taxpreparer said:
The KBTX story last night made it sound like Huff and Fedora agreed on this because both of their staffs would be working with all three jr. highs and they would be sharing plays and strategies. They didn't think it would be a good situation to play a team that knew knew your playbook.
This is the truth. It isn't some grand scheme to deprive football fans of an otherwise fun rivalry between schools in the same school district. It isn't arrogance on anyone's part, at least not at the coaching level. (Any discussion of "haves" versus "have nots" would appear to be at the parent/student level, and magnified on this board.)
The school district drew lines. CSHS outpaced growth projections -- for various reasons -- and AMC trended down in growth. Now, we have a school board that appears to prefer homogenization over school allegiance. When you have three middle schools feeding two high schools, you know there will be feeder disruption. The initial thinking was that AMCMS would feed AMCHS, the third middle school would feed CSHS, and CSMS would be split between the two. Instead, we have this plan to split all three middle schools to the various high schools.
If I was a coach, I would do the same thing. It's a waste of time to try and instill your football program at any middle school campus where you may or may not have those players once they get to high school, not to mention other coaches having playbook knowledge. This isn't some nefarious plot; it's the coaches at both school playing the hand the school district has dealt them.
All of that said, between the UIL and what seems to be a clown car of ineptitude in both Bryan and College Station, they screwed up a good thing when they had all four schools in the same football district. And, the UIL can spare me this crap about leveling the playing field. If that was the case, they'd do it in basketball too.
