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[WACO]

I did watch the DLS vs ECA game....and was very impressed with DLS. BUT, they would be beat here.....especially playing the level of talent teams face here week in and week out. ECA wasn't even at their peak and still held their own against DLS. Had Booty played for ECA I think it would have been a different story. But, we all know that he's at USC now.

I think just the atmosphere here would shock DLS.......I wonder if that is why Cali backed out of the all-star game when it was suppose to come to Texas?

Here's a little video....these are just 4-A teams in Texas. The big boys are in 5-A.

This is Waco High's stadium.........btw ....how did it feel when Waco's Derrick Johnson intercepted a pass and returned it for a TD in the Cali-Tex all-star game the year we beat them.

http://www.texnet.ne...ANSMITHSON.mpeg

Edited by WACO, 08 March 2004 - 04:42 PM.

[elvis]

Since DLS is the "champion", mythical though it may be, I would consider Texas to be the "challenger".  Normally I would consider this to mean that the Teaxas team needs to initiate the game and probably go to them.  However, in this case there is another issue.  DLS is a private school and should be much more able to afford the costs (travel, etc.) than a Texas public school.

DLS is a private school run by the Christian Brothers, who take a vow of poverty. They are a teaching order. Their lay teachers are paid less than their public school counterparts. The assumption that DLS can somehow afford the trip because they are private is laughable. Their football stadium holds only 3,000. Texas posters claim that their stadiums hold 20,000+. How much for a game, $5/head? That makes a $100K payday for a single game - assume split w/ opponent? Either way, they've got much more to play with than DLS. Recent DLS games requiring major travel have been paid for by a] the event (such as the Hawaii Classic, or the Emerald Classic in Seattle this year), or b] ESPN (ECA).

[WACO]

Waco almost got the 6A champs from Florida, Apopka High into Waco for a game.........their coach is the one who is at Valdosta Georgia now.

The reason it didn't happen is because Apopka must have been a poor school district. Waco Chamber of Commerce was going to get the hotel rooms complimentary for the team. Apopka needed 15,000 for the trip.......up front. Waco was going to have the game on a Saturday so the State of Texas could show up for the game...which would have guranteed Apopka 25,000 to 30,000 dollars. They didn't want to gamble putting the 15,000 dollars up front for the trip.

Someone from Texas needs to get DLS over here. With the right coordinators the money could be raised pretty quick.

[elvis]

ECA wasn't even at their peak and still held their own against DLS.

You must be joking. DLS dominated the game, save the brief 3-point lead that ECA took off a muffed punt return at the beginning of the game. It was over by halftime. ESPN commentators at halftime raving at how DLS is driving ECA linemen (much bigger linemen, have you) 5 yards off the LOS. DLS leads by 24 through most of 4th qtr, and takes a knee for final 2 minutes of game at ECA 1 yd line, otherwise score would have been 34-10. ECA held their own? You must have been watching the ECA-Lonview game, where ECA led thru 3 Qtrs.

[elvis]

ill tell you what..ill pay for your cheap broke **** teams to come down here and get your butts whopped and if u dont think i will..give me a call 817-602-4132..oh by the way SLC is run by the football team..and we take a vow of excellence..punk

Boy, that's an impressive post. Tell me, are you your class valedictorian? Your school is run by your football team? Boy, can't wait to send my kids there... Including your phone number - another good move. Punk? ouch, don't strain your vocabulary. Texas education at it's finest I gather.

[WACO]

ECA wasn't even at their peak and still held their own against DLS.

You must be joking. DLS dominated the game, save the brief 3-point lead that ECA took off a muffed punt return at the beginning of the game. It was over by halftime. ESPN commentators at halftime raving at how DLS is driving ECA linemen (much bigger linemen, have you) 5 yards off the LOS. DLS leads by 24 through most of 4th qtr, and takes a knee for final 2 minutes of game at ECA 1 yd line, otherwise score would have been 34-10. ECA held their own? You must have been watching the ECA-Lonview game, where ECA led thru 3 Qtrs.

Go look at the yardage dude....ECA did hold their own. There wasn't even a big lead until late in the game.

Longview played in Louisiana with Louisiana officials. That is the only reason ECA led the game.

“We didn’t always adjust to (Louisiana) Federation rules,” said Collins. One of the differences is a team in Texas can return an intercepted pass on a two-point conversion for two points. Lobo linebacker Robert Henson intercepted a two-point pass attempt by Evangel and ran it back for the apparent score.

Longview still beat Evangel by a larger margin than DLS did if you want to play that card.

Edited by WACO, 08 March 2004 - 05:10 PM.

