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[quote name="APanthers" post="1217372" timestamp="1335999483"] [quote author=cowboysfan4life link=topic=99034.msg1217176#msg1217176 date=1335973699] list of applicants?? [/quote] [/quote] It just closed yesterday. 

[quote name="WOSgrad" post="1211293" timestamp="1334622220"] Congratulations to a good man and a great coach who is going to Jasper because he WANTS to be there.  With Coach Barbay at the helm, Jasper has the best chance in a few years to repeat the recent success under Coach Brooks and return to the program to the level set by Coach Walkoviak.  He has committed to you, Jasper...make sure you stay committed to him. [/quote] Check pm

[quote name="H-D BOBCAT 55" post="1206217" timestamp="1333557774"] So... can any 3A or lower team play? [/quote] Yes. And Coach Finney was already contacted by another bobcat alum.

Anahuac is hosting a 7 on 7 State Qualifiers Tournament on May 19, 2012.  We currently have slots open.  This tournament is 3A and below. If interested, PM me or contact Coach Birdwell at 4092672014(o)or by email  [email protected]

Do you really think that anybody from Hardin is going to say anything after what has happened?  I imagine they will have a signed contract before anything is released.

[quote name="Cowboys1981" post="1178300" timestamp="1329283853"] Way to change ur name shermdog [/quote] Not me, but I like it!!!!!!

[quote name="H-D BOBCAT 55" post="1176814" timestamp="1329102610"] Any truth to the rumor, H-D's Head Coach Joe Slack is going to take over as HC/AD at Liberty? [/quote] Doesn't the current coach need to leave first?  Last I checked, he was still there.

AHSAlum, Coach West asks that you please refrain from using his name on this board.  He does does not go around talking about you and whoever else. If  you are a student, please stay in  a students place.  If you want to talk about the future of Anahuac Basketball please feel free to come up and visit with Coach West.  Coach West has not said anything about you or anybody that is posting on this board. "This is a bunch of mess"

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[quote name="EagleFan01" post="1170353" timestamp="1328197049"] Does anyone know the cut off for 2A Division II [/quote] 297.5

Anahuac won.  62-44 I think.

[quote name="The GOAT" post="1121132" timestamp="1321557653"] I say yes, at least for offensive linemen [/quote] Who is going to pay for them?  How do you determine which lineman get them?  Starters, all levels, just who can afford them.  Exactly how many lineman do you lose to ACL tears?  To get off the shelf ACL braces, you are looking at a cost of $700 to $800 dollars.  That is an ACL brace, not one that is for lateral protection. Just food for thought. 

[quote name="eagleswoodville#1" post="1119153" timestamp="1321392865"] Playmaker braces (the ones that are completely metal on the sides) send the knee back inside and completely prevent inward and outward movement. Not completely eliminating the chances of a tear, but greatly decreasing the chances of it. ALL linemen should be required to wear them. Imo [/quote] Ok here is my two cents. They playmaker is for lateral suport.  It will offer some support to prevent an injury. The Braces that everyone see on lineman on tv, run about $800 a piece.  Generally, that is a post injury brace in HS.  There are off the shelf versions, and they run about $400 apiece. I have seen kids tear ACL's in noncontact drills. Saw three last year that were girls jumping, noncontact(volleyball, cheerleading(pep rally)and basketball) Some people have a genetic predisposition to having the ligament tear.  Here is another thing.  If the force of impact is great enough, something somewhere is going to give, Femur or Tib/fib.  Would wearing a knee brace have prevented Jamaal Charles ACL tear? If we are going to make them mandatory, I am going to change jobs.  gonna make a lot of money selling knee braces.

When the home announcer feel it is necessary to give the visiting kids by an assinine nick name.  Momma and Daddy gave them their name, coaches put it on the program how they( kid and parents) want it.  Say it that way.  That is disrespectful to the kids and their family.

[quote name="liltex" post="1059090" timestamp="1316278139"] A first for me last night,1st in line @gate.Lady says gotta call a admin.to see if they will except UIL dist pass for 19-4a-said they were only takin 18-4a DUH????Next having to empty pockets to walk thru a booth scanner.Nail clippers w/file/sm dull blade make me walk back to the truck and get back in line.Lawd could you imagine a playoff gm @ Aldine Thorne stadium w/a PNG crowd ::) ::) [/quote] Happened to me last night.  Said they did not honor passes, never seen them before.

[quote name="Stranger" post="1032835" timestamp="1312896706"] If im not mistaken, that is a Schutt helmet.  They are more oblong than the Ridells.  It is very hard to put decals on those helmets. Liltex, you are correct on your statement. [/quote] Correct, They use an oversized shell.

