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I think there’s a very good chance La Porte wins this game. Considering Deer Park is probably going to be the undefeated 22-6A champ it could make for an interesting dynamic if say La Porte finished 4th in 8-5A-D1🤔

Going to be interesting to see how Ryan rebounds? I’m sure it’s been a while since they’ve finished 3rd in district play and lost in the first round? DC’s has them picked 3rd again this year.

Not really surprised by this one at all. Listening to the Longview fans about their issues not being able to throw the football yet and facing a team that went the 3rd round in 6A-D2 playoffs last year, that also boasts a 5⭐️ safety and what I think is the most NFL running back in the state you might’ve thought this was more probably than possible.

I think Crosby draws a lot of random engagements to the site when we’re winning but we’re still kind of adopted. For instance, if we somehow beat CE King tomorrow it’s going to be a lot bigger deal to us around beltway and the Houston high school shows than it will be in this coverage area.

Joe Cauthen, who's the DC at Utah State now, gave me an opportunity to be a GA. Just couldn't see the benefit in working for free at that time. I often wonder what could've been? Crosby alum Aston Walter went the GA route and is now the assistant RB coach at Tennessee. Probably going to making north of $300k once he loses the assistant title, rather that be at Tennessee or some other school.

Must’ve gotten some bad analysis from my inner-city guy? I’m 50 plays into the CE King vs Westfield scrimmage film and CE King is kind of dominating both sides of the ball. The RB is smaller but better than the one they had last year and the o-line may even be a little bigger. Westfield has a stud RB committed to Rice but I will say, by no means is Westfield’s offense a thing of beauty which is often the case and the reason why they don’t have multiple state titles. For the Crosby fans that saw the Lamar scrimmage they have a TE that’s just as just as big and fast and just as good, if not better than #41 for Lamar. Just saw him go up and catch one in double coverage then leap over a Westfield defender for about a 35 yard gain. CEK’s starting QB on this scrimmage tape is ridiculous. Probably 7/10 for about 140 yards, 1 TD and 1 int halfway through. One incompletion is a throw away, one incompletion is a perfectly thrown drop to a wide open receiver and the other is an int in the end zone where the Westfield defender went about 10ft in the air and picked off what otherwise would’ve been a beautiful TD pass. What I’m hoping is that the starting QB on this film is the ineligible guy though, noticeable dropoff in arm talent to the #2. On defense they’re huge on the d-line again and pretty much in general. D-line doesn’t look as athletic as the guys last year but they do have what looks to be a stud DE. Again, I think Westfield’s offense is helping them out some but this will be our first time running these new plays in a game. If the Lamar scrimmage is any indicator we’re going to have to do a lot of improving just for kids not to be arguing in the huddle about calls and where to line up. New offense seems a lot more complicated than the old ones but hopefully that makes them harder to defend once we get it figured out.

We need to make a thread like this with the games that will be streamed and pin it at the top every Thursday so random fans can just click on links to different games.

Lol, CE King sends the film over and it's so garbage that Coach Willis doesn't send them anything back😂 Have to say, I'm kind of a fan of the pettiness. Not sure Coach P would've done that or even had the stroke to?

The huge Sweetgass Village subdivision going in on 1942 is what's going to make or break Crosby in 6A. If it ends up being more Pine Trails than Sterling Green than I think we're going to be fine. If it's the opposite then we could end up with an enrollment over 3,000 and hardly any additional football players which would put us in a real bind.

When La Porte goes back to 6A I think the only difference in what you posted is that Cleveland would stay in that Conroe district and it would be Kingwood Park that moves to 21-6A with the rest of Humble ISD. I would imagine with West Fork opening and taking a bunch of enrollment from Porter High that if NCISD redraws the attendance zones they'll probably shift some of the kids from southern part of New Caney High's attendance zone to Porter High meaning NC back to 5A for a little while.

The problem is that you're going to have all those 6A's so close to each other. For instance, Crosby High School is closer to Channelview, North Shore, CE King, Summer Creek and all the Baytown schools than it is to BH. Channelview and North Shore's attendance zones are literally across the street from each other and the UIL split them up this alignment. Off the top of my head just from Richmond to BH I can think of probably 10 teams that will move to 6A at the current caps. In a couple of alignments if they don't split the classes we're going to be at a point where the UIL will have to consider sending all North Houston area 6A to region two. If the UIL doesn't have an issue sending PNG 115 miles to FB Marshall one way then the 6A travel distances can't be an excuse. The reason I said BH would probably be a candidate for 22-6A is because they're on that 146 corridor with La Porte and Deer Park. Remember, the UIL has split Dayton, Crosby and BH up before when we were in normal 5A.

It’s going to be interesting to see how the districts on this side of town look in 3-5 years? I think La Porte is going to go back to 6A so they’ll of course go with Deer Park, at that point it makes sense for BH to go over to 22-6A with La Porte and Crosby move to 21-6A by themselves or possibly with Kingwood Park. If La Porte doesn’t move back to 6A then I could see the UIL moving both Crosby and BH to 22-6A since it’s only a 7 team district right now.

Most people in BH are from Baytown. Working in Baytown most of the people in my work group happen to live in BH. Literally half of my building lives in BH and lots of them have kids in various grades and sports. The softball girls are the star athletes of your school so we hear about them the most.

Yeah, nobody else in the district where the 4th place team has made the 6A-D2 regional final two consecutive years. 3rd place team keeps losing to Katy, otherwise it would’ve been an all 21-6A D2 regional final the way is has been with North Shore and Atascocita the last two years in D1. Like I said, it’s all relative.

