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The 2023 season has been over for four days now, so naturally, it's time to talk about the 2024 season. Post-realignment, who do you want your team to play in pre-district during the 2024-25 seasons? I'll start. For PN-G, in order of preference, I want: Port Arthur Memorial; Silsbee; Barbers Hill; Jasper; and/or West Orange-Stark. I suspect PN-G will be in a weaker (though possibly larger) district next year, so I want a more thorough pre-district test to prepare us for the playoffs.

I’m not listening to nobody from Nederland talk about nothing related to sports lmaooo sit this one out fam

In all honesty, Sigler did one of his best coaching jobs that season and IMO should have been COY. A few of the local coaches thought so too. But, enough of this talk. Time to move on from this game thread.

this HJ team is extremely short on studs, but to fair, his “studs” over the last several years have gone on to play D3 and NAIA, mostly due to the fact that he pushes to get them offers. Listening to you one would think he’s had a steady supply of D1 players coming down the pipeline. Still, in his “worst” ever season coaching (two of the best basketball minds on the board say it’s his best coaching job) he’s got a fighting chance to make the playoffs. I made a commitment last year to not talk about Mitchell, as for a time I admittedly criticized him too much for some stuff that happened off the court. I got past that, but the delusions of his fan club led me into a lot of conversations where I still came off as critical of him, and I’ve heard from enough people to know he’s done some good things over there for the kids and in the community that changed my mind about him to a certain extent. A lot of what seemed like criticism of him was just disputing outlandish claims made by his supporters. That said, you like to take shots at "my guy", so I suppose I can at least be objectively truthful about yours. It seems to some degree he's improved the basketball culture in the community, and the team has had some good seasons under him. None of that changes the fact that the fan club is still delusional. You literally came on here crowing when Lumberton got their only 2-game win streak of the season, and their only win against a playoff team. They're 11-20 and need help not to miss the playoffs in an extremely weak district, and you're still on here trying to act like he's the next Coach K. You’re still trying to crap all over Davis, who's never missed the playoffs at 3 different schools over a long career. The truth is, the further they've gotten from that once in a generation Lumberton D1 player, the more Lumberton looks like they did pre-Mitchell. Not sure exactly what that means, but I can make some inferences.

For the record, I think Joubert is an awesome Coach just like I do Whitmire, which I have said in previous posts. I also think the Kountze Players are great (4 of them used to play for me and I will always love those guys) and they are a class act! They are real athletes that compete as hard as they can and leave it all on the floor. So there is nothing but respect there from me. The game last night was the most exciting high school game I have ever seen and its because of the players and coaches. However, like you said folks do get on here and talk smack. I try to take the high road in most cases, but I am always going to defend the kids, regardless of who it upsets. In hindsight, I shouldn't have even brought up the margin of victory mess, but sometimes you get tired of the kids not getting credit when they are due. Neither one of us are going to shoot the ball particularly well against each other, because both teams are dialed in playing their best defense possible due to the magnitude of the game. We were all gifted with watching two great games by two great teams being coached by two of the best in Texas. Im going to just leave it at that, and look forward to both of their playoff runs! Like I said before, SETX shined last night

Humble pie works both ways. You know the players at several schools. Kountze has some very humble players and coaches. The coaches also coach more than basketball. If you know Joubert he is a very self less man, humble and highly regarded. He coaches the game win or lose and move to the next one. The last few years when Kountze was getting bullied on the court no one was crying about people running up the score on them. They took those whoppings and kept playing Kountze isn’t worried about how many points are scored or who is the leading scorer . Orangefield played great last night and much better than the game at Kountze. The first quarter was awesome. But Kountze rallied and fell short by 5. Who knows if the PG hadn’t of fouled out with about 3mins left and Kountze made free throws , what would have happened. Ghost and Wrinkle played amazing. The old heads from Kountze get on here and talk smack. And people do get in their feelings. Don’t put that on the coaches or kids. You can ask Whitmire about Joubert and how he runs the team.

I have a ton of respect for the coaching profession, always have and always will. I have not been unfair to any coach or the coaching profession I have stated under Barrow’s leadership and his assistants, the Bulldogs have been very bad. That is not unfair , it is a true statement I have said that Reyes assistants do like working for him and that he doesn’t know much about football. Simply talk to the assistants and see what they say. Maybe they will tell you something different than they told me As for Silsbee, yes they have been good, however people always overrate them by suggesting they are state champions every year There are a ton of excellent head coaches and assistant coaches in the SE Texas area Examples: BH, PNG, EC, HF, Anahuac, Silsbee, LCM, and many more I suggest that your statement is totally incorrect, when stating I am unfair

Only a certified dumbass would believe Port Arthur Memorial will win less than 6 games in the regular season this upcoming season. It's comical actually real talk And if anyone got a rebuttal bring it to me personally. If it's the Right One it'll get smoked permanently. Now imma leave it at that and that's it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Back to news about 9-5A D1.

All of this PNG talk on this thread but no mention on how good their basketball team is ??

