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the coach put the word out Monday when he told his players he wouldn't be coming back. The school board only issued a release after everyone in town already knew.

Oh yeah, Baytown school district Wedneday announced a not-so-well kept secret: Sterling coach Herb Minyard (23-44, one playoff appearance, in seven years) is being reassigned after end of season. He told his players Monday. Can news like that motivate an 0-4 team that has only one great athlete (qb/kr Chance Nelson) and two others pretty good (RB CJ Mixon and WR/DB Jamar Gibson) and only one of those plays defense enough to beat PA? ..

first-time poster ... thanks to everyone who posts for all your entertainment/info over the years The way Kenny Harrison explained it to me Tuesday was that PA's in with a win or a loss to RSS by 17 or fewer points -- barring a Channelview upset of North Shore. PA is 1-3, same as Channelview (with its win over RSS by 1 point) while RSS is 0-4. Because PA beat Channelview by 18 (also the most "plus points" allowable under 21-5A three-way tiebreaker), it's plus-18 on the tiebreaker scale, Channelview is plus-1 and RSS is still coming to bat when it comes to a win over one of the other two. If Channelview loses to finish 1-4 and RSS beats PA so both of them finish 1-4, it would be a three-way tie with all three having gone 1-1 against the other two. Sterling would need to win by 18 or more to "tie" PA under the points system, then would advance via head-to-head win over PA. Otherwise, PA gets in off three-way 1-4 tie if it wins point system. If PA wins, it would be be 2-3 and finish no worse than a two-way tie for fourth with Channelview and PA advances because it beat Channelview head up. If Channelview beat North Shore to finish 2-3 AND RSS beats Port Arthur, RSS and Port Arthur would finish tied for fifth and Channelview would be fourth and in the playoffs. Pretty sure that's 100 percent accurate. (Also, Harrison told me he expects all his wounded back on field Saturday.)