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While Riding Roughly in the Center of town, I was Offended by a very Coordinated attack.

Ok, I give. The band director will be placed as acting AD and Head Football coach until further notice. They may not win many games, but their new formations will be the talk of the district!

I have some news, I just feel hesitant about posting it. 

Malzahn is available too now. He runs a pretty good misdirection shotgun kinda like the Shot-T, and he won't win most games but he'll beat your rival once in a blue moon to keep the boosters happy.😂

Yep. I hear Mike McCarthy is looking for a new gig. 

The UIL cutoff numbers is responsible for winners and losers every reclassification.  I know that, and have argued that very point.
However, perception is reality.  To the mob (parents and fans), the only things that matters are playing time and wins.  A coach that goes 8-2 with garbage competition and some decent kids is a hero while a coach that goes 2-8 in a gauntlet with no players deserves to be fired.
You’re not saying anything I don’t know.  Why do you think I get ridiculed when I say things like, “WOS can’t get out of the region when Carthage is in it”?  I’m bashed by the locals for even mentioning stuff like that.
This particular topic, he’s relatively more successful (on paper) than his predecessors.  The resume doesn’t include strength of schedule.

All hires are crap shoots.

There are rumors floating.
I'll just say a hire will be made within a couple of weeks.

The formula I am referring to has nothing to do with offensive scheme. It is the formula of putting his best athletes on offense. Vidor traditionally does not do this, unless it is a Montana Quirante, or other similar type player, who they play on both sides of the ball. But Vidor's defense is the priority, in PNG, offense is the priority.

Belichick, Saban, and Surratt are still weighing their options for 2021.

The early seventies were hard times for Vidor, but during the mid- and late-seventies and continuing into the mid-eighties, Vidor had strong teams.  The problem was only one team went to the playoffs and Vidor was in a district with PN-G, Port Arthur Thomas Jefferson, Beaumont French, and Beaumont West Brook.  All of those teams won a state championship or made the state finals during 1975-1985.  SE TX had its fair share of champions back then.  Vidor made a run in 1978 under HC Philip Brown.  They won the DC and played a good Aldine team in the Astrodome that was probably twice their size in enrollment.  People in Vidor must have forgotten the strong Pirate teams coached by Ronnie Thompson (1975 and 1977) and Philip Brown (1978-1983).  Under Ronnie Thompson, the Pirates threw the ball all over the yard when most teams were running 3-yards and a cloud of dust.  And, he had a bag of trick plays for every game.  Add to that some strong defenses, and the Pirates won some games.  Under Philip Brown, the Pirates loaded up on the line of scrimmage and hit people in the mouth.  They had big OL kids and usually a big RB to pound people into submission.  That's what they did in 1978.  All of that to say, Coach Matthews would be third in my pecking order.  He's had some good teams.  He uses his personnel and finds a way to max out wins.  He runs a clean program and high school coaches from Orange to El Paso love the guy.  If he ever left Vidor, he could have another job within hours.  Several HC would hire the guy just to have him on their staff.  He is a known commodity and a well-liked man.
Go Indians.  Peace.

Can’t say I disagree with that, Vidor had some guys that could go on the Dline, Linebacker and Secondary. They could have really helped the offense get going but didn’t mix them in until it was too late in the season, even then didn’t use them enough both ways.

So true, but to think you can put all your best football players on defense and think you are going to win is asinine.
Yes, you have to get stops on defense to win, but you put great effort kids on defense, you put kids that are always going to be in the right spot, you put kids on defense that are always going to do what they are told and do it with intensity and aggressiveness.
You put your best athletes on offense. Regardless of the scheme or system that you run.
 

Coincidentally, I have some coaching friends that coach some "really good kids".  
The argument I've made (even on this site) for quite some time is that a team has to have a decent coaching STAFF that's capable of getting maximum potential effort from the players, a group of good players, and favorable competition in order to make any considerable noise in the W column.  More times than not you have to have at least 2 of those 3.  I'm not defending this guy.. I don't even know him.  Just reiterating that there's much more involved than whoever the head coach is.  Wanna make a change?  Make a change.. but there is no quick fix.  Often it's just the opposite. 

I think if you look at Larry’s total record as a head coach there are more losses than wins. I agree that he is a good offensive coach, but defenses were always horrible and probably one of the most arrogant people I have ever talked with

Day 1, P1 - Still have my original card.......
The original HardLine was the best.

Always great to meet a fellow P1! People that don’t listen to that station are certainly missing out!

I agree! It's a very entertaining station, especially in the morning. 

You were obviously listening to the Ticket; greatest radio station on the planet! Are you a P1?

Yes sir!

I’m hearing Art Briles. 

Good for them.
Now, do you feel bad for the rest of the team, of course you do, but one of your own caused this and the coach allowed it to happen by allowing the him to play. What's worse is it all could have been avoided if the coach that walked him off the field would have simply escorted him to the lockerroom immediately. 

Amen
I think a forfeit is in order.

How do you justify not holding the Coach accountable?
Especially after finding out that this is not a one time incident? That this is a repeat of behavior that occurred in another sport.