Dick Vitale

[quote name="Stevenash" post="1377318" timestamp="1361475622"] [quote author=Dick Vitale link=topic=109587.msg1377236#msg1377236 date=1361465967] [quote author=Kountzer link=topic=109587.msg1376923#msg1376923 date=1361408868] My folks had land, etc in Silsbee and in Houston's Fifth Ward/Kashmere Garden area.  As a result I spent a lot of time in both places.  I got cousins that graduated from Kashmere.  I attended one year of school at Lamar Fleming Middle School.  Then I got homesick and went back to the Silsbee school district.  Most of the basketball talent would go to Wheatley.  Kashmere had that golden era during the Karl Godine period.  I don't remember them doing too much more basketball wise before or since.  Now the Kashmere stage band led by Conrad Johnson, that's a different story.  They got a movie out about that, btw. These days the kashmere gardens area is lucky that Kashmee High School hasn't been closed down.  I hate to say that, but it's true. [/quote] HELLO!! EXCUSE ME? I started my career at Kashmere coaching under my father. My dad arrived there from Madison in 1996, and retired in 2007...from 96-07, Kashmere won district 7 out of those 11 years, won 20 or more games EVERY year, made the playoffs EVERY year, and made four regional tourney appearances...SINCE my dad retired...ONE PLAYOFF APPEARANCE in 2013...By the way, when I coached there in 1997-2000, Kashmere was an ACADEMICALLY EXEMPLARY campus...Yes it has really changed since those days, but I was apart of a MAJOR turn around in that program...We actually were #1 in the state in the 1998-1999 season, the year we lost to PA Lincoln in the regional....On another note, I was the freshman coach as a rookie, and my teams went 33-1, 32-0, & 34-0, winning three city championships along the way, before I left to go to Ozen....Just thought I would throw that in there!  ;D ;D [/quote] DV- You are NOT trying harder, as I previously suggested. [/quote] Awww Man!!  ::)....I'm just stating the facts, while providing a history lesson to the guy!!  ;D ;D

[quote name="BLUEDOVE3" post="1377270" timestamp="1361469659"] [quote author=Dick Vitale link=topic=109587.msg1377236#msg1377236 date=1361465967] [quote author=Kountzer link=topic=109587.msg1376923#msg1376923 date=1361408868] My folks had land, etc in Silsbee and in Houston's Fifth Ward/Kashmere Garden area.  As a result I spent a lot of time in both places.  I got cousins that graduated from Kashmere.  I attended one year of school at Lamar Fleming Middle School.  Then I got homesick and went back to the Silsbee school district.  Most of the basketball talent would go to Wheatley.  Kashmere had that golden era during the Karl Godine period.  I don't remember them doing too much more basketball wise before or since.  Now the Kashmere stage band led by Conrad Johnson, that's a different story.  They got a movie out about that, btw. These days the kashmere gardens area is lucky that Kashmee High School hasn't been closed down.  I hate to say that, but it's true. [/quote] HELLO!! EXCUSE ME? I started my career at Kashmere coaching under my father. My dad arrived there from Madison in 1996, and retired in 2007...from 96-07, Kashmere won district 7 out of those 11 years, won 20 or more games EVERY year, made the playoffs EVERY year, and made four regional tourney appearances...SINCE my dad retired...ONE PLAYOFF APPEARANCE in 2013...By the way, when I coached there in 1997-2000, Kashmere was an ACADEMICALLY EXEMPLARY campus...Yes it has really changed since those days, but I was apart of a MAJOR turn around in that program...We actually were #1 in the state in the 1998-1999 season, the year we lost to PA Lincoln in the regional....On another note, I was the freshman coach as a rookie, and my teams went 33-1, 32-0, & 34-0, winning three city championships along the way, before I left to go to Ozen....Just thought I would throw that in there!  ;D ;D [/quote] My mind must be fading but when was the Frankie Brazos there? And was Danny Thomas still coaching there when yall got there? [/quote] Coach Brazos retired in 1993, and Al Reynolds took over...Danny Thomas left and took a middle school job...

