around in 3 years. 

It was a complete teardown and rebuild.

 Tyler Chapel Hill vs Livingston

Saturday 6 pm 

Randell Reed Stadium

New Caney