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I think Katy is going to have trouble in D1 with North Shore, The Woodlands, Pearland, Dickinson, Cy-Ranch and maybe even Cinco Ranch from their own district. I think it will take a year for them to get the defense back to suffocation status but you never know? I definitely think they get one with Glass and I also think he'll finally be the highly rated Katy back that produces in college comparable to his star rating coming out of high school.

6A-D1 - Trinity over Katy 6A-D2 - Desoto over Cibolo Steele 5A-D1 - Denton Ryan over Cedar Park Well . . . . Y'all knew it was coming. 5A-D2 - Crosby over Aledo

Great discussion, being an Econimics major I have some different view points I would like to discuss in this forum but I never have before and won't anymore. Politics makes you lose friends, lol. Hopefully this kind of stuff ends in my lifetime, have a good one and peace out.

All in all what you just said is that you're scared which is my point. You're scared and nervous when you show up before even knowing the situation and you end up acting accordingly which is exactly what you're trained NOT to do. My wife smarted off because there was another white couple smoking cigarettes on the other side of the garage and he never stopped to mess with them, she never used one profane word but she did bring up their race in which his comment was "well maybe YOU shouldn't be here." Which is when I stood up empty-handed, tired of walking all day and annoyed he was bothering us. No matter how I stood up he was going to interpret like I could beat his ass, which I easily could've in a different setting. No taser, no mace, no radio, just instant fear and hand straight to the weapon. Thats weak as hell and you're weak as hell too. You're exactly the type guy that doesn't need a badge or gun but exactly the type guy that gets them sometime. I guess that's what makes America great though, we can all believe whatever makes us feel good.

One of my best friends live in north Dallas and told me there are people supporting the killer, some have R.I.P signs. It's ridiculous. I think his is what 300 years of systematic racism looks like as it comes to the point of a near civil insurrection though. My surname is a Louisiana slave name from circa 1718 in the New Orleans area. My grandma will tell you we arrived in chains, broke free of those so they lassoed us and hung us from trees, cut down the trees so they put up a fence(Jim Crow/segregation), jumped over the fence and now we're too close to the porch so they shoot us for being on their property. All of this takes place over a quarter-millennium but we're truly only given 50 years to juxtapose the position for fear of being seen as lazy or a drain on society. That's a tough ask for a group of people that were legally devoid of any education or financial holdings for the first couple of centuries of their "immigration" if that's what you want to call it. I don't support the BLM movement at all, more black people are killed on the south side of Chicago every year than the police could ever kill in that time frame. I already knew but the information BigDog posted is good too. Questionable killings have been going on since Reconstruction, now we just have cell phone cameras to record them. When you still have people that vividly remember police officers being involved in things like the murders of the Freedom Riders or can recall times they were hosed down for trying to organize voters I think those types of incidents mixed with what's going on today will create a radical culture for some, such as the guy last night, to identify with.

Yeah, it even hit here too. One of the slain officers was our defensive coordinator's brother.

I don't. I'm of the opinion that if a black guy shot 9 people worshiping in a church in the south that he would have killed being taken into custody, no matter what his actions were. Then there would have been a "fact" justifiable in your eyes for him to be killed. Same as the way you obviously feel there was a fact that's got Mike Brown killed, he roughed some people up prior and was probably a thug but a trained professional officer should be able to handle that situation without using his weapon on an unarmed man. You probably also feel there was a "fact" that got the 17 year old killed after being shot 16 times with the gunfire being initiated by an officer who was on the scene less than 30 seconds. It's not rocket science man. I have a good buddy at work who used to be a cop and still volunteers in Chambers County sometime. I told him about a time I got pulled over on the way back from New Orleans by a DPS officer in which he made me get out of the car for a speeding ticket. The officer cuffed me for "his safety" while he ran my information. He gave me a warning for doing 5 over and told me they had been having problems wit guys running drugs on that stretch of I-10 as he uncuffed me. My buddy said that was completely the wrong way for the cop to go about it then said, "the bleeped up part about it is I would've probably done the same thing given the situation." I had on a muscle shirt, I have several tattoos and I bench press a little over 400lbs. He admitted there's an intimidation factor. Something similar happened to me this past weekend while at the Essence Festival. I was staying at the Westin on Canal street and from about the 7th floor in our parking garage there was a good view overlooking the Harrah's casino. My wife was standing taking pictures and I was sitting in front of her tired on one of those parking blocks. This officer kept rolling by and she mentioned "I bet he thinks we're not supposed to be here". I told her he was doing his job, then he stops and gets out of the car. He asks us what we're doing here, just like she mentioned. I was pissed, one because she was right and two because the guy was now obviously just messing with us because we didn't fit the profile of who should be there. I was going to let him pass because I've dealt with stuff like that before but my wife sort of smarted off and he said a few more things so I stood up off the parking block somewhat agitated but far from aggressive. He immediately started studdering, unstrapped his weapon, and kept his hand on it. No doubt in my mind I get shot even if I do so much as reach for my wife's hand to tell her let's go. I smiled, shook my head and said "chill man, I'm about to walk over to the elevator, we're staying on the 28th floor and here's my key." His whole tone changed, he said "Aw man there's no problem, have a good time." The problem isn't that the officer stopped, we're too far gone as a society to change that. The problem is that you don't see a problem with what he did in the first place. A situation where I could've easily been killed by a nervous cop and a situation you would've never had to deal with.

