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Can somebody break down the ruckus in the endzone after Rooney scored? We had to leave right after. The band left early to prep for UIL competition tomorrow.

The fact Cedric Patterson is ranked that high with Sqwrl, Jaiden, Rooney and Chance Smith (My new favorite under-the-radar player) on the team is pretty impressive. Except for the KP game (I wasn't there, just updated from wife and friends) a lot of these players are only in on 1/2 to 3/4 of the snaps.

Against Crosby, that same LB/RB played defense only the first quarter. Once they were behind, they pulled him on 2nd and 3rd downs to get ready to play RB. He ran all over that defense. Just a power runner with good blocking in front of him. That is a painful memory.

There is always the possibility I messed up some of my own math. It should be pretty easy to count to 8 but I have been known to get it wrong.

21-5A had one game this week that I guessed wrong but it was the most likely to split one way or the other. Teams in the mix and my final prediction are below. Porter (3-1) – Beat Dayton, did not expect that but it is not a shocker. I don’t see it happening but they could win out with NC overlooking them. Highly doubt it. There is a last game of the season…. Dayton (2-3) – Lost to Porter. Have a tough game with Crosby. Then Kingwood Park. Very easy to see both of those as losses. This would put Dayton out of the playoff picture and the Caney Creek game could be a loss. Dayton has to win out the rest of the way to get in. This past week was probably the deal breaker for Dayton. Barbers Hill (3-2) – Beat Splendora. They should beat Humble. I expect a loss to New Caney. The last game of the season…. Kingwood Park (1-3) – Idle. Very possible they win out. Dayton is a winnable game. They should go 4-0 to finish the year and get into the playoffs. 1. Crosby (8-0) 2. New Caney (7-1) 3. Things break Down with 3 teams at 5-3. If Porter wins the last game then this is pretty easy. Both Porter and Kingwood Park are in with tie breakers over BH. If Barbers Hill wins, it becomes a 3 way tie as far as who beat who. DCTF is saying KP and Porter are in. They probably know the tie breakers for the district. Google “Texas football district tiebreakers” and see what madness you can find. There is a game every year that is a complete shocker. I see some candidates on the horizon. I will stop there.

I am guilty of over analyzing the coaching/talent/game management and the effect on the outcomes of the games. There is a point where it boils down to Talent V. Talent. My opinion is that coaching has a much greater impact than all these other things combined. But it has to be taken in perspective. Attitude, discipline, preparedness, and execution are established by the coaches and then demonstrated by the kids. But even if this is done 100% correctly, teams will get beat by talent. How many teams have you seen with better talent that lose?

I think the stats are entered by the same people who enter the rosters and other info. Some teams just don't stay up on them. I have "admin" account for Crosby that was granted to me and it says I can change the roster and schedule. I don't mess with it. I just did the play by play at the Jasper and BH game and it rewarded me (gamification design for you Usability experts) with that "Admin" label. You guys dare me to add Hugh G. Butts to the roster?

I don't want the Crosby defense to play against Vidor's offense. Crosby has the right defensive gameplan for that Offense, but it is not their base and I don't know if they have the horses. Crosby should score on the Vidor defense. A lot. But it will come at a physical cost. Vidor makes teams earn their points. The Vidor offense will win or lose that game. Their strength / Crosby weakness. Do not like. (WHY AREN'T MORE FOOTBALL TEAMS RUNNING THAT MASTERPIECE OF BEAUTY AND VIOLENCE!!)

Dayton is going to need to wind 3 of the next 4 to get in. BH has the tiebreaker. If Dayton goes 2-2, they probably lost to K-Park or Porter. Both K-Park and Porter can reasonable get to 5-3. Tie breakers start to hurt Dayton. The numbers are against Dayton in my opinion. I think they need 6 wins. If that is your gut feeling on it, Go Get Those 3 W's Dayton!! That would be a pretty cool story.

