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1 hour ago, BBfan061 said:

Bellville vs Wimberley 

That sounds like a good one. I’d love to see Bellville in person. 

18 minutes ago, FearTheSpear said:

Yea I watched on nfhsnetwork.  SOC’s quarterback has horrible mechanics.  Danny Green is tough but no better than the Bears kid from Lake Creek.  They’re not sexy, they just lean on you kinda like what PNG does.  They’ll definitely beat Emerson but I highly doubt it’s as bad as the game today.  I quit watching at the end of the 3rd to go watch my daughter in the parade in Groves 

SOC and PNG are mirrors of each other, though SoC is more talented. I think there’s some coaching tree overlap, I just don’t know how much. Coach Joseph and the defensive coordinator at SOC coached together at Southlake Carroll, at least. 

1 hour ago, FearTheSpear said:

I watched it, Lovejoy shot themselves in the foot all game long.  Questionable coaching, super aggressive and he bit them.  Their D line was a little undersized and SOC made them pay.  SOC wasn’t flashy, I think they were better last year but still extremely tough.  Emerson is gonna score on them, no question about that.  

Where did you watch the game? (I’m assuming you watched online) 

14 minutes ago, FrodoNDN said:

Is there a message board that the Liberty Hill fans go to

i don’t know if this is the main chat, but it’s had a little activity today 

17 minutes ago, LHFan80 said:

Howdy from Liberty Hill !  Come over to talk to you fine people from the East of our great state of Texas .  Enjoyed the talks last yr . Reading on here this year looks like y'all done kicked the scat out of us before the young men have evern taken the field . I understand what LH is up against but the boys like to play football and win or lose that doesn't change from year to year .  It's been a tuff yr for the Panthers injury wise but they got some players back just in time to run the table over here in region 4 .   Yeah the defense is had to grow up a lot this yr . They getting better but having said that it's going to be a tuff row to hoe this week .  But here's to a gd game for both teams with no injuries . For sure the winner of this game it's going to need all hands on deck for the big game and for sure I'll be pulling for the winner either way our game turns out .     Sorry for the long post , I'll try to keep future post shorter .... LHFan80

 

Long posts are welcome. I’d especially like to hear what folks over there are thinking about this game 

Wow 

1 minute ago, PhatMack19 said:

They are playing at a baseball field 

 

 

 

That’s wild

Anyone know if there’s a livestream for this one? 

4 minutes ago, NHSBulldogFan said:

Don't give the UIL ideas now😄

I think the UIL should adopt a rule that if two stadiums are proposed and both are available (and relatively equidistant) the one with the largest capacity must be selected. Easy peasy. 

1 minute ago, pine curtain said:

was being serious. 

UIL is losing money on ticket sales and could pick the stadiums in the semis just like they do in other sports.

Sorry - I’m being too salty. Apologies 

9 minutes ago, pine curtain said:

you should contact the UIL and express your displeasure.

Or, I can do what you’re doing and express my opinion here. Don’t act like you’re “above” this. No one’s forcing you to be here. 

23 minutes ago, pine curtain said:

11k capacity......let the crying begin

There should be crying - It’s horse crap to arbitrarily deny fans the ability to watch the game. The whole point of high school football is community involvement. It’s not our fault our playoff opponents don’t have communities (including our friends from the surrounding SETX community who show up for each other) that care about their team enough to get on the road and watch. The gamesmanship of trying to find smaller stadiums to leave PNG fans out is pathetic and cowardly. If they can leave us out, how about just have no fans at all? If PNG has to turn 2,000-3,000 fans away, Liberty Hill should have to turn that many away as well , but everyone knows they would have no fans at all if they had to do that. The fact is you could hold this game on the moon and we’d still show up, and most other teams struggle to fill up their home stadiums. And, it’s going to backfire - Now Liberty Hill will be utterly surrounded by PNG in a more confined space. They’re going to have PTSD from hearing Cherokee. 

13 minutes ago, FearTheSpear said:

My 10 year old got on the mic while waiting for burritos  hollering WHO ARE WE!!??  Followed by PNG!!  Throughout Buc-ee’s 🤦🏻‍♂️

Did anyone get pictures from last night at buccee’s? 

Watching more of last night’s LH/Pieper game, I think Pieper would have beaten LH with a healthy qb. LH didn’t do anything special on defense, they were just up against a team with a guy throwing from a hurt leg - He could barely move, and it seems to have affected his accuracy. 