[quote name="007" post="1025389" timestamp="1310852912"] would make more sense if Hardin and Hull Daisetta merged. [/quote] You will have a better chance of seeing the devil on ice skates.  There is too much bad blood there.

[quote name="Diamond-J" post="1018985" timestamp="1308315860"] Frankly all of this perturbs me more than just a little. Anyone that plays college football at any level is a pretty special player---especially if you get the chance to start a few games for a team like Nebraska---congrats to Cody and all who play college football---he is a special person and player. [/quote] I do not remember the exact stats, but it is like less than 1% of HS athletes that get the opportunity to play at the BCS level.  There are around 2500 BCS scholarships a year.  If you are a scholarship roster player,you were a special HS athlete. In Texas, there are over 1100 HS's.  If we average 25 seniors per team (1A-5A) that would be 28,000 athletes.  Now figure all 50 states.  That is a big number.

[quote name="smitty" post="1018893" timestamp="1308267979"] Email from a teacher's organization?!  Well -- I guess this won't be slanted in one direction!!  Unbiased, huh?  LOL!!   Give me an independent study of it and we'll talk.   ;) [quote author=shermdog link=topic=84302.msg1018814#msg1018814 date=1308240915] I have a feeling that Smitty is in Austin working to "fix the budget".  I just got this email from a teacher organization, and if it passes you will not need to worry about passing a bond.  There will not be anyone to teach the kids. Here is a synopsis of the bills: Here is how [b]Senate Bill 8[/b] would hurt teachers and public schools:    Cuts teacher salaries in two ways:    Allows districts to order furloughs of teachers and administrators for as many as six non-instructional days and reduce salaries accordingly.    Permanently repeals the 2009 salary floor for returning teachers. This would allow districts to reduce pay for all teachers.    Freezes the state minimum salary schedule at 2010-11 levels.    Changes the deadline for notification of contract non-renewal from the 45th day before the end of instruction to the last day on which spring standardized tests can be administered. The same change applies to notification of termination of probationary teachers. This would give laid-off teachers less time to find jobs for the next school year.    Allows school districts to declare financial emergencies for purposes of imposing reductions in force at any time and eliminates seniority as a factor in determining dismissals when RIFs are implemented.    Repeals a terminated teacher’s right to a hearing before an independent hearing officer.    Adds another provision for districts to seek a waiver from the 22-1 class size cap for K-4. [b]And then HB 17:[/b] House Bill 17 by Rep. Bill Callegari of Houston, which also is on Thursday’s House calendar, would repeal the state minimum salary schedule for teachers, counselors, nurses and librarians. This would allow districts to set their own pay levels for all teachers, as long as they are paid $27,320. Read into that that a 20 year teacher could be paid $27,320.  WOW! Is that responsible? As I can see it, Smitty and the legislature is against [b]KIDS, TEACHERS[/b] and [b]SCHOOLS.[/b] Perception is reality.  I feel sorry for the students and residents of Nederland with people like this fighting against you.  To me the CARE stance is one of irresponsibility and selfishness.  The kids you educate today, are being prepared for jobs that do not even exist yet.   It makes me mad, when someone who has already reaped the benefits of an education, refuses to pay it forward and educate the next generation.   [/quote] [/quote] Wow! So I belong to an organization that gives me information about pending legislation and how it affects me and so I am biased. You belong to a group which provides information to people about issues and you are not biased?  Talk about sanctimonious, pompous and arrogant! I hope the students of Nederland can get the facilities they need.

