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Depends on where the enrollment cap moves and if they re-zone more kids to Sterling? If nothing changes they should be right at the cutoff though. As those young subdivisions around GCM start to mature you’re going to see their enrollment rise pretty quick over the next few alignments. I was told the GC admin were trying to keep all of their schools 5A but IDK how far out in front of that they actually are though?

IDK how the district coaches ruled on his eligibility? For him to still be on jv after six weeks means there might be some hangup with his PAPF? Not sure why he wouldn’t be playing varsity otherwise? Pretty sure he can come back, the brothers we had transfer from CE King in ‘15 were ruled ineligible by the district committee and we’re able to go back to CE King and play.

It’s disappointing that you can’t highlight your kids and staff’s accomplishments without the comments inevitably devolving into something like that. Seems like if you don’t end your post with “. . . should be a great game” that you’re calling them inferior.

We actually had a kid transfer to GCM this year, not sure if he was eligible or chose to play for them though? He’s one of the kids I thought would be a stud receiver for Crosby this year too. Man, if Crosby can get their hands on this young running back out of GCCISD though . . .

If Crosby wins this game they will basically be assured a share of the district championship, we would need one more win and have Santa Fe left on the schedule. If Crosby wins at PNG and BH wins at Nederland, Crosby would for all intents and purposes be two clear of the district with two to play considering we would have the tie-breaker over Texas City. We could focus on trying to keep the starters healthy over the next couple of weeks and building some more depth heading into the playoffs. As fas as the game itself, I don’t think Crosby is going to do anything to hurt their 57ppg district average. I’m more interested in how we look defensively on the road in a tough environment late in the season. PNG isn’t as good as any of the playoff teams we would need to beat to get where we’re trying to go but I think the environment mixed with the effort we might possibly see will be a great test nonetheless.

If I could pick BH to win on penetrations I would. That being said, give me the Eagles by 1 point. Ned has more experience in recent years than BH does playing these crucial late season games but BH is still the better team on paper. Paper doesn’t matter right now though. Coach Abseck needs to show his chops in this one because I think coach Barrow will definitely have something for him. Those long rides out to Mid-County are never easy and BH didn’t play well in their first one. Let’s see how they play with even more on the line this week.

I was trying to tell everybody at the beginning of the season that the offense was going to be legit even with Branch and Dunn gone. It’s amazing how that came to fruition once we stopped playing Carthage, Manvel and PAM. Offense did look great last night but I don’t want to put too much on beating a TC team I don’t think is very good. TC is not very good at the line of scrimmage when compared to what we will see in the playoffs. For instance, look at some of that Montgomery vs Consol. game last night.

That’s why I was asking you what film you watched to come to that conclusion? TC didn’t look good on either side of the ball against Nederland. Ned’s offense was just awful that night.

Fun fact: TC had only given up 44 points though six games before Crosby scored 57 on them tonight. Could’ve and really should’ve scored 70+ tonight but had one td called back for an illegal shift that had no impact on Kirkwood beating the double coverage and another for a holding on a screen pass BEHIND the play, smh.

Not sure what some of y’all were basing the close game comments on but to reiterate your question from the prediction thread; no I never expect TC to be able to compete with Crosby. I always say it but there’s a difference between making picks off of emotions vs actual film. P.S. - Please go take out Nederland next week so we can coast to a DC. BH will have everybody in Crosby pulling for them next week. Hopefully y’all don’t collapse or have discipline issues🙏🏾

It’s always tough to come play on The Reservation but with PNG giving up 40 to a pretty bad KP offense I like our chances a little more. Crosby will come in next week looking for help from BH to solidify at least a share of the district championship with a Cougar win at PNG and a BH win over Nederland.

Crosby came in averaging 57ppg in district play and we get 57 on what we were told was a good defense.

If Crosby could cover that little play-action roll out that Carthage killed us with TC might not score the rest of the night. Lol, so much for the “close game” and “good defense” crowd. Crosby probably has close to 300 yards on offense already

I know they did, we had to face them the very next week. Point is y’all scored 0 and Crosby scored 37 on them the week after. Meaning that I don’t think TC holding Ned to 0 offensive points last week will have any bearing on how they match up with Crosby like some of the other posters do.

Pre-game write up:

New Caney is pretty good this year. The problem is that they have Longview, Denton Ryan, Highland Park and College Station, who have all won titles in the last five years, in their region.

Crazy what you find out if you actually watch film. Surratt had an interview with the local paper and said the same thing. Now per the people not from Carthage they were missing 11 starters. Lol, after we smoke TC it will be 15 starter were missing from Carthage and the worst Manvel team ever that we got to play.

