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My rule on forfeits was that if a team STARTED the season and forfeited because of injuries or other reasons AFTER they had played a game, it was a FORFEIT. If they never started the season it was an open date. When I was a district president for VB/BB (TAPPS), we went into a district...

As AD, I used to joke with the head coach that I wanted the game to go into the third quarter so that the concessions stand could make its money at halftime. There was a game we were about to win by Mercy Rule before the half, but we missed the PAT so we only led by 44. Coach looks at me and...

Not sure how the district involved writes its tiebreaker rules, but when I was in charge of our district, we had a 21-point maximum for point differential. The idea was not to encourage running up the score even if the game ended by Mercy Rule. I think we only had one time we had to use the...

If I have a kicker who can boom the ball out of the end zone for a touchback, I think I'd kick it deep every time. But it was pointed out that in 11-man, on kickoffs, your players have about an 11-yard wide "lane" to defend. In 6-man, that lane extends out to closer to 20-yards. Plus, in...

I do have a funny story to report about the "history" of Seguin Lifegate and Houston Texas Christian. Back in 2002, I think, we both made the semifinals of the TAPPS 1A basketball tournament in Waco. Lifegate and Texas Christian were playing the first game and we won by four points. The...

Ah, yes. I know it well. Between me and Granger, we got the first "news" of the story from a parent of one of the high school players. Coach's son got some of his pals over at Texas State to play the game. Houston Texas Christian. Got lots of publicity, here and nationally. Even...

Jon ... Back then, Kyle and Buda played 6 man. Now they have at least four 6A high schools.

Dowdy School is between Seguin and Kingsbury (a bit south of IH-10, off US-90 Alt). It's been a few years since I drove past the site of the old school (private property), but last time I was there, one of the goal posts were still standing as the only relic of the original school property...

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How does this work for transfer/enrollment purposes? Does the elementary school district "contract" with a nearby district to educate their 7-12 students? Do the students/families have a choice in which adjoining district they wish to attend? I would expect that the UIL would determine...

I was at the HEB in New Braunfels yesterday and found this in the freebie magazine rack ... "Championship Edition" of Texas HS Football magazine. Not the Dave Campbell publication, but published by an operation out of Buda. They recognize all the UIL and TAPPS state football champions...

Yeah, there was a story about that from the early 60s. Not sure if the kid died, but I do remember reading a clipping that someone posted (maybe Ol' Bearkat). I used to be in pharmaceutical sales (mid 80s_ and covered Del Rio and recognized the name of one of the doctors who treated the...

To be fair, they didn't resume football until about 2002. But that's still a pretty long drought.

Like I said above, I really don't like being the vulture circling overhead waiting for the 11-man team to fail so 6-man can come in. I have to think that the decision to move to 6-man is one of a lot of decisions a school and community need to make. Businesses may have closed, people/families...

I believe Manor New Tech is a charter school playing football. Davenport is a new high school in the Comal ISD (encircling New Braunfels). Comal ISD went from two high schools to five pretty darn fast. New Braunfels is adding a second high school in the next year or so, and Geronimo Navarro...