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I agree. I don't think they will score more than one touchdown, IF they score that. The Chain Gang has tasted the sweetness of the shut-outs and I am hoping they are hungry for more. I know it's a long shot to predict a shut out and may be wishful thinking on my part but.... However, THIS is the year they were supposed to be rebuilding. There are a LOT of young, inexperienced players on the team. Heck, Coach Thompson was STILL moving people around two weeks ago, trying to find the best fit for the players, when most defenses (and WOS' especially) are already set way before now. We as Mustang fans expect MUCH. We know going into a year that it is a "down" year, yet we are so disappointed and so critical when we lose in the second round of the playoffs. LOL...There are teams and coaches across the state who have never experienced post-season play and we have been fortunate enough year in and year out to participate in the excitement and spirit of the playoffs. We EXPECT to win and I think that attitude transfers to our players and they go into the games with that attitude. I guess that accounts for the tremendous disappointment that we feel when we do finally lose. Anyway...Go Stangs...Beat the Tigers....

I thought the LCM kids played hard down to the last second against WOS. Never saw any of them give up.

'Stangs Corral Tigers--- Ponies End Tigers' Hopes of Post-Season Prey

It was 1987 and the first year that I started watching the 'Stangs play. I do not remember if it was Kevin Smith or Quentin Tezeno but one of them had just caught a touchdown pass in the endzone (jump ball) and the opponent was lying face down on the ground. Our receiver put the ball down on the ground in front of the other player. It was not a taunting penalty back then. It is now.

WOS....we have to keep the streak alive....We have to try to eliminate Silsbee so we can go D-1 round.

Based on the overall season so far, and having seen HF play, I'm going with HF. I think Jasper will be fired up because of the win, but they may take for granted that the rest of the teams in 21-3A are like BC. They'll have their hands full. HF wins it by 2 TD's.

Number 72, just like I said! Let's see if we can get #73 from Silsbee. It will be tough, but so is our defense. Let's go 'Stangs....hit 'em hard Chain Gang.

Did Poo Poo play? Heard he was supposed to be suspended from one game....Got into trouble before the WOS game and coach said he would be suspended for one game but NOT the WOS game.

Heard their coach wasn't happy at the half. He was dropping the f-bomb at our coaches. Gimme a break. He didn't even have a game plan. He ran the ball straight up the middle. You cannot run the ball up the middle against the 'Stangs. Heard one of WOS coaches say Hawk coach was just trying to run out the clock (the entire game). What kind of message does that send to your players? We'll just lay down before the game even starts.

According to one of the other messages, Frost has cancelled their season, so their fight song has now changed.....Any suggestions?

Their fight song is Winter Wonderland

That doesn't matter. As long as they work together toward the main goal! We don't want one playing against the other.

Lee is dropping because of the new hs in Baytown? Sterling is staying the same?

Hey PAT: you're right. Why should they create new districts for smaller schools. I didn't want to mention in my letter to UIL that I was from WOS for fear of bias....but we have beaten schools twice our size for years. We have lost to them, too. Maybe I am speaking with a forked tongue, I don't know. I'm sorry that I am ignorant about your district...I don't know who all is in your district now, but if it's not those schools that you named, it is dumb. They are closer, unless you go play Sulphur or Barbe in LA. LOL! Who is in your district now? Do you know what they are proposing for your district?

Well, here goes nuthin'....I sent the following email to the UIL athletic department. I have read recently that there seems to be controversy over the proposed realignment scheduled to take place in Feb, 2008. I hope you will take time to read my suggestion. You currently have three teams in the playoff appearances in each district. The largest school, regardless of finish, goes to the large school bracket and the other two schools go into the small school bracket. My proposal is to allow a two team large school bracket and a one team small school bracket. Since there is such a difference in the top and bottom of each bracket, it only makes sense to have a two school large bracket and one school D-2 bracket. Furthermore, the smaller school would have one less game to play, as the large schools currently have, and the D-1 schools would play the one extra week. This would alleviate the discrepancies now felt by the smaller schools, plus provide the UIL with more of the larger school attendance at the playoff games. More attendance means more money for everybody. Your proposal is to create new districts with like-sized attendance. If those schools cannot compete in the districts they are currently in, they certainly will not be able to compete in playoff appearances. And you will create districts where there are four, five, or even six really good teams that are playoff potential teams yet three of those teams stay home while extremely weak teams enter the playoffs. There are always larger teams in each district, yet the largest team does not always win the district crown. Thre are instances where the school with the third largest enrollment wins the district crown outright, but the large school has an easier route. Fairness is in who wins the spot for the playoffs in each district, not creating districts so weaker teams can claim district crowns when they are not worthy and cannot meet the challenges of the playoffs anyway.