Happy about injured kids? There’s a lot of things you can accuse me of but as the parent of a child that’s had their leg reconstructed playing this game, please don’t accuse me of that.

It’s the 3rd one that I’ve heard of. Sucks for him because it looks like he was going to get to play on Saturdays, still may though.

Heard Herndon tore up his other knee and is done for the year unfortunately. Heard Davis was a no-go and Malone is out with some broken bones in an upper extremity. Y’all are a couple of injuries from starting like Crosby did last year, but I know since y’all have some many kids it shouldn’t matter anyway. Luckily y’all have a super easy schedule to start with and might be able to sit some kids.

I think “way down” is kind of relative. They lost a lot of experience but that doesn’t mean they’re not replacing it with a bunch of talent. They didn’t look great against Westfield but neither does North Shore half the time they play them. They look just as big and fast as they were last year though. They finished in 4th place in district play last year and will do the same again this year, they’ll probably go 8-5 instead of 9-5 though. Not sure that’s “way down”?

Coach Willis interview with Baytown Sun: [Hidden Content]

Sheldon ISD Stadium @ 7:00pm Crosby opens with a brutal test in the road. Crosby's former district mate gave the Cougars a full on 63-7 crop dusting last year. Does Crosby make a game of it this year of start focusing on FB Marshall at halftime? Crosby brings back 5/4 offense/defense. Expected starter at WR Tre Dixon has transferred to Dickinson. North Shore DE transfer looks to be out about 6 weeks with a shoulder. California transfer from Oxnard High made the start at center in the Lamar scrimmage but left with a knee injury, didn’t look like he would be available this week either. That being said Crosby is significantly more healthy than we were last year going into the opener. CE King brings back 2/1 offense/defense. Defensive returner is the 300lb #33 DT from last year. Offensive returners are one of the slot receivers and an offensive lineman. The 2022 22-6A offensive MVP QB Darius Clark-James is currently ineligible and will not play against Crosby. King will start a sophomore off last year’s freshman squad.

New coach may have a new philosophy? Definitely not a discussion you’re having under the old regime though, which is part of the reason they’re gone. Maybe the new philosophy is to scheme receivers open instead of getting it to them quick and letting them use their athleticism in space? In the scrimmage yesterday the routes were long developing and Eudy had to hold it several times. One other thing that was noticeable after I watched the film this morning is that we often had only three in a route against 5/6 defenders vs the 4/5 kids we would have in a pattern in Coach P’s offense. That makes it even tougher to get open. You need to be great on the offensive line to run the style of offense being installed. When people were killing me this Summer for saying this style offense isn’t conducive to the players the Crosby community produces last night is what I was eluding to. Throw in the type stuff you touched on up top compounded with the missed opportunities we did have and that’s how you end up with 0 tds all night. Maybe we’re going to be a defensive team from now on though🤷🏾‍♂️

He wore #2, safety and played pretty decent. Didn’t get any run at receiver, nor did the BH/Anahuac transfer get much? Lots of kids played on defense but the offensive rotation was kind of tight for a scrimmage. Wright is really the only player that has been playing both ways in camp and the inter-squad scrimmage and got meaningful snaps both ways against Lamar.

Where were the people from that you talked to? Probably would have a lot to do with the perspective that was given.

You may be the most bi-polar poster on the board but I always agree with a lot of your analysis. Probably says something about me, smh.

Scrimmage notes: Freshman looked solid as expected. They would be great if they still had at least one of their QBs and the receiver. Going to be a fun group to watch grow over the season. If we get some QB play this could be the class that takes us where we want to go. JV got killed but that was kind of expected too. We had 40, they had 80. Again, no real QB play in the program after Eudy. I think they’ll be ok once they get into district play, lots of size down there. JV o-line may be in average bigger than the varsity o-line. Going to have a lot of size in the trenches when those kids make it to varsity Varsity was 1-0 in the controlled portion. Lamar had a big pass play on their first drive and scored in about 6 plays. Crosby had an opportunity to make it 1–1 but turned it over on about a 7 yard slant pass where the receiver fell down in the endzone. Moved it ok on that drive, Yarbrough had a 47 yard carry. Game portion was 2-0 Lamar. Crosby’s offense looked like it’s the first time we’ve ever ran those plays against another team. Talking to some of the players after the scrimmage and the consensus was that “we don’t know the plays” yet. First few weeks may look like 2019 in Coach P’s first season when we got 7 pre-snap penalties per game because we didn’t know how to line up and had receivers running into each other. It’s definitely not the wide open offense Crosby fans have been used to for the last decade or so. Defense is legit. With the new additions I was expecting us to definitely be better than last year but that performance tonight against those athletes has me thinking this is probably going to be one of the better defensive units Crosby has put on the field. Would’ve liked to see more out of the pass rush but it’s hard to ask for a better overall performance than they had tonight. If the offense could’ve given them anything at all tonight they probably would’ve only given up one TD in the game portion. Even the second TD they scored was kind of questionable because the QB’s weren’t live and on the 3rd and 20 play they hit to keep the drive alive the Anahuac transfer came off the edge and slapped the QB on the butt as he ran by. In a real game QB is probably coming out after the hit he would’ve taken. All in all the varsity scrimmage was decent. Still extremely disappointing the offense couldn’t capitalize on some good opportunities but hopefully it’s more of a 2012 type issue than a 2019 type issue moving forward.