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What week do Crosby BH, and Crosby PAM play? 

I don't want to see Cougar14.2 claiming he liked this hire in three years. 

Here's the truth about Crosby's challenges. 

1) The Admin post Rio has been a revolving door/temp service until the newest Super arrived. She is extremely well liked in the community from everything I've read, people I've talked to. The football/athletics aren't getting as much special treatment as they used to and academics are clearly the Supers focus. 

2) The HS hasn't had a principal last more than a year or two for a while. What are we on 4 Principals in 5 years at start of next year? 

3) Parents are entitled as heck in the district and think their little Johnny is the greatest thing since sliced bread even tho they would simply be toast if let on the field. This district has a huge problem with parents blaming staff for everything and not taking accountability for their kids. 

4) You aren't the biggest, highest paying, most talented or most stable job in the immediate area. 

This being said when we hired Coach P we were more unstable, less successful, had a super that clearly was there just to be the axeman and had major financial issues.  No one can say that's not a positive trajectory it's just not a linear increase. 

17 hours ago, Reagan said:

If Crosby wins the District in 2 or 3 years and makes a run for the State Title in, say, the 5th year, NOBODY is going to care if he's 30 years old or 100 years old.  Winning solves A LOT of problems!  

Example:  Just like at PNG, the new coach took them to State.  Now everyone is saying -- Faircloth who?  Why, because the new coach was young?  NO -- because he won!!

This is the truth. We have to develop a physical brand to play with the bigger schools and if we can then the talent that consistently walks through the hallways at Crosby will be doing big things. 

For my people who like Records. I did not include his time as HC before Cedar Park largely because I couldn't figure out what years. 

2 minutes ago, PNGFaithful said:

Watch his interview on the ISD Facebook Page. He emphasized Crosby will be physical. 
 

Although we won that game it still embarrasses me we had to score 72 point to win a game. 

I will, his initial statement was we are going to be fast and physical in his written introduction too. Crosby being fast and physical is exactly how we will compete in larger classifications. 

1 minute ago, PNGFaithful said:

Watch his interview on the ISD Facebook Page. He emphasized Crosby will be physical. 
 

Although we won that game it still embarrasses me we had to score 72 point to win a game. 

TBF to Crosby's defense you did have a professional runningback playing QB for you... he did very little QBing that game... 

3 minutes ago, PNGFaithful said:

I’ve known Joe for a very long time. He’s a hell of a coach and mentor. One thing for sure Crosby will play defense and the best 11 players will be on the field. 

One of my biggest request was a coach that emphasized defense because when Coach P did we were very very good. I think it's the biggest slight on the Rio regime was that we didn't play defense... that PNG-Crosby game still haunts me. 

Andrew Cameron - former coach at Crosby, Temple, and Northshore young talented and very smart guy. 

5 minutes ago, Cougar14.2 said:

Those weren't Joe Willis' schemes, those were put in place by Chris Ross who built the CP program into what it was before Willis took over in 2012 and won a title. The offenses he ran at CH and TL don't look anything like those smash mouth offenses he ran at CP. You could run that at CP because at that time they were probably the most physically imposing team in the class.

That '14 team probably isn't even top 5, we just got a great draw by going D-II and ran through a bunch of Beaumont, Port Lavaca and a down Brenham. We were better in '15 but drew a powerhouse FB Ridge Point in the 2nd round 

I'm not at all bashing the coach, I just believe we could've done better. We have some certified thoroughbreds about to come through the program and I don't want to see them wasted on a guy standing in or someone who isn't totally engaged. Not saying Willis won't be but I feel a lot more certain other guys would've been. 

Three years into his coaching reign and you don't give him credit for those schemes? Seems like your looking for reasons to discredit the guy. You don't seem to be that guy from my interactions with you so is the beef legitimately you just preferred Hurts? 

1 minute ago, Cougar14.2 said:

You know how critical I am of questionable stuff and I'm here to tell you I would've been 1000% Prieto starting starting his son at QB as a freshman if Eudy didn't play. Kid is an absolute stud and would've broken every passing record at the school except for maybe Kellen Haynes single season yards record. Remember that freshman QB that touched us up in the A&M Consol. game, little Prieto had that level talent. 

I get it but I also am not going to blast the new coach because of the admins decision. I'm hoping he turns out to be high quality and brings something to the program that helps make us contenders. His son not playing on a bad team his Freshman year might be because the coach knew how bad the team was. Hopefully his son is a good QB and solves that issue for the next three years, if he's not then maybe we get a Branch situation in the near future. 

One thing I will say is the motions that they did at Cedar Park were the talk of Coaching for several years about how they opened up and exploited defenses with their personnel. I'm hoping we get CP Willis not Tyler Willis because the talent at Crosby is going to be way closer to CP than Tyler. 

I remember vividly coaches going up to CP for camps to learn those motion offenses. Also, possibly the most talented team in Crosby's history got absolutely obliterated by a Willis Coached team in 2014. 

Just now, Cougar14.2 said:

Yeah, and Willis didn't play him over a kid that completed 44% of his passes with 5tds and 8 ints on the season

He was a Freshman TBF. 

1 minute ago, Cougar14.2 said:

Man, if Eudy doesn't play next year we might go 4-6. Yes, the incoming freshman beat the four CE King and North Shore middle schools by an average of about 40ppg but that was with little Prieto playing QB and throwing about 40 tds. He's gone now. If Eudy doesn't play then he would've been the starter. With the other 8th grade QB transferring to BH since he wasn't going to beat out Prieto we now have no viable QBs in the entire program outside of Eudy. 

