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Welcome to the 590M High School Sports Show.
Here's your host, powered by Texas Podcast Media, Craig Irwin, Toby Tolst, and Trent
Hart.
And good evening everybody.
Welcome to the 590M Sports Show.
Craig Irwin.
Trent Hart here is a Toby Wint MIA Trent.
Well, it's starting to become a regular thing.
And there's a recurring theme here, where it's him one week and me the other week and
vice versa.
Yeah, I know.
It's getting kind of crazy.
I don't know if the Astros game on Monday night had something to do with it or what,
but definitely we're having problems getting everybody in the house.
Well, we'll get on the same page eventually.
Eventually.
One day.
We'll have maybe next week we go into what, Week 10 next week.
So we're in week nine coming into this week.
This is Monday as we sit down and record this.
So week nine.
I know.
We're we're so it seems like it's we blinked and it's gone.
I agree.
And it's like we blink really fast and it's gone.
And I'm like, Godly, what the heck?
Where did the time go?
Well, it's just it's just that time of year.
We're so excited about every single week.
They just go by so quickly and it's going to go go by even quicker because of the games
we got lined out for week nine.
I know.
And there's some good games, right?
That that are that are coming that I'm like super stoked for.
You know, we've talked about this week 20 or excuse me, 1020 week.
We've talked about it for a long time.
And here we are.
It's here.
It's upon us.
And I just I don't know what to I don't know what to think about it.
Of course, you and I talked about it a little bit today is there's games that we thought
were really going to be impactful games this week.
And they're going to find out they're not as impactful.
No, about I would say about 60% of what we thought was going to be super huge games or
a fake district more so than what they are are really that big of a game.
I mean, and we'll go over some of that as we go through the districts here a little
bit.
But like you said, but there are some huge ones.
No, there is.
And not just in our region, but yet around the state, there's some really big games.
You know, and we'll talk about it as we progress on.
But like the Stephenville, China Springs game, both those teams in the top 10, you know,
it's just one of several that's going to be going around here in week nine of Texas High
School football.
So we're going to do things a little bit different this week.
We've been trying to figure out we's going to do a big show, little show, big school,
little school show.
We was going to do and then a bonus show.
But now that Toby's not in here on the 590 and sports show this week, we may be able
to wrap it all up into one.
I think we will.
Touch on each of the districts and kind of discuss even where some of these districts
are currently standing and where they stood against, I don't know, maybe those picks that
we made toward the first in the district season.
Oh, we didn't delete those.
No, I still got them on the spreadsheet, buddy.
I figured you did.
And I think the only thing that we're going to get right out of that is out of district
nine three.
I think the four seed we got right out of that one, right?
You know what I mean?
And then if you look over there at district 12, three division two, I think that district
we picked as close as what you can pick out of that district.
Yeah, aside from the Warren, but we'll we'll talk about that here in a little bit.
Yeah, most definitely.
So where do you want to start?
You want to start six and go down or you want to start little school and go up?
Either way.
You know that I have more to say about the smaller districts so we can start at the six
a level and work our way down.
I'm totally good with that.
And I was going to run down some scores.
Just a couple games that we talked about last week whenever you was out sick.
But the Columbus Hitchcock game, Columbus wins that one big 52-24 last week.
And then Partsboro and Winsboro almost an identical score 52-28 in favor of Winsboro.
Yeah, yeah, both both really big games.
I think we were all keeping an eye on that even though I wasn't here on the show last
week.
You know that that game was was in everybody's mind Friday night for sure.
No, it was those two games.
Yes, those two games were the two really big games that we were looking at and like really
eyeing on.
You know what I mean as far as the big games in the area as I'm looking through the score
board.
New Caney drops to Grand Oaks 9-6 and their playoff hopes are pretty much out the window
now as as that district and that district on that list that you put together.
You got district 21 6a but we didn't put this district in there for the new Caney Eagles
and we're going to talk about them.
We'll get started with that district first.
I guess is what I'm trying to say.
What's their district number?
District 20 13 6a 13 6a.
Yeah, it makes no sense.
They're in complete different regions than what North Shore and then more.
That's right.
That's the way they broke that region up.
It's completely backwards.
So as we jump into 23 excuse me district 13 6a and you look at this, you got the Woodlands
and Willis, they're both 6 and 0 in that district.
The Woodlands will move to 7 0 after this week as they got Caney Creek, but Willis is
6 and 0.
They got a they're on a bye week.
They will face up next week.
Those two teams will Oak Ridge, which is another team that's been on a roll roll their forum
one.
They have College Park this week and Oak Ridge has not not faced Willis.
That's going to be November 3rd game that Oak Ridge and Willis game will come up and
I bring that up for the relevancy that that if the Woodlands the Woodlands and Willis,
they'll match up next week.
Right.
So on 1026, that's a big game at the Woodlands at Wood 4 Stadium.
They'll probably sell that place out for that game.
And then the Woodlands have already played Grand Oaks.
Excuse me Oak Ridge and I'm trying to pull that score up.
Yeah.
So Willis beat Oak Ridge 55 26 back in September, early September, because this district is
so big they started early.
Right.
Yeah.
So they've already they've already met.
So the Woodlands is in the driver's seat.
They're out of 13 6a Willis in the two spots 6 and 0 Willis with the bye week.
They got the Woodlands this next week, which is probably going to drop them to could possibly
drop them to a 6 and 1 record.
Oak Ridge their forum one they have College Park a big game this week for them could possibly
shoot them up to that five and one mark to where that Willis Conroe Oak Ridge game is
really a big game.
So the district is really already decided the top four teams because you have the Woodlands
Willis Oak Ridge, the Woodlands College Park and then Grand Oaks wraps it up in the number
five.
So the top four teams there, those are the ones that we're really looking at and going
to be in that in that playoff spot out of District 13 6a.
So still another one of those districts that's going to come down to the wire really and truly
on on how this district is going to shape up.
I don't know about it.
The Willis Woodlands game is going to be pretty much for the district championship.
Yeah.
I mean, pretty much depending on what Willis does next week against right against.
Well, if it'll pull up the Woodlands Willis game next week and then on 1026 and then 113
is kind of the two three spot between either between Willis and Oak Ridge in my opinion
because I feel like the Woodlands is going to win that game against Willis and then it's
going to come down for the two three spot between them two and then you got College Park going
to wrap up in the four spot as they already have two losses.
And you do you do think the Woodlands are going to take that game against Willis?
Yeah, I haven't led much into it and I haven't talked a whole bunch about it.
I've been letting you know Toby kind of have his thunder, but I do.
I feel like the Willis that the Woodlands I think they're the depth that they have overall
talent.
Trump's the the lagway talent that Willis has.
Okay.
That's just my opinion.
Whenever I look at it, you don't hear you're not hearing about as close as what I am to
Willis.
I read a lot of the newspaper articles and stuff and see a lot of stuff on social media
and what have you, but you don't you don't hear that Willis that stand out running back
or that stand out receiver.
You know what I'm saying?
What's all about their quarterback, right?
Correct.
And that's what it's all focused focused on.
And he's a dual threat quarterback does a lot of work with his legs as well.
So you know, it makes you wonder really and truly right on how that how that shakes out.
So that's how I feel that this district is going to how I think it's going to shape up
out of there.
And it could go obviously could go either way, but in two, I mean, really, is it in a
way game for the Woodlands?
You know what I mean?
So I just I'm going to have to defer to your judgment on this on this district for sure,
because all I know is is basically what you guys have told me and what I've listened to
as far as Willis goes and the Woodlands go.
Everyone else out of that.
I'm just kind of a scoreboard watching.
And if I were to take a stab at it, I was going to I was going to go with Willis, but
you know, you make a solid argument about the Woodlands there about being more well
rounded.
I feel like they are.
And you know, I watched the Woodlands last year and that Duncanville game and had plans
to go to another game this year, but my Thursday nights have been pretty much sewed up with
the wife and case.
But really whenever you look at it, I think the Woodlands is is probably twice the size
of what Willis is.
And I think that has in the Woodlands is big.
They're big up front.
They're just big all the way around.
And I feel like that that's going to be the difference in that football game.
And I think it's going to be a difference of the Woodlands.
Willis, the Woodlands going to capitalize much like Duncanville did against the Woodlands
whenever I went and watched them play here a few weeks ago or last year in the playoffs.
