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Thats great news, now LCM fans won't have to stare directly into the sun before it sets in the evening lol

Bingo. Jealousy may play a small part in it, but from what I've seen the issue is mainly people with antiquated views on everything, including improvements to their school district. "We didn't have turf fields back when I played, so why do kids these days need it?" Sadly there are a lot of folks like this in SETX, and the high school athletic facilities around here mostly reflect that way of thinking. Your "what we have is good enough" point is great, because people will say that in regard to local high school athletic facilities, then they will turn around and complain when our football teams get knocked out of the playoffs early (except for WOS and Newton usually) by schools with much better facilities. Top-notch athletic facilities certainly won't guarantee playoff success, but it definitely helps programs get going in the right direction.

Yes its true that most of the athletic programs stink right now, but that should have been expected, especially with the move to the WAC. If you look solely at Lamar athletic programs' recent success (or lack thereof) before the move, Lamar had no business moving to a bigger/better conference. Sure, the move to the WAC will benefit Lamar in the long run, but there are going to be major growing pains when an already-struggling athletic program moves up to a new weight class. My next question to you is why are your expectations so high with Lamar athletics? I'm about to be 32, and Lamar athletics have been overall mediocre at best my whole life. Lamar baseball has made six NCAA tourney appearances in my lifetime, with only one of those appearances coming since 2005. Lamar basketball has two whole NCAA tourney appearances in my lifetime. I will always support Lamar athletics, but I will also always be realistic about it. You will rarely be let down if you temper your expectations.

I'm surprised there hasn't been any talk about expanding the bleachers, especially on the visitor's side.

My bad, I didn't know it was a summer tournament. Is it an invite-only deal or can any team go?

Do you like Lamar? Like even a little bit?

Exciting times in the school district. I was told that turf is also being installed in the old sweat box gym so it can be used as an indoor practice facility for the outdoor sports.

You'd be hard-pressed to find many 4a schools that play a tougher non-district schedule than Silsbee each year.

Those are the two teams I have in the final, with the Zags winning it all. Not super confident in that pick though.

Yepp. Not accounting for strength of schedule, pre-district records in baseball are a lot less telling of how good or bad a team really is when compared to pre-districts records in football and basketball because those sports don't have the pitching aspect factored in. A lot of innings have to be eaten up by less talented guys during baseball pre-district due to the amount of games played in a short timespan during the 2-3 tournaments that each team plays in.

I believe the geography of the Region is irrelevant when picking the sites for first two rounds of the tourney.

ESPN has Holland ranked as the #4 overall player in the 2023 class, but he didn't impress me at all in the title game against McKinney. Maybe he had an off night or something.

Didn’t realize Penny Hardaway’s son played for D’ville. “Moved in” from Cali last year.

I legit had to think about this

Duncanville isn’t messing around today like they did in the first half against Cita

Scott Drew as well

Bruce Pearl and Chris Beard are in the building.

Looks like I made a good call in taking a long break from the games after United won

Can’t argue TA though. They don’t win without his free throws in the 4th quarter

Dotson gets my vote for MVP

What a damn team!

I believe #4 for Mansfield hasn’t scored in the second half

These referees are AWFUL

Yates and Arceneaux have been liabilities on offense

BU needs to keep driving to the cup