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What a copout. Pick a side, DCTF. lol

Those look pretty even to me.. give or take a few schools. Some considerations: Geographic location has to be taken into account in some circumstances. It wouldn't make much sense to "Go ahead and pull up the numbers to include schools A and B so that we have X number of schools in this division or that many few in another".. especially if there would literally be no schools geographically close to this hypothetical School A or School B. Also.. there are schools that choose to play up a division every alignment. If you really want a set number or max number of schools per division, then don't allow schools to play up. Make them play where they are.

Why?

EC by several scores.

As much as I'd like to see Hardin pull it off.. I think their cupcake preseason schedule pays dividends this week. I'll take OF 27-20. Prove me wrong, guys.

I watched Hardin on NFHS last night. That double wing, tight splits offense that CT like to run will be tough for any of them to stop. They have some kids.. both in the backfield and on the line. However.. there were some weaknesses in their defense. Not sure they can stop EC or OF from moving the ball and scoring. Might come down to time of possession and turnovers/penalties. Big district game next Friday.

My opinion: Falling just a few short or being just a few over whatever respective cutoff is just a bad/good coincidence. While I wholeheartedly disagree with many of the decisions made by UIL, I doubt that they have time nor is there any concern with making sure this school or that school is put in a "favorable" position. I'd like to think that there really is an attempt made to keep the number of schools in each classification relatively similar.. based partly on schools having reasonably, geographically located district competition. Yes, I know we can all list examples where that doesn't seem to be the case. But keep in mind.. every year there are schools that opt up for whatever reason.. throwing everything off. But.. as far as "let's make sure the 3AD1 cutoff number is X or lower so that (insert school) can still win their district".. that's silly. On the other hand.. there are documented cases of schools manipulating their own enrollment numbers in an attempt to have fewer kids.

Oof.. Carthage JV may not have been the one to play.

EC/OF/Hardin... 1st place will come out of one of these 3. Or maybe a co situation. Or maybe a tri situation. But these 3 determine it this year. Will come down to execution, turnovers (or lack thereof), maybe injuries, eligible, home/away, etc.. who knows why one will play better/worse.

4-0. I'm still undecided as to where I think it'll be another shutout... but it'll definitely be a win. Should be.

I've heard that Alto isn't very good this year. HD should've played 6 man.

This game is completely dependent on whether or not the WV coaching staff plays kids out of position or not. Incorrect position - Coin flip Correct position - Unbeatable

Both of their enrollments have outgrown HD's "easy to beat" limit. SP was the last maybe.. lol

Who's HD supposed to beat now?

3-0. Another shutout.

I have no doubt that the evidence of your approval shown in this post will be blown up, printed, and hung in the coaches' office.

Praise the Lord. With every resource available to literally every single coaching staff in existence, it's blatantly obvious that the WV coaching staff ditched all of those and finally reached out to the setxsports fan forum for some actual advice. Anyone that says that the very conversations had on this site along with reverting back to the ultra success of youth football weren't completely responsible for this win, then they are a liar. I even have it on good authority that there was actually a peewee coach in the press box with headsets.. giving the entire staff personnel suggestions. Thank goodness. One can only hope that the WV head coach will continue to lean heavily on the words spoken in this very website... as anyone with a brain knows that this is the gospel in terms of football knowledge.

Anahuac actually had a really good live streaming YouTube channel.. but it was ended this year. On their school FB page it give a different link to a hudl link (I think). Maybe it will show the game. If not.. maybe NFHS? Not sure.

I mean... Pewee - Undefeated Varsity - Loses 1st game What more proof do you need?

I'm genuinely curious.. what is it that makes you believe this? You've already expressed that there are some folks out of position (in your opinion). Have you been to any practices? Do you know why exactly each player is playing where they're playing (according to the professionals being paid to win games.. while holding kids accountable)? And.. what he's done so far? You mean play one game? You're staking your knowledge over his off of one loss to a projected good and bigger team? Tap the brakes, dude. At least give it half the season.. which still isn't enough.

One reference is all that it takes. Truthfully, the amount of things that happen over a one year, five year, ten year.. period for athletes is so vast that any single reference to something that happened several years ago is beyond idiotic. Rate of maturation, natural size/speed/strength changes, efforts in offseason, competition changes, transfers (both in and out), etc.. Now. Apply every single one of those to the other teams they currently play also. Also.. consider the fact that in youth sports 10 year olds play against other 10 year olds from neighboring towns (usually). As opposed to being in high school where 14-18 year olds play against other 14-18 year olds from schools that they likely didn't see in peewee. The number of reasons why it's irrelevant is honestly too many to list. That's why the reference, even if it was only one reference, was a mistake to mention. And since I have a tendency to dig in to things like this.. you're now officially the peewee guy. The guy that said success should follow the success of a group of children that were likely led by volunteer coaches who may or may not have been reliving glory days through kids in their community. Possibly their own sons.. that were forced into a position that dad/coach wanted to play in high school because it's what he played in peewee back when they "were winning".. but the high school coaches came in and played everyone out of position. Causing them to lose.. unlike the glory days of peewee football. So. Sorry.. not sorry. I won my fantasy league so I should be the general manager. They won in peewee so they should win now. Same level of thinking.

LRC Stadium (Living Room Couch) The fridge is stocked and the bathroom's close. Also.. I won't have to hear any disgruntled fans. NFHS sure makes game nights better.

I know that when any reference at all eludes to a varsity head coach not making sound strategic decisions because of something that took place when that coach's players were in youth sports, then there is zero reason to take that person seriously regarding anything to do with sports. It's true that I have a habit of defending a coaching staff... but the little league reference pushes it over the top with me. The irony of telling someone they have no clue what they're talking about after the implication of varsity success needing to mimic something seen in peewee. Truly hilarious.

There's actually no need to have seen them. I'm the the Vice President of the LLFAA (Little League Football Association of America) and we've gotten several applications from peewee coaches of this particular group over the years to be invited to the National Youth Football GALA held in Arlington, Texas every year. The winners each year actually get to practice for a week against the Cowboys. So, yeah.. no need to see them play. These kids are next level famous. In fact, there's currently a petition circulating to remove the current staff for playing said student athletes out of position (per their peewee positions). It's only gone through 9 states as of now. Once we get 100,000 signatures from each of the 50 states, we'll get those clowns on the coaching staff out of there before the team loses to any more schools that are bigger than they are. Coincidently, we searching for short term replacements for after the changes have been made. Are you interested?