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That's odd, they just called me and said to come pick up Dayton's bronco because it would be inhumane to have to watch the team anymore.

Hey man, as long as y'all have a strong JV it's all good. I predict Dayton misses the playoffs all together before Crosby loses in the first round though. I'm probably a little better at predictions than you since all of yours have been wrong so far as it pertains to the varsity program. You're right though, after going 11-0 it did take one of those SW Houston squads to beat us. There's a reason Ridge Point will go undefeated in the regular season and be the D1 #1 seed from the Fort Bend district this year. It's fine that we suck and are average at best, but you just downgraded your program as well as all the other 5A programs in SETX. Really the whole Houston area because other than Manvel, Crosby sits at #2 in all categories of current 5A teams.

So wait? You're an Aledo fan that lives in the DFW, has contacts in Cedar Park and knows the ins and outs of SETX football and can make predictions on Crosby?

You have to take into consideration who they've played though. I don't think many people thought Central's defense was good, just one of the better ones in 22-5A. Didn't expect them to blow Central out but I think it just says more about Central than it does about Vidor. Vidor had their opportunity to be taken seriously and was a late 3rd quarter td from getting shut out and beat by 40 at home. Splendora is still Splendora, they just caught the worst version of Dayton in probably 15 years. They'll be blown out multiple times this year just like Vidor would if they had different teams on their schedule.

Not really, but this is what you guys will look like after we leave town

C'mon dude!!!! Vidor over Barbers Hill????????????? They freaking lost to BH by 5 tds at home man, smh. How y'all got voted in front of those guys is pretty unexplainable. Vidor loses by 34 at home to BH, BH loses by 24 on the road to Crosby, both have the same record and Vidor gets put in front. I really hope we get y'all this year, looking forward to some 56-14 action in bi-district. You're the one that need to let 2011 go, but you can't because it's your only first round win in 51 years.

We're not Dayton man. When it's 35-7 in the second quarter you're going to wish somebody was there to separate us.

Floor mean that's the least you're expected to do. Crosby has only lost one first round game the last 8 years, if Dayton doesn't go to your district for a couple of years it would be one in 10. That's what floor means, the worst anybody expect Crosby to do is get to the second round. I have to compare us to teams from south or southwest Houston and central Texas because nobody over here compares. Hence the ever present "We can't beat you but those guys over there can" comments.

We talk about it all the time at the games. We worry about certain positions every year and end up being just fine, more often than not having all-district players at those positions. Last year for me it was Nathan White who I saw dominate Texas Tech signee Travis Bruffy at times in the Ridge Point game. Now we have a young QB coming through the system who's probably going to be the equivalent of Aaron Sharp at Summer Creek.

Dayton loses this one and there's about a 75% chance they don't make the playoffs this year. Dayton would be down a tie-breaker to both Splendora and Humble with NC, BH and Crosby all left on the schedule. Assuming Splendora falls back to what we think they are, Humble would just have to win two more games at that point with 0-3 KP and 1 win Porter left to play.

I'll just pick the home team in this one. Humble's offense is so inept at times it's hard to get a hold on them from week to week. They had a head-scratcher their first game without Terio Brown against Huffman but I think defensively they're better than Splendora. Offensively they're going to struggle throwing the ball but Splendora put up 473 total yards on Dayton with only 3 pass completions for 36 yards so that might not be an issue. I think qb Xavier Martin and rb Jay'shaun Anderson both rush for over 100 yards in a close game. Have to roll with Humble in this one, I think their defense makes a couple more plays than Dayton's does.

Again? What was I wrong about the first time? Please don't tell me anything about Dayton's JV, KP's JV ran through everybody last year and they're 0-3 right now. Crosby's jv barely wins any games yet the varsity averages over 10 wins per season under Riordan.

Probably won't even suit out Thursday, Crosby will be resting several starters this game and into the bye week. I would imagine Riordan just cuts the young qb loose and let him light Porter up while Crosby tries to get out healthy.

Experience and tradition is one thing, having better players is another which Waxahachie has over HP right now. It was basically "we have one of the best receivers in the country and you can't stop him" which is why Reagor had over 200 yards receiving and 3tds on HP. Randy Allen probably doesn't have much or a coaching advantage over Jon Kitna either. We'll see with LS this week, Ryan has had to come back after half in every game they played so far including Lancaster. Lancaster gave up 35 and only scored 23 on Ryan, LS lights up the scoreboard this week on Ryan and I think they have to be the clear cut favorite in D2 for that region.