So in Duncanville, just it was a game the first half and then Duncanville kind of stretched
out and flex her muscles because they had a little bit more depth than everything else.
Yeah.
So but moving over to 21 6a, which gets a little bit closer to you, you have Glenapart,
North Shore, a task of Cedar, Summer Creek, CE King, umbil wildcats, Kingwood Park Mustangs,
Beaumont United and Beaumont Westbrook.
And what's crazy is, is it just doesn't seem like it was that long ago that you were talking
about these Beaumont teams that were finishing in the top 10 top.
You know what I mean?
Right.
Not too long ago, but I mean, you look at this district and we said that the top four
in the previous district that we're talking about was pretty soda.
I think the top four in this district is pretty conclusive.
No, it is.
Whenever you sit down and look at it, you got North Shore one in a task of Cedar two.
And if you click on it, the North Shore task of Cedar game is next Saturday, not Friday
next Saturday.
No, it is next Saturday, the 27th, which is a that's a huge game.
According to my broadcast partner, he feels like a task of Cedar is going to beat North
Shore this year.
Well, that's two people now that have said that because Toby thinks that a task of Cedar
is going to win that game as well.
That's interesting.
You know, North Shore, we've talked about North Shore for so many years, right?
Right.
And I think the dominant thing that for so many years and and this year is kind of like,
I don't know if it's a hopeful or wishful thinking on a task of Cedar going to beat
him or is it is there some merit to that?
I know that task of Cedar is good.
I think there's merit to it.
I really do.
Whenever you think about it, North Shore has got a new head coach over there and I talked
about it in the first podcast and Toby told me I was wrong and I said, no, Toby ain't
wrong.
And he come back the next week, he's like, dude, you knew what you were talking about.
It was actually the next day.
He's like, man, you knew what you were talking about.
I sound like an idiot.
And I say, it's okay.
We all sound like idiots, especially after we after our district picks.
We'd really sounded stupid, right?
But whenever you look at this, I feel like that that game, I mean, they got identical
records.
A task to Cedar has CE King this week, which is going to be a really big game.
District game CE King sitting in that four spot.
I think a task, a Cedar or a roll to five and Oh, North Shore has umbil this week.
I think North Shore is going to roll moved to five and Oh, to build for that 1027 football
game.
And then Summer Creek, they have Beaumont United, which they're oh and four, one and
six on the season.
And then CE King has, as I said, a task to see you go.
So that's a this week.
So that's a big game out of that district is CE King and a task to Cedar.
And that game, where's that game at?
That game is at home for the task of city Eagles, which is really a rogue game because
it'll be there at Turner Stadium.
Right.
This week.
So, uh, but that's, that's a big game.
That's a big game out of that district.
And like you said, you, you're one, two spots going to be North Shore and a task to Cedar
than Summer Creek, Summer Creek and CE King.
The interesting aspect to it is, is with this being six, a is how's this district going
to break up, right?
Who's going to go big and who's going to go small?
Yeah, that's, that's, and the big question, the big question is CE King is a task to see
in Summer Creek, right?
Which one of those two are going to go?
Which one of those two will go big number wise?
Yeah.
And I wouldn't be able to even remotely be able to guess.
The UIL has a deal and I should have done a better job.
I do.
Preping on that, but you can pull and be able to pull, you know, get an idea of who's going
to go big, who's going to go small.
And if Toby was here, he doesn't understand how important it is that we have all three
of us here.
You know what I mean?
Right.
Because on these big schools, that's the knowledge.
That's where he really shines on being able to bring that information in.
Yeah.
That would, that would have been nice to have before we started talking and especially in
these six districts, but, you know, North Shore, obviously a big school, right?
Right.
And so yeah, it'll be interesting to see who out of a task to see the Summer Creek, who's
going to be our CE King actually.
I think CE King will go small.
Yeah, they probably will actually now that I'm thinking about it.
CE King will go small out of those.
My big, my big question, I think North Shore is going to go big.
It's a matter of who's smaller between Summer Creek and, uh, in a task to see day.
Yeah.
That's the two.
Yeah.
So I'm, I'm fixing to, I'm fixing to pull it up 22 to 24.
Then all that will be for nothing come next year on the realignment.
Yes.
Next year, realignment comes in and it'll be just, it doesn't even matter.
Right.
It matters for this year.
And you know, to me, you don't want to go big because you got, you got big old Duncan
Bill.
Yeah.
You got Duncan Bill sitting down there, sitting down there, just waiting for anybody to devour,
you know,
So Summer Creek will go small.
Their enrollment total enrollment is 33 57.
Hang on.
A task to see to is 38 69.
So task to see them go big.
Yeah.
Task to see it'll go big.
See the, thank God for the interwebs.
It really is able to pull something up that that that quick as a, I was able to get it
pulled up, but you know, the new realignment numbers are going to be interesting and with
how they're going to tentatively set those, right?
And put that together.
So I'm interested to see who else was we talking about CE King.
And just since I'm on the screen, I might as well.
Well, as a C King was the other one, which is going to be Sheldon eyes.
We know North Shore will go big.
Right.
Their numbers 32 70.
So yeah, they'll go small.
Yeah.
Sheldon King 32 70.
So, so they'll go, they'll for sure go small.
And then I guess while I'm already here, I might as well look up more for right.
Well, that'll be Glenna Park.
45 23 is what at North Shore.
That's what their enrollment is.
That is crazy.
I mean, heads and heads and feet over everybody else.
A thousand more kids.
Yeah.
Almost a thousand anyway.
But yeah, that's crazy.
Jumping into district eight, five, eight of vision one.
This district here.
We not not a district that we've talked a lot about right throughout this throughout
the season.
But if you look at it, you got La Porte five and one Port Arthur Memorial Titans five and
old Barbers Hill form one.
Kingwood Park four and two new Cainy Porter Spartans three and two.
So there's your there's your teams that really matter.
Right.
And if you go down there and look at it, Porter's going to stretch their lead should stretch
their lead to four and two this year as they got Goose Creek Memorial, who is oh and five
this week, one and six on the season.
So Porter being three and going to jump to four and two.
Kingwood Park has Barbers Hill.
That game could probably go either way.
But Barbers Hill sitting in that three seed right now with the four and one record.
So really you should you could have a tie between Porter and Kingwood Park with a four
and two record at the end of this week.
But Kingwood Porter would win the head to head because they beat Kingwood Park twenty
seven twenty one earlier on this season.
So Porter's got a chance for the first time in a long time or if any time ever to slip
into that playoff to the playoffs this year.
Right.
And if I remember right, Barbers Hill played Kingwood Park at one time to I'm looking at
it.
I was a mistake and it must have been it must have been somebody else.
So they haven't they played Kingwood Park this week.
They play on this week.
Barbers Hill and Kingwood Park this week.
If you look over there to the right of the screen.
Yeah, I've got them up.
Because you got La Porte at Baytown Sterling Port Arthur Memorial at Baytown Lee.
Barbers Hill at Kingwood Park and then New Caney will be a Goose Creek Memorial.
But you look at that district.
I mean, yeah, that fourth spot is kind of the question mark.
Right.
It's not as those top four or not as soda as the previous two districts that we looked
at.
Barbers Hill should take care of Kingwood Park.
But like you said, it could go either way.
If I had to choose right now, I'd say the Eagles have the edge.
Yeah, most definitely.
I agree with that.
And then so you look at looking at Porter schedule, right?
They got Baytown Lee on the 26th and then Barbers Hill on the last week of the season,
which is a big game.
If you just say Porter wins out through going to that Barbers Hill game.
It's going to four, five, five and two going into that Barbers Hill game.
And then Kingwood Park, they're four and two right now.
They have Barbers Hill this week.
So which probably dropped them to four and three and then Porter Arthur Memorial will
drop them to four and four.
But in New Caney or Porter's probably going to end up with the same record and they'll
still be at that four and four, but Porter will go with the with the edge over Kingwood
Park on the head to head.
Right.
If assuming that that's the way the tiebreaker works out of that district.
Right.
Each different district is different, right?
As far as the tiebreakers go.
Correct.
The coaches, they, they agree to certain tiebreakers before the beginning of the year and every
single one of them is different.
It can go by head to head or it can go by points four or points scored against that team.
