La Marque to 3A!?!?!

[LP0175]

I've been hearing a lot of clamour about LM's probable move to the 3A level. I've been looking and district 29-3A looks most likely.  Travel wise it makes the most sense with Palacios being the furthest drive at 2hrs.

How does a 3A LM world look?

[Purple Runs Deep]

Good news for 4A....Bad news for 3A

[LP0175]

Coldspring has comp now!

[Purple Runs Deep]

Yep...from what it sounds like CS aint seen any this year.

[LP0175]

I'm an idiot, a move to 29-3A would put LM into region 4...didn't give it thought before I posted. Well that would make for interesting region 4. I'll have to go look at the successful 3A teams in that rebion...I'm thinking off bat Cuero and maybe Giddings, Gonzales is undefeated this year. CC-Miller is one as well.

[BMTSoulja1]

Should we throw a parade or let some balloons off or something?  Fact of the matter is that LaMarque will continue to play 4a teams in non-district and continue to beat the breaks off of them, so not much will change, IMO.

[WOSgrad]

La Marque turned in 741, so a move to 3A is just about certain this time.  It does look like 29-3A would be the most logical place for them given the current landscape, but with a new alignment coming in February, you never know.

[AggiesAreWe]

I look at this way, unless something drastically happens over there at LaMarque to stop the drop in enrollment, 3A will not have to worry about them for very long.  ;) In four years time, LaMarque has dropped from 1200 to now 741. At that rate they will only be 3A for just these next two years, then down to 2A.

I also believe that with this dramatic drop in enrollment, the talent level will drop as well.

LaMarque has some bigger issues over there that has nothing to do with sports. School district is rated unacceptable and seems to be a lot of internal problems as well.

Losing almost 500 students (just over a third of the enrollment) in just 4-5 years, is very alarming and that is not a good thing, even though it drops them in classification.

[liltex]

Uil may make a new 3a dist w/the metro houston 4a teams w/3a numbers.

[songone]

LaMarque might be a little hard to deal w/ on that level!  Right now they have 34 killers suiting up every Friday against 55-70 opponents across the field.  In a very, very tough District.

[Guest octfeb]

Question... If they are dropped to 3A cant they opt. to stay in 4A?

[bronco pride]

[quote name="octfeb" post="1088234" timestamp="1319121244"]
Question... If they are dropped to 3A cant they opt. to stay in 4A?
[/quote]no its goes strictly by enrollment

[BADSANTA]

My old college buddy teaches there and said since he has been there, over 300 kids have transferred from La Marque to private schools, Texas City and other South Houston schools. The average GPA is 2.5 on 4.0 scale. Drop out rate is higher than any school in the Houston Area. Some of their best teachers have also either retired or transferred as well. Wild!

[AggiesAreWe]

[quote name="bronco pride" post="1088236" timestamp="1319121397"]
[quote author=octfeb link=topic=90129.msg1088234#msg1088234 date=1319121244]
Question... If they are dropped to 3A cant they opt. to stay in 4A?
[/quote]no its goes strictly by enrollment
[/quote]


Wrong. A school can always opt to stay up in classification. Many schools (several HISD) have been doing this for many years. An El Paso area school has had 3A numbers for 12 years, and they have opted to stay 5A due to travel.

[bronco pride]

[quote name="songone" post="1088231" timestamp="1319121151"]
LaMarque might be a little hard to deal w/ on that level!  Right now they have 34 killers suiting up every Friday against 55-70 opponents across the field.  In a very, very tough District.
[/quote]i think you might be suprised at the 3a talent out there just in this area cold spring would be a tough game even for the best 4a schools although I will admit lm is coming out of maybe the toughest district in texas so week in and week out there competion level as a whole would drop. Lm made the playoffs for the first time in like 3 years last year and made the most of it but they are not going to be the powerhouse they usef to be in 4a with the enrollment numbers going down so far.

