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Being a head coach AND an athletic director requires very much a person's time.  If that person is having to teach multiple classes it is very difficult to get the job as AD and Head coach done.  There is no question that Kountze has the talent to be successful in everything, Lance showed that by winning the District Championship in track...I believe he would have been successful in football if he were to have stayed.  If you look closely as the other head coaches in his district, and I don't know this for a fact, but I would be surprised if the East Chambers, Newton, Anahuac and Woodville coaches were teaching classes to go along with their AD job.  I would surely hope that there is no one in a powerful position that is trying to keep the football program down, some feel that because they are always successful in basketball that some don't want any other sport to prosper...I know coach Joubert doesn't feel that way, he is a great "coach" both on the court and on the field.  I would say that if you want a coach to come in to Kountze and stay and win the school board and adminsitration is going to make the job secure enough to have that happen.  I think you lost a good man and coach, but not everyone can be a David, the GIANTS win after a while.  The athletes are there and after talking to one of them at the All-Star game they really want to win in football.  If the father of the Sr. that posted earlier is serious about wanting his son to have a solid last year and wants the future of Kountze football to prosper, which I think it can, you will need to voice that to the powers to be.  I had a coach from Anahuac and from Woodville tell me that they don't want anyone to wake up the "sleeping giant" in Kountze.  Well, here is your chance...go out and get the best person for the job, offer him what Newton, East Chambers, Anahuac and Woodville have...A chance to succeed.

That sure was a hard blow that y'all gave the Mustangs with the "Track Star" comment.  Maybe we can rebound next year on our "turf". 

Sorry for taking so long to respond but with track and all it is really taking it's toll.  If you want to donate to a scholarship send the money to Randy Crouch, Little Cypress-Mauriceville, 7327 Highway 87 North, Orange, Texas 77632.  Make check payable to:  Southeast Texas Coaches Association.  Make sure you write that this is specifically for the scholarship.  We will be presenting a $500 scholarship to the Offensive and Defensive MVP for each of the teams, East and West, as well as an overall MVP of the game.  Also we are in the process of having cheerleaders at the game.  We have chosen squads from East Team:  Orangefield and Hardin-Jefferson, West Team: East Chambers and Anahuac.  We didn't budget that so in order for me to order necklaces with the All-Star game logo on them as well as All-Star t-shirs for the girls we need someone to donate $1100 to cover that cost.  If anyone is interested in helping they may.  Again, sorry for taking so long on getting back on the web-site.

Tickets are also on sale at the Athletic office at Port Arthur Memorial.  Sorry for leaving them off. 

There will be tickets at the gate.  Adults $5.00 and students $3.00.  I would also like to add that we will be giving away a $500 scholarship to the Offensive MVP of each team and a Defensive MVP of each team and Chic-fi-la will award a $500 scholarship to a game MVP that is not one of the other MVP's.  Some of the ticket money will go to the scholarships. 

If you want to purchase a ticket to the S E Texas Ford Dealers All-Star Classic you may purchase tickets at the following athletic offices:  Anahuac, East Chambers, Hardin-Jefferson, Lumberton, Port Neches-Groves, Warren and West Orange-Stark.  Next Monday they will be on sale at Jasper and Nederland.  Also if anyone knows someone that would be interested in making a donation to the "Children's Miracle Network", we have 3 levels of donations.  MVP level is $3000 and you get a commercial during the game, you get 10 tickets, 6 VIP passes, your LOGO on every promo for the game on Channel 4 up to the game, your name on a banner at game and a full page ad in the program.  The TOUCHDOWN level is $2000 and you get: 6 tickets, 4 VIP passes, your LOGO on every promo for the game on Channel 4 up to the game, your name on a banner at game and a full page ad in the program.  The FIRST DOWN level is $1000 and you get: 3 tickets, 2 VIP passes, your LOGO on every promo for the game on Channel 4 up to the game, your name along with every other First Down donor on a banner at the game and a 1/2 page ad in the program.  We would like to be able to raise $50000 for the "CMN".  Thte money is going to Christus St. Mary's children's unit and to the Jasper Memorial children's division of the hospital.  If you or someone is interested please contact me:  Mark Foreman at [email protected] or Emily Sonier at [email protected].  Thanks

Unfortunately there was a conflict with this situation and both Dayton players will not play in the game.  We hope that everything will work out next year that everyone will participate. 

Because Dayton was not in school last week, Coach Stewart was not able to get his messages until he returned this morning....we have added Chase McCormick and Xavier Frank to the West Roster. We are proud to have Dayton on board for our game. 

The key word in this topic is "PROGRAM".  Coach Stewart has a "Program" in place.  It is something that every kid believes in.  It is something that they know from the 7th grade on.  The thing about a program is that it takes time.  Some coaches don't allow themselves to develop that.  Another thing is coach Stewart has a great coaching staff.  NO coach develops a program on his own.  You have to have assistants that also believe in what the head coach wants and is committed to it.  Coach Stewart was not a come in and leave coach...he has come in and developed a "Program".  Like him or not....he gets 100% out of his kids...that can't be bad.  Especially in these days and times when accountability is not a high priority in society, he holds his players accountable for their commitment.  Just my opinion...we have coached against him for years and he is ALWAYS tough.

