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#15 for Kountze was who kept them in the game. He was everywhere and played his guts out. If it wasn't for him, Kountze loses by 25

And these lions were not expected to even make the playoffs this year been an over achieving year and still going strong

I'm not interested in talking about the race of high school kids. What I will point out is the mutual benefit for the families and programs when talented kids move in to play sports.

Lol, on this documentary the 6’6”(Polynesian) lineman moves in and and the black kid who plays on the defensive line talks about transferring from Everman, I believe. This is the exact definition of “them just showing up” as well as goes to my 2% comment on why the numbers are skewed.

Kountze is much improved from a couple of years ago but they are lite years away from the old dominant lions. Joubs doing a good job with what he has to work with.

Miller with a dunk. 59 - 29

LCM is #2

Aledo is an attractive option for people that are moving to the Fort Worth area. Parents are willing to drive 45+ minutes to work so their kids can go to Aledo instead of living in Fort Worth.

At a certain point it just gets easier to stay home 🤦‍♂️

Has the school board decided what offense they’re going to run this upcoming season?

According to one poster all you need is the right state championship coach and they will turn it around 😂

[Hidden Content] Great story

I would have liked to seen Carthage since bridge city has them on the schedule lol

On another note, this didn't seem to affect people not showing up at the game. Place was packed. Maybe it is the future.

The ultimate gods put them back together!! The uil !!! Lol

Let’s not forget that EC team has 5 or 6 juniors that played on the team last year that made a deep run and 2 of them were starters Kountze starts two freshmen and 3 seniors with 2 games of playoff experience 2 years ago those lions are young and will only get better and better over the next couple years

Man that’s a weak schedule

Unless the other 4 players were holding hands creating an impenetrable red rover fence line.

Couldn’t the defense just stand close enough to get a 5 second call

Had one kid stand near the baseline and hold the ball, while his four teammates surrounded him. Then you just stand there for a whole quarter if you can. It's trash basketball if you can even call it basketball. You literally just choose to stand there and not play.

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You got caught making a “holier than thou” post about someone when you’re guilty of the same thing, deal with it.

More than likely, with the flip of coins.

Kountze was only in the game in the 3rd q. Team did not play well, turnovers . Not hitting shots. Good job EC.

OF won 52-45

Lumberton should be favored. Tatum has a brand new coach and a new offense to learn.

2 - 1

Whats the dunk count? 3-1 Silsbee?

12-2 quarter for kountze

Yep. We have some holes to fill on offense. Defense should be returning the most

At Home. Should be a packed house and a good game.

Harris with the dunk.

I hated it when LCM did it to Lumberton and I don't want Lumberton resorting to it. That's loser basketball no matter how the score ends.

I guess I should've said BEFORE you leave the house on your home computer. LOL

Week 4

Do they take bitcoin?

Washington has a magnet engineering program. There school was recently rebuilt. All that is in their favor. Yates was recently rebuilt. They have their commonications dept. Those other schools? I've never seen Furr up close. All these years and I don't know that area at all. I just know it exists. Worthing, Kashmere? Most of the good students and athletes probably left. Both schools have produced great students and athletes in the past. And that is where they stay, in the past. I know some professionals that came from Kashmere: teachers, preachers, petroleum engineers, computer scientists, etc. I am seeing faces that I know. Mickey Leland? That is a new school. I don't know where it is. What does this have to do with this topic? Everything. The schools with something going for them may have a vibrant athletic program. The schools that are struggling are just marking time athletically.

#1 hater in the house!!! Jkjk lol

I’ve been there once. It’s really nice. But I sure do miss the atmosphere of the smaller gyms at Kountze and EC

Per United schedule they host Barbers Hill Tuesday Feb.8

Surratt is unlike any coach in Texas. He is a master mind at finding your teams weaknesses. carthage has always had the athletes just needed the best coach in Texas to make them into a consistent machine. 8 state championships and 11 semi finals appearances in 14 years. Carthage has not grown one bit since I graduated in 1974. We will have him at least 4 more years because his son will be a freshman and the next great QB and a freshmen team loaded with size and talent. Surratt and his staff could win anywhere they were at. We have been very blessed that he chose Carthage in 2007.

Longview is better than all those region 2 teams you named. Lufkin has the name but they are not a top tier program at the moment. They are 29-15 in the last 4 seasons, 10-11 in the last 2. Lonestar lost their stud QB so lets see how they do. Timeberview is going to be a really tough out. And Lancaster has not produced in the playoffs lately. They have made it past the 2nd round once in the last 4 seasons. Frisco high is going to be a team to keep an out for. They run a wing-t or slot-t type offense. Liberty Hill-ish but better athletes but they are not as precise.

