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I guess I hadn't really paid attention to the teams in the WAC these days. When the cards joined the WAC I looked at it as a major step up for Lamar, but it's really not much better than the sunbelt, if at all, considering the new teams the sunbelt has brought in.

This is a sports site. The people who come to this site do so because they love sports. While they may not be football coaches or current players, your average poster on Setxsports has an above average knowledge of how sports work, and basically every poster on here disagrees with your take on this. There's a 0% chance that you're right, and everyone else on here is wrong, because everyone in the argument knows at least as much or more than you about high school football, and none of them agree with you. the actual silly part is that 100+ posts by 30+ users have refuted your argument over the course of several threads, and essentially nobody has agreed with you, yet you keep making the same argument over and over again. People are certainly smart enough to understand how silly that is.

I think there should be a better system in place that would lead to an easier path to citizenship, but also an easier path to expelling those who have nothing to offer our country. That being said, Biden's politics on the matters of immigration and border control are awful, and his complete disregard for the damage it's causing texas is inexcusable. I would actually love to see how Biden handles it with several hundred thousand people are dropped off at the capital for them to deal with. Supposedly 900 charter busses will be used.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to send buses of migrants to DC ahead of surge (nypost.com)

That's why reagan is impossible to talk to. He has it in his head that winning state is the only acceptable outcome to a football season, and that records and championships are the only thing that matter. He also thinks that having a good coach is the only thing any program needs to become a powerhouse. All this despite dozens of people disagreeing with him over the course of several different threads about several different teams. I'd advise you not to waste your time trying to explain it to him, seeing that this is an issue that you obviously care about. I just do it for fun.

I didn't say you said they'd hire an elite coach. I said you said that all that's keeping them from eventually winning a state championship is having an elite coach. and you've said that over and over.

we'll see how it works out. there are a handful of republicans that need to keep their traps shut and avoid giving the leftwing media ammunition, though.

I'm not opening up that can of worms with you, just stating an opinion (that i'm confident is a fact). Most people with common sense look at certain politicians and are concerned. There are several currently on the left that scare the crap out of me, and that holds true for many voters, which will play a big part in the major shift we're about to see. A lot of regular people are sick of the "woke" movement, and will vote accordingly. That said, if republicans interpret this as an opportunity to pass similarly polarizing legislation, it will backfire. Our country's history is full of scenarios where a party mistook people voting against the opposite party as support for their own ideas.

I hope and expect many counties and states to flip red. I just hope the right doesn't make the same mistake the left has, and go off the deep end trying to ram through ultra conservative legislation. It's been democrats like AOC, Kamala Harris, Illhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Stacey Abrams and Nancy Pelosi that are so far to the left that they're running off swing voters, and even traditional moderate democrats. But republicans like Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene are just as crazy on the right, and could have the same effect. I guess we'll see how it plays out.

this is 100% the right approach, and a great post. that said, half of this thread is a certain poster stating that all Tarkington is away from being the next Argyle is hiring an elite coach and keeping him on staff for 7-10 years.

I'll be honest, I'll take stagnant enrollment numbers out here at HF until the end of time versus having a bunch of subdivisions and neighborhoods built, no matter what effect the move-ins would have on the football program. I pray that our property owners out here hold onto their land.

You've made more than a couple of these comments on here. It's pretty easy to discuss a team's shortcomings without being a jerk about it. enough already.

I think he brings in a few players maybe, but the talent pool is still immensely greater year in and year out in EC, Sutherland or no. EC was winning 9-11 games most years under Valastro before the Sutherlands showed up.

