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I think New Caney loses to BH and Crosby. I actually think Crosby goes in and makes a statement the last game before the playoffs, Riordan will be reminding them they lost last time they were on that field.

23-114 with one TD rushing, 5 receptions for 44 yards. 31 total touches for 158 yards and one TD, 5 yards per touch. Craig Williams as a freshman, 16-148 and two tds. Grace 7-67 and three tds.

You'll find out what's it's all about Friday night. When we went to the semis not one kid signed D1 after the season. The D1 kids raise the level of the kids around them. We have studs but you'll understand our overall player development mixed with the drastic difference in coaching is the difference in our programs now.

Please tell me what night McBride was ever unstoppable against Crosby? Unstoppable is one Twin running for 240 and the other running for 268, not getting stopped on fourth and short your senior year.

When the same coach runs the same system and uses the same in-game theories you get very similar results with the only usual delta from season to season being talent. That's why Kevin Flannigan can take 5A Crosby to the playoffs seven years in a row and still get basically fired after a first round loss to Vidor, even though two years prior he was undefeated district champ and lost by 7 in the third round. He goes to 6A WB and has them undefeated before he gets beat 72-7 which along with stuff like that first round loss explains why he was let go st Crosby. Same coach, basically the same system and same result relative to his team's talent level in the district. Look at Fairclothe's record at PNG, which I'm sure you don't know, and you'll see exactly what I mean. I probably think he's a better coach than some PNG fans even do but if you look at his squads yearly they're pass happy with defenses that are proven soft against good teams. I saw PNG play twice last year and give up a combined 90 points after they had a supposedly decent defense. As far as who's on the team and different players you sound like a BH fan. How many letterman did PNG bring back? Half those same kids are on the team. It's stupid logic to compare pro teams with yearly draft picks and free agents to ones with set enrollment caps and very little variation in talent level too. Unless you have a rapidly climbing enrollment, which PNG doesn't, you look the same with the exception of a kid here or there. You probably haven't been watching high school football much before your brother got here so you don't realize you've played an extremely weak schedule which is why Nederland is in the hunt after losing to 2-5 Dayton.

I don't think Porter will beat Splendora by more than New Caney did. Splendora isn't good but New Caney's defense is their offense. It doesn't matter what offense you run, if you run it well you can probably put points on NC. Splendora ran it but can't make wide open catches or hit open receivers so they only ended up with 29, they probably get close to 40 if they could complete forward passes off their playaction. Dayton scored 26 throwing at least 4 picks that I saw but had receivers and rbs running open down the field but didn't have the coaching to get it to them. I think Porter will try to shorten the game and grind the clock against NC but I would imagine both teams score in the 40's when BH and NC play. Porter is probably about to blow Splendora out though, it's going to be hard to beat a Jim Holley coached team running that offense.

Same coaching and finesse mentality though. Score will probably look similar.

Lol, PAM has been dealing with Jalen Hurts(Alabama), Maciah Long(Kansas) and Austin Upshaw(Memphis) the last few years in district play. The talent level those kids had around them also dwarfed anything PNG could ever hope to have. I'm sure they're relieved they get to deal with Johnson.

My point is Howard is playing behind an LSU commit and getting looks from reserve time, Johnson is the actual starter and gets to put up numbers. Howard will also benefit from having better coaching and players around him to raise his level of play once he's the full time starter. Johnson is pretty good from what I've seen on film though. Definitely going to be a lot better qb that Morse was.

Maybe McZeal isn't the receiver Rose was but when last time we played PNG a kid named Aaron Brown, who's one of the better JUCO corners in the country, manned him up. This kid was supposed to be a huge difference maker and put up some numbers when Brown got hurt but even though he had about 20 targets he didn't make a real difference and it hurt PNG's offense, I remember the starting rb getting pulled for ineffectiveness because we didn't have to respect the pass with your biggest threat cancelled out. If PAM comes out ready to play I think PNG gives up their usual 40+ they do to good teams and PAM wins by two or three scores.

Ah man, what happened? You were all over this board earlier this year talking about what Dayton was going to do, now you're saying you want to be like Porter. Crosby has lost one game at home in the last five years, I highly doubt a squad coming in giving up 45 a night will be the one to get the second W in that span. Your program is weak and will get worse once the attrition starts from losing and judging the talent level I've seen in the lower classes. Like the previous Crosby poster said, make sure you keep count of what the two SEC level players in the backfield do that didn't play against Porter. To make it even worse, once the LSU commit is done playing qb we have a sophomore ready to step in and set passing records. Can't think of another school besides Manvel and Guyer recently where the sophomore backup qb is already so highly thought of in recruiting circles that he gets a recruiting page six games into the season: Jaiden Howard - [Hidden Content]

I understand that you have to stoop to pretty low depths to be contacting kids during the season but I wonder what the end game is IMG? Just to be able to say we're the best at getting kids ready for college? You don't even have a chance to win a state title at IMG and if you have good crowd at one of the home games you might get 1,000 people. How does IMG actually benefit if the athletes are recruited and go to school for free? Do they feel they can steer kids towards their sports agency once they're able to turn pro? I guess if kids are willing to leave Allen's program there must be something to it though.

