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you could be right dude Barbers Hill and Lee are on opposite ends of the spectrum. Barbers Hill has little in the raw athletes department, but they have a good system in place.  They get the kids involved early.  They are well coached.  They are in the same system from optimist on up.  They are pretty well formed into a nice cohesive unit that is playing up the best of their ability by high school. Lee is just all over the place.  Lee usually has 4-5 D1 athletes on the squad at any one time.  They have a ton of guys that play freshman ball and look like all world contributors, then they move, they drop out, they go to jail, they quit football to sell drugs....whatever the case may be. Lee's team looks like a bunch of guys that just showed up and learned they were going to be teammates the day before each game.  Mistakes out the wazoo, no cohesion, no unity...just a bunch of athletes trying to make it by. Take last year's team for instance. When that group of seniors were freshman, they beat the tar out of everyone. I watched at least 7 or 8 games their freshm,an year and they went undefeated in the ones I saw.  they may have lost a game or two that I wasn't able to make, but not by much.  the games I saw they beat the stuffings out of Sterling and Memorial and Channelview. Problem is....their best players were Xavier Ruben, Jarret Havins, Shack Calderon, Rashawn Williams, Nathan Dominique, Curtis Louis, Trey Murray and Trent Warren. Of those, only Ruben, Murray and Warren played for Lee last year. Havins was on and off the team, never did much, Calderon who knows what happened, Rashawn Williams went to Sterling, Louis went to GCM I guess as he is on their basketball team, Domonique who knows. So of the top 8 players, only 3 of them made it to their senior year.  All three of those were solid players for Lee. If you go back even farther, I can remember the class that was supposed to be a state ranked team a few years earlier.  Josh Jones, Jarvis Moore, Desarian Cartwright, Jarret Driver, Michael Mahan, etc. Driver was convicted of murder, Cartwright lef tthe team, Mahan was on and off the team. the year before that, Grady Richardson made the varsity as a freshman, never heard from him again. Jarret's brother Jermaine was a varsity linebacker as a freshman, his senior year he was off the team.\ I remember back in the mid 90's... what you saw on the freshman team, that was what you were going to see 4 years later on the varsity.  Not the case any more at least for Lee.

Is hay bail rides a UIL event? jk Yes, Barbers Hill will beat Lee in most events that involve some structured atmosphere, coaching, years of training, etc. Swimming, volleyball, basketball, tennis, softball The sports that lend more towards raw athleticism could see Lee with the upperhand Track and football I'm ok with this as football and track are my favorite two sports to watch. I wish Lee was better in basketball, but most of their talent usually moves to Sterling, which doesn't make sense, because Sterling is horrible too. I think Baytown just doesn't create basketball players for some reason.

Hum should enjoy this one as it shows the pivotal play that helped his Wildcats beat my Ganders in the first round of the 95 playoffs. It's uploading onto youtube as we speak...

This is football right, not watermelon seed spitting or calf roping. BH handling Lee in rodeo events or plowing a field I can maybe get with.

Central has won 3 of the last 4. The last two were 21-9 and 20-14. So it's not as if Lee was getting blown out of the water. Lee will fit in nicely in 4A in my opinion. Not a powerhouse, but able to compete at least.

Baytown Lee is 7-9 all time against Central.  That includes losing the 5 of the first 6. So 6-4 in the last 10  ;)

Basketball is 5 on 5....so it's not really a sport where 2a vs 5a is going to make as big of a difference.  If you got 2 guys that can play out of 200 boys in school, then what's it matter if the other team has 1,000 boys from which to choose.? Whole different animal from football, where you need at least 25+ guys to field a team.

I saw NS play LEe this year.  Keep in mind that Lee is really, really down. Lee was able to shut down the NS offense 5 out of the 6 drives that the Mustangs had in the first half. NS capitalized on a lot of mistakes and scored points on defense and special team. You could tell that the line just couldn't open any holes. It's strange because they have two guys in Hopkins and Flowers that are probably both going to UT that play on the offensive line. They have two good running backs in Woods and Cornett. They just didn't open any holes for them to run. The quarterback was very erratic.  They never pass the ball though.  They usually just smash mouth it on people. They couldn't do that this year. Most of their points this year came against very weak teams that made a lot of mistakes and put the Mustangs in easy scoring opportunities. They didn't look like they would be able to drive the ball very much against even average defenses.

NS doesn't have the goods this year.  Have some nice athletes, but nothing like they have had in the past.  They don't have an offense.

Memorial imploding out there. Not looking good.

Just when you think the Lee coaching staff can't get any more confused....tonight happens. Let me set the scene for you. Jaevon Richardson, sophomore wide receiver for Lee....Best receiver in the Houston area, bar none and he's only a sophomore. He will be a top 5 player in the state as a senior. I've been singing his praises all year. The Lee coaches have played him too much on defense, eating into his effectiveness on offense. So, having said that...Lee is fighting to get back in the game in the early part of the fourth quarter.  We are down 37-15. Memorial punts it and Richardson takes it 81 yards for a touchdown. Keep in mind that he scored the first 2 td's too.  One on a fake punt where he took a pass 50 yards for a td and then about an 11 yard fade route on the other. So we get the two point conversion. It's 37-23 now. Lee is able to stop Memorial on 3 plays and we get the ball back with about 9 minutes to go in the game on our own 15. Wait for it.................wait for it................. Richardson is NOT IN THE GAME. The most important drive of the entire season.  If there is one drive this whole year that anyone in the stadium could have told you that Richardson HAS TO BE IN THE GAME...this is the drive. and he's sitting on the sidelines. Lee goes three and out. Richardson goes on to catch a 15 yard td and a 64 yard td later on in the 4th quarter. This will go down as the most complete clueless boneheaded decision that I have ever seen.  Gave any chance we had away with that call.