Speaking of the difference athletes can make: Dwayne Dubois is a pretty good example. Took the program over at HJ and went 8-5 the first year, 11-2 the next, then went to bridge city. The next year HJ went 2-9, and had a record of 14-36 the next 5 seasons without Dubois. It would be easy to think that it was all Dubois. But he had a special group of players for those two years at HJ, and he left the year several graduated, and also took his son, the starting QB with him to Bridge City who coincidentally, or not, had a pretty special group of athletes coming through at the time. The year before he took over they were 2-8, but in his first two years at BC they went 7-5 and 9-3. So again, Dubois resurrected a program with his ability, right? Obviously he's a solid coach, but his third year at BC, after most of his good athletes graduated, he went 1-9. He then went to HJ were he went 5-5 and then 1-9. If he was solely responsible for those programs winning, or even a bigger factor than the athletes, there's no way either of those programs would've ever gone 1-9, yet they did when he lost his athletes.

surprised three or four accounts haven't come out of retirement to keep this thread going. I guess the original attempt to turn it in a certain direction didn't get enough of a response this time.

It's a lack of diversity combined with a lack of community interest/support. A good coach could improve the interest and support, but not the diversity.

Yes. Their soccer team is 23-0-1, and at the regional tournament right now, despite having to compete against a higher classification. That team is so talented they can basically coach themselves.

Nope, it's the athletes (or lack there of). Yes, EC has a better coach, but I assure you if they swap coaches tomorrow, Tarkington still won't beat EC over the next 7 years (unless Tarkington finds a new source of players). For that matter, if Briles took over Tarkington tomorrow, HE isn't good enough to bridge that gap without finding some extra players. Now, to be fair, he might get some transfers based on his name. There's zero doubt that if you had a 6'6'', 325 lb 15yo son who ran a 4.8 forty, you'd uproot and move to tarkington next week for your son to play there if Briles took the job. I'm sure there are others that are just as fanatic about him, which is a weird dynamic of his being ostracized (fairly, in most folks' opinion). I could definitely see some of the better players from the immediate surrounding area moving in, which would certainly help, but nowhere near enough to make them a serious contender for anything much further than a bi-district win.

Indonesian principal who raped at least 13 students sentenced to death (msn.com)

About one of the suspects: Martin was freed from an Arizona prison in 2020 after serving just over 1 1/2 years for violating probation in separate cases involving a felony conviction for aggravated assault in 2016 and a conviction on a marijuana charge in 2018. Court records show he pleaded guilty to punching, kicking and choking a woman in a hotel room when she refused to work for him as a prostitute.

It happened in a state with some of the strictest gun laws in the country. This is obviously the result of a fight between two idiots with guns, not a targeted mass shooting. I'd bet the mortgage that both of the shooters have multiple previous arrests, but were let off lightly due to Cali's soft approach on criminals. There's also a high likelihood that they're convicted felons who were already breaking gun laws by possessing guns of any kind, and yet for some reason the laws didn't stop them.

They were great coaches who took existing talent and won with it. you're ignoring the fact that there were already athletes and talent in place. you continually try to compare that situation to places that lack both.

what everyone (but you) has been saying, is that coaching, athletes, and community support all play a role. That said, the athletes are the most important piece of the puzzle, and there are breaking points in both directions. there's a point where a team can be so stacked with athletes that even a mediocre coach can win with them, and also a team can be so devoid of athletes that even an elite coach can't make them a consistent winner. Can great coaching improve a team? absolutely. Can great coaching turn a team that wins 1-2 games a year and has a tiny athlete pool into a state championship contender in 7 years? absolutely not, although they could probably turn them into a .500 team that flirts with a playoff win every few years, based on the coaching ability alone. Now, if that great coach starts to build things up, and a population explosion (or dubious transfer policies) bring in a lot of quality athletes, then yes, they can become a contender, but once again, that's all dependent on having the athletes.

agree with most of this, but both parties are "the side of government corruption." one just happens to align with my personal/political views more than the other.

even the schools with the worst facilities have practice fields. I graduated from HJ in 2001 and we had three places we could practice soccer to avoid the game field. In fact, we never practiced on the game field, and neither did the football team. During football season i would go practice place kicking on the game field most days, and nobody else used it until friday night.