What 1st Round game will you be attending?

[AggiesAreWe]

Some pretty good matchups for the 1st round due to the split divisions.

What games will you be attending?

 

My Bi-District round schedule:

Monday, Feb. 17

Hamshire-Fannett vs. Houston Yates at Goose Creek Memorial HS

or (depending on if I can get over there in time)

Livingston vs. Houston Washington and Tarkington vs. Houston Wheatley doubleheader at Porter HS

 

Tuesday, Feb. 18

Beaumont United vs. La Porte at East Chambers HS

[buccaneers4lyfe]

I havent gotten to see much ball this year so I am going to watch Vidor on Monday & the Bucs on Tuesday. 

I watched the Pirates over the holidays at our tournament and want to see them again. 

[pdawg119]

BH vs Friendswood at Lee College

[PrairieMan]

Monday - Tarkington vs Wheatley 

Tuesday - Huffman vs Worthing

Friday - Silsbee vs Tarkington……😁😁😁

 

[Hoopin22]

Huntington vs. East Chambers.

would love to go watch Silsbee vs Center but have All star practice, have to bring up the next generation! Lol

[AggiesAreWe]

These are some very intriguing games for 1st round:

Monday, Feb. 17

Summer Creek vs. Clear Springs

Hamshire-Fannett vs. Houston Yates

Crockett vs. Hitchcock

 

Tuesday, Feb. 18

Atascocita vs. Dickinson

Crosby vs. Lake Creek

Beaumont United vs. La Porte

Port Arthur Memorial vs. Iowa Colony

Barbers Hill vs. Friendswood

Bridge City vs. Madisonville

Pollok Central vs. Orangefield

Central Heights vs. Buna

Shelbyville vs. Beckville

Hemphill vs. Timpson

San Augustine vs. Tenaha

 

[bullets13]

Can't make any games this week. Would love to watch Hamshire-Fannett tonight, but none of the girls playoff games have been on HUDL or NFHS to this point, so I don't have high hopes. May watch Vidor at 6:00 and then Silsbee at 7:00, or I may finish the 2nd season of Squid Game with the missus.

[OlDawg]

BU vs. LP looks (on paper) like a ‘toss-up.’

[AggiesAreWe]

1 minute ago, OlDawg said:

BU vs. LP looks (on paper) like a ‘toss-up.’

Reason I am going. I think it's one of the best match ups of all our coverage area games.

[bullets13]

Gotta love drawing a Houston school in the first round of 4A-D2 after the UIL splits the divisions up to make things "more fair." Still think schools in the major Texas cities should be 5A-D1 at a minimum. 

[AggiesAreWe]

19 minutes ago, bullets13 said:

Gotta love getting a Houston school in the first round after the UIL splits the divisions up to make things "more fair." Still think schools in the major Texas cities should be 5A-D1 at a minimum. 

FYI, UIL wasn't the driving force for this division split. It was majority (not all and mostly volleyball and boys basketball) of what other sport coaches wanted. They felt left out because football is split.

IMO, divisions are needed in football due to the numbers. Other sports do not need divisions.

Hopefully at next realignment they go to divisional districts like football but there is no guarantee that UIL will do that.

[bullets13]

1 hour ago, AggiesAreWe said:

FYI, UIL wasn't the driving force for this division split. It was majority (not all and mostly volleyball and boys basketball) of what other sport coaches wanted. They felt left out because football is split.

IMO, divisions are needed in football due to the numbers. Other sports do not need divisions.

Hopefully at next realignment they go to divisional districts like football but there is no guarantee that UIL will do that.

I tend to agree with you. It makes for some weird first and second round matchups as well. That said, as I've been saying for the last 10 years or so, while they don't need divisions, there needs to be some sort of provisions put in for inner city schools that keep their enrollment down but bring in talent from all over their city. Silsbee got screwed playing FF a few times, but I also always thought it was ridiculous that they had to try and get through Houston schools to make it to state, and then Dallas schools to win state. I remember that 2007 state run for HJ they beat teams like Wylie, Chapel Hill, and Columbia. That HJ squad was an excellent small-town school.  Year in and year out Silsbee is an excellent small-town school. They should get to play schools from similar communities in the playoffs the same way they do in district. Without the Houston and Dallas schools finding ways to stay in 4A with their giant talent pools I'm pretty comfortable saying that Silsbee could easily be approaching 7-8 state championships in the last 12 or so years if the playoffs were appropriate.

[AggiesAreWe]

1 minute ago, bullets13 said:

I tend to agree with you. It makes for some weird first and second round matchups as well. That said, as I've been saying for the last 10 years or so, while they don't need divisions, there needs to be some sort of provisions put in for inner city schools that keep their enrollment down but bring in talent from all over their city. Silsbee got screwed playing FF a few times, but I also always thought it was ridiculous that they had to try and get through Houston schools to make it to state, and then Dallas schools to win state. 

I agree.

I'll be curious to see what HISD does if UIL makes divisional districts at next realignment.

In the past, HISD has always opted up for their 4A schools to be in the same football district with other HISD schools. It puts all of them in 4A DI football district even though several have DII enrollments.

If UIL makes schools that choose to opt up a division or class (like what BC, HJ and Liberty did in football) for all sports and not just football, then HISD will have a decision to make with some of their schools.

I think it would be wrong to allow schools to opt up for one sport but allowed to stay put for other sports. You opt up, you opt up for everything.

[bullets13]

59 minutes ago, AggiesAreWe said:

I agree.

I'll be curious to see what HISD does if UIL makes divisional districts at next realignment.

In the past, HISD has always opted up for their 4A schools to be in the same football district with other HISD schools. It puts all of them in 4A DI football district even though several have DII enrollments.

If UIL makes schools that choose to opt up a division or class (like what BC, HJ and Liberty did in football) for all sports and not just football, then HISD will have a decision to make with some of their schools.

I think it would be wrong to allow schools to opt up for one sport but allowed to stay put for other sports. You opt up, you opt up for everything.

Just kind of amazing to me that in the last 20 years the greater houston metro area has increased by 2.5M people (to almost 7M), yet HISD manages to keep all of these high schools at the 4A level while all of the communities around them are 5A or 6A (or multiple 6A in many cases).

[AggiesAreWe]

8 minutes ago, bullets13 said:

Just kind of amazing to me that in the last 20 years the greater houston metro area has increased by 2.5M people (to almost 7M), yet they manage to keep all of these high schools at the 4A level.

Most of that growth is outside the 610 loop. Most of the HISD schools are inside the loop.

[BEARCPA]

2 hours ago, AggiesAreWe said:

Most of that growth is outside the 610 loop. Most of the HISD schools are inside the loop.

Yeah there isn't much room to build new neighborhoods inside the loop.

[AggiesAreWe]

4 minutes ago, BEARCPA said:

Yeah there isn't much room to build new neighborhoods inside the loop.

Right.

The thing is, Houston ISD has been in a severe teacher shortage for many years now. Also working outside their budget. One would think that the school district would consolidate a few of these lower performing, lower enrollment schools and work a little more efficiently. But that would mean some important people would lose some jobs and kickbacks. Also, alumni will not allow certain schools to be closed.

HISD has their certain schools that they insist on staying open strictly for athletic reasons. Otherwise, the district would be irrelevant on that front.

[rupert3]

No clue what that Supt and that appointed board is gonna do.  IMO