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The longest losing streak we ever had against the same team was 5 in a row to TJ from 1980-1984

WO-S has been beaten by 30 pts or more only three times in it's 30 year history: 1996 Jasper - 41 WO-S - 0 2001 Nederland - 35 WO-S - 0 1994 LC-M - 37 WO-S - 6

Did Carthage elect to play in the 4A/5A tournament even though they are 3A?

21-21 tie against San Marcos. San Marcos won on penetrations 5-4. Click the link below to see a recap of the game. Link to article: San Marcos Gains Spot In Finals - December 13th, 1964 Abilene Reporter News

Part of the problem is that there has never been any consistency in the number of high schools fielding UIL football teams in Beaumont. In the past 50 years there have been 7 major changes ranging from having only 2 competing schools citywide from 1986-1997 (Central and West Brook) to having 6 competing schools from 1967-1974 (Beaumont High, South Park, Forest Park, Charlton-Pollard, French, and Hebert) How did all of those teams arrange their respective schedules?? Over the past 50 years the longest period without any major change was the 11 year period from '86-'97 so it makes since that there are currently only 2 major stadiums in use. They only needed 2 stadiums until just 9 years ago. I have a pretty complete post on the history of public schools in Beaumont over in the historical section which you can get to using the link below: Timeline of Beaumont High Schools

I posted these on the 5A boards today by request but Southeast Texas made a fine showing so I thought I'd post them here as well... I crunched out these today from the database... the first is rankings by furthest advancement in the playoffs all-time (all programs with 3 state titles are ranked ahead of all programs with 2 state titles, etc.), the second is rankings by point total. The columns listed are Rank - 1st yr qualifying - Program - State Titles - Losses in Finals - Losses in Semifinals - Losses in Quarterfinals, etc. Points were calculated by giving 64 points for a state title, 32 points for losing in the finals, 16 points for losing in the Semis, 8 points for losing in the Quarterfinals, etc. The numbers listed were calculated by ON-THE-FIELD RESULTS so before any of you Converse Judson fans jump on me, I will be making adjustments but I wanted to go ahead and post the preliminary numbers. All-Time Best UIL Texas High School Football Programs by Playoff Performance (ranked by most titles) All-Time Best UIL Texas High School Football Programs by Playoff Performance (ranked by most cumulative points)

MOST GAMES IN A SERIES RIVALRY 100 Bay City-El Campo 97 Cuero-Yoakum 96 Longview-Marshall 94 Bronte-Robert Lee 93 Denison-Sherman 93 New Braunfels-Seguin 91 Amarillo-Lubbock 91 Hondo-Uvalde 91 Mineral Wells-Weatherford 90 Harlingen-San Benito 90 Lufkin-Nacogdoches 89 Texarkana Texas High-Arkansas High CONTINUOUS SERIES RIVALRY -- MOST CONSECUTIVE YEARS *87 Bay City-El Campo, 1920-06 *84 Harlingen-San Benito, 1923-06 *83 Amarillo-Lubbock, 1924-06 *81 DeLeon-Dublin, 1926-06 80 Groesbeck-Teague, 1924-03 *80 New Braunfels-Seguin, 1927-06 *80 Stamford-Hamlin, 1927-06 76 Marshall-Texarkana, 1914-89 *76 Denison-Sherman, 1931-06 74 Comanche-DeLeon, 1930-03

Here are the numbers I calculated for southeast Texas... some of which are a bit different than those above. Ties are counted by the majority of statisticians as one-half of a win, so winning percentage is calculated by the following formula: (wins + ties/2) / (total # of games played)

