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Post by FB fan on Aug 15, 2022 17:37:11 GMT -6
How do you gauge a team as "the best team ever?" You could say the obvious like best athletes or most wins or wins by largest margins. Speaking for myself grit, determination, all out effort or as Flour Bluff phrases it Class, Pride and Heart should be a large percentage of the consideration. The 2021 Hornets earned their way. Anything they weren't gifted with one way they made up for through determination and hard work to be over achievers and we're damn proud of them. There will be no asterisks by the 2021 5A D1 region 4 championship. You can say it’s the best team y’all have ever had, and I can call you crazy, but none of that matters, because at the end of the day flags fly forever. It's a quote by former NFL head coach Bill Parcells that says, "You are what your record says you are." The point is that you can't reason distance between you and what you accomplish (or don't accomplish.) Results speak for themselves. The rest of the speaking we do is generally everything else.
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Post by picodegallo on Aug 16, 2022 9:44:12 GMT -6
That 2005 game against you all was probably in the Top 5 as far as being physical that I've seen Cal play. The only thing that needs to be mentioned in the history of last year's Bluff team is they faced a school almost twice it's size in the semis due to an long standing loop hole in UIL rules which legally allows a school to misrepresent it's numbers. Not sure a Loophole would be correct word for it. All school districts in densely populated areas are constantly building new schools due to population growth and they select the area to build that new school based on populations within those new district boundary’s at present and for future population growth near term and long term. My BIL is retired from working with State of Texas Dept of schools and infrastructure. Now he is a contractor with a company with all Texas schools in planning to build new schools, code enforcement on new schools, helping schools obtain grants and loans and in planning with schools with population growth estimates and helping them estimating the redrawing of new district boundary’s due to population growth. Don’t let them fool the UIL, those high school districts have very good estimates they can expect when they open that school and every year after that. Those districts plan on building a new high school every 10-15 years and that’s why they set those district lines as far out as they can according to expected growth. Paetow Just ballooned as soon as that district opened up. It's a loophole, oversight, what ever you want to call it. Fact is someone like Paetow knew at least the before the 2020 alignment when the numbers were to be submitted in 2019 they would be sitting at low 6A in 2020 and then mid to high 6A in 2021. They are not the first and won't be the last unless the UIL does something which is like hoping a pallet of $100 bills would fall from the sky on to my front yard. I can understand being over by a 100 to maybe 300, but not over that and certainly not 1000 plus.
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Post by Clemensbuff on Aug 16, 2022 10:24:11 GMT -6
Not sure a Loophole would be correct word for it. All school districts in densely populated areas are constantly building new schools due to population growth and they select the area to build that new school based on populations within those new district boundary’s at present and for future population growth near term and long term. My BIL is retired from working with State of Texas Dept of schools and infrastructure. Now he is a contractor with a company with all Texas schools in planning to build new schools, code enforcement on new schools, helping schools obtain grants and loans and in planning with schools with population growth estimates and helping them estimating the redrawing of new district boundary’s due to population growth. Don’t let them fool the UIL, those high school districts have very good estimates they can expect when they open that school and every year after that. Those districts plan on building a new high school every 10-15 years and that’s why they set those district lines as far out as they can according to expected growth. Paetow Just ballooned as soon as that district opened up. It's a loophole, oversight, what ever you want to call it. Fact is someone like Paetow knew at least the before the 2020 alignment when the numbers where to be submitted in 2019 that they would be sitting at low 6A in 2020 and then mid to high 6A in 2021. They are not the first and won't be the last unless the UIL does something which is like hoping a pallet of $100 bills would fall from the sky on to my front yard. I can understand being over by a 100 to maybe 300, but not over that and certainly not 1000 plus. Damn skippy! Maybe if the UIL would set a number of no more than 5% or even 10% growth would be allowed and if a school busted that number they would then be disqualified from district titles and playoffs this BS would stop! Until they do, nothing will change! They know full well within 10% where their numbers will be within 24 months when opening a new school up! Probably in most cases they know it within 5% of the number!
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Post by picodegallo on Aug 16, 2022 13:13:33 GMT -6
It's a loophole, oversight, what ever you want to call it. Fact is someone like Paetow knew at least the before the 2020 alignment when the numbers where to be submitted in 2019 that they would be sitting at low 6A in 2020 and then mid to high 6A in 2021. They are not the first and won't be the last unless the UIL does something which is like hoping a pallet of $100 bills would fall from the sky on to my front yard. I can understand being over by a 100 to maybe 300, but not over that and certainly not 1000 plus. Damn skippy! Maybe if the UIL would set a number of no more than 5% or even 10% growth would be allowed and if a school busted that number they would then be disqualified from district titles and playoffs this BS would stop! Until they do, nothing will change! They know full well within 10% where their numbers will be within 24 months when opening a new school up! Probably in most cases they know it within 5% of the number! I agree. An ISD should be required to submit all the relevant info about projections to the UIL when it notifies the UIL they intend on playing Varsity sports for UIL championships.
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Post by bluecat on Aug 16, 2022 13:27:38 GMT -6
Damn skippy! Maybe if the UIL would set a number of no more than 5% or even 10% growth would be allowed and if a school busted that number they would then be disqualified from district titles and playoffs this BS would stop! Until they do, nothing will change! They know full well within 10% where their numbers will be within 24 months when opening a new school up! Probably in most cases they know it within 5% of the number! I agree. An ISD should be required to submit all the relevant info about projections to the UIL when it notifies the UIL they intend on playing Varsity sports for UIL championships. Seems like Matt might know more then we do about school numbers as it is required by the UIL.
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Post by picodegallo on Aug 16, 2022 13:34:01 GMT -6
I agree. An ISD should be required to submit all the relevant info about projections to the UIL when it notifies the UIL they intend on playing Varsity sports for UIL championships. Seems like Matt might know more then we do about school numbers as it is required by the UIL. He's posted the scoop and what we have now is what the UIL accepts. It shouldn't though as the Paetow situation will occur again and again due to the growth in the state. Albeit it might not be the numbers Paetow had, it will be significant enough.
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Post by bluecat on Aug 16, 2022 13:38:04 GMT -6
Lesson Learned, the Texas UIL is Not a agency within the TEA Texas Education Agency. The UIL is a agency within the University of Texas governing body over all sports in Texas. After researching this I am really surprised how they setup this system and why it’s set up like this.
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Post by bluecat on Aug 16, 2022 13:52:09 GMT -6
The UIL is under the governance of the Vice President for Diversity and Community Engagement at the University of Texas at Austin in Austin, Texas. Although the Texas Education Agency governs the activities of schools and school districts in Texas, the UIL does not report to TEA, but is instead a separate entity.
I’m sure there are important reasons they set it up this way. To most of us the UIL means sports but in actuality it is so much more than that.
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