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Last few paragraphs from Beaumont Enterprise article on tonight's game. Thought this was good: Jaystan Davis was proud to represent Hardin-Jefferson and be coached by his father. “It was special moment for sure,” Jaystan Davis said. “It’s been a good three years playing for him and we have had had our ups and downs, struggles and success. I have become so much mentally stronger as a player and being a coach’s kid. I have learned how to work well with others and be a great teammate. I’ll take that with me when I graduate and enter the real world.” While Clay Davis was hugging his son, he exchanged words with a Yates fan in the crowd where he became emotional and told the crowd that he was hugging his son. Hardin-Jefferson never led in the game. Yates’ up-tempo offense and press defense cause problems for the Hawks. Austin Samaya led the Hawks with 20 points. Preparing for the No. 1 team in Class 4A can be challenging. “Probably have to go recruit some players,” said Clay Davis on preparing for Yates. “Unfortunately, the system is a little broken right now. There is holes in the system and they choose to take advantage of them. It is what it is, and it’s hard to prepare for. We will take the kids we have in our system that come up in our system. I wouldn’t trade any of our kids for anyone else.” The Lions scored 100 points in their 20th straight game. Yates senior guard Rubin Jones knocked down the 3-pointer with 2:58 left in the fourth quarter that lifted the team over the 100-point mark as the crowd from Yates cheered on the Lions. As the season comes to an end for the Hawks, its five seniors made a name for themselves within the program. “The legacy that they will leave is that they represented Hardin-Jefferson basketball the way it should be represented. I’m so proud,” Clay Davis said. “Those are our kids, Hardin-Jefferson kids from Day 1. We don’t go out and recruit our players. The kids that we put on the floor are Hardin-Jefferson kids from our program.” I think Coach Davis says it all. Kudos to him and his team.

If you would stick to one identity on this board, you would be much better off.

HJ played good defense against a great team and almost stopped the 100 point streak. That would have been a great moral victory. But to go on about recruiting after the loss is sour grapes. They played the Lions tough last year and not a peep about it. If you're so sure about this, go file a complaint with the UIL, which frowns on this. The reporter should have pushed back on this comment. Where is your evidence? Otherwise, he's just letting the coach libel another coach. Bad job, Beaumont Enterprise. When there were veterans in the editor desks, this would have never happened. HJ could have avoided this by hanging on last Friday. They lost to the better team and there's no shame in that. This was an opportunity to teach his kids sometimes your best isn't good enough but that it's no reason to be ashamed because they laid it all on the line. Clay Davis is wrong.

He literally said don't take my word for it.

They would need to go to the gym, work harder, watch more films, and become 6'8" in large numbers.

For "not caring whats happening in the realm of basketball around here", you have certainly offered a substantial multitude of opinions on it.

You are only making yourself look less knowledgeable than what was previously obvious.

I think he suggested you study the Koran and come to your own conclusion. Would that not be preferable to just making statements that are possibly incorrect? What relevance to his suggestion does his status as a Koran scholar have?

H.J best player transferred from BU...Clay full of himself...He is running an AAU program at his high school that funnels player to H.J...Nobody and I mean nobody should feel sorry for Clay...When you got the UIL in your back pocket there is no need to worry about anything...

Adams gone after next season if healthy throughout.

HISD Athletic Director denied the transfers, Yates had to file an appeal with UIL. HISD has been working behind closed doors to sell the property that Yates is on to The University of Houston. HISD doesn’t care for Yates, they prefer Bellaire, Lamar and The Heights. The transfers those schools get justify my statement. HISD ran the clock in the second half of Yates Games in an attempt to stop them from reaching their record 100 point streak.

How many players over the last 5 years were from Beaumont that played for H.J and Silsbee...Silsbee would not have any championships if the "MOVE IN's stayed in Beaumont but that's not my business...

4 of the 5 transfers to Yates this year are seniors. If that's not a red flag, what is? I know schools get transfers. But when you get 3,4,5 a year and they are one sport players (not just students) and seniors to boot, that's suspicious.

Wouldn't nobody here be apologizing for these squads if their teams were the ones that had to deal with it. Hypothetical Super team - 150 Beaumont United - 40 If that something like that happened every year, you know good and well feelings would change. I applaud Coach Davis for speaking the truth after the game.

Salty or simply the truth? Does ANYONE deny that Yates recruits? This isn’t college basketball, it’s high school. The idea is to take the kids in your town and play against the kids in the next town to see who is better. The next level, college, is where you get the best talent from said schools and put them on the same team and then compete. Yates is basically a small college/JUCO team.

