Texas High School Football
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Me too. My dad is watching them, but I'm not getting any of them. Fan Duel only has horse racing and TNT only has the college games. I'm SOL.
I hereby withdraw my humor
Odd.... Shiner was always as good as Lone Star. I confess to being a bit of a beer snob and I've stocked almost nothing but German, Belgian, or micro brews for 2 decades, now. I'm not into IPAs and I don't like fruit in my beer. LOL. I like malty ales, porters, stouts, and German and Belgian lagers.
Am I the only person left who thinks there are way too many state champions named in Texas? There are 12 public school and 7 private school champions for a total of 19.
They've whittled down the districts to the point that there are a lot of districts with only 4 or 5 schools and 3 get in the playoffs resulting in many below .500 teams qualifying. I mean, you have to be a really really bad coach to not make the Texas playoffs.
If they want to keep 19 champions then go back to just the district champion and runner up qualifying with the population determining division.
They've whittled down the districts to the point that there are a lot of districts with only 4 or 5 schools and 3 get in the playoffs resulting in many below .500 teams qualifying. I mean, you have to be a really really bad coach to not make the Texas playoffs.
If they want to keep 19 champions then go back to just the district champion and runner up qualifying with the population determining division.
In my day only one district champion advanced. My senior year there was a three way tie for first and a three way tie for last. They flipped a coin to see who advanced…The Round Rock Dragons won the toss.
Same when I was growing up, only the district champion advanced so it really meant something to say you made the playoffs.
I grew up in Tennessee where private and public schools competed together. Back then a school 70 miles away out of Nashville named Brentwood Academy was in our district and always ranked in the USA Today top 10 nationally. They recruited across a broad area and gave scholarships while we were a smaller public school of about 700 in a very rural area. We came in second in district every single year pretty much only losing to them so we never made the playoffs. It was unfair and I always thought there should be a change, but this is ridiculous.
At this point they might as well create 7A and split everyone up so everyone makes the playoffs. It's meaningless to just qualify these days and I feel like I see way more 50 point losses than I used to.
Yeah. In my district way back in 1975, we were in a 3 way tie in a AAA district and lost the tie breaker - margin of victory or first downs or something silly. I think West Columbia advanced. Anyway, you had to be a district champion to advance.
bishophorn
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I feel for the really small schools that have to play 6 man. But what they really should do is merge with another district to at least bump to 2A (the old 1A). Just as another poster stated before, I can’t understand the rules and it is weird to watch.
I played for the smallest 11 man category and it was called “B” in the 70’s and that worked perfectly fine for our small town because we continued to merge with 2 more schools to get to enough enrollment requirements.
I know geography plays a big part in the West districts but they need to get this system to a more uniform 11 man district with better and equal sized districts. 7A is just too big of a stretch for me when we need to do some down sizing and mergers.
The whole public school system would be better off as far as funding and thus eliminate the headaches and taxation stuff that goes with it.
I played for the smallest 11 man category and it was called “B” in the 70’s and that worked perfectly fine for our small town because we continued to merge with 2 more schools to get to enough enrollment requirements.
I know geography plays a big part in the West districts but they need to get this system to a more uniform 11 man district with better and equal sized districts. 7A is just too big of a stretch for me when we need to do some down sizing and mergers.
The whole public school system would be better off as far as funding and thus eliminate the headaches and taxation stuff that goes with it.
At one time the winner was based on penetrations inside the 20 yard line. I believe if those were equal they went to first downs. I have no idea how it was decided after that.
Total yardage
I actually wrote a letter to the UIL when I was a kid advocating that two schools from each district go. Louisiana adopted that format in the early to mid 60s. Unlike Texas current format, those two teams went different directions. The first year Louisiana did that, two NOLA (IIRC, Jesuit & Holy Cross) teams advanced. One of those two had a star player hurt when they played for the district championship and lost. That team entered the state playoffs in the northern zone; the winner of the district went through the Southern bracket (meaning they had to go through LaGrange & Sulphur). The two NOLA schools wound up in a rematch for the State Championship, but with their star player healthy, the loser of the first match wound up winning the Championship.
The idea was to keep an injury for one game from costing a team State. Don't know how it has worked out in subsequent decades since.
I have been a proponent of two teams advancing, but four is ridiculous. That format was promoted by dumbasses seeing what some schools brought in by making the playoffs. My example would be (who else) when Doug Etheridge took PNG deep in the playoffs in the mid 70s, the games in the Astrodome (aka, "The Big Teepee") brought in an extra $100,000 in revenue to the school district, including Beaumont Motor Company paying the district to park a new Chevy on each corner inside the Dome. (For those unfamiliar with the culture, we called Chevys "Broussards" because not a single one of them could make Broussard's Curve outside Beaumont, but there were lots of buyers among the 32,000 plus in the Dome.
The idea was to keep an injury for one game from costing a team State. Don't know how it has worked out in subsequent decades since.
I have been a proponent of two teams advancing, but four is ridiculous. That format was promoted by dumbasses seeing what some schools brought in by making the playoffs. My example would be (who else) when Doug Etheridge took PNG deep in the playoffs in the mid 70s, the games in the Astrodome (aka, "The Big Teepee") brought in an extra $100,000 in revenue to the school district, including Beaumont Motor Company paying the district to park a new Chevy on each corner inside the Dome. (For those unfamiliar with the culture, we called Chevys "Broussards" because not a single one of them could make Broussard's Curve outside Beaumont, but there were lots of buyers among the 32,000 plus in the Dome.
They rolled the bones or played Rock, Paper, Scissors at a neutral location - the Holiday Inn in Victoria - to determine the champion. Don't ask too many questions.
When there’s a three way tie there’s nothing to do but flip a coin..at least back in ‘72.
Columbus putting a whoopin on the Tigers of Malakoff. Its 28-7 Cardinals in 2Q and IDK how Malakoff got 7 cuz the Cardinal defense is stifling.
Now 34-7 Columbus and Malakoff prolly ready to go home. Grayson Rigdon and Adam Schobel are well nigh unstoppable.
At the time, I understood that we lost it in a game of 5 card stud but I can't be sure.
Its not like malakoff is crap - they are the defending state champs and come in undefeated and Columbus is just destroying them. Im very impressed.
Agree. The public Fort Worth HS I played football for 50 + years ago made the playoffs this season with a 5-5 record in a weak 4A district.
Really?
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I know Im the only guy watching this game, but 48-14 is the final as Columbus defeats Malakoff for their first ever state title. Gotta be tough for Malakoff coming in as defending champs riding a 31 game win streak and just getting their shiite pushed in by a team thats never been to a state title game before. Total domination and being coached by one of the best ever to come out Columbus its a real coming home story for the ages.
Agree that’s how it was on the 3 way coin toss. I was referring to head to head if game was tied at the end between 2 teams.
WRONG! I watched the whole game on my laptops 15" screen since UIL humped the puppy and didn't get real TV coverage. Also had to pay $20 to watch all games. New cretin is off to a great start.
Horns11
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I thought it would be much closer but like I said in my prediction, Columbus was known for fast starts and big finishes. Malakoff was riding that win streak but I figured it would be a shootout. Guess I was wrong, but I'm still counting it correct for my W prediction!
4-0 baby!
Next time I drive to Houston I'll stop at the Columbus Whataburger to celebrate.
Why not go in Schobel's instead; it's only about a hundred yards or so away. I'm sure the State Championship Trophy will be in the dining room
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