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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.

LMAO, says the guy who literally hangs on every word I post. Y'all are 5-4 and a non-factor as usual, I promise you nobody is thinking about BH. That's why we're posting playoff threads talking about Madison, Marshall and FBM.

Yeah, spent way too much effort tryin to explain why we played down to BH that night. Looking at how there's a good chance BH will finish .500 or below, I don't think you can describe it as anything other than that. BH might finish the season without beating on playoff team outside of an HISD school.

I don't think Marshall's offense is very good so there's a chance we get Rudder in the second round. Would much rather to play Rudder since the game would probably be in Cypress versus a Marshall game probably all the way in Nac again.

Lol, Crosby had 16 first time starters. Eight on each side of the ball. Thank you so much for posting these stats and proving my point to the other Carthage guy. Carthage wins with defense. I don’t care who you had out, same way you feel about you guys is the same way I feel about Myles limping around for a whole half and having to play a backup, who’s not even the backup now, at times. Ask PA Memorial and Barbers Hill what it’s like like to face him in the second half while he’s upright? You don’t feel like it would’ve been close and neither do I, and we were the ones who were actually up 17-0. I’m not going to reply to the Carthage people again because it’s a never ending saga, I know that game nearly three months ago now is still the high point is y’all’s season.

Yeah, I guess for everything except the slot-t? Y’all keep middle school records out there? Prieto’s son plays qb for one of our middle school teams and we were smashing people 64-0 with running clocks but I bet if UT offers him $300k he’s gone? Couldn’t tel you the first thing about s record either. Maybe Surratt is a different type guy and prefers his kid to play against a lower level of competition than what he could have while he was living on the water in Lake Travis? If Surratt stays until his son is gone he’ll be almost 60. Bye the way, it’s a lot easier to “adjust” when you have the most talent in the class. Ask Tom Westerberg.

Crosby will play Houston Madison in the 1st round, they’re locked in 4th place in district 11 even after they lose to FBM this weekend.

They’re giving up about 10ppg this year and gave up less than that last year. I didn’t feel like going all the way back through but in the recent title years it looks like they only gave up 20ppg twice. Colleges don’t hire you to come run a pro-style offense. If that was the case Gary Joseph, who runs the best pro-style offense in Texas, would’ve been the most sought after guy in high school. You must not watch much high school football if Carthage’s offense is the only one you’ve seen like that, Katy has 9 titles running it. I definitely don’t keep up with them though, haven’t checked a single one of their scores since they played Crosby unless is comes across High School Scoreboard. They're not winning because of the offensive style, they win because the other schools they play that size have a talent deficiency. Colleges are looking for innovation like Briles and Morris brought, not the guy who’s going to line up in the I formation and hand it off or run play-action. When Texas hired Traylor he was coming off a 950 point season at Gilmer and seen right up there in the mold with Briles and Morris. I’ve never seen a coach turn down a 2.5X pay raise so he could continue to live in East Texas.

I have those little magnetized football pics of my sons stuck to a file cabinet in my office. Random dude, who turned out to be a vendor, walks in and looks at them and says, “Man, y’all whipped our a$$”. Had never seen the guy before so I asked where he was from and he said Port Neches. Long story short we talked about ball for about 30 mins. Dude was knowledgeable as heck. He played for Burnett and I happened to mention I thought BF was a pretty decent coach. Boy, that was the wrong thing to say. If you paraphrase out the expletives he basically said PNG isn’t playing with any honor or pride, and used the Crosby game as an example. Also said the tradition doesn’t matter if the kids that are playing now weren’t alive to see it. I mentioned that because the gist of what he was saying is that PNG doesn’t have the same type players they did when he was there 20 years ago. He said he thinks the kids are just a lot softer and the only way to get different results is with a different coach but said the last thing he would do is get rid of BF because you don’t know what you would get as a replacement.

Crosby has wrapped up at least a share of its 6th district it’s title in the last 8 years and will be guaranteed to play from the pole position once the playoffs starts. This will be the second of three consecutive bye weeks for Crosby so it’s hard to get a feel for what personnel will be on the field Friday and for how long. In a game like this I fully expect Nederland to come out firing on all cylinders, the only issue is that they opted for the inline three banger this year and the parts are obsolete. Therefore, they’ll be battling KP to see who can finish in 6th place. Under the circumstances it’s kind of hard to know what to expect other than Crosby will be trying to make it out as healthy as possible. *I know Ned didn’t need and probably didn’t even want a thread but since y’all beat us last year . . .

Dodge and Rhoades were specifically who I was thinking about when I said that. You can throw in the BH coaches too though.

Most of his success at TCU came prior to them joining the Big 12 in the WAC where TCU and Fresno St. had the most talent in the conference in a average basis. That success is why he got to keep his job even though half his season in the Big 12 he’s finished at or below .500. Outside of Boykin falling into his lap because he didn’t want to play receiver his only other plus season in the Big 12 was one year after Kenny Hill transferred from A&M. There are plenty of coaches who’ve won with three stars. Those fans in Baton Rouge will realize that the first time he loses to Mississippi St.

First two calls LSU should make are to James Franklin and Mel Tucker followed closely by Ryan Day. My fist call at TCU would be to Seth Litrell to see if I could get him on the cheap. Patterson recruited my cousin Christian Matthews hard coming out of Arlington Bowie and the reason I kept hearing about why he wasn’t landing more kids from the area was because of his style of coaching. His next job probably won’t be at a power 5 school unless they just want his recruiting ties.

Crosby usually turns their number in on the Monday after snapshot day so I would imagine we see where we fall today or tomorrow.

UTSA is paying what they need to retain their guy. There's Texas oil money in San Antonio too and that type of contract wouldn't be approved by their donors if they didn't have it, plus they line themselves up for a nice payday if he decides to take another job. Prior to Traylor's contract at UTSA there were already about 15 group of 5 guys at $1.5M+ and 5 at or over $2M so that's not really all that eye-opening.

Why, there are 30 coordinators in the power 5 conferences who are more qualified? See the job Aranda is doing at Baylor, Smart at Georgia and Tucker in Michigan State. Everybody isn't Art Briles, most are Todd Dodge and a few are Chad Morris. Briles, Traylor and Morris were offensive wizards at the high school level. Surratt is more like Gary Joseph and Joey McGuire where defense was the main basis for their success. Patterson was a defense first guy and just got fired.

A college assistant job would probably move him. You can get $250k just being a position coach in a non-power 5 conference. The money is probably the only thing that initially moved Traylor from Gilmer, he was making $350k when he left Texas.