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Correct. Y’all will luck up and get Texas City this year. Barbers Hill is probably the second best team in our district though. After that you get PNG or Montgomery who aren’t on TH’a level either. You don’t have to worry about a crop-dusting from Crosby or FB Marshall until the regional final.

Nah bro, Nederland has more talent than PNG at every position group on the field other than QB and RB. PNG has less talent than KP this year. You’re right though, Ned had the 3rd or 4th most talent in the district and finished in a clear cut 6th.

I’ve seen your 7th and 8th grade A&B teams. I’ve seen your 9th grade team get destroyed. Your jv barely beat Crosby and we have 12 sophomores playing up. Only two of the stud kids I’m talking about BH has is 7th-11th grade are black. Not a single one of the stud kids I just named in the past four years at BH were black. I have sons who’ve played against every kid from BH the last 10 years except the current 8th and 9th graders. I’ve watched 10 times the BH underclass games you have the past decade. How am I biased against BH when I picked y’all second in the district? You get butt hurt because your team continues to underachieve and I point it out, not because I’m being any of the stuff you accuse me of. This is the most talent BH has ever had and you’re going to finish 4th, screw who the coaching is. Prieto had us in the second round in a shootout with the regional finalist at the end of his first season. Unless you feel like you can go to the state finals next year your point is moot anyway. Good luck to y’all too. I think BH is the only team besides Crosby that would have a chance against FBM.

If BH would’ve beaten Crosby your season wouldn’t have exceeded expectations, you would’ve still lost those other games and finished third which is right about where TW averaged. In a transition year you should trend upwards, the high point in BH’s season was in September. I agree with all that other stuff you said, I personally think we’re too soft on the player critiques at times. As far as the optimism down the road though IDK? Yeah, y’all are going to have Herndon and Dixon for the next couple of years but BH doesn’t have any skill players close to that until all the way down in 7th grade and the best one is going to be 5’6” when he’s in high school. Y’all have some studs sprinkled through a few classes but after this senior class graduates y’all don’t have near the talent 7th-11th that you did these past four years. That was a solid run of Cauthen, Kapoua, Holdren, not to mention have Hagler as a three year starter. I’m just saying that Abseck could do just a good a or maybe even better than TW and end up with the same record.

One thing about our kids is that they always believe thy can beat you. Crosby probably has only two or three personal fouls the entire year. As far as turnovers we got our 20th takeaway last night, our starters have probably only turned it over 4 or 5 times on the season themselves. One of the reasons Crosby is having success is because we’re already pretty good at that stuff you listed.

We had a down year in ‘18, missed the playoffs for the only time in the last 17 years. Went .500 in ‘19. Long as we’re healthy and stay out of financial trouble this the “un-down year” times. Doesn’t matter if we get moved up, Manvel and Cedar Park would be the only perennial powers left in the region to compete with.

Hopefully we don’t have to make you wait longer than December 18th

You’re welcome. We did keep it classy. Ned’s whole team stood on their logo and didn’t move for the team handshake after the game. We were going to dance on it but decided not to. Instead we just jumped around with the trophy on side of y’all while Barrow tried to explain to the team why they finished 6th.

I think Dunn being hurt was a big part big go look at some of those drops we had at the beginning of the game. We felt like Chris Marshall was handling us because we weren’t scoring. It was 14-9 at the end of the 3rd quarter when he got ejected, we probably should’ve had 23 points at that time. When Marshall got ejected and they started going to #3 their offense got harder to stop. Marshall can get his but I don’t think Banks is good enough to beat us from the pocket. He’s Jamar Sanders with more speed but a worse arm. If we can manage those three interior o-linemen and not let Banks run wild then we should be good.

Good job, y’all didn’t get blown out. Crosby’s poor offensive execution at the beginning of the game and Ned playing not to get blown out allowed your fans to be ecstatic for a half. Crosby came out, scored 21 straight and the game was over. Crosby wins at Barbers Hill, at PNG and at Nederland while blowing the doors off everybody we play in The Jungle. We beat the 2nd and 3rd place teams by a combined 70. Congrats on Ned’s 6th place squad playing with a bunch of heart and keeping it interesting for a while their last time in Bulldog Stadium. At least you’re not mistaking it for being average like you did last year.

I agree our defense was a beast against what they did last year, but we were more size than speed in the front seven. This year it’s flipped and I think that’s a good thing for FBM’s qb run-first offense. I was rewatching the playoff run the other night and noticed we didn’t have a very good day offensively against FBM execution wise. I think this offense is set up a lot better to move the ball against them which is a matchup plus, last year we played the whole first half of the game on our side of the field.