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To Aledo's credit, whatever they're doing out there is obviously legal since I'm sure the UIL has checked. Yes, the qb this past year was a transfer from California. Got to see him up close last year in Dallas. They also had an offensive lineman come from California a couple years earlier, he was a 6'6"/315lbs 4* that ended up signing with Michigan. I'm sure it's all a coincidence though.

The recruiting coordinator at Aledo is second to none. So is the strength and conditioning/nutrition coach. It is amazing that every year Aledo has an outstanding RB and a few OL kids standing 6'4" or 6'5" and weighing 275+ lbs. It must be something in the water out there in SW Fort Worth, plus the population growth? Didn't the last QB move in from California? Was that last year or the year before? COVID move in because California paused sports?

Yeah, they just showed up at Aledo. I watched Aledo's 1998 title game against Cuero and I didn't see one black kid on the team. Not that that part matters but somehow all of a sudden with the same 2% black population in their school you get Johnathan Gray, Jase McClellan, Jojo Earle, the Allen brothers, Jeff Carter, etc. ALL in recent years when they never had them before. Throw that in with their population explosion and Aledo is a total anomaly in the sense that their recruiting numbers look more like Arlington Martin's versus Southlake Carroll's like they should. CE King is good now. Is it because the new coach is that much better or is it because their enrollment grew by 1500 kids since they were in the district with Crosby 6 years ago? 1500 additional North Shore type kids is going to make it easier on any coach. Jon Kay has won 4 state titles in 8 years at North Shore. He might end up as the greatest high school coach ever but he's not beating Dodge, Samples, Carter and Joseph with Summer Creek's talent the way he's basically owned them while at North Shore going 11-3 in those contest. Meanwhile he's 3-5 against the Meekins brothers at Westfield. I know you don't consider them great coaches due to not having titles though. There's a huge difference between "low" expectations and realistic expectations which is where I think you're getting confused. I watched PNG play Montgomery and I would've given Montgomery a slight advantage athletically yet PNG still beat them. If PNG played Montgomery 10 times it would probably be 5-5. I watched them play Texas High the next week and the gap in athletes was more like a chasm. They could play that game 10 times and TH would probably win 9 of them. If PNG's administration can't can't objectively watch their team play and come to that conclusion then that's more on them than it is on BF.

Where did I say Buchanan had nothing to do with it, smitty? Don’t put words in my mouth. Of course Buchanan had something to do with it. All the population growth in the world won’t help a football program if there isn’t a good coach in charge. But the quality of the coaching is just one part of a larger equation. Take the massive influx of talent entering Aledo over the last twenty years away, and Aledo wouldn’t be nearly as successful as it’s been, Buchanan or no Buchanan. Your extra examples aren’t helping your case. Celina grew more than 150% from 2010 to 2020. Celina’s median household income is even higher than Aledo’s. Stephenville hasn’t grown as quickly, but its population is still up roughly 50% since 2000. And where Stephenville, Carthage and Brownwood all differ from Aledo (and the Mid-County schools, for that matter) is that they’re all 4A-DI or below. Those classifications aren’t utterly dominated by fast growing, upscale suburban schools in the way that everything from 5A-DII up is. The disparity in talent, funding, resources, socioeconomic backgrounds and so on isn’t nearly as severe.

My expectations are never lower than when responding to trolls, but here goes. With respect to Aledo, the answer to your rhetorical question couldn't be more different than the one you provided. The City of Aledo more than doubled in size from 2010 to 2020. It grew by nearly 60% over the ten years prior to that, and by nearly 50% over the ten years prior to that. Aledo ISD's enrollment growth has been even faster than the city's population growth. Like the Austin suburbs, a lot of Aledo's biggest subdivision developments have cropped up outside city limits, where developers have elected to use a combination of MUDs and HOAs to establish basic services and governing structures instead of traditional, municipal options. Not to mention that the bulk of the population growth in and around Aledo has been comprised of young families; the median age in Aledo has dropped like a sinking stone. It also helps that Aledo's median household income is multiples of the state average. The community's growing like a weed because the Fort Worth suburbs keep lurching west, and the influx of talent couldn't be more clear on the field. Aledo's own local leadership will tell you their success on the gridiron is owed in large part to their explosive population growth.

Sulphur Springs?

Kountze was in the game until their coach was more worried about arguing with the fans instead of the game.