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36 minutes ago, navydawg31 said:

Spring game is on for today 6pm at Bulldog stadium! First glimpse of the Rich era. Hopefully Rich success

Expecting a full report with player and coaches evaluations.

13 minutes ago, CardinalBacker said:

I think the previous poster's comment about specialization is generally right, just can't explain what's happening here.  Unless all of the Jasper kids are focusing totally on fb at the expense of the other sports... and even that can't explain what's going wrong with the skirts. 

Definitely a conundrum.

11 minutes ago, CardinalBacker said:

Well, I can't believe what you're saying sir. 

Is there any correlation between the success in Football and the lack of success in baseball?

Or, is Jasper just in a low spot as far as baseball talent is concerned?

20 minutes ago, longball24 said:

Great post . This is from someone who understands.

Thank you, I appreciate that.

What is probably ironic is that I am a football coach.

I'm just in the minority when it comes to my approach to a lot of antiquated (IMO) ideas.

18 hours ago, longball24 said:

Yes, But it should be tailored to the individual sport the kid is going to play at the next level.

Strength, flexibility and range of motion SHOULD be mandatory in EVERY lifting program.

However, we all know that is not the case.

Pitchers should definitely be on a different regiment than other athletes. Arm care is serious business.

Too many football coaches fail other sports because they simply do not care.

There are ways to build strength and power and explosiveness that do not compromise the baseball players ability to throw or the basketball players ability to shoot. Unfortunately, too many football coaches are too lazy to find those alternative options. 

18 hours ago, 89Falcon said:

Which SETX school participates in Fall baseball? Kids in SETX play Fall ball on their own but the only "Fall ball" the schools are playing is football. 

Coaches can't be in the dugout to coach, but the coaches are setting the schedule. The coaches are organizing it. The coaches are setting the lineup in advance. The coaches are determining who is pitching and how many pitches they are throwing.

Fall baseball is like 7 on 7. The coaches may not be calling he pitches or the plays, but they are in "control" of the situation and they are present and "observing."

17 hours ago, longball24 said:

Agreed, take away the tax dollars and Jasper’s problem and many more just like them are solved.

Can you expound on this statement?

4 hours ago, gogo173489 said:

Not many schools, if any in our area, have fall baseball teams. Kids play for teams outside of school during the fall if they want to.

I think you would be surprised.

It is not publicized, but most schools that want to be good at baseball play fall baseball.

9 minutes ago, 2wedge said:

This is an easy one. We have let grifter unqualified coaches infiltrate our children and convince them that they will be D1 athletes if they only focus on a single sport. We've got kids, with single digit ages, playing their sport year-round to "maximize exposure" despite the fact that most college coaches on the recruiting trail will value a multisport athlete. This translates to the school year and ends up with kids being football, basketball, baseball only kids. Track is pretty much the only one left that keeps kids playing other sports and that's primarily because football coaches demand their football kids be track athletes. I literally talked to a man last night, who just moved to Texas from Oklahoma who was telling me his kid played on two different football teams during the season last year. One for his school, one for his select league. During the week the kid was a RB for his school, and on the weekends, he was a QB for his select team. This would equal 7 days a week of full contact football for a 6th grader......6th grader. Once that ends, rolls straight into 7 on 7 for the spring and back to football in the summer. All this for a kid, who seems to be a good athlete, but probably has a ceiling of D2 at best, if he doesn't burn out before that. Parents are silly and think they can develop their kids into being the next Quinn Ewers, but they completely miss the biggest factor in creating that type of athlete.....genetics. Genetics are undefeated. Always have been, always will be. Play sports because you love to compete then compete in everything you do. Quit giving bullsheet rings to "state champions" every single weekend all over the US and get back to valuing team championships won at the community level to build the continuity when they are young. This is the only way to reestablish the pride once felt by every kid in every town across Texas when they got to put on a uniform with their school colors. Otherwise, we can kiss the magic of high school sports goodbye. 

I am out of VOTES, but I will give a BIG AMEN!!!!

5 minutes ago, bullets13 said:

of course not.  Kinda got the impression you were for it.

No Sir

Non Contact Drills, probably not a big deal.

But even 7 on 7 with pads or just helmets is a recipe for disaster.

Non padded 7 on 7 in a controlled environment, maybe.

39 minutes ago, bullets13 said:

There are times when certain things are appropriate, and when they are not.  We can agree to disagree on the appropriateness of star baseball players doing contact football drills in the days leading up the baseball playoffs.  

So you are saying a star baseball SHOULD be doing full contact football drills during the baseball season as his Baseball team prepares for the playoffs?

1 hour ago, SmashMouth said:

Is there fall baseball in high school?

Yes, yes there is.

5 hours ago, gogo173489 said:

Meh.. Everyone knows this. The kid that got injured wasn't lifting weights. Supposedly he was hit with a helmet in his elbow. In my opinion the kid shouldn't have been put in that situation. AD should've told the Varsity baseball players to sit that one out. I have no issues with the lifting or conditioning. However, anytime helmets/pads are on there is a higher risk of injury. This AD showed a total lack of respect for HIS baseball program. 

I'm going to agree with this.

Individual drills would be fine, but a varsity baseball player should not be involved in full pad practices during the baseball season.

Especially, if he is a contributing player on a playoff bound baseball team.

This is irresponsible and selfish of the AD/HFC.

On 4/24/2024 at 2:07 PM, bullets13 said:

when kids play multiple sports in high school they should be allowed to focus on one sport at a time.  There's no reason a baseball player who's about to go to the playoffs should get hurt running football drills in April.  Imagine if this had been reversed and a star football player shattered his wrist taking mandated varsity batting practice in September.  

