Matthew328

42 minutes ago, 1970 said:

Why?  What is "mecca"? 

From the cover story in this year's DCTF magazine: 

Jason Todd is South Dallas born and raised. He graduated from Dallas Lincoln and played under legendary coach Reginald Samples. Every day, Todd walks the hall on campus where the image of his grandfather, former SOC principal Frederick Todd, hangs above him, a constant reminder of his loyalty to the area. Ward is a Dallas Kimball graduate. Defensive line coach Dominic Spencer is a Dallas Skyline product. Running backs coach Keith Davis is a graduate of Dallas Hillcrest. You get the picture. There’s nothing they pride themselves on more than representing the area in which they were raised.

Which makes the program’s nickname, given by Todd, all the more resonant — The Mecca.

In the Muslim faith, Mecca is the birthplace of the prophet Muhammad, where the Islamic faith originated and where every Muslim is eventually called back to at least once in their life.

“You had to pass through SOC because it was first in Oak Cliff and Oak Cliff is the biggest part of Dallas,” Ward said. “As everybody from Oak Cliff had spread, somebody within their roots, if they’re from Dallas, went to SOC: Granny, mama, uncle or whoever.”

So basically what they were saying is SOC is the birthplace of what you see now in programs like Duncanville, DeSoto, Lancaster, Cedar Hill, etc....a ton of those players families are from Oak Cliff and have a tie to SOC in some way

1 hour ago, NHSBulldogFan said:

Sure is...and here's the penalty for it PENALTY—Administer as a dead-ball foul. 15 yards at the succeeding

spot following the kickoff. If the kickoff is returned for a

touchdown, the penalty is assessed either on the try or on the

succeeding kickoff, at the option of the home team. [S27] In

addition, Officials shall charge a team timeout at the start of

each quarter the illegal jerseys are worn, or a foul for delay of

the game if all timeouts have been used.

EXCEPTION: 1-4-5-a-2. Delete all of item 2 and replace with the following: 2. Other than the player’s number, the jersey may only contain: Player’s name, or, words that reflect positive values, such as “Honor”, “Integrity”, “Courage”, etc., substituted for the player’s name on the back of the jersey (by local district approval) School name Mascot name UIL Logo Sleeve stripes Logo for school, conference, mascot, postseason-game, memorial, the military Team slogan/acronym (by local district approval) The letter “C” to identify a Team Captain American flag State flag

30 minutes ago, png9mon said:

Will PNG be home, or visitors at AT&T for the state championship?

 

Region III and Region IV are visitors 

I figure this one before its all said and done will be close to a sellout

Caught up with Coach Smith postgame and he definitely mentioned the OL improvement

Miller is a great player, but I thought the Tech kid had very good coverage on him much of the night...Miller's first TD I think he did have a step on him, but Brisbane led him perfectly to let Miller go get it w/the step advantage...

That 2nd TD was outstanding coverage, it was just a great throw into a tight window....I really enjoyed watching those two go at it.....two outstanding players

I know when Coach Graham got hired as the OC there was a lot of talk (mostly negative) about the hire..interesting after an 11-2 season and a pretty good offense if those concerns have faded? I cant remember if the negativity came from Beaumont people or PA people who were worried but I definitely recall some concern

Weather bug tells me 30% chance of rain during the day and clear in the evening

Loser likely looking at a Rd 1 roadtrip to Lancaster

1 minute ago, ThaGhost said:

If you buy this, then I would like to offer you property for sale on "Wooden Nickle Island" for 500k

Just letting you know what she told me when I asked her. I dont think Ashley would lie about it, now she wasn't there and is only as good as the information being given to her but figured I'd at least offer some transparency 

On 9/24/2022 at 12:33 AM, Mr. Buddy Garrity said:

I guess Texan Live forgot the 1st qtr. I picked it up from 2nd qtr when Crosby turned the ball over on downs at the KP 10 (10yd line I believe) up 15-0. 

 

 

I asked Pickle about this one, Apparently there was a power outage in the pressbox and power wasn't cut on until start of the 2nd Qtr...

6 hours ago, kenny powers said:

How about how do you refresh a game without having to close the app and reopen it again? 

If you click on a game go back to the main scores page and just drag the page down and it refreshes

If it doesnt come up, please download the latest update in your app store
 

2 hours ago, TheDonk said:

The remaining quarters may be shortened to 12 minutes each?

High school varsity contests are already played with 4 12 minute quarters.

They are quoting NCAA rules which the UIL uses

I was totally wrong about Lancaster, that team is a force and threat to win the region....

I was kind of right on LaPorte, I thought Berneathy would turn it around maybe have them in the mix for 4th...he's doing more than that! 

19 hours ago, TradenupBH said:

Agree, you also have to take into consideration that schools in PVIL couldn’t participate in UIL until early 80’s. I may be wrong on date. That’s a lot of good athletes not participating all of those years.

