Matthew328

It wasn't a Dallas crew last year, it was a Fort Worth crew...quite different

Todd is a polarizing figure, but he and his staff are very good coaches. They had their kids ready to play, they just got beat by a really good team....no shame in that I can assure you the SOC coaching staff is ready to move on, this being done by DISD board members/admin for optics

they did know that

I agree, it does put that ref in a bad situation regardless of what happens....

He did and I corrected him....the official who lives or works in Port Neches threw one flag the entire game and that was a hands to the face

SOC-PNG; Bellville-Gilmer and Malakoff-Franklin were competitive down to the very end Gunter-Tidehaven was pretty competitive until the 4th Mart-Albany and Duncanville-North Shore were close enough to where it wasn't a total blowout but you never felt like Mart or North Shore was coming back to win Yeah everything else...blowout city

even if challenges were allowed I don think a DPI could be challenged I do think SOC makes it back, they are loaded at the lower levels with talent and several sophomores played key roles... When we are talking about talent SOC only had one kid sign with Texas Tech today, a couple go G5 and a few FCS kids....absolutely nothing like last year

The coaches agreed on the refs but to my understanding Part IV only applies if the potential conflict is disclosed...the rule reads he doesn't have kids at the school, so I assume since it specifically says school and not ISD its not per TASO considered a conflict

OL PNG QB PNG WR SOC DL PNG LB SOC DB SOC Special Teams PNG

I think you are overestimating SOC's talent this year..PNG especially up front IMO was more talented

Exactly IYKYK

Absolutely you file a protest to appease your base..standard operating procedure

The referee crew last year was a Fort Worth crew...SOC uses Dallas Contrary to popular belief Fort Worth is its own thing

Thats just being done for optics locally...I dont believe anyone in their right mind believes the UIL will even entertain that appeal

That used to be a rule but I dont believe it is any longer

Kids do it for instagram etc....its not a competitive thing its a fashion/disrespect thing that started in peewee ball and made its way to HS

There are a lot more open enrollment ISDs than you think that are out there as well....Dallas ISD is far from unique in that regard I do believe TX should consider doing like Louisiana and creating classifications and seperating out open enrollment ISD's vs non-open enrollment ISD's

Because thats an ISD decision, PNG could tomorrow go open enrollment if they choose to.

I mean you cant really do that because what if the other team wears white or has the same team colors as you? Refs dont need to be fashion police IMO

I'm not the world's biggest fan of open enrollment myself, but we can thank the Texas legislature for that along with charter schools et al..it is what it is and the UIL does the best they can with the resources alloted. The kids that play for SOC are all eligible under UIL rules, the open enrollment/recruiting conversation to me is just as moot IMO as SOC people complaining about some close calls that didnt go their way

It was a Fort Worth crew, SOC uses Dallas, it wasn't SOC's home chapter. Coach Todd said he agreed to the crew and he owned that, he admitted if he knew there was an official who worked in Port Neches he likely wouldn't have agreed to the crew (I wouldn't have either) thats not to say it automatically makes them a bad crew or a bad official but there's optics and its probably not fair to put him in that spot. Coach Todd did say he didnt agree w/the PI call and I wouldn't expect him to, its a close call that went against his team, no coach will be happy about it, its just the nature of the game

Probably shoulda been defensive holding, but still woulda resulted in 1/2 the distance and an automatic 1st down

They still are..they are the Mecca because of the late 60's/early 70s not now

I think it was more of a perfectly executed onside kick....not sure a lot of teams would have been ready for an onside there...it was a gamble and a great call by Coach Joseph but I dont think it was poor coaching from SOC

Full stop, I picked PNG to win because of the trenches and they were better team IMO, the bad DPI call shouldn't take away from their win