[quote name="5gallonbucket" post="1377264" timestamp="1361469124"] [quote author=Dick Vitale link=topic=109587.msg1377262#msg1377262 date=1361469061] That was 1996. [/quote] who was they lost to? cleveland? [/quote] PAGING AggiesAreWe!!! ;D ;D....I don't remember who it was off the top...

That was 1996.

[quote name="LAZEEK" post="1377255" timestamp="1361468171"] So a winning tradition generates attention all the way over in Africa? [/quote] If Hardin Jefferson were making national headlines, and winning like Yates has won over the last 4-5 years, AND were located in one of the largest metropolitan cities in the WORLD....Yes, that would be possible.

[quote name="5gallonbucket" post="1377246" timestamp="1361466727"] i dont' know who recruits or who doesn't but i do know that a winning tradition can recruit in and of itself. [/quote] This is probably the best statement of this entire thread, and I am mad that I didn't post it first! >:( ;D

[quote name="BLUEDOVE3" post="1377243" timestamp="1361466612"] [quote author=HJ2013 link=topic=109491.msg1377239#msg1377239 date=1361466268] Just saying Johnson will be back this coming up monday! He told me himself!  So if we do beat Yates he WILL be playing in the next game! [/quote] On Monday, yall begin cross-country training!!! [/quote] OUCH! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

They don't believe that Nederland does NOT recruit? :o....I don't think they do! And neither does Yates.... 8)

[quote name="Kountzer" post="1376923" timestamp="1361408868"] My folks had land, etc in Silsbee and in Houston's Fifth Ward/Kashmere Garden area.  As a result I spent a lot of time in both places.  I got cousins that graduated from Kashmere.  I attended one year of school at Lamar Fleming Middle School.  Then I got homesick and went back to the Silsbee school district.  Most of the basketball talent would go to Wheatley.  Kashmere had that golden era during the Karl Godine period.  I don't remember them doing too much more basketball wise before or since.  Now the Kashmere stage band led by Conrad Johnson, that's a different story.  They got a movie out about that, btw. These days the kashmere gardens area is lucky that Kashmee High School hasn't been closed down.  I hate to say that, but it's true. [/quote] HELLO!! EXCUSE ME? I started my career at Kashmere coaching under my father. My dad arrived there from Madison in 1996, and retired in 2007...from 96-07, Kashmere won district 7 out of those 11 years, won 20 or more games EVERY year, made the playoffs EVERY year, and made four regional tourney appearances...SINCE my dad retired...ONE PLAYOFF APPEARANCE in 2013...By the way, when I coached there in 1997-2000, Kashmere was an ACADEMICALLY EXEMPLARY campus...Yes it has really changed since those days, but I was apart of a MAJOR turn around in that program...We actually were #1 in the state in the 1998-1999 season, the year we lost to PA Lincoln in the regional....On another note, I was the freshman coach as a rookie, and my teams went 33-1, 32-0, & 34-0, winning three city championships along the way, before I left to go to Ozen....Just thought I would throw that in there!  ;D ;D

[quote name="Stevenash" post="1377166" timestamp="1361459066"] [quote author=BLUEDOVE3 link=topic=109582.msg1377157#msg1377157 date=1361457980] I already know the outcome, yall just provide us with the scores and a little game analysis. [/quote] Yates wins 133-18.  All starters had triple doubles and a new player who just enrolled last month had 41 in his first effort at his third school in three years.  HJ finished the game with three players on the floor as the other 12 all fouled out.  If they hadnt played such a weak schedule and had done more sport specific workouts, the score would have been 133-21. [/quote] Yep...sounds about right... 8) [quote author=Honest Abe link=topic=109582.msg1376946#msg1376946 date=1361411767] [quote author=BLUEDOVE3 link=topic=109582.msg1376804#msg1376804 date=1361393854] [quote author=Mr. Buddy Garrity link=topic=109582.msg1376777#msg1376777 date=1361391762] Im wondering how long it takes before Yates gets that [b]7'4 sophomore[/b] thats in Houston that i saw this morning  ;) [Hidden Content] [/quote] Depends on who his handlers are. [/quote]Handlers huh? I wonder how many handlers HJ has to land a giant from another continent? I'm guessing......ZERO!! BUT...Yates doesn't recruit, right? ::) [/quote] Yates recruits about as much as Nederland does in PORT ARTHUR.... ::) ::)....They don't, right? Players from Port Arthur just SHOW UP, right? Same thing happens at Yates... ;)

