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Nederland off to a hot start winning the drum line battle! 👀👀

After a few years into his tenure at Dayton very very seldom did Stewart get blown out ! Maybe a loss against LK Travis for the region final, pre-district he scheduled big schools like Fort Bend Elkins and Eisenhower and win most times. Several district and regional championships, State final appearance- records that any Dayton coaches since cant even begin to scratch. He used to hold defense coaching clinics where coaches all over the state would attend. He was and an outsider with no buddy or political ties to the local click his only goal was to Win!!!

This is the most entertaining thread of the week so far. 🍿

Players + Coaching + Competition level = Success Any 2 of the 3 can lead to a great year. Maybe not a state championship year, but good year. Just having 1 of the 3 isn't enough. It takes good players.. and it takes preparation/strategy. But that wouldn't be enough in a juggernaut district/region/classification. It happens every two years... Same relative coaching staff, a lot of the same players, but reclassification may turn zeros into heroes or vice versa. Just like I've seen good coaches have mediocre years because of lost talent or even graduation. Or injuries... And not that great of coaches can have pretty good years if they have a lot of talent or are in a weaker level of competition. It's crazy to think that there aren't a lot of variables. But I will never be convinced that all it takes is great coaching. MOST coaches are practicing stuff that is designed to be successful. And MOST coaches are taking stuff from coaches/teams that are successful.

Lmao @Dirty_but_Dazzling you straight up tried to lock this thread because people don’t agree with you… 😂😂

Congrats to the Rangers. The better team won. I can’t figure out what home field advantage is all about. Neither team won at home. Still an Astros fan. That will never change. Will pull for the Texas team to win it all. Best state in the country.

lol, you were hoping to do that, can't blame you. It would have been a mistake to count either team out, but even though I'm an Astros fan, the team with the best chance at winning the WS moved on. Astros have a rally killing dead spot in the lineup that needs to be fixed, the Rangers don't.

Who teaches the players how to block, how to defend the pass, what they are supposed to do in different situations, who inspires them? Oh , that’s right they’re born with that knowledge.

MVP!!! MVP!!! MVP!!! MVP!!! MVP!!! MVP!!!

Smells like 2011, lets get a different outcome this time, the Texas Rangers are headed back to the World Series!! #GoAndTakeIt   

Rangers were definitely the better team this series

What a terrible night. Stros lose and I lost $20 to my daughter on 49er/Viking game. She took the Vikings but I had to give her 7 points. Looks like that won't matter. Good luck Rangers in the World Series.

Maldy has not “done well” in a long time. That was malpractice on Dusty’s part

Ted Cruz is at the game again. Astros were doomed from the start.

That news is a week old.

It's certainly a mixture. Great players can only overcome so much poor coaching, but in the same breadth, great coaching can only elevate marginal players so far. The players are the most important part, because you'll never win without them, but the coaches will play an important role.

This, you have to have talent, its not strictly Xs and Os. I have seen coaches destroy talent by running the wrong system. IE had spread personnel but brought in the triple option because that's what he likes. A good coach looks at what he has, uses the best system to utilize that talent and then it comes down to how does he relate to them, how does he motivate them, how does he adjust when they study your film and take away what you want to do. A lot of the deeper rounds of playoffs comes down to who can adjust the best when your game plan gets thrown out the window.

here is two examples WOS PNG

Yeah, I think all that lady did by stopping it was create unfinished business so if she thought THAT was bad, just wait til FRIDAY NIGHT…MCM Band Wars gonna be LIT, figuratively speaking of course or maybe not 😜

Hope for safe travels for everyone and a competitive game. I don’t think I’ll be making this one. Grandkids are coming up for the Chester Fall Festival (Saturday at 4).

Couple of awesome post Jayhawk, agree 1000%. Just throwing it out there …..New Caney didn’t really turn into world beaters when he was there (I’m sure some folks will scream it was a lack of talent) and they didn’t offer him the HC/AD there while he was there and the existing retired.

They are both obviously important. Equally? I think in more ways than one, it starts with a good coach.

Working on that as we speak. Reached out to a few officials that I personally know.

Hopefully no powder or flares were used during this battle 😁

It cycles. Something will change and one or both of the Beaumont schools will get better. The sad thing is Beaumont Central used to take the locals schools behind the woodshed all the time. Even Ozen got its licks in sometimes. It’s weird that combining them made them worse. And we all know Westbrook can be better than they are. The pendulum will swing one of these days and we’ll be talking about another Westbrook playoff run. But, Beaumont ISD administrators needs to get off their self-serving, myopic, arrogant butts and hire a real coaching staff, not just some guy who used to coach in Beaumont who everyone is friends with.

According to the Kelly High School website, it does not say so it's technically no.