I understand everyone likes to talk of the difference of the approach of the school districts between NISD and PNGISD. Yes, there are definitely differences between them, but I think the elephant in the room is that there is a significant difference in the revenue brought into each school district. Despite the feeling that NISD is equal on everything with their neighbors across the tracks, the reality is NISD is not a “wealthy” school district. Everyone likes to complain that NISD does a horrible job of doing this and doing that, but in a sense they do amazingly well with what resources they have. Could they do better? Yes. Could they be more creative? Yes. But, it’s not as easy as being about mismanagement of the district or poor decisions. And, apparently the people constantly criticizing NISD have caviar dreams on a McD’s budget. NISD does not have the industries that PNGISD has. Its major revenue is on the home properties, and last I checked they are pretty landlocked. Look at a majority of the large successful programs in the state with state of the art facilities who are “wealthy”, and yes, they usually have good programs. However, the game is still played on a field whether the stadium is $100 million or $100,000. What is lacking in NISD currently is the mentality and attitude of a champion. Nederland was down for many years prior to Coach Neuman. What he brought was an attitude and a belief that they were at a championship level and winners. There were many years that Nederland was lacking in talent and still won, beating much more talented teams from PNG. Currently, the mental game is being lost every game because the attitude isn’t there. Yes there needs to be a focus on getting back to the basics of football. Discipline. Skill development. And attitude. But, good grief Charlie Brown, how about people just embrace where NISD is as a district with limited resources and be supportive of the children in the district. I’m sure all the “experts” on this board will pile on and go off on how they have held tickets for x number of years and they have 10 million bulldog shirts. At the end of the day, it’s 15,16,17, year old young men playing football. The Negative Nellys are quite ridiculous. Let’s just see what happens and be supportive and have a little faith instead of just constantly complaining how NISD can’t be trusted and they will screw this up and yada yada. PNGISD made a great hire based on recommendations by TD. And good for them. It turned out well for them. Why don’t we just see what Monday brings and quit complaining? Apologies for the rant. But, there needs to be some reality on here.

It's basketball season. Plenty of time for that talk later.

Don't talk to your father La Porte like that.

If they choose the one from L-town, it will soon be worse than the previous staff. If you talk to his assistants they will tell you that he knows little about football and is an extremely weak AD

UN appeals for $7.9 billion to help millions of migrants flee climate change, conflict. From the article: "The United Nations has appealed for a whopping $7.9 billion to bolster its efforts to migrate people around the world who it says have been forced to leave their homes for various reasons, including climate change and conflict. The plea was made by the U.N.’s International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Geneva Monday to support its operations and help "create a system that realizes migration’s promise as a force for good throughout the world."" The UN's Organization For Migration. Hummmm!! The UN, as I understand it, was created so nations could talk instead of going to war. I'm failing to see where the UN's IOM fits into this category! [Hidden Content]

Talk gibberish but can't handle the same..

It is pretty funny to listen to people talk about scheme and how important it is. If you have the athletes, any scheme can be successful. The key is not the scheme, but rather the ability to coach it, make adjustments and the ability of play callers. Every scheme has the ability to run the ball and the opportunity to throw it. Really, it is all about the ability and willingness to call the plays and when to call them. Plenty of pass plays in the wing-t and slot-t playbooks. Coaching matters, but if you don't have the DUDES......

Ref had to talk to Payia again. Sheesh.

you're neglecting the fact that you claimed that this team is the same as the last two teams, which is obviously not the case. That is not a fact. That's not even an opinion, it's just completely wrong. you aren't offending anyone, but many of the posters on this site don't necessarily agree with your "facts", especially since all you do is complain about the teams you "support" and talk as negatively and badly about them as possible in about 90% of your posts.

Everyone wants to talk about getting rid of pollard imo we keep him but he’s not a 3 down back. We gotta go out and sign Derrick Henry. That will help out a lot. Please sign/ draft linebackers!! Overshawn when he gets healthy will be one. But we need 2 true ILB

Dallas needs many things to get back to winning. They talk about the secondary coach being very good and yet that is one of the worst secondary’s in the NFL. I personally do not see 1 player there that is a quality player. You may say Bland, but if you watch closely he gets beat more times than not. Next they must find a LB’er coach and get rid of #14 and #33. They have got to be 2 of the worst LB’ers in the NFL. Dan Quinn is not a good DC. Offensively, the OL is extremely poor. I would fire that coach as well and the majority of us know that Prescott chokes in big games. They are simply going to have to rebuild and do a much better job in the draft. This is going to take a few years and yes as long as Jones is in charge it will not happen The last thing I have to say is that Belichic is not the answer. Jones will not leave him alone to get the job done

Administration, pay attention: The number one thing we need to remember -- No more "Home Cooking." Now, everyone knows how sensitive I am (Grin), If anyone can show me an ex Nederland person that as a head coach has won at least two State Titles in a classification 3A and up, then we'll talk.

Best thing to do is leave Dallas in Dallas, and focus on our 5AD2 State Champions. Let's talk about the PNG Indians, and quit talking about SOC and DISD. All that keeps the wrong thing in the spotlight. PS: We all know SOC isn't the Mecca. That title will always belong to the Crosby Cougars. #codered #therealmecca

Cause they are all talk till it affects them and even then some still stay the course not the brightest group AT ALL

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Trump Plans Aggressive Expansion of Electoral Map, Says He’ll Make ‘Heavy Play’ for New York, New Jersey, Virginia, New Mexico, Minnesota. I think this makes sense. Go to these Democratic cities that are being overran by this illegal invasion. Talk to the people assure them that the cities will recover under a second Trump administration. [Hidden Content]