I kinda admitted in my post that I didn't give this team enough credit before the season. My error. This O-line isn't great. Better than average. O-Line play had dumb holding penalties against better teams the first 2 games. They have been better against inferior teams. That is Average Play 77 is a first year starter. He has played as if he had more experience. That is better than I expected. O-line play is better than last year. Last year was poor. I expected this year to be average. O-line is better than average. They are not great. Howard doesn't hold the ball 6 seconds. If the time is there, he takes it and makes a decision. If not, he gets the ball out. Last year, 16 would drop back, read hot receiver, loop around perceived pressure, and his athleticism would take over most of the time. One of the reasons the O-Line looks so much better is how fast the ball gets out. When they direct snap to 21 or he runs hard at the "A" gaps, the O-line is just in the way. When 21 can attack so fast, and 11 can catch anything thrown to him, teams are less likely to send pressure. They are sitting in their zones and responsibilities, trying to prevent getting burned. They are still getting burned. This receiver group is not the same. CPIII is on fire. Crosby hasn't faced a press corner that can compete physically. When that happens, will 88, 10, and 9 be able to produce. Nobody knows yet. New Caney had a corner that could do that last year. Crosby graduated: Terryl Wiley (#9 fills this role but he isn't the threat Wiley was) Shammah Brooks (played corner some too) Jordan Hill Trey Edwards WR that moved up CPIII Rooney Woodard

@rykerx144 You took the time to post that my post was too long but you couldn't read the second line that gave your a very short summary? I put that summary there for this exact reason. For you. If you have a burning desire to share your wit, try twitter.

I have posted a long diatribe that got folks riled up about this. The quote thing isn't working or I am too dumb to figure it out. I am copying and pasting manually. "I think the staff has done an amazing job since coming to the Hill." - Eagle82 Yep, I agree with you. "The coach can't make these young men catch the ball when thrown to them. The coach can NOT make these young men NOT hold or jump offsides." - Eagle 82. Nope. I do not agree. Discipline (doing it the right way, over and over) and attitude (ownership of results) is a reflection of the culture. The culture is established and/or maintained by the Head Coach. A catchable ball that is dropped is a discipline problem. Offside and false start penalties are examples of poor discipline. Find the best coaches out there and see what they will not tolerate. Undisciplined behavior loses football games that teams should win. A team with a poor attitude shouldn't win any football games. This BH team doesn't have an attitude problem that I can see. I think they have a winning attitude. This should come first. I am not saying fire the guy. That isn't at all what I mean. It is intellectually dishonest to lay a breakdown of physical and mental discipline at the feet of the players. More gassers won't fix it either. Poor discipline at Barbers Hill lies at the feet of Tom Westerberg. Do you think he would tell you anything different? Didn't Barbers Hill win this game?

It is far too early for this conversation, but...at this point, I (and just me, I know the teams aren't) am looking at playoff placement. I think Crosby and New Caney get in. So is Crosby D1or D2? Preference is D2. That is answered by the attendance of the other two. The only others with lower attendance are: Barbers Hill (2-2) - 1527 Dayton (2-2) - 1494 Splendora (1-2) - 1106 From the comments of many here (you guys are solid, right?) Kingwood Park could possibly get into the mix here. They bump Porter or BH. Both scenario's keep Crosby at D2. Ok. I am looking at it again. Porter - They have 2 winnable games (Hum, Splen) on the schedule. 3 tough ones (Day, BH, NC). They finish 4-4 Dayton - Beat Porter, Lose Crosby, Lose Kingwood Park, Beat Caney Creek. They finish 4-4 Kingwood Park - Beat Caney Creek, Beat Dayton, (this is where I see the error of my 3-5 prediction), Beat Splendora, Beat Humble. They finish 5-3. Barbers Hill - Beat Splendora, Beat Humble, Lose New Caney, Win Porter. Finish 5-3. Top 4 based on this scenario is - Crosby (8-0) New Caney (7-1) Barbers Hill (5-3) Kingwood Park (5-3) This....this is why this is so dumb to talk about this stuff halfway through the season. Too many things to get sorted out. And I can promise you I will be back for more. I gotta get back to work.

I think the Vidor team from last year would beat this years Crosby team. This early in the season it is hard to say anything with authority but I don't think Vidor can score fast enough. I don't have the stats from last year but did Vidor graduate their 2 all-time leading rushers? I was told that but that don't make it true.

Well, that will depends on the team for sure. Vidor from last year(and they aren't the same this year)? Nope. A team like FB Marshall from last year? Nope. A few turnovers or penalties fall the Crosby way and they have a shot to go a little deeper.

Kingwood Park will lose to Dayton.

I think Kingwood Park needs to add 3 wins to squeeze in. You are predicting the following, I assume - Caney Creek - W Dayton - L Splendora - W Humble - W That takes KP to 4-4. And the win over Barbers Hill puts them at the #4 spot if they have equal records. (I am stating what I believe you are predicting). This scenario seems more likely than what I predicted.