Didn’t go this year but from watching the live feed and what I heard from PNG Band parents…both Drumlines and students were chanting stuff back n forth at the end and a lady who I suppose works for NISD got on the mic, said “This is supposed to be a camaraderie NOT a BATTLE” and shut it down! Everyone was pretty confused cause for one it’s actually called MCM Drumline BATTLE and other than a bigger crowd and students being a little more rowdy…it was pretty much the same as last year and kids seemed to just be having fun …idk! I thought it looked pretty tame compared to the stuff we did back in the day….lol!

Rangers fans….. next year, you can win the division and have home field advantage. Maybe it will play out like this year. lol

He's talking about Crockett. Look at post before his last one.

To be the man you got to beat the man. KV has been a surprise this year but I'll take OF in a close one.

Pulling for the D’backs. Big Sandy grad Ryan Hendrix is in their organization.

Rangers are giving me team-of-destiny vibes like the Nationals in 2019 (no Astros postseason loss will ever be as painful as that one)

Pretty simple Rangers have a good hitting club and your pitchers can’t get ahead in the count, your going to get clobbered what a lousy series of hitting by McCormick, Maldonado, Peña, and Tucker at least 1 team from Texas in WS. Hopefully they will win it

The Astros winning the 2022 title with Dusty as the manager might be one of the most impressive feats a team has ever accomplished. There’s a reason 4 teams have told this guy to kick rocks. Bochy has managed circles around him.

If Baker lets his pitchers throw another ball in the zone to Garcia, he needs mental help. No way he see another pitch to hit.

Down to Lumberton at LCM, PA Memorial at Barbers Hill or MCM.

He’s good no doubt. Can’t stand him, but he’s good. He’s the reason I will root against the Rangers, if they hold on to win tonight.

PNG comes away with the win. Except for this week, I’ll continue to pull for the Bulldogs! Prayers for an injury free game. The BEST high school rivalry in TEXAS!

The PBS documentary "The Astros Edge" that came out a few weeks ago does a pretty good job of disproving allegations that the sign-stealing system was used in the playoffs. Its also pretty well-known that Altuve didn't participate in the scandal. No excuse for the cheating they actually did though.

Poor Bridge City

Great coaching recognizes the talent their players may or may not have then adjust their system around those players to put them in the best position to win. One example is BISD having lots of talent but without a proper coach the y can't produce wins. Another is Crosby being consistent winners until their coaches left and they hit rock bottom. One Crosby coach goes to Chapel Hill and makes them winners instantly. There is too many examples of this to list

I think it's a lot closer to 50-50 than most people from schools with a lot of talent believe. Quite often those athletes are a product of a preparation in a system that goes back 6 or more years. When you start naming great athletes that came from your program, ask yourself "how successful would they have been if they'd played for a crappy program?" I use WOS as an example. The Mustang faithful always go back to it being the athletes, not coaching that made them great. All they need to do is hire one of CT's old assistants and there WILL be a return to glory, right? How many WOS kids are in the NFL right now? How many are playing D1 ball? Being a part of that program helped to make good athletes have great high school careers. But it's a mixture... the best coaching in the world won't help a bunch of unathletic kids get to the State Championship.... but top notch coaching can help a bunch of good players have a GREAT season/career.

😂😂😂😂😂great coach 😂😂😂😂😂

Actually if PNG vs Nederland played at Lamar PNG would lose numbers on the home side in the seats. Not including grass seating. Lamar holds 8000 on the home and PNG holds 8500 on he home side.

Just a mere 4 months away. Better be working and preparing, and hope to see a deep play-off run from the Yellowjackets of Chester HS.

This is for 7a and 2 divs for 6a. Not gonna happen anytime soon.

Naw. When warchin them thar cruise ships with all dem mobile homes on ‘em, we like our own homemade brew. Y…BillyBob was warchin some last year, and he thought we was listenennn to Jerry Jeff Walker, got all excited and such, and lit the whole darn beach on far. Shoot. Couldn’t let a good far go to waste. We broke out dem Ballparks an had a Partie! Some dude from PAM showed up an burnded his hand. Doofus! Leave it to a PAM fan to bring a Vienner sausage to a gol darn bonfire… SMH

Remember decades ago when area fans would make jokes about Vidor playing Interstate 10? VHS - 0 Interstate - 10 Who would have ever imagined that area fans (and WO-S fans) would be making light of the fact that WO-S has a bye week? I will say this, the bye week is undefeated. I can't remember the last time the bye week lost to any opponent? Bye week always holds teams scoreless. I don't think the bye week feared Dan Hooks or Cornell Thompson so you know bye week will be ready for Coach Hickman. Somewhere...Vidor fans and I-10 are smiling.

Kelly/Legacy gives some families an option to get away from the circus created at the Beaumont public schools.