There's different ways of skin and cat.
Yeah.
There's a lot of different way.
I like the head to head.
It keeps it simple.
Yes.
And that aspect and that's what I like about it.
I can remember back in the day when it used to go point scored and points allowed and
so on and so forth.
And I was like, God, lay man, you got to do a whole bunch of math figured out and you
could just go back to the head to head.
And normally you would think the district chair that made those rules was probably the
one that knew that he would be in that two or that four seed now.
It made those rules.
So hoping that he can put up just enough points to where he can slip in each over if he's
going to lose to that, to that other possible four seed team, right?
Right.
So when you talk about tiebreakers, I mean, when we get into the three a districts here
in a little while, you're going to see that those could be turned up on their head and
there's going to be all kinds of tiebreakers going on there.
Oh, that ain't no lie, especially when we get down to three district nine district 10
three a whenever we go to talking about those, it's going to be really, really, you know,
there's going to be a lot going on on that.
Moving over to district nine five a and we haven't talked about any of the rankings,
but you got PNG in the driver's seat for no and district neederland three and one Texas
city three and one Dayton two and two Fort Bend Marshall two and two, Delina Park one
and three Santa Fe one and three and Fort Bend Willow Ridge, oh and four.
Now I bring all of this up and bring it together because it was just two years ago.
We were two, three years ago was talking about Fort Bend Marshall making big runs in the playoffs
and playing in Dallas the right December.
Now they're sitting on a cusp of possibly not even going to make the playoffs.
It's possible.
You know, you look at the you look at neederland for being Dayton, those three again, if you
look at a tiebreakers, there's some I can't look at the future sketch.
See Dayton takes on Texas city.
Santa Fe takes on PNG, which PNG should take care of handedly.
Yeah.
And neederland will be at Galena Park and then Fort Bend will originally be a Fort Bend
Marshall, which Marshall should take care of that one.
So there's there's a lot of different things that can happen here in that bottom three
and four spot.
So I'm sitting here looking at this right and you got Dayton in the four.
Texas city has Dayton this week, right?
That's a big game that could go.
You figure is probably going to go Texas city's way, right?
Should.
Because it's at Texas city that game is.
So you figure just say that it goes Texas city way.
Now you got Dayton that's going to be sitting three and two or two and three.
Fort Bend Marshall has Fort Bend Willow Ridge.
They should win that game, which will move them to three and two and flip flop them.
Right.
It's going to come down to the Thursday Thursday night in November to determine that four seed
out of that district when Dayton and Fort Bend Marshall face each other.
Yeah.
Because Dayton after they got Texas city this week, Fort Bend Willow Ridge next week and
then Fort Bend Marshall.
The last week of the season and that game is at Fort Bend Marshall on a Thursday night.
Yeah.
So Dayton has a has a long road hoe when it comes to trying to slip in.
Yes.
And they could definitely still slip in, you know, but it's going to come down literally
to the last week of the season for those guys.
So moving over to I'm going to flip over to district 10, 4a division one as we're rolling
through.
And once we get, we'll take a break after we get through with this district.
When we come back, we'll do the 4a division two and roll on through.
But this district here is starting to kind of shape up as little Cyprus, Mauriceville
defeated Livingston this last week, but LCM's two and oh, they have Splendora, Lumberton
is two and oh, they have Huffman this week and Lumberton should roll through that.
The interesting one is Huffman is now one and one after they defeated Splendora last
week and really shocked me that Huffman come out on the win.
I had Splendora picked to win that one out of my out of the pickings that I was in, not
yours, but over at SCTX.com.
I got in there on those pickings and I actually picked Splendora to win that game after watching
Splendora.
I haven't seen Huffman thought Splendora was going to be able to piece it together and
Huffman was able to pull a win out.
Their magic number for them is two right out of this district is getting to ends and Livingston
dropped one this last week to little Cyprus, Mauriceville, which dropped them to one and
one, they're even with Huffman.
Livingston wins the head to head because they beat Huffman last week, two weeks ago, that
week you was out or that podcast that you were out.
We talked about it a little bit, but Huffman beat Livingston beat Huffman.
And the interesting thing is last week when we did the Bullet Grill House High School
Sports Pre-Game Show, their Bullet Grill in point blank, we had Coach Vanover of the
Livingston Lions in and I don't know if I sent that, I uploaded to a podcast like I
do all the 590 in sports shows, but it was a really good interview with Coach Vanover
and really gave us a lot of insight and I do that show each week with Brian Pesh, who's
color commentator and a writer for Polk County Enterprise.
And then Chris Moran sits in with us.
He's the owner of Bullet Grill.
So we were all sitting in there together and Coach Vanover sat in with us and just a lot
of really good information that Coach Vanover gave us about his football team.
Going into district play, their pre-district opponents were 22 and 3, I believe is what
he said.
Right.
They had a very tough first part of their schedule.
Yes, they did.
And Livingston went 0 and 5 going through there, right?
And hit district playoff after a bye week with Huffman and was able to get that win.
I lost to Little Cypress Mariceville and it was a football game.
It was really, it was a good football game throughout the entire night.
I was watching the score and really kind of stayed in on it because I was very curious,
especially after talking to Coach Vanover.
And so I made sure that that was one of the games that I really honed in on and paid attention.
I mean, it was a 18-13 ball game is what the final was in that game.
So, oh yeah.
I really think Livingston has Viter this week.
I think it's a game that Livingston could possibly win.
I think that they will.
I think the most, you know, I've been real high on LCM out of this district pretty much
all season.
I think they were personally my favorite to win that district.
And looking at, you know, Livingston's schedule they had coming into it and looking at Lumberton's
schedule and the role that they're on as well.
It's, you know, it's kind of that second seed spot.
I mean, it's going to come down to what Lumberton plays Livingston, the last game, last district
game on the 3rd of November.
It might come down to that.
Yeah.
And I had the opportunity to call that game, but I got another game that I'm going to out
of 4A Division 2 that Friday night.
Cold Spring has a bye week, that final week.
So, that Thursday we're going to go watch the Inowak-Tarkington game down there on the
Prairie because it's close.
Easy to get to on a Thursday night.
So, we're going to go watch that.
And then on Friday we're going to go to Silsby and watch the Silsby-Jasper game.
And we're going to talk about that district a lot more here in just a little bit.
But whenever you look at this district, it's, I mean, that Splendor game, that's that magic
number two that Livingston's looking for, right?
I think that they could slip that game against Fighter and could possibly put them in that
three seed.
It's quite possible.
I actually think that they will.
And I think that, like I was saying earlier, I think it's, even they could even slip into
the two seed if they can somehow pick up the win against Lumberton at the end.
Well, so I'm looking at the, I'm looking, I don't think that they'll beat Lumberton
and I could be wrong.
But looking at the score that Viter had against Little Cypress two weeks ago, 28-34 was the
final in favor of LCM.
So with that being said, you go back and you look at the score that Livingston had against
Little Cypress and just going back, comparing the scores, you know, you may be right.
I mean, Lumberton, Lumberton lost to Viter 28-54.
So no, I'm with you.
Livingston could slip up and get that two spot.
It's quite possible.
Very quite possible.
No, Lumberton is, I'm sorry, Viter lost both of them games.
I mean, it could.
Like you say, that Lumberton game is a big game.
For the, obviously they got to get through the other ones, but if they defeat Viter,
they've done lock their spot in, right?
Oh, definitely.
I don't think that there's any way that they're going to lose to Splendora.
So which would really be a blessing for Livingston to go in at the three seed and face a two seed
versus being in the four seed and have to face Tyler Chapel Hill.
Yeah.
There's no doubt about that one either.
Because I will, whoever Livingston goes in the postseason, if they're not playing the
same night, Cold Spring is, if Cold Spring makes it to the postseason, I'll be going
to do that game.
Right.
So excuse me.
That's, that's why I've been following that so heavy.
But, you know, I was telling Coach Van over how hard this district is to predict because
it's just, it's so wide open, so wide open.
And I just, you know, it's just, it's really a hard district to figure out because of you
look at their pre-district schedules, you look at what Lumberton did.
And we were all expecting Lumberton to come out and the pre-district can just absolutely
roll like they did last year.
Right.
And it's been a complete different Lumberton football team.
But they've, I mean, but it, with that said, it seems like they've kind of gotten things
back on track.
