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District play would be tougher but getting Galena Park, Madison and Houston Sterling in the first round is a lot easier than Hightower, Manvel and Angleton. Especially when you can get a Cedar Park in round two. Crosby may get FB Willowridge and Marshall the first two rounds of the playoffs.

To his point though, snapshot is next Friday. Nobody is currently enrolled at West Fork so if they count the enrollment without accounting for the kids that won’t be there next year then they’ll probably be moving to 6A. It looks like the year Shadow Creek opened they accounted for that at Manvel and put them in 5A.

Kind of hard for me to get a read on Aledo this year. They’re still killing people but just not the usual Aledo maulings. I do agree Williams is a little easier back to deal with than the ones recently and I’m not really as high on y’all’s qb as recruiters seem to be but I think Aledo’s defense is what will win them a title this year anyway, not their offense. Lovejoy is the only team I see testing y’all and I doubt your defense has a performance against them like they did last year.

It really has nothing to do with red or blue but two things. First, the person most instrumental in helping secure refining permits is your US representative which has been a republican for the Beaumont area since 1995. Second, my company is expanding its Beaumont refinery so what ever needed to take place at the city happened also. The issue is that there is a lot more automation and more contractors in the refineries now. That leads to a need for less permanent resources(residents) and creates a more transient workforce(guys living in travel trailers in these RV parks). That transient workforce usually doesn’t bring their kids and companies are figuring out how to operate with less and less so there’s not some huge need for employees at these refineries even when they’re expanded. These big refineries now are operating at about a quarter of the permanent personnel they used to 40 years ago. People are trickling from the smaller towns to the larger metro areas to take advantage of the job market in this places. That’s why you see contraction in SETX, not because some union guys are locked out right now.

Craziest stat from the night to me is that Crosby scored 10tds but only had seven third downs. Considering how much the backups played they had to be pretty efficient too. We also had more tds than third downs against Kingwood Park.

To answer this question for Crosby I would say the jury is still out. The season wasn’t really going to be about is competing for a district championship, it was going to be about if we could beat FB Marshall again. Thankfully the team health has held up and we’re on track for that. Very good job by Crosby’s staff getting the inexperienced starters we had at the beginning of the season up to speed quickly. Two teams I predicted would make some strides were Dayton and BU. Feels like Dayton is headed in the right direction, you see what TC did from last year to this one. No reason Dayton can’t do the same. BU still seems lost though, may need to let the basketball coach coach the football team too? I think the one school that has outdone even all the most hallucinogenic predictions is Vidor though. If the Pirates can get to 12+ wins Matthees may be looking at DCTF coach of the year honors.

Like I was telling the PNG fans who were pointing to the stats among common opponents, there’s a difference in how they were accumulated. PNG scored on the second play from scrimmage, then Crosby scored 42 unanswered and the game was over half way though the second quarter. Even on PNG’s second td drive close to the end of the first half it was a backup corner who dropped the int two plays earlier. Most of those passing yards are a result of PNG down by 40 trying to air it out against the backups. Most of their rushing yards came from their backup rb against our backup defenders. Their starter probably had 15 carries for 30 yards.

With two games left in the season for most of us it’s interesting to see what your team’s outlook is versus what you predicted they would do before the season started. What was/is the reasons for your team’s performance; COVID, injuries, coaching, personnel or just plain luck? Also, with realignment upon us do you feel like your team is trending in the right direction?

Some stats from the game: PNG - 366 total yards on 64 plays. 15/33 passing with 3tds and 2int. 30 carries for 107 yards and 1td. 16 first downs and 10-18 on third down. 2 turnovers and 2 penalties for 15 yards. *PNG didn’t have individual stats. Crosby - 724 yards on 59 plays. Myles was 10/15 for 237 yards and 4tds, he also had 11 carries for 148 yards and 3tds on the ground. Eudy was 2/2 for 78 yards and 1td. As a teams Crosby rushed for 409 yards on 42 carries. Womack had 6 catches for 152 and 3tds. Roberson had 1 catch for 75 yards and 1td. Kirkwood had 1 catch for 48 yards and 1td. *Shout out to the clean up crew, a.k.a the sophomores and freshmen that get to come in a finish off the blowouts. Most of them are still too small and slow for us to depend on them outside of relief situations but they way they’ve improved over the last five games from Dayton to PNG is pretty impressive. Code Red has some ball players coming folks, like, some serious ones.

