JimThorpe

Cute. Very cute. I’m hoping it won’t turn into something akin to clubbing baby seals.

Is there a JV game? The portal schedule says the varsity game is at 5:30 and I was hoping that was true because I'm going over to the theater to watch the drama team perform "The Adams Family, School Addition" at 7.

In the immortal and oft repeated words of Cato the Elder, "Carthago delenta est."

There was pretty thick irony in this game. It was Bellville's passing that opened it up for them. If not for those 2 big completions, one for a touchdown, I think this game goes to the wire. All things being equal there's not way those guys get that open against Jasper. There was another one where the receiver was past the defense but the ball was overthrown.

Hmmm. What's it like to lose to a baby?

It was a good effort. First time Bellville was held scoreless in the first quarter.

Great night so far. Jasper leading Bellville and get this.... Gilmer is leading Carthage 21-15!

My crazy comment was that if Silsbee could do something about limiting return yards and if they could protect the quarterback they would have a chance if they got several big plays to boot. The Dave Campbell ranking was dumb. The Max Preps ranking of Silsbee at No. 6 made sense. The Tigers could play with anybody in the state EXCEPT the top three and perhaps Wimberly. I think Jaspers handling of Cuero bears that out. But those top three, Carthage, Bellville and Mt. Pleasant, all with ratings above 50, are just too strong.

I think it's on the Bellville network. [Hidden Content] I went ahead and did a NFHS subscription which I'll keep until the end of basketball season. The cost through March is less than one road trip to the Houston area. (depending on where we eat of course)

Congrats to WB, a solid team. But what a difference 3 days have made for the Tigers.

I don't know. The game at Silsbee looked like a real team effort for WB. 6A teams have a December advantage against small town 4A teams that have good football programs.

But it wasn't really that close was it? I mean 66 to 9 at the half? That's kind of remarkable. LaGrange, is 4A correct, with about 1000 students? To me this win says something about the potential capability of this Silsbee team against 4A competition once they get really on track by the end of the tournament season.

A win was expected but golly jeepers! That looks like shades of the Bush/McCain/Adams days. Actually I don't recall that group ever having quit this big a lead at half. This is the clubbing baby seals routine.

If Miller does play and plays as well as he did as a sophomore then Silsbee will go to State simply on the basis of talent. In the loss to FF in the semi two years ago he was the leading scorer and the most effective player on the court. Without Miller talent alone won't get them there. What about Westbrook? They looked pretty sharp. Decent 3pt shooting. But I don't see how they can do better than 3rd in that tough district. Third is not bad in that district actually.

Anybody know if there's any credence to the rumor that he's going to go ahead and graduate in Dec. and move on?

I think this game is a lot more interesting than it appears on paper. We could we be dealing with a Cinderella here. Remember, under the shabby stepdaughter attire Cinderella was a beautiful and sweet girl and had some good athletes. The Prince realized almost immediately that just because she finished third in her district it didn't mean she wasn't Princess material. She just needed the fireplace soot washed off and few extra weeks to perfect that defense. The difference here is our Cinderella already had a good coach.

Nobody thought this would happen. Silsbee beat a Jasper team that earlier today beat Cuero handily. We all knew that Silsbee would need big plays and breaks to pull it out. The matchup was bad we knew but it's much much worse than we ever imagined.

The Tigers didn't rank themselves. They're being overpowered in a terrible matchup. And actually I don't think MaxPreps has them much overrated at No. 6. This wouldn't happen against Cuero and I don't think it would happen against Wimberly or teams in the other two regions save for the top 3 or 4 teams.

And ending this season a couple of weeks earlier is going to be VERY important in March. The Tigers going deep and the serious injury to Harper probably cost us the region last year.

And because you'd be better off having Silsbee punt from their own end zone.

Oh shut up coach. You're up 21.

This video feed is almost unwatchable.

And we need to keep him that way, unhurt I mean.

One more unanswered score and I'm turning this one off. It's just too painful. I remember that Carthage game where they scored 50+ in the first half. I think we did have one score. This is shaping up to be even worse.

The imperative now is to not get any basketball players hurt.