Hmm.....

I tend to disagree.

I was a multi sport athlete in High School and am now a coach.

Kid is not going to be a very good hitter if he only hits in the spring and summer, I took BP and threw (to keep my arm in shape) during football and basketball season.

Kid is not going to be a very good QB, WR or DB if he only throws passes, runs routes or covers receivers in the fall or during a few 7 on 7 games after baseball is over.

And a kid is never going to be good shooter of the basketball if he only shoots during the basketball season.

Skills are honed, not mastered, they need to be developed and practiced repeatedly.

Never understood why you can't be good at all 4 major sports.

If you are talented enough, and athletic enough to be a Regional Finalist football team, then you would think you would be athletic enough to at least be competitive in basketball. If you wanted to be......

And as big a baseball town as Jasper is, where did that tradition go? Where are those kids now?

On 4/15/2024 at 9:42 AM, LIBERTY82 said:

Well, I was rather confident this was a done deal, but I have since heard that there is a short-list of 3 candidates and nobody appears to be a lock, just yet.  Next board meeting is tomorrow April 16.

Just curious, did Randy Rowe apply for this job?

12 hours ago, Cats01 said:

Confirmed. Kedrick Harrison is the new AD/HFC at Liberty ISD. 

Do we have a run-down of Coach Harrison's accomplishments?

55 minutes ago, oldschool2 said:

I think that with a lot of "smaller" schools.. in the area for sure.. it's easier to justify giving a higher salary to the head football coach if AD is attached to the job.  In turn, being able to attract a higher caliber of applicant for the job.  Plus, you won't get a good football coach (in most cases) if they know they have other job responsibilities other than just coaching football.  Even if it's a "coaching job" like teaching P.E. or something... but head coaches will want to reserve those kinds of jobs for their coordinators.

And yes.. there will be cases where HFC/AD are much more partial to the football program than to the entire athletic program as a whole.  To be fair, their job will be on the line based on the success of the football team.. even if every other athletic teams in the school flourishes.  So I get it.

That's also why I don't really have a problem with hiring an AD only.  AD only can be solely responsible for the entire athletic department.. and the HFC can focus solely on the success of the football team.

My whole point was that I LIKE the concept of an AD ONLY position.

With the caveat that this person needs to have a FOOTBALL background, Not that they need to have been a Head Football Coach, but if you don't have a football coaching background then you really don't know what ALL it takes for a football program to be REALLY successful.

13 minutes ago, highsky said:

"Having an AD that does not understand the inner workings of what it takes to win in football is NOT a recipe for success." 

Not necessarily....if the AD is separate and worth their salt, it doesn't matter if they don't know much about football.  All they have to do is bring the HFC in to tell the AD what they need staff wise and have the HFC sit in on interviews and perhaps take the lead on the football parts of the interview.  After the interviews are over, the HFC and AD can get together and discuss the candidates and hire. Now, this may not exactly be the format that it would take but the separate HFC would need to obviously have a LOT of input on football hires so any separate AD would be smart enough to know that.  Any AD who does not listen to his/her coaches is likely to fail. 

 

 

A LOT more that goes into running a football program than just hiring coaches.

But, I get your point.

However, GREAT Football programs and GREAT Football schools will have experienced FOOTBALL guys as AD's. This is even true at the college level. If a school really wants to be GREAT at football, then you need a football guy at the helm.

An AD can make decisions that are in the best interest of all Athletic Programs that HELP football, or an AD can make decisions that are supposedly in the best interest for all Athletic Programs that HINDER football. Only a football guy knows the difference.

25 minutes ago, AggiesAreWe said:

I would expect him to keep the current OC if he is still there.

The job has been posted since he was named interim, in fact the OC job was actually posted by Reyes and he was in the process of calling people for interviews before he got the Palestine job.

On 4/4/2024 at 10:18 PM, AggiesAreWe said:

Yes. The interim tag has been removed as it should have been all along.

This is a good thing for all involved.

Congrats Coach McDonald.

Now, who is he going to hire as his OC?

What direction is Lumberton going to go in Offensively?

On 4/2/2024 at 2:22 PM, highsky said:

By that logic, the AD should coach every sport at that school.  The previous AD was a boys coach at one time.  As long as the sports have good coaches and the budget is managed well among the sports, what does it matter who the AD is?   

From what I hear, there is groundswell support for a separate AD (this person has never played or coached football) and head football coach at Liberty.  Liberty is bigger than Hardin but still falls under the "small school" criteria you posited. What then? 

Anyway, Chad T has done a good job for us this past year as HFC and expect him to do well as AD. 

 

Preface, I am a FOOTBALL COACH.

There are numerous advantages to having an Athletic Director ONLY position. The AD is an Administrator and overseeing every Athletic program is a daunting task, It is a full-time job, if done right.

However, Football is a different animal, it is light years different from any other sport. The sheer number of coaches necessary to be competitive as well as the large number of participants makes it different than any other sport. If you have never coached football, then it is going to be very difficult to understand what goes into having a successful program. Having an AD that does not understand the inner workings of what it takes to win in football is NOT a recipe for success.

24 minutes ago, NEDDAWGS said:

Wasn't publicly announced if so. They have a board meeting next monday as well, might have gotten pushed. 

Thanks for the info.

On 3/15/2024 at 6:39 AM, DP#1FAN said:

Hopefully they will make a announcement on the next HC/AD Monday night. 

Did Kirbyville make a hire?