Man, definitely wanted to avoid this one. PAM could’ve beaten Angleton in a tough defensive game because they’re offense isn’t that good. FBH can play defense AND score though. Turnovers and penalties can always play a role in outcomes but just playing straight up, FBH is a more complete football team than PAM is. I would probably have it FBH -13.5, that’s a rough loss to Friendswood.

He said the same thing last year. Actually he said we would lose in the second round. Then every round after that. We he’s failing to resize is that we match up a lot better this year with FBM than we did last year.

This is the 5th time since 2014 that Crosby has come into the last game of district play undefeated. This makes the 4th time we failed to bring the A-game to close the show. Fortunately Crosby is good enough this year that our B-game can beat most. Made us out healthy so that’s the biggest victory of the night. Great job tonight by Nederland’s 22 seniors, I believe? I say it all the time, more than any team Crosby plays on a regular basis Nederland is the team that gives Crosby the most fits. They did so tonight and I honestly didn’t expect anything less. I’m actually glad they made Crosby take it off cruise control.

Plus I already see eight opt-ups to 5A-D1 which should push it even higher than it would go naturally. Looks like we're in prime stalking position for the next couple of years.

Picture of Ned team dinner this morning:

PAM is going to get Angleton in the first round. Last couple times Crosby played Angleton it was 38-15 and 34-0, one of those years they went to the regional final. The way we did Angleton earlier this year in a scrimmage is the main reason I thought Crosby would be as good as we are right now. Manvel just beat Paetow and is probably the best team is that district. We lost to them by 14 at Iowa Colony this year. We kicked the ball into the back of our own lineman and gave up a cheap TD when we were about to go into the half with a lead, then we miss three WIDE open tds in the passing game. We weren’t playing at near the level we are now. Really doesn’t matter now though with Paetow and Hightower going 6A.

Probably so. I'd imagine Coach P and Coach Hurts are trying to work out a deal where we could send some kids over to our neighbors in Channelview and recount to make sure we stay D2. I heard Deer Park and La Porte are doing the same thing which is why they haven't turned in a number either.

Their neighbors just to the south in Plano should turn in an enrollment around 17,000 for a three high school district. Allen's neighbors to the west just opened their 12th 5A high school in a town with the land area the size of Crosby's attendance zone. Only thing comparable to the growth in north Dallas around the state are the Kay and Cy-Fair districts.

Yes, they do remember. Look for Crosby to try to win this one by 40+ and don't be surprised if the favor is returned after the game.

Y'all can probably get Friendswood by 30 but IDK about 20 on Angleton, especially coming off playing Paetow which is an excellent prep game for PAM. I would say the offensive edge goes to PA, the defensive edge goes to Angleton and the athleticism is a push. Angleton is probably more athletic than Hightower but just can't get consistent qb play. I think you're looking at a 20-24 type game that could go either way depending on a turnover or penalty, I don't think it'll be a blowout.

We were actually planning to come do some pre-game drinking at Texas Roadhouse instead of on I-10 this time. Putting Fuselier at RB does make it easier to get him the ball but I also think with Ned's offensive line play this year that it makes him easier to stop. Probably an odd statement since part of the reason Ned beat us last year was due to them being able to effect the pace of the game with Mazyck. Ned never has a "great" offense but they've always seemed to be able to manufacture points in the past but that's just not the case this year.

I doubt it. Those Marshall fans are pretty sensible. One of their fans wasn’t sure they wouldn’t struggle with Hallsville last week and when I asked that MavsChamp guy earlier in the year about their strength of their district he said TH was the only team he expected to make it out of the first round. I’m sure he would dead any banter by pointing out how they’ve played this year.

Lots of talk at the beginning of the season, from people not in the know, about Crosby not being as good as last year. Last year Crosby's average margin of victory in district play was 29.8ppg, this year it currently sits at 36.5ppg. Crosby will head to Nederland looking to cross the 400 point mark for the first time in a seven game district season. For reference, Crosby only scored 282 points in district play last year but did only give up a sick 10.3ppg on defense during that span. IMO we're a year ahead of where we were supposed to be due to the excellent job Crosby's staff has done with the talent they've been given. If Coach P can keep those guys together for the most part they're liable to build a juggernaut over the next 4-5 years with the high-level talent Crosby has coming through the program.

Their rushing attack is legit in HISD but they run a spread and their qb only has 365 passing yards on the year with a 1/1 TD-INT ratio. If you're not at least a threat to throw it in that style offense then Crosby is going to tee off on that run game. I doubt Madison scores while the starters are in and wouldn't at all be surprised if we did them like we did FB Willowridge in the first round last year.