First to answer the "how were they chosen question":  After we received the nominations, each head coach and coordinators began to fit the personnel around their offense and defense.  We set the number of players from each school before we began.  For example, PN-G was to have 3 players chosen while Orangefield had two.  We took all the nominations and fit these into the offense and defense of each head coach.  For the West team with Newton running a RUN oriented offense there needed to be enough running backs where the WO-S offense needed more receivers.  I know that last week we didn't choose some running backs for the East because we needed more receivers.  I hope that answered the question.  Second: I have not had contact with coach Barbay in a couple of days and I was not there Wednesday night so I can't give you the names of all the coaches for the West but this is what I know:  East:  Coach Hooks, Thompson, T. Foreman:WO-S, Mike Pierce:LC-M, W.T. Johnson: Kirbyville, Offensive Line Coach: PN-G, Ty Quick: Jasper, Verril Young: P.A. Memorial  West: Curtis Barbay, Newton Offensive and Defensive Coordinators, Bryan Barbay: Coldspring, Darrell Barbay: Anahuac, Assistants from: Evadale, Crosby and West Brook.  As soon as I get the names of the PN-G coach, Evadale, West Brook, Crosby coaches and Newton's Offensive and Defensive coordinators I will post them.  Many questions will be answered at the News conference this next week and we will be going on Sports programs in the next few weeks to answer questions. Hopefully we can get invited on all three TV stations within the week and maybe some radio programs.  It will be exciting.  I do want to reiterate that I believe all of the young men chosen deserve this honor and unfortunately there may have been some left off that we just as deserving...hopefully we will make this thing better each year.  This is a learning year and we hope to build a tremendous tradition with it.

ALL-STAR ROSTERS    WEST: Anahuac: Thaddus Johnson, Braxton Mayes; Barber’s Hill: Matthew Viverette, Caleb Stork Chris Fechner; Cleveland: Jeremy Lowe, Chris Keyser, Doug Higginbotham; Coldspring: Chad Allen, Andrew Leigh, Otis Washington; Crosby: Dylan Judy, Michael Mangum, Cameron Trench, James Harris; East Chambers: Dylan Kramer, J.T. Hallmark; Hardin: Mitch Villemez; Lumberton: Sean Sparks, Jesse Sparks, Kyler Keith; Newton: Halston Flanigan, LaRay Alfred, Malcolm Mattox; Kelly: Chris Quinn, Collin Fournet; Tarkington: Shelby Cucco, Justin Lawrence; Liberty: DeJunge Robinson, Jeremy Dickey; West Brook: Dequenne Bennett, Josh Wilson, Roynald Allen, Broderick Jackson; Ozen: Ricky Francis, Jacoby Anderson, Pierre Harmon; Evadale: Shelby Stanley EAST: Buna: Dakota Blessing; Central: Keith O’Neal, William Jones, Sterling Cantu; Deweyville: Keeton Addison; Hamshire-Fannett: Justin Skully, Casey Lowe; Hardin-Jefferson: Blake Venable, Jacoby Turner; Jasper: Sam Alvis, Cedric McGill, Tevin McBride; LC-M: Johnny Epps, Jeremy Chauvin; Kirbyville: Chris Ezidore, JaMichael Ervin; Nederland: Taylor Trahan, Grant Lovelady, Marcus Louviere; Orangefield: Corey Huckabay, Derek Evans; PN-G: Caleb Harmon, Klete Leblanc, Dre Dunbar; Memorial: Nate Davis, Eric Payne, Corvin Neal, Earl Hines; Silsbee: Chris Barnes, LeRoy Simmons; Vidor: Scott Utterback, Patton, James Burns; Warren: Dalton Edwards; Woodville: Calib Hadnot; West Orange-Stark: Justin Francis, Stephen Cook, Justin Sparrow

To clarify a statement I made prior, of the schools "choosing" not to participate, Kountze and Bridge City did e-mail me that their nominees had declined the invitation.  I am assuming either that they would not be in town that week or perhaps they may be playing in the State baseball tournament.  Huffman, Splendora and Sheppard told us that they were not going to participate and the other schools never responded to any of our efforts to contact them.  Being that I was not at the last meeting in which we selected the rosters, Dayton failed to send any nominations so the SETCA selection committee decided to add players from other teams that had sent nominations.  So Dayton will not participate in the contest.  Next year our goal will to have all schools participate.  We are looking forward to producing a very competitive contest and I think we will have Southeast Texas well represented.  I am wanting to have at least 3 hororary captains for each team as well as an honorary coach for each team.  All of that will come later.  Southeast Texas has one of if not the most tradition rich regions in Texas it is time we showcase our talent. 

I will post the teams on Sunday...I am driving to Houston tomorrow with our track team and Toby.  I will be back late tomorrow night and I will post the teams on Sunday. 

There are quite a few things that we will elaborate on later and give more details.  I have had a week long battle with my eye being cut working on my land last week and I am trying to recover.  I will have quite a bit more after the news conference.  It is going to be great.

For all you Grammer buffs, I tried to mend some of my mistakes but my technological skills are from the Dark AGES...please don't be too tough on me. I can't seem to find a spell check icon!!!!!!!!!!! Coach Foreman