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My SENIOR brother has gone through: tornados- (3 years of high school in portable buildings), the loss of one of his best friends, and now has his honors stripped away. He plays every single sport our high school has to offer. He lives and breathes football. He has waited on this moment his entire life. He will never get this back. I am completely heartbroken for him, his teammates, our Alto fam, and his coaches. BUT we will press on and always #DTS

Being a graduate from this school and many in my family as well, I believe the UIL did what they had to do. It is a complete embarrassment to me the lack of competence displayed today by a “head of a school”. No doubt there needs and will be changes coming. I am saddened by the loss of the chance for all the students effected by the lack leadership. The buck lies at Alto ISD’s feet though. Everyone is aware, that has kept up with football in the state of Texas, the severity of the punishments for just such “mistakes/ lack of communications”. It would not be right to ask the schools that did their job correctly to carry the burden of Alto’s mistakes. Yes it sucks, I care very much about Alto, the school and the success of the programs there, but the rules were broken. No matter the intent.

Snapshot Numbers Alto 163 (actually 166) Carlisle 163 Cushing 157 Tenaha 152 Mount Enterprise 130 Overton 120 Not all the teams in that district are close to Alto's numbers..... there IS a big discrepancy between Alto and the two smallest schools. Therefore it IS a huge deal. Especially if one of those smaller schools missed out on the playoffs due to losing to Alto. And yes...they may have to beat some bigger schools to win it all....but it shouldn't be Alto. And no...they didn't have 60 extra kids.... they had 46... which is pretty significant when you are talking about numbers as small as 120 and 160. I get it....the difference for Carlisle, Cushing, and Tenaha is no big deal competitively But wouldn't Overton and Mt. Enterprise have a legit gripe? Alto has about 23% more students than ME..... and 28% more than Overton. Seems pretty significant. Especially if a loss to Alto kept you out of the playoffs.... that's not blowing things out of proportion. That's a pretty big deal if it had gone unnoticed and/or unchecked. JMHO

I watched/listened to the meeting live out of pure interest simply because this is a landmark case for the UIL. As they said, nothing like this has ever happened before at this time. The UIL was painted into a corner. I believe it was Dr Harrison who said that the UIL purposefully has safeguards in place in November and December to let schools reconfirm their numbers in case a mistake was made. For the timing of this to happen in August, it’s too late. They had no choice. If they had let Alto compete in 2A-D2 with the right to advance, then what would stop a large number of schools from “making a mistake” and not notifying the UIL until May or whenever it was the allegations came to light. As was said in the meeting, rules are rules and no matter what the intent was, rules were broken and there are consequences. Personally, I think Alto dodged a bullet. Based on what I heard in the meeting, I thought the UIL might carry the punishment across all sports due to the obvious lack of concern on Altos part on getting the process correct. There were, according to Alto ISD themselves, literally no procedures or processes in place to make sure what they presented to the UIL was factually correct. As the NCAA would so fondly put it, that’s “Lack of Institutional Control” if I’ve ever seen it. The UIL relies on schools to do their due diligence to make sure that number they turn in is correct, and Alto failed. Whether you think it was intentional or not, as someone in the meeting said, that is a whole lot of strange coincidences and we just don’t believe in coincidences here.

That’s the most I’ve seen in a very long time for us!!

The yearly Coach X pre-season interview where we talk mostly sports movies and such..BUT we do talk Alto and two-a-days in todays football world. Always fun to talk with him https://lonestargridiron.com/2022/08/2022-coach-x-state-of-the-union/

I think it shows great character among the Alto faithful here on SDC that none of the ones complaining about this ruling are Yellowjacket fans.

Bradon will definitely be missed, and Timpson will be breaking in a new offensive line. The same could be said for Beckville. Ryan Harris is the single most reason Beckville stayed in the game last year. I stand by my original statement of Beckvilles second half performance against the Bears.

Paintings of Kirt’s first hunt.

If UIL would have let them play and make the playoffs then how is it fair to whoever finishes 5th and should be in the playoffs? What's the coach supposed to tell his team? "Sorry kids, we should be playing another week in the playoffs, but a team that should be in the next division up gets to take your spot." UIL made the right call.

The new receiver from Benton LA by way of EF will probably help a little on offense.

In recent years, we Carthage fans have had to worry during the nondistrict part of the season about our team having 2 consecutive open dates or playing its second game of the season against a state-ranked team which already had 3 games under their belt. We won’t have such worries this year, with only a single open date on the final week of the regular season.

He found Hillary's Email. Sorry, had too.

4aD2 #2 Gilmer vs 4aD1 #3 Chapel Hill

Ready for The Tatum Playday!!