2 minutes ago, myrecordwashorrible said:

Sat on Huntsville's side last night. Never, yes never do I recall noticing a fan base other than the numbers. Seeing from the opposite side was interesting. That was a sight to behold and very impressive.  Not sure how to describe it other than to say again, impressive. 

I’ve always wanted to do that, to see PNG from the other side. 

1 hour ago, PN-G bamatex said:

I want to share a story from last year.

After the game, my folks and I went to the Whiskey Cake in Katy for a very late dinner. I had driven in from Leander that afternoon and they had left PN-G late due to work. Nobody’d had the time to eat beforehand.

There was a family in the restaurant from Liberty Hill sitting a few tables down from us. They had a little girl with them, maybe seven or eight years old, and an older boy who appeared to be late middle school or early high school age. I figured he was a player on the freshman team.

That little girl realized we were from PN-G and gave us the evil eye for the entire dinner. I’m talking a full hour of this girl glaring at us from across the dining area, non-stop. You could feel the heat coming off this girl’s gaze. I had to fight not to crack up all night because every time I’d look over to my left, I had the possessed girl’s hellish stare from the exorcism movie looking straight back at me. You could tell the PN-G crowd, the War Chant and Cherokee had driven this poor girl insane that night.

Her parents picked up on what was going on and came over to talk to us after they finished their meal. Couldn’t have been nicer folks. Wished us luck in the championship, complimented the fan base - just nice, small town people. I told them I lived just down the road in Leander and drove in for the game. Even for a fan base like Liberty Hill’s that generally travels well, you could tell they were shocked that out-of-town alumni would make a drive like that to see the Indians play.

This is the game where our fan base earned the “rabid” label online last year. Every time I think about that, I think about that ferocious glare from that little girl. I have a feeling I’m gonna feel it coming across the field at me again this year. Scalp ‘em!

Liberty Hill should put her on a shirt 

6 hours ago, NHSBulldogFan said:

Liberty Hill is actually smaller than they were last year I have the feeling it's going to be a long night for them against the PN-G offense

Their defensive line is shockingly small. I’m having trouble imagining a scenario where they stop our run game. 

Liberty Hill has probably had a rematch with PNG circled all season. Let’s get it going. 

Great season, Jasper! We were pulling for you. 

1 minute ago, Eazy said:

Well it was a good game.  Huntsville needed to have the 1st half look like the 2nd half.   PNG getting that lead was big.  Good season Huntsville.  

They played us really tough. 

1 hour ago, PhatMack19 said:

Fake FG.  Receiver comes from out of bounds to get the 1st by 3 inches.  
 

Huntsville ball on PNG 29

Refs helped so much on that drive 

11 minutes ago, Mr. Buddy Garrity said:

Westfield would beat Duncanville if they had a great QB IMO. Was still tempted to pick em.......

 

DeSoto and CH is a totally different animal, that's a true rivalry. Only thing that would surprise me in that one is if no one got ejected. 

 

 

Sorry for the hijack folks, just responding to a post. 

Specific to this game, you’re right that it’s not really accurate to call a Huntsville win an upset. They’re where they are for a reason, ranking and records don’t matter. Huntsville doesn’t have to be the best 6 weeks ago to beat us. They have to be the best this week. 

43 minutes ago, Mr. Buddy Garrity said:

There's no upsets at this point of the playoffs. 

Good point. 

I’ve been watching some Huntsville film. I’m predicting a grinding, slobberknocker game similar to the one PNG had against West Orange. Huntsville is big on the defensive line, and they don’t give up big plays. They’re also fast on the D line, with quick hands. Number 55 has multiple long runs after fumbles or interceptions. And they’re capable of closing off the run game similarly to Lake Creek. In the playoffs, their defense is a mirror to PNG’s (though we played the best offense in the region in Lake Creek). Looking only at their playoff performance, they’ve given up an average of 16 points a game, identical to PNG over the same period. That being said, PNG’s offense has been better than Huntsville’s, and I think that will make the difference. 
 

I see two likely scenarios:

One, PNG plays stiff defense and is able to move the ball relatively consistently, slowly inching up the score board for a final score around 21/28 to 7/14.

Two, Huntsville keeps it to a close, one-score game and whoever wins does it by the skin of their teeth. Huntsville wants a low-scoring game, of course.

I think we have the advantage in a shootout. The later the game goes with a 14-7 or 7-0 score, the more I start to see a Huntsville upset. Richmond and Texas City showed that if you let Huntsville hang around they can take advantage of it. We just have to come out clean, get up by a couple scores, and hang on. As improved as Huntsville’s defense has been, they haven’t shown the same leap on offense. If they have to play catchup, we control the game.