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Angleton's coach said they have not been able to find another opponent to replace Houston Wisdom who forfeited and they will start preparing for next week. I'm surprised he would even want to as the city was hit hard by NIcholas. The center of the storm passed less than 15 miles to the west. They have not had school this week but hope to reopen on Friday. Nearly the whole city lost power. In an earlier game, another HISD school forfeited, Kashmere and he found another team to play, Alief Taylor. Ironically, the team that Kashmere played that week instead of Angleton was Wisdom. Last week Wisdom forfeited to Manvel. According to Maxpreps ratings, Manvel would have been a 99 point favorite. I'm hoping Wisdom will be a D2 problem next year. Wisdom used to be R.E. Lee high school before they changed it a few years ago. From 2003 to 2012 they did not have varsity football because of lack of interest. They have homecoming at a soccer match, I'm told.

I'm wondering if Wisdom will forfeit all their district games this year. They tried a couple last year which they lost by 64 and 67 points and then forfeited after that.

Probably.

I did see a team penalized not long ago because their band did not get off the field at the end of halftime.

Yes, I had thought about the possibility of those 2 coming back. I'm sure they would love that.

Yes, they and Manvel both should have been in 6A last year. When the actual 2020 numbers came out they each had over 2500. The numbers the U.I.L. uses are a year out of date, based on the previous year's enrollment. Also from the same district 10-5A-D1, Houston Wisdom never had D1 numbers and should have been D2. There's going to be a major shakeup in this district next fall because Rosenberg Terry should also drop to D2 now that new school Rosenberg Randle has opened. That should leave 5 out of 9. Fort Bend Austin should drop from 6A, but that would only be 6.

A little tough with heavyweights like Manvel, Katy Paetow, and Richmond Foster in the district and with so much inexperience on defense, but maybe they'll make it. This is an important scrimmage for Angleton to face somebody good because they face a decent 4A in Stafford followed by 3 HISD schools in the weeks afterwards, so it will be awhile before they face anybody really good again. 10-5A-1 is going to really change next year with Manvel and Paetow leaving for 6A and Rosenberg Terry and Houston Wisdom departing for 5A-D2. FB Austin dropping down from 6A will be one replacement but I don't know who else will go into this district.

Angleton will have a pass heavy offense this year, though they will run some too. Last year they were transitioning to a spread from the wing-t and didn't get the spring and summer drills to make the change because of covid. Angleton does have a player on Dave Campbell's Class of 2023-Top 100 list, Kariyen Goins who transferred from Brazosport. Angleton's QB, Ewells, is a sophomore who started the last part of 2020 as a freshman. Last year's early starter at QB is still there but has been moved to wr. Goins was a QB at Brazosport but will play wr/fs at Angleton. There is a video of highlights and stats from Angleton's scrimmage with Columbia on Maxpreps and Hudl. It is the one marked "Recap..." and not the one marked "Highlights..." which appears to be from a subvarsity scrimmage. Ewells is wearing #3 at the scrimmage, with #11 at QB being a backup.