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Posting info on my State's Football news this past week.  Mostly here in the DFW.  

1st up DFW OOS games in 2018.  A DFW team will even travel OOS in one State to play a team from another.  Most of the Guru's are probably up on these games. 

OOS Games DFW Teams

Week 1: Ft. Worth All Saints vs. Cache (Okla.)

Week 1:  Mansfield Legacy at Jenks (Okla.)

Week 1:   Mansfield Lake Ridge vs. Tulsa Union (Okla.)

Week 2:   Aledo vs Bentonville (Ark.) in Shreveport (La.)

Week 2:   Allen vs East High School from Utah (home)

Week 2:   Bishop Lynch vs John Curtis (La.) at Independence Bowl 

 

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Big Metroplex games 

Week 1

Aledo vs. Denton Guyer

Argyle vs. Stephenville

Arlington Martin vs. Lake Travis

Carter vs. Houston Yates (Historical old PVIL Rivals and the argument of best ever in State 1985 Yates vs. 1988 Carter of ESPN Fame) http://www.chron.com/sports/highschool/article/Dallas-Carter-Yates-non-district-showdown-in-the-12543788.php

Cedar Hill vs. Tyler John Tyler

Desoto vs at Odessa Permian

ET VS. Waco Midway

Melissa vs. Argyle Liberty Christian  (4A Melissa will have the most talented Backfield in the DFW)

Rockwall vs. Highland Park

Skyline vs. South Oak Cliff

South Grand Prairie vs. Southlake Carroll

Wylie vs. Plano Prestonwood  (6A vs. Private)  

Week 2

Argyle vs. La. Vega

Cedar Hill vs. Denton Guyer (at the Cotton Bowl)

Desoto vs. Jesuit (home)

Duncanville vs. SOC 

ET vs. Sachse

Mansfield Lake Ridge vs. Waco Midway

Mesquite Horn vs. Highland Park (Horn plays Allen, HP, CH & Guyer 1st 4 wks) Toughest OOD schedule in the DFW

Week 3

Allen vs. Coppell

Cedar Hill vs. Mesquite Horn

Desoto vs. Bishop Dunne (location TBD) Big time TAPPS vs. 6A Power

Ft. Worth All Saints vs. TC-Cedar Hill

Duncanville is open need an opponent 

Mansfield Lake Ridge vs. Timberview

Mansfield Legacy vs. Mansfield 

Rockwall vs. Skyline

Week 4

ET vs Tyler John Tyler

Melissa vs. Trinity Christian-Cedar Hill

 

 

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Toughest Non District Schedules in the DFW

1. Mesquite Horn (Horn will play Allen, Highland Park, Cedar Hill and Denton Guyer, which were a combined 42-11) 5A & 6A Champs

2. Euless Trinity (Midway 6A Runner ups, Sachse 12-1 & Colleyville Heritage who beat them last year and Tyler John Tyler)

3. Colleyville Heritage (North Forney, Southlake Carroll and Euless Trinity. Those teams were a combined 31-10 and all went at least three rounds deep in the playoffs)

4. Allen (6A Division I state champion opens at home against District 11-6A champion Mesquite Horn, then hosts Utah 6A state runner-up East High School. Allen's final non-district game is at Coppell, the District 9-6A champion that finished 11-2.

5. Lancaster (non-district games against Duncanville, West Mesquite and South Grand Prairie. That trio was a combined 25-9, paced by Duncanville's 11-1 record.

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Some long trips in this new district alignment;:  DFW teams are pared with West Texas in district play

CLASS 6A REGION I 

DISTRICT 3-6A

Abilene (2,394)

Euless Trinity (3,470)

Haltom (2,772)

Hurst L.D. Bell (3,131)

Richland (2,207)

San Angelo Central (3,044)

Weatherford (2,311)

This district is gonna be tough

DISTRICT 7-6A

Cedar Hill (2,354)

DeSoto (3,398)

Grand Prairie (2,835)

Mansfield (2,488.5)

Mansfield Lake Ridge (2,438)

Mansfield Summit (2,215.5)

South Grand Prairie (3,407)

Waxahachie (2,235)