[bronco pride]

[quote name="AggiesAreWe" post="1088242" timestamp="1319121632"]
[quote author=bronco pride link=topic=90129.msg1088236#msg1088236 date=1319121397]
[quote author=octfeb link=topic=90129.msg1088234#msg1088234 date=1319121244]
Question... If they are dropped to 3A cant they opt. to stay in 4A?
[/quote]no its goes strictly by enrollment
[/quote]


Wrong. A school can always opt to stay up in classification. Many schools (several HISD) have been doing this for many years. An El Paso area school has had 3A numbers for 12 years, and they have opted to stay 5A due to travel.
[/quote]what hisd school are you talking about

[AggiesAreWe]

[quote name="bronco pride" post="1088246" timestamp="1319122032"]
[quote author=AggiesAreWe link=topic=90129.msg1088242#msg1088242 date=1319121632]
[quote author=bronco pride link=topic=90129.msg1088236#msg1088236 date=1319121397]
[quote author=octfeb link=topic=90129.msg1088234#msg1088234 date=1319121244]
Question... If they are dropped to 3A cant they opt. to stay in 4A?
[/quote]no its goes strictly by enrollment
[/quote]


Wrong. A school can always opt to stay up in classification. Many schools (several HISD) have been doing this for many years. An El Paso area school has had 3A numbers for 12 years, and they have opted to stay 5A due to travel.
[/quote]what hisd school are you talking about
[/quote]


For example:

District 22-4A

Houston Wheatley    1,101
Houston Worthing      1,013
[b]Houston Washington    946
Houston Furr              865
Houston Scarborough  733
Houston Jones            686
Houston Kashmere      596[/b]


5 of those schools have 3A numbers and have had 3A numbers for several years but have opted to stay 4A for the past several years.

[AggiesAreWe]

Unless HISD forces the 5-6 schools with 3A numbers to go down to 3A, I see LaMarque being put in a 3A district in Region IV. If those HISD schools do drop down, then LaMarque could be put in that district and remain in Region III.

[bronco pride]

Wow looking through dc and kashmere and jones are the 2 smallest 4a schools in the state wonder why they stay 4a

[AggiesAreWe]

[quote name="bronco pride" post="1088259" timestamp="1319123060"]
Wow looking through dc and kashmere and jones are the 2 smallest 4a schools in the state wonder why they stay 4a
[/quote]


Because it keeps them in a local HISD district. Otherwise they would have to travel way out side Houston to be in a 3A district.

[Guest octfeb]

If LaMarque decided to stay 4A, would they be able to drop back to 3A in the next realignment if they chose to?  :-\

[AggiesAreWe]

[quote name="octfeb" post="1088276" timestamp="1319123816"]
If LaMarque decided to stay 4A, would they be able to drop back to 3A in the next realignment if they chose to?  :-\
[/quote]

When you opt to stay up a classification, it's only for that particular realignment (2 years). When the next realignment comes (2014) if LaMarque were to still have 3A numbers, they can still opt to stay up or go down where their enrollment puts them.

[Guest octfeb]

[quote name="AggiesAreWe" post="1088285" timestamp="1319124111"]
[quote author=octfeb link=topic=90129.msg1088276#msg1088276 date=1319123816]
If LaMarque decided to stay 4A, would they be able to drop back to 3A in the next realignment if they chose to?  :-\
[/quote]

When you opt to stay up a classification, it's only for that particular realignment (2 years). When the next realignment comes (2014) if LaMarque were to still have 3A numbers, they can still opt to stay up or go down where their enrollment puts them.
[/quote] Thanks... That will be interesting to see. If they chose to stay 4A. And they don't play so well in 4A. If they chose to drop in the next realignment to 3A to better their chances of another state run.

[kicker]

Actually guys, lamarque had the opportunity to drop at last alignment according to one of their coaches, but decided to stay in 4a due to travel. He told me that there is enough 3a number schools in Houston to make a 3a district now. And secondly, what do we have to do to get away from those guys....geez...lol.

[AggiesAreWe]

[quote name="kicker" post="1088328" timestamp="1319126458"]
Actually guys, lamarque had the opportunity to drop at last alignment according to one of their coaches, but decided to stay in 4a due to travel. He told me that there is enough 3a number schools in Houston to make a 3a district now. And secondly, what do we have to do to get away from those guys....geez...lol.
[/quote]


Wrong. Their enrollment for last realignment was 996, cut off was 990.

Like I said, LaMarque will probably have to go Region IV if they decide to go down to 3A, unless those 5-6 HISD schools finally decide to drop down to 3A.