Good solution. Everyone should conduct themselves in the same manner. I find your remark about people crying on this board to be very interesting. Is it your opinion that those who disagree or find fault in something should not be expressing themselves? Why is it that I am going to guess that you are considerably less steadfast in your beliefs when it comes to other facets of life?

I guess some can’t take a loss. You cry about the system that allows you to do the same thing . Quit getting on this board crying about kids transferring when it happens everywhere . Some get better players some don’t and when it doesn’t work to your advantage your crying a river . The entire UIL is made it up of well you guessed it . So how does that happen or are the kids there legit . All a coach can do is prepare his/her team to play. Your job isn’t to worry about what the other team has going on but to give your kids the confidence to play the game at a high level. Oh and kids have to get better period !!!!!!

25,000,000 people in the US have had the flu this year. 20,000 have died from it.

Mr. Advocate: Are those "salty" words untrue?

Wow. Lemme find that article. Playing devils advocate, looking at it from Yates' end, Coach Davis' words can come off as a little 'salty' after a loss.

The " discussion" to which you refer involved some Yates fans mocking the coach embracing his senior son who fouled out of his last game. Very long journey for young man whose life was in doubt when he was born.

Bingo. 👀👀

They hold the secret Spring Football game on campus, don't ask me how I know. 👀

It hasn’t been held there in years

How do you have a team make it to state and the next year they're twice as good. The UIL has to do something to stop teams from recruiting.

The uil has to do something about that or start allowing other schools to recruit why does Yates get these special privileges

Well @UT alum, did you ever read what I told you to? I'm holding up my end, I've got a "gogglecast" coming in the mail and my grandson is gonna come over and get me set up when it gets here.

Good suggestion. That will give both sides if read together.

I Work hard , and control the things that I can control, I don’t complain To my kids about the unevenness ..I tell them to work hard and treat everyone like they want to be treated ... but I’m not gonna make a big issue Or go to the media about something that I’ was guilty of doing years back ...Clay Davis was Clearly out of line for those comments and for allowing his player to be disrespectful..and y’all are on here Justifying his comments , actions / lack of actions

She may just be a troll as well. Time will tell

It would be a great upset but La Marque needs to win lumberton vs Yates would be too Violent Raiders aren’t ready for that punishment.

Then why are you engaged in the debate at hand?

Let's go Rebels, wish I could make the game. Excited for the season to kick off!

6-5 Kelly Top 3

Then why did I just listen to a radio ad slamming Trump about his handling of the virus? I don't like any ads that smear an opponent, no matter who it is. It's in poor taste.

1-0 Vidor leads Buna headed to B3

@WOSgrad i think Briles would go 0-30 with the ladies here in SETX (bmt) unless they're dumb and clueless like some idiots out here. 🤷🏾‍♂️

Silsbee shouldn't cry to much... Tigers went through Yates to be 17 & 18 State Champs! Also hearing Silsbee fixing to reload with home grown talent to face them Jack Yates all-star recruits again *Hold them to under 100 Tigers*

You realize that we play WOS pretty much every year, right? We have also squared up with talented squads like Newton and Silsbee... and occassionally (but not often) we're competitive. So we do play teams with talent... a lot of times we're facing much more athletically talented squads. The whole reason that this thing veered so far off of topic is that I was questioning BISD's selection for the new head coach at BU and somebody started with the "would BC beat either squad?" No, and we'd kick all of the crap out of High Island in our worst year. Same difference... and it's okay. Like I said... there are a lot of talented kids that play(ed) for Ozen, Central, and now BU that I feel are being cheated out of an opportunity to succeed by another puzzling hiring decision by BISD admins. It's nothing new.

See AAW’s post above. Please provide a rebuttal to his statement (without calling him a crybaby, preferably).

You will be hard pressed to find a group that spends more time in the gym than the kids at HJ. Last night was simply a contrast in numbers.The bigger the pool of players the better team you can put on the floor.The kids certainly have a right to play however if the schools have a choice of thousands of players they should compete in the highest classification.

What are we teaching kids that the playing field should always be level or do we tell our kids that they need to get better in order to compete . That they need to put In the work ,get in the gym and work on your game . They don’t hand out participation trophies which is what some of you are looking for. GET IN THE GYM AND GET BETTER !!!! PERIOD!!!!! And coaches get better watch tons of film see how you can play multiple styles the game is evolving if you don’t evolve with you’ll get left behind.

:):):) I am concerned that Da Dove may have ascended to that poorly lit court in the sky

Final Diboll 2 Silsbee 3

Yates Academy lol

Diboll 2 Silsbee 3 Top of 5

Big Sandy 9 Warren 3

No offense, someday you'll get here too. Lol