The following is an assumption by me. Please correct If I am wrong. Four teams from the district make the playoffs. Those four teams are decided by (in order)- Win/Loss record in District Head-to-Head record (X and Y have same record, X beat Y, X has a higher rank for playoff eligibility) Well, lets start here. The following is attendance arranged from highest to lowest. File is found HERE. Caney Creek (0-4) - 1976.5 Kingwood Park (1-3) - 1836 Porter (2-1) - 1787.5 Humble (1-2) - 1719.5 New Caney (4-0) - 1706.5 Crosby (3-0) - 1668 Barbers Hill (2-2) - 1527 Dayton (2-2) - 1494 Splendora (1-2) - 1106 If the Playoffs started tomorrow - New Caney (4-0) - 1706.5 DIV I Crosby (3-0) - 1668 DIV II Porter (2-1) - 1787.5 DIV I Barbers Hill (2-2) - 1527 DIV II Dayton (2-2) - 1494 Splendora (1-2) - 1106 Humble (1-2) - 1719.5 Kingwood Park (1-3) - 1836 Caney Creek (0-4) - 1976.5 I expect Crosby and New Caney to be #1 and #2 regardless of last game outcome. That is a reasonable assumption. The only way Crosby gets pushed into DIV I is for Dayton or Splendora to take over for Porter. Splendora - They have BH, Porter, and Crosby in the next 3 games. Not likely they move into the group without replacing BH. And then it is just a wash. Dayton - This is possible. Beat Porter at Porter. Go to 3-2, Porter goes to 2-2. Win the Crosby game at home (doable)....my head starts spinning trying to keep track. My prediction with final W/L - Crosby (8-0) - 1668 DIV II New Caney (7-1) - 1706.5 DIV I Porter (5-3) - 1787.5 DIV I Barbers Hill (4-4) - 1527 DIV II Dayton (4-4) - 1494 (loss to BH) Kingwood Park (3-5) - 1836 Splendora (2-6) - 1106 Humble (2-6) - 1719.5 Caney Creek (0-8) - 1976.5