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Full UIL Alignments and districts.  https://sportsday.dallasnews.com/high-school/high-schools/2018/02/01/uil-annouces-new-districts-classifications-part-2018-20-realignment-see-full-list

2018-20 reclassification and
realignment information

Classification cutoffs:

Classification Cutoff Basketball schools Football schools
6A 2,190 and above 254 252
5A 1,150-2,189 253 252
4A 505-1,149 189 182
3A 225-504 232 211
2A 105-224 198 187
1A 104.9 and below 212

142

 

 

1A-5A football Division I and Division II numbers:

Class, Division Cutoff Number of schools
5A Division I 1,840-2,189 127
5A Division II 1,150-1,839 125
4A Division I 790-1,149 92
4A Division II 505-789 90
3A Division I 335-504 106
3A Division II 225-334 105
2A Division I 161.5-224 94
2A Division II 105-161.4 93
1A Division I 55.5-104.9 73
1A Division II 55 and below 69

 

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Katy Tigers will open non-district games against North Shore, Atascocita

http://www.chron.com/sports/highschool/article/Katy-will-open-non-district-games-against-North-12544116.php

They are looking for a game: 

Now Joseph is scrambling to find a different non-district opponent for Weeks 3 or 5 – and not having much luck so far.

 

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23 minutes ago, Horsefly said:

Did the UIL explain their reason behind this?

Dishonest bunk. They pushed a false narrative of there being no good option and they'd have to go somewhere and that their new software said that district was best (even in a DFW district they're having to pass by schools in another DFW 6A district to get to HEB). That's obviously false because they already naturally fit where they've always been with Midland, Odessa, and Abilene schools. They used an example of "Going to Amarillo and Frenship is worse than what we have them doing now" while conveniently leaving out that there are four nearby schools in Midland and Odessa. 

2-6A for San Angelo: 4 short trips, 2 long trips

3-6A for San Angelo: 1 short trip, 5 long trips

They should have made 2-6A an eight team district with Abilene and San Angelo in the district. San Angelo and both Midland and Odessa schools said they wanted San Angelo in 2-6A. This will be the first time in 80 years that Odessa schools are in a district that doesn't include San Angelo or Abilene schools.

The reason they were put into 3-6A is because of Tascosa complaining about San Angelo being in their district. The Tascosa Twitter account even trolled the Bobcats after they got their wish. Tascosa wields a lot of power for some reason. Moving San Angelo out doesn't even help Tascosa in any way. Tascosa replaced their district game with San Angelo with a non-district game with BROWNSVILLE HANNA, a school that is 800 miles away from Amarillo. The only way for Tascosa to fix their travel problem is to shift 100 students to become 5A.

Here's what San Angelo Central Head Coach Brent Davis had to say:

"Besides the fact that most of our trips are going to be three-and-a-half hours, I'm OK with it," Davis said. "All they're trying to do is appease Tascosa. That's all they're trying to do is appease Tascosa, which I don't understand why, but that's what it is."

"In my experiences here in San Angelo for nine years, either us or Lake View is taking the brunt of everything for everybody else," the Central football coach said. "They stuck Lake View out there one time with Waco and Stephenville.

"It seems like we're the stepchild. Our school district seems to be the stepchild. That's just all there is to it I guess."

"I guess the congressman from Tascosa, the state legislator, is threatening (the UIL) and always making a big deal out of Tascosa," said the all-time winningest football coach in Central program history who has led the Bobcats to five straight district titles. "The sad part about this whole thing is Tascosa controls their own enrollment.

"They have open enrollment and they can fix their own problem and make (all their schools) 5A, but they refuse to do that, so it affects us, which is ridiculous. When we met with the UIL earlier in December, Tascosa was the only one in the room crying and making it vocal about how bad their travel is. Well, our travel is just as bad as Tascosa's. It's exactly the same. It is what it is. They got what they wanted and I guess we'll go from there."

"We need to go play good teams, and Euless is good and those other schools are going to be good," Davis said. "It's going to be new and different. But it's just the fact that we're going to be putting our kids on the road for four-and-a-half hours, except (for) Abilene High.

"Weatherford's a little over three (hours) and those other ones are around four. I guess our kids aren't as important as Tascosa's. That's all I can figure out. I think the district's going to be exciting, but the travel's going to be brutal."

