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A more “simple” solution is to make open enrollment “state law”.

Definitely could not say the others have not benefitted from transfers.

Perhaps, I know Atascocita beat them by a point. They have quite a few young guns coming up. Will be interesting if they can replace the RB

This year or last year? Kid from Kingwood has done it twice.

I think they have at least one “race horse”. He led the district in rushing for two straight years.

Did they have the leading rusher in the District for the last two years? They have several D1 players on the team.

Anyone know if they are taking passes at this game? Several this year have not.

I would be shocked if the current HC would want to stick around much longer. I doubt he is worried about "saving his job".

The coaches at Crosby are well respected in the coaching community. The forum peanut gallery, not so much.

I think I will attend this one.

They “lost” you a while back. I imagine they are good with it.

Still waiting for WOS to call their defense a "50" to steal everyone's thunder.

I had a lot of fun with you Silsbee folks last year, but this is an impressive way to respond to last year by the team. Both teams are down a bit from last year but there are not many that thought this was possible. Well done.

Never thought I would be pulling for WV but those GS fans got me locked in.

They are definitely not elite but not bad. Mediocre is probably a good term.

Got, >20 years ago it was less of a factor. It is overwhelmingly a factor now. Parents have easy transportation to anywhere within 50 miles. They move to locations where their kids will have better resources. I am assuming you could not come with any example of winning programs that have poor facilities?

And there are a lot more that didn’t. Name all State Champions from the last 10 years and indicate whether or not they have nice facilities. It is overwhelming in favor of the nice facilities. It is not close. Parents and kids prefer “nice things”, therefore when they make choices they choose nicer over “not nice”.

So, “is their any evidence that shows that nice facilities bring in families and athletes”? If the answer is yes (which it is), you would have to say facilities matter for winning.

Does Livingston have a group like the Jr class in Huffman coming through?

Is there any evidence that shows “nice facilities attract families and athletes”?

I am fairly certain that the same coach also had the best years in the history of a couple of more schools also running the "Slot T".

I am fairly certain that the best years Livingston ever had was with a "Slot T" guy.

So, are you saying facilities “do matter”?

Center community and school board made a commitment a few years ago to be the top facility in Shelby county. They have gradually been putting pieces in place that include the coliseum as mentioned above as well as a 100 yard covered pavilion (same one as Marshall) and a refurbished grass baseball stadium that includes a long term maintenance contract where the district does not maintain the turf. Girls athletics moved to the coliseum and the boys locker room was torn out and refashioned into a weight room. Center tennis facilities were already the best in East Texas. Not many in East Texas have better than Center at the moment

May attend this one tonight. Will be the first Huffman game I attended since I was a player.