You know, when they started their district play, I mean, it was like they didn't even
look back.
Now they've got, Lumberton's got, you know, some tough opponents their last two games
is at Little Cypress.
And then of course we talked about the Livingston game already.
Yeah.
So it's going to be, it's going to be really interesting to see how this district shapes
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Welcome back to the 5.9 in sports show on Texas podcast media.
I'm Craig Irwin alongside me.
Not really, but Trent Hart over the airwaves.
We're letting the, letting technology do it still as we're rolling into week nine.
We've been, if you've listened through the first half of the podcast, it's been kind
of, I don't want to say drive because it's been some good information, but we started
up at the six a level and we worked our way down through for a division one as we're fixing
to dive into for a division two down to some of the two a schools talking Texas high school
football in our area.
Right.
And we stay focused.
We don't try to branch out and cover a bunch of stuff that we absolutely know nothing
about.
We try to stay into what's relevant for us here on the 5.9 in sports show.
And so that's kind of where we're at today and going through all this stuff, not really
talking a bunch of scores just, but where these districts are, what each one of these
teams are doing and what they got to do to get into the playoffs next week's is going
to be just completely off the chain because we'll be through week nine into week 10.
Some of these things will be locks and we still got to get into week 11.
Oh yeah, there's still, there's still some time left.
Right.
I mean, they're, they're starting to get into some more bi weeks.
You know, a lot of teams are, or got bi weeks late in the season that those rarities like
cold spring having a bi week their last game of the season or that last week of the season.
And, but now we're, we're into kind of our niche districts, right?
We're, we're now for a division two district number nine and what is probably the biggest
game in the state.
No, I agree with you.
It is probably the biggest game in the state.
Hampshire, Fnett and Silsby huge game this week out of that district.
And really I'm trying to pull, I'm going to pull the rankings up real quick on my other
screen.
But this, I'm with you, probably one of the biggest games in the state.
Number two, Silsby, number seven, Hampshire, Fnett and people are thinking you got a two
team and a 17 last week.
You had the same setup in three division one and you had two state ranked teams that were
facing each, you know, or four state ranked teams that were playing each other as you
had Columbus and Hitchcock and then you had Potsboro and Winsboro, uh, playing each other
as well.
So, still a bunch of good, I think this for the Southeast Texas area, this is the biggest
game in Southeast Texas.
And I think if you look on anybody's pickups, whether it's Santa Wax sports live or five
minute sports, you go through and you look at it and this game is going to be in those
pickups.
But there's in there.
There's a, and there's another game that's equally as big.
And it is Jasper and West or start.
Yeah.
I mean, just, just as big because both teams have, have seemed to find, you know, especially
West or in stark, uh, seem to think, get things back on track after the preseason.
Uh, you know, Jasper was a ranked team at one point this year, right?
Right.
So they're still playing good football that played the teams, even the losses have been
really close games.
So, uh, yeah, for Southeast Texas, those, you know, Hampshire, Phanets, Sillsby and
this Jasper West or start, there's nothing bigger, nothing bigger whatsoever.
I mean, you got the top four teams out of this district going head to head, uh, as Hampshire
Phanets and the driver seat, four and Oh, Sillsby, Slurian, Oh Jasper, two and one, West
or start to them one.
Uh, Jasper's one loss in district thus far has came from Hampshire Phanets.
That was in just fine fashion.
Uh, West or start cast two losses, one to Sillsby and one to Hampshire Phanets.
So, uh, this is a big game for that three seed, right?
Oh, yeah.
As we've talked about it in the final week of the season, Jasper and Sillsby meet up
and, and that's going to that game and the outcome of that game is going to define Jasper's
fate if they were to lose to West or start this week as, uh, going into three seed or
four seed, you know, originally when we were kind of talking about all this, I originally
thought about it.
I was like, man, have we ever talked about Jasper possibly not making the playoffs, but
that's not going to be, be a factor.
Uh, you got Liberty.
One in three, Bridge City, Oh, and three in Harden, Jefferson, Oh, and three out of that
district.
So, um, it's not a factor whatsoever.
Liberty's on a bi-week.
Bridge City has hardened Jefferson.
One of those teams is going to get their first district win.
That may be one worth putting in the pickups.
Well, and I wish I'd have saw that whenever I was, I was, because I was debating on one
of my games in the N. Y. Sports Live pickups.
And I'm, I mean, I'm, I'm happy with them, but I wish I would have, I wish I would have
seen that game because Harden, Jefferson, Oh, and seven on the year total right.
Um, so they're, they're, I'm sure they're hungry to get at least get one win out of
the season and, uh, this is the week to do it.
No, I agree with you in, in, uh, I just wrote it down.
I'm going to throw that one in my pickups there on 590 and sports.
You can find it on Facebook as well as, uh, go over to Antelwack Sports Live and get that
page like over there and jump in.
It's late in the season.
Trent does a great job keeping a spreadsheet on who's winning and, uh, uh, landing Corbett
is in the lead over there on your pickups.
Yeah.
Well, talk about a consistent, uh, uh, picker of win of winners in around the area.
Um, he's, he's definitely doing, I think he's up by two or three picks overall with only,
you know, a handful of weeks to go.
Uh, but we'll, you know, it's still fun.
Yeah.
And I'm going to go to the Antelwack Sports Live Facebook page and, uh, check it out and
you know, just get in on pickups one week.
It's, uh, you know, for at least bragging rights, right?
I mean, it's, it's, it's a lot of fun.
Yeah, it is.
It's a lot of fun.
I like getting in there and Trent doesn't, we don't even consult about our pickups about
who we're going to put him.
What, you know, and Trent does his on Mondays.
I get mine on Tuesday slash Wednesdays, whichever is more convenient for me.
Uh, but I get them out there.
So, uh, it's a lot of fun.
And then on the Bullet Girl house show, I talk about all of my pickups whenever we record
that, then we get it up to a podcast and play it in a pregame show before the cold
spring kickoff, uh, each and every Friday night.
But with that being said, uh, I, I make my, I put my pickups down and I make my pick.
So if I don't put them down and writing on my Facebook page, but, uh, you can go to the
Bullet Girl house show and it's on Spotify and all the other everything, but Apple, it
will get up on Apple this week, but, uh, you can go through there and see it, listen to
it on all of those other ones.
But the five night in sports show, we, I finally got it up on the, uh, Apple podcast now.
Yeah, we're big time.
Yeah.
We've rolling, we've rolling big shots.
It took me forever.
It took me three quarters of the way through the season to get us up on Apple, but we're
there.
We are finally there.
So back to this district nine, four, eight division two, when we look at this district,
um, we're going to define the top two spots in this district this week.
Hamster, Phinette, Sillsby, uh, huge game.
The game is at Sillsby.
I'll just let the cat out of the bag.
I'm going to have to take Sillsby in this football game, but I think Hamster, Phinette's
going to give them a run for their money.
I agree.
Um, I, I'm probably going to go that same route and fix Sillsby to, to win.
It's going to be a really tight game.
I think I've got that in as my wild card and, uh, you know, on my wild card, you pick the
score and I think it's going to be within a touchdown.
And, but, uh, I think Sillsby ends up taking it.
Hamster, Phinette, I mean, there's nothing to, to be ashamed of there because they're
still probably going to be ranked, uh, no matter how the ball game goes, but you're
right.
It's going to, it's going to just determine that one, two seed and then you jump over
to that West, West Orange start Jasper.
That's going to probably determine the three and four seat.
No, you're exactly right.
Well, it will determine it will, you know, a hundred percent.
So it's going to be, you know, that district that got some two huge games to keep an eye
on and a scoreboard watch, depending on where you're at.
And SCTX does a great job broadcasting those games.
If you go to SCTX.com, they got a full list of other broadcasts, uh, that they have each
and every week and just kind of coach you around on how SCT works.
It's a form page, uh, you go in there, create a login, right?
And a screen name and all that good stuff, but you can go through and click on a high
school football.
And from there, there's a ton of form pages, a lot of good information to read.
Uh, a lot of crap talking, uh, goes on in there, but it's all G rated, but it's, it's
really, it's, it's, it's a good place to go.
I've been following that page for a super long time, Jordan, them doing a great job
over there, uh, as they have for a number of years, but, uh, let's jump over to our
wheelhouse, our true wheelhouse, district 10, 3a.