The guy who put those stats together IS counting PAM as a continuation of TJ... even though there are 3 different historic schools that make up Memorial... Since I've had so many comments in the past about how comparing all-time winning percentages between programs of vastly different ages gives an unfair advantage to the younger programs, I actually refute that. Surprisingly, it's the OLDER programs that actually seem to have an advantage! Here are the highest winning percentages among all current 3A schools statewide with the programs divided up by age. Just compare the winning percentages of the #8 ranked teams in each of the following categories and you see a consistent fall as you move to the younger programs. In fact, among the 91 programs in 3A that currently have a winning percentage above 50%, only 10 of them have played less than 500 games in their history (that's 50 seasons or less), and 3 of those 10 are in district 21-3A. Highest All-Time Winning Percentage (among teams with >900 games played) 1. Hondo 67.64% 2. Breckenridge 64.69% 3. Cameron Yoe 64.58% 4. Cuero 64.36% 5. Sweetwater 63.60% 6. Vernon 62.74% 7. Taylor 61.81% 8. Jasper 61.73% Highest All-Time Winning Percentage (among teams with 801-900 games played) 1. Perryton 62.38% 2. Columbus 60.69% 3. Atlanta 60.52% 4. Bellville 60.17% 5. Crockett 58.87% 6. Devine 58.20% 7. Carthage 58.11% 8. Sinton 57.60% Highest All-Time Winning Percentage (among teams with 701-800 games played) 1. Celina 67.97% 2. Pilot Point 65.15% 3. White Oak 64.62% 4. Monahans 62.78% 5. Van 60.05% 6. Andrews 59.21% 7. Silsbee 56.09% 8. Mount Vernon 55.93% Highest All-Time Winning Percentage (among teams with 601-700 games played) 1. Sweeny 64.95% 2. Port Isabel 62.54% 3. Abilene Wylie 56.51% 4. Crandall 52.43% 5. Glen Rose 51.50% 6. Needville 51.48% 7. Rio Hondo 50.60% 8. Orange Grove 50.08% Highest All-Time Winning Percentage (among teams with 501-600 games played) 1. Medina Valley 65.71% 2. Coldspring 56.96% 3. Liberty-Eylau 55.38% 4. Longview Spring Hill 53.11% 5. La Vernia 52.03% 6. China Spring 51.93% 7. Bridge City 50.38% 8. Waco Connally 49.91% Highest All-Time Winning Percentage (among teams with 401-500 games played) 1. Hamshire-Fannett 60.31% 2. Robinson 59.47% 3. Dallas Roosevelt 56.49% 4. Hardin-Jefferson 53.32% 5. Wichita Falls Hirschi 51.85% 6. Brookshire Royal 51.34% 7. Emory Rains 45.83% 8. Prosper 44.32% Highest All-Time Winning Percentage (among teams with <400 games played) 1. West Orange-Stark 78.63% 2. Wimberley 63.51% 3. Midland Greenwood 61.73% 4. Argyle 57.63% 5. Hidalgo 45.93% 6. Pleasant Grove 45.47% 7. Marion 45.32% 8. Dallas Madison 43.04%

Highest winning percentages statewide

3 wins away

Baseball America, Collegiate Baseball and in the National Collegiate Baseball Writer's Polls all have Rice #1 and North Carolina #2 Should be a great matchup Sunday 6pm. The two have only met one other time in the past 5 seasons.... 2/27/04 at Rice Rice - 8 UNC - 2

Luckily their hitting is even better.... Rice 15 Louisville 10 FINAL

#2 Rice, #3 North Carolina, #5 Arizona State, Louisville, UC-Irvine, and Mississippi State have all advanced to the College World Series... Defending champ Oregon St. leads 1-0 over Michigan and Cal State-Fullerton leads 1-0 over UCLA for the final two slots.

Given that WO-S has lost a total of 6 games in 15 years (and only 7 in 30 years) against the other 7 teams combined, I would say they are the favorites until proven otherwise.

Oregon State, North Carolina, Rice, Cal State Fullerton and Clemson are all 2006 CWS participants arguably finishing 2006 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th respectively judging from their CWS performances (Oregon St, UNC, Rice and CSF were the 4 semifinalists last year and Clemson fell 6-7 to CSF in the round prior to the Semis)... and all are still alive looking to return this year.

I can see Reckling Park from my upstairs window. Wish I'd been there... Keep it up Owls! Rice Owls (34-2-0 since March 27th) W 3/30 Marshall 13-1 W 3/31 Marshall 5-3 W 4/1 Marshall 12-6 W 4/3 Prairie View A&M 5-4 W 4/6 East Carolina 4-0 W 4/7 East Carolina 9-6 W 4/8 East Carolina 8-6 W 4/11 Lamar 13-4 L 4/13 Houston 2-5 W 4/14 Houston 12-0 W 4/15 Houston 11-6 W 4/17 Texas 7-4 W 4/20 Central Florida 10-1 W 4/21 Central Florida 4-2 W 4/22 Central Florida 8-0 W 4/24 Sam Houston State 6-2 W 4/27 Alabama-Birmingham 8-2 W 4/28 Alabama-Birmingham 7-1 W 4/29 Alabama-Birmingham 6-3 W 5/9 Texas State 6-4 W 5/11 Tulane 8-0 W 5/12 Tulane 8-3 W 5/13 Tulane 7-4 W 5/15 Baylor 13-0 W 5/17 Memphis 6-4 W 5/18 Memphis 4-2 W 5/19 Memphis 7-4 C-USA Tournament W 5/23 Central Florida 16-6 W 5/24 Memphis 7-5 L 5/26 Memphis 1-2 W 5/26 Memphis 20-9 W 5/27 East Carolina 16-8 Regional W 6/1 Prairie View A&M 5-0 W 6/2 TCU 6-3 W 6/3 TCU 3-1 Super Regional W 6/8 Texas A&M 3-2

Oh yeah... I forgot to put where the quote came from.... it's from the 1987 issue. ;D We were picked to finish 2nd in district that year too.

DCTF quote - "Team outlook: It would appear that coach Dan Hooks has a major rebuilding task facing him but Hooks has rebuilt Stark teams in the past. The Mustangs are fast all over -- right now its just untapped speed."

