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  1. It's not excuses, just factual information. Had the officials made the correct call when the Argyle players took advantage of their 'chance to put this game away' by forcing a fumble into the endzone near the end of regulation they would be forever known as champions. Stinks that was taken away from them. I have no dog in this hunt, but it's one of my peeves when a team gets hosed by the refs people are quick to blame the players for not doing enough to overcome it. You could just as easily say that if Navasota wants a controversy free win they should do enough to not need blown calls in their favor to keep them in it. Of course that is part of the game and one that comes out much more often when teams are evenly matched, every call and lucky bounce is magnified.
  2. Alot rides on the Giants game at noon, Giants win then this game don't really matter, Eagles are out and game has no bearing on Cowboy season, Giants lose then Eagles and Cowboys start their playoffs early. I think Cowboys have the advantage in this one, Romo's playing great and we'll have new adjustments and a new gameplan from the early season meltdown while they'll be tempted to do some of the same things playing right into our hands. How bout dem Cowboys! America's team getting ready to roar into the playoffs!!!!!!
  3. Last point, and then I'll get off the old soapbox. I see alot of pettiness behind the arguments against coach Herring, alot of 'we could have done that if we wanted'... sounds almost like jealousy to me... a little fear that they'll take some of the glory you 'could have' had with their high flying offense. Others motivated by revenge, ala I can't wait until team X gets a chance to return the favor and beats them by 90... have a little conviction man, if you truly believe that taking your starters out a half is right then you should want to do that regardless of your opponent, show em 'class' by example... as it is it sounds like you're just itchin for an excuse to be just like em, lol. Finally, I've heard a couple calls for opposing teams to just simply forfeit, I hold this as the lowest argument, what the heck are we teaching our kids, 'when the going get's tough.... quit'. So modern America, explains alot about where our country is today. Feel free to rip me a new one I'm done with this topic... time to move on. Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!
  4. I'm with homegrown on this one, the guy sounds like a winner to me. Does things a little bit different but that's often what it takes... you don't get to be better than everyone else by being exactly like everyone else. If winning was the only thing that mattered, Refugio wouldn't have kicked 3 starters off the team midseason for undisclosed reasons. Nothing Herring did has gone against any rule book, so I guess you can sum up what the haters are describing as 'win at all cost' as 'win using any legal means', don't sound like that bad a lesson to me. They got 90+ kids coming out for football out of 204 total enrollment, the kids are buying it, the community stills employs the guy, they're winning championships... who the heck are a bunch of angry ole losers on a message board to tell them how they should feel. The anger seems to come down to 2 things, one play where evidently they ran a 'trick' play or a reverse (often a standard part of an offense) with little time left after calling a timeout. Certainly I can't answer this one play, although it could be personal reasons, it could be a continuation of using the games to practice situational football, etc. Our coach scored with 24 seconds left up by 40+ last year when we could have kneeled, wanted to let the backup kids run their plays... last I checked there ain't alot of hate directed his way from the rest of the state. The other issue seems to be the points... 5 more than Aledo had this year... where's the firestorm there? Yeah, they hit 90 once but on an interception return, lots of teams even with 'classy' coaches score up 70+ so we're quibbling over 1 or 2 TD's more than what is apparently acceptable to the complainers.
  5. Both very good, I think you have to go with Grey. His open field running is something to behold, huge burst and quickness but he looks so smooth and graceful... it's like performance art... in the middle of a football game. He's got something very rare and special, nothing's a guarantee and not everything translates to the next level or the one beyond that but I expect great things from him.
  6. Some communities are blessed with lots of money, some are blessed with lots of 4.5 and below speed... usually ain't the same ones and both groups probably feel it's a bit unfair. In either case it's just something a kid's born with or not, that's the great thing about football everybody throws whatever they got out on the field and the chips fall where they may.
  7. Nah, probably the smart thing to do from a purely statistical standpoint, you do risk alot of 'momentum' and having heck to pay if it backfires though.. You got a better than 50% chance of getting 1 yard on a sneak and winning the game with no more drama. Worst case scenario you fail and they still have to score twice in about 2 minutes but with pretty good field position for their first drive, their job is easier but not by that much. Lots of things can go wrong with a punt as well, snaps over the head, blocks, returns, shanks that net 5 yards, etc. Alot of stuff is how you feel and how the game's going, but I'd lay odds that going for it gives you the best chance there... well... it worked this time anyways.
  8. I like it. It's the things rivlaries are made of, and he's got a plausible reason for it... playng 2 quarters all season long don't get the kids ready. Sounds like they need to schedule up a bit in pre-district though, and wait and see if heads don't roll if one of those stud players goes down late in the third up by 65+. If it weren't for 'bad' boys, how would the 'good' guys identify themselves anyway. We need Coach Herring on that wall!
  9. On the statewide 1A board Stamford was a slight favorite.
  10. Our policy is that on your 3rd time caught with drugs or alcohol you have to run a couple miles or something, an assistant coach will also council you on being more discreet!
  11. Rules are a bit football conservative for me, it is a game after all. If you're good enough to be able to showboat on the field of play while it's going on so be it... it's the other team's job to stop you IMO. The counter argument is that the opposing team simply can't restrain themselves from violent retaliation when confronted with such a scene... tough... grow up and learn to combine a little freedom with a little self control... this is a great controlled environment to start. Fundamentally, it's the same stupid argument that put women in Burka's (because men simply can't control themselves). I personally never had a problem with a woman in a bikini or a little bit o' high stepping, that's just the football liberal in me coming out though. To others no punishment it too strong, ejection... great. Lose a championship... great. If the rules called for forfeiting a game or suspensions there'd probably still be supporting it... All that said, can't blame the refs for enforcing the rules as written. That's what they get paid to do.
  12. Sounds like it oughta be a helluva ballgame. Mart loss comes to ball control offenses wishbone, they play a tough 2A predistrict. got athletes all over. Clarksville loss came to ball control slot T team, they play a tough 2A predistrict, got athletes all over the field. The difference: Mart's got a history of knowing how to win these ball games and playoff success, Clarkesville may get hit a couple times by #3 and #12 and start remembering how far ahead of them Honey Grove is getting in Basketball... lol. Seriously, with athletes all over the skill positions, DB's, and Safeties, the difference may come down to some of them linemen. Who's got that guy who can get back and disrupt the other team's QB, throw the offensive tempo off a bit.
  13. I don't know, maybe they decided to just disband the football program until Lindsay gets put in a different classification.
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