That's a HUGE if.  Lee would commit  2 turnovers even if Memorial got lost and didn't show up for the game.  That's how turnover prone the Ganders are.

I almost am starting to wonder if the LEe coaches wanted to play Memorial.  If they knew that the qb was out. Because things were sure flying along smoothly in the Port Arthur Memorial game until they stuck that second string qb in there in the second half.

I'm hoping for the best here. If LEe can limit the turnovers, of which they average 4 per game, then they may be able to hang. There is a reason they turn it over that many times though, and it's because they just aren't a very fundamentally sound team.  It is pretty far fetched to think they will all the sudden learn how not to turn it over. If Richardson can get unteacked, I think Lee can put up some points on them. I'm just not sure how well we can stop them. If wos87 still wants updates, you can give me your cell phone # and i will text them to you. Otherwise I can't get this site to load on my crappy, old phone. Wish us luck.

GCM fans are kinda new at this, so I'll break it down for you. You will not win this game in the Golden Triangle. If it were played at a neutral site possibly, but do not expect a well officiated game in this one. I say Jaguars 40 Patriots 27

I know the Titans have more than Wesley, but Wesley is the one that can get open deep whenever he feels like it.

Wesley is a very good receiver too.  Titans should look to go to him deep at least once a quarter.  No one on LP's defense can run with him.

PAM has plenty of firepower.  I also think the coach just doesn't know how to put together a well orchestrated gameplan. He was moving down the field by running the ball against Lee out of the 4 and 5 wide.  Then they get to 1st and 10 at the Lee 15 and they go to a goal line offense for some reason.  Lee ends up stopping them and blocking a kick. Then the rest of the first half, they try to throw the ball virtually every single down.  They didn't move an inch the rest of the half until about a minute left. Seco nd half they fo back to running the qb out of the 5 wide set and it's working again. I just have a sneaking suspicion that PAM is going to fold up shop when the going gets tough. They have never had a very mentally tough squad from all of the times I have watched the past few years since they unified into one school. I hope I'm wrong.

The kid I'm talking about never moved.  He was just able to go to North Shore, because his dad worked for the school district. At least the Young kid from Katy moved out that way.....I think.

Baytown Jr high had a kid about 8 years ago.  He was probably 5'11" 245 in 7th grade. He was a beast. His dad was offered a job at North Shore specifically so that his son would go there. I lost all respect for NS at that point. The next year the kid was an 8th grader at Cunningham middle school in North Shore. I'd be willing to bet 15-20% of their players aren't zoned to them.

As long as the Mustang fans admit that they didn't even realize that North Shore played football until Tiki Hardeman got there and they finally made the playoffs in 1994(after 30 years of futility), then I'm good to go with them as fans.

I don't think I'll show any respect to North Shore, thanks for asking though. North Shore has 3800 students.  North Shore recruits kids from surrounding schools to play football there.  North Shore is not built the right way.  That's why you have fans bailing out on them at the first sign of losing.  North Shore in and of itself does not have a lot of true fans.  There are just a lot of people that will attach themselves to a team when they are winning. Where were these NS tried and true faithful back in the 80's when they were going 2-8 every year? I could count the fans on two hands when I used to go watch them play at Dement Field. These "fans" came out of the woodwork once Aymond got there and recruited some solid players in to the system.

Lee - Pasadena Memorial Friday Night LP-PAM Saturday afternoon

Hightower is very beatable. The score on their game against Willowridge is a beat misleading. Go back and look at the boxscore and see how that score got to how it did. Willowridge was driving at the end of the second quarter, down 14-13.  They had a ball picked off and run back 96 yards for a td with a minute left in the first half to give Hightower a 21-13 halftime lead and then the Hurricanes used that momentum to pull away in the second half it seems.   I wasn't at the game or anything, but the fact that Willowridge had a great chance to be up by a td at half time is all I need to know.

LP doesn't have the same offensive line this year that they had last year in my opinion. LP will be able to run some on the fact that Perkins is the biggest guy on the field and can pund up the middle. Webb is fast, but he is extremely averse to contact, so he won't make any extra yards.  He would dance out of bounds 5 yards befor a defender got to him against Lee. LP only has one pass...a little 12 yard comeback route to Terrebone. The qb is adequate. If PAM can stop the run then it's katy bar the door. I think LP will be able to run on them though. If PAM's offensive coordinator decides to not do anything dumb, and just lets his athletes make plays, then PAM should be able to put up 50 or 60.  The fastest guy on LP's defense might be slower than the slowest guy on PAM's offense.