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'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.

Better not go too far down that road. 11-1 and 5-7 are equal on this board because both teams won only one playoff game, ask around. People here seem to forget that if you can win all the games on your schedule you have a lot better chance of winning the ones that aren't. Here you can lose 42-0 to a 4A squad two classes below you and still be considered a contender in a 5A district.

That's what I was basically asking. Dayton had qb issues the last couple of years but was still able to pass and rush for over 2,300 yards both seasons creating a pretty balanced attack. I know we always crack jokes about the slant and the bubble screen but they were very effective in producing points, have they gone away from those types of plays? The film I see looks like Dayton is pretty much running the same offense as the last decade.

There's a chasm between blind faith and optimism, glad to see you still have both.

Tough to envision KP beating anybody other than Porter and Caney Creek this year. For whatever reason Crosby always seemed to have trouble with Kingwood Park, especially at Turner. Before the season I would've said KP is probably the only other playoff lock besides Crosby but they seem to be going backward under the new regime, I figured at least the offense would be potent after some of the flashes they showed last year.

The only thing I can figure out is that we needed special teams practice. Otherwise it's a little concerning not to be able to directional kick on the varsity level. Probably could've kicked to the guys on the front row and gave up less return yards.

I think BH stomps a gas pocket in KP this week, which is sad because Crosby really needed KP to be good this year. I don't think BH gives KP any break at all, anything closer than 3 tds and I would be surprised. I think BH is a lot like NC where their coaches are trying to build swagger, if they get a chance to put a number on you they probably will. Looks like BH made the right hire, Westeberg just needs a few more playmakers like Langelier. I will now be cheering for Humble instead of against BH.

What do you feel in your opinion has happened to Dayton's offensive execution? I never got the offseason hype about the new coach but hasn't he gotten a lot more kids to come play in the program? Defensive issues can usually be solved with the extra depth but right now it doesn't seem like Dayton is as good on either side of the ball as they were last year with less depth. I've said many time on here that no matter the personnel Dayton has always been able to scheme up points on you, maybe the Bronco faithful took that for granted?

With Splendora coming in undefeated and after losing by 34 at home to BH, I think Central's loss and the way they lost to Vidor was more surprising. 22-5A folks may think Nederland is good but after Dayton almost lost to them I thought they would have trouble in district play. I still expect Central to somewhat contend for a playoff spot but I think Dayton will lose their next three games and start 0-4 in district play and 1-5 overall with that lone win being over Nederland.

No, I'm saying Splendora just looked like the better team in general and that shouldn't have been the case. I said it's even more amazing because Splendora didn't have an athletic or scheme advantage, they just took a rudimentary offense and put 30+ on Dayton while Dayton also struggled with a defense they should have been able to run through. There's a reason Splendora was picked for their homecoming.

Yeah, they miss on a lot of stuff but that also the place where Crosby has their most up to date UIL stats versus the ones reported by the Chronicle. Maxpreps has stats on any of our players that even register one carry.

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Y'all are going to have to regroup quick. Luckily y'all have Humble next week even though it's in Turner, I think it's going to be pretty bad against New Caney and BH the next couple of weeks after that. Dayton loses this week and they're probably in a situation where that have to go 4-0 to finish district with one of those being Crosby on the road. The whole stadium at the BH vs Crosby game Ooohhh'd when they announced y'all's score at our game.

Can look at Evan Nichols' highlights of his 300+ yard rushing performance versus Dayton. Looking at it on film it's even more amazing Dayton lost this one: [Hidden Content]-(splendora,tx)/football/home.htm *You can look at Emmet Champagne's highlights to see some of Dayton's offense.

Surprising start to the season with Dayton and Kingwood Park not looking to be what people expected. Splendora is undermanned but game and may be 21-5A's new version of Vidor. New Caney looks like they'll be fought to keep below 40 and Crosby looks like Crosby. Humble lost Terio Brown for the year and subsequently lost to Huffman afterwards but they have a big chance to move to 2-0 in district play with a home win against Dayton his week. I would have it like this right now: 1. Crosby 2. New Caney 3. Barbers Hill 4. Humble/Splendora 5. Splendora/Humble 6. Dayton 7. Porter 8. Kingwood Park 9. Caney Creek *I think Splendora's next three games against will decide a lot for the district.

Yeah, there's a good chance they start off 0-4 in district play. This week against Humble is their best chance with New Caney and BH coming up after that.

I was using the Maxpreps site and they had the schedule wrong, they still have Crosby's wrong now that I look at some of them. BH has a chance to get a couple of easy ones with Kingwood Park and Caney Creek before they play Dayton in a few weeks.