Earl played at Tyler John Tyler HS (but his senior year State Championship team did beat Plano handily in the 1st round of the playoffs). Strake is a fine school, I had numerous friends from Meyerland/Bellaire (Holy Ghost kids) who went there or to St Thomas. Your boys are very fortunate to have had your sacrifices enable them to go there (I thought about the drive from where y'all lived, not an easy commute!).
LOL! The commute wasbrutal!
It was only 12 1/2 miles from my front door to the Field House front door. Both boys ran cross country and had to run 10 miles every morning before school started and another 10 miles after school -- every day, including Saturday and Sunday all year round! Actually, the running regime made the commute possible because it took us a little bit out of the rush hour.
It took 20 minutes to make the drive one way when my oldest started at Strake in 1975. By the time the youngest was in his 3rd year (1982) the same drive was taking nearly an hour -- one way. 3 of us were involved in fender benders because of that drive! We did organize various car pools over the years, but none of them really lasted long because of that track and cross country schedule.