Bluedove, stop being "politically correct"...You KNOW Yates is going  to blow the DOORS off of HJ! ;D

No. Next question.... ::) ::)...Are you guys serious? :o...We all knew that Yates would rip through region 3-3A when they announced the re-alignment...Don't act surprised now! 8)

[quote name="ST413" post="1375799" timestamp="1361292014"] I believe the legend says yellow and orange are Yates and Blue is HJ. [/quote] LOL!!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

[quote name="Stevenash" post="1375766" timestamp="1361289189"] This is the Yates attendance zone: [img][Hidden Content]] [/quote] Sort of resembles the HJ recruiting, I mean attendance zone, if you ask me.... ::) ::) 8)

??? ??? ??? ???...Screwed? No, neither of them were "screwed", the brackets don't change for anyone... ::) ::)...Lord have mercy.... ::) ::)

Seriously...The next time you feel that way, watch who comments negatively....Its the people on here that DO NOT KNOW ME...AggiesAreWe, LAZEEK, Bluedove3, Bmt Soulja, Honest Abe and even the incomparable Stevenash (to an extent) ACTUALLY KNOW ME...They KNOW my personality, and know that I am not the guy that some of you THINK I am.  ROYALTY? Come on, really? My family is well known in basketball circles, but ROYALTY? I was NOT being serious...At all...Some of you just don't think, yet want to attack like some rabid pit bulls!  :o...Relax, please...Now, basketball GURU...Thats a whole other topic! ;D ;D ;D

[quote name="OvieDotson" post="1374678" timestamp="1360959705"] I wonder if the folk in Wichita Falls realize that they have royality in their midst?  [/quote] OK, I was JOKING about the "royalty" thing and I made that very clear...Come on, really? Do you people think I am THAT self centered? I mean REALLY! :o As a matter of fact I have PURPOSELY been very sarcastic about it, just to make fun of the fact that some ACTUALLY think I feel that way...Come on yall...Please think... ::) ::)

[quote name="mytwocents" post="1374656" timestamp="1360955173"] Why dickie? Why do we have to have that stuff to talk basketball? Or even debate basketball? [/quote] My question is why CAN'T I have all those things, and debate something that I, obviously have had success in, and likely much more than most on here can even comprehend? [quote author=dogs1218 link=topic=109280.msg1374669#msg1374669 date=1360958081] [quote author=mytwocents link=topic=109280.msg1374656#msg1374656 date=1360955173] Why dickie? Why do we have to have that stuff to talk basketball? Or even debate basketball? [/quote] I think he is trying to say that his level of basketball knowledge is far beyond the lowly folks on here.. We are all subject to his wisdom.. "Royalty" remember? ;) [/quote] Yep...pretty much nailed it there.... 8)

Question: Do any of you that are mouthing off, have ANY basketball accolades? How about a state title or two? An appearance even? How about a WIN as a coach or player? Lets just start there! I say to you all....Shut your pie hole, then! ;) (Drops the mic, walks off) 8)...NOW...Back to tryng harder to be HUMBLE! ::)

;D ;D

[quote name="Stevenash" post="1374573" timestamp="1360945964"] It's not just me, Dickie.  Everyone on this board is in awe of you. [/quote] Yeah I know.... 8)..I just try to take it in stride and remain humble! ::) ;D

