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Over these recent alignments Crosby is averaging about a 5-6% growth rate. Taking an average of 5.5% x our stated enrollment of 1,818 would put us at 1,918. The current D2 cutoff is Waltrip at 1,918. I'm hoping the D2 cap moves up to about 1,940 but there's a good chance Crosby has outperformed it's recent growth numbers and could come in closer to 1,950 though. Here's to hoping we're the Highland Park of D2 this year.

Dayton is still Crosby's rival. BH is making some headway into the conversation. The team that gives Crosby the most issues on average is Nederland though. They don't run that same gimmick stuff Vidor does but they slow play us with the just enough from the run game and frustrate us like Vidor does. I still think Texas City actually IS but Nederland also plays the closest to Crosby in terms of talent.

Well, let me know when you at least win the region instead of getting there and getting donkey stomped again? Just stay tuned though. The UIL is about to let us stay in D2 with nearly 2,000 kids next alignment, they'll be the most talented teams you've seen on the field at Crosby. Go ahead and get your subscription to Fox Sports Southwest if you don't already. That's the channel they show the 6th playoff game on.

That's not the case with Ewers though. He's earned everything that's being awarded him right now by working his butt off the become the #1 recruit in the country. I agree it's stupid to buy a BMW after only inheriting $100k and paying the inheritance tax. That's probably somebody that never had anything though. True, Ewers may pull a Manziel and just go off the deep end but already being from Southlake I doubt his support team is going to allow him to make bad decisions(Yes, I know JF came from money too). I think if you give kids an appetizer(NIL money) it sturdies the focus on the main course which would be graduation/good job or the League. Players often make bad decisions in school because they're broke. I had a teammate in college that broke into the convenience store in the dorms so he could get something to eat. This is after he sent most of his Pell grant money home so his mom could keep the lights on. He ended up going to jail for 5 days and being suspended for the season opener. Couple grand on an NIL deal from Daktronics probably would've prevented that situation and saved his record.

Unless you're a SLC fan, how is this a bad thing? A 17 year old has seven figures sitting in from of him, to some families that is life changing. For the player, he gets some money up front. What if he tears his achilles next Spring and end up getting beat out by another 5 star and never plays, meaning he never hits the league and earns the money some are saying he should wait on? For Ohio State it's definitely a win. Your prize recruit doesn't have to risk injury his senior year and you get a head start working with him. Everybody is always for capitalism until it starts to delve into areas that they don't like. As of right now NIL is the most fair way to compensate the employees who are bringing in hundreds of millions into some of these companies.

Alright, cleared out my inbox like Grad said. Maybe try now. I had some good conversations in there too.

Just went to go re-verify and he is from Summer Creek, will be going in to his junior year. DM me who you're talking about and I'll try to find out later today.

It's hard to get too excited until we actually see him play. The biggest question for me on defense was if we could find two more d-linemen to go with Casey? Next question behind that was "who replaces Michael Ray?". I think this kid could possibly be a bigger/faster version of him? Really don't know until we see what the new defensive staff has in store though.

Summer Creek. Crosby seems like they may be developing pipeline from the beltway.

I wish. We've only made it twice, won the region both times. Time before that was a TD loss to Dawson in the third round in '09. With the division split and our enrollment growth we're not lining up against squads like Ridge Point in the D2 playoffs with nearly 1,000 less kids anymore. Question I would ask is what other 5A squads from the Houston area have two regional titles in the time period? I'll save you the leg work, it's Manvel and FB Marshall. I think Foster might but they were playing in region 4? Crosby is 10-2 the last thirteen years in bi-district play. If it's nothing just show me the other 5A squads around here matching it? If in 2011 after we lost in the first round to Vidor you would've told me that over the next nine years we were going 7-1 in bi-district, would get to play 22 playoff games, win two regional title and earn a state finals appearance, I would've absolutely taken it.

It is what it is. North Shore has robbed a bunch of Channelview and CE King kids over the years. Katy has done it to their entire district. Allen and Desoto have been notorious landing spots for DFW free agents, Duncanville is now that team. On a less notable level Dobie has robbed PISD squads of talent for years. If you're good they'll start coming. I'm not aware of any Baytown kids that will start for Crosby this year? We have a couple of transfers from Humble ISD this year, one looks he's going to be a stud and one looks like he's already folded under the competition. People can beat their chest all they want about having all homegrown talent. When you're lined up across from squads like FB Ridge Point, FB Marshall, Pearland Dawson, Manvel, Cedar Park, Aledo, etc. getting your behind whipped with their transfers that sentiment changes real fast.

Yeah, this is often the response when you lay the facts out. No exaggeration, in 10 years on this site I’ve probably seen this response over 100 times. . . and then the boys go take care of business.

I would normally be worried too but we have all the pieces to replace them. This year’s team is going to have more raw talent, they’re just going to be young. Season will depend on how fast they get up to speed? What I would point out is that before we played Nederland last year our average margin of victory in district play was 40ppg. It’s not like we were winning squeakers. Even with some regression does that mean we only win by 20ppg this year? I wouldn’t be surprised if we started 0-3 but I also wouldn’t be surprised if we started 3-0. By the way, I’m hearing we may have a new free agent from 21-6A to help ease some of the losses on defense. Goes about 6-3 215lbs and will line up at OLB.