"I think that's the one thing I'm more disappointed in than anything is just being part of the 'Little Southwest Conference' and being five-time district champs that we won't get to do any more in that district anyway," Davis said. "We can do it in another one. But, what are you going to do?"

http://www.gosanangelo.com/story/sports/high-school/2018/02/01/san-angelo-central-uil-realignment-2018/1085006001/

What really makes it bad is in other sports. About twice a week on weeknights for the entire school year other sports are going to be traveling nine hours round-trip to the middle of the Metroplex missing an entire day of school, getting back around 3AM to get up and go to school the next day. If in 2-6A the only bad travel would be to Amarillo, with football being only every other year and the other sports being able work the schedule to get SA-Tascosa games on weekends only.

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11 hours ago, DevilDog said:

Posting info on my State's Football news this past week.  Mostly here in the DFW.  

1st up DFW OOS games in 2018.  A DFW team will even travel OOS in one State to play a team from another.  Most of the Guru's are probably up on these games. 

OOS Games DFW Teams

Week 1: Ft. Worth All Saints vs. Cache (Okla.)

Week 1:  Mansfield Legacy at Jenks (Okla.)

Week 1:   Mansfield Lake Ridge vs. Tulsa Union (Okla.)

Week 2:   Aledo vs Bentonville (Ark.) in Shreveport (La.)

Week 2:   Allen vs East High School from Utah (home)

Week 2:   Bishop Lynch vs John Curtis (La.) at Independence Bowl 

 

 Can you double check about Mansfield playing Broken Arrow?

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15 minutes ago, Shady12 said:

Dishonest bunk. They pushed a false narrative of there being no good option and they'd have to go somewhere and that their new software said that district was best (even in a DFW district they're having to pass by schools in another DFW 6A district to get to HEB). That's obviously false because they already naturally fit where they've always been with Midland, Odessa, and Abilene schools. They used an example of "Going to Amarillo and Frenship is worse than what we have them doing now" while conveniently leaving out that there are four nearby schools in Midland and Odessa. 

They should have made 2-6A an eight team district with Abilene and San Angelo in the district. San Angelo and both Midland and Odessa schools said they wanted San Angelo in 2-6A. This will be the first time in 80 years that Odessa schools are in a district that doesn't include San Angelo or Abilene schools.

The reason they were put into 3-6A is because of Tascosa complaining about San Angelo being in their district. The Tascosa Twitter account even trolled the Bobcats after they got their wish. Tascosa wields a lot of power for some reason. Moving San Angelo out doesn't even help Tascosa in any way. Tascosa replaced their district game with San Angelo with a non-district game with BROWNSVILLE HANNA, a school that is 800 miles away from Amarillo. The only way for Tascosa to fix their travel problem is to shift 100 students to become 5A.

Here's what San Angelo Central Head Coach Brent Davis had to say:

"Besides the fact that most of our trips are going to be three-and-a-half hours, I'm OK with it," Davis said. "All they're trying to do is appease Tascosa. That's all they're trying to do is appease Tascosa, which I don't understand why, but that's what it is."

"In my experiences here in San Angelo for nine years, either us or Lake View is taking the brunt of everything for everybody else," the Central football coach said. "They stuck Lake View out there one time with Waco and Stephenville.

"It seems like we're the stepchild. Our school district seems to be the stepchild. That's just all there is to it I guess."

"I guess the congressman from Tascosa, the state legislator, is threatening (the UIL) and always making a big deal out of Tascosa," said the all-time winningest football coach in Central program history who has led the Bobcats to five straight district titles. "The sad part about this whole thing is Tascosa controls their own enrollment.

"They have open enrollment and they can fix their own problem and make (all their schools) 5A, but they refuse to do that, so it affects us, which is ridiculous. When we met with the UIL earlier in December, Tascosa was the only one in the room crying and making it vocal about how bad their travel is. Well, our travel is just as bad as Tascosa's. It's exactly the same. It is what it is. They got what they wanted and I guess we'll go from there."