[quote name="mat" post="1018825" timestamp="1308246095"] [quote author=shermdog link=topic=84302.msg1018814#msg1018814 date=1308240915] I have a feeling that Smitty is in Austin working to "fix the budget".  I just got this email from a teacher organization, and if it passes you will not need to worry about passing a bond.  There will not be anyone to teach the kids. Here is a synopsis of the bills: Here is how [b]Senate Bill 8[/b] would hurt teachers and public schools:     Cuts teacher salaries in two ways:     Allows districts to order furloughs of teachers and administrators for as many as six non-instructional days and reduce salaries accordingly.     Permanently repeals the 2009 salary floor for returning teachers. This would allow districts to reduce pay for all teachers.     Freezes the state minimum salary schedule at 2010-11 levels.     Changes the deadline for notification of contract non-renewal from the 45th day before the end of instruction to the last day on which spring standardized tests can be administered. The same change applies to notification of termination of probationary teachers. This would give laid-off teachers less time to find jobs for the next school year.     Allows school districts to declare financial emergencies for purposes of imposing reductions in force at any time and eliminates seniority as a factor in determining dismissals when RIFs are implemented.     Repeals a terminated teacher’s right to a hearing before an independent hearing officer.     Adds another provision for districts to seek a waiver from the 22-1 class size cap for K-4. [b]And then HB 17:[/b] House Bill 17 by Rep. Bill Callegari of Houston, which also is on Thursday’s House calendar, would repeal the state minimum salary schedule for teachers, counselors, nurses and librarians. This would allow districts to set their own pay levels for all teachers, as long as they are paid $27,320. Read into that that a 20 year teacher could be paid $27,320.  WOW! Is that responsible? As I can see it, Smitty and the legislature is against [b]KIDS, TEACHERS[/b] and [b]SCHOOLS.[/b] Perception is reality.  I feel sorry for the students and residents of Nederland with people like this fighting against you.  To me the CARE stance is one of irresponsibility and selfishness.  The kids you educate today, are being prepared for jobs that do not even exist yet.  It makes me mad, when someone who has already reaped the benefits of an education, refuses to pay it forward and educate the next generation.   [/quote] It's disturbing to know some of the Bills/ideas that are floating around but it is too soon to get worked up about the details because not all of it has a chance to pass. At least I hope not. [/quote] On the floor today.  Smitty must be dancing a jig.

I have a feeling that Smitty is in Austin working to "fix the budget".  I just got this email from a teacher organization, and if it passes you will not need to worry about passing a bond.  There will not be anyone to teach the kids. Here is a synopsis of the bills: Here is how [b]Senate Bill 8[/b] would hurt teachers and public schools:     Cuts teacher salaries in two ways:     Allows districts to order furloughs of teachers and administrators for as many as six non-instructional days and reduce salaries accordingly.     Permanently repeals the 2009 salary floor for returning teachers. This would allow districts to reduce pay for all teachers.     Freezes the state minimum salary schedule at 2010-11 levels.     Changes the deadline for notification of contract non-renewal from the 45th day before the end of instruction to the last day on which spring standardized tests can be administered. The same change applies to notification of termination of probationary teachers. This would give laid-off teachers less time to find jobs for the next school year.     Allows school districts to declare financial emergencies for purposes of imposing reductions in force at any time and eliminates seniority as a factor in determining dismissals when RIFs are implemented.     Repeals a terminated teacher’s right to a hearing before an independent hearing officer.     Adds another provision for districts to seek a waiver from the 22-1 class size cap for K-4. [b]And then HB 17:[/b] House Bill 17 by Rep. Bill Callegari of Houston, which also is on Thursday’s House calendar, would repeal the state minimum salary schedule for teachers, counselors, nurses and librarians. This would allow districts to set their own pay levels for all teachers, as long as they are paid $27,320. Read into that that a 20 year teacher could be paid $27,320.  WOW! Is that responsible? As I can see it, Smitty and the legislature is against [b]KIDS, TEACHERS[/b] and [b]SCHOOLS.[/b] Perception is reality.  I feel sorry for the students and residents of Nederland with people like this fighting against you.  To me the CARE stance is one of irresponsibility and selfishness.  The kids you educate today, are being prepared for jobs that do not even exist yet.  It makes me mad, when someone who has already reaped the benefits of an education, refuses to pay it forward and educate the next generation.  

[quote name="ECBucFan" post="1011339" timestamp="1305513466"] [quote author=HillGuy link=topic=83606.msg1011187#msg1011187 date=1305434611] Both bonds passed...turf coming baybee!!! [/quote] Colored turfs are the new rage... I'm willing to bet BH's will be Enterprise Blue!  ;D [/quote] Do you think EC would do Green turf?  Sorry, I could not resist.

Better look at what the house is wanting to do with HB 400.  It will run off older teachers and scare new graduates from teaching.  I have already heard people say they will get out ASAP if this bill passes.  Young kids are watching and changing majors.  Nephew is seriously considering changing with all the uncertainty.  HB 400 can reduce your pay, increase your class size, hold you more accountable and give you less money to work with in the class room. This bill will do more to harm education than help it.

