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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...

Thanks.

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...

Just saw a post from Heritage School ... Coach Shipman got his 200th win a couple weeks ago vs. Kerrville OLH. So I guess the win last week was #201.

Saw Freddy last night dominate a hurt San Marcos Hill Country team. A very strong team and they are young. Watch them for this year and the next couple. Shipman doesn't rebuild, he reloads. And I got my annual visit with the lovely and always charming Mrs. Shipman.

Only caught part of this on the radio the other day. UT San Antonio is a member of the American Athletic Conference, which includes 14 schools including Army, Navy, Rice, North Texas, Tulsa and others. One of the schools is Memphis, and it was just announced that FedEx is doing a $25 million...