1800 words in this post. Sorry. This is my TL;DR (Too Long; Didn’t Read) summary – · I am just a fan, band dad, Saturday Morning QB · Crosby was supposed to be in a down year, young defense. · Offense is better than expected, Craig Williams is an amazing RB. · 5-0 is 5-0. Beating the teams Crosby is supposed to beat. · Dayton and New Caney are the biggest games coming up. o New Caney has an interesting QB dilemma. I am 5,261 miles away from Crosby at the moment. I am jet-lagged. Hopped up on Turkish coffee and schnitzel. What do you do when you can’t sleep? Make wild assumptions and over analyze a game regulated by blind men, coached by angry workaholics, and played by children. I don’t have any sources on the team. I know a lot of the kids and their parents but I don’t ask them about football stuff. Seems weird to do that. I am fairly open about my ignorance on what happens on the sidelines, in the locker rooms, and the coach’s office. You don’t have to remind me. IMPRESSIONS Pre-season - The feeling was this was going to be a mediocre to down year. I didn’t count but a lot of kids that played last year are playing college football. A starter on the O-line did not return for his senior season. But you had a junior QB coming in that looked good last year as a sophomore. 21 is going to be 21. Nothing really to say about him. Watch the tape. Defense - Lots of starters on defense graduated. Returned one starter (now he is injured, I don’t want to talk about that). Going to be a young defense and quite a few sophomores were promoted to Varsity. Learning year for the defense. This assumption has been accurate. I was not a fan of this defense. Add a young DB group and it could get ugly. But it really hasn’t been a disaster. They make mistakes and get suckered. And then they play lights out for short spurts. It feels like a “bend don’t break” kind of defense but they bend too far. That is a topic for another thread. I think the defense has performed OK, done enough. Offense - I didn’t expect the offense to be this good. It makes sense though. 21 is great. That was a given. QB play has been better than expected. Decision making is better than expected. O-Line play is better than expected, it’s not great but I didn’t expect it to be. WR play is better than expected for the most part. 11 is over performing. He is really good. I would like to see a better distribution of the ball (9 had a heck of a game v. Porter) but that is tough when they score so fast on the first read. 88 has had a couple drops but he can’t get into a rhythm they have been scoring too fast. 10 is going to turn some heads if he gets the chance. Part of the overall game philosophy for Crosby is hitting homeruns. Score fast. Play sound defense. The longer the opposing offense is on the field, the more likely bad things(turnovers) will happen. This offense has left 7 TD’s on the field due to holding. 7 in 5 games. I think 5 of them in the first two games. I can confidently say 6 of the 7 calls were holds that would have had zero impact on the TD. But it is what it is. My point is, this team will find the endzone. Fast. The O-line has cleaned up the flags. They are steadily scoring more points. Overperforming. SCHEDULE – Games Played (5-0) So far this has been an interesting season. Lost the first 2 opponents to the hurricane and picked up Jasper. I have made all the games except Kingwood Park. I was travelling. I was updated by my wife, a couple of friends non-stop. (paid $21 bucks for United in-flight wifi, robbery). Here is my uninformed (see above) summary: Manvel (Cancelled) - I am going to go out on a limb here and say the Manvel game would have been a loss. I do love the idea of playing up when you get the chance, so not playing that game is a negative to me. Heights (Cancelled) / Jasper (Win 42-36) – (Psst…let me tell you a secret…Jasper is a better team than the Heights) Picking up Jasper was a positive. That was a physical game that was tougher than expected. Crosby scored early twice but Jasper never quit and was busting their butts to get ahead. Crosby errors worked against them and Jasper was capitalizing. It felt like Crosby fan had a guaranteed win here in the 1Q. Sure didn't feel that way at the end of the game. Hype doesn't win football games, but it will lose them. Jasper woke up a few of the Crosby kids, there are no easy games on the schedule. Barbers Hill (Win 48-32) - The final score is not fair to Barbers Hill. They led all the way deep into the 3rd quarter, I believe. This was a great back and forth game. They played hard but at the end, both teams may have been running on fumes but the Crosby speed was running better. As an aside, not only was this a winnable game for BH, but it is my opinion (about 20 rows up in the bleachers) that TW lost this game. BH took the lead early. Down two RB’s? Had one, two handoffs? Zero adjustments or creativity. I could set my watch to a QB run to the right on first down. It was run, run, screen or throw deep. BH was up until 2 minutes left in the 3Q. If you don’t love what TW is doing in Barbers Hill then you don’t love high school athletics. But this loss is on the coach. Porter (Win 42-35) – I really like the Porter QB. He had a good night. 16-26 for 219 yards and 3 TD’s. This game was fun but too close at the half 21-21. At the half, I was thinking this was another game that Crosby throws up easy points and then cruises way too early. Porter scores 21pts in the second quarter. Defense y’all. Crosby threw in some wrinkles in the second half that I hadn’t seen. Walked away throughout the second half. The second half of this game is where the offense begins a run that they are currently still riding. LCM-Mauriceville (Win 58-14) – I made it to the game right before the half. Score was 50-6. Not really a whole lot to say. But, I think LCM has some legit athletes. There is some speed there. I only saw a little bit of meaningful play so I can’t form an opinion that I can defend. Backup offense looked good. 50 points in the first half is a lot for Crosby. They do not post 50 on folks in a half. Everything was just clicking. Kingwood Park (Win 63-45) - I was on a flight with my wife and friends updating me. I couldn’t keep up with the TD’s being scored. Now that I have watched the video, this is a good sign. Not the score (which is good) but the different wrinkles thrown in. · Hook and ladder play · Direct snap to 21 · A-gap runs by 21 (he blew by the lineman and LB’s before they could blink) The team speed is really unique here. Crosby overall is fast. 21 took over this game but the whole team was working. Craig’s stat line on this game is pretty cool. 326 yards – 7TD’s. His coach at Baylor was at the game. 717 yards of balanced offense. Oh my. SCHEDULE Games Remaining (Prediction 4-1) If you are a Crosby fan, that “4-1” above will irritate you. I think Crosby should win the rest of the games on the schedule. The odds are they lose one. Undefeated regular seasons are not easy for any team. And not likely. But totally doable. I don’t predict scores. Way too much going on and I am too emotional to be trusted. Caney Creek (W) - This should be a win. This is the lowest ranked team on the schedule and I don’t think they have too many illusions about playing a hot Crosby team, in Crosby, on homecoming. Dayton (W) - Tied for most dangerous game on the schedule. It is in Dayton. Dayton will always play Crosby tough. It is a rivalry game. The fun part is the comments of people who aren’t from Dayton or Crosby and don’t realize how this game is just different. Every year. My boy in JH knows it. Dayton looks fast too. Just not fast enough. Splendora (W) - Don’t take the 20-7 loss from New Caney seriously. New Caney was not interested in airing it out. This should be a win but if Crosby blows out Dayton, the pressure for an undefeated season will mount. I don’t expect a lot of shenanigans if Crosby is up early. Humble (W) – Another win here. Humble just kills me. K Park too. They always have athletes but they never can seem to put it together. I have heard that it is too many good 6A schools that are too close. The better talent ends up at Atascocita. That sucks if its true. New Caney (W) - Tied for most dangerous game on the schedule. This game is at Crosby so there is a trend there. Last game of the season. District championship on the line. I haven’t run the numbers but possible playoff seeding also. Crosby scores a lot of points but they allow a lot also. New Caney can score and plays some defense. An advantage for Crosby is something that you may think is a good thing for New Caney, but it is risky (ask Barbers Hill). The New Caney QB started the year running the ball. Like a lot. He is their leading yard eater. But the numbers have come way down. The scoring in the last two games is down too. He isn’t a standout passer but he hasn’t had to be. He didn’t need to run the ball to beat Dayton or Splendora. To beat BH and Porter, New Caney is going to need him to run. A lot. There is a chance he comes into Crosby just after playing 2 physical football games or 2 losses. And maybe both. Playoffs?!?! Another post, another time. Can’t wait to get home!

