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I didn't know Tracy was still in this area. Great baseball coach, I've known him since he was a kid ,

Is this Tracy Franklin by any chance ??

PNG had a solid team last year when they played in the HJ tourney and I agree this could be a very attractive job under the right circumstances. That being said the new head coach would have to have the same type of buy in from everyone that the other very successful sports down there get . I hope they land a good candidate.

I was referring to days when sports that are normally practiced outdoors got rained indoors. I don't claim to be a expert on PNG basketball but I was told by a very reliable source that it wasn't uncommon for the varsity basketball program to have to share a gym with these sports. I think the description of this job earlier in this thread may keep it from being attractive. No pressure, no expectations ? No thanks, not many good young coaches will accept that.. I'll say it again, Coach Abel did a great job with the teams he put on the floor.

Not sure there is enough emphasis on basketball at PNG for this to be a real attractive job. Very tough district and almost impossible to prepare a team to play when sharing the gym with multiple sports. I saw PNG several times this year and Coach Abel did a really good job.

Pretty good ballgame it sounds like.

They may resurrect the "crip" shot lol

I'm sure they'll behave themselves much better there ( sarcasm intended )

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The days of kids staying in one school district and going K-12 are over. That's not unique to charter or private schools or the Dallas area . Players have been swapping districts and schools for years. This happened long before charter schools started building super teams.

May be a few before it happens again lol

And got boo'd in the process. Never saw that before

Not the easiest surroundings to shoot in. Not sure you can simulate that anywhere else

A stifling press will beat teams every time if they don't have the backcourt personel to beat it. It doesn't have to result in points or turnovers to be successful . The teams mentioned do it a lot to wear folks down. The teams with fundamentally sound guards usually adjust well. When you look at EC, Kountze, Silsbee and HJ it's hard to argue with the the results those four have had. Congrats to EC on a great season.

Seems like Nazareth is there every year .

Does FF have a big man ? Yates doesn't have a lot of weaknesses but there are some opening that the trap presents.

Just a couple of observations here. A lot of people think the lack of depth cost the Tigers a return trip to San Antonio this year. I know Bush is a great player but a return trip to San Antonio with a group of players who didn't play much this season may be a stretch . It's tough to get out of region 3.

There's a huge difference in playing the type schedule Silsbee played this year with D1 players on your roster. I wouldn't think the Tigers schedule would look anything like it did this year.

Sure we're a lot of Seniors on the floor on Senior night to be looking at San Antonio or the regional finals next year.

What hurt Yates last year was foul trouble . They depended on a great big man all season and lost him early to foul trouble. It affected everything they did when he sat down.

Once you start being successful as a program the number of kids transferring into a district always increases. When you're successful in a district where the average home is $300k you're gonna have new faces "&

The girls have won 5 consecutive state titles, 4 of them after moving up from 3A to 4A

Yates lost 3 starters to fouls within 30 seconds . They had the deeper team and for the first time in several years the Tigers didn't look like the best team in the region. I said in an earlier post and still believe the late, close game on Friday night caused the Tigers to lose their legs in the final. Great run for them !

Both clubs are young, we may have a good rivalry starting here. 5 state titles in a row is beyond impressive . Great season for the Ladies from HJ and Coaches Fogo, Sneed and Rogers. Congrats on a heckuva year.

Yates has a helluva club, I saw that personally this year. Silsbee did too