Yeah.
I mean, it's, we, we talked about some time breakers and things that could happen.
So as probably most of everybody knows by now, the, uh, the 2023 small bowl was Friday
night and that's, uh, was between each chambers and Anahwak.
Anahwak traveled over to Winnie and they, they dropped one dropped a really important
district game and it was, it was, you know, there was a lot of things surrounding that
game, right?
Uh, we, uh, were able to cover that, uh, under Texan live in the NFHS network and it was featured
on, uh, not only the 12 news now sports splits game of the week, it was also featured on,
uh, Texas football tonight on Dave, Dave Campbell's Texas football tonight.
And so there was a lot of, a lot of things going into that game.
There were a lot of eyes on that game.
Uh, and it was, it was a very tight one whenever, whenever the first two quarters were over,
um, you know, it was a very low scoring game.
It was a single digits.
Um, he came back out of the half time and each chambers really stuck to what their game
plan was coming into that football game, which was running, which was running and, uh, credit
to each chambers and their star running bag, Hayden Reeves, who is a very big body and
hard to bring down ended up rushing, I think for over 130 yards that game.
Uh, and Anahouac, you could just see that they were just kind of winded.
You know, I mean, we've talked about how rushing the ball and control of the clock
and keeping the defense out of the field will wear a defense down.
And that's exactly what happens to Anahouac.
And that's the, the type offense that they run, right over there in each chambers.
That's what it's designed to do, right?
It's designed to just wear you down and, and we're going to beat you.
Uh, we're going to break you up and we're going to beat you.
And, uh, it was the same, the same to be said for, for the orange field, uh, game that they
played to, and, um, you know, each chambers got a, uh, a freshman quarterback over there
who's got very great athletic ability.
He, he can, he can get it done with his legs and he's got a heck of an arm come to come
to find out there was one in completion where he, he launched the ball for 60, 65 yards
and kind of made us all wide out because we weren't expecting that out of a freshman
quarterback.
And, uh, don't get me wrong.
I mean, he, he made some freshman errors, you know, kind of put the ball on the turf
a couple of times, uh, you know, Anahouac was able to get in his face and put him under
pressure and make him make those mistakes, which one of the keys to the game, uh, for
Anahouac to win.
I mentioned in the pregame, uh, that they were going to have to do.
But, uh, another interesting fact was that each week, we talked about this in the podcast
the last few weeks that each chambers has been kind of injury ridden and coach Russ
Sutherland told, uh, my broadcast partner, Alex out from the dead to bring up seven
JV players.
Yes.
Friday night.
It was the first time that they've been able to play fully healthy all year long.
That's crazy, isn't it?
So no, and I, I seen East Chambers in pre-district, right?
And I say pre-district Colesbrink scrimmage, East Chambers.
And, and Toby and I both agreed that we matched up pretty well with East Chambers, uh, in that
game, uh, just head to head overall.
We really matched up and we had East Chambers picked to be in the, I believe the two, three
spot and you got the spreadsheet is where we had East Chambers picked to finish in that
district.
We, I think we had, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it
was Puna Orangefield, East Chambers, Anowak or, or, or Anowak, Orangefield.
You know what I'm saying?
Something like that.
But we had East Chambers in that three spot and it looks like that's going to end up being
kind of where they're at, right?
Uh, possibly.
They, possibly they've, they've still got, I mean, there's, there's some, there's some
interesting things that can happen in this district.
You know, uh, East Chambers is yet to play Orangefield.
They, they lost to Kirbyville the week prior.
Yep.
Um, shut out.
Uh, well East Chambers, yeah.
They beat Puna.
They lost to Kirbyville, which Kirbyville shut, uh, Tarkington out this last week.
Right.
But there's, I mean, there's some interesting things that can happen.
I mean, Kirbyville is good enough that they can beat Orangefield.
They've, I've seen them firsthand.
They've got the, they've got the ability to be orange.
Each, now that I've seen East Chambers and see them, you know, fully loaded, they haven't,
they have an opportunity to beat Orangefield too, which may or may not happen.
There, there's, there's a lot of things that could, could go on.
Um, but Anahouac is in a position now to where they've got to win these last two games.
One is they got beauty this week.
They've got Tarkington after the, the, the, the bi-week.
Um, and I'm sure the, the Tarkington Prairie folks have got that Anahouac game circled in
red.
Well they do.
They, I feel like Tarkington has two games circled, right?
Because they got East Chambers this week, uh, which is a big game for them, but Buna
and Anahouac, they got to slip one of those two games.
If they think they want to slip into the playoffs.
And so if you look at an Orangefield, four and O Kirbyville, three and one, Anahouac,
two and two, East Chambers, two and one, their, their goal right here is they're going to
have to beat actually they're going to have to beat if they beat Puna, that game, that
Anahouac game is really a big game for Tarkington as far as to have an opportunity to make them
play, to make the playoffs.
Right.
And you know, even, even though that Anahouac got that win over Kirbyville, um, Anahouac's
looking right now as it sits at a four seed and hoping for a possible three seed, depending
on what happens between Kirbyville and Orangefield, uh, whenever, I think that's next week is
when they play.
No, I'm fixing to pull it up.
No, they play 1027.
Yeah.
Next, the following week.
Yeah.
Correct.
Is when that game is.
So this district is still so far up in the air.
It's just absolutely unbelievable whenever you look at it and it wasn't how we anticipated
this district going whatsoever.
No, not at all.
Not at all.
And we, you know, we didn't even see Kirbyville, you know, on our radars and they've done a
great job of flying under that radar and really, you know, catching everybody's attention
and it's well deserved.
They have.
Now they're by district crown.
We're talking district nine, three a division ones where we're still at.
We haven't dropped down to the division two yet, but you look at this one.
Diabal, Woodville, Cold Spring, Palestine, Westwood, Crockett, Shepherd and Huntington
are the teams that round up this district.
Diabals in the driver's seat with the three and no record Woodville or is three and one
with their sole loss being two.
Diabal, Cold Spring two and two, Westwood two and one.
That's just because the schedule is off balance right now as Palestine, Westwood are coming
out had come off of a bi-week on the Cold Spring.
So Cold Spring suffered a loss this last week to Palestine, Westwood 2826 was the final
and it was a really fun game to call as Westwood was able to put seven points up each quarter.
Cold Spring put six up in the second had an opportunity to score again in the, in the
first half in the final minutes of the first half as they had the ball.
It had got down to third or fourth and goal with about under a minute left.
Still had a time out in their pocket and just let time get away from them.
And there was about eight seconds left as I'm replaying it back in my mind.
There's about eight seconds left with the time out in their pocket and was unable to
get the time out called and regroup and try to get the right playoff to get in the end
zone to get this game within an extra point, right?
Cold Spring had scored once in the second half or in the second quarter was unable to
get the two point conversion and just shows how important it is to try to develop.
A kicker.
Oh yeah.
I mean, it's, it's a, it's almost a necessity.
I mean, you can get by with little pooch kicks on kickoffs and stuff like that.
But if you can't score that extra point consistently without having to line up every time and go
for two or at least have that option, it's, it's a huge plus.
It really is.
And, and looking at this and, and I didn't, I didn't look to see if my stats come in yet.
I'm fixing to pull it up right now.
But whenever you look at this, no, he didn't send them.
So it was a 2826 ballgame come down to the fourth quarter in this football game.
Cold Spring scored 14 in the third going into the fourth.
I mean, it was still, it was a once core game through the fourth.
That was the most alive that I'd seen Berlin Bradford stadium in cold spring in a long
time.
I mean, it was the fourth quarter.
Everybody, I think the coaches in the booth next to me were on their feet as well.
It was so fun.
It was so energetic.
The school spirit, it was almost electric in there with that football game.
It was kind of fun to call with what cold spring was able to do, piecing together a
drive and be able to get in and score with just a few minutes left.
Unable to get the two point conversion, which would have tied that game up and possibly
sent us to overtime and or forced Westwood to try to make a play.
Not only that, but I got a credit.
The kicker Terry Mills, right after we had scored is 2826.
He comes in to kick an onsite kick.
The first one was a perfect onsite kick.
They called a false start against the Trojans.
No, it went out of bounds.
No, no, no, no, no, it was they called an offsides on the Trojans, backed them up a little bit.
