District 9-5A D1 Thread 2026/2027

[Mr. Buddy Garrity]

On 4/25/2026 at 9:06 PM, Mr. Buddy Garrity said:

Chandler Rivers from Beaumont United was also drafted, 5th round to the Ravens. 

Also Guilbeau from Port Arthur Memorial signed with Carolina. 

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[OlDawg]

Recruiters have been busy this week at La Porte.

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[OlDawg]

Peyton Smith is starting to impress. I've heard he's been working very hard. I'd love to see him involved in the offense more. He received offers from Oklahoma State and Stanford this month to up his total offers to 15 so far, and is actually ranked ahead of Sean Simon right now at #6 overall recruit in Texas for 2028. Sean Simon is currently #8.

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[navydawg31]

Congrats Lufkin on passing the bond to renovate the HA and that stadium! Man the drawings looking good!

[tcufrog]

Any word on how teams are looking this spring?  Will the top 4 come from?

LaPorte

Port Arthur Memorial

Beaumont West Brook

Lufkin

Beaumont United

Who could sneak in the top 4?  6A New Caney, played lots of young kids last year, didn't have a lot of success but will those youngsters develop?  I know that they played BH early and were somewhat competitive.  Don't know much about them or what GCM has coming back, but either look like they could be in the mix with a little improvement.

Will be an interesting race I feel like.  9 teams is brutal

[PackAttack]

Lufkin will have a truckload of sophomores and juniors playing this year. The Panthers get back the bulk of their defense from 2025, however just two or three starters return on offense, two on the OL and at TE.  I honestly can't evaluate much from the three partial Spring practices I've looked in on.  Lot of young guys and raw talent that needs to get a bunch of experience. If Abseck wasn't the coach I might look at this as a retooling year, we'll see. He is all about building and sure has them working hard.

[OlDawg]

11 hours ago, tcufrog said:

Any word on how teams are looking this spring?  Will the top 4 come from?

LaPorte

Port Arthur Memorial

Beaumont West Brook

Lufkin

Beaumont United

Who could sneak in the top 4?  6A New Caney, played lots of young kids last year, didn't have a lot of success but will those youngsters develop?  I know that they played BH early and were somewhat competitive.  Don't know much about them or what GCM has coming back, but either look like they could be in the mix with a little improvement.

Will be an interesting race I feel like.  9 teams is brutal

La Porte will need to rebuild their lines. They have the skill players. Not sure if I'll attend Orange & White game as it will be missing some key players that are still in baseball playoffs, and the Area PO's are this week--same time as the Spring game.

I’m cautiously optimistic they’ll have the lines rebuilt. I’d love to see the QB more involved in the O. He’s too skilled to just hand off with an occasional throw.