[LoboFan07]

First off Ive never heard of Lonview..Its called LONGVIEW if ya didnt know. We're also the only team to beat ECA 2 years in a row. Yea they might of led through 3 quarters but we also scored 22 points in the 4th quarter. We also had Over 20,000 fans see the game...Wasnt the attendance for tha ECA/DLS game like 3,000 or somethin like that?

[elvis]

Someone from Texas needs to get DLS over here.  With the right coordinators the money could be raised pretty quick.

PLEASE DO Waco! DLS has dodged nobody. With all the Texas pride about HS Football, it would seem you could fill Texas stadium w/ a game that ends the streak, etc. You'd make history. What have you got to lose? DLS gets these offers every year. This year they are playing in Seahawks Stadium on Sept 4 at some Wash football festival. Promoters are paying the way. Time to start planning for '05.

[WACO]

Why Washington though? Why Hawaii? Come to Texas. Go to Florida.......... why play weak teams from Washington or Hawaii? The money is defintely here in Texas.

[elvis]

First off Ive never heard of Lonview..Its called LONGVIEW if ya didnt know. We're also the only team to beat ECA 2 years in a row. Yea they might of led through 3 quarters but we also scored 22 points in the 4th quarter. We also had Over 20,000 fans see the game...Wasnt the attendance for tha ECA/DLS game like 3,000 or somethin like that?

Now that's a great post! 1) Critique typos - impressive. 2) Ahhhhh the old "our stadium is bigger than yours" argument. Not sure what that's got to do with anything. DLS plays games at Aloha Stadium, Edison Field (Anaheim) and Seahawks Stadium ('05). They still win the all. Not sure what stadium size has to do with anything. Attendance at the ECA game was 8,000, due to ESPN requirements to play at a local JuCo rather than at Cal Berkeley where they could have drawn much more. ESPN didn't want to lose the high school feel of the game. Again, what has stadium size got to do with Xs and Os?

Edited by elvis, 08 March 2004 - 05:17 PM.

[WACO]

I still say Dave Campbell needs to revise the Texas Kickoff Classic at the Alamodome and bring in one team from out of state every year with DLS being numero uno.

[WACO]

First off Ive never heard of Lonview..Its called LONGVIEW if ya didnt know. We're also the only team to beat ECA 2 years in a row. Yea they might of led through 3 quarters but we also scored 22 points in the 4th quarter. We also had Over 20,000 fans see the game...Wasnt the attendance for tha ECA/DLS game like 3,000 or somethin like that?

Now that's a great post! 1) Critique typos - impressive. 2) Ahhhhh the old "our stadium is bigger than yours" argument. Not sure what that's got to do with anything. DLS plays games at Aloha Stadium, Edison Field (Anaheim) and Seahawks Stadium ('05). They still win the all. Not sure what stadium size has to do with anything.

Stadium size and fan noise does something to do with it. Imagine a 300 member band playing a certain song while you are on offense as loud as they can with the fans yelling as loud as they can 20,000 to 30,000 people. DLS is defintely not used to that. There is a big difference from your little rinky dink crowds to a Texas high school crowd.

[LoboFan07]

Stadium size and fan noise does something to do with it. Imagine a 300 member band playing a certain song while you are on offense as loud as they can with the fans yelling as loud as they can 20,000 to 30,000 people.

Thank you!

[WACO]

Waco High's Football Stadium.....



Temple Wildcat Stadium.....(stadium is so high they have the blue warning lights for airplanes on it)

Edited by WACO, 08 March 2004 - 05:26 PM.

[viking4life]

Football is king in Texas. The best teams in the nation will always be in Texas until some other state decides to meet one of us in a neutral location and duke it out. Some tried and most failed.

Arlington Lamar played the number one team in Florida a few years back, IN FLORIDA, and Lamar beat them. When Texas playoffs come round, Lamar looses in FIRST ROUND. The best team in Colorado came down to Texas Stadium that next year. Lamar won by almost 60 points. Now why won't a Cal. team ever come play in Texas? I bet cause they know they will lose! Hell, DLS won't even play a Texas team in California!

[viking4life]

I will just say this. Elvis or Calallstar have never been to Texas on a Friday night, that is quite obvious, until then, they will never know what Texas high school football is. They do not have a clue what we are talking about.I know they have never been in a stadiuym with 20,00 fans cheering on their team, with the lights glaring and the bands playing their loudest. They hae never seen where an entire twon closes on Friday cause the team is playing. All they know is that DLS has beaten the best team from Hawaii, (woohoo, I am so scared ), so California is obviously the best state for football.

I dont buy that crap saying that only 8,000 were at the game cause it was played at a different stadium. So what, it was moved to another college, will that really make thousands decide not to go. I bet not. But oh well, Elvis or any other Cal. guy will never have a clue what we are talking about, till they come down here and go to a game.

[viking4life]

If you have not seen a team that can compete with DLS, then you ahve not seen alot of teams.