Had to kick it again, kicks another perfect onsite kick, right?
Goes over the shoulder and just it rolled right on the line on the near side.
I had a perfect view of it.
It rolls and just barely gets out of bounds before a cold spring player can get to it
and blows it dead.
Westwood gets the ball and gets to take a knee cold spring had a time out to burn.
They burn it and that was it.
But out of the last five years, four of those games have come down to the final minute of
those games.
Well, and as broadcasters, those are the games that we live for, right?
No, it really is.
It was I mean, to be that electric and to be that close and that exciting, you even
with coming off of a close or a tough loss like that, it just makes for for great content
as far as just, you know, being live on the air, the excitement in your voice, the excitement
in the coaches next to you.
I mean, you just get so emotional and involved with with a game like that.
It's just it's great to have.
It is.
I got to I got to visit with coach Stanley briefly after the game and I told him, I said,
coach, I feel like that that was the best football game that cold spring has played
this year.
And I wholeheartedly feel that way.
We had some some big point wins, right?
But that was a game that cold spring, I felt like played four four quarters, which they
been needing to do.
I've talked about it weekend and week out about how cold spring needs to finish.
They need to finish.
They they played and they finished that game.
They played four four quarters and it's important to get that, especially going this next week
and going to be facing die ball, which if you go back and look at the overall record,
you know, cold spring one in 2022, they beat die ball.
They lost their game last year or in 2021, they lost the die ball 2822.
That game was at home.
Go back.
They beat Westwood that year 3413.
I'm just trying to think overall of of the total records, right?
Over the last three years, if you go back to and look at the Colby COVID year, they beat
die ball 20 to 12, right?
Coming down to the wire next to the last week of the season.
So you look at the overall record and what coach Stanley has done.
He's got the winning record over die ball.
So this game here is a lot bigger than than what meets the eyes.
And it's a game that die ball could the cold spring could win and die ball obviously could
lose, you know, and you go back in the two years that I've talked about, except for 2022.
Let's look at that one cold spring beat die ball last year in 2022 in a 20 to 19 football
game.
Down to the wire.
It could go either way as over three of the last four years, cold springs won that football
game.
So the in it's been wins at home and wins on the road against die ball.
So I think this is a big game that's etched in die balls book as well.
As far as it's a game, we got to win losing.
It's not an option and more so because of the overall record between the two schools
over the last four years, but Blake Morrison coming from cold spring and going to die ball
and that's his program there and die ball.
So that's a big game out of the district.
Woodville has Crockett.
I think Woodville is going to be able to roll through there.
Palestine or Westwood has Huntington.
They're going to be able to roll through there.
If you go back and you look at at the district and records, right?
We kind of talked about that really.
Westwood's in the three seed cold springs in the four seed right now.
But the way the screen set up is because cold springs play more games.
The die ball game, you put a question mark in the biggest game of the year for cold spring
is coming into the week of October 27th.
That's the battle of Sandra Senna, the big rival game and Shepherd has the lead edge
on that.
Yeah.
And I do think that cold spring will come out on top on that and though, you know, I
had cold spring picked up as the three seed.
I thought that y'all had a little bit of an edge to win that three seed, but it looks
like the four seed is more of a lock for y'all at this point, which I was I was hoping for
and I think we both were hoping for an Anowak cold spring by district matchup so that we
can have a simulcast, but that's not looking like it's going to happen either.
No, not looking like it's going to happen at all.
And you know, I'm just flipped over to Westwood's schedule and they'll finish up the season
against Woodville and that is a home game for Westwood.
So Woodville is going to make the long drive over there to Palestine, Westwood.
That's going to be an interesting game to watch on the week of 11 to which is a Thursday
night game over there.
So that's going to be interesting to watch to see how that two, three seed shakes out
with cold spring looking in at the foresee.
Well, if I was a betting man, which I am, I would I would say that the district, the
way, I mean, and this is on, I'm looking at through Max, perhaps it's, it's dive all
woodville, Westwood and then cold spring.
And that's, that's kind of how I see y'all's district wrapping up.
Of course, you know, anything can happen.
Now, most definitely anything can happen.
And you know, the thing is, is cold spring is going to have to go in and, and, and do
work, do what they know how to do, right?
In order to, to finish out this season, right?
As they have, I'm trying to look at the schedule.
Oh, there it is.
So as they have dive ball and shepherd, I mean, those you, you, you're hoping that you're
going to win one of the two games, right?
If not both, but looking at this, I mean, just scoreboard comparison and what die balls
done.
So just say you put a loss there against eyeball, you, you got to have that win against shepherd
at home and, and not only because it's playoff implications, but you, you know, it just makes
it tough.
And you know, last year you go back and you look at what cold spring did.
I mean, they dropped a couple of games that they shouldn't have dropped, right?
And with dropping those games, they left their playoff hopes and shepherd losing to Huntington.
And you just, you can't, you can't do that.
You got to control your own fate.
And I think that this year that cold spring is in a lot better shape mentally.
They've lost two of the games that we kind of thought that they were going to lose, right?
Or have a possibility of getting beat.
And, you know, that's what happened.
The Westwood and the, and the Woodville game.
So now let's get one, let's get one of these two between dive, all and shepherd and get
one of those, get a win out of one of those games and get set up to go to the playoffs
and face that one seed out of y'all's district, out of district 10, which is looking like
possibly Orangefield.
In all likelihood, yes, it will end up being Orangefield.
Like we talked about earlier, there's some, there's some things that, that could or could
not happen over there in that district too, which is definitely we're, you know, as always
week to week we're, we're keeping a sharp eye on both of these districts.
But yeah, I mean, it's, we, as we get closer to the playoffs, I mean, we're just on the
edge of our seat here.
I wonder what's going to happen.
Moving into district 12, three, eight, a vision to you got Newton, Anderson, Shiro,
Hemphill, new Waverly, Coons, Trinity, Warren is in that district.
And you know, we kind of have warm, we thought warm was going to finish up higher than what
they did than what they are.
They're O and three, they got Hemphill this week.
Don't look for much difference out of that as, you know, Trinity's O and three.
They got new Waverly this week, short drive for new Waverly or for, for them.
Coons one and two, new Waverly two and one, Hemphill two and two, Anderson, Shiro, three
and one, Newton, four and zero.
So them top two teams, we kind of figured that's where they were going to be.
Newton leading that district, Anderson, Shiro and the two, but didn't know much about Hemphill
and, you know, from what you had seen against new Waverly wasn't real high on them completely.
But it's looking like new Waverly is going to have an opportunity to slip in that foreseed
and make playoffs.
I think they will now.
Now that, now that everything's starting to shape out a little bit, like you said, we,
we had high hopes for, for Warren coming out of the preseason and they just haven't been
able to produce some district play.
You know, Coons was another one that we thought might slip in to the playoff picture over there,
but that doesn't look like it might, it's going to happen either.
But new Waverly, I think they may even, may even see the three seat very well possible.
Now new Waverly beat Hemphill last week.
So I think technically if you look at this and I'm looking over Dave Campbell's Texas
football website is where I'm at and going down through all of this stuff.
But as you look at this, I mean, really and truly new Waverly is in the three seed Hemphills
and the four seed as you look at it new, new Waverly has Trinity this week.
So they're going to move to three and one, right?
As I got who scheduled to even have pulled up, I got Hemphill schedule pulled up.
Hemphill has warned this week and that Hemphill should win that game.
But new Waverly has Trinity then at Coons and then they will wrap their season up against
Newton.
So they're going to be in the NFL, but Trinity, excuse me, new Waverly ought to win, beat
Trinity and ought to beat Coons and they've already beat Hemphill.
So it looks like new Waverly is going to go in that three seed and then Hemphill in the
four seed as you look at their district schedule with what they have, they have warned and
then Anderson, Anderson, Shiro.
So anything could happen between Hemphill and Anderson, Shiro really and truly to kind
of change things up.
But I think Anderson, Shiro, if you offer win losses, they'll still go in that two seed
as they defeated new Waverly and they've, you know, depending on what happens with Hemphill.
So yeah, I mean, those are the only those, those two, three and four spots.
That's the only question is more.
It's right.
I mean, but like you said, Anderson, Shiro should wrap up the number two seed.
We already know all about Newton.
You know, I was talking about it today.
