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District 12 is going to be hard to beat. Seems like they have 3 solid teams!

Still a couple of weeks to go but here is a projection that I put together. W1 El Paso El Dorado vs F2 Amarillo Tascosa R4 Arlington Heights vs T3 Richland W2 Abilene vs F1 El Paso Bel Air R3 Denton Ryan vs T4 Paschal W3 Aledo vs F4 Chisholm Trail R2 Amarillo vs T1 El Paso Parkland W4 Saginaw vs F3 Azle R1 El Paso Americas vs T2 Lubbock Monterey W5 Frisco Reedy vs F6 Dallas White R8 Cedar Park vs T7 Red Oak W6 West Mesquite vs F5 McKinney North R7 Midlothian vs T8 Lake Belton W7 Highland Park vs F8 Leander Rouse R6 Carrollton Newman Smith vs T5 Frisco Wakeland W8 Georgetown vs F7 Burleson Centennial R5 Frisco Lone Star vs T6 Carrollton Creekview W9 Lufkin vs F10 Houston Milby R12 College Station vs T11 Crosby W10 Houston Waltrip vs F9 Barbers Hill R11 La Porte vs T12 Pflugerville Weiss W11 Angleton vs F12 Austin Anderson R10 Galena Park vs T9 Port Arthur Memorial W12 A&M Consolidated vs F11 Friendswood R9 Galveston Ball vs T10 Houston Sterling W13 Comal Pieper vs F14 South San Antonio R16 McAllen Memorial vs T15 CC Veterans Memorial W14 Northside Jay vs F13 Seguin R15 PSJA North vs T16 Mission W15 Flour Bluff vs F16 McAllen Rowe R14 SA Southwest vs T13 New Braunfels W16 Edinburg Vela vs F15 Weslaco East R13 Smithson Valley vs T14 Southwest Legacy

Will this game be streamed?

Anyone want to avatar bet for 1 week? I'll take Lufkin.

Went Lufkin. I've only seen a couple of highlights from each team. Hopefully it's a good game.

What were the expectations coming into the season? What are they to finish the regular season? How are things looking if yall make the tournament?

When do those teams play?

Everybody ropes and everybody rides.

Should we be talking about Ball from a regional contender standpoint? Yalls score was shocking.

Ended up winning 42-27. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Do you think Ball is legit?

Several starters coming off of injury and might not make it back in time for non-district. Not sure when they will be medically cleared. So working off of that info I think it is very possible we start the season 0-2 if they all miss. Guyer has historically been a tough program for us to beat so that wont change this year. Lancaster on the other hand is a wildcard. They are talented but in general I'd think we would beat them more often than not but with the handful of potential starters missing then it makes this game that much harder. Week 1 at 6A Denton Guyer Week 2 home vs 6A Lancaster

'53-'55 three consecutive finals appearances winning 2 titles. '74-'77 4 seasons in a row yall played 14+ games, winning a title. What would need to be accomplished for this run to be considered the golden era of PNG football?

Have yall thought about releasing a digital copy to a select "council" to do a quality control check? There are some series football heads on these forums that have been following TXHSFB for decades. I could recommend 5-7 people from the 6A forum, 5A forum, Smoaky and this one that could double check everything. @Mr. Buddy Garrity makes my list from this site. Just an idea.

Thats a bummer. Does the coaching staff try to adjust the offense to the players strengths year to year or they run the same system no matter what? Not changing the playbook per se but calling plays that the players can excel at.

Yall starting out in the top 10. Just didnt know if a playoff run past the 1st round was in the cards?

Any thoughts on the season?

Highland Park is an elite program. They are going to be tough to beat come December.

Realistically it's more like 13 teams. The 7 they would have beaten in district and the 6 on the way to winning state. Everyone else it really doesn't effect.

Realistically it's more like 13 teams. The 7 they would have beaten in district and the 6 on the way to winning state. Everyone else it really doesn't effect.

SOC being talented is nothing new. I posted this on the 5A site a couple of weeks after we beat them in 2018. South Oak Cliff High School (22) Gerald Ausborne, football: Missouri Valley College N’Kozi Bell, football: Texas A&M-Commerce Zecqurie Cannon Grant Fields, football: Missouri Valley College Derrion Clark, football: University of Arizona Derrick Jerome Coleman, football: Navarro College KC Cook, football: Missouri Valley College Deondre Dansby, football: UT-Permian Basin Kendrick Eldridge, football: Texas College Zakieth Ford, football: Texas College Dominique Gant, football: Texas College Braxton Haywood, football: Grambling State University Tracie Hicks, football: West Texas A&M University Bobby Holmes, football: University of Louisiana-Lafayette Delmon Jennings, football: East Central Oklahoma University Dequavion Ludd, football: Texas A&M-Commerce Demonte Minter, football: Texas College Steven Parker, football: University of Kansas Sean Simms, football: Navy Arrington Taylor, football: Prairie View University Arrington Thomas, football: Oklahoma Panhandle State Davion Wheeler, football: Alabama A&M University Rashad Wren, football: Cisco Junior College

Honestly, idk if scheduling those top end 6A teams would benefit y'all. Those teams are much better than anyone y'all would play in D2. Plus I don't think they would be interested at all. PNG doesn't offer much for NS or Cita. Playing College Station, A&M Consolidated, Cedar Park, or Smithson Valley makes much more sense for both sides. Even playing us, there are so many good teams that are closer to us than y'all. If we can save money on travel I'd rather do that. Unless you wanted to come to Aledo. I'm sure we'd welcome y'all.

If you want to move this response to another thread then thats fine. I just feel the need to elaborate. Coach Buc built Aledo into what it is today. The culture, the system, expectations, ect, is all installed by Coach Buc. You said he won 1 state title in his first 15 years, which was '98 against Cuero. Well, something that was not mentioned is the steady progression of our playoff runs. This thing has been building from the ground up. The Years in red that are underlined prove this point. The other two coaches you mentioned are Coach Steve Wood and Coach Robby Jones (current coach). Coach Wood was in Aledo 11 years, most as the DC before taking over and Coach Jones has been in Aledo 18ish years before taking over. Both Coach Wood & Jones have taught that system for awhile. So they did not try to change things for the sake of it. They have their own styles but they do not let their ego get involved. Thats exactly what we need. People that respect what is working. You also mention a major talent edge. Against most teams, I would agree, against certain playoff team, maybe, against other state finalist, not really. Aledo grew up beating teams more talented than them. All those years where we got knocked out in the 3rd-5th rounds, show we didnt have a talent edge. Not a lot of kids going to play on Saturday. I'd say La Marque, Temple, Manvel, Brenham in '09, were all teams that had more talent than us on the field in the state games. Maybe even Fort Bend Marshall too in '18 & '19. But our coaching has been outstanding and we have won a lot of games that on paper we should lose. State Champions: '98 '09 '10 '11 '13 '14 '16 '18 '19 '20 '22 '23 State Finalist: '74 '17 State Semifinalist: '72 '97 '04 '06 '07 '15 State Quarterfinalist: '96 '99 '02 '03 '05 Regional Finalist: '67 '68 '70 '77 '00 '01 '21 Area Finalist: '08 '12 Bi-District Finalist: '62 '71 '73 '76 '81 '87 '88

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Smoaky mods are the worst from any forum I've been on. Post on the 5A site. They need quality ppl.