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  1. 49 minutes ago, Helobious said:

    Playing the way they are today, both would be destroyed by a lot. In my biased opinion I think Harlingen would give them a better challenge, I think they’re slightly more sound on defense than Stevens.

    I like Harlingen fans. They travel well and they are very passionate. Chaps played you a few years ago in the Alamodome and you had a huge group of fans make the trip. We beat you down, but your fans never stopped making a ton of noise. 

     

    FYI, there is a good chance next week's game will be another home game for Westlake due to lack of stadiums. 

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  2. 14 minutes ago, Helobious said:

    Agree, Stevens came out strong but the cards took the punch and responded. They definitely aren’t outmatched just need to eliminate the mistakes. Our kicker has a strong leg but has been shaky all year, I wouldn’t rely on him much moving forward if I was Gomez. 

    Which team do you think can give Westlake a better game next week?

  3. 2 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    I think one of the things about the smaller, but fairly ultra-affluent communities is that there isn't a lot of turnover in students.  Once a family moves into Eanes, or HP, or Southlake (probably to a lesser extent), they are there to stay and the kids that make up the varsity football team have played together for years, picking up elements of the system.

    Other schools have more turnover from apartments and lower-income sections, but make up for it by a larger student population (and "recruiting").

    I think this is a brilliant insight. When Westlake won state last year, Coach Dodge talked over and over about how these kids stated their cycle in his program in 7th grade, not 9th grade. Continuity of systems and players is a greatly underestimated factor.   

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  4. 2 minutes ago, slorch said:

    wat???

    LT enrollment: 3401

    Westlake: 2833

     

    If i missed the sarcasm font, my apologies.

    I love that you highlighted the very phrase that you failed to comprehend. If you go back and read it again carefully. It states in the districts, not the schools. Next time I'll use smaller words.

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  5. 5 minutes ago, Nueces River Rat said:


    Lol! We played Lake Travis in the baseball playoffs a few years back and their women are one of a kind. They cussed at the Umps more than the Dads. And then after we beat them in game three, our announcer decided to play Hit the Road Jack on the PA system and they started flipping him off and calling him names. It was enjoyable watching them get their panties in a wad.

    I remember that game (and am friends w families w players on that team, lol) As I recall, LT may have been ranked  #1 in the nation, so it was quite the upset. It's pretty low-class of your announcer to play that, btw, but very funny, for sure. With both of my daughters having played sports at Westlake, we have surely seen it all from fans from ALL teams, including ours! 

    We handled your Smithson Valley football team pretty good last night. They had a "OMG, what is going on here," look in the first quarter. 

  6. 16 minutes ago, Nueces River Rat said:

    Many of newbies moving into the San Antonio area are coming from out of state where football is secondary and lack family bonds in the area.   Westlake and LT to some extent have been able to bring back former greats to have their kids play in the same programs they played in.   Case in point in SA is Alamo Heights.  They won State in 2006 and had some good playoff runs there after for a few seasons.  But the last five or so they’ve been whipped a game or two into the playoffs or haven’t made them at all.   

    It's amazing that our Chaps are even able to compete w/ LT at this point. They have 3,000 more student in the district, they have tons of housing space to grow and so many former athletes have moved there. Two years ago, I attended their Spring game for a client event and I was horrified to see a plethora of of those big dad-types that you just know are former athletes. However, our MILF's are still hotter and more sophisticated-looking, so there's that.    

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  7. 56 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    Demographics isn’t the issue.  There are plenty of neighborhoods and communities around SA that can field the athletes you need.

    It wasn’t too long ago that the SA area could lay claim to having the best football in the state. The old 26-5A of the 1990s was a BEAST including a year when it produced both state champions (1995 SA Roosevelt and Converse Judson). 

    I do think the demographics comment is an interesting one in regards to Hispanic communities vs rural/suburban White & African American communities. San Antonio has a rich football legacy, (I hail from the Alamo City) but I think the demographics idea is possibly valid.

    However, I agree that coaching is the key. Since we've been a part of the Westlake community beginning in 2002, the community support was always there but and the team had good, if not great years. Now, Todd Dodge has taken the program to a level we've never seen before, where good players are put into a coaching system that is second to none. Believe it or not, last night's 62-3 score wasn't as close as the score indicated. I do think Westlake would also have won state in 2018 if we hadn't lost our QB, RB & center in the playoffs. Now SA Cibolo is a strong program and it's football, and they can beat us in two weeks, but don't count on it. 

    Texas could be great again if we had the right coach. Fuck you, Herman. 

    Sorry for the ramblings. 

  8. 13 hours ago, Randolph Duke said:

    Herman has long seen himself as being the smartest person in the room. He has been exposed as not being anywhere close to that.

    I see Tom Herman as someone completely lost. He has lost his personal identity. He has lost his professional identity. I don't see him as someone capable of turning his current challenges into an opportunity to grow as a person or a professional.

    I am sure Herman thinks all that is going on around him as everyone else's fault. I am just as sure he has no clue what part he personally played in his current freefall.

    Tom Herman, for all his positives, has simply reached the limits of his ability as a football coach. He makes a competent offensive coordinator. He is competent as a mid-major head coach. But he lacks the ability to compete against his peers at the highest levels of his profession.

    I think the upside for UT football in 2021 is the Cheezit Bowl. Maybe the Texas Bowl in Houston, if he gets lucky.

    Lincoln Riley has to laugh when he hears mention of Tom Herman's name. No coach in the Big 12 has any doubt he can beat a Tom Herman coached football team.

    It is what it is.

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  9. LOL our Chaps up 41-3 over Smithson Valley at half. 3 is one less first down than Smithson Valley has at half. There are plenty of good programs in San Antonio but rarely any great ones. Can any of our SA followers provide any insights about what is missing.
     

