Cougar14.2

Crosby would be a state ranked program again if we had a coach that could coach offense. Different game, another big opportunity, same story . . .

I was talking to my cousin last night who coaches at Angleton and he told with the injuries they have on offense that they’re planning to try to run a bunch of Wildcat. If that’s the case and Jammer has to play QB along with the big X receiver on the outside hurt I like Crosby’s chances for defensive success. With the 12-5A-D1 positions pretty much locked in, with a win Crosby would get to host a College Station that tailor-made for the way we’re playing this year. Willis keeps falling into opportunities, let’s see if he can finally capitalize?

About 25-30 lower than I thought but I’ll take it. Looks like we’re going to get to hold off 23-6A for two more years. I think we’ll be over 2,600 a couple alignments from now?

Yep, cause everybody who’s lined up against Willis during his time here knows he will make ZERO adjustments at halftime

Tonight is the type game some people on this site like to point to and give Willis credit for “improvement”, but there has been no better example of why lots of us want him gone because he’s crippling the program. Crosby talent keeping Crosby in this one despite their coach doing everything he can not to help them, smh🤬🤬🤬

I’ve seen Willis call some stupid plays bit that might’ve taken the cake. Tough when the kids are playing hard and being held back by their own coach

Willis is burning up talent at Crosby which is why Prieto has been able to go to Dayton and beat Crosby with far less the last two years. Prieto never had 4 FBS signees in a class and Riordan only did once. It’s hard to move in a worse direction than 2-8. Those guys would’ve blow out Angleton with the squad we had last year, Willis went 5-6 and will again this year most likely. That’s not improvement, that’s the definition of underachievement. I don’t think LP is near as good as they were last year but Crosby is at a severe disadvantage in the sideline.

If the trend continues, and I don’t see why it wouldn’t, I’m expecting Crosby to be somewhere from 2,265-2,280. Going to be close depending on opt-ups?

Well if you were looking at a stat like margin of victory, in district play against three of the same four teams LP’s is 39.75ppg while Crosby’s is 43.5ppg. That may lead one to believe the game would be closer than I personally think it will? A couple things I think are positive for Crosby in this year’s matchup are that LP runs what would call “standard” offensive sets a lot higher percentage of the time and Crosby being able to throw it a lot more competently. Crosby doesn’t throw it at a high percentage, which I think will be our detriment against LP, but we make a lot of plays in the passing game. If Crosby can force a couple turnovers and have our QB play clean we may be able to score enough points to make it interesting? In general I think the score in this game was bad last year because our coach isn’t very good but specifically because we couldn’t offensively coordinate first downs. We’ll see if 3/4 of the way through year three if we can offensively coordinate a respectable attack against solid competition with a bunch on the line?

Unless Crosby pulls off a miracle one of these next three weeks Joe Willis will get his second consecutive opportunity to go to College Station and win a bi-district playoff game. This time against a very solid A&M Consol. team.

I think we’ve improved because we’ve been playing teams that don’t have as good of coaching and players as the ones we lost to in non-district. I think Nemo Jordan is probably the best receiver in the district and my nephew has finally been running that ball like he’s part of the family the last couple of games but our offense still isn’t very good. 12 is only a junior but he’s still not seeing it the way you want. Too many throws into coverage that teams like LP will capitalize on and too many times in critical situations where he doesn’t recognize what he does have. How I see it is Willis basically has a month to get the team ready for A&M Consol. I don’t think the LP and Angleton games will be very competitive because the offense will look closer to what it did in the non-district but I feel like we might have a chance in the first round.

It’s even poor at the home games too now. 0 energy in the stands which matches our low energy coach

Game 1 we scored 20, game 2 we scored 17, game 3 we scored 14. If we can keep it up we should score 11 points next week? Like I said three years ago when we hired him, his offensive system doesn’t fit the personnel the Crosby community currently produces. Some people needed to see us lose all these games because we can’t score anymore before they can finally admit they didn’t know what they were talking about. Good dude and really looks out for the players but any games Crosby is winning now are in spite of Willis, not because of him. We’ve been at a disadvantage on the sideline for three consecutive weeks. Now the losses are becoming part of the culture. The casual fans aren’t attending anymore, nobody donates to the fundraisers, there’s no anticipation of a big win Friday nights, etc. This hire has gone pretty much as bad as it possible could. I heard a rumor that this was his last year but rumor or not if Crosby misses the playoffs for the 2nd time in three years I think he’s done/reassigned anyway. Either way, you’re looking at another sub .500 season in year three and with a loss to Friendswood potentially a regression to 4-7.