Just so I could be filled in, what is major question mark around Crosby? Crosby has won outright or tied for the district championship 5 of the last 7 years, the only two we didn't were due to a torn ACL in Vidor's mudpit and then the financial crisis during Prieto's first year. We have the most talent in the district and play the toughest non-district schedule which should have us the most prepared entering league play, same way it did last year. Unless we lose the last game of district play like we did in '14, '17 and '20 I expect us to be coming off at least 9 straight victories when we line it up against FB Marshall in the third round.

IDK, kind of hard to play Cherokee when you're down 54-14?

With Crosby kicking off their season on 8/26 we're officially one month out from 12-5A-D2 trying to prove that they're once again the best district in the region. With Crosby playing Carthage being on a Thursday and everybody else basically kicking off Friday I expect some pretty big online viewing numbers. Would be awesome if they put this one on KUBE a.k.a. the North Shore/Katy network.

Kind of dangerous to giving the band kids Red Bulls in all this heat?

For the same reason Nederland fans bring up their state championship 64 years later. When you're just an average team like Crosby you have to live in the past. With as average as Nederland is you should fully grasp this concept. I understand where you're coming from though. it would almost make me feel like our co-district championship wasn't worth anything after receiving that generational 49-0 arse whipping from FBM and then watching Crosby take them out the very next week for their second regional title post Walter Twins.

IDK, but that's what his mom told us last week at the park when we were sitting back there watching the youngsters work out though? I'm assuming she was talking about measurements from his recent physical? I personally couldn't gauge, I've just been looking at him on HUDL. I would expect him to go about 6-4 and that same 340lbs in a couple of years though.

You can mention whatever you want. Probably going to get a response though? For those of you that struggle with the melanin content of the settlement area you could just refer to it as "South Crosby". Should resolve your issues.

Lol, more gamesmanship than sportsmanship but gotta love Coach P for that. What got me sold on him isn’t that he had us in the final in his 26th game on the sideline at Crosby though. My cousin is the head coach for the freshman team at North Shore. He’s also from Barrett Station and wanted to give back to the community by doing some summer workout camps at the neighborhood park. Somehow Coach found out about it and he showed up at the park to make sure his players weren’t being stolen. For him to show up THERE to make sure 12 year olds weren’t getting hijacked wasn’t something I don’t the the last couple of guys would’ve done? Rancher making sure all his cattle stay in the pen so he can get them to market. Have to respect that.

Montgomery got 52 on us and I don't think it was all because our defense had kinks to work out. Defense played well enough in the opener against George Ranch to win the game and outside of Manvel really only got scorched by Montgomery and Aledo. I think it could be as much as a 20 point gap between Montgomery and BU because of the styles of play, not necessarily the strength of the teams. BU tries to grind you down with superior athleticism and is not really what I would call explosive on offense. Montgomery is the exact opposite of that on offense and probably has a better defense than BU. They already knocked off A&M Con. last year to finish as district runner-up, I wouldn't be surprised to see them get Huntsville this year and win it.

That's true in some cases but there are other cases like Kardell Thomas' where they become the most dominant lineman in the state. I went to school with his mom who's now a school teacher in the district, she was pretty healthy and slimmed down. I expect the same for her son. [Hidden Content]

This offseason has a very similar feeling to when we lost the Twins and their 12,000+ career yards. Didn't bring back a lot of starters and were supposed to take a significant step back but we didn't and instead went 24-3 over the next couple of years. Crosby's talent pool will be increasing yearly over the next four seasons so if healthy I expect to see some special campaigns from these youngsters coming up. P.S. - Those freshman coach mentioned that are probably going to play varsity are the real deal. One goes about 6'/210ish and will play inside LB. One is a rb who's going to be on the bigger side but has the best footwork I've seen from a young back at Crosby since Walter. The freshman I'm most excited about is the lineman who just turned 14 and is already 6-2/340lbs. Lots of talent coming through the program that we're definitely going to need as we're almost sure to go to 5A-D1 for the '24 alignment.

Just went back an watched the Crosby vs Fort Bend Marshall game to see where we got lucky and verify why they should be the favorite to get back to Dallas from the southern half of Texas. My projection for FB Marshall is really based on Ja'koby Banks playing at the level Malik Hornsby did when he was there. I don't think anybody in the state will have a real answer for the Banks to Marshall connection but they were deficient in a couple of areas teams might still be able to expose this year, mainly in the trenches. Crosby ran for nearly 300 yards at a close to a 7ypc clip and only gave up one sack. FBM was held to less than 100 yards rushing on 29 attempts and gave up seven sacks. Our two turnovers to their zero was a big deal too. If Crosby can get the young hogs up to speed quickly enough don't be surprised if we show up for a rematch in Cowboys Stadium. If healthy we're going to be pretty dynamic at the skill positions the next couple of years.