PVIL officially ceased to exist after 1968 but many ISD's starting closing PVIL schools earlier than that...for example Brownwood closed their seperate HS for black students in like 1961....Daingerfield and Sweeny closed their seperate HS's in 1964 or 1965 if memory serves...some places kept their PVIL school open for another year or two and then merged like in 1970...Marshall and Lufkin I believe were like that.....then you have places like Beaumont who kept them open longer....Dallas Madison, Dallas Lincoln, Houston Yates, Houston Worthing, Houston Wheatley are PVIL schools still in operation today...so things vary greatly

1 hour ago, TradenupBH said:

I think tip your hat to the old timers, but during these days, guys are competing against a lot more schools and quiet frankly a lot better competition. 

That's true but you also have to balance that take with only one team made the playoffs until 1980....so there's a trade off that when looking at it neutrally has to be accounted for.....

6 hours ago, Coach_Izzy said:

Way before my time…but level of competition has to play a factor when considering who’s the greatest. That’s like ranking a D2 Head Coach over Saban because he’s won more games & titles.

You did mention the Aledo coach though and they've never been in 6A either though

2 minutes ago, Coach_Izzy said:

I completely forgot about Surratt he’s definitely one to mention…but IMO it’s hard to be considered the greatest when you’re not winning at the highest level! It’s a huge difference between 6A D1 & everything else but that’s just my take. However can’t take winning for granted on any level cause it’s not easy to do.

Sometimes its harder to win at small schools because the talents can ebb and flow something fierce...Gordon Wood and GA Moore never coached at the highest level but I think both sit on the Mt Rushmore of TXHSFB Coaches for sure...especially Wood who did it for an incredibly long time and in an area when only one team made the playoffs....Wood would have probably racked up well over 450 wins if he didnt miss the bulk of 3 seasons due to military service in WWII and there were several years his teams were really, really good but finished 2nd in district and missed the playoffs

1951: 9-1

1954: 9-1

1957: 8-2

1961: 8-1-1

1963: 8-2

1966: 8-2

1973: 9-1

1975: 8-2

Eight seasons of eight wins and not making the playoffs...gotta think a few playoff wins woulda happened in those years

HC son becomes QB...sling it all around! Winnsboro was Slot-T in 2021....they listed the scheme as Wing-T in 2022....need to find some highlights to see if they are actually Wing-T or if they are spread

13 minutes ago, Coach_Izzy said:

Dodge is definitely in the convo for one of the greatest ever along with Gary Joseph (although he’s never won a title in the highest classification 5A/6A D1) & the guy from Aledo…however there’s a coach on the Eastside of Houston who’s won 4 titles (possibly 5 after this year) in only 8 short years as a head coach who may have something to say about that when it’s all set and done.

Buchanan at Aledo is probably already up there in Gordon Wood, GA Moore territory....267 wins and 7 titles is incredible...the 4 years he was AD Aledo from 2014-2018, Aledo went 75-4 w/3 titles....got to wonder if he added those 75 wins and 3 titles to the resume if he'd be considered the best of all-time to this point we are talking 342 wins and 10 state titles going into this season

If Surratt stays at Carthage long enough he'll be in the talks....189-29 fifteen years in and 8/8 in state title games....he's probably gonna get to 200 this year and they are the favorites to win number nine this season

15 minutes ago, Austin1985 said:

That's like he bought a house and added a couple of rooms.  If SLC had no early success, then your point is valid.  And, what about the stops between North Texas and Westlake? 

Southlake was a program in decline at his arrival and they were about to jump from 4A-5A so he does deserve some credit in how he built Carroll back up and doing it while transitioning to the largest classification.

Another thing people dont realize is his two years at Fossil Ridge are underrated...he got there the school was in its third year of existence and had won just two games...he does 2-7 and 5-5 there and put some foundations in place to set them up to go 8-4 the year he left and then they made the semifinals...those seniors on that semifinal credit a lot of what was built to Dodge..

There's no doubt that Dodge's career is a bit of a roller coaster, but he did more building than he gets credit for also....

Southlake had won in the 90s but they had hit a lull before Dodge got there...the 5 years before Dodge arrived Carroll was 10-1, 3-6-1, 7-5, 12-2, 6-4.....not terrible but not Carroll....he got to Carroll and switched them from wishbone to spread and then guided them from old 4A to 5A winning state his third year...so he did kind of build Carroll in a way

9 hours ago, Hagar said:

Bmt Enterprise on Saturday morning.  Scores of most local games in small print at top of page 1.  Sports page had box scores on virtually every game.  This was back when newspapers actually printed……the news.  Sunday would have individual stat leaders.  It was the highlight of the weekend.

Not sure what happens now.  I suspect they have a person who scans the Drudge Report and picks out stories they like - copy & paste.  Journalism has sure changed.

Journalism (well at least sports journalism has changed) because newspapers were slow to adapt to the digital world, that combined with massively reduced revenue streams have forced most small papers out of business and bigger papers to get swallowed up by corporate congolomerates who slash the budgets even more.....what really killed the newspaper was the loss of classified ad revenue...when that stuff went onlint to Craig's List etc...its absolutely gutted a massive revenue stream for newspapers and they never adapted/recovered