A perfect microcosm of the program three years in was the first and goal at the 2 yard line. Kids walk away with a field fail because they get no help from the sideline with the play calling. We can never get it done in critical situations anymore

We’ll see what happens against FB Marshall but it’s highly likely that after next week Crosby will be 0-7 against 5A-D2 teams in non-district play during the Willis era? It’s disappointing because he’s been gifted some of Crosby’s more talented teams recently but will probably finish his first three years here with a 12-20 record at best. Now we have studs like Landen Hammer transferring out of the program which is what I warned about a couple years ago.

This is year 3 for those that were wondering? I hate it for the kids because they get tagged with the “Well, maybe Crosby doesn’t have the talent anymore?” moniker. It is what it is until we decide we want to be competitive again.

I think he would be a great hire stylistically but no way you could expect near similar results. During the tenure of the last three coaches I think they’ve signed 3/4 FBS kids total? Atascocita has 3/4 FBS kids in every class on their roster. I think the 6A coaching experience itself might be more valuable though. I think BH will go to the Deer Park district and Crosby will get the North Shore/CE King district when we move to 6A but as it stands right now with the cluster of schools(probably La Porte included) in the area and the current growth rates BH could be playing Atascocita in the first round of the 6A-D2 playoffs after the next alignment. I think Stump is the best candidate possible if that scenario played out?

Idk, the best wing-T man in the Houston area might be available? Just dropped 40 on Atascocita in the 3rd round and would probably love the pay raise? He’s also made the transition smoothly from 5A-D2 to 6A-D1 . . . doesn’t make a title though. Considering BH is approaching what I think is going to be the magic ~ 2,300 number for 6A they might want someone who has experience making the transition?

Man, I wouldn’t even wish that on y’all. Look at the talent it took for him to go 7-14 his first two years at Crosby. He would have no chance at BH.

I don’t think he’s a guy that fits the BH culture at all, seems like even less of a politician than the last three guys? I think a great fit for BH would be A&M Consol. coach Brendan Schmidt. Did a heck of a job at Prosper in a good district while he was outgunned and has Consol. rolling. Has done it at different places with talent comparable to what BH has in the class but no titles.

TW went 14-1 the year after Murray retired. That 16-0 team had like 5 NFL guys in it so he probably does the same. Murray gets a lot of the credit but his best coaching job was probably his 2008 title team were he came to Houston and beat a sick FB Hightower team with the 5A player of the year.

Even though some Crosby coaches think this stuff, why in the heck would you post that in a public forum? Coach P's post has almost 5k views so you know a bunch of other coaches around the state have seen it. Imagine being a 5A coach from some random area in the state and reading one of the reasons another 5A program is struggling is because "there were 11 players being recruited" on the team you've just been hired to coach? I'd imagine there's bunch of coaches around the state who read that and moved Crosby up their job list. Then you complain about resources when you're the 6th highest paid high school football coach in the 4th largest metro area in the country? This is what happens when you try to hire a name instead of hiring a coach who fits your personnel/community. Willis thinking Crosby High School was anything like Cedar Park or even Colleyville Heritage is all the more reason he should've never been hired in the first place. He's asking us to basically change our community to fit his style of coaching instead of adapting to what he has to work with like the previous guys.

They've lost a lot of people, and they're not "good" with is which is why a coach responded to a post a parent(me) made which had nothing to do with them.

Coach P calling bovine fertilizer:

According to the staff, this is why Crosby has won 7 games in two years and can’t beat Dayton: 1. The previous coaches won too many games 2. Too many kids being recruited before they got here 3. Not enough kids/talent to beat the team we were beating before they got here 4. Too many parents call them out for losing 5. We need more money to score an offensive TD against Angleton This is why the program is currently a joke. New AD shows up and tells Crosby we need to be something we’ve never been for him to win. If someone that works for me told the that I would fire them and get someone else in there that didn’t think the job was “over valued”. Smh