Let me clarify my comment. Everyone thinks it's Terry Bussey and Vosky Howard but there are at least 4 more that can change a game in a couple of plays.

Lol it’s been awhile since we’ve played … but yes sir we’ve played several times over the years

Jj Garner and Dakovian Tutt and Amore Bruton are very explosive and dangerous also.

Everyone has been talking about bussey.. and he is a great athlete no doubt! but Vosky Howard is just as dangerous!

Everybody in the district knocked them around like a ping pong ball. But they kept getting up and played hard the whole game never quitting. Gotta respect that.

When Timpson went down there and played them in 2020 those were the nicest most friendly people you would ever run across.

Would you be interested in some beach front property in Iowa?

Shoot they might whoop us and centerville…

May be a 4 hour game with all the passing BOTH teams will do.

The moral of this story: Make sure you turn in the right numbers.

Naw..... theyre horrible

I feel like they got some secret weapons over there and you just leading all of us to believe they are horrible lol

Have you even watched Timpson other than when they played Beckville? I can remember this team before Terry. Braden’s is a rare athlete, but this team became a legitimate state championship contender when Terry came on board. The offensive line is crucial to any team, kinda figured that was understood. If you’re trying to get me to down play Braden, then it’s not gonna happen. So to answer your question, it’s the Terry Bussey era.

If the QB play is even half way decent, 2022 Longview > 2018 Longview. It won't have to be elite level (because of FBS talents like Tatum, Hale and DK), just can't hurt us. And Longview's best class isn't even seniors. That's the crazy thing about all of this.

Snapshot numbers were submitted October 30. Cutoff numbers for realignment were announced December 8. Was this ever mentioned during the hearing? Never heard it while watching the video that KLTV posted. Pretty good guessing to know to reduce number by 3 if this was intentional.

boooooo.....i was expecting ufos

Coolbear99 got us running the wishbone. We look like we’ve been running it for years too

Obviously they can't count to 165, so I think they may need to hire someone.

That didn't address my point.... sure there may be schools in the district close to Alto's numbers. But what about the teams in that district that are significatly smaller than Alto? What if one of those small 2A Div II schools LOST to Alto and missed the playoffs because of it? What if it were 2 smaller schools that lost to Alto? Every single win Alto would have had over a smaller school would have been illegitimate. Especially if there was a big discrepancy between Alto and the smaller school/schools.

You may very well be correct for the schools in that district also near the top end of the cutoff…… but what about those on the bottom end? That’s were the disparity can be glaring.

Nah I'll always bleed Blue Tiger Blood.

Not taking anything away from Lancaster. I wouldn't be shocked at all if they beat Cujo this yr. However, I kinda understand where the doubt comes from. From 2012 to 2018. You could argue JT was a better program. JT was actually 2-1 vs Lancaster during that period. If you look from 2012 to present, Lancaster has 87 wins, Cujo has 77 wins. But, the past 3 seaasons, which has been JT's worst stretch, Lancaster schedule has been really bad. Cujo probably would have won 8 or 9 games with that schedule. Regardless, I honestly give the edge to Lancaster this yr. I'm not buying into the Cujo hype until I see it on the field.

I agree ... it's may come down to everyone defending themself ... It’s sad when the police are treated like the bad guys by government and the media ....

Exactly how is the UIL going to punish the adults responsible? UIL has zero power over school employees.

The Country Club uses the settling pond from the Paper Mill as a swimming pool. It’s a win-win.

Lol I've got one good play in me

I dont know yet. It looks that way though. With a good rb core coming up and a good qb, it makes sense. They have 60 showing for varsity at 2-a-days. Tons more than the last few seasons.

Ef has 51

That’s just Gilmer being Gilmer. Nothing new here.

Correct. It’s terrible that the kids are having to pay for something that they didn’t have anything to do with, but rules are rules. Unfortunately, the adults either failed to learn the rules or flat out ignored them. Either way, rules that are put into place to create a level playing field were broken. Claiming “we didn’t know” is like telling the cop “I didn’t know the speed limit dropped to 45 right here!” To allow a school to compete in a district that is below their enrollment and knock a team that did play by the rules out of the playoffs would be the definition of “unfair.”

Harris Chapel had 23 yesterday an 21 today!

Carthage, Gilmer, and Pleasant Grove made it the toughest region in 4A DII. You think the powers to be wanted to make sure they didn’t get another all East Texas state champion ship game.

If garrison young line steps up and if they open up the playbook a lil more they will be a surprise

All the times we went through Llano, the only place we ever stopped to eat was The Hungry Hunter. Driving by Cooper’s and not stopping was torture.