I've always heard that UIL is about making money. Since you would have the two school LARGE bracket, that would give you (usually) the largest attendance, ergo the largest amount of money.

I had a nephew on the Sealy team for the last couple of years. When it came time to renew schedule games two years ago, I asked my nephew to ask his coach at Sealy if they could play WOS. Nephew said coach looked at him like he was crazy and basically said, "It ain't gonna happen." However, they do have a new coach there this year, so who knows?

Ok, herei it goes. For years, while WOS was in 4A, we had the smallest enrollment of any school in the playoffs. We also had the hardest and longest route. We week in, week out played schools twice our size. (I am mainlytalkng about 2000, but the same idea applies now)The larger school playoff game finished ONE week before the smaller school championship game, which meant they had less opponents to play. If they had put the largest TWO of the top three teams in each district in the D-1 category, the field might/would have been a little more even. There were schools closer to our size getting beaten week in, week out by the large Austin/Dallas teams. We were fortunate enough to have talent and an outstanding group of young men that year. This year, in 21 3A, suppose WOS, Silsbee and Kirbyville make the playoffs. No matter who finishes where, they are the top 3 teams in the district. K'ville goes in the small school bracket and WOS and Silsbee go in the large school bracket. Since there is such a difference in the top and the bottom of the district enrollments, it makes more sense to let the two with the largest enrollments go to the large school division and the smaller school goes to the D-2 route. Like someone else said in an earlier post, putting the smallest schools in a district all by themselves, with more travel time, more $$$, etc., they may make one round of the playoffs anyway, because they earned it in their district. However, they are eventually going to play larger schools anyway, unless they are going to create a super small enrollment championship game, which would be totally outrageous. Either make the D-1 a two school bracket and the smallest of the top three in each district the one bracket playoff or go back to one state champion in each classification. There are idiotic 3-7 teams making the playoffs when we have four and five good teams in our district that get left out of the playoffs every year (and our fourth and fifth place teams could beat most of those 3-7 team districts any day of the week). I just don't think more travel is the answer.

Sorry...that was the only explanation that I could come up with at such short notice. lol Sounded good anyway, right?

The problem with what they are proposing is that we would travel completely through one district that we play now to play another school. Granted, we do that anyway in pre-season but O'field is 10 miles from us and they would be in a completely different district.

I think the coaches probably feel that since he missed what some of the other players did NOT miss, he needs a rest. I had a nephew that played at Sealy last year. We went to my Grandmother's funeral on their OFF week. He missed two days of practice on their OFF week. Made practice the entire week of the next game and was benched for the entire game. I wondered the same thing myself...what's up with that? As far as school activities go....they can participate in other things, but pick which one is most important to him.

Well, I know that 2 years ago when the count meant something for class standings, WOS had just received an influx of Katrina kids. I know that most of those students have left the district. Fortunately, Tim Matherne and his family stayed. LCM gets most of the ones that leave WOS.

Exactly. And since this is the SECOND year of the contracts, I doubt very seriously that Coach C called OP to get a game for this year. The kid has tripped....but we have all had fun with it for several pages. lol

Why don't we just have a "Golden Triangle Bowl", let Lumberton play everybody around here and see how they stack up. After they come out alive from that.....then they can advance west.

I'm pretty sure Deweyville is 2A and I think Huffman moved up to 4A.Don't think they would be in O'field's district.