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If BU is going to make a coaching change at the end of the season they may need to look at BH’s old DC. If one of the most respected coaches in Texas thought enough of him to hire him that’s probably all the homework BISD’s AD needs to do. The question will always be about what staff he could bring in but I think going and getting a guy with some credentials versus just hiring a familiar face that applies for the job is a better approach. I think he’s originally from somewhere like Mississippi or Georgia so I’m sure he would understand the SETX culture too. Sometime you just fall into one.

I had a ton of ifs and buts as to why I thought Crosby would beat PAM too after watching y’alls game with them. I totally agree with you there though. One of my BH buddies came to my office today and wanted to bet me on the game but he wanted me to give him 21 points. He by far is the BH sports guy to go to at the job. I said “Heck no, the kids are going to play too hard.” BH’s defense had started to be an issue for Crosby. I know it’s early but BH doesn’t look as good on the defensive side of the ball as they did under TW. I believe BH’s previous DC got demoted to a position coach when Abseck brought his guys in. Not saying that’s the reason but it probably needs to be noted. BH hardly got pressure on KP’s qb without blitzing, KP’s receivers had the BH dbs stacked or flat out beat on probably 65% of their deep routes and several times KP had receivers running wide open through the BH defense and just weren’t see/hit which is why I think they’ll have trouble covering Crosby’s receivers. I think this game is a gauge for both teams to determine how they’ll play their last five games.

The question is going to be how many times he can do that though? Sanders avoided the rush at times and picked up some first downs on Crosby after having a huge game the week before against BH. He ended up rushing for -14 yards against Crosby. I would say the 9/6 td to pick ratio is concerning too. Over the last two day I've watched and re-watched all 167 plays from the KP game minus the kicks. If BH defends the zone-read and pass plays against Crosby the way thy did against KP and weather isn't a factor we might score 60. KP would've scored over 40 if they had receivers that could actually catch and a QB that could hit them, they were behind BH's dbs all night long. Also, I'm beginning to wonder about that BH front 7 holding up going through district play? KP probably ran for close to 200 yards in the second half alone when the backup QB came in and could actually run the zone-read correctly. I think y'all are going to have your hands full with Myles and Jones running it.

Garrett Hagler had 20 carries for 231 yards against KP. BH had over 400 rushing as a team. I think a lot of teams are going to do that to KP if they choose though. TC will probably run for over 400 on them too.

Like BHfan alluded to, if Crosby brings pressure Holdren is probably going to throw it to us multiple times. If Crosby shuts down the run game the way we have on everybody except Manvel I don't think he is the Jamar Sanders type player that can beat you by himself. One thing I like that Crosby did was to adjust to Dayton going quick in the passing game after Dayton initially adjusted to Crosby's pass rush. Womack's pick was due to Dayton's QB forcing a bad throw with pressure in his face but three of the other four picks were guys jumping routes after our defenders started to realize Denton didn't have time to look guys off. Without the escapability of Manvel or PAM's QBs you may see a similar performance from BH's QB this week. The kids heard a lot of chatter over the Summer about what they weren't supposed to be able to do. I think they have a huge chip on their shoulder and are out to prove people wrong this year. I've probably seen Crosby and Dayton play 25 times and have never seen either team get handled like that. Only thing I remember close to it was the 49-7 game in the playoffs.

Through 4 contests PNG is only averaging 22ppg. PNG has also given up 40ppg the last couple of weeks. I’m not saying they will but Dayton is more than capable of getting 30+ points on the Indian defense. Dayton also did a good job against the run when they played Crosby, if they carry that same energy into this week’s contest it’s going to be a ball game. If you were to watch the film you would see that Dayton and BH have extremely similar personnel.

I think whoever loses this one is going to have an awful tough time getting into the playoffs. I’m lookin for Dayton to give PNG a very tough game, wouldn’t be surprised to see it turn into a shootout. Dayton’s qb already has over 1,000 passing yards and some decent personnel to work with.

One thing you usually have to do if you want to go deep in the playoffs is run the ball and play defense. I think Abseck is making that BH’s identity. Haggler just had another huge game, 231 yards on 20 carries, and BH rushed for over 400 as a team. Considering the way BH leans on the run game and the way Crosby has been stopping it this year I like our chances there. Another thing that keeps popping up is the rate the BH qb turns the ball over at. Throwing three picks against KP doesn’t bode well when you consider Holdren is going to see a lot better pass rush this week against Crosby. Dayton sold out to stop the run against Crosby and got burned in the passing game. BH’s weakest position group is probably their dbs, if Myles is going to be as accurate and decisive as he was with the football Friday night I think BH is going to have trouble covering Kirkwood and company. I think BH needs to come out and score some points early or this one may get away from them. Crosby’s defense is good and if BH becomes one dimensional on offense it could be a long night for the Eagles.

After losing seven in a row Barbers Hill has won two of the last three contest against Crosby. Last year’s game was more of a regression to the mean with The Hill losing by 27 points in The Jungle. This year Crosby travels to Mont Belvieu in hopes of starting a new streak. Knocking off what looks to be a solid Cougar team would be a great win for the Eagles early in the Abseck era.

@Mr. Buddy Garrity I didn’t respond in the other thread about the BU vs Sterling game because I thought you were being a little harsh on Soulja’s boys. IDK though? I think this game, Friendswood and GCM are probably their only chances at a win though? 0-10 may be more beneficial in the long run though. You hate it for the seniors but at that point I think the AD would have to review what he has going over there. I’m sure there are some young coordinators around that could have BU actually playing like they look.

