Coach85

46 minutes ago, Mr. Thornton Melon said:

The good ole' days are over in WOS. All the good coaches retired or moved on

I agree. Hooks and Thompson had full control and administration and the board ha no control over them. They had their way and that was it. Now they have someone that they have full control over and the rules ways of doing certain things are about to change. The kids and certain parents are going to whine about some things need to be changed and they will be changed to cave in to the cry babies and it will all snowball. The days of the way things were run under DH and CT are gone and that will be the end to what was a great program.

I hope he can convince Lamar to give him a bigger athletic budget to be able to turn the programs around. It’s been operating on a very small budget compared to other schools their size that are competitive. Plus most of the other schools have more things for students to do around town then Lamar has to offer. What does Beaumont and the surrounding area have for the students to do for fun? Go swimming in the Neches River?

Roccaforte is from PNG. Christian Curtis is a Freshman pitcher from PNG that is at Texas A&M but had to have surgery to correct a previous surgery so he started the year but didn’t get to finish it.

6 hours ago, wo-s#1 said:

What about LCM lol

I passed by LCM yesterday and it looked like they were working on it.

3 hours ago, spidersal said:

19-81 the past 2 seasons. This is simply inexcusable. Time to get rid of Hooks and find someone that can coach and recruit.  It is so difficult to see which Lamar program is worse. Does anyone have an opinion between football, volleyball, mens basketball, and softball. They are all bad!

I know a perfect person for this job but I don’t know if she would apply for it so I’m no going to mention her name. But, she is a former player at Lamar, she coaches at a prominent high school and has been to the state finals twice in her three year stint and has won one title.

8 minutes ago, bulldawg64 said:

Pandas.peacocks,poodles or pomeranians sounds good lol!! Always could add purple in front of name.

PETA may complain about these names being offensive to nature.

Not everybody is reporting their teams HR’s like they used to. I know PNG has some but not sure who the kids are. I don’t know the kids of this group all that great and I sit in the outfield so I don’t have to listen to the people in the stands grip about things they have no clue about. I’ve noticed other teams have not reported any either. 

I have a cousin who is married to the twin brother of NCTC’s head coach. They said Wetherford’s pitchers were talking smack to the coach. Saying stuff like, “is this all you got? Send someone up to the plate who can hit the damn ball.” This was said after two batters had struck out. There was more stuff said too. But when the guy hit the go ahead home run he did mouth off to the pitcher. I probably would have too if the pitchers were trash talking my team. The thing that gets me is the third base coach doesn’t even move or warn the poor kid rounding third. He slaps his hand, sees the pitcher headed that way and does nothing.

He has 6

Coach Carter is a great baseball coach as well as a great man. My son enjoyed playing for Carter and learned a lot about not only baseball but life. He is a great mentor for these young men at PNG.

10 hours ago, TradenupBH said:

I don’t have defeatist attitude, I’m speaking facts. You not getting athletes outside area to come to an area that is boring and a college that made for commuter college.

The only fix is dump A lot of money into the athletics department and the surrounding area of Lamar. If not, we’ll all be on here 10 years from now still complaining.

Agree 100%. The Beaumont/Port Arthur area has declined drastically and there is nothing for college age students to do. Lamar itself doesn’t put hardly any emphasis on its athletic programs like they use to when they brought in good coaches, instead of retread’s or first time head coaches with very little experience, and had good teams that people would actually go to watch. 

They aren’t successful because the Subpar AD keeps hiring his Subpar buddies who shouldn’t be head coaches as BU’s head coach. He does this because they don’t want a new proven head coach to come in and clean house and bring in a new coaching staff. Because the existing coaches all have ties to him or administration some how. Beaumont needs to clean house upstairs and bring in new administration and get the academics up to par first then forget the buddy buddy crap and bring in a proven coach that knows how to discipline and turn programs like this around. Bring back the desire in these kids to want to play football and enjoy playing football. Make them want to be as dominating as their basketball team. They have the talent there. They just need the right people to get it out of them.

I have been looking at the scores from a lot of the games and there some crazy high scores. Is it because of lack of pitching or just that much of a talent gap between teams now days?

I hate to say it but the mustang program as we know it will no longer be. The foundation has been broken and now it will start crumbling.

9 hours ago, JustUs said:

Vintage BISD Backroom deal is done. Quietly. Shhhhhhhh....Smh.

I told y’all this was going to happen. If you even want to stand a chance of getting a good coach then you need to get rid of the AD. He’s all about the buddy system and doesn’t care what the community thinks.

51 minutes ago, Yeoj said:

I heard Foreman didn't apply and the hire is going to be in-house. Could be good for United, but the next couple years won't show it 

Who is the AD’s best friends cousins best friend. That will be who United’s next coach will be.

25 minutes ago, oldschool2 said:

Several years ago when I first became a member of this site.. I argued for the necessity of schools turfing their facilities.  It was met with ridicule.

Funny how a mindset changes after a few years. 

I was just saying that to my wife last night. Everybody was bad mouthing PNG when it was the first in the area to get it. Saying it’s a bunch of spoiled rich kids and all kinds of other trash talk. Now those same people are praising their schools for getting it…..My how hypocritical some people are. Jealousy goes to praise when you are getting what YOU want.

Gotcha

Didn’t Cade Holyfield graduate a couple of years ago?

How stupid can one person be? What an idiot!

The cheerleaders are going to have more then the football team if it keeps going like it’s going.

That’s just sick. Can’t say in public what needs to happen to him.

What is up with PAM basketball? They should be a power house year in and year out. They are struggling against teams they should be blowing out. They should be in the same conversation with BU. Is it coaching or is talent just leaving and going to better academic schools?

1 hour ago, LCMAlumtiger32 said:

Oh there is no doubt it’s not ran great at all. But the talent pool is there. Peevy got named one of the best High school coaches in the State. He could have gotten a job at a better school anywhere in Texas. Money and being closer to home was the key. If LCM would not have paid the money he could have went off for better money. There is a chance down the road that he will leave because I’m sure LCM has him topped out. 

I agree with you. He has made a name for himself and will be a hot commodity for years to come. But, if the wife doesn’t want to be far from her parents, he is staying right where he is at. LCM is a good school and a good community so that makes up for a little bit money wise.

I’d want to get out of BISD too. Not a very well ran school district and not up to standards on paying coaches for that classification of school. I would have done the same thing if it was closer to home and better pay to be at one of the bigger schools in a lower classification.