THought I would share this.  I received this today.  To me it makes a lot of sense. Dear Editor, The age of accountability should be renamed the age of blame, when teachers wear the scarlet letter for the failings of a nation. We send teachers into pockets of poverty that our leaders can’t or won’t eradicate, and when those teachers fail to work miracles among devastated children, we stamp ‘unacceptable’ on their foreheads. I ask you, where is the label for the lawmaker whose policies fail to clean up the poorest neighborhoods? Why do we not demand that our leaders make “Adequate Yearly Progress”? We have data about poverty, health care, crime, and drug abuse in every legislative district. We know that those factors directly impact our ability to teach kids. Why have we not established annual targets for our legislators to meet? Why do they not join us beneath these vinyl banners that read “exemplary” in the suburbs and “unacceptable” in the slums? Let us label lawmakers like we label teachers, and we can eliminate 100 percent of poverty, crime, drug abuse, and preventable illness by 2014! It is easy for elected officials to tell teachers to “Race to the top” when no one has a stopwatch on them! Lace up your sneakers, Senators! Come race with us! Teachers are surrounded by armchair quarterbacks who won’t lift a finger to help, only to point. Congressmen, come down out of those bleachers and strive with us against the pernicious ravages of poverty. We need more from you than blame. America’s education problem is actually a poverty problem. If labels fix schools, let us use labels to fix our congresses! Let lawmakers show the courage of a teacher! Hold hands with us and let us march together into the teeth of this blame machine you have built. Let us hold this congressman up against that congressman and compare them just as we compare our schools. Congressmen, do not fear this accountability you have given us. Like us, you will learn to love it. Or maybe lawmakers do such a wonderful job that we don’t need to hold them accountable? Did you know that over the next five years, Texas lawmakers will send half a billion dollars to London, to line the pockets of Pearson’s stakeholders. That’s 15,000 teacher salaries, sacrificed at the altar of standardized testing. $500,000,000 for a test! I’m sure it’s a nice test, but it’s just a test. I’ve never seen a test change a kid’s life or dry a kid’s tear. Tests don’t show up at family funerals or junior high basketball games. They don’t chip in to buy a poor girl a prom dress. Only teachers do those things. If times are desperate enough to slash local schools’ operating funds, then surely they are desperate enough to slash Pearson’s profits. Lawmakers, get your priorities straight. Put a moratorium on testing until we can afford it. Teachers are our treasure – let’s not lose the house just so we can keep our subscription to Pearson’s Test-of-the-Month Club. We have heard Texas senators often talk about the teacher-to-non-teacher ratio in our schools. Lawmakers, they are ALL non-teachers at Pearson. Don’t spend half a billion dollars that we don’t have on some test that is made in England. Parents are so fed up with standardized testing that hundreds are now refusing to let their children test. They do not want their children run through this terrible punch press. They do not want standardized children. They want exceptional children! Let me tell you Texas’s other dirty secret – some schools get three times the funding of other schools. Some schools get $12,000 per student, while others get $4,000. Did you know that every single child in Austin is worth $1,000 more than every single child in Fort Worth? Do you agree with that valuation? Congress does. They spend billions to fund this imbalance. Now the architects of this inequity point at the salaries and staff sizes at the schools they have enriched to justify cuts at schools that have never been given enough. State Sen. Florence Shapiro, of Plano, says, essentially, yes, but we’re cutting the poor schools by less. Senator, you don’t take bread away from people in a soup line! Not even one crumb. And you should not take funds away from schools that you have already underfunded for years. It may be politically right to bring home the bacon, but ain’t right right. Legislators, take the energy you spend shifting blame and apply it toward fixing the funding mechanisms. We elected you to solve the state’s problems, not merely to blame them on local government. After all, you have mandated local decision-making for years. Your FIRST rating system tells school boards that their district’s administrative cost ratio can be no higher than 0.2 percent. And over 95 percent of school districts in Texas are in compliance with the standard you have set. At my school, our administrative cost ratio is 0.06 percent – so could you please stop blaming me? If 95 percent of schools are compliant with the administrative cost ratio indicator in the state’s financial rating system for schools, then why are state officials saying we have too much administration? We have the amount of administration they told us to have! Either they gave us bad guidance and we all followed it, or they gave us good guidance and just need someone other than themselves to blame for these cuts. Is this the best we can do in Texas? I wish they would worry about students half as much as they worry about getting re-elected. These same senators have a catchy new slogan: “Protect the Classroom.” I ask you, senators: who are we protecting the classroom from? You, that’s who. You are swinging the ax; don’t blame us for bleeding wrong. They know that their cuts are so drastic that school boards will have no choice but to let teachers go, and I can prove it: while they give press conferences telling superintendents not to fire teachers, at the same time they pass laws making it easier for ... you guessed it ...administrators to fire teachers. Which is it, senators? If we don’t truly need to cut teachers, then don’t pass the laws that reduce their employment protections. And if we truly do need to cut teachers, then go ahead and pass those laws but quit saying teacher cuts are the superintendents’ fault. Here’s the deal: I can accept cuts, but I cannot do anything but forcefully reject deceit. Politicians, save your buck-passing for another day. We need leadership. Get to work, congressmen. Do your jobs, and find the revenue to fund my child’s education. Sincerely, John Kuhn, father of three, Perrin Benavides Roy [email protected]