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He was one of the more popular professors when I was there. He moved up the chain rapidly at the university and for good reason. RIP

I will say this: Dallas coaches don’t block players. The Ramsey kid from Duncanville switched teams more in HS than LeBron has in his entire career. Went from Mansfield Summit his sophomore year, to IMG his junior year, then went to Oak Hill to start his senior year, transfers to Duncanville during the school year and has no issue with his DEC. Happens all the time there. Then again, it’s a different mentality when you welcome competition instead of try to avoid it. Once again, it’s a different mentality up there.

In basketball, the Dallas teams are just tougher physically and mentally. That is nothing new. Although I was impressed with Klein Forest in terms of toughness and intensity.) Houston basketball has become “suburbanized.” They have a ton of skilled players but it’s a different game when the physicality comes in. Dallas still has that inner city basketball mentality.

Basically, UT has $340 million reasons to “get its basketball program right.” Everyone knew what the deal was going into this season. For whatever reason, it just hasn’t worked. I wish Shaka all the best at his next gig. He’s one of the good guys.

It is definitely in the works. He will be paid some from Texas, and some from his new employer. But from what I am hearing, the author is correct - it’s not if but when.

Entertaining tournament again this year. The games were really good except for “our” Dragons who continued to run through their opponents leaving no doubt. I couldn’t help but feel some kind of way during the 4A games. The discussion here about Oak Cliff FF aside, I just couldn’t shake the feeling the best 4A team in the state wasn’t even in SA.

Duncanville outrebounds KF 48-22. Wow.

Same guy every year. Jim something.

Wish they would let Craig Way do the game by himself. This color guy is awful.

Duncanville leads 52-49 going into 4th.

This game is getting good. Tied at 47 with 42 seconds left in 3rd.

KF 31 D’ville 26 H

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Those freshmen came up big in SA.

I can’t decide if the SEC’s obsession with all things Texas is more flattering or sad. I mean, we b-slapped the consensus second best team in that conference but Bama still has scoreboard over us when we play a mediocre, second string true freshman QB....

Brock was impressive fighting through to stay in it. Madison punched them right in the mouth early. I thought Madison was the favorite going in. People like to look at records but the vast majority of 3A schools wouldn’t have been over .500 playing their schedule.

North Shore up 26-21 at half. I thought I was ranking them too high after the two losses to BU, given where they were falling in the rankings. Apparently had them too low...

Yates is better than what I thought. As previously stated, i thought they’d be an underdog against whoever came out of region 2. Those metroplex teams for whatever reason are just always extremely tough physically and mentally. And this year, they were battle tested like no other.

I’m claiming them anyway. Their beast of a big man’s daddy’s side of the family is from Orange so we are claiming him at a minimum!

Dang! Beatdown at State! (Not surprised.) One more Dragons...

Maybe Putin is a Bayou Bengal booster on the DL?

When you can’t run with them, it’s easily your best chance at winning.

One would think.

Exactly. Keep the game low scoring and give yourself a puncher’s chance. You’re may not be able to run away from more athletic teams but you can hit a shot at the end to upset them.

Didn’t realize Sulphur Springs best returning player, OU signee 6-8 Victor Iwuakor didn’t play this season and was homeschooled instead. Can’t imagine how good they would have been with him.