Roger Korby

Seals-Jones will start as a true freshmam wherever he signs. Barring injury, you will be watching him on Sundays in the future.

First, West Sabine is an above average team who can right now beat several 3A's and below average 4A's. Their QB and TB will play on Saturdays next year. I expect a healthy West Sabine team to make a deep run in the playoffs if not win it all. They have an exceptional and well coached team. Kelly is rebuilding from a deep and talented group of seniors. There is no getting around that regardless what anyone's opinion may be. The assistants left over from Long's tenure kept the program intact last season and did a great job with good players. Most of those same coaches remain with Coach Holmes and the few coaches he brought in . Kerry Bennett,  former WO-S, SFA, and Redskins, is on the staff. Holmes is a former star SFA CB and has deep experience as a 4A and 5A DC. The staff coaches football as well as any other. The Kelly program will be fine in the near future.  The St. Anne's coaches are maintaining good participation and preparation in their program and will continue to feed the high school well. If you are a Kelly alum, know that the program is in good hands.

BAYTOWN STERLING/Baytown Lee Beaumont Central/PORT ARTHUR MEMORIAL BEAUMONT OZEN/Beaumont West Brook Crosby/NEDERLAND Little Cypress-Mauriceville/WEST ORANGE-STARK PORT NECHES-GROVES/Silsbee VIDOR/Santa Fe FORT BEND ELKINS/Dayton Nuevo Leon/BARBERS HILL LIVINGSTON/Woodlands College Park Hardin-Jefferson/ANAHUAC Orangefield/EAST CHAMBERS Bridge City/NEWTON Hamshire-Fannett/SPLENDORA JASPER/Liberty SHEPHERD/Kountze HULL-DAISETTA/Hardin WARREN/Evadale Sabine Pass/DEWEYVILLE BEAUMONT KELLY/West Sabine Burkeville/WEST HARDIN BUNA/Center New Waverly/WOODVILLE SAN AUGUSTINE/Tyler Grace

The numbers on Kirbyville's jerseys are very, very difficult to see. They look like a sold black shirt on 1st appearance.

[quote name="Kdawgs123" post="1252220" timestamp="1346037100"] [quote author=Roger Korby link=topic=102065.msg1252203#msg1252203 date=1346036180] [quote author=Kdawgs123 link=topic=102065.msg1251541#msg1251541 date=1345963459] Obviously I'm biased on this but I think Kelly will win. It could be close but I see Kelly's passing game winning it. [/quote] Kelly's passing game will not be its strength this season, but their defense looked good in their scrimmage this past Thursday and Coach Holmes has done a great job getting the team conditioned, organized, and prepared. Kelly will win at West Sabine this coming Friday. [/quote] I disagree if the receivers step up the passing game will be really good. We all know what Will Darling can do at QB [/quote] The "if" is my point. Darling is ready, but he only has one solid receiver to throw to on their offense for now. Their receiver situation will hopefully develop during the season, but for now it is one go to receiver. Their coaching staff is salty, and that is a good reason for hope.

[quote name="Kdawgs123" post="1251541" timestamp="1345963459"] Obviously I'm biased on this but I think Kelly will win. It could be close but I see Kelly's passing game winning it. [/quote] Kelly's passing game will not be its strength this season, but their defense looked good in their scrimmage this past Thursday and Coach Holmes has done a great job getting the team conditioned, organized, and prepared. Kelly will win at West Sabine this coming Friday.

Coach Hartsfield is a good guy who will certainly gain valuable varsity experience at HJ under Coach Martell and grow as a coach. A good point made in the early comments is that he allowed the coordinators to keep what was in place. Coach Rabb kept what Coach Long had in place and tweaked it a bit to compliment the strength in their running game. Coach Knowles has deep experience and did a good job as DC. That team was deep with seniors and was going to do well with anyone as head coach as long as the current assistants were there to keep Long's basic game plan in place. Even though I do not know Coach Holmes personally, my "upgrade" remark is simply based on his bio that I read. He is an experienced varsity coordinator with a college and professional background. That is an upgrade for what he brings as a coach to his players compared to the hiring last season. I am sure if the roster was stacked this season like it was the last, the results would be darn near the same. Good luck to Coach Hartsfield and Coach Holmes this coming season. Like Coach Hartsfield, Coach Holmes is blessed to have the same assistants at Kelly.

This is a good hire for Kelly HS. Even though this Coach Homes first HC job, he comes with lots of varsity experience and he is a former standout college player to boot. Certainly an upgrade for them from last season. Given that he is a Kelly alum with credible experience, it is a sensible hire by the folks at Kelly.

Not a follower of any of these schools, but I do follow football in general in the Triangle and have do so for many years. Best coach? That would be Larry Neumann. Bulldogs were not consistent winners before he arrived. Larry has made that program what it is, and it is a consistent winning program and the tradition it has built has his signature on it. After Larry, it is Cornell Thompson. Even though Cornell is the new HC at The Corral, all WOS insiders know that Cornell has been more than Dan Ray's right-hand man. When Cornell briefly left years ago, the program dipped. When he came back, the program immediately returned to dominance. Cornell brings a great deal to the table with his brilliant off-season program and his excellent abilities as DC. Best "up and coming" coach: Kenny Harrison at Memorial. Talent is coming out of the ears at Memorial, but they have not been what everyone thought they should be until Kenny took the reins. You can say he has talent to work with, but it's another thing to say that one is meeting expectations and then some. Kenny did that last season, and he has theprogram turning the corner as everyone envisioned over ten years ago. Those kids toe the line with Kenny in charge; something those before him were not able to do. Not to mention, his 5A district is tough as nails and difficult to consistently win in.

