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Jasper might have to play them whether they like it or not. We'll see the 1st monday in February.

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North Shore 62, Beaumont Ozen 39

Dickinson 91, Channelview 65

Palestine 73, Trinity 42

Houston Scarborough 45, Beaumont Ozen 41

Vidor 60, Tarkington 41 Vidor 85, Evadale 31 Port Neches-Groves 62, Anahuac 28 Bridge City 77, Sabine Pass 62

Hardin 61, Goodrich 56 Spurger 46, Warren 39 Shepherd 58, Coldspring-Oakhurst 50 Woodville 70, Onalaska 38 Leggett 66, West Sabine 51

By the same token, there are a lot of problems that PREVENT winning, and very few of them involve the coach.

9:00 am - Mexia vs. Orangefield Madisonville vs. Lufkin Hudson 10:30 am - China Spring vs. Pasadena Rayburn Waco La Vega vs. Pollok Central 12:00 pm - Kingwood Park vs. Pflugerville Hendrickson Tatum vs Cleveland Hardin-Jefferson vs. Wharton 1:30 pm - Graham vs. Diboll H Homeschool vs. Silsbee

Thursday games: 9:50 am - Woodville vs. Goodrich Kountze vs. Hull-Daisetta Warren vs. Coldspring-Oakhurst 12:30 pm - Kirbyville vs. West Sabine Shepherd vs. Onalaska Brookeland vs. Leggett 4:20 pm - Kirbyville vs. Woodville Coldspring-Oakhurst vs. Brookeland 5:40 pm - West Sabine vs. Goodrich Leggett vs. Warren 7:00 pm - Onalaska vs. Hull-Daisetta Kountze vs. Shepherd

Thursday games: 8:00 am - Hamshire-Fannett vs. Tarkington 9:20 am - Little Cypress-Mauriceville vs. Huffman Hargrave 10:40 am - Jasper vs. Hallettsville 12:00 pm - Buna vs. Hamshire-Fannett 1:20 pm - Bridge City vs. East Chambers 2:40 pm - Hallettsville vs. Little Cypress-Mauriceville 4:00 pm - Huffman Hargrave vs. Port Neches-Groves 5:20 pm - Bridge City vs. Tarkington 6:40 pm - East Chambers vs. Buna 8:00 pm - Port Neches-Groves vs. Jasper

I am not sure that this is still the current schedule given that H-F dropped and Pasadena Rayburn doesn't start until tomorrow. According to AAW, East Chambers JV won't be playing tomorrow. So if you have revised information, I'd certainly appreciate it!

Thursday games: Whataburger: Nacogdoches Central Heights vs. Bowie M.T. Rice: 12:00 pm - C.E. King vs. BEHS 6:00 pm - Waco Midway vs. C.E. King Pasadena Eric Medina: 10:00 am - Pasadena vs. Galena Park Pasadena Memorial vs. Houston Waltrip Ardmore Classic: 2:00 pm - Baytown Sterling vs. Putnam City West Paris Tournament: 1:00 pm - Lufkin Hudson vs. Hope (AR) 6:30 pm - Mount Pleasant vs. Lufkin Hudson Conroe: 9:00 am - Conroe vs. Crosby 12:00 pm - Goose Creek Memorial vs. Richmond Foster 3:00 pm - Crosby vs. Goose Creek Memorial Buda Hays: 1:45 pm - South Houston vs. Canyon Brazoswood: 11:00 am - Dayton vs. Clear Springs 3:30 pm - Brazosport vs. Dayton Mumford: 10:30 am - Calvert vs. Dallardsville Big Sandy 3:00 pm - Dallardsville Big Sandy vs. Waco Live Oak

Thursday games: 11:00 am - Grapeland vs. Malakoff Crockett vs. Palestine Westwood 12:20 pm - Wharton vs. Trinity 1:40 pm - Palestine Westwood vs. Diboll 3:00 pm - Trinity vs. Palestine

9:00 am - Vidor vs. Tarkington Orangefield vs. Evadale 10:30 am - Bridge City vs. Anahuac Port Neches-Groves vs. Sabine Pass 11:40 am - Evadale vs. Vidor Tarkington vs. Orangefield 1:00 pm - Anahuac vs. Port Neches-Groves Sabine Pass vs. Bridge City

12:00 pm - Galena Park North Shore vs. Houston Scarborough 3:00 pm - Beaumont Ozen vs. Houston Scarborough 4:30 pm - Dicksonson vs. Channelview 6:00 pm - Port Arthur Memorial vs. Fort Bend Ridge Point

8:30 am - Kirbyville vs. Lumberton Spurger vs. Warren Goodrich vs. Hardin 11:10 am - Woodville vs. Onalaska Shepherd vs. Coldspring-Oakhurst West Sabine vs. Leggett 3:00 pm - Lumberton vs. West Sabine Leggett vs. Kirbyville Warren vs Coldspring-Oakhurst 4:20 pm - Onalaska vs. Hardin 5:40 pm - Woodville vs. Goodrich 7:00 pm - Spurger vs. Shepherd

8:00 am - Corsicana vs. Liberty 9:20 am - West Orange-Stark vs. Jasper 10:40 am - La Marque vs. College Station 12:00 pm - Pasadena Rayburn vs. Corsicana 1:20 pm - East Chambers vs. Liberty 4:00 pm - College Station vs. West Orange-Stark 4:00 pm - Hardin-Jefferson vs. Jasper 5:20 pm - East Chambers vs. Pasadena Rayburn 8:00 pm - Hardin-Jefferson vs. La Marque

If Coach Thompson, is selling himself short he is the only one around here that does it and I will certainly not engage in that task. That being said, he realizes that as I said, he is part of the formula, but not the complete formula. The same can be said with Scott Surratt, who while deserving of all of the praise that he gets, I am sure that he hits his knees on a nightly basis thanking the Good Lord that the Ingram boys and Trevor Cupps attend school in the Carthage ISD. You see, it is more than a coach or a player, IT IS A CULTURE! It is a 1) good coach, 2) good players and 3) a community that is willing to let both of the first elements do what they do best. That is what is present in Newton and the cities of Orange, West Orange and Pinehurst. It is a community that believes in the coach and a coach that believes in the community. W.T. Johnston can make the hard decisions because he knows that he doesn't have to worry about folks going on his property under the cover of night and placing "for sale" signs in his yard after a rare loss. Cornel Thompson doesn't have to worry about someone trying to dial up Rickie Harris or one of the members of the board of trustees if lil' Johnny ain't playing. It is young men who know from the time that they can walk what is expected of them is they want to wear a silver helmet or the purple eagle jersey. Much to dismay of some folks here, there is no lacking of elements 1) or 2) in most districts in the area, it is 3) that is usually sorely lacking!

Are you willing to have either PN-G or Nederland ISD pay $160,000/year to find out?

Well, that is funny because the most remembered line uttered by Cornel Thompson, who coaching skills you have espoused here, is that "You can't win the Kentucky Derby with a mule." Coaching may be part of the equation, but it is by no means the complete formula.

Atascocita 68, Aldine MacArthur 44

Katy Seven Lakes 46, Kingwood 43