ARCHIVE 2005

THROCKMORTON WINS TITLE - The Throckmorton Greyhounds won the 2005 UIL Texas Six-Man Championship, with a 68-22 win over Valley at Abilene's Shotwell Stadium.

FINAL REGULAR SEASON INFO - The final regular season public school rankings and private rankings are available. Final UIL district standings are also available. I will update this all week.

2005 READERS' POLLS - Archived results of all 2005 frontpage polls.

LIKE A WISE MAN SAID IN THE SUMMER - Yes, it will be Throckmorton and Valley for the title in Shotwell Stadium in Abilene on Saturday at 6PM. Stay tuned for a full week of useless information and stats on the game. Here's the basic skinny from both teams and the tale of the tape for both towns.

PLAYOFF RAMBLE, REALLY - I finally put one together. It only took me 24 hours, but I did it.... don't expect too much.

RICK REILLY BLASTS HERC - Rick Reilly of Sports Illustrated adds to the list of those piling on the Herc Palmquist story. It is online for subscribers or in the December 5 edition.

HOUSTON TEXAS CHRISTIAN COACH SUSPENDED - On the message board is a press release from TAPPS and various explanations of how Texas Christian coach Herc Palmquist has been suspended for using college players in a high school game last week.LINK. Here is Coach Pamquist's letter to parents at HTC. I would also suggest you read the response from the NYOS coaches.

BARRETT IN AMARILLO GLOBE - The Amarillo Globe-News has a great article on Valley's Cody Barrett and his return this season from an ACL injury.

SIX-MAN TO BE DIVIDED INTO TWO DIVISIONS - The UIL has just released the results of the superintendent vote. On the message board

THE GLOBE HAS OUR BACK - The Globe-News is doing a two-part series on the new changes made by the UIL and how they will effect six-man football... day one -- day two

SORTING OUT DISTRICT SIX - I have posted a message on the possibilities for district six. updated after week nine.

MY THOUGHTS ON TWO CHAMPIONS - In what appears to be one of the most controversial decisions in recent history, the UIL has approved a Division I and Division II six-man playoff scenerio. I have added my thoughts, as well as a plan. Also check out others' thoughts on the message board. I have changed this link because so many topics have been started.

SIX-MAN IN THE COMICS - My brother saw this in today's newspaper. Six-man football makes it to the comic section. If it disappears, I'll post it here.

FAITH NO MORE - I have deleted all games played by the team formerly known as Waxahachie Faith. They are a club team not affiliated with the school and thus any game played against them is a scrimmage. UIL teams that complete against them face possible sanctions and I do not know how TAPPS will treat them. I came to this decision after some research on Monday which included contacting the school and the UIL.

EXCELLENT- I have updated the rankings to include EP School of Excellence. It is a charter school and thus UIL-eligible.

SAMNORWOOD EARNS GLOBE-NEWS HONOR- The Samnorwood Eagles were named the Team of the Week by the Amarillo Globe-News for their big win over Follett last weekend.

FOOTBALL IS FOR GIRLS - Paint Creek, the alma mater of Governor Rick Perry, has been suiting up just seven players this year. Of the seven, two are girls, sisters Alice and Ariel Blair. Alice, a sophomore, played every down in Paint Creek's 61-55 win over Moran last week.

AUSTIN NYOS IN FLUX - Austin NYOS must cancel all games versus public schools. Therefore their game with Prairie Lea has been cancelled. They are eligible to play private schools.

KELLNER INELIGIBLE - Wes Kellner of Ira was denied his appeal by the UIL Executive Committee. Read my comments at two places on the message board. (I) (II)

LUEDERS CANCELS - Lueders has cancelled their game this week with Patton Springs. It has been rumored that the head coach has left and they are short on players. They were going to play their non-distict schedule and try to finish up as a junior varsity squad in district, if they have the numbers. Fruitvale has officially moved to play an outlaw 11-man schedule and will make the move full-time in 2006. Spade and Dallas Gateway also cancelled their football seasons. Fort Elliott did not play this year or last.

SIX-MAN HITS NEW YORK TIMES - Carlton Stowers, author of the new book, Where Dreams Die Hard, was asked to do an op-ed piece on six-man football for the New York Times. It appears on inside back page of section A of Saturday's paper.

SIX-MAN TV SHOW IN METROPLEX - A couple of weeks ago, I was lucky enough to be part of a TV show in Dallas on Carlton Stowers book, Where Dreams Die Hard. It will be shown several times, starting this week...

NEW HOME RECEIVES AWARD - Congratulations to New Home, which was selected as one of 12 schools chosen as the 2005 H-E-B Pharmacy-UIL Community Service Award winners and runners-up. Read entire release.

RANKINGS ARE HERE - The 2005 sixmanfootball.com public school rankings are here. You may notice a few changes from what I predicted in DCTF, but that's the nature of the beast.

LORENZO TO PLAY SIX-MAN - Lorenzo has moved to the ranks of six-man football under coach Kyle Hauk. They will play an outlaw schedule in 2005 and are looking for games.

IRA PLAYER PASSES AWAY - Ira junior Jared Bailey passed away this afternon in Lubbock after a swimming accident over the weekend. Message board is updating on information. The thoughts of the entire six-man community are with Ira and the Bailey family.

COMPOSITE SCHEDULE POSTED- The composite schedule is posted and it is pretty close to complete. I have a list of scrimmages I got when the scehdules came in (not updated). If there are changes, please e-mail your schedule to me at granger@sixmanfootball.com. Private school coaches can continue posting to the message board at this link.

ON THE AIR - Have you had a chance to listen to the six-man state championship game? If not, check out the archived recording from KBAL and the IBN. A word of advice: the first 44 minutes is music and you can skip ahead.

2004-2005 UIL REALIGNMENTS - The new realignments have been announced. I will comment more on what I think later.