I don't think there are many moderate Americans in SETX to begin with. It's heavily conservative and then there's just the "other side". I do somewhat agree with what the gist of your point is though, and that's coming from a guy who had his uncle hung for wearing his military uniform. It's pretty sad JFK gets killed in the segregated southern city of Dallas for supporting legislation which is basically a synonym for the current BLM movement, then over a half century later 5 police officers get killed right up the street in the same city for the same legislation Kennedy died behind not being ratified. The moderate Americans you speak of realize there's a problem when a guy can kill 9 people worshiping in a church and the police do everything possible to bring him into custody alive, yet a guy gets killed on camera with his daughter in the back seat and we "have to wait on facts." I'll continue to wait and be moderate for the 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown vs Board of Education that says "separate is inherently unequal" to come to fruition . . . Others won't.

I mean, that's kind of a solid post. You're going in way too much on Harrison but I think you hit every other topic squarely. I think you're going to find that against 5A level competition, all of a sudden he'll be a lot better coach in your eyes. I think the hire from the Crosby staff will also help out. As far as the other topic it's funny how you mention the things you did about the teams you did. Make a long story short we talked about different views and expectations in different places. The crescendo to the conversation was how many places in Texas, much less SETX, would basically run two coaches out of town after going to the playoffs for 12 consecutive years if you combine the end of the two tenures. It's exactly what Crosby and Dayton did, I think that says a lot about how winning is defined in different places which reverts back to your post, minus the Harrison stuff which I don't agree with.

The recent data says otherwise but this look like a year 22-5A is pretty close. 21-5A's strength will be solely dependent on how well Humble, New Caney and Kingwood Park perform.

Grace looking nice in preparation for his last year as a Crosby Cougar before he suits up for the UH Cougars in '17:

Crosby QB interview :

I didn't realize the other one was old yet, but we have a new, bigger and better replay board going up replacing the old one. There will also be endzone bleachers which I would imagine brings the stadium capacity pretty close to 10,000. As far as single high school districts go, I think it's going to be pretty hard to compete with Crosby's facilities once everything is finished.

There are guys that are known for hitting hard and there are guys that deliver what I like to call "decision makers". Meaning after he hits you, you have to decide rather or not you would like to continue playing football. He's already rated as the #55 overall CB prospect in the country and most likely a couple of inches away height-wise from being a national recruit like Netherly and Williams. Either way I know there are a lot of backs and receivers that will be glad this is Taylor Perry's last year terrorizing 21-5A: [Hidden Content]

. . . . And if he's healthy I think Dayton will be trending up towards the end of the season. I just worry the same thing with Nations not calling plays might effect him too since he basically hasn't taken any qb reps for two years. Offense wasn't really the problem anyway though, Dayton has always seemed to be able to scheme up points on you. Their problem the last few years has been stopping the other team's offnse.

Lol, yeah if that's how you want to look at it. With Splendora, Porter and Caney Creek in the district I would imagine y'all only need two legit wins to get in the dance. Hopefully y'all find some physicality so we can get back to tag teaming Mid-County like we're supposed to.

Newton wins title over Canadian is their prediction.

They only ranked 4A-D1out to 20 teams. BC not in the rankings.

22-5A 1. Nederland 2. PA Memorial 3. PNG 4. Central 5. Lumberton 6. Vidor 7. Ozen 8. Livingston 9. Lee What enrollment number did Central turn in this year? According to this prediction they would go D2 with 1,471.

21-5A predicted order of finish 1. Crosby 2. Dayton 3. New Caney 4. Kingwood Park 5. Humble 6. Barbers Hill 7. Porter 8. Splendora 9. Caney Creek

Per Ole Dave: Crosby - D2 regional champs over College Station. Preseason #11 in the state. Nobody else from SETX ranked in top 40.

Please don't. Other than Vidor there's no group of fans I love to rib more than PNG. The more you troll me the more I'll be able to respond and not have it seen as going out of my way to talk down on a squad. It will be especially fun this year because I know PNG has no chance to do anything significant outside of beating 4A Silsbee or finishing in 4th place and getting back-stroked by Crosby in bi-district. Keep the faith though Stat, we lose in the second round and I still do.

It doesn't even matter Cal. Last SETX team Crosby lost to was Nederland in 2012 and it will be more of the same this year. Everybody has something to say until they get hit in the mouth, then the conversation switches to "Well, they didn't blow us out" or "We played 'em tough". Like Red Dawn said, "We just play them when they show up." . . . . and stack up W's

Did you think you were the favorite??? Y'all finished 3rd or 4th three years in a row now, that's not a farfetched prediction.

He's a o-lineman that will play center for us next year. The Oliver boys' transfer situation taught me not to count him until he's on the field against Manvel though.