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  12. West Orange Stark vs Shepherd

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    9 hours ago, BBfan061 said:

    Whys that?

    No worries, probably.  Just saying that a couple or 3 of Shepherd's linemen looked pretty athletic, based on what little I've seen in the video clips. #88, if I recall right, along with the right tackle, were opening up some holes, in their loss to whoever they were playing, I can't recall now.  Anyway ... 

  13. Beaumont West Brook vs Port Arthur Memorial Titans

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    On 10/15/2024 at 10:39 AM, Goslin said:

    Here’s the backstory.  BH is adjacent to Baytown.  For many years was Baytown’s Country Cousin.  Folks in BH loved to brag about how great Country living was compared to the Big City but always had a chip on their shoulder about being the smaller, Country, community next to Big Bad Baytown.  As Baytown’s School District, GCCISD, has allowed Baytown schools to get worse and worse year over year, more and more Baytonians have moved to Barber’s Hill or used addresses of relatives to send their kids to Barber’s Hill or take jobs with BHISD so their kids can go there.  There is a MASSIVE new residential/commercial project going on right now called Riceland.  It’s on-par with Kingwood/Woodlands in size and scope and is right smack dab in the middle of Mont Belvieu/Barber’s Hill.  Tons of folks are flocking into that and buying $500k+ homes because they want the illusion of Country living and they like Barber’s Hill’s strict School District that’ll spend millions fighting a kid all the way to the State Supreme Court over a haircut.  Barber’s Hill enrollment is only 100 or so from the 6A cutoff, they’re growing at a HUGE rate and a lot of it mid-to-high end stuff that is totally alien to the folks who have lived there for generations.

    Because the tables are turned, BH residents LOVE to thumb their noses at poor ol’ Baytown but when you remind old-timers that Baytown is basically on their border now plus half their residents are folks who moved from Baytown and brought their Baytown ways with them, plus the fact that they’re no longer really Country and just wearing a costume they get REALLY PO’d about it.  Hence why “New Baytown” and “New Baytown High” gets them all worked up.  Try it, see what happens.

    Back ~ 10 years ago when I lived in Plantation (on Cotton Bayou) 5 of the 6 neighbors on our street moved there from North Shore.  But I don't doubt the Baytown angle at all.  Everyone used to say that the Barber's Hill area was to be the next Katy.  What I do know is that the Chambers County taxes (Mont Belvieu) were much less than the Harris County (Baytown) taxes. But also from what I hear, the Barbers Hill school taxes have really been catching up quickly these days. 

  19. Barbers Hill (17) @ Port Arthur Memorial (20) - FINAL

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    1 hour ago, Goslin said:

    It won’t be done until BH Coaching/Admin gets it done which they won’t because they’ve grown complacent and believe their own hype.  The fact that the 3 nearest programs to them, (REL/RSS/GCM), aren’t nearly on their level lends to this mentality of BH being the best and if they already believe they’re great why push harder and work out in that hot sun when they’re already great?  20-30 years ago, BH was a country-boy team.  Hard-nosed, scrappy, and surrounded by other decent programs so BH always had a chip on their shoulder and something to prove so they’d outwork those other big-city programs.  Today?  BH becomes more and more high-dollar suburb with each Riceland house sold and all the BH Coaches and players hear all day long is how great they are.  Well, if that’s all they ever hear, and they coast into playoffs each year due at least in some part to the schedule they play and quality of their opponents, then there’s no chip on their shoulder.  They need to get that chip back on their shoulder.  
     

    BH keeps low-key signaling that they’re 6A ready, like scheduling all 6A opponents in out-of-district this year.  They’re never going to be if they don’t do just like other posters on here are saying and toughen up.  Can you imagine what would happen in 2026 when UIL redraws districts again if they dropped GCM down and bumped BH up in GCM’s place?  It won’t matter how nice “The Indoor” is or how much they pay their Coach.  BH enrollments are already close to the 6A cutoff and if they don’t get right they’ll get humbled in 6A

    I lived there from 2000 - 2015, and didn't really have a dog in the fight, so I didn't follow the football too closely, but I recall that BH moved up rather quickly from 3A I think, to 4A, to 5A. The head coach and other coaches and trainer, had been there a while, and always seemed just a game away from going to state. Then the HC got fired, more or less, others moved on, retired, or passed away (I knew one coach personally, who lost a hard fought battle with cancer).  The area has really grown very rapidly, and I'm not sure what old traditions are still there, just looking from a distance.   

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