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UIL realignment

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It was released today. Always interesting to see what new districts were formed.

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At least they didn't put Calallen with Laredo schools like they did last time. Ridiculous that there were 3 Laredo schools in the district (3 hours away) when a few teams from Corpus - schools that were 5, 10, 15 miles down the road were not in the district.
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Never understood why they call it Dallas Highland Park. It's not the name of the school, and it's not in Dallas (I know it's in UP) or DISD.
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smusic 00 wrote:Never understood why they call it Dallas Highland Park. It's not the name of the school, and it's not in Dallas (I know it's in UP) or DISD.
It's to distinguish from Amarillo Highland Park, which is in "Highland Park ISD" and is outside the city limits of Amarillo, but has an Amarillo mailing address. Dallas's HP has a Dallas mailing address. Hence, the convention to distinguish those two is using the city designator in the mailing address.
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Well out here in West Texas, we were moved out of a district with Amarillo and Lubbock and put back in with the two Abilene schools. That is good since it will help cut down a little on the travel. It was four hours to Amarillo from Midland and two hours to Lubbock. The down side is we are now a six team district instead of a ten team district. We will still have to go to Lubbock and Amarillo for out of distirct games.
If anyone had the screws put to them it was San Angelo Central High School, they are still in the Amarillo, Lubbock district for football and in Midland, Odessa, Abilene for basketball. That is 300 miles to Amarillo and 190 miles to Lubbock.
So it goes, living in West Texas.
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CalallenStang wrote:
smusic 00 wrote:Never understood why they call it Dallas Highland Park. It's not the name of the school, and it's not in Dallas (I know it's in UP) or DISD.
It's to distinguish from Amarillo Highland Park, which is in "Highland Park ISD" and is outside the city limits of Amarillo, but has an Amarillo mailing address. Dallas's HP has a Dallas mailing address. Hence, the convention to distinguish those two is using the city designator in the mailing address.
Thanks, that has bugged me for a long time.
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Guess DW Rutledge couldn't keep his beloved Judson in the easier district he got them into last go around. Glad they finally have to play someone again.
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lwjr wrote:Well out here in West Texas, we were moved out of a district with Amarillo and Lubbock and put back in with the two Abilene schools. That is good since it will help cut down a little on the travel. It was four hours to Amarillo from Midland and two hours to Lubbock. The down side is we are now a six team district instead of a ten team district. We will still have to go to Lubbock and Amarillo for out of distirct games.
If anyone had the screws put to them it was San Angelo Central High School, they are still in the Amarillo, Lubbock district for football and in Midland, Odessa, Abilene for basketball. That is 300 miles to Amarillo and 190 miles to Lubbock.
So it goes, living in West Texas.
yeah but SA Central will have a chance to make the playoffs with the Amarillo Lubbock schools, but will have no chance with the old "little SWC" of Abilene, Cooper, Permian etc. I remember a few years ago Central made the playoffs at like 3-7 because their district record was 3-2.
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