At the two week limit.  Anyone with news on a hire?  Football starts in 3 weeks? [/quote] Stay tuned.

A decision will need to be made in two weeks or less.

Congrats to the Kelly Soccer team on another solid season. Kelly has had one of the top teams in the Golden Triangle area for the last four seasons and this senior group help up that tradition. In addition, congrats to Coach Brian Arendale. Coach Arendale is certainly one of the top three high school soccer coaches in Southeast Texas. Kelly is capable of hanging with, if not beating, any high school team in the area regardless of classification. This is Coach Arendale's program, and he sets the standard.

It's about time JJ got in there. A couple of national championships and Super Bowl rings ain't too shabby!

Glad to see Coach Dodge land on his feet after the Pitt coach bailed out. What a great hire for Marble Falls!

West Brook's last hire was successful and came from Kelly HS.

Absolutely that both teams are at fault.  This says a lot as well about the control the coaches have over their players.  I can not say it enough:  if you are proactive as a coach, these actions and unruly behavior can be prevented.  The officials also should have been more proactive in calling unsportsmanlike penalties when players start using profanity on the field toward one another. By not doing so, they also did not establish control in the game.

This fight could have easily been prevented.  It was clear that tempers were running high during the game.  It was clear that you are dealing with two groups of players who routinely talk trash during a game regardless of the opponent.  Knowing this, I am surprised that the coaching staffs of both were not proactive by immediately ushering their players off the field and into the locker room.  By allowing them to linger on the field after the game, they gave them the venue to do what they did.  Their actions and behavior are a total embarrassment to their schools, parents, and community.  Just kids?  Most kids do not conduct themselves in that manner.

Once again, it's our friends from Coldspring. So good to have the tremendous year in and year out talent at the Corral, but the X-factor is Coach Thompson.  When you have two talented teams like this at this round in the playoffs, it is always a war.  To have a general in place like Coach T is a blessing that not every school has.  I feel good about this game.

The kids on this team are a remarkable bunch who have overcome a number of obstacles, namely injuries to key players, during the season. I think this team achieves what it has regardless of the coach. Hartsfield deserves a tremendous amount of credit for keeping what Mike Long had in place.  If Long is still the coach, the results are the same.  The same assistants are on the staff from Long's tenure.  Hartsfield has stayed out of their way and let them continue the status quo.  That's good coaching on a team that is talented and deep.  Congrats to the players, coaches, and the Kelly community.  This great ride could not happen to a better group of folks and their great Catholic High School.

Pine Island, A "produce or your gone" mentality does not always work in high school football.  As always, it depends on the individual.  If most districts went by your line of thought, Coach Neumann at Nederland would have already been dismissed.  Sure, he has a lot of great seasons.  There have been a couple that were not as good as most fans would have wanted.  Still, he is a fine person, a great example for the kids, and he has been given the time to build a program. At Kountze, there is no program.  No coach has been given the time to develop one.  You may have a coach that will use Kountze as a stepping stone.  That's OK.  In most cases, he can not leave until he has been winning.  If someone can come in and do that and turn the keys over to a competent coach who can keep a good thing going, that is great.  Now, you have a program.  It takes the right person, a school administration who will support the coach, some financial resources, and plenty of patience to build a program.

Good points, fun run.  I do not know who the new supt. is, but I will have to assume he wants to do well and keep the kids' best interests first.  That said, the points made about lack of consistency in the HC position are legit.  That position being a revolving door every 2-3 seasons is as big of a problem as having to play Newton on the football field every fall. 

Bobcat Stadium in San Marcos is adding an end zone section, a very large one, that will expand their capacity to 30,000. They are working on it now. It does not appear that Cardinal Stadium can be expanded like they are doing in San Marcos.  Any thoughts on how Cardinal Stadium can be expanded to 30,000?  Just curious.

Coach Colton, thanks for having the courage to take a stand.  Your comments are right on target.  Anyone who has been on the inside of a  similar situation knows you speak to the heart of the matter. Dawggoneit, as a community member and a parent keep this in mind: your board members hired your superintendent.  Maybe this superintendent is trying to provide some stability to a consistently unstable AD/head coach position.  If this job is simply a stepping stone for the supt. and he is bringing in a person he knows well, then your board members will have to see this move for what it is and express their concerns to him in closed session.  Their votes on personnel decisions matter.  Finally, always remember that board members are elected. Aggie, take it easy.  Dawggone's comments were from the heart, not a rant. 

Is A&M-Corpus Christi considering fielding a football team at any point in the near future?

Count me among those who are Pat Knight fans.  I like what he brings to the program.  That said, keep in mind that LU just fired a coach who referred to the position as his "dream job" when hired and did not want to leave.  Bottom line: you can say that Lamar has found the right guy in Pat, but he will only impress as much as he wins.  He is inheriting a stockpile of talent from the previous coach and to his credit has admitted that.  There is no doubt that the team will make the tournament at the very least.