Tiger90

So for those who attended both Nederland scrimmages would you say Jasper or Silsbee looks better thus far? I realize teams during week 2 scrimmages are a lot further along than week 1 but a comparison would still be nice.

Yes they do.

Kountze also has some of the worst fans. Sutherland had a very sweet situation and was loaded with talent but still decided to leave due to fans and parents. I remember sitting in the "Drum" in Austin when Ashton Hall was a freshman. People in the section I was sitting wanted Sutherland fired for losing to a more talented Gainseville in the finals. It is amazing how some fans can become spoiled to success. A lot of teams would love to just make the playoffs, but the Kountzes,Ozens, and now Silsbees must advance quite a bit for most fans to be happy. Sad how much pressure coaches are under to make a bunch of kids successful sometimes.

I missed the Silsbee scrimmage this week, but coach Williams informed me it was getting ugly quick. Silsbee pretty much dominated both sides of the ball.

I guess I do not understand this kind of talk. #1 it was the 1st scrimmage...a controlled scrimmage at that #2 Silsbee is supposed to be good this year. Is Silsbee not supposed to beat Nederland on occassion?

WB 47 Ozen 27

Glad I wasn't the only one to pose the question.

If they do in fact change the name at least change the mascot to something more appropriate for the area. Cardinals? How about 'Skeeters.

1st scrimmage jitters The reality is Nederland and Silsbee should both be good this year. I don't think anyone should have predicted a route in this scrimmage.

I figured as much. It was Silsbee's second team as well. Second series. I was impressed with some of our young guys. I definitely can see some of those kids getting more action.

I remember a certain 80s WOS team knocking off the #1 5A team. I also remember a Newton team beating Ozen.

Why must we have 5A to be considered a powerhouse area?

:cry: The brave young man left us just before 11:00 this morning. Please keep his family in your prayers.

Silsbee's Hickman family needs prayers. Coach Hickman is a coach for Silsbee and his wife is the business manager in WOS. Their boy Nate has been battling cancer for right at a year. Things are in dire straits and prayers are desperately needed.

Tear in the muscle above the knee is what I was told earlier this evening. As Coop said surgery is very likely.

Silsbee plays Newton this year as well. That could be a good game.

If LCM did in fact get the new scoreboard think of all those WOS tds you will get to see twice.

A lot of teams are still running the basic packages from the late 60s. I remember a "run n' shoot" being all the rage in the late 80s. Ask those Clements boys from Huntsville or the Detmers in South Texas about the 1980s passing games. Teams prepared and defeated those teams. On the flip side ask Newton if their playbook has really changed in the last 30 years. The only difference I can see is the size and speed of today's kids. I remember in 1985 during the dominant Chicago Bears superbowl run, Ditka fining and berating William "Fridge" Perry for being over 295. We have high schoolers bigger than that.

The kid lost some desire. He ballooned up weight wise and resembled nothing like his hs days.

Not to stir up anything but it looks like my post was "modified". If I can not write a coach's name out here when he publicly was unsportsmanlike then I will say he was not "a coach" but the head coach.

I can go along with that sentiment. I never had a problem with Kirbyville until the antics of a coach 2 years ago in the Silsbee game. Extremely unsportsmanlike. I have never seen the DPS and local law enforcement have to walk out to mid field and all but threaten a coach to settle down.

.....but at the same time you have to get the practices in if for nothing else to get the kids acclimated to game conditions. When you watch NFL players skip training and preseason they either lag getting into playing shape or get injured quickly due to not being in game shape.

Ron McGill was awesome in hs. Pepsi player of the year in 4A I believe.