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Besides, we softened nederville up for y'all. They actually have to play with kids FROM nederville. Now, if we could work that magic on English's basketball team.

Head to head doesn't count. We beat PAM, you beat us, PAM beat you. Even a mid-county edumaction will get you to that conclusion. Besides, I like our chances in the Boneyard with a week's rest.

No shouting.

Uuuhhhmm yes, it is for the district championship. We win, we share title. In the immortal words of Herm Edwards "it's why you play the game!"

I guess that totally depends on what facility you work at. We're poor over here in the real southeast Texas; not like you high flying Baytown guys. Heritage Pegasus....and yes sir, you are correct. Within one year.

Livingston won't score 14 on you unless you put in the third string in the fourth quarter, and then maybe not. I wasn't impressed with them.

BTW, we here at XOM will do our level best to keep diesel prices down for all those school buses.

Here's how I see it: Ned wins out and makes MCM relevant because KJAC, KFDM, FOX, SETXSports, KLVI, 92.5, ESPN, the Port Arthur News and Gabe Pruitt will all be happy and can make it the game of the century. Meanwhile, PAM and Vidor are playing for the district championship the last game of the regular season somewhere in northwestern Orange County.

Central will handle Livingston, IMO.

Verses what? Baytown Lee and GCM in the district along with Livingston? Being from SE TX, we're gonna have to travel. The other side of the Trinity river ain't that far. Cedar Park was the 5A Div.2 Champion last year with an enrollment of 1996. How is that a level playing field? You guys from WOS are spoiled because of the professional factory you have there. Again, I'm talking the average of teams, not the exceptions. You keep the schools within 500 - 600 kids of each other and the playing field is level. Lower the bottom number to 1000 you bring in LCM, Huffman, and have Jasper and Silsbee on the bubble. One thing I can admit is that there is still a sore spot from a very good Vidor team having to play a 6A Humble Summer Creek in the playoffs 2012. I'm being honest. Teams in west Texas along with the lower classifications do it all the time...we can too.

Manvel is the scary team in 5A Div 1 Region 3. Div 2 is up for grabs, IMO.

1. The Woodlands 2. New Caney 3. Crosby 4. Dayton 5. Port Neches-Groves 6. Lumberton 7. Port Arthur Memorial 8. Vidor 9. Huffman Hargrave 10. Silsbee 11. Tatum 12. Madisonville 13. Orangefield 14. Liberty 15. Trinity 16. Woodville 17. Anahuac 18. La Marque 19. Newton 20. San Augustine 21. Price Carlisle 22. Lovelady 23. Deweyville 24. Hull-Daisetta 25. Houston Northland

Liberty by two touchdowns. This is their year (with the exception of WOS).

You're not talking apples and apples my friend. GCM is a poor example of what I'm talking about and I'm willing to bet they get their act together in the future and start winning some games. Look at the average of teams...you probably have 50 seniors on your varsity alone. Big 5A. Livingston and Lumberton both probably had only 30 players on the sideline period. I think we suit up 40 on varsity. Long run small schools can't compete with that. Barbers Hill has enough money and is growing fast enough to go and buy the top coach in Texas. Can't compete with that. I know all you PA folks felt that when you were in 6A playing the GPNS of the world and going 3 - 7. Glad you're in the district but you're proving my point.

Not sure I consider it participation trophies and ribbons, just fairness and opportunity to compete for all the kids. If I go solely on that thought process, why not combine all the 1A through 4A classifications into just one division and not two? Why have 1A through 6A divisions, why not just 4A like it used to be? Texas has more than doubled in size and number of kids and I fully believe it is the opportunity for them to compete, not whether we make a super duper team out of Orange County and whip everyone's arse (we already have that in WOS). I'm glad my grandchildren are at a 3A school and will get the opportunity to participate rather than a 6A school and have no chance. They don't need a trophy,just the opportunity to earn one. Just my thoughts.

Herm Edwards made a good point in the post game comments. This team is young and really doesn't know Romo as the QB; he really hasn't been the full time starter since 2014. Dakota is consistent and this has the entire team playing at a high level because he is the only starter for more than two games in a row any of them really know. The rest of the components were there...they just needed leadership. Dakota does that.

Day in and day out, Silsbee, WOS and all of these schools have no chance playing bigger classification schools on a regular basis. You just don't have enough kids to cover the positions without some kids going both ways...they will wear you out. Good example: WOS vs. Richmond Foster. Over the course of a season, the injuries, etc. rack up and you lose. Fair is fair.

I'm for it because of the disparity among some schools. No matter how you slice it, a school of Lumberton, Livingston or Ozen's size has little to no chance of competing against a 2000+ student school. Period. Second, if you made the cut at the 1050 - to 1100 range you bring a lot of similar sized schools into to play such as Huffman Hargrave and LCM. You wouldn't have a small 5A school being arbitrarily stuck into Div1 and having to play an on the bubble 6A school in the playoffs with no chance of winning. 1050 - 1600 pretty well puts all of our schools stuck in population decline in 5A Div 2, 1601 to 2100 Div1 with the growing powerhouses on the east side of Houston (like BH, NC, etc.). We wind up with districts consisting of 6 - 8 team combinations. Beaumont schools could and should realign their school zones to bring all three into the 5A but that ain't happening. Lastly, I know a lot of you hate the 4 team playoff designation but that will never change. It's about money and fits nicely into the UIL's narrative of playing football until Xmas. Besides, Texas is growing so fast they need to do this to accommodate the expansion. A good example is College Station creating two 5A schools out of the one 6A school (A&M Consolidated) they had. Better opportunities for the kids to compete. One caveat...if you want the district championship to mean something other than being a paper title, make the first round of the playoffs at home for that champion. Then you would have something.

See, we're excited to play you guys. Wish it would have happened sooner. Nothing but respect, friend. Buddy Garrity and I were talking about this game meaning something being the last game of the season and I have to say, he was a prophet and pretty well nailed. I hope I can convince him to come back in the near future because he has a great football mind.

Nope, but we are confident that we can score. You've played against the spread offense that PNG runs numerous times, but never against ours. We shall see.

Y'all won't be that good after Neumann and Faircloth draft your players...jus' sayin'. Those kids need to come and stay with Ol' Uncle Robanadana and play for Mathews.

No game here. Next up for PAM?

no offense brother Pirate but you always play to win...those kids want to win district and if that game is anywhere near close they're gonna want (and need) to play it out. You can get an injury just as easy playing Lee. You want momentum going into the playoffs, IMO.

Ummm, thanks Zoltar.

Nope. Wons and losses in district. Co-championship. Besides we beat PAM, PAM beat PNG, PNG beat Vidor. Tied. Hypothetical of course before half the board comes in here and repeats this about 100 times.