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There's a bit of new blood from last year pre-season....thing about 2A-D1 is all the major players from last year bring back the house...will be tough for a new face to break through

#1, #2 and #7 in the same district....whew!!!! China Spring has a big question mark at QB..going to be interesting how they handle the move up to D1 and the grind of a tough schedule where more teams will be able to wear em down I personally feel we over-ranked Calallen and Celina but the computer loves those two

As said, zero chance King would play willingly at Lufkin...SFA yes...Lufkin is not a no...its a HELL NO...Longview woud flip Shreveport or Tyler for Houston before going to Abe Martin lol

Ryan didnt have much depth last year and its even less this year...You are correct abour Ryan's defense still being strong but Longview did put 33 up on them in the playoffs so clearly the Lobos took big steps forward primarily IMO due to improvement on the OL, which returns mostly intact. I'd give Longview the edge over Ryan at WR, I'd give Longview the edge over Ryan at RB (each team has a 4-star stud, but Longview is much deeper there)...obviously Longview's OL gets the edge over Ryan...Longview's QB played a lot last year and struggled, mainly because I think he had a senior looking over his shoulder, he seems much more confident this year and according to the staff he's made major strides....Ryan's front seven gets a big edge over Longview IMO (thats where Longview has the most questions), but the gap between the two secondaries isn't as big as one would think...Longview's back four has some really talented young kids... Teams dont beat Longview four times in a row often, I'm playing the odds here in my personal rankings and giving Longview the edge over Ryan in a potential semifinal....and at least in the pre-season rankings, the computer agrees

All rankings are a guess.....there's a lot that goes into them, past performance, returning starters, pedigree of program and coach and there's some hunches/feelings that go into it as well...its not a perfect science but we tend to do ok... as for Hirschi..I think people forget just how close they were to beating Stephenville in the semifinals last year...we are talking about a team that went 12-3 last year...is moving down to D2 in Region I and they return a dozen starters...if their Coach doesnt take the Coppell job and take his son who was the leading returning tackler with him, I think Hirschi would be ranked #2.... Silsbee is more of a guess because they were average last year, but sixteen starters back, including a large number of juniors who played as sophomores we felt pretty good about the Tigers, especially considering their recent playoff pedigree

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I was at the first Longview-Ryan game and a young Longview team got some hard lessons in Week 1...the second meeting was much more competitive obviously as a young Longview squad improved a ton during the year... Going into 2021; Ryan lost a lot (44 seniors) and their junior and sophomore classes are pretty average so a team that already lacked depth is really going to be pushed this year.... Longview is the exact opposite, the senior class that just graduated is pretty average for their standards & they are replacing those guys with a junior class thats loaded...its a group that we've been hearing about in these parts for a couple of years...add that group to a mix that already returned 14 starters and 40 lettermen and there you have it...

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Will be Monday June 6 at noon...tune in to Texas Football Today on the DCTF Facebook or YouTube to watch

I am 99% sure it will

As 7on7 has grown the Baytown Lee's of the world who win state 7on7 and the go winless in real football are few and far between....by and large teams who go to the State Tournament and do well also do outstanding in the fall. In 2021 Division I the final eight teams went 83-22, Division II 76-24 and Division III 83-20 We are talking teams like Lake Travis, Austin Westlake, College Station, Katy Tompkins, China Spring, Tyler Chapel Hill, Argyle, Dumas, Stratford, Franklin and Daingerfield

West Orange-Stark beat LCM to qualify

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I think TW is a good HS Coach, KW the jury is still out he's only had one year so a lot of time left

Whitehouse brings back 7 on offense, 3 defense....JV was 7-2-1 last year, so I'd say there's a pretty decent chance for improvement...especially considering they were pretty competitive in every game last year except for Texas High...

This is Westerberg's last job before retirement, I think he hated being AD only and wanted to enjoy the last few years doing something he actually loved

I dont think it had anything to do with LaPorte at all, I think that was going to be a one-year thing at most anyway...a transition job...add in the fact you have a 20 minute commute one-way vs an hour one way, plus the better pay, chance to run your own program etc....and hell he can't do any worse than what's already been done in Tarkington...it's a win-win for Coach Taylor