It sucks for the program because we were actually going to put some Crosby level talent on the field this year. The skill kids are healthy and the line of scrimmage looks like it was going to be improved over last year. If the kids don't transfer out we're going to have six WRs to choose from that are over 6' tall. The GCM transfer might be the nicest slot receiver we've had for a long while. With all the turmoil I just don't see how Crosby finishes any better than .500 though?   

Looks like Willis is bringing his son whos a QB. How good who knows. 

One thing that makes some sense is his son is a Sophomore QB for Tyler Legacy... so your bringing in the coaches son at QB quite possibly as well. I think his retirement was a façade to find a better program for his kids to play for. Just speculation ofc. 

2 hours ago, Cougar14.2 said:

Supt. went completely away from what was working. She made a desperation hire to keep the roof from caving in on her. Only way she knew to save face is to bring in a re-tread that people wouldn't try to remove her for. 

I agree though. I don't think Willis is a great fit and I think the game has passed him by to an extent. Crosby is kind of similar to TL in the sense that you have to keep kids "engaged" and he wasn't a great fit there. We had the opportunity to hire some legit needle-movers but the supt. doesn't know enough about athletics to be able to evaluate coaches and make an informed decision. Hiring a 60 year old guy kids couldn't care less about playing for is going to drop the participation rate down lower than it already is.

The stuff Coach P asked for that caused the supt. to ego trip is the same stuff a new coach is going to ask for soon as he gets here. Considering her son was a star receiver here it's baffling that she doesn't have the first clue about what's needed to keep your athletic programs competitive. 

Since we spent $20k on a coaching search committee instead of giving Coach P that money to fix the practice fields I'm pretty sure the applicant list will never be released. We had a guy from "the" West Texas school that wanted the job badly, we had maybe the hottest young coach on the SW side of town that wanted it, we had the guy at the closest school in proximity to Crosby High interested. Instead we go with grandpa who's probably just there to take the $140k for a few years to help his retirement and not make any waves. Smh, what a **** show 

Yikes, seems someone's not happy. 

Getting a coach with a ship and another title appearance doesn't seem like the worst hire to me. He did just retire from Tyler Legacy but I question how much of that was not liking to lose. He was very successful at CP and heard very good things from friends up in Colleyville about him. And what if he is a couple year stand in? If he does a good job in those years and steps away you get your pick of the crop instead of the pick of the surplus that we had this year.  

31 years of coaching if he started at a normal age he'd be in his 50's. 

On 5/5/2023 at 4:14 PM, NHSBulldogFan said:

2nd*

When we were finalist before there wasn't a state title game so technically still true. 

On 5/5/2023 at 7:22 PM, PAMFAM10 said:

Other than the big change. What do the talent look like at Crosby?

Assuming we don't lose a whole lot the word seems to be we should be competitive. 

Let's see who the coach is... and how summer/preseason goes. 

1 minute ago, 2wedge said:

Man I certainly hope that isn't the case. Crosby could be a destination school for coaches if they'd get out of the coaches way and let him do his thing. Allowing Prieto to resign right now is risky. Maybe they do go find the next OC savant and stay as relevant as they've been, or maybe they miss badly and fall into absolute obscurity due to the move to the next division up. Time will tell. This superintendent will make or break herself with this hire. 

It seems like the job is a state wide talked about opening from friends I've been talking to. It's bad timing but also good timing in the sense that someone(s) got overlooked in the initial coaching hiring and there is a smart hungry guy out there whos looking at an OC/DC job next year that really deserves their own program. There are also HC not AD's out there that are reportedly looking and applying for the job. I think it's an easier job to sale than most places given you know they have the talent to make the big run in playoffs. We just need a coach that's going to take care of the defensive side of the ball as well (like Prieto.) because you don't just outscore people in 5AD1. 

14 hours ago, Mr. Buddy Garrity said:

I thought they always did some form of Spring Workouts, but not exactly the technical definition of Spring Football. 

I believe Crosby has traditionally done 7 on 7, doesn't that trade off with spring practices? 

1 hour ago, CougarCal said:

The takes on here are pretty funny.  Nobody knew who Prieto was before he hired in at Crosby.  Go back and look at that those threads.  He was successful because he had really good athletes and he wasn’t afraid to play them on both sides of the ball.  Last year was the least athletic they’ve looked probably in about 12 years since I’ve been watching them.  5AD1 compared to 5AD2 Crosby was outmatched last year up front.  Whose gonna be the next Coach, I have no clue, but come the fall they’ll strap them on and line em up against CE King. Coaches move on sometimes forced or  sometimes for personal/family reasons.  Life goes on, Crosby will get plenty of interest because they have players. 

I remember people saying stuff like he was a "Supersintendent hire" just like there gonna say about whoever comes in this years. 

What is going on back home? 

On 3/21/2023 at 8:00 AM, AledoAlumni said:

Each of the teams in the poll made the playoffs but lost in the 1st round. Which team will rebound the best and have the best season in '23? 

I think all four will rebound but I think DR has the talent to be unstoppable most years. 

I think 5AD2 is pretty weak on our side of the state right now. I'd take FB Marshall or PNG to put that district back in the state title game. 

19 minutes ago, BHFAN said:

Flip BH and Crosby 😃 BH was very young this year and will be returning the house. We will be much improved with experience, so not sure how a young Crosby team can get the prediction over BH next year. PAM stays in the 1 spot until dethroned, but hopefully there isn’t a tropical storm in BH this year to decide it 😂

According to max preps your losing 7 seniors on defense that played at least 9 games for the team this year. Seems your best three defensive players are returning tho. Guess we will see. Also, Losing your top running back. 

Should BH be better than Crosby next year? On paper given this season yea. Will they? I don't have that faith in the ant mound but I'm sure you do. 

I think Crosby will get quite a bit better defensively. The big question is what wide outs will we have given the number of seniors we just lost.