Vote: Week 6 Player of the Week

NMPreps.com is happy to announce the official award winners for the 2016 Tate Branch post season awards. Each season the team at NMPreps.com along with a fan vote will determine the winners of each award.

Link: 2016 Coach of the Year Winner

Friday Draft: Best Holiday Songs

Let's draft the best holiday songs. You have one pick, can't draft the same song as another.

DRAFT BOARD
1st Pick: Ave Maria - Harleygirl13
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2nd Pick: Mary Did You Know - Charliedog
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3rd Pick: Lil Drummer Boy David Bowie and Bing Crosby - Lebron Gallegos
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4th Pick: Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer - Joey C
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5th Pick: O Holy Night - Audit Man
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6th Pick: The Christmas Song by Nate King Cole - lizard88

7th Pick: You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch - NM_Shock

8th Pick: White Christmas - lizard88 (traded up to pick)

FEATURE: Hoops-Mas: 10 Holiday Favorites of the Season

The basketball season is now in full swing, the holiday tournaments end the year next week. Today we look at Grine's favorite things of Xmas but the favorites to win the title..... click link to read the feature

I just want to say Merry Christmas to all of you on NMPreps.com. I hope that you have a great weekend with family and thank you for being apart of this family on NMPreps.com. Thank you for thread with the kind words, it definitely helps especially in this position with plenty of angered people. I enjoy reading the stories you all bring and thank you for reading on our site. Like I've said I love New Mexico, I love high school sports and now this element with NMPreps given us a place to discuss the things we enjoy.

What are your holiday plans?

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Tonight Josh was offered by Coach Criner at the University of Rhode Island.

During Popeyes Bahamas Bowl they posted an Aflac Question!

Entering today, Eastern Michigan had the second longest bowl drought in college football.

Who has the longest?
NMSU
1960 Sun Bowl vs. Utah State (W, 20-13)

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Player of the Week Voting will start.

On Wednesday, December 21st, 2016 Clovis Head Football Coach Eric Roanhaus resigned after 39 seasons of Coaching the Wildcats. Roanhaus leaves Clovis winning 343 games and 10 State Championships. In 2016 we've seen three New Mexico High School Football Hall of Fame Coaches either resign or retire. In March of 2016 Artesia's Cooper Henderson resigned after 27 seasons of coaching the Bulldogs and a few weeks later Las Cruces Bulldawg Coach Jim Miller retired after 18 seasons. If you count up the wins between the three coaches it totals 803 victories with 30 state title rings. Today we look back on the career of the three New Mexico High School Football Legends.

Linked Here
https://nmpreps.rivals.com/news/eric-roanhaus-jim-miller-and-cooper-henderson-all-leave-in-2016

Rank the Best Unknown Football Facilities

We know about the Hobbs, Artesia and places like that but what about some we don't know about that have really nice facilities

It's insane how much beer people drink! Coming from someone that has never drank 1 beer, it's hard to comprehend these astronomical numbers.

Texas generates $3.1M in revenue from alcohol sales at home games!

http://www.thescore.com/news/1189445

BEERNUMBER SOLD
Miller Lite 98,535
Coors Light 95,096
Bud Light 34,257
Shiner Bock 1,411
Lone Star 952
Michelob Ultra 741
Budweiser 89

In Texas, the King of Beers is more like the Jester of Beers.

A short week of hoops with action Monday through Friday. Post all girls hoops scores here.

Monday, December 19th
Hobbs def. Lovington, 61-36
St. Michael's def. Capital, 53-37
Cuba def. Mesa Vista, 65-53
Elida def. Clayton, 53-17

Tuesday, December 20th
Carlsbad def. Artesia, 45-24
Centennial def. Cleveland, 49-38
Roswell def. Alamogordo, 64-35
Shiprock def. Piedra Vista, 56-46
West Las Vegas def. Bernalillo, 74-26
Hatch Valley def. Cloudcroft, 59-21
Ruidoso def. Hot Springs, 41-23
Socorro def. To'hajiilee, 51-19
Jemez Valley def. NACA, 47-23
Farwell (TX) def. Clovis, 63-48

Thursday, December 22nd
Hobbs def. Roswell, 45-44
Grants def. Wingate, 60-58
Capital def. Bernalillo, 56-43

Sophomore Tracker: This Class The Best Ever?
Joshua J. Grine of NMPreps.com

Each week, we will take a look at the Fab Five of each classification in the state of New Mexico. This season we start off looking at a classification that has arguably one of the best players in the state.

