CardinalBacker

If by "money-making" you mean that Newton fans would show up and lay waste to a case and a half of smoked turkey legs. Newton doesn't travel worth a flip. Their fans don't leave Newton County until the playoffs start.

With all due respect..... Newton would get their feelings hurt. Every few years Newton goes on a rip and dominates the minor leagues and forgets that they're still Newton. You can hang with a lot of the middle of the road bigger schools, but it doesn't mean you can step up and hang with the elite big schools. Carthage would have put 40 on Newton this year.

I think Silsbee's dance card should be full with 5 District and 5 non-district matchups.

Yeah....

Crosby don't play on grass.

Actually, I think they lost all (or almost all) of their district games in 4AD1 last time, then went on a tear their first year in 5A (2016). They crashed back to earth for 2017, if my memory is correct. Maybe somebody from over there can clear that up.

I agree... anything less than domination by Lumberton will be seen as a letdown. Splendora always seems to underperform for their size, Livingston is either going to be champs or miss the playoffs... lots of inconsistency up there... but you know that. I'm anxious to see if Dubois can get BC back on track after a disastrous 2017 season. All jokes aside, I predict fantastic band performances and lackluster football to be the main characteristics of this district.

Well, for starters there aren't any black kids in the district, other than the ones in Livingston. Seriously. Whose bright idea was this?

Yeah.... I think we'll still be competitive. No easy wins for us, though.

I just realized that there isn't much left of that old district. Shame.

No.... they'll be 5A this year.

Like that Silsbee-BC matchup.

I think we'll claim the Worst Luck of the Draw for 2018 Award. 11-4A-I Bridge City (791) Huffman Hargrave (1075) Little Cypress-Mauriceville (1009) Livingston (1078.5) Lumberton (1125) Splendora (1156)

Yeah... but he'd only have about six kids take the field after the rest of them quit in two-a-days. I'm not hating... it would be the same if he went to BC.

Yeah..... I think we're about to come up with the short straw.

Did anybody give any indication of what happened to the annual matchup with BC?

While most of us recognize the value of choosing to play a good program like Newton in the buildup to district play, not everybody feels that way. If you are a coach with big aspirations of moving on in your coaching career, it’s hard to do much with a bad winning percentage. Locking yourself into 2-3 guaranteed Ls each year isn’t a good way to get a better paying gig. Plus, a big school playing Newton is kinda like picking a fight in a gay bar. You can’t brag if you win, but you’d better not lose.

“Screwed again.” Silsbee Fan

Does that mean since America elected Obama, we can’t be considered a racist place anymore?

But you have to be careful... lotta jags sounding like greenies from a few years back. It IS sad that pretty much all of Beaumont’s history is kinda like PA’s.... no more TJ, Lincoln, SFA, Central, Ozen, French, South Park, Central, Ozen, etc.... I know it’s progress, but it’s still a little depressing. The right thing to happen, but depressing none the less. Bright future though... there’s no bigger stage than 6A

That man could be in imminent danger.

I talked with someone today who absolutely knows the ropes over there. PNG absolutely has plans in place for kids who are able to graduate in December.

Congrats!

Meh.... he doesn’t have a problem being here 24-7 singing lil bro’s praises. A few years ago kids wouldn’t have dreamed of leaving their teammates behind for a new team for their senior year. It’s a changed world we live in. Everybody is ok with “taking their talents to Miami” or wherever. It’s no knock on the kid if he pulls out. It’s just the way things are these days.

“Allllllllllways be faasaaaaaithful.......”