I am curious of the snap count difference and scores for Q1-Q3 in the last couple games. This defense seems to be on the field for twice as long as the offense and only gives up half the points. The TD's in the 4th are not relevant. Crosby plays clock burn offense and the opponent is scrambling to score.

Ummm....yeah. Good job, good effort.

Dude...you could have warned me. This was the first half team, purple jerseys and pants. Kid played RB and MLB. He was good. He scored on the first play of the game. The team recovered the kickoff. Passing TD the next play. Beautiful pass to a small kid that could catch. Really good hands and he is salty. Team was athletic and tough. Not the fastest but powerful. Score was 20-0 at the half. I don't think that team was trying to run up a score after those first 2 TD's. The Crosby defense did step up a little too. That big RB didn't carry a ton after the first quarter. Second half team (Port Neches? White pants) were also athletic but not as much. Got hurt with some penalties (over aggressive DE's). Final score was 20-13. Aren't middle school PAT kicks 2pts? Crosby kicked one but were given 1 point. I talked to one of the dads after the game. He said this group were little league champions and they have a decent core group. They looked really good. Great trip with really friendly people.

Corner. He was 2nd team all district last year as a junior. 2 O-Linemen are not playing this week. I think. Just rumors from football parents around town.

I made a comment on another thread about TW and how long until BH starts casting some doubts. That thread got shut down. Not sure why. It felt constructive and I am a big TW fan, even more so after reading the article. Good people. This is a good thread to carry this conversation though - "Who in the world does this person think BH is going to hire who will "pick up the bill with W's"? From where will you lure a bigger fish than TW to come to BH and take advantage of the "resources and facilities"? You plucked a multi time 6A state championship winning coach from the largest school in the state and you guys still think there is a bigger fish that you can lure to MONT BELVIEU???? It's ridiculous." This was from 2wedge (I don't know how to tag that person) directed at my comment. My response is below. There are no bigger fish available. But.....Let's hire the best house painter in the world. Money is no object but he does get paid monthly. We have the best paint and brushes on the market. We know we have an amazing house, we believe in quality. But part of his process is apply some primer first and then the paint. Actually the priming task is the most painstaking, complicated part of the job. But we know, if the priming process is done correctly, this will be the best paint job in the neighborhood. Month 1 - He is priming most of the month. There is a little paint on the eaves but we knew this was coming. It's fine. Part of the process. Write the check. Month 2 - Still priming. Had a couple of rainy days. Slowed down the painting process. A little more paint on the eaves so that is OK. Write the check. Month 3 - Priming as normal. Some more paint is up so that is good. A little peeling on eaves from the weather but we can't control that. It happens. Write the check. ............you can see where this is going. At some point either the house gets an elite paint job (compete for championships), or you fire the painter. Doesn't matter how much priming he does. TW has to win to keep his job - Coaches get bigger and better jobs based on their history. They don't get to KEEP them based on their history. That is a fact. TW has a history of building a great program that won multiple champions in the largest and toughest classification in high school football in the country. That qualifies a coach for a job, that doesn't entitle a coach to a job. TW has to win to keep his job - Horrible programs have wins. That happens. Mediocre programs can have more wins just not consistently. Great programs compete for championships. The money, resources, and facilities that is invested and available at BH is not for a mediocre program. BH is expecting to build a program that competes for championships. If TW is building a great program (and I think he is) then the wins will be there. TW cannot keep his job building a program that does not accumulate wins.

Yep...He is out.