FAB FIVE RANKINGS THROUGH WEEK THREE - THE SOPHOMORES

1. Jayden Perez, G, Las Cruces High School (Las Cruces, NM): Off to a hot start this season, Perez is averaging 21.5 points per game and 7 rebounds. The Lady Bulldawgs are 3-1 on the season and quickly becoming a dark horse favorite to play in the Final Four this March. Perez, is quickly rising the ranks and will be one of the players to watch for the next three years.

2. Amaya Lewis, G, Hobbs High School (Hobbs, NM): Another name from southern New Mexico hits the list as the number two sophomore this week. Lewis, went off for 31 points in her opening win against Centennial High School. The Hobbs Eagles are currently 2-1 on the season.

3. Amaya Brown, G, Cibola High School (Abq. NM): The number one player in the state had a strong opening performance of 17 points in a win over one of the better teams in Albuquerque - Eldorado High School. Brown, super-smart and athletic is more of a guard that will get to the paint to get buckets. The Lady Cougars are (1-0) on the season.

4. Alyssa Adams, G, Moriarty High School (Moriarty, NM): Adams, helped guide the 5A Lady Pintos to a 29-point win (53-24) over 6A Manzano Lady Monarchs. Adams, led the way with 18-points (3 3-pointers) and making solid plays all night. The Lady Pintos are (1-0) on the season moving into week three play.

5. Sarah Abney, G, Las Cruces High School (Las Cruces, NM): Abney, brings one of the better all around stat lines right now with 9 points per game, 3 assists, 4 rebounds and 4 steals per game. Abney, might be the most unappreciated sophomores of the bunch.

Joshua J Grine, is the senior analyst for NMPreps.com. Add stats and updates for your team and players to grinejosh@yahoo.com or text (505) 414-4313.

Week 5: Grine's Grid Weekly Bracket Watch

Now that each team has a record on the board with games under their belt, we start our traction for teams who will make the state tournament in March.

Class 6A Basketball

Bracket
1. Cleveland vs. 16 Centennial
8. Atrisco Heritage Academy vs. 9 Onate
5. Rio Rancho vs. 12 Santa Fe
4. Cibola vs. 13 Hobbs
3. Eldorado vs. 14 Valley
6. Las Cruces vs 11 La Cueva
7. Clovis vs. 10. Carlsbad
2. Albuquerque vs. 15 Sandia

4 Bubbles
17. Volcano Vista
18. West Mesa
19. Piedra Vista
20. Highland
21. Mayfield
22. Rio Grande
23. Gadsden
24. Manzano

Autos - District Champs
D1-6A: Cleveland
D2-6A: Eldorado
D3-6A: Las Cruces
D4-6A: Albuquerque

Rapid Fire

Pleasant Surprise: Clovis. I've mentioned this before but I am surprised with the recent 3-1 record in their last four games with wins over La Cueva and Carlsbad. Am I sold - nope but there is opportunities against Roswell, Hobbs and Portales in the coming weeks.

Unhappy Surprise: Valley. Waaay back into April 2016, our Way to Early Rankings, we had Valley ranked second. I'm not jumping off the wagon, 5-2 is not bad, but sometimes the results make you question that.

Deja Vu: Rio Rancho. With Patterson going down, who was awarded the best player in basketball last season, the Rams could drop some games. It will hurt the resume but if you are a betting man (I know there is) the Rams could be the team with a seed in 6-10 (...11) and still win it all.

District Love: 1-6A. I have to give them the love with better seeds. They should all have the resume to find three in the top-8. However, PV and VV could bring it down.