Low class coaches at IMG academy trying to recruit Craig Williams during the season. Hopefully it never happens again, I think Texas high schools have stopped scheduling IMG due to crap like this:

PAM is only giving up 12 points per game so far this year. I think their overall team talent dwarfs anything PNG will be able to put on the field. Last week I think it was hard for them to get up for a team that doesn't move the needle, I highly doubt that's the case Friday. Last four times I've gotten to see PNG play they've given up between 41-56 points. The numbers may say otherwise but I still think the defense lacks physicality that PAM will be able to exploit, I feel the same way about the offensive run game for PNG against good teams. Indians are going to have to shoot this one out, unfortunately it will probably end like Wounded Knee.

After Vidor was blown out by the second good team they played you are going to vote BH ahead of Vidor while dropping the Pirates out of the top 10, correct?

So if Dayton's JV loses to Crosby do you still feel like Dayton will be back in full force competing for district championships again next year at the varsity level? I'm just wondering since most of the young studs are already on varsity getting experience at other schools and Dayton is loaded with seniors but still 2-5 playing against them.

Riordan took a program that had been to the playoffs 7 years in a row, improved the off season, made some coaching changes and put some expectations in place that immediately made Crosby a better program. The exact same thing is being done in BH, and I mean verbatim. Dayton and Kingwood Park are the two schools that hired the hometown OC and are a combined 2-11 right now. All Dayton did was change the head coach, all of his buddies got to keep their jobs. If anyone knows you don't have to run a team into the ground to rebuild it, it's me . . . . and BH fans . . . . and Porter fans. I'm one of the few people that actually does degenerate stuff like re-watch other teams' games from the district or go to them on our bye weeks. Your team is just poorly coached now, IDK why after a full offseason and three quarters of the way through the regular season you're having a hard time coming to terms with that? I've stated more than once that there's a big difference between optimism and blind faith. I think you're eaten up with the latter of the two. For years Dayton dominated because they had a legend on the sideline. When you look around the district there's not a single thing you can point to going on at Dayton right now that should make you feel like Dayton is going to be a force again, especially starting next year. Luckily the kid missed the field goal in Nederland, otherwise you would be 1-7 after this week and Nations would be coaching for his job next season. That's if he isn't already. Then again, I haven't heard any innuendo tying him to embezzlement so his win/loss record might not matter.

When you can look right next door to Crosby and BH and see the immediate difference new coaching hires have made, or look at what a first year coach is doing at perennial cellar dweller Porter, you're going to have some people with some heartburn when a guy turns a 20 year playoff streak into a 2-5 start. Some people can see it's more than an offensive adjustment here or a personnel adjustment there, unfortunately you aren't one of those.

I think it's going to look like the BH and New Caney games. This kids at Crosby will be fired up to extend the streak to four, once again you'll see the coaching deficiencies Dayton fans were so excited to get.

New Caney can still lose and go into the last game with a chance to be district champs if other things happen. I think BH will be able to manufacture enough rushing yards for their offense to be effective. BH's defensive staff seems to be able to take away what teams do best, I think they'll do a good job against the zone read and the direct snap to Allison. New Caney's passing game is potent but it's simplistic. It basically consist of verticals and a run-pass-option or screen to the multi receiver side. Very effective but I think BH will defend it well enough to to make it a last team with the ball wins type situation. An interesting stat from the Porter vs Dayton game was that Porter scored 44 points on only 46 total offensive plays, that game with Holley coaching will be a lot tougher than you think. They also scored all those points with only 8 rushing yards as a team.

Yeah, one home loss in five years under Riordan. Lost to Summer Creek the Twins junior year. I don't think that streak is in trouble until Manvel comes to town to start the season next year.

I think BH is going to beat both New Caney and Porter. If we have a three way tie I think it's going to be between Porter, Crosby and Barbers Hill.

What do you expect? Your squad is 2-5 and coming off three straight L's where you've given up at least 42 points. Now you're talking about coming in and playing enough defense to slow down a team that won 64-0 last week. Not to mention it's the toughest environment in the district. I know it's a rivalry game and anything can happen but I think you're going to be riding back down 90 feeling like you're firmly supplanted in third place in the Crosby, Dayton, BH trio. After this group of seniors graduates and you're left to play those undefeated jv kids that can't help you from going 2-5 now, it will be a distant third.

I think that's a pretty good score prediction. Dayton is giving up over 35 points per game on the season and they're giving up 45 per game over their last three so the defense s actually trending in the wrong direction. I would just like to see Crosby play clean and continue to improve in the running game like we have the last few weeks. We've also had one shaky defensive performance this year, it would be nice to come out of this game feeling great about that unit again. Long as we come out healthy and with a win I'll be able to accept how ever the aesthetics may look though.

Lol, way to be a trooper. Missing two SEC caliber athletes in the backfield make a difference, along with other things that were going on but view it however you may though. Dayton is one of the teams in the district that people are padding their stats on this year. Why would kids from Dayton go up the street to Crosby? BH is the same distance away and kids have a better chance of playing.