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Man, we drop that interception and PNG scores a couple plays later. Hate the starters gave up that extra TD.

I can’t remember a time two schools west of the Trinity played in Mid-County the same night? All the Cougar fans will be pulling for our brethren down 1942 tonight. Go do that “we can, we will” stuff in Nederland tonight.

Good luck tonight to The Hill. We need y’all to take care of business tonight and help win us a district championship.

I think TradenUp said it was something like 1,971 on the first day? I’m just looking at enrollments from the 2019 snapshot and projecting based on trends.

5A-D1 cutoff is already at 2,211 and probably going up

I don’t think Crosby is. If the cutoff moves to something north of 1970, which looks probable based on the short history of us having classes, then BH probably isn’t going to make it this go around. We’ll both be well over it for sure next time though.

Crazy, I was just doing the same thing. It’s hard to nail it down exactly because of the opt-ups but the 5A-D2 enrollment cap moved about 60 kids from 2018 to 2020. If it goes up by a similar margin again I think we stay D2. I was doing the math in our growth percentages a little while ago and predicted us at 1,931.

Paetow would be the third “new” Houston school to play for a 5A-D1 state championship by their 4th varsity season in the last seven years. George Ranch did it in ‘15, Shadow Creek did it in ‘18 and ‘19. Look out for Katy Jordan coming through 5A after Paetow moves up to 6A next year. I haven’t looked at KJ’s attendance zone but if they’re naming the school after Barbra Jordan I’d imagine they’re probably going to look a lot like Paetow.

I don’t think College Station could score 17 points on Denton Ryan’s starters? They were down 52-7 after three quarters last year and came in averaging over 50ppg. DR’s offense isn’t as good this year but the defense is probably better. CS is going to also have to get past a very good Lone Star team in the area round before they even get DR in the regional final. I think DR goes back to back though. I think Manvel just had an off night offensively in the Hightower game. Manvel matches up a lot better at the line of scrimmage with Paetow than FBH does though. If Paetow doesn’t get stops against the run game early I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see them get beat. Manvel’s defense is just as good as Paetow’s too.

I think you got the who’s in who’s head stuff backwards. Saying a guy got out-coached is a “personal attack” now? As far as Abseck I think he’s probably a great coach, I think TW is a great coach too. No doubt Gage is solid. Former two coaches struggled though. I don’t think it’s unfair to point out that he’s in the same boat until he’s not. I felt the same way in the beginning about coach Prieto who came to Crosby in a similar situation. The record was one thing but we were struggling doing basic varsity stuff like lining up properly. After watching the level we executed at under Riordan that was tough. By the end of his first season Crosby was pretty good. We were good by our second game under Riordan. The ribbing I do with the BH fans about their coaching is simply because that’s their big feather, kind of like PNG used to be with their quarterback’s passing stats.

Probably won't happen but there's a chance you could have two of the top ten teams in 5A-D2 move down to 4A-D1 in Fort Bend Marshall and South Oak Cliff.

You're right. I doubt we could beat PNG if our coaching staff regressed to the level of BH's.

He absolutely is. Some of them think that living in the same house in the same type neighborhood but having to pay $100k+ more for it is a badge of honor. Kind of how they feel about paying way more for championship coaches to come finish third or miss the playoffs all together.

I think PNG is going to score around 28 points and I think Prieto kind of likes BF, meaning he would probably get off the gas around 60. I know you're being facetious but I'll give PNG some credit and say the only way we win by 61 is if we shut them out.

As long as Davis Mills is under center Crosby would definitely have a shot

Aki, would you mind clarifying who the west Trinity whiners are? I mean, Crosby and SC are/were the trashy posters on the site so it can't be us. Dayton just went 0-20 and didn't blame anybody but themselves so it's not them. New Caney doesn't take shots at anybody and North Shore is completely above the fray. I assume you were talking about one of the four schools that have attendance zones in Baytown? Just trying to clear things up for record keeping purposes?

That’s probably because you wear thongs?

^ See above reply when you have no rebuttal😂

Nah, they had a great night in a rivalry game. Did y’all play backups on the second half against Nederland, I’m assuming that’s the reason y’all lost to them? We’re y’all playing backups when you were down 17-0 to the second worst team in the district? Is that the reason KP scored their season high against y’all? Is playing backups the reason y’all beat the third worst team in the district by only 7 points? Asking for myself. Playing backups IS the reason we only scored 52 on Dayton, 67 on KP and 57 on TC though. You’re pointing to one game. Look at the other six on our schedule in comparison.

Here’s an example of the Maxpreps district stats for 12-5A-D2. They aren’t accurate though because most of the Golden Triangle schools don’t enter theM for whatever reason. Chron.com used to keep the Houston area stats pretty accurately but their high school sports section has basically been taken over by Vype. Vype has pretty accurate stats for everybody in the area but IDK how to access them other than when they post them in articles? [Hidden Content]

That’s it right there. The way the TC game was called offensively was beautiful. We never made any play-calls to their strengths until they were ready to be knocked out. All of a sudden the DC has us looking like we can cover people. Seems like we have kids making plays when they use half the offensive line to block Casey. Riordan had some crazy offenses and was the beneficiary of some ridiculous talent while he was here but at times it felt like if we couldn’t out-talent you then we couldn’t out-coach you either. Two games that really stick out were the 2015 Ridge Point game and the 2017 New Caney game. I think those are two games Prieto probably wins. Let’s not act like he doesn’t have some horses though. You can make an argument for Crosby having the best players at every position group in the district.

He could’ve also thought they were capable of having a season like they did last year at NF? Their only two losses were to #1 Ennis and # 2 Aledo, they also beat Lone Star.

They mentioned Vidor the other day on High School Scoreboard. I think they have those teams ranked in front of y'all because of being known commodities and tougher strengths of schedule. For instance, Anna is the sister school to Melissa and is pretty good this year but they're 5-3. All their loses have come in district play to #4 Melissa, #5 Argyle and #8 Kaufman. Vidor is playing a softer schedule and only has a 9.7ppg differential against it. If you're going to play that type of schedule then you need to be about 20ppg clear like #10 Calallen is performing right now.

Yeah, we would've never gotten Riordan for $80k. Here is the 2017 article on the highest paid coaches and Riordan was at $120k which was underpaid for the single high school districts in our area at the level he was performing. It's normal in the Houston and Dallas areas for coordinators to be making $80k+. That pension number is probably like my company. My pension is based off a my base salary but what I have to report to the IRS is significantly more. [Hidden Content] I don't think they cut pay, they just cut personnel and didn't give raises for a year or so. Like I said, I think those numbers you're looking at are just some kind of base pay. If Prieto stays two or three more years he's probably going to be up around $140k but that's what you have to pay in these big metro areas to retain good coaches. Prieto might not even be in the top 25 in the Houston area right now and Crosby coaches are usually in the top 5-8, Riordan was the 7th highest paid coach in Texas when he left.

What he's saying isn't true though. PNG might've played backups during the last drive or so of a couple of those games but when Crosby pulled the starters against Dayton and KP the combined score was 95-7. I believe it was something like 49-41 combined for PNG in those same games? I would also point to PNG giving up 38 to a Nederland offense that was shut out by TC, Crosby was up 50-13 after three quarters though.