Mavchamp

Can’t overlook anyone! This is a business trip.

VOLLEYBALL STANDINGS Whitehouse (5-0), (19-6) Lufkin (4-1), (27-6) Hallsville (4-1), (16-11) Texas High (4-1), (19-11) Jacksonville (3-3), (9-12) Marshall (2-4), (14-16) Tyler (1-4), (7-14) Nacogdoches (1-5), (3-21) Mt Pleasant (0-5), (4-17) Game 6 (9/17) Whitehouse beat Nacogdoches 3-0 Hallsville beat Tyler 3-0 Texas High beat Mt. Pleasant 3-1 Jacksonville beat Marshall 3-2 Lufkin- Bye

Always fun to beat him.

Week 4 Schedule Texas High Vs. Fayetteville- This is the top game of the week in the district IMHO. A big test for the Tigers against a top notch program. Playing on the road is tough. But Texas High has been nearly perfect this season. Their offense is clicking and their defense is getting the job done against some good competition. Until THS shows me they have an achilles heel this season.....I won't be picking against them. TEXAS HIGH WINS Marshall Vs. Palestine- After three straight weeks of playing schools (and players) much bigger than them.... the Mavs will be playing down a classification this week. A win would give Marshall a 3-1 non-district record, their best since 2015. The Mavs have a lot of things to work on headed into district. The offense is clicking on the running side...but has't NEEDED to pass much. The defense has had some issues in the secondary this season. Marshall will be too much for Palestine. MARSHALL WINS. Hallsville Vs. Pine Tree- Pine Tree is (3-0) and seems to be playing well, especially on the defensive side of the ball. The offense isn't flashy.... but when your defense has been as stingy as they have been this far, who cares? Hallsville's offense exploded for 35 points last week... and for the first time in a long time had a good defensive game. PT seems to be pulling things together....Hallsville is still questionable, esp on defense. PINE TREE WINS. Paris Vs. Whitehouse- WH gave Kilgore and C-Hill better games than most expected. They have another tough one this week with a (3-0) Paris team. Paris is scoring a lot of points..... one game they 31 points...another was 49. Whitehouse seems to be struggling with their offensive identity right now. WH is notorious with their home-cooking....so it'll be tough for Paris to get the win on the road. But PARIS WINS if the refs allow. Sulphur Springs Vs. Mount Pleasant- MP is making a lot of mistakes to keep themselves from winning. Penalties and turnovers will kill a game...and a season. SS seems to be on the right track. This is a rivalry game...so all bets are off. But until MP can prove to be able to play a complete game....it's hard to pick them. Sulphur Springs wins. Nacogdoches Vs. Bryan Rudder- Rudder is (3-0). They will be at home. Nac is (2-1) but both wins came against 4A clubs. I want to believe in Nac....but they need to give me a reason to believe in them. Rudder wins at home. Athens Vs. Jacksonville- Toss up game. Jacksonville is giving up a LOT of points. Athens is scoring a lot of points. The Hornets have scored exactly 35 points in every game this season. This game all boils down to Athen's ability to stop Jacksonville's running attack. I'll take Athen's in a close one. Athens wins.

VOLLEYBALL STANDINGS Whitehouse (4-0), (18-6) Lufkin (4-1), (27-6) Hallsville (3-1), (15-11) Texas High (3-1), (18-11) Marshall (2-3), (14-15) Jacksonville (2-3), (8-12) Tyler (1-3), (7-13) Nacogdoches (1-4), (3-20) Mt Pleasant (0-4), (4-16) Game 5 (9/13) Lukfin beat Mt. Pleasant 3-0 Whitehouse beat Marshall 3-0 Hallsville beat Nac 3-0 Texas High beat Jacksonville 3-0 Tyler- BYE

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Past experience is that a PO'd Lobo team takes their wrath out on the next opponent. Texas > Louisiana. Hard to pick against the Lobos.

I'm certainly not picking against Texas High. They seem to be in midseason form already. They are beating some really good teams soundly. I think we've seen a big enough sample from Longview, Marshall, and others to know that Louisiana and Arkansas isn't the same has TxHSFB. I think Fayetteville is very good.... but so is THS....and...well... Texas. Until the Tigers show us they have a chink in their armor...... we're going to assume they are the favorite in each game they play. Looking pretty dang awesome right now.

Thank you sir. Ready!

Obviously Palestine is no where near as good as Tyler, Longview, or Legacy…. BUT… this game is important. We can’t get lazy and overlook anyone. We did that in 2023 and MP smacked us. Did it in 2022 and Hallsville smacked us. We have a passing game that needs fine tuning. We have some blocking that needs more reps. I’m real concerned out our pass defense. Legacy lit us up. Longview isn’t even a passing team and had a 60 yard TD pass. How many times Vs Longview and again Vs Legacy did we see the Mav defense force a 3rd and LONG only to let them out of jail due to poor tackling? We never punted Vs Legacy… but it was a disaster Vs. Longview. A horrendous punt less than 15 yards gave them the ball inside the 50 and a muffed punt gave them the ball inside the 30. That was 2 gift wrapped scores. We need to work that out before district. Lots of work to be done. Hoping for a great game. I’m headed to Galveston after the game Friday night to get on a cruise ship. Headed to the Bahamas. Let’s make it a happy cruise with a big win!

It was an 11 point win in 2022. Tyler got a cheap late TD with about a min in the game. Without that score it would have been 40-22. That’s a blowout by most standards. 41-14 this year. Has a blowout vibe to me I’ll agree that August/early September games don’t mean much. But Tyler fans are the ones talking big and predicting blowouts and basically calling the competition trash….THEN minimizing the importance of the game after getting your butt handed to you. Seems to be a pattern.

That’s all fine and good as long as they can take what they dish out. Which they can’t… that’s why it’s being called out by multiple peeps.

Nope. I expect fans to hype their team even if they are 0-9. But predicting 21 point wins and blowouts this and all the chest beating when you struggle more than you dominate is crazy to me. On this thread alone we got people talking about how yall stomped a hole in the ground with Legacy yet you only won by 6 points. Its not respecting your opponents. Do I need to pull up the August predictions from the last 3 years of our game? 35-14, 28-7….. and after the loss. I have tremendous respect for Tyler. And Longview. and Legacy. Why? Because I’m well aware that none of them are gimmies. Sure I want to win. I’ll predict a win. But talk smack about then? Nahhh. I don’t like crow.

They were very good in 2021. We were lucky to beat them in what was a wild playoff game.