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I wish nothing but good things for the Deweyville Pirates this year and I fully expect the Vidor Pirates to win their first outright DC since the ‘70s I believe. (We were co-district champs a few years ago in a three way tie.) We have 6 returning starters on offense and 6 returning starters on defense, all Seniors who can play ball. I have been hearing great things about the underclassmen who are stepping up to fill holes. If we get good play from the new players at the Linebacker and Running Back positions then watch out, we might make some noise in the playoffs. Correction: 1 returning starter on offense OL and 1 returning starter on defense DL will be Juniors but they are both big ole studs.

Arrgghhh! Matey, Pirate Pride.

So if the season starts and games are played for some schools as I expect our local schools to be among the first to start. Is that it, no going back, no shutting it down or moving the season to spring at that point? Or do you think there could be a start, stop, postpone or cancel scenario once we get going?

Completely cancelled, what a shame. Small 2a school, I wonder if some of these kids could transfer out and play elsewhere or is too late?

Just reading up on Big 10, 12-2 vote only Nebraska and Iowa wanted to play. PAC 12 soon to follow but Big 12, ACC and SEC still in play. Looks like the south is going to have college football, talks of these schools going after the others top recruits. This could get ugly.

Does the NCAA have any say on this or do these conferences act independently? I still think the SEC is going to try to play and leave everybody else behind to figure it out, might as well declare Alabama national champs again.

Having a vaccine for Covid is the thought behind it but there is no guarantee that we have an effective one by then.

The SEC is going to play, they are already scheduling new matchups and I bet the Big 12 does too. Now the Big 10 and PAC 12 who knows, maybe spring before they play any games. How the heck do they set up bowl games or decide a champion this season with power 5 conferences possibly playing at different times?

Well there is the solution then, high schoolers can opt out too. They don’t have to play high school football but they are there because they want to be. Same goes for the coaches, officials and fans, nobody is forced to be at a high school football game. Yet still people on the outside completely uninvested in these football programs say shut everything down.

You guys are so negative, you want it to be over before it starts. I can’t believe so many people truly want there to be no football season or school year. We are supposed to be all in to play a full football schedule, including playoffs. If a player tests positive they sit out for 10 days and most likely come back just fine. If a team has an outbreak maybe they forfeit a game or two and the rest of the teams play on, like baseball is doing. Why is it so hard to follow a model like that? I’d be more concerned about the coaches, officials and fans, hopefully we don’t see any problems there but the kids will be fine. They are young, in good shape and have yet to develop any underlying health conditions like the rest of us old worry warts.

We have to replace the starting backfield from last year so we will be relying on some young guys. We will have a Senior who is a road grader, takes multiple defenders to bring him down and does great work up the middle. Don't know much from there, not sure if we have a pure speed guy but we got some of them physical speed guys.

10-4 Maybe we could play a Louisiana school? Or would that be frowned upon in this day and age?

ahh man... looks like were going to get left out in the cold. Why couldn't we play St. Pius X, aren't they a private school?

I take it Vidor still hasn't found anyone for week 2? Bring on the perennial powerhouse just north of town, the mighty Evadale Rebels!

Oh man... Vidor is going to surprise some people when they beat Silsbee and Jasper this year.

Gotcha so they just have to get a late start and miss early games, playoffs not effected.

Well I guess they would not extend their seasons but rather cut them short and lose pre-district games, so they can still finish on time with the rest of us and set the playoff matchups.

Great... these were likely early round playoff matchups for our district 10-4A-1. Correct?

Do you see districts outside of Harris County waiting on them to start or will the UIL issue another ruling to preserve some type of playoff system to include these schools?

Wow so any school 4A and below are going to be way behind our local area schools... playoffs are going to be a mess.

Can’t say I agree with that either. If someone who doesn’t want to be there and otherwise would have chose home schooling gets sick the whole thing is going to blow up badly. At least with our situation we have weighed the risk vs reward and decided to go all in on the Senior season but if something bad happens it’s on us, our choice.

Are they requiring f2f attendance at PNG?

Can't you just keep your kid at home, while I send mine to school? I'm glad we have that option, don't shut everything down for everyone. Make the choice that's best for you and your family. Our decision is made, we'll deal with the consequences.

He’s not so bad on the sidelines, problem is you just can’t keep him off the field lol.

Uh oh... trouble in paradise.