I actually thought BF had a great gameplan. Move the pocket and try to take advantage of the pass plays we struggled to cover on film. Hit us on the second play of the game for a TD. Us armchair qbs thought PNG should try to run the ball and eat clock. In actuality though the way PNG was getting beat at the LOS if they tried to run Trahan from the beginning of the game they might not have scored in the first half. They just would’ve ended up in 2nd and 3rd and long a lot more. BF outcoached us armchair guys. The game was always going to be about Crippen being able to make enough plays to keep PNG in it and he couldn’t. He can only do so much though. As far as the talent pool, you’re spot on. It’s something I’ve been saying for the last few years now. The suburban schools like Crosby and BH with growing enrollments just have bigger talent pools to choose from right now.

BF is limited by his personnel. If the PNG faithful can’t see that after last night then they’re probably the ones with the issue, not BF. He could’ve ran anything outside of the slot-t and it would’ve been similar results. One of the moms last night asked one of the other fans in the stands, “Somebody said this is the team that beat Barbers Hill?”. Guy says, “Yeah, it is”. Woman turns to her friend and says, “IDK, maybe they were using different players?” She was DAS too😭

This is exactly what I think will happen. The only thing I will point out is that in your scenario PNG and Ned couldn’t tie for 4th place because Ned has the head to head. If BH and TC both finish 5-2, Ned and PNG finish 4-3 then Ned gets in. PNG gets ready for baseball season.

The 132 combined points is what’s Impressive to me. It’s hard for offenses to be that efficient even in practice. It looked like 5A-D1 teams against 5A-D2 teams.

I see Vidor getting love two weeks in a row on High School Scoreboard. Doesn’t matter if y’all are ranked, Matthews just did an interview with Tepper and Way for everybody in the state to see so you’re not being slighted or going to sneak up on anybody. If I was a Vidor fan I would be more worried about how you potentially play pass defense against those teams that are in the top ten and what you’re going to do at the line of scrimmage in regards to that East Texas district before you even get there.

IDK how to get the Golden Triangle stats? I usually have to wait until Crosby’s coaches load them Sunday or Monday to see ours. The PNG people probably have them already though.

Smh, used to be a WOSGrad question😢 I’m pretty sure it does though, which is why I said TC needs to beat PNG for y’all and take the -14 BH would have out of play. I’m not sure if we cap out at +17 or +21 for an individual game for the first tie-breaker though?

I was on Montgomery before the beginning of the season. They dropped 52 on us last year. Matchup wise they’re better for BH because their defense isn’t as good as TH’s.

Not going to lie. @Barbers Hill, @PNG and @Nederland all in one year. I would’ve never predicted it but I had us down for an L in one of those games and co-champs with y’all or Ned. Very proud of this young team. BH keeps playing like y’all did last night and you might have a chance against Texas High.

I didn’t understand that? PNG couldn’t really generate any offense outside of #18 but I think he only touched it four or five times, scored on two of them. I don’t even think Trahan had 30 rushing yards? You can see the difference in the way the teams are coached with how many different way Crosby’s staff gets the ball in their playmakers hands. The efficiency the offense is operating at right now is crazy.

I think it’s more of Ned’s offense, remember TC shut them out. I think y’all’s defense is probably going to look good against TC too but it’s really because their offense is basic. On another note, thank you to The Hill for handling your business last night!!!

Man, IDK? Depending on which BH team shows up I can see them not having trouble with TC but I don’t think that’s the case for PNG? TC’s defense is legit and that PNG offense I saw last night would have trouble breaking double digits on it IMO. BH can win out and finish 2nd if TC beats PNG for them next week. The crazy part is that the draw to get to the 3rd round is probably easier if you finish 3rd this year. You would draw Montgomery instead of Texas High in the second round🤔

Would NEVER go to The Hill. That “We can, we will” stuff might start rubbing off on me and make me feel like I’m part of their cult.

Lots of returners but losing Kirkwood, Jones, Casey, three more studs from the front seven and a couple of linemen. Next year is the year we were supposed to be this type of good though, and I’ll just leave it at that.

And he puts it on the ground at the end of the game while we’re about to score our 10th TD of the night🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️ Sorry Cougar fans, the 14.2 household kept y’all from seeing 75 dropped on PNG at The Reservation🤬

Mid-County down by a combined 59 points to 1942 at the half.