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With an average team like Crosby able to drop 60 and donkey stomp Pine Tree’s district champion you would have to think Ned should win this game by 30 since Texas High beat Pine Tree 44-0 in district play?

Welp, rematch with Huntsville one round later.

Well, Longview definitely has prospects more sought after than Branch and Dunn. I’m just not sure TH has seen a supporting cast better than the one those two have in actual game action though.

TH hasn’t give up more than 24 points all year in a single game. Crosby has 35 at the half and probably could’ve had more. I’m sure they’re surprised right now, may be looking at film of the Longview scrimmage to see what the issue is?

I think Crosby needs 56 points or a couple of turnovers to be safe. . . . . Or the defense to play the second half the way they did the first one. Hard to remember a better 24 mins Crosby has played in recent years.

They’re not 11-0 for nothing. Need to continue to play solid football. They way we play we’re very conducive to comebacks. Code Red looking very Code Red-ish so far though.

Odd response but 👍🏾

Man, going all the way through the current regional brackett Crosby gets #5 Texas High, #4 Huntsville and #3 FB Marshall if they cleaned out their side. I think FBM is down speaking comparatively to the last few years so it won’t surprise me at all of Montgomery beats them this week. If Crosby would’ve taken care of their business you’re talking about the normal first round layup from HISD, a Pine Tree team who’s already had a 10–10 tie with Kennedale and been shut out 44-0 by Texas High, then you possibly get a Montgomery team you’ve already beaten this year before you would have to even deal with Huntsville in a regional final. Smh. On the bright side, if you can beat Texas High and Huntsville you’re probably winning the next two games also. Log way off though. Just disappointing Crosby has put themselves in this situation so often when given the opportunity not to be in it. With the split watering down the playoffs the team playing from the first place position is almost sure to go to at least the third round every year.

The more film I watch on Texas high the more I get the impression they’re a less good version of Huntsville. Defense isn’t as good but the offense may be slightly better because of Smith? I think Crosby will have a bunch of opportunities to hit some big plays on the outside, but they of course have to be made. The matchup I want to see is Smith trying to run down Branch. Players like Smith are what we were hoping to help neutralize when when we signed Branch out of our farm league(GCCISD).

As long as Angleton doesn’t get corona’d out of another season again next year their district is going to be even stronger. Without the COVID situation that kept hitting their program they probably finish a very close third behind Foster. Manvel won’t be as good because they lose their qb but both of those rbs are juniors. They probably won’t move up either, they can add 200+ kids and still not hit the cutoff. Crosby has been growing between 60-100 kids per alignment, 100 more would put us right on the cutoff number which I think will go up so we probably have at least two more years in D2. Paetow will almost for sure be 6A. I read somewhere they’re going to already be over capacity by 2023. Katy ISD gave the kids from the neighborhood their own school and may have created a west side version of Westfield, just with a little better academics. Hightower is hit or miss and may not even make the playoffs but they have those Mo City kids and you see they don’t have an issue lining up with anybody from 9-5A. I think they’ll be more on the miss side though.

It’s hard to tell how good they are because there’s zero flash to anything they do. Take into consideration that C.E. King played Atascocita closer than they played Huntsville on the scoreboard. King scored almost twice as many points against North Shore’s defense as they did against the Hornets. King dropped 66 on Beaumont Westbrook in a blowout win, they scored 12 on Huntsville. Now, to you point about them not seeming dominant they only scored 25 points in a 12 point win over Montgomery while Crosby dropped 55 on them. Montgomery also scored 52 points on Crosby compared to 13 on Huntsville. Your offense doesn’t have to have dominant numbers if people just can’t score against you.

Their offense isn’t as good as it was the last couple of years when Matt Southern wasn’t hurt. Southern was the coach’s son and played very Haynes King-ish in terms of just always making the right decisions. Their offense does look more athletic than last year but I just think that’s because how their new qb operates. That defense is filthy though. Those two interior linemen just destroy so many plays before they ever get going. I think their overall team is better than last year but if you have a qb that can buy a little time and some receivers that can get down the field they’ll give up some plays on the outside. Does BH have that though, considering their qb will have a lot less time to operate than he even did against Crosby?

Just to be clear, when you say “. . . hung with Longview. . . “, you’re taking about a scrimmage, correct? IDK about Smoaky but we don’t count those on this website.

Nobody said Marshall was as good as last year. That’s why they went .500 and missed the playoffs. The point was they ran through that district last year and got hammered in the first round. TH struggled for three quarters with LC who gave up over 40ppg in their three district losses. I haven’t see anybody say Crosby is unbeatable either. Your earlier comment works both ways. Y’all don’t have a handle on what Crosby is or isn’t either.

The point I was making is that Marshall went 7-0 last year against the same teams Texas High went 7-0 against this year the addition of Marshall and lost to 4th place Huntsville in the first round. Tells me the district isn’t as strong as maybe the record indicates. Looked that way three quarters in when you were only up 17-7 on 4th place Lake Creek.

Well, these are the situations you end up in when you continuously lose district championship games the last contest of the year. Instead of playing Pine Tree like Nederland is, Crosby gets to play the team that beat them 44-0 in district play earlier this year. I think the one positive for Crosby is the way Huntsville was able to maul Marshall in bi-district after they went 7-0 in the same district last year. Marshall didn’t have a Clayton Smith either though. We’ll see how Crosby deals with what I feel is the most dominant player in 5A. Kid is like D.K. Metcalf on offense and Jadeveon Clowney on defense.

After losing to this version of Nederland you’re not going to to get any argument from me on that point

Y’all had your best night, Crosby had their worst. The exact same thing has happened multiple times to Crosby in recent years. Congratulation again, your tram was prepared to take advantage. I still think Crosby is the better team as evident by what we were able to do their 3rd place team versus what y’all were able to do to their 4th place team. Y’all happened to be better the night the Crosby vs Nederland game took place. Again congratulations. You can tell how big that win was when it’s what you choose to revisit after a bi-district victory you couldn’t get last year. Again congratulations, Ned’s kids played very well that night.

Yes, and prior to that they were undefeated and averaging about 50 per game hammering people. They had an off night when Jaylen Henderson ran the QB draw about 40 times for like 250+ and kept the ball away from King. Crosby played well that week against King and still lost, the only reason we went 5 deep and King didn’t is because they went D1 in the split.

Must not have read the prior posts

Crosby had higher level individual players when Rio was coaching but Prieto has more overall talent. I don’t think it’s surprising he’s getting the results he is. Rio also had good defenses between 2014-2016 and had a pretty good defense in 2018 until Howard got hurt and the backup qb couldn’t move the ball and became a turnover machine. But yeah, I do think this philosophy gives us an extremely good chance to beat Texas High next week.

Yes, that was three undefeated district championship opportunities ago and it also wasn’t a shocker we lost. We were on the road and C.E. King had Trayveon Williams.

No we didn’t, we lost to PNG the next week. We’re also about to play a team a lot better than the PNG team we lost to that year.

Glad to see we didn’t completely 2017 it. Time to get ready for Texas High.

Not really, unlike BH Crosby has been in these situations a lot in recent years. This is the third time I’ve seen us do this so I’m pretty used to it by now. One year we lost a basketball game to PNG in bi-district and one year we played a pretty solid game against Cedar Park in the semis until Cotton went down, so we’ll see what happens.