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To get back to your “majority Hispanic but still good at football point”… Cleveland is 90% Hispanic. Less than half their football team is. Because of the influx of nearly 3000 Hispanic students in the high school they’re playing 6A ball, and 23 of those 3000 kids play varsity football. There is no comparison possible. It’s unprecedented, and it seems impossible to overcome.

Would be a new type of flight I guess, because this particular principal wasn’t white. I don’t know what district you work for, but I could guess, and their roster isn’t listed online. I’d be curious how the % of Hispanic students matches up to the % of Hispanic players on the team, and then again to the % of Hispanic players on the team who make a meaningful impact.

I agree with that 100%. But I still maintain that you’re talking about two completely different environments

50% is nowhere near 90%. It’s also substantially easier to remain competitive with a handful of good athletes in 3A than it is in 6A. And a final factor here is that Diboll without a doubt has a large number of second generation Hispanics. Kids that grew up playing American sports. The vast majority of the kids moving to Cleveland have never even touched a basketball or football when they get there. I’m not saying that Hispanic kids aren’t capable of playing football and basketball. I am saying kids who don’t grow up playing those sports aren’t going to help their high school somehow just because there’s 3000 of them. It’s also worth noting that if every Hispanic kid in Diboll (500 total enrolled students) and Cleveland (3500 total enrolled students) didn’t play football or basketball, the two schools’ potential player pools would be within 50 kids of each other.

I wouldn’t send my kid to a high school with 3500 kids that was built for 1000 kids. Or to one where the academic rating was a D. Or to one where 90% of the students spoke a language other than English as a first language. And that’s before you ever factor in the athletics. If your kid was a talented basketball or football player would you leave him in Cleveland to get blown out every game? To play with bad 4A talent against Houston area 6A squads? There was a guy on here who was a principal in Cleveland a couple years back. His daughter was a stud basketball player. She went to Huffman. Why do you think that was?

As sports go, it’s pretty simple. You have a school that went from a 4A school to a 6A school in a short amount of time with basically 100% of their growth being kids with zero background/interest in any sports besides soccer. So the talent pool is still small school 4A while their opponents are all Houston 6A. On top of that, the kids that ARE good at football/basketball/whatever are leaving for surrounding districts. What all-district quality player with a choice is going to stay and lose 33 straight games, especially when you factor in the extreme overcrowding in the classrooms as well. It’s an unprecedented situation with no remedy in sight.

I’m curious where he’s playing in college this year. Sorry, that was kinda vague

Where did Hunter end up going this year? I was surprised he didn't get more attention from colleges than he did.

33 straight losses. Lost 54-6 this year to Splendora, who's a bad 5A-D2 team in the same boat they are. Their closest game in the last 2 years was a 21-0 loss to West Fork, who's only getting better. Cleveland may not win another game for a decade. I'm not sure how far down they'd have to schedule to get a win in that area. Tarkington would've been an interesting matchuphis year. Coldspring maybe? I'm pretty sure Coldspring beats them. Maybe 3A-D2 New Waverly, a 2 or 3-win 3A-D2 team? I honestly don't know.

It’s 5:57…

This is the arch we’ve been waiting for. Since late 2nd he’s been very, very good.

Shepherd has improved this year, but their schedule has been 5 3A schools without a winning record amongst them and 0-6 Tarkington. It’s kinda hard to know how much better they are until they play a good 4A squad, so we’ll find out this week. I’m gonna say WOS 48, Shepherd 21.

I was literally going to and saw your comment about not doing it and thought “what the heck, I’ll leave mine, too.” 19 this week would normally be a good week, but gave up a little ground. Looks like most everyone was bunched up in the 18-21 area tonight

Full credit to the tigers, they came out and punched us in the mouth and we could never recover. Excellent on both sides of the ball, especially running the ball and getting pressure on our qb. I’ll give the horns a little credit as well. They came out and competed in the 2nd half and played much better. Good adjustments on both sides of the ball made things a lot closer. Congrats to the tigers, and good luck the rest of the way!

!!:21/28/F