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Best case IMO is 5-5 and finishing 2nd in the district. Worst case is 2-8 and finishing 4th. They're a playoff team because of how weak the district is beyond PNG. In my best case scenario they find a way to pick up a non-district win (super tough start to the season) and then only lose to PNG in district. In my worst case scenario they go 0-4 pre-district, which is a real possibility, and then get beat by Texas City, PNG, and Dayton in district.

I'm pretty confident the schools in South Oak Cliff's district would be perfectly okay forgoing the marginal players that transfer into their school if it meant they could keep their most talented players that they no doubt lose to schools like SOC. It's far more likely, at least in the case of SOC, that Dallas ISD pressures the other coaches in the district to allow it to happen.

My buddy has a place on Cedar Crest Circle, if you know where that is.

I agree with everything bolded. As for the sour grapes, sometimes they're warranted. My team will never lose to SOC in a state final game, so while I have an opinion on the matter, it doesn't affect me the same way it's affected PNG. If I lived there I'm sure I'd be a lot more passionate about the subject. I'm also sure there have been plenty of sour grapes in Silsbee over the last decade when their basketball teams deserving of being state champions have lost out to houston teams or Faith Family because of a broken system. And i personally don't blame anyone from Silsbee a bit if they're still upset. As for SOC, there's a difference between having done no wrong and not having been caught doing wrong. Is it possible that every D1 player that transfers in is doing so on their own with no encouragement or interference from the coaching staff? I suppose it is. But that seems unlikely, and I'm not sure how anyone could be confident saying that it's happening that way.

i have mixed feelings on the topic at hand, but having read through this thread it's definitely worth noting that you're being a bit obtuse on this one (intentionally, no doubt, as you're no dummy). While it is inarguable that schools gain and lose students every year, it's also inarguable that there are a few schools who consistently gain new students who "coincidentally" happen to be D1 football recruits. It's obvious what happens at several of these schools, but in some it's provable through common sense. Let's take SOC, for example, which is a C-rated campus, and is located in South Oak Cliff, an F-tier community to live in. it's kind of hard to find a really valid reason why the recruits (i mean transfers) have moved from A or B rated school districts, generally MUCH safer neighborhoods, and areas with more job opportunities and housing other than football. As for your **, generally transfers who are transferring for non-football reasons aren't transferring to schools that have great football programs, and also aren't transferring to schools getting large numbers of obvious football related transfers. If shepherd gets a stray running back move-in here or there, or some kid from beaumont moves out to HF, etc, it's one thing. But something tells me if half of the D-1 recruits from around SETX started moving into HF every season and were allowed to play lots of folks would have lots to say about it, including the coaching staff of Shepherd (regardless of what their PAPFs say).

Had a pretty good trip up there a couple of weeks ago. My buddy has a place near Fairmount. We get into some pretty good numbers of bass near Shawnee Shores.

Beaumont with another: [Hidden Content]

[Hidden Content] murder not local, but the murderer was. I taught him about 15 years ago. Some of these kids come through and you can see it coming, but he wasn’t a bad kid, at least as a little guy.

It’s nothing to move apartments across cities in the Dallas and Houston areas

Helluva deal! Let’s go, cards!

I'll agree to disagree with you on that one. 50% of the country hates him and another 25% doesn't like him. He hasn't changed his behavior in any meaningful way to address that. If we get killed on the midterms he'll just blame the voters or cheating or whatever else.

oh, it's about him. he had some success and gained some good pub taking out Maduro and figured he could do this and it would be easy and he'd turn the tide for himself... now look where we are. But make no mistake, Trump is all about Trump. If he was selfless he wouldn't be offering funding to politicians willing to rename things after him, and he wouldn't be pushing for a gold coin with his face on it to come out of the treasury.

behind a paywall, can we get the summary?

High Island must want their own school in their community, and having sports doesn't sound like as big of a priority.

this has been a brutal schedule. I'm ready for them to get a few easy teams... Over the last ten series the only teams with a losing record the Rangers have played are the Mariners and the Tigers,, who are both nearing .500 and were playoff teams last year. Now they get the cubs who're tied for the league's best record, after just playing the yankees (also tied for the league's best record) for a second series in 6 days.