Quick stats from the game vs Dayton: Cyrin Myles - 7/7 252 yards and 3tds Kameren Kirkwood - 3 catches for 177 yards and 3tds Luke Smith(#2) - 5 catches 83 yards 1td OLB Tyler Cooper(#5) - int return TD He doesn’t really get the notoriety some of our other kids do but Braden Womack is the truth. Kid goes both ways darn near the whole game and plays special teams too. Returned a punt for a TD last night and also had one of Crosby’s 5 ints.

Unless you lined up against them, which Crosby had the pleasure of doing twice, you’ll never understand how good of a high school tandem the Bobino brothers were. Huntsville got good because of that defense and the fact that they had Matthew Southern, which was the head coach’s son, at qb for three years. They dropped 54 on Crosby in the second round in ‘19 and 43 on FB Marshall in the regional final in ‘18. Outside of that they’ve never really been able to score on good defenses. For as big as the Hornets are they play a pretty finesse style of offense. On top of that it’s not very complex because in recent years 21 points has been enough to win them a bunch of games. When Eazy said Maxpreps had rhe 5th best team in the district ranked I guess he was taking about Huntsville?

Dayton really isn’t that bad. They look a lot more like the Bronco teams we used to play physically. Dayton has played the Crosby run game better than anybody so far this season, their dbs are just struggling to cover the Crosby receivers. Dayton had some confidence coming into the game but Crosby has put their best half of the season together so far. At this point both teams just need to be trying to get out of here healthy.

People actually forget that KP has the largest enrollment in the district at 1,888. Texas City also has a larger enrollment than both Crosby and BH. It could be as much as half of the current district that has D1 numbers at realignment. I’m sure the caps will go up so it will probably keep at least two of the four in D2.

Soulja got me worried now. Texas City beat Clear Lake 30-0 the week after Clear Lake beat La Porte. I guess I need to consider TC a factor now if La Porte is that good. They do have Crosby’s old DC as their head coach now though, maybe they’re improving.

Depending on the up coming snapshot numbers from Crosby, this game may go the way of the Sherman/Denison rivalry. Border towns that had been in the same district forever but with the splits to 5A their Battle of the Axe game has become a non-district contest. I’m sure the fans and players would want to keep the game on the schedule as a non-district contest but I’m not sure Coach P would? With a move up in class he may favor playing more challenging teams. I could see us possibly going something like Carthage, CE King and Manvel in non-district and leaving the feel good game with the Broncos off the schedule.

What I’m saying is I don’t believe Durley ever gets the Westbrook job in the first place if he doesn’t win that title in ‘76 at Hebert.

Those facts hurt, huh? Smh, something this imbecilic doesn’t even really deserve a response but I’ll oblige. I’m probably the only racist you know that spends three hours a night watching Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O’Donnell and Brian Williams consecutively while voting for moderate democrats like Hilary and Biden. I don’t know what your obsession is with me but it’s pretty sad in itself, lol.

There were actually 16. I believe all but one or two at the time had played for Smith or Ozen. I’m pretty sure Smith coached 22 pros by himself in total. Hebert’s 1976 UIL title is what I believe ultimately led to Westbrook’s 1982 title, but Beaumont unquestionably had the talent to win several more.

You can’t resist saying stupid stuff like Lake Travis lost to 4th place Round Rock, can you? At least the stuff I say can be backed up with actual data, in this case a court order. But to answer you question, yes. I find it very damning that some of the best athletes in the entire country at the time weren’t allowed to display their talents in the UIL.

PNG could have freshman classes of 500 kids for the next 6 years and wouldn’t move up to 5A-D1. PNG turned in 1,505 on their last snapshot and their enrollment has been stagnant or declining for about the last 20 years on average. They would have to have added 700+ kids in six years to potentially make the D1 cutoff during the ‘26 alignment and I don’t see that data trend anywhere in SETX right now.

I think the folks in Beaumont back then were good with taking L’s as long as their kids didn’t have to go to school with the ones Willie Ray and Clifton J. were coaching.

If I’m interpreting the article correctly, in order to make a 6A split solve the problem adding a 7A class would then the 6A class as a whole would have to have about 330 schools in. It would pretty much be impossible to align 165 schools into 16 districts. However, if you pull the largest 80 schools out of the current 6A to make 7A, keep 250 in 5A and 6A, then you will get a trickle down effect that will close the enrollment gaps in the smaller classes which I think is the UIL’s ultimate goal.

I think the bigger the enrollments the more diminishing the returns from the enrollment gaps. For instance, when Crosby and CE King we’re in the same district we used to beat King a lot. Now King has about 800 more kids than Crosby and has a pretty decent talent advantage. Adding a 4A school(800 kids) to one team that already has pretty equal talent to the other is devastating at an 1,800 student enrollment. On the flip side, if you were to double Crosby’s current enrollment we would have about 800 less kids than North Shore. As it stand right now North Shore would murder Crosby every time we lined up but if you doubled our current talent I don’t think we would have any issue playing with them. North Shore’s advantage of 800 kids with Crosby sitting at 3,600 students means way less than King’s advantage of 800 with Crosby sitting at 1,800. You can only play 22 at a time so I think Allen’s huge advantage is depth that can mitigate injuries, not necessarily quality of the starting talent.

My guess would be October 22nd or October 29th based on the past few realignments. Looks like it's been the last Friday in October recently.