District Slap: 3-6A. The District with talent but not the District I am sold on after seeing the predicted title team. However, this district usually turns into the surprise District. So, I have time to contradicted myself.

District Cellar. 4-6A. The football theme continues here. Atrisco the early riser but we wait until the end of this week to confirm.

Class 5A Basketball

Bracket
1. Farmington vs 16 Goddard
8. Alamogordo vs 9. Kirtland Central
5. Roswell vs. 12 Gallup
4. Capital vs 13 Del Norte
3. Artesia vs 14 Los Alamos
6. Espanola Valley vs 11 St. Pius X
7. Grants vs 10 Belen
2. Los Lunas vs 15 Santa Teresa

Bubbles
17. Lovington
18. Deming
19. Bloomfield
20. Aztec
21. Miyamura
22. Valencia
23. Albuquerque Academy
24. Chaparral

Autos: District Champ Predictions
D1-5A: Farmington
D2-5A: Capital
D3-5A: Alamogordo
D4-5A: Artesia
D5-5A: Los Lunas

Rapid Fire

1-Seed Questions: Farmington. Yes, this will shock most people with them as a possible one seed. This is the reasoning. The other districts have two/three top tier teams. They get a chance on the 28th at the Poe Corn tournament against Artesia to make the true case. The schedule however shouldn't be a problem to win out after the Poe Corn.

Next DC: Los Lunas, Capital, Artesia. Predicted as DC's and the team with the hardest road could be Artesia as they face Capital, Farmington along with having faced Rio Rancho pre-district.

District beat down: 5-5A. The district is tough, people might argue that (insert team) should be a better seed. However, some could get beat up in their own quest to a home game in the first round. The only other slot I could see open for a possible district third place finisher to climb into the top-8 is D3-5A being below par.

Bubble: Lovington. This team sort of being pushed on the fringe right now but a win in district will get them in. Also, I could see them overtaking a struggling Goddard unit.

Thoughts. This bracket from 1-14 is tough. I know we say it a lot but this years bracket has some serious talent.

Someone suggested on another thread that we could solve the public school/private school competitiveness issue by classifying by relegation/promotion. Hmmm ....

If we used the MaxPreps rankings for 2016 only, put the top 24 in one division, the next 24 in a second division, and the remainder in a third division, you might see districts like this:

First Division:
La Cueva
Sandia
Eldorado
Capital
Los Alamos
Santa Fe Prep

Albuquerque High
Valley
Atrisco Heritage
Hope Christian
Bosque

Volcano Vista
Cleveland
Cibola
Rio Rancho
St. Pius
Academy

Hobbs
Roswell
Gadsden
Chaparral
Santa Teresa
Alamogordo
Centennial

Second Division:
Socorro
Los Lunas
Valencia
Belen
East Mountain

Clovis
Portales
Goddard
Lovington
Carlsbad

Las Cruces
Mayfield
Onate
Hatch Valley

Sandia Prep
Manzano
Rio Grande
West Mesa
Highland

Monte del Sol
Farmington
Santa Fe
Piedra Vista
Aztec

Third Division:
Taos
St. Michael’s
Robertson
Desert Academy
Pojoaque Valley
Questa

Deming
NMMI
Artesia
Silver
Ruidoso

Moriarty
Bernalillo
Del Norte
Grants

Kirtland Central
Rehoboth Christian
Miyamura
Bloomfield
Gallup

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Interesting to note that 23 of the 39 Pro Bowl selections this year were 3 star or lower recruits coming out of high school...

@J Grine I am sure I am not the only person that appreciates all you do for this site! Despite my questions I enjoy your weekly threads and comments!

I can honestly say without you NMPREPS was just another sports site wouldn't you agree @kyle h?!

Your insight and dedication to what you do makes the Football Season more enjoyable!

Even though I question, challenge & maybe complain "just a little", I look forward to your threads!

Thank you for an EXTREMELY ENJOYABLE YEAR!!! Looking forward to 2017!!!