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  1. Don’t really understand this one. Can you imagine if one of them had gotten hurt mid-4th up 35?
  2. Was Shenk any good? I teach his daughter. We talk from time to time, and I never knew he was a basketball guy.
  3. This Silsbee team is 30+ points better than HJ. I wouldn’t be shocked to see the hawks find a way to keep it closer than that, but it’s going to be a tall task
  4. Any clue how easy it is to get one of these reprimands? They sure hand out a lot of them.
  5. You know I'll argue with these guys from time to time, even though I vote to the right. But you literally started this thread to quarrel, then posted your bible verse to justify a position, and then took exception to someone else using a bible verse to (jokingly) justify theirs. like big mad, and all high and mighty. Pretty hypocritical in the case of this particular thread.
  6. Haven’t seen a game, but it seems like my horns have improved some this year. We’ve got a really solid core of 10-13 year olds across a couple of teams that should make the program a playoff contender in 3-4 years
  7. how does one have an 8-22 team handed to him on a silver platter? Great job by Coach Hoyt to turn this team around in 2 years, whether the players were there or not. Those players won 8 and 5 games the two years before he took over.
  8. wait, when dude started complaining I thought this was Hoyt's first year. It's his second, and he took over an 8-22 team? There wasn't a dang thing handed to him if that's the case, not that it would me relevant if there was.
  9. Don’t know the score, but vidor won and is into the playoffs. First time in 20 years.
  10. sure. they may not have made the playoffs in those 3 years without that one player, though. maybe a 4th or something.
  11. this is like 8 different questions that are all over the place. Lumberton, whether 4A or 5A, played the same tough local teams for at least 12 years before Mitchell took over, and he did the same as the guys before him the one year he played them. I don't have any idea what their wins (with McClure) over HF have to do with anything. And no, Lumberton was one of the worst 5A teams in the state. Just by dropping down they improved dramatically. McClure accelerated that. Mitchell did a good job under fortuitous circumstances.
  12. @HasBeen36 This is a perfect example of the type of posts that drive me nuts, that when I reply to them it makes me seem like a Mitchell hater when that's not what I'm trying to do. Mitchell did a good job getting Lumberton to the playoffs. Hell, let's say he did a great job. But then the post has to make it sound like he's better than these guys because he's doing "more with less". But anyone with a lick of common sense knows every single coach he listed here would've gone to the playoffs 3 times in a row with those McClure teams as well. That doesn't mean Mitchell didn't do a good job, but there's this disingenuous narrative that he's somehow done something that nobody else could do. And yes, in a normal year those guys have more talent that Mitchell does in Lumberton, but also in a normal year they have many more wins despite playing tougher schedules, and usually go further in the playoffs. Like they're supposed to with their better talent. That's no knock on Josh with his inferior talent, but how's it a knock on them for doing significantly more with more?
  13. That's the whole point here, and it's clear that Mitchell's fans have a different definition than everyone else. And it's a shame, because he's done just fine over there, but with all of the crazy claims made by a handful of people, these turn into what feels like an anti-Mitchell thread, when in reality they turn into anti-delusional Mitchell fan threads.
  14. His freshman year they got blasted in the same district that Mitchell's predecessors got blasted in, so that's irrelevant. He must have been pretty good the other 3 years, because Lumberton hasn't come close to duplicating what they did while he was there since. And do you know how rare it is for a local 4A player not from Silsbee to get an offer to Lamar? As to the strength of their schedule, it's not been really tough, but it's certainly tougher than years past. That's been balanced out some by the fact that this is the worst district they've played in under Mitchell, and honestly in at least the last 20 years.
  15. At some point it has to be asked what Lumberton basketball was before McClure got there. Since McClure graduated Lumberton has a grand total of 3 wins against 4A or better playoff teams in 3 seasons. That's not 3 playoff wins, that's 3 wins across 3 years in over 30 opportunities against 4A or better squads good enough to make the playoffs. In McClure's last 3 years they had 14 of those wins, including 3 in the actual playoffs. I'm not saying it was all McClure or that Mitchell had nothing to do with their improvement, but Mitchell also took over at the exact right time to take advantage of a significantly easier district and the best player in program history. Since that player has gone the program has dropped off substantially. I say none of this to criticize Mitchell, as it is tough to win without the players. But if Lumberton keeps missing the playoffs with the occasional 4th place finish y'all are gonna have to stop trying to lump him in with the area's elite. Especially since most of the hype is based on a 3-year turnaround that in large part was on the shoulders of one of those types of players that all of his biggest fans claim that he wins without.