You know, Newton's one of those that we might be seeing more of a playoff coverage when it
comes to as we get deeper into the playoffs, that, you know, that regional round and the
quarterfinal round, that type of thing.
Right.
No, I agree with you.
So and we followed, you know, you and I went and did a Newton game in the postseason up
at SFA this last year and had a lot of fun doing that.
So it'll be interesting.
Hopefully you'll be able to pick up a few extra broadcasts.
And if I'm not still on the road with Colesbrink doing the broadcast there, it'll be interesting
to see how that kind of play, how it plays out.
And if we, you and I end up in the booth together, or if you and Alex go and do another game
or two and you know what I mean, it's going to be a lot of fun to see.
And, you know, I know you and Alex do them games, all the Anowak games together.
And I think he had some traveling planned last year.
And that's how I was able to slip in the booth with you and do a couple of games.
He missed the Anowak Tarkington game and then I went and did that Newton game with you.
So well, you can, you can always just slip into my spot whenever you feel like I know
because you like the production aspect.
I can mess with the computer and do that and I don't have to mess around with commentating
all the time.
Yeah.
Well, you know, I could probably, probably slip in there and do that.
But if the, if the schedules work out, moving over to 12 to a division one, and I think
we will cover this one in the end, that's going to, we'll cover the rest next week.
Because we got another topic we want to talk about after the break, but out of 12 to a
division one, this district here, we didn't pick this district.
I don't think we didn't.
And we were kind of scrambling trying to get our, all of our material together and in the
right track.
But you look at this, I'm looking at Centerville in the one spot, two and O Corgan in the two
spot growth and then the three, Jewett Leon in the four, Norma G in the five.
Now here's the deal.
Two, three, four, five all have one in one records.
All district one in one records.
Yes.
You know, I'm looking at, you see, you're looking at Dave Campbell's, I'm looking at the Max
Prep standings.
When Max Prep does it, is their overall win loss.
Well, they do district first and then they do overall win loss, which kind of shuffles
it up a little bit right now that, you know, that's one of those tiebreaker things that
that the, that they could go off of.
They could go off an overall record instead of head to head or even points for points
allowed.
Well, so this district being a smaller district, right?
Is right.
Centerville being in the driver's seat.
And I got Corgan camp, Corgan schedule pulled up is Corgan has West harden this week.
That ought to be a win for Corgan to move them to one in district, right?
Right.
Then they had the battle of 287 the following week at Grofton.
That game there, I put a question mark on it, right?
Who knows how that's going to go.
And then Corgan will wrap up their season with Centerville at home, which will be a really
big game.
And it wouldn't surprise me if Ken tries to get me to go do that game on the radio or
coach Ratliff does.
But my point being is Corgan's already lost to Jewett Leon.
They lost this last week.
So Corgan's in the three seed growth and in the four, Jewett Leon's in the two.
If you look at Jewett schedule and I just pulled them on, they have Centerville this week,
probably going to suffer a loss there.
And then West harden and then they'll be at Normandy and then Grofton schedule.
They're at Normandy this week, then they have Corgan and then West harden.
So I figured Grofton can win that West harden game and should be able to win that Normandy
game.
So that week of 1027, that's a big game for the three, four seed are out of that district
because Jewett Leon is in the two seed and probably you figure even suffering a loss
this week against Centerville that they're going to beat West harden and they're going
to beat Normandy.
So that's going to lock them into two Corgan and the three Grofton in the four or however
that that battle at 287 breaks out as far as the top four out of that district.
So it's going to be going to be another interesting district to watch.
And then we might as well talk about them since we're talking small school to a, is
you move over there to the love lady district and you know, somebody made a comment over
over my comment about love lady by a hundred if they want to, but it's the truth.
They probably could have.
Yeah.
I guarantee they didn't stop the clock in between quarters.
It was running the whole time, but Deweyville and love lady in the driver's seat out of
that district, both of them to an O and district records, even L one and one whole day Zeta
one and one, the commas now on two and being past O and two.
So your top two teams, Deweyville and love lady, love lady in the top 10.
I don't see anybody shutting them down.
Love lady plays Deweyville the last week of the regular season.
They got Spain pass and even though this week, so they're not going to see a challenge until
they look at Deweyville and I don't think it's going to be.
I think it's going to be kind of like that nickel back song next contestant.
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah.
Love lady's got full control over that district and you know, I've kind of been a love lady
fan over the last couple of years and don't ask me why necessarily.
Maybe it's because I'm here on it up there for a while, but that and it's, you know,
is that small town, Jason, now Dean type atmosphere down there.
Love lady.
You know what I'm saying?
That's how I feel about love lady.
And I've been a fan.
I've been a fan of love lady for several years, probably 10 to 15 years been following them
and I enjoy that small town football.
My wife's family lives up there.
There's several kids that have moved from cold spring up there to love lady.
There's a coach that was in cold spring that's at love lady that I think a lot of coach Jim
Bird and you know, I just, I just really, I'll pull for them guys and they, they just
they're on a roll.
Oh, definitely.
They were on a roll last year and but they're in a, they're definitely in a tough region.
Yes.
You know, when you look, when you look at to a division to, I mean, you have your marks
of the world and that's a, that's a tall order at any time you have to beat that, that team
and the playoffs.
No, it is.
And if you go back and you look at their 2022 record, it was Martin who knocked them
out.
They rolled through everybody till they got to Martin and they lose to Mark in the, in
the semifinals 56 to six was the final in that game.
But so, you know, and there's no doubt in my mind that love lady is going to repeat
being the state semifinals once again.
I think so too.
And I think it's going to be them and Martin.
I agree.
We're going to take a quick break and when we come back, we got one more thing that one
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We're going to talk about bucket list football stadiums.
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Craig Irwin Trent Hart, Toby Tollis skipped out on us.
He's MIA dude.
He still hasn't messaged me back or nothing.
He snuck into the ALCS game is what happened.
It's a sorry dog.
That's all I got to say.
Sorry dog.
He was disappointed though if he went to that game.
No, very much so.
Very much so disappointed.
That's what took us so long to get in the studio and get rolling because I was watching
the game myself here at the house where I run up to the studio and got on there.
I can smell my wife's cooking dinner downstairs and she can be hollering here a little bit.
One more segment that we wanted to cover.
We was going to talk about it last week, last two weeks and never got to it.
You wasn't here last week, but talking about stadiums.
If you go back to one of the first podcast that we put out here on the 5.9 in sports
show, I talked about my bottom five stadiums that I went to have done games as a broadcaster.
All of those opinions were strictly as me being a broadcaster and what, how I viewed
the stadium as far as amenities and so on and so forth and being able to do them.
I've done some games and some big, big stadiums, AT&T, NRG.
I've been to Baylor, the new stadium and the old stadium.
I've done games at both of them.
Where else have I been?
And I'm thinking big city, big, big stadium wise.
I opened up the playoff season, Cold Spring in East Chambers at CE King Stadium and you
put together a great list of stadiums.
Well, and see my list is based morally because I'm a history buff and whenever I look at
stadiums around the state, I look at more of the history behind them and I didn't really
necessarily think of your big stadiums like AT&T or NRG and things like that.
And my list of stadiums that I broadcast from is much shorter than yours is while I've been
able to do some good ones.
Randall Reed is a great stadium to broadcast from.
And so is Waller ISD and Woodforce Bank Stadium is three of the better ones that we've been
to.
And even Stephen F. Austin that we went to on that nude game against Harmony was pretty
accommodating as well.
I mean, that's an older stadium.
It's an older stadium and we were actually, we weren't even in our own room, right?
We were sitting down in the bleachers, not bleachers, but the media area where the sports
riders and stuff where they sit.
That's where we were at in that stadium, but it was still accommodating.
We have a lot of room.
Actually have more room in there than what we would have had in a regular booth, right?
Right.
And I kind of enjoyed that.
It was kind of, we kind of were able to stretch out and had elbow room, right?
Yes, most definitely.
And so we weren't on top of each other and was able to do the game and Terry was set
off to our left with the camera and was able to give us some great shots throughout that
game as we watched it.
So I enjoyed that was probably the third or probably the third or fourth game that I've
done at SFA, but that was the first one I had done sitting where we were.
I had normally been in a broadcast booth, right?