"We need to go play good teams, and Euless is good and those other schools are going to be good," Davis said. "It's going to be new and different. But it's just the fact that we're going to be putting our kids on the road for four-and-a-half hours, except (for) Abilene High.

"Weatherford's a little over three (hours) and those other ones are around four. I guess our kids aren't as important as Tascosa's. That's all I can figure out. I think the district's going to be exciting, but the travel's going to be brutal."

"I think that's the one thing I'm more disappointed in than anything is just being part of the 'Little Southwest Conference' and being five-time district champs that we won't get to do any more in that district anyway," Davis said. "We can do it in another one. But, what are you going to do?"

http://www.gosanangelo.com/story/sports/high-school/2018/02/01/san-angelo-central-uil-realignment-2018/1085006001/

What really makes it bad is in other sports. About twice a week on weeknights for the entire school year other sports are going to be traveling nine hours round-trip to the middle of the Metroplex missing an entire day of school, getting back around 3AM to get up and go to school the next day. If in 2-6A the only bad travel would be to Amarillo, with football being only every other year and the other sports being able work the schedule to get SA-Tascosa games on weekends only.

Damn I love yall coach!!!

PREACH!!!

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17 hours ago, DevilDog said:

Posting info on my State's Football news this past week.  Mostly here in the DFW.  

1st up DFW OOS games in 2018.  A DFW team will even travel OOS in one State to play a team from another.  Most of the Guru's are probably up on these games. 

OOS Games DFW Teams

Week 1: Ft. Worth All Saints vs. Cache (Okla.)

Week 1:  Mansfield Legacy at Jenks (Okla.)

Week 1:   Mansfield Lake Ridge vs. Tulsa Union (Okla.)

Week 2:   Aledo vs Bentonville (Ark.) in Shreveport (La.)

Week 2:   Allen vs East High School from Utah (home)

Week 2:   Bishop Lynch vs John Curtis (La.) at Independence Bowl 

 

Not favorable match ups for Texas. At the most Texas will win 3 of these games 

Winners

All-Saints

Jenks

Union

Allen

John Curtis

Leaning towards Bentonville to beat Aledo

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3 minutes ago, Texasball said:

Not favorable match ups for Texas. At the most Texas will win 3 of these games 

Winners

All-Saints

Jenks

Union

Allen

John Curtis

Leaning towards Bentonville to beat Aledo

Aledo better get some speed on that defense.  I think they can hang with Bentonville.   I don't think this is the old Bentonville.  Jenks were done last year. 

 

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2 minutes ago, DevilDog said:

Aledo better get some speed on that defense.  I think they can hang with Bentonville.   I don't think this is the old Bentonville.  Jenks were done last year. 

 

Aledo played good enough defense to win the Championship.  The QB played horrible - He will need to be improved this coming season.

Jenks is playing a team that Aledo beat twice.

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25 minutes ago, Texasball said:

Lynch has zero business playing John Curtis.  This is total mismatch

Dunne might have chance vs Byrd depending on how good Byrd will be this year.

 

I'm proud of the TAPPS guys.  They haven't embarrassed themselves at all on the National Stage.  If Lynch have a core group from Last year that game will be closer than you think?  Agree they are the underdog.   Aledo should be able to battle Bentonville. 

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2 hours ago, Eddyr2 said:

Any news on any elite players from Texas leaving the state?

Believe it or not The Univ. of Texas is loading up like never before since the early 2000's in getting in state Kids. 2 big Texas kids one big time Defensive guy and WR  Joshua Moore committed to Oregon seems to be backing out and visiting UT.  Out of the 1op 10 Recruits in the Class of 2018 in the State of Texas  7 Committed to the Longhorns.  Herman has cast the Net. 

https://247sports.com/college/texas/Season/2018-Football/Commits

Oregon has missed out on another official visitor to the Texas Longhorns. Houston (Tex.) Westfield defensive tackle Keondre Coburnwill not visit Oregon and will take an unofficial visit to Texas, the school he's been committed to since last August.

This is the second prospect this week that has chosen not to visit Oregon in favor of Texas. Earlier in the week, Yoakum (Tex.) wide receiver Joshua Moore cancelled his Oregon visit. Moore will decide on Sunday between the Longhorns and the Ducks.

 
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