JasonDellaRosa

I'm not saying they won't have to play up. They were supposed to play Brock and Brock backed out. They tried with Franklin to do a neutral site and it didn't work out. They have tried to play other 4A Division II teams in North Texas and they won't My point in my response is you can't have it either way -- you can't bash them for playing people they probably don't have a chance against because the alternative is they would have back-to-back bye weeks. And I'm sick of all the enrollment talk for five-plus years. The numbers are what they are, if they weren't then they wouldn't be. File a complaint with the UIL if you have proof there's wrongdoing. I take up for them in the paper? I'd love to know how -- all I do is cover them and what they have done. A team that went back-to-back undefeated titles needs no one taking up for them.

The funny thing about this is that if either hadn't found other opponents, it would have been Gunter vs Carthage last week.

So they were just supposed to take three weeks off because no one wanted to play them?

If Gunter wasn't already so banged up, I would think it would be close. But considering who's out, especially on defense, the final score might not be indicitaive if they were both at full strength.

or sometimes you've got to play the only people that will play you

Oh I know it does. I had a coach be reassigned to oversee the textbooks used by the district. My point was for a school district Henderson's size (upper-end 4A high school) they don't have someone in charge of transportation? Security and saftey? Maintenance? Those seem kinda like basic positions, not something to use as a throwaway job.

My question is: Henderson didn't have someone doing that, or overseeing some of those things, in the first place?

I think that's the plan for the next realignment. They wanted this implemented immediately and nobody wanted to go back and change schedules and stuff at this late point. There were a lot of coaches in those sports that were caught off guard this was even going to happen. So I think they will keep it like this for the cycle and then split them.

it is four

The top two records are split into separate semifinals and they flip a coin between the other two to see who they will face

3A Region II https://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/meet/555917/results

Whitesboro has a really good chance to move up pending where the cutoff falls. the cutoff this last time was 545, which was unchanged from the prior one, and Whitesboro turned in 508, which was an increase of 43 from the prior realignment. They are trying to pass a bond and as part of the presentation are prjoecting the HS enrollment for the start of the 2024-25 school year as 556. So if the number stays around where it has been the last two cycles, Whitesboro will already be over it with a year to add to it before snapshot day

How many 3A and 2A schools have enough kids to have soccer in the first place?

Gill has been at Gunter for the past five seasons, the last three as the OC. He moved to offense when Coach Wylie left to be Blue Ridge's head coach

The worst are the ones with just logos and no names -- like I know which Eagle you're playing in Week 1 and that Tiger in Week 3

It was Anna listed above

There is one more spot to fill based on where Gunter's bye falls and again it could be a huge name.

Right church, wrong pew

If they can avoid as many odd-team districts they will so there is no rolling bye and everyone is on equal footing

Gunter looking for a Week 4 now, Brock dropped them

The potential Week 2 is a doozy as well. It's not out there yet because they are each trying to find other opponents. or Gunter might just take a double bye, but if you think the schedule is super tough now....

You can literally look at the month-to-month enrollment and see there is no irregularity. There is no spike in either direction that can be attributed -- from october 2022 to october 2023 the high school dropped nine kids to what they turned in. Counting heads in yearbooks? That's the smoking gun and no one's used that to take down a dynasty. I have heard all sorts of stuff in regards to this topic and my response is the same -- show me hard evidence that proves Gunter has done anything to manipulate enrollement. Not a coach told a coach told his friends stuff. Text messages, emails, not hearsay or sour grapes. Not somthing people think is wrong but is within the guidelines the UIL allows. I can't just go around spouting stuff just because this person says it or that person believes it. I'd like to not be sued and keep my job.

Yeah it's crazy how that in the two months since Snapshot Day, the high school enrollment shot all the way up to.....oh they dropped two kids and are down to 361 I guess they forgot to re-enroll all those pesky extra kids

They are not far off -- they missed by six kids. There is a like an 85 percent chance they go up next time.

No I counted one of those as a two-yard gain when it was a negative-two. I hate how they do those boxes as well and put the yardage before loss first.