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My mistake.. Franklin (Slot-T team) made the finals this year.. after winning two consecutive. And Bellville (Slot-T team) made the state finals.. after running through the "best" that SeTx had to offer. My mistake. They only made the finals running the Slot-T. That's terrible.

So the coaches who run Slot-T that won state championships this year and the years before don’t know how to coach? Interesting take..

That can be a tricky situation to say the least. I would imagine that it happens more often than people think.. especially in bigger schools. I would say that if one kid plans on being "baseball only" then during the fall we need to make sure that kid is as prepared (strength and speed) wise as possible for when baseball does roll around. Any kid willing to go through an intense offseason regime for one sport wouldn't be that much of a detriment to the program. The ones that will be "in the way" or taking reps from others.. will likely show themselves out rather than go through an intense training. In small schools.. you don't see it as often because there are probably more multisport athletes. I've seen AD's in the past pretty much make it mandatory (in small schools) that if you're going to be in athletics, then you're going to do SOMETHING athletics related in the fall as well as SOMETHING in the spring. Reason being the number of available coaches. People often forget than for every group of individual athletes has to be a coach available to at least monitor them. During football/volleyball season.. most small school coaches are involved with the big fall sport. Can't have a bunch of different "offseason" groups. And when I say anything.. Anything from one of the sports to even manager, help with practice, help at home games, concessions, something.. I personally like the idea.

Students should be in the athletic period for any team sport for sure.. including baseball/softball. I could see the argument for not letting kids in that play individual type, after school sports (golf, tennis, etc.) even though I don't necessarily agree with it. I think all athletes should be lifting/running/training for their sport outside of its season. And even sometimes during season.. depending on what the coach of that sport deems best.

Allowing all kids into athletics just because they want to or sign up for it is a huge mistake. There are numerous reasons for removing kids from an athletics class. Including but not limited to: A senior finished with sports, a student/athlete that doesn't play anything, behavior reasons, academic reasons, and probably many more. Make it public which schools just allow any kid into athletics that want to be.. because I'm sure there are other coaches that would like to schedule them.

In 7 years or less they'd be ordering rings.

Depends on who you’re asking I guess.

Several “elite” coaches on that list have had seasons AFTER reaching his elite status where they not only didn’t win it all, but didn’t get close. If it was only about coaching then that wouldn’t be the case. Coaches don’t get worse over time.. they have different players.

I can't even get him to explain to me why Bill Belichick is sub .500 without Tom Brady.. or hasn't won a playoff game since Brady left NE. Or why some is his elite coaches (by his definition) didn't win another state title after reaching elite status (according to his definition). So.. again. You're wasting your time. Might as well just let him believe that any coach could go to any team and win it all eventually. Wait.. I think 7 years is his timeframe.

You're wasting your time trying to convince him of this. I've tried time and time again.

That would be true if rankings were an accurate measuring stick to how teams can/will actually do. But it never matters as much as most think. I'm not suggesting that this will turn out better/worse despite/because of said rankings for either team.. just that rankings matter very little at times. Rankings of teenage kids matter even less.

55% and 38% sounds like a potential improvement over in BC.

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Score more points than the other team. That's usually the offensive game plan.

It's speculation at best right now. I just think it'd be hilarious if several of the schools opted up. Not just Liberty/HJ.

It's obviously allowed because districts have been and are doing it. This is what I'd call a legitimate reason. "Extreme" distances could have an impact on stretched budgets or class time for students.. I would think that UIL could come up with a list of qualifying situations for playing in a different district than UIL assigned. What would be the reason for Liberty or HJ to opt up? They're certainly not "100+ miles away from every school that would be in the District".. so what's the reason? And then, hypothetically, should a school or more from the previous district decide to opt up to avoid a 5 team district.. is that not as good of a reason? See what I'm saying? A fraction of the public school in Texas that live in the middle of nowhere are saving money and school time, but it's applying statewide. I don't agree. Not that it matters.. the UIL has never done several opinions of mine so why would they start now? They wouldn't.

I didn't say it was a real issue.. I implied that it's potentially an issue. Then I gave an opinion of which I'm allowed. You don't have to like or agree with it.

Who decides the “right reasons”? Like I said.. just NO across the board. If you think your school district can’t cover travel expenses, just forfeit your playoff spot and schedule schools within a whatever mile radius.

This is why I say that none of them should be allowed to do it. It opens up the potential for all kinds of crazy stuff.

What if El Paso five 6A schools, and one more 3A team.

I’m not a huge fan of any school opting up. I personally believe that whatever UIL determines is the cutoff, your enrollment places you. I do understand wanting to for financial reasons.. but.. wouldn’t that also be true about just being in district with the 6 closest schools? If travel is truly the issue, just go independent and stay in a 30 mile radius. Disclaimer: I wholeheartedly disagree with several things UIL does.

I’m sure it’s relatively low.. what difference does it make how often it happens?

Every year.

I’ve said before and will continue saying.. anytime a 4 beats a 1, sending 4 teams to the playoffs is justified.