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Stattrax, drinking that much Crown is how I get into trouble after Pirate football games.

There are less kids graduating from Vidor High now than when I was a senior in 1976. Hard to compete with the new schools; money, kids, top level coaching. Hard to take a district that averages 1400 kids per school and compete with the ones that average 1900+ and a lot more money. The refineries are highly automated anymore and most of the physical work is done by contractors who are mostly migrant (turnaround to turnaround for those in the business). Unless we get some new industry here, I don't see it improving.

Stattrax, drinking that much Crown is how I get into trouble after Pirate football games.

Stattrax, drinking that much Crown is how I get into trouble after Pirate football games.

Bad for them /\/\/\/\/\ , good for us!

It depends on the area I think.  Being a military guy and transferring every 3 years, one of the things I looked for was a good place for football.  When new people are moving in to an area, say what you want, if they have a quality athlete, they are looking at that the facilities. They are looking at the coach, how their kid will fit in and what chance their kid will have at the next level if they move there.  I also think it goes in cycles, sometimes you get a special group with leaders, not just players!  I lived in Fort Worth before moving down to Crosby, it's the same up there.  Same type of athletes and facilities.  When they built the Allen stadium people up there were pissed off(especially when it was shut down), but they didn't want to spend the millions on it.  They did and they have a winning program.  Got to spend the $$$

Carthage had a good fan showing against WOS in 2013 at the Butch and it's an easy drive for them. It's the boudain that has them playing here! I gotta make up my mind who I wanna see.....decisions, decisions. Everybody playing on Friday again.

Im there. I highly recommend ppl get there by 5, especially if you sitting on Navasota side, they have a huge following. 

Coaching plays a part in it, that is fact. We won't compete with the bigger districts year in and year out. You have to have the right combination of players, the right coaches, and some luck. There are great teams all over that didn't win state. The areas that are growing by leaps and bounds are doin well these days. New school opens and semi like they get pick of the litter. Setx is not growing at all. Actually it seems to be getting smaller. It is gonna take a special group and the right ingredients to win it all. That does not happen very often 

14.2 and I FINALLY agree on something. This is the exact reason you can't advance past the area round unless you have some very, very special kids. Hard to play both ways against good teams especially if you suit up less than 40 kids on varsity. And, as Buddy Garrity likes to say, it's all about match ups.

The name of the game in 5A right now is get as close as you can to 2k enrollment. That's what it takes to compete even in D2 in 5A. 

That is one thing about 4A. The most someone will out number you is a few hundred, not over a thousand.They need to split 5A like 4A on down.

Facilities, training, money all contribute to area teams struggling, especially at the 6a/5a level. This area is 20 years behind the times on all the above. Just take a trip about 5 hours northwest of here; or you can take a trip bout 4-5 hours due north of here. Do that and you'll see what I'm talking about. Majority of the schools up that way have college type facilities(indoor, weight room, etc.)

Setx can't compete with the big area schools yes they have talent at certain schools every now and then some schools in the area get far in the playoffs but that's about it you can't blame coaching for everything you have to play with what you got just my opinion

RP only beat 3 teams worse than they beat Crosby last night. Fact is most of their games were very close throughout the season. RP looked great because they were playing an inferior team that was very over rated from the coaching on down. That's not a dig because Crosby is the best our district had to offer. I think who ever gets out of this region will see what happens when you run into a team with money coaching and maybe not as much so called talent. 

post of the year..lol

kinda ironic when all we WOS people heard from Crosby people after to losing to a much larger Foster team was that size difference wasn't an excuse. I'm not going to bash Crosby because I believe in Karma. Just rubbed me the wrong way. 

18 -7. I suck again!

What really sucks is that our area isn't growing. Hard to compete with the west Houston schools, etc. when your school has 1400 kids (or less) and you have to play the ones that stay in 5A four - six years and then move on to 6A. I'm afraid it will be the same story for all of us if some new blood doesn't move here (22-5A). 14.2 is right about that. Div. 2 schools need to be districted to play each other and the bigger Div.1 and rapidly growing schools should be together, IMHO.

I don't believe the score. Todd has us scoring 26 against y'all. Way more believable. 

Dang, we scored 65 on Memorial with a new coach? So, you're telling me there's a chance.....

HELL if you think about it they didn't get any further than those sorry teams from 22-5A Nederland and PNG

Really, really impressed with the RP defense. Their front three defensive linemen were bad arse. And, that kid Skylar Stanton has to be getting some looks at cornerback in the collegiate circles. Wow.

Welp. Welp,

I love it, they been talking crap all year!!! This is what happens when people think their team is all that and down everyone else!