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Glad our AD is working on basketball schedules  ???

Baytown Sun

Holes remain in 19-4A schedule

By Dave Rogers

 

Published March 25, 2008

The Crosby Cougars have taken the early lead in the 2008 football race for District 19-4A.

Just a week after the financially troubled North Forest school district did the expected and voted to combine Smiley and Forest Brook high schools, which were both members of 19-4A, Crosby coach Kevin Flanigan appeared to have filled the hole left in his schedule.

The original nine-team schedule, put together after UIL realignment in early February, had one team per week drawing a bye in a nine-week string of games beginning the weekend of Sept. 11-13 (Week 2 in UIL parlance) and ending the weekend of Nov. 8-10 (week 10). Teams scheduled non-district games in Weeks 0 and 1 for a 10-game regular season schedule.

An eight-team schedule requires only seven weeks to play, leaving each school with a pair of open dates and a nine-game regular season schedule. On a backup schedule created in late February just in case a North Forest school consolidation might occur, the coaches agreed it would be fairest to make it so every team had byes in Weeks 2 and 10.

No coach was happy with the arrangement and all have been busy looking for a non-district opponent to give them 10 games.

A check of area schools Monday showed that Goose Creek Memorial, Barbers Hill and Dayton were still looking and Flanigan was waiting for final approval to play Bay City in Week 10.

Bay City’s District 23-4A suffered a similar scheduling collapse Feb. 21 when the UIL granted Spring Branch Stratford’s request to move up to a 5A district with other Spring Branch schools.

“Everyone in both districts is scrambling a little bit,†Flanigan said. “I have a tentative OK with one of the Bay City coaches, but I’m waiting to hear back from them.â€

Finding anybody with schedule openings at this late date is a longshot, but a Week 10 game would be most rare and appreciated.

“I just hate having a bye in Week 10,†Flanigan said. “If you make it to the playoffs, that’s kind of tough, having to sit out a week.â€

Dayton coach Jerry Stewart agreed.

“The third week of the season is kind of early for an open date and if you’re open the 10th week, that’s a scary thing,†he said. “It’s fair for everybody else in our district, but the problem is when we jump in there against District 20-4A (in the first round of the playoffs), they’ll be a little more battle-tested.

“High school kids have to keep an edge. It’s hard for them to keep focused when they’re not playing.â€

Barbers Hill coach Don Price said district athletic directors are still in the process of redoing their basketball schedules so they include only one school from the North Forest district, which is as yet unnamed.

But football schedules, as the first major sport on the horizon for the next school year, are big. Because the eight-team schedule was a complete redraw from the nine-team 19-4A schedule, all the league games will be different.

For example, where Goose Creek Memorial was originally to play at Barbers Hill Oct.17, now Barbers Hill will play Memorial at Stallworth Stadium and the game must come on a Thursday or Saturday night. That’s because Stallworth is hosting the 42nd edition of “The Game†between Lee and Sterling Oct. 10

(That is, assuming the District 21-5A executive committee approves the football schedule as proposed. The long-awaited meeting to organize the DEC and name a chair school, which is supposed to be hosted by Channelview, still hasn’t occurred.)

Homecomings have had to be reset, too. The coaches are advertising on the Internet for games. Price said he’s open to playing a Louisiana team.

“We’re trying to fill that (the extra open day) if we can,†Goose Creek schools athletic director Tom Ed Gooden said, speaking for Memorial. “One option is we could play a JV team from somebody with a strong program.â€

As a first-year school with no seniors, playing a JV team seems a good option for Goose Creek Memorial. But not for the others. And not many are inclined to travel far for that 10th game.

“We’re trying to keep from having to travel 250 miles to get one. It’s not worth that,†Stewart said. “If we can’t find a game, we’ll all just go to the Dairy Queen that Friday night.†

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Smiley is at   1115

Forest Brook  923

Total--------2038

At least 38 will go to jail after opening day riots conclude, so that will drop them back down ;D

I know thats mean,but it may not be far from the truth :'(

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