Well I guess Ned should be 4-2 since the WOS game got called early? We beat KP and Dayton by 85 combined points, let's see if anybody else can do similar numbers against them? Nobody on Manvel's schedule besides Hightower has held them to only 28 offensive points this year, nobody outside of Dickinson has scored 21 or more on them. They would probably beat every other team in this district by 28+ right now. Nobody on Carthage's schedule has held them to 20 offensive points and nobody has scored 24 on them besides Crosby. Nobody on PAM's schedule has held them to 20 offensive points and nobody has scored 40+ on them besides Crosby. TC opponents combined record is 13-23, it was 8-22 before they played Nederland which is the only team over .500 they've beaten. That's more of an indictment on Ned versus how good TC is. TC hasn't scored over 35 points on anybody not named Santa Fe or KP and is averaging 39ppg in district play so far, Crosby has dropped 40+ their last four outings and is averaging 57ppg through district play so far. IDK what you've seen either, but obviously it isn't Crosby playing.

TC ran 58 plays, got 204 total yards and scored 14 points, PNG and Silsbee scored twice as much on Nederland. TC plays offense like that against teams that can score they might lose three out of four down the stretch. Ned needed to come back in both of those games too, luck just caught up with them against TC. All TC showed against Ned is that if they can't run the ball consistently then their QB, who went 10-25, can't beat you. Ned struggles to defend the pass and Dayton is the most prolific passing team in the district, Broncos have the leading QB and receiver. I think they're going to score around 35 points on Nederland and coach Ware is probably going to model a lot of what TC did on defense. After seeing Ned struggle to move the ball on 0-6 Santa Fe and then getting shut out by TC, unless Dayton turns if over it just doesn't fee like they'll score enough points to win this one.

I love it. I have all kind of material I’ve been saving in case they got good when they hired their first state championship coach 12 years ago. I almost feel bad they have to pay all that money just to watch them get out-coached.

I didn’t make any excuses for the loss. I said they beat us straight up. YOU brought up “if Carthage this” to help try to make your point Crosby isn’t as good, not me. I just responded in kind. You literally don’t have a single data point to make your argument beside BH played Crosby close which is why I say leave the emotion out. Not a single one. Yes BH would’ve still lost with those kids, they weren’t winning WITH them.

Listen to what you’re saying though? It was a fluke because Crosby won two OT during that run, that makes us 3-0 in our last three OT games. Sounds more like a pattern to me. Two years in a row we score the most points Huntsville gives up all season, it wasn’t a fluke we were in position for our all-state kicker to close the show. Crosby dropped 62 on LH, they needed an onside kick and a late Dunn fumble while we’re trying to go up 3tds to even get to the OT. Aledo had to score 24 points in the 4th quarter of the regional final against Lovejoy to come back and win by 4. They also didn’t have to play 4 of the top 7 teams in the first five rounds to get there, so no they didn’t get there like us. They beat 15-1 FB Marshall worse the first time they played them though. Like they say, luck happens when preparation meets opportunity. Guess we’ll see how much of a fluke this year is?

What I gather is that it was a fluke because we hadn’t won the region in six years? Even though we’re winning by wider margins than last year it’s only because PAM, Dayton, BH and KP aren’t as good as last year. Even though Myles was hobbled he should’ve looked great against Carthage in his first career start. I think he thinks we’re worse than last year because Manvel beat the finals team by twice as much, but this year’s Manvel team isn’t as good?(which would make sense why they beat us by less and may finish 3rd) Never mind the fact that we're a td better in point differential against a tougher schedule vs where we were at this time last year.

If you talk about the o-line from Carthage then you have to talk about Myles limping around and us having to rotate in a backup, who’s not even the backup now, the entire second half. Still they needed a kick return late to win by a fg. They “snuck” by because they have 8 state championships and know how to win those kind of games. Great game by them, they beat us straight up. They played a cover three defense against Crosby that I had never really seen played on the high school level. Last year in the opener we played 6A George Ranch with a healthy Dunn and Branch and lost by 7. Manvel beat Crosby by 33 points last year and did have a better team than they do now which exactly why we had a chance to beat them this year. While we’re about to go into the half up 10-7 we roll than snap back and then kick it into the back of our lineman and it bounces right into a Manvel player’s hands and he returns it and we go into the half down 14-7. I have never seen Crosby do that. Manvel’s run game is sick, we held up very well against them all night outside of one 75 yard run Seymour had. Great night from the defense holding them to 28 points, they just beat Angleton 49-10 last week. Angleton only lost by 2 points to FB Hightower the week before. On the back end we miss three WIDE open td passes that game, and I’ll move on from that. Against PAM we give up a td on the opening kick but the defense only gave up 20 that night. Third game last year Montgomery scored 52 on us and they were not as good as the PAM team we lined up against this year, and would probably lose to them by double digits this year. Think about it, at this time last year we had 0 impressive wins? You kind of cross-thread your argument when you say Crosby isn’t as good as last year but neither is anybody else🤔 You can say we’re not as good but think about what you would’ve said if I told you we were going to play for a state title at this time last year? Lol, we were “average” all the way until the third round last year. Your reasoning is that you think the 5 great games Crosby played to get to the finals last year were fluke but the BH game this year wasn’t?

I remember y’all getting shut out 49-0 last year by FB Marshall and Crosby dropping 37 and beating them 9 points the very next week. That’s was only six games ago.