    We really do have a great defense this year that will hopefully take us to showdown w North Shore. Not sure we can beat them, though. 

    While we have been dominant against San Antonio programs, I would say that the best team we regularly play is Cibolo Steele.  

     

    EDIT: Now 62-3. 

  10. 2 hours ago, cafe society said:

     Yeah, I doubt the suit or complain has merit.  Probably shouldn't have brought up 2015 OSU.

    I watched the highlights. LBJ return man fumbled the ball into his end zone and the ball was recovered past the end line. Both ball and recovery player were clearly out of bounds. I don’t know if there was bias but that was a terrible call. Also, Lindale has some African American players on their team.

  11. 28 minutes ago, Randolph Duke said:

    When you can't argue the content, attack the author (or, in this case, the publisher). Would, for example, FOX Sports (an arguably more esteemed source) be more credible in your mind?

    SINCE WE'VE TALKING ABOUT THE COACH WHO WAS ON URBAN MEYER'S STAFF DURING MANY OF THESE ALLEGATIONS AND WE CURRENTLY EMPLOY ONE OF ART BRILES MINIONS FFROM HELL, ANSWERS BELOW!

    Let's stick with the content of the article.

    Do you hire a coach who allegedly hid drug-test failures on the Florida sideline by having players wear walking boots so it looked like they were injured? YES

    Do you hire a coach who proclaims respecting women is his No. 1 priority but allows star tailback Carlos Hyde to return to the team after just a three-game suspension when video evidence showed Hyde slapping a woman at a bar? YES

    Do you hire a coach who did nothing after a star player (Percy Harvin) allegedly attacked one of his assistant coaches at Florida? YES

    Do you hire a coach who had to visit a player's family in the middle of the season to make it right with them because he created an environment where an assistant, Smith, allegedly got into an altercation with the player, Trevon Grimes, and used a racial slur? YES

    What would make anyone doubt the honesty of a coach who was caught lying by an Ohio State committee investigating the enabling of Smith? Who deleted texts on his phone prior to investigators searching it for clues? Who told investigators he met with Smith's wife in 2009 and she recanted domestic abuse claims, even though Smith himself told the committee that Meyer didn't meet with her? Who would cook up a story about flying down to Florida five days before a Big Ten road game to see Grimes' sick mother out of the goodness of his heart—not because he was concerned a damaging story would get out? YES

    At what point do college presidents see Meyer for what he is: a helluva football coach with a win-at-all-costs mentality who dangerously blurs the line between righteous and renegade? YES

     

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  12. 18 hours ago, Randolph Duke said:

    The SEZ and Moody projects are already funded.

    The petulant shits who think their priorities are the only priority that matters will have to find another empty threat to make "to support the program."

    I'm not sure how prevalent the attitude is among the donor base, but the "BMDs" who threaten to turn their backs on the program unless they personally get their way are a cancer, not an asset to the program.

    You simply can't layoff staff and institute salary cuts out of financial necessity on Sept 1 and on Dec 1 declare "money is no object," and bring in a new head football coach at a massively higher salary than the old one. Do that, and the new coach would instantly be the most resented person on campus, with staff willingly undermining him at every move out of spite.

    That, in short order, would set the overall athletics program back and would lead to uncontrolled leaks to the media that would cost the overall athletics program dearly. We don't want or need the head football coach to be despised by the entirety of the athletics department, all to appease the most self-centered members of the alumni base.

    The financial ramifications of COVID are substantial and will soon be felt in full effect. And it's not going to be pretty.

    In light of this, the BMDs who demand to have their way "or else," can go to Hell.

    https://texassports.com/news/2020/9/1/forty-acres-insider-sept-1.aspx

    • 26 contracted coaches and administrators voluntarily agreed to take temporary salary reductions (beginning Sept.1 through Aug. 31, 2021 )
    • 273 staff members will receive temporary salary reductions, and 11 staff members will be temporarily furloughed with benefits (beginning Oct. 16 through Aug. 31, 2021)
    • 35 staff members will be laid off 
    • 35 vacant positions will be permanently eliminated

    All, the time-honored "too big to fail" argument. My solution would be to fire CDC & Herman today, before lunch. Let our Defensive Coordinator be the temporary HC for now. At least he seems to know what the hell he is doing.  

     

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  13. 10 minutes ago, torre said:

    Larry Hill one of the best coaches in the State.    Chaps should win but SV will not beat themselves.

    I've been watching Westlake for many years and this is one of the best defenses we've ever fielded. We gave up 20 point this regular season and most of the scores were garbage time. Last night, Cedar Ridge (who had 6 yards of offense in the middle of the 3rd quarter) scored on a very beautiful long ball against our backups and ran back a QB fumble at the end. I predict we advance through the playoffs up until a meeting w North Shore in the semi's and then lose a close one. If we had been lucky to go D2, it's another state championship. However, Smithson Valley has a good sports program overall and it's the playoffs and anything can happen-Just ask Lake Travis.    @NIUHuskies

  14. 2 hours ago, HornsOverIthaca said:

    Was LT missing players due to the virus?

    Their QB missed a lot of the season, and they missed two games. I think the Westlake game would have helped prepare them for a strong RR team, but they cancelled the game due to the Trump Boat Parade, I mean COVID 19. 

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  15. 30 minutes ago, NIUHuskies said:

    Tale of two halves for Smithson Valley. Reagan was up 20 to 3 at half. Rangers get a 8 minute td drive to open 2nd half. Reagan's next possession pick six. Reagan could not get their offense moving after that. Punts and ints. One pick led to a Smithson Valley td in the 4th. 

    Did you go to the game? Sounds like Smithson Valley has a gutty team, so good for them. Our Chaps will play them next week in Pflugerville. 

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