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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.

It's updated like every two years. Type in Memorial into the search bar to find PAM [Hidden Content]

Was doing some research on football playing populations in the coverage area and see PAM has basically the same numbers as CE King while playing a class below. You would think they should be a lot more dominant? It can't just be facilities, coaching maybe? PAM - 887 CE King - 892

Those runs were before the divisions were split though. It was a lot harder to make consistent runs back then vs now when you're only playing with ~ 130 teams in the class. I said it when they announced it that splitting divisions would help this area more than pretty much any other. Transfers can play a huge role but in general it's harder to "fall off" in D2 now with the splits watering down the competition vs playing in D1 where a number of teams can get hot and make a run.

Crosby vs Lamar scrimmage freshman/JV will start at 5pm and it says varsity will start at 6:30pm. Thank God we don't have to fight the traffic into River Oaks this year

Man, I think PNG is in a good position to make multiple finals appearances in the next 5/6 years if their talent isn't too cyclical. If Crosby hadn't collapsed in the semis against Liberty Hill that district would've had three consecutive state finalist. I think PNG or FB Marshall make it back to state this year again. LH has owned region 4 the last three years and will most likely win it again this year. They're one of the fastest growing schools in the state and will be 5A-D1 next year though. Once they leave you're down in CC Flour Bluff and SA Alamo Heights territory. Teams that I don't even think PNG would've needed to be as good as they were last year to donkey stomp. PNG's enrollment is relatively stagnant meaning they're going to be locked in to D2 for the foreseeable future. We all know D2 is significantly easier but PNG has a real homegrown D2 enrollment unlike SOC who has a similar enrollment but would need 2,500+ kids to field a team like that without the transfers, so PNG is right where they should be. Coach Willis told us at the parent meeting that teams need three things to be successful; 1. Community, 2. Players, 3. Coaches, in that order. Hard to argue in D2 that PNG isn't right up there in all those categories.

I think the enrollment caps would have to increase significantly to have Desoto and Cedar Hill drop. Cedar Hill was at 2,635 in '22 and 2,634 in '20. I'm assuming it's their TEA number but Desoto was at 2,734 in '21. The enrollments for those SW Dallas County schools is relatively stagnant when compared to some of the other metro area schools. Lancaster is the "country" part of Dallas County kind of like Crosby is to Harris County. They have room to grow and with them already sitting at 2,185 last snapshot I think they'll actually be moving to 6A next realignment. They picked up 84 kids from '20 snapshot to '22, if they're still growing at that rate they could be up over 2,260 in October.

Talks about Nederland under pressure due to PNG's season last year(21 min mark). Also mentions putting "For Sale" signs in head coach's yards like PNG has been rumored to do in the past.

Those are just pics from their media days in their game jerseys. Some of them wear different numbers in practice jerseys. He easily stands out because he still wears the black cleats and gloves from his GCM days. If you zoom in on the pic in the bottom left corner you can see #13 with “Samuel” written across his helmet in red tape. [Hidden Content]

I'm not a fan of personal trainers for RB's so Levi doesn't really go to them. Wes goes to all of them though. I think that had an impact on getting the ball rolling for him, lots of additional promotion. He got invited by Demarco Murray for an unofficial to OU's Spring game before camp season even started, I wouldn't be surprised if they offered him in the not too distant future. I think he just came from Texas a couple of weeks ago too. It was kind of clear when they were both at the UTSA camp where Levi measured at 5'11"/193lbs/4.53/37" and no lost reps in 1 v 1's. Tim Yoder(RB coach) pulls him to the side after camp and say "Man you look good, we want to see you be more consistent on film though". Needless to say the two backs they offered that day had even less film than Levi. Wes is just going to be a junior and already 200lbs though. He also looks good running around cones for a kid that size, sometimes you recruit the physical traits even if the numbers may not be there.

If you come to the scrimmage tomorrow he'll be wearing #13. He ran with the #1 offense on Saturday during the scrimmage and stood out because he dropped a TD Eudy put right on his facemask. I would upload the HUDL film but you can't load pics and videos on here. Right now in the first two groups at receiver are Hammer(#21) and Samuel(#13) as the starters, Holman(#22 but #25 from last year), Brandt Wright(#1) and Odie(#12 BH transfer from Anahuac).

It's a two back system so both running backs start this year. The "A" back lines up in the slot more and catches the football more often, the "B" back lines up by the QB most times and is handed the ball more than it's thrown to him. If you watch Tyler Legacy film from 2021 you can see Jamarion Miller(Alabama) playing the "A" and Bryson Donnell(Texas Tech) playing the "B".

It's going to be interesting to see what Manvel looks like in a few years? They have a crazy building boom going on there just like the rest of the metro area but they already lost a huge chunk of high end athletes to Shadow Creek when they opened and now the south side of 288 has been cut out of their attendance zone too.

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Crosby 2013: QB: Aston Walter - 2,443 yards and 32 tds passing/1,011 yards and 10 tds rushing RB: Austin Walter - 2,706 rushing yards and 33tds. 26 recs. for 519 yards and 4 tds (Only played 6 full games) WR: Raelon Singleton - 33 recs. for 773 yards and 16 tds receiving

What tentatively look to be Crosby's offensive skill starters based on this weekend's inter-squad scrimmage: QB: Kade Eudy - 6'1"/170lbs RB(A): Levi Fontenot - 5'11" - 197lbs RB(B): Wesley Yarbrough - 5'11"/200lbs TE: Cash Glover - 6'2"/205lbs WR: Nick Samuel - 6'1"/180lbs WR: Landen Hammer - 6'1"/185lbs Who I could see with the 1's on the O-line LT: Nate O'Flaherty - 6'3"/265 LG: AJ Johnson - 6'3"/330lbs RT: Levi Langley - 6'4"/260lbs - Defense wore jerseys with no numbers so really couldn't tell who all was out there. Will try to get the names and positions at the Lamar scrimmage Thursday Takeaways from the scrimmage: - Offensive 1's only scored once on the #1 defense. Starting receivers dropped two beautiful balls from Eudy. Overall executed the offense a little better than may be expected after only two weeks. - Defense is probably a step ahead of the offense which is what you would want at this point in the season considering the circumstances. LB's were the strongest position group as expected. - Team has the most size and depth since the Riordan days, 2013-2017 particularly

Crosby 2025 RB Wesley Yarbrough gets 4 ⭐️’s from Rivals after picking up another P5 offer from Oklahoma State this weekend. [Hidden Content]