Works for me... I predict the district runnerup will advance further in the Division II playoffs than the district top seed. Unless something happens to Fitzhenry, whoever wins 21-3A will run into #1 Giddings in the 2nd round again.... and they should be even stronger than they were the past 2 seasons...

&bspHere's the all-time winning percentage chart.... Alex Durley holds the top spot only because of the 4 season minimum I have in place... If I hadn't put some sort of minimum time period there would have been dozens of coaches from 50+ years ago who had 1 or 2 really good seasons flooding the list.; The ACTUAL top 3 if I had not put a minimum in place are: #1 - 100% - Harold McRae - Nederland - 1945 - 10-0-0 #2 - 95.16% - Clyde Gott - Hull-Daisetta - '35-'37 - 29-1-1 #3 - 95.00% - Bill Stages - Hull-Daisetta - '38-'39 - 19-1-0 Does anyone know anything about McRae? It's odd that he'd come in for one season, get Nederland a perfect season (they won the regional championship that year which was as far as you could go in the lower classifications back then) and then left. It's kind of funny that I mentioned Gott and Stages in my very first post on this topic and they pop up at the top here. As I said earlier, Gott coached Hull-Daisetta to the first 22 games of what was eventually a 41 game winning streak (a national record at the time at the high school level) and Stages was at the helm for the final 19 games of the streak. Also, most people forget that Nederland didn't win their state championship until the year AFTER Bum Phillips left. Highest All-Time Winning Percentage as Head Coach of a Varsity UIL Football Program in SE Texas (4 season minimum) * - programs in red won state titles in the years listed

2007 Baseball State Championships Wednesday, June 6 - Saturday, June 9, 2007 Tournament Information WORKOUTS: There will be no workouts at the State Baseball Tournament sites. Teams may arrange workouts (if needed) at Austin area schools. TICKETS: Each player, coach and manager must have a ticket to get into the stadium. Adults - $10.00 per day Coaches/Official Tournament Ticket - $20.00 Students - $5.00 per day Tournament Ticket for Fans - $30.00 LOCATION OF FIELD: -Dell Diamond is in Round Rock, East on Hwy. 79 next to Old Settlers Park. RULES AND REGULATIONS PRACTICE Pre-Game Warm-up: Ten minutes will be allowed each team for infield practice before the game. The home team will take infield practice first. Teams playing the second game of the session should be ready to take infield practice immediately following the first game. If warm-up time is cut because of scheduling problems, each team shall have the same amount of time for warm-up. Pictures: Pictures will be taken prior to the semifinal games. UIL Staff will work with the coach to organize the picture. Videotaping: All semifinals and all final games will be taped by Gametapes.com. No other individuals will be permitted to videotape. Schools will receive copies of the games in which they participate. Television stations wanting to film for spot telecasting or tape delay will need to be cleared through Kim Rogers. Videotapes will be available for purchase. GAMES Speed Up Rules will be used at the State Tournament as outlined below. National Federation Speed-up Rules Runners a. The team at bat may use courtesy runners for the pitcher and/or the catcher as soon as they reach base. The same runner may not be used for both positions. Neither the pitcher nor the catcher will be required to leave the game under such circumstances. b. Players who have participated in the game in any other capacity are ineligible to serve as courtesy runners. c. A player may not run as a courtesy runner for the pitcher or the catcher and then be used as a substitute for another player in that half inning. NOTE: An unreported courtesy runner is an illegal substitute. PENALTY: For illegal substitution, such substitute shall be ejected. Games shall be seven (7) innings. National Federation Baseball Rules will be followed in all games. Ten-Run Rule: In the State Tournament, the ten-run rule will be in effect. After five (5) innings of play, if one team is ten (10) or more runs ahead of its opponent, the game shall be over. (Or if 4 1/2 innings have been completed and the home team is ten or more runs ahead.)

Here's the other longevity variable that can be compared... all-time wins. Obviously there are a lot of the same names as listed above but a few big differences as well. Durley was only head coach for 9 seasons but makes the top 20 in total wins, and so far, has far and away the highest winning percentage of anyone I've gone through, followed by Don Price. Next I'll be putting together a comparison of winning percentage and then finally a comparison of who has the most hardware (i.e. district titles, state titles, etc.) Most All-Time Wins as Head Coach of a Varsity UIL Football Program in SE Texas

I'm still contemplating... this topic has given me the opportunity to compile some coaching stats which I've been meaning to do for quite a while now.... here's what I have so far with much more to come... 4 of the top 8 listed are still active so according to the rules, they would not be eligible. Longevity - Coaches with at least 12 seasons as Head Coach over a Southeast Texas Program

Alex Durley 97-13-3 1975 Hebert 8-2-0 1976 Hebert 15-0-0 1977 Hebert 8-2-0 1978 Hebert 9-1-1 1979 Hebert 13-1-0 1980 Hebert 9-1-1 1981 Hebert 13-1-0 1982 West Brook 11-4-1 1983 West Brook 11-1-0