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Hey, don't worry about that. It's early, and I know every year is different even if you have some of the same players from the past season or two. The Dawgs lost twice early last year and a lot of people thought they wouldn't be able to do much in the playoffs - if they even got there. Remember that? Then, as has become a norm, Surratt & Co got that team squared away and they started rolling right when district started. Sometimes a loss is just what the doctor ordered. I think it can really get your team refocused and if it's pre-district somebody's hurt. When the Dawgs got SMOKED last year at Chapel Hill SDC just blew up, and rightfully so, but Carthage was all out of sorts and I think out of sorts mentally. After that game the Bulldogs had found their noses bloodied and their butts sore, because they'd been kicked really hard by the blue and yellow Bulldogs. Some early season struggles are not a problem for a team with a good coach like Meeks. He'll use those things as things he can study and then put a plan together to fix. It also goes ahead and shows him what he might want to focus on. I bet the Lions will be just fine and push very deep into the playoffs again this season. That's why right now I think the district is way up in the air with specifically the Bulldogs and Lions and the Buckeyes are lurking too.

After one week of play I'd say they finish like this: 1. Carthage 2. Henderson 3. Gilmer 4. Pittsburg 5. Gladewater 6. Spring Hill However, I truly feel like this right now: 1. Carthage 1./1A. Henderson 3.Gilmer 4. Pittsburg 5. Gladewater 6. Spring Hill

Thank you CHBULLDOG!

Yep

Larry Allen hasn't done a game in a while so they had to end it early. He'll be in mid-season form soon. Just kidding...

Sorry Lion, I meant to confirm earlier he is a sophomore. Dawgs did well tonight.

Oh my.

Everybody will say 1983 Daingerfield, and for good reason. They are number 1. Legendary. 2. 2008 Carthage Bulldogs 3. 2010 Carthage Bulldogs I'm a little biased, and was really just kidding, but I'd have to go back and look at it. Now, in all seriousness, the 2008 Bulldogs should be way up this list and the 2010 Dawgs as well even though both of those teams lost two games early in the season they showed what they really were in district and in the playoffs. It's funny, I feel the undefeated 2009 Carthage Bulldogs weren't as good as the two state championship teams that each lost two games. Carthage hasn't lost a district game since Surratt took over and they've lost one playoff game to the eventual state champion in 2007, Surratt's first year. 1991 Carthage was a nasty team too, went 15-1 losing in the title game in the Astrodome to A&M Consolidated and that short white running back with the cutoff shirt and his little belly hanging out. Jokers......uuggghhhh.... I had a buzzcut and was upset riding back to Carthage that night!

I hear you, but those divisions have always been that way and they have rivals in those divisions do the Cowboys and Rangers. Could you imagine if the Cowboys weren't in the same division as their three biggest rivals? That wouldn't be right just like the Ags playing in the SEC. Now, geographically, I understand what you're saying about the Cowboys and Rangers playing in the NFC East and AL West.

Now, this is what I'm talking about! This is what makes sense and should be done. NCAA should blow it all up and require the above conferences to be set in stone until God calls us home. It just makes too much sense to do it that way so instead we have TCU playing in the Big East. Stupid. End the BCS era, install some form of a playoff system. I too like the thought of using English soccer leagues as a way to reward and penalize teams for good or bad records from year to year. You finish in the top however many and you automatically get seeded into the playoff. You finish too low and you get bumped down to the division below like old Div II. If you're in one of the lower divisions and you finish in the top however many in that division you move up to the division above your current division. That makes sure everybody no matter how well they've done or poorly they've done they're going to be playing hard every game.

This really is hilarious. Typer......