purple reign

Dulles is no better than Kempner having won just 1 game the last 2 years and will have no better luck. They may have a chance to beat either Pasadena or South Houston in this district.

Angleton Schedule: scrimmage 1 St. Thomas Scrimmage 2 Bay City wk1 FB Bush wk 2 Dayton wk 3 FB Dulles wk 4 South Houston wk5 Iowa Colony wk6 Pasadena wk 7 Katy Freeman wk 8 idle wk9 Friendswood wk 10 Richmond Randle wk 11 Victoria East

My daughter went to U of H, but her husband was an Aggie.

My guess it will have minimal effect on enrollments. I'm remembering when Guidant closed their Intermedics facility, a medical pacemaker manufacturer in 1999 in Angleton which employeed a whopping 1400 people just after aquiring it, I thought it would have a big affect on Angleton HS, but it didn't. There was a modest increase in Angleton's enrollment in both 2000 and 2002. Just because employees have to change jobs doesn't mean they will have to move. They will often find jobs somewhere else though they may have a longer commute. The main reason Dow is doing this is that Dow is not doing good at all, their stock has been dropping for a long time. I'm a Dow retiree and my daughter was a chemical engineer at Dow for 19 years working in automation and she just quit them a few months ago and went to work for BASF, a company right next to Dow's Plant B. Her husband, another chemical engineer still works for Dow and should he get laid off, my hope she will be able to help him get a job at BASF. The odd thing is he started his carreer at BASF and years ago came over to Dow. For professionals, anbody getting laid off should get a 6-digit separation package. At this point all we know is that there will be about 4500 people laid off worldwide and if iirc about 20% of Dow's workforce is in Freeport. Chemical engineers are in big demand',there's always "head hunters" looking for them.

Here's a mock for 5AD1 from the 1A-5A subforum from the 6A board. Oddly he does mot put Spring Westfield into 9-5AD1 with their New Caney neighbors. But he does put ship channel neighbors Baytown, La Porte, and Pasadena together which hasn't always been the case. [Hidden Content]

One thing that will help him, they just dropped from D1 to D2.

Justin Velasquez from Mesquite HS has been hired at Brazosport.

this shows that there may be enough schools to claim all 4 districts in Region 3 with opt ups. But what does the UIL do with those teams from the Austin area and College Station that are in Region 3 now?

I don't know why they couldn't move MST and Milby up to 6A and have majority control of that district with the 4 6A schools they already have in 6A and let their 4A and 5AD2 schools reside in 5AD2 but they didn't do that last time.

The article doesn't mention opt ups. He seems to be only looking at the numbers. He may not be aware there is any such thing as opt ups!

HISD isn't going to leave Sam Houston MST and Milby by themselves. I'm sure they have opted up a bunch of 5AD2 and 4A like last time.

Kingwood Park may have thought they had escaped D1, but no such luck. Crosby, what can I say? Say hello to North Shore, Summer Creek, Atascocita, and C,E. King! Some teams will have to face both Randle and Iowa Colony in district.

Lufkin is like Laredo. They don't belong anywhere.

I don't have access to this mock, but it seems premature since cutoffs haven't been announced. Some of those teams may change depending on being classified differently. However, La Porte's travel burden will be lighter in this 10-5AD1 (45 miles avg.) than if they put them in the 8-5AD1(average of 59 miles) and for bidistrict might be paired with some Dallas area team in R2. What happened to the Pasadena schools in this mock?

Brazosport is open (4A). Richard Sincere finished with a 2-28 record in 3 years.