In a radio broadcast, so I've been able to do them and looking at some of the stadiums
you've been to, I have yet to do a game in Willis.
I have done a game at Del Mar, Stephen F. Austin, Randall Reed.
We did that game basically together, but separate, right?
I've been to Waller and I remember when Waller, we thought that was, oh my gosh, that was the
nicest stadium around, right?
As going in there because it was really the first one outside of Houston that had an elevator
going to the press box, which is always nice.
Yes, it is.
Anytime you don't have to climb the bleachers to get up to the press box is always a good
thing.
No, most definitely because you haven't done a game at Crockett, but one trip with all
your stuff going up to the top of the Monty Jack Driscoll to get in the press box, you're
going to be wore out.
You're going to have to get a couple of the football players to help you.
Oh yeah, oh yeah.
When you're hauling up that much equipment, it's a chore sometimes.
But no, when I was looking at some of these stadiums, there was some that really jumped
out at me like you mentioned the tomato bowl.
Yes.
I did that on number two on my bucket list, but now I'm more thinking about it.
And that's one that I really, really want to go and broadcast from.
So the tomato bowl, whether I broadcast or just go watch a game there, that is my all
time number one, right?
That is at the very top of my list to go to.
I've never been there.
I've heard about it for a long time, but that is the all time number one stadium that I want
to go to.
And I will go to it at some point in my career, whether it's to watch a game and or to broadcast,
I will go do a game there in Jacksonville, Texas.
Yeah, I mean that stadium, it was built what 1938 is what I show on here.
They can hold a little over 8,000 people.
You know, when you look at some of these older stadiums and what they were originally built
for tomato bowl was originally built for $120,000 and then they went through a $30 million
renovation in 2019.
That is absolutely crazy.
And now I'm really wish I would have went prior to 2019, 2020 to be able to see it in
its old state versus where it is now.
Well, I think that they were, I mean, if I was reading some of this stuff was correctly
is that they were able to keep a lot of that original feel and look of the stadium and the
I think the bulk of the renovations came from the turf and the press box and maybe the field
house that type of thing instead of actually the stand aspect of it.
Right.
Yeah, or the outside and I think I read somewhere that it was close to some railroad tracks over
there if I'm not mistaken to which is one of the aspects that made it unique.
I'm looking at I'm looking at your list as we go down.
You got R and R Jones Stadium in El Paso was built in 1960.
Yeah, 12,000.
1916.
Yeah, that's right.
Yeah.
I mean, my redneckness come out, but it cost 12,000 seat capacity and they built that stadium
for $500,000.
Alex, your number three list is Alan and I'd like to go there.
As that was the first like the megaplex stadiums in Texas, that was really the first one and
then not only did they build it, but then they had to back off of it because they had
some foundation issues and had to get that.
Yes, that happened the year that it opened and they had to back out of it and fix those
issues in order to be able to have it.
If you will, safe for the patrons to be able to come in and watch football.
Then you look at South Fairs, FCU stadium.
I've done a game there.
I said that is a stadium that I didn't know a lot about until I started diving into some
of this and that is a beautiful state.
No, it is.
It is an absolutely beautiful stadium.
I've done a couple games there.
Matter of fact, there and the Berry Center.
So but yeah, I've done several games out that way.
When Colesbrink was making deep runs in the playoffs and looking at Wembley and Rockdale
and some of them other schools and that's where they would end up picking those games
to be played at due to the drive distance for each school.
Right.
Excuse me.
Getting all kinds of choked up an hour and a half doing podcast.
It's working on me.
Going on to Farrington Field up in Fort Worth.
I've never been up there.
Never even heard of it, but I know how you are.
And whenever we got to talking about this and you looking into it, you're like, I know
you dug deep into a lot of old stadiums.
Yeah, I did.
And that's that's one that's it was built in 1939.
And you know, some of these some of these older stadiums kind of, I don't know, I'm
drawn to them more than than probably most people are there.
They look at these, you know, these huge modern stadiums like like in Katie legacy.
I've never done a game there.
I would like to, but you know, you look at some of these older ones and I'm kind of
captivated by them and just kind of, you know, would like to say he I like to at least
go see a game there or maybe broadcast it one day, even though that's in the north Texas
in the Fort Worth area.
You said you've done one and have you done one in legacy yet?
I have not done one at legacy yet.
I have not actually I put the elevators in at legacy, but I've never done a game there.
Right.
So there's that one and you've done one at Sheldon, uh, CD King.
Yep.
Cold spring in East Chambers.
That was the year they opened that stadium up.
Yeah.
Yep.
And then you got the, the big 12,000 capacity one in McKinney.
Yep.
That's a that's a big stadium.
Then of course you got Tom Ball ISD stadium, which was just built in 2021.
That is a big stadium in our area as well.
And that excuse me, that Tom Ball stadium is almost a mirror image of what they built
out there at CE King as well as what's down there in Clear Lake at Challenger Stadium.
The same builder actually built all three of those, but they're super nice stadiums.
And I'll tell you, I love as a broadcaster, I love the visibility that those stadiums
have for whatever press box you're in.
You can see the entire field from one end to another.
That's just, it's really nice.
When it doesn't matter where you're at in the press box, right?
Right.
I mean, you're, you can be sitting on the farm right inside of that press box and still
be able to see everything in the field and broadcast, you know, like you want to.
I think the first time I was up that high was at Randall Reed and it was kind of intimidating
broadcasting from that height.
But over time you, you realize that when you're that high and you, if you're doing live streaming,
you rely more on your monitor than you do actually looking down at the field.
You do because you can't hardly see the numbers up there.
That's one of the things that when we talk about stadiums and broadcasting and such,
that's what I like.
Like whenever I talked about my bottom five, Toby asked me, what was your favorite?
My favorite stadium last year that I did a game in was in Henderson, that new stadium
that they got up there.
It's beautiful facility.
It's multifunctional, right for, for a broadcaster and the way that stadium set up.
There's an elevator gets you up to the press box.
You still got to walk a little ways, but the way that stadium set up is just so nice and
you can sit up there and you can call a game bleachers from, from 20 to 20, just a really
nice stadium over there.
And one of my top stadiums that I've ever done a game in as far as visibility, being
able to see numbers down there on the field, Brian Besh and I did that game and functionality
as well.
And the hospitality at that stadium was just absolutely unbelievable.
But then your number 11 on the bucket list is Alamo Stadium.
Believe it or not, I've actually been to a game there.
Yeah.
That's one of those older stadiums that I just kind of was like an honorable mention
as I was going through there and I was like, man, I'd like to go and visit that stadium
one of these days too.
I think that's the biggest stadium in the state as far as capacity is concerned.
Over 18,000 people can get in there.
Yes.
I did a game.
I went to a game there, a friend of mine, I was working in San Antonio and a guy I was
working with, his son was playing and he's like, man, why don't you come to a game?
And I was like, okay.
So that was the one time that I went to Alamo Stadium.
I was in San Antonio working and that was the only reason why I was able to get in there
and go see that stadium.
And so seeing it on your list after being there, after going to the, you know what I
mean, because 15 years ago, 10 or 15 years ago that I was there before I ever started
broadcasting.
Wow.
So that's that's one that that's kind of overwhelming probably when you step in there
to see how big it actually is.
Yeah, it really is.
So, uh, man, well, there's it's been a long night and my voice, I can feel it.
It's going and I know you got, you got some unique Texas stadiums.
Let's bring those unique Texas stadiums up next week and I will give, I will give my
top five football stadiums that I've done games at.
I can do the same, even though it's not that many.
Yeah.
So it'll be a lot of fun.
So we'll bring that next week to the show and over on the 590 Sports Bay page, I'll
put it up there towards the end of the week or through the weekend, but you'll get in
there and comment and tell us what your favorite high Texas high school football stadium is.
And I'm holding it to high school football and even whenever I talk about my top five,
it will not be a college stadium.
It will be a legit high school stadium that I'll talk about because that's, you know,
we know what the college stadiums and NRG and AT&T, we know what they're about, but
I will give my top five, uh, stadiums that I've been to over the last, I don't know,
15 years of doing football games.
So it'll be a lot of fun.
Oh yeah.
So that's going to be a wrap for this week in Texas high school football on the 590
Sports Show with Trent Hart.
I'm Craig Irwin.
We'll see you at the game.
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