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Been to both a few times each. Rose Bowl > Pyle Field. Unless you like the tackle box design. Then Pyle > all fields. Rose Bowl can get really loud. In all fairness, all 3 trips to Kyle resulted in aggy losses (twice against daddy, once against Tech). At least 2 of the three Rose Bowls I attended were definitely louder, with split fan bases.

Leaving for Austin Saturday morning. Hoping to see a new and improved Longhorns team. Will definitely being partaking in some world class BBQ.

Joe T. Garcia's is really good. Stockyards District and Downtown Sundance Square if you want a drink. Zoo might be the best in the State.

SECond to Sun Belt?

I have heard this comment from more than one person of color as well...

Ummm, apparently so does the right. You guys just gave the presidential nomination to a candidate whose entire campaign was based on rhetoric. But, to be fair, maybe those crazy righties were going with the "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" theory.

Also becoming evident is that the 3rd party candidates appear to be pulling more votes from Hillary than Trump (just as, contrary to prevalent yet incorrect beliefs, Perot cost her husband more votes than Bush). So much for the "a vote for Johnson is a vote for Hillary" fallacy...

Lol! Brad is out there but honestly it's hard to lower the bar from where we have it. Besides, I'm more of a Matthew McConaughey guy \m/. (Another one that's out there.)

But to be fair and answer your question more directly, I think Trump will be far more instrumental in mobilizing the minority vote than Hillary, if you get my drift. And I also look for a spike in Hispanic vote. I would not predict record number is the African American vote but I also don't think you will see as big of a dip as one might assume. Overall, I would think the "non-white" vote may even exceed 2012. But I would be the first to admit that while I enjoy looking at the numbers and data (to a nerdy degree if you ask my wife), I am by no means an expert on the subject.

Actually, I think the key demographic will be, as it has been trending in recent elections, the female vote. Sorry Trumpsters.

Read an interesting statistic today. George HW Bush received 59 percent of the white vote in 1992. He earned 426 electoral votes. Mitt Romney received precisely the same share of that vote in 2012, for which he earned 206 electoral votes. Draw your own conclusions...

Saw Pierre towards the end of summer. He's come a long way since he was a freshman. I know he's had a lot of good coaching along the way But man are you right about Dotson. That kid's upside is through the roof. He's gonna be a special one IMO.

I forget there are 27 schools in FB! I was thinking of Travis, Bush and Elkins. Knew Bush moved up. Completely forgot about Marshall. Agree with Mamba completely - Marshall will be the regional favorite.

Not even going to predict. I still owe you a dinner from last year's! I do think those will be the playoff teams. As for Central and Junkie's comments, Central has two junior guards with multiple D1 offers, and another who is a 6-4 or 6-5 shooter who was 1st team all district as a sophomore. Not like cupboard was bare. As for the Titans, not only do they return a 6A playoff team that was led primarily by sophomores (now juniors), they have a player who returned home from Kelly in that class. And he is every bit as good as what they had. Ozen will be good as always and so will Nederland. I see that district as "wide open" between the top teams. As for Fort Bend, aren't they all 6A now with the exception of Elkins?

How did I miss this thread (thanks RebGP)? Two things - 1) Mr BG wins the thread and 2) I think the Tigers were feeling much more of a "sting" last Friday than Kolten...

Lol - wouldn't surprise me at all

It looks like Cameron will indeed be at Victory Prep. However, Trevor has not been at Wheatley and leaves later this week for South Kent Prep in Connecticut. Apparently putting Wheatley on his form at the Rucker caused a stir that he had changed plans.

It's pretty simple. For a coach/team to be successful, the players, and many times, the parents need to "buy in." Apparently, they weren't willing to do that at Palestine. And they certainly weren't accustomed to the "sweat equity" Coach T requires of his teams. To be fair, most have no idea the work the Mustangs put in. I always chuckle when folks just assume WOS always has the most talent. With the numbers and resources they have, there is no way they should be as consistently good and even great as they are. Except well...see above.

Coach Davis is a great guy and does a fantastic job at HJ. He puts in hours above and beyond for the benefit of the kids. Lazeek is correct re: Carpenter. He is back at WB due to a family situation. That is a great family that has been through a lot in the last year or so with an illness and I know them well. They absolutely love Clay. I don't know much about Moreaux. To be honest, I knew more about him in football and knew he didn't play basketball, at least last year. As far as the other kid goes, I can only tell you if the family has an issue with Coach Davis, you can add him to a long list of coaches to which that would apply.

LCM often seems to play WOS closer than they should. I don't think this game goes to the wire but would not be shocked if it were closer than most think. I will go WOS 27-14.

With a mouth full of oyster?

Couldn't agree more. IMO, best athlete in SETX in the 2018 class (which is saying something because there's a few really good kids here in that one). He will be a big time college player somewhere and I still think his stock will soar in the next 2 years. As for tonight, in a half of football, had 107 yards on 3 receptions and a TD. Which proves the point you made - just get him involved wherever you put him.

Kid is a ball player. Picked up a Tulane offer this week to go with a previous SMU offer.

Yep, it's one game and if memory serves, Ozen lost an opener by a similar score to Memorial two years ago; a Titan team that ended up not being very good. The team Ozen lost to today is a juggernaut that would probably obliterate most of the teams in SETX. Seasons are not made or lost in Week 1...