PrairieMan

Who is your team? Tarkington Longhorns How have they done compared to your offseason expectations? Better than expected coming off one of the worst seasons I've ever watched in my life What has been a positive? Offensively they have had some big plays, but more importantly they've had some long sustaining drives. Defensively they have played pretty well overall and the DC has made some good adjustments. Best positive so far is the fire and determination these kids have shown. Reflection of their AD for sure. What has been a negative? Passing game is still not good enough to fight off 8-9 in the box if a team decides to do so. Quarterbacks aren't really seeing kids open, just winging to a predetermined receiver. Defensively, tend to give up big plays and once district starts I feel like we are going to be undersized on our D-line. What are your new expectations for the season? We are still so young that playoff talks seem a bit presumptuous, but I'm really hoping we can pull off enough wins to sneak in. It would be such a huge boost to these kid's confidence who have had to deal with so much turnover and negative talk for the past couple years.

The best part about this game in my opinion is how scrappy these boys were. Obviously we are not very far removed from an awful season just a year ago where pretty much NOTHING went right for these kids or the coaches. This team which is starting 8 sophmores on offense and 7 sophmores on defense (some of the same of course...haha) and only about 5 seniors on the entire team went down 14-0 within the first 4 mins of the game could have easily rolled over and let this one slip away. Instead they came back and fought their butts off to take the win. I know we aren't the most athletic team in a stacked district and likely to go through some more growing pains for these younger guys but I think the future is bright for these Horns. I can't compliment Coach Taylor enough about his impact on these kids. Not only has he been great for football but he's made some great hires throughout the school on the girls and boys sides. Lots of positive things coming from my hometown!!!! One thing that nobody really has talked about is our running back, Junior #5 Karson Jones. Man this kid can fly! Nothing official but I'm hearing his final number by the end of the night was about 270 yards rushing!

I think you're doing great! This is my first time getting in on the picks and I've really enjoyed it, even though I'm not very good at it. Thanks for all the hard work, I know how much time this takes and its appreciated.

1. Alvin at Beaumont United 2. Beaumont West Brook at Deer Park 3. Spring Westfield at Galena Park North Shore 4. Las Vegas Liberty at Humble Atascocita 5. Baytown Goose Creek Memorial at La Porte 6. Dayton at Montgomery 7. Humble Kingwood Park at New Caney Porter 8. Port Neches-Groves at West Orange-Stark 9. Huffman Hargrave at Needville 10. Jasper at Newton 11. Livingston at Palestine 12. Snook at Anderson-Shiro 13. Coldspring-Oakhurst at Hamshire-Fannett 14. Diboll at Franklin 15. Huntington at Tarkington 16. Kirbyville at Corrigan-Camden 17. New Waverly at Anahuac 18. Palmer at Palestine Westwood 19. Shepherd at Orangefield 20. West Hardin at Deweyville 21. Garrison at Warren 22. Iola at Lovelady 23. Shelbyville at Elysian Fields 24. Timpson at Daingerfield 25. Houston Mount Carmel at Chester

Yeah I thought you meant strictly from a cumulative aspect as the year went on as a way to compare teams.

Me personally, I'd rather just see the below. Offensive pass yards Offensive rush yards Defensive pass yards allowed Defensive rush yards allowed Turnovers

Final Tarkington 14 Shepherd 30

11:55 left in 4th Tarkington 14 Shepherd 16

Halftime Tarkington 14 Shepherd 8

10:00 mins left in 2nd quarter Tarkington 7 Shepherd 8

1. Humble Atascocita at Katy 2. Sheldon C.E. King at Allen 3. Houston Bellaire at Baytown Goose Creek Memorial 4. La Porte at Alief Elsik 5. Nederland at Port Arthur Memorial 6. Port Neches-Groves at Beaumont United 7. Hamshire-Fannett at East Chambers 8. Huffman at Silsbee 9. Lumberton at Houston St. Thomas 10. Splendora at Coldspring-Oakhurst 11. Anahuac at Hardin-Jefferson 12. Anderson-Shiro at Danbury 13. Buna at Bridge City 14. Hemphill at Shelbyville 15. Wallis Brazos at Kountze 16. Newton at Woodville 17 Spring Legacy at Orangefield 18. Palestine Westwood at Buffalo 19. Trinity at Groveton 20. Warren at Hull-Daisetta 21. Cushing at Deweyville 22. Evadale at Hardin 23. Garrison at Arp 24. Joaquin at Beckville 25. Beaumont Kelly at Houston St. Pius Just for fun, throwing this one in... 26. Tarkington at Shepherd

Winners in BOLD 1. Beaumont United at Brazoswood 2. Houston Lamar at Beaumont West Brook 3. Barbers Hill at Magnolia West 4. Sheldon C.E. King at Crosby 5. Port Arthur Memorial at Port Neches-Groves 6. Nederland at West Orange-Stark 7. Bridge City at Orangefield 8. Houston Kinkaid at Jasper 9. Coldspring-Oakhurst at Liberty 10. Lumberton at Hamshire-Fannett 11. Vidor at Silsbee 12. Corrigan-Camden at Buna 13. Madisonville at Diboll 14. East Chambers at Beaumont Kelly 15. Hardin at Warren 16. Trinity at Kirbyville 17. Kountze at Hull-Daisetta 18. Newton at Anahuac 19. Woodville at Franklin 20. Deweyville at Mount Enterprise 21. Tarkington at Evadale 22. Timpson at Beckville 23. West Sabine at Tenaha 24. Richland Springs at High Island 25. Beaumont Legacy Christian at Houston Second Baptist

Game over 35-18 Horns!!!

#3 for Evadale QB sneak for td Horns up 35-18

5:39 left #5 Karson Jones 40ish (not official) yard td run Horns up 35-12

#2 Junior Ma’Alaelu pick 6 XP good Horns up 28-12

10:40 left Horns score rushing TD missed XP 21-12

End of 3rd Quarter Tarkington 15 Evadale 12

Halftime Tarkington 7 Evadale 12 Coach Taylor has the Horns playing hard but they are making young team mistakes. They will only get better from here.

Tarkington wins 3-1 vs Buna Coach Kennedy is already turning this group around!

FYI, Stephen Pavlat is not the QB as he's moved to Splendora. Current QB's are Tanner Johnson and Trace Edwards

I would tend to agree here because Tarkington is so young. Most of their impact players are Sophmores. Coach Taylor and his staff are working really hard with these kids, it's nice to see a little excitement in the area about football again. I think it will take them a couple games and a few more weeks of practice to get something really started. Most of these kids are still trying to learn the system. My hat's off to Coach Taylor though in what he's trying to do here. Hopefully the community, the decision makers and most importantly the kids give him a chance to build something here.

Don't know the scores but Tarkington won both of their games vs Kountze 2-1 vs Woodville 2-0

Hardin-Jefferson @ Tarkington tonight JV @ 5 Varsity to follow

Well to make sure I'm being transparent, below is what I previously posted on the first page of this topic. I had a little breakdown as to why as well but don't want to muddy up my reply to you here. 3A - District 23 1. Crockett 2. Coldspring 3. New Waverly 4. Tarkington 5. Trinity 6. Anderson 7. Shepherd 8. Onalaska That being said below is my new predictions now that the coaching spots are now being filled and vacated I suppose. 3A - District 23 1. Crockett 2. Coldspring 3. Tarkington (I see Tarkington splitting with Coldspring this year but still landing at 3) 4. Anderson-Shiro 5. New Waverly 6. Trinity 7. Shepherd 8. Onalaska