  16. Some stuff happened several years back that really bothered me, but I'm over it, and have been for some time. I won't rehash it. At this point it's just the insane posts from his supporters that when you dispute them makes it seem like hate.
  17. You aren't dumb here, but Mitchell is better than all of those coaches. Got it. But here's the thing... without that caliber of player, Mitchell isn't really winning much either. Which is okay. It's hard to win with weak players. But don't tell me those other coaches on this list can't go 11-20 with his roster this year. Or 19-18 and 17-14 the last two years playing in multiple 2A-3A tourneys both seasons. That's asinine.
  18. I've followed this team for almost 30 years, and this is arguably the weakest team they've had since before Sutherland was coaching there. Maybe 2001 or 2002.
  19. I do. The further along we go, the more I wonder how much of the improvement has been Mitchell, and how much has been dropping in classification and having a generational player for the first 3 years after dropping. his only year in 5A he didn't do any better than the guys before him. Once he got away from Central, Ozen, PAM, and Nederland, combined with having the best? player in Lumberton history, they had a couple of good seasons, including the district championship with the fortuitous covid win over silsbee. But since then, we're looking at missing the playoffs 2 out of 3 years, with a 4th place seed the other, which wasn't even a possibility for the guys before him. Would any of the Lumberton teams before 2014 have made the playoffs if 4 teams went? I honestly don't know. I think Mitchell has improved the program some, and the basketball culture in Lumberton to some degree, but I also think it's time to quit throwing his name around with the Jouberts and Greens and Siglers and Sutherlands, etc. like some of his biggest fans like to do. It's great that he has the support of the community, but that doesn't change the results. It's okay for him to just be a coach who had a couple of pretty good seasons with an all-time great player at a school that has traditionally not been very good. Maybe he can get them going back in the right direction, I don't know. .
  20. this HJ team is extremely short on studs, but to fair, his “studs” over the last several years have gone on to play D3 and NAIA, mostly due to the fact that he pushes to get them offers. Listening to you one would think he’s had a steady supply of D1 players coming down the pipeline. Still, in his “worst” ever season coaching (two of the best basketball minds on the board say it’s his best coaching job) he’s got a fighting chance to make the playoffs. I made a commitment last year to not talk about Mitchell, as for a time I admittedly criticized him too much for some stuff that happened off the court. I got past that, but the delusions of his fan club led me into a lot of conversations where I still came off as critical of him, and I’ve heard from enough people to know he’s done some good things over there for the kids and in the community that changed my mind about him to a certain extent. A lot of what seemed like criticism of him was just disputing outlandish claims made by his supporters. That said, you like to take shots at "my guy", so I suppose I can at least be objectively truthful about yours. It seems to some degree he's improved the basketball culture in the community, and the team has had some good seasons under him. None of that changes the fact that the fan club is still delusional. You literally came on here crowing when Lumberton got their only 2-game win streak of the season, and their only win against a playoff team. They're 11-20 and need help not to miss the playoffs in an extremely weak district, and you're still on here trying to act like he's the next Coach K. You’re still trying to crap all over Davis, who's never missed the playoffs at 3 different schools over a long career. The truth is, the further they've gotten from that once in a generation Lumberton D1 player, the more Lumberton looks like they did pre-Mitchell. Not sure exactly what that means, but I can make some inferences.
  21. They’ve been logging in but not posting lately for some reason 🤷🏻‍♂️
  22. Every single article pushed by the leftist media right now is all about how republicans demanded a border bill, the senate negotiated a bipartisan bill, and then the house shot down the bill they demanded. This take is so blatantly disingenuous that it gets my blood pressure up, and you all know I'm far from the most conservative guy around, and also not nearly as conservative as many of you when it comes to immigration. very few senate republicans supported that crap, so quit calling it a "bipartisan bill just because one republican was involved in negotiating it. But more importantly, quit acting like any of the following parts of the bill truly benefit border security: 1. out of a $118.3B bill, only $20B would be used on border security. 2. the new bill would negate border states' ability to challenge issues with border laws in their home states, instead having to do so in ultraliberal Washington DC in front of ultraliberal judges. A better way of putting this is the bill would mean that border states could never challenge any aspects of the bill, because they would be guaranteed to lose. 3. based on the number of illegal crossings required to trigger actual border security through the bill, up to 1.6M illegals would be allowed in unchallenged yearly. I mean, yeah, can't believe those crazy conservatives turned all this down, right?
  23. China is a bigger threat to the US directly, but Russia is a legitimate threat to start WW3. China's economy is failing and they're doing everything they can to hide the fact. They're also buying up land and corporations in the US, which could become a major issue later.
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