Yeah, but I would say of the three schools smaller than Crosby Dayton probably has the least chance of getting in. Splendora probably only needs three more wins to get in and have games against Caney Creek, KP and Porter who have a combined 2 wins right now.

Yeah, and they still beat Vidor by 34 in Vidor. You just said a lot about 22-5A.

'Hachie already beat Highland Park and just beat Ennis 50-20, I think D1R2 definitely goes through them. Lone Star scores so many points it's hard to see Lancaster beating them unless they can get 50-60 on them. As far as Calallen, I'm still not sold on them but it's nobody down there in region 4 to beat them. Foster is definitely the region 4 D1 favorite but don't be surprised if Foster beats Angleton in district play then loses to them in the regional final.

Dayton being in or out of the playoffs has a lot to do with how Crosby's post-season goes. Dayton wins and they push the other small schools out of contention letting Crosby go D2 where they would be the favorite to win the region. Other small schools piling up wins against Dayton sends us D1 with all the 2000s like it did in '09. Good luck to you guys against Humble this week too, y'all will definitely need it because you're going to get rolled at home by New Caney next week.

I'm concerned about the strength of the district. I listened to you guys all Summer about how great the move to fire Hancock was, now you're about to start 1-5 or 2-4 at best. An ex-Dayton school board member told me Dayton only lost by 12 but it should've been worse, in five years I don't think Hancock ever had a loss considered to be as bad. I said Nations hadn't coached in five years and you told me how good Dayton looked leading up to the season. I'm just saying Dayton fans wanted Hancock out because of what their perception of their program was after Stewart, now they're even further away from what they used to be with other schools in the district trending upwards.

Manvel moves up to two spots to take over #1, Crosby up one spot to #9: [Hidden Content] *Georgetown, College Station and Fort Bend Marshall are a combined 9-0 and will all be in D2 region three playoffs.

Only issue is that Broncos are horses. Serious question for Dayton fans: Do you go after ex-Navasota coach Lee Fedora if Dayton misses the playoffs this year, I'm sure Dayton could pay what it takes. Or do you take the wait and see approach and risk the possibility of missing the playoffs consecutive years in hopes the hometown guy can rebuild the program? Dayton is senior heavy this year and looks like they do, next year it probably gets worse with a younger team.

21-5A is rb heavy this year: Craig Williams(Crosby) - #3 APB in the 2018 class Carlos Grace(Crosby) - UH commit Terio Brown(Humble) - 8 FBS offers but tore ACL and done for the year after being a 4 year starter Marte Allison(New Caney) - D1 back averaging over 100ypg so far Evan Nichols(Splendora) - May be leading the state of Texas in 5A rushing at this point, leader for district MVP so far Probably have to go with Nichols averaging over 250ypg *Just for note: Ex. 21-5A back Trey Williams rushed for 99 yards in his freshman debut at A&M. Austin Walter had a 38 yard td run for Rice and looks to be moving into the lead back role if he can improve his pass protection a little more.

Crosby plays Porter this week so it's probably obvious what people would say in a thread. I just wanted to highlight that Netherly probably won't play until sometime after the bye meaning the sophomore Jaiden Howard will most likely make his first varsity start Thursday night. I know talent is supposed to be cyclical but Crosby has been fortunate to have a plethora of talent over the years. The young qb is the next man up, I expect him to be in consideration for power 5 conference offers by the end of his junior season. He had nearly 300 total yards in relief duty against BH, I wouldn't be surprised if he throws for 300 alone against Porter this week.

That's exactly what I mean. You honestly believe Nederland is on par with Crosby because they lost in the same round. Crosby lost their first non-district game since 2012 and their record after one week was 0-1, end of story. I was being facetious after they beat North Shore. Mouse's comments related to mindset, which I can clearly see you putting a 42-0 loss to WOS in the same category as a 14 point loss to a team that's beat two top ten teams from 6A by a combined 40 points. Think about it, people make second round comments in regards to Crosby because that's what they expect to be our floor. They don't even give y'all that much credit. I think 11-1 proves a lot. It means the first 11 out of 11 times our coaches had our players more prepared to play than the other team's coaches did versus the one time we weren't ready to play against the state-semifinalist who's about to go undefeated in 6A this year.

There are about 10-15 schools around the state like WOS, Newton, North Shore, etc. that really don't play by the same rules as everybody else because of their talent level comparable to the classification. GR was similar when they were in 5A the past four years before they went to 6A. SETX used to be a talent hotbed, changing economics and a contracting population caused that not to be the case anymore even though they still produce studs. It's hard to compare schools that can have a successful program in a variety of different way to ones that have to follow a specific outline to produce similar results.