[quote name="Stevenash" post="1374550" timestamp="1360944014"] Never, ever question someone who is basketball royalty. [/quote] Stevenash...green is not a good color on you.... ::)...Its easy to envy greatness, though!  :D 8)

[quote name="BMTSoulja1" post="1374539" timestamp="1360942357"] [quote author=Dick Vitale link=topic=109280.msg1374534#msg1374534 date=1360941662] [quote author=BMTSoulja1 link=topic=109280.msg1374491#msg1374491 date=1360935915] [quote author=ozensfinest link=topic=109280.msg1374453#msg1374453 date=1360901087] [quote author=understand link=topic=109280.msg1374204#msg1374204 date=1360866482] Central will Dominate and for the record [b]Central 99' team did not loss to Ozen [/b]Central when down when DV & Ozen finest family coached Central and DV brags on BOUTTE but what has he won without BOUTTE and when you say your family will win more remember BOUTTE is not coaching anymore and he is ex-family [/quote]Ozen didn't lose to Central in bball until 2010 [/quote] False information (as if that's something new).  I was in attendance of the game where Central beat Ozen.  It may have been 99, but I think the 2000-2001 or the 2001 - 2002 team beat Ozen.  [/quote] Uhhh, Soulja in 2000-2001, we went [size=14pt][b]36-0[/b][/size]... ::) ::)...in 2001-2002, we lost to only ONE Texas team and that was Dallas Lincoln in the State Championship game...Central beat Ozen in 99, and not again until 2010...Get it right...OVER 10 years without a win against Ozen.... ;) [/quote] DV, I may have been wrong about the dates, but the point was proven, nonetheless.  Ozen HAVE taken a loss to Central prior to 2010 which proves ozensfinest information to be fiction.  Smh. [/quote] MAY? MAY? What part of [size=14pt][b]36-0[/b][/size] didn't you see!!??  ::) ::)...Central beat Ozen in 99, then went almost 11 years before they beat them again...FACT.

[quote name="BMTSoulja1" post="1374491" timestamp="1360935915"] [quote author=ozensfinest link=topic=109280.msg1374453#msg1374453 date=1360901087] [quote author=understand link=topic=109280.msg1374204#msg1374204 date=1360866482] Central will Dominate and for the record [b]Central 99' team did not loss to Ozen [/b]Central when down when DV & Ozen finest family coached Central and DV brags on BOUTTE but what has he won without BOUTTE and when you say your family will win more remember BOUTTE is not coaching anymore and he is ex-family [/quote]Ozen didn't lose to Central in bball until 2010 [/quote] False information (as if that's something new).  I was in attendance of the game where Central beat Ozen.  It may have been 99, but I think the 2000-2001 or the 2001 - 2002 team beat Ozen.  [/quote] Uhhh, Soulja in 2000-2001, we went [size=14pt][b]36-0[/b][/size]... ::) ::)...in 2001-2002, we lost to only ONE Texas team and that was Dallas Lincoln in the State Championship game...Central beat Ozen in 99, and not again until 2010...Get it right...OVER 10 years without a win against Ozen.... ;)

[quote name="Who By Fire" post="1374231" timestamp="1360870104"] [quote author=Dick Vitale link=topic=109280.msg1374226#msg1374226 date=1360869652] I think some of you that are replying should READ THE THREAD BEFORE REPLYING...I NEVER mentioned ANYONE by name, first of all, secondly, the question was asked if a poster was related to me and I confirmed it...You people on here have such a MOB mentality...Just read the dang thread... :o [/quote] It is not just you.  But like I said, this is about the kids.  If I want to know what any of you all do, or how wonderful you are, I am quite sure I can find it on the internet by googling "basketball royalty." [/quote] Thats my point...It WASN'T me... ::) [quote author=thetragichippy link=topic=109280.msg1374229#msg1374229 date=1360869941] Some things NEVER change.......DV causing drama ANYWHERE he goes.......lol [/quote] Hey....Shut your pie hole.  8)