BlueOwl

Lawd geezus 🤦🏾‍♂️

Certain small circles have made some racist claims about CT.
If as you say, the term suspect refers to a criminal, it does not single out a race. If a coach from another school. say one with a majority of white athletes, were to use the term "suspects", would it be racist? I assume not. So because of where CT coaches, his comment is racist? Reality is my friend, you have twisted this into a race issue because of the race of the athletes which in turn makes you the racist. 
 

My favorite was after their playoff loss to Silsbee a couple of years ago. Reporter asked his thoughts on the loss, he replied "Well we have been dogs chasing cars all season and tonight we finally caught one."

Going to Division 2 is a losers mentality. 

If Lamar dropped to Div 2 I would never attend another event again. 

I hope he's working with kids.  He's got a gift.

He had been on leave. He pretty much destroyed every athletic program Lamar had with poor decisions and hires.
Here is hoping we get somebody good to turn our programs around.

I think it’s dumb that 1 and 2 play in the semifinals!!! 

HJ by 20+

Certainly need to give Brooks a chance, however Lamar struggling competing in all sports. I guess they just can’t recruit probably due in part to an ugly campus, not much to do in Beaumont, and losing programs. It seems to me since Born was hired as AD, all programs are worse. Bruner had the softball team winning, Hooks can’t sniff a win, Harmony had the womens basketball competing, this coach struggles, winning, Davis has proven that he can’t win in baseball. I don’t know what the athletic programs problems are, but it is not good. I sure hope Brooks can turn it around

Uh, reminder, nobody wins scrimmages.

The point is???   We would play them again tomorrow if we could.  We would play Desoto if we could... 
This is its not about a record, or stats..... Its about competition... finding holes in the team and working to fix them...

HJ canceled due to Covid

The problem with max preps is not every game gets posted.  Actual records of HJ under Davis: 
14-15:  28-8
15-16:  26-9
16-17:  24-14
17-18:  31-10
18-19:  28-10
19-20:  27-12
20-21:  20-6 (no tournaments)
district record during that span:  65-11 (includes 4 district champ/co-champ and 3 district runner ups)

Admittedly a biased post here, as Clay coached me when I was a kid, and I’ve always liked him.  I did a little research, and talked to some HJ folks as well.  As best I can tell, Tatum won about 7 games in two years before Davis got there, then won 19 his first year, 26 his second.  Two district titles in his two years there, and a regional tourney appearance.  Took over Jasper and won the district his first year, and took them to the regional quarters.  Missed the playoffs the next year, which was the year he was dealing with some family stuff that led to him coming back to HJ as an assistant.  I believe his playoff runs at those schools were the deepest both schools had ever gone at the time.  HJ hasn’t gone as far under Davis as they did under Sutherland in the playoffs, but they’ve lost in the playoffs to Sterling, Navasota, Yates x 3, and Silsbee.  Every one of those teams went to state or the regional finals.  He took over basically right at the time that houston all of a sudden had 4A AAU teams, and Silsbee was able to play 3 D-1 players at once.  HJ has had some good players in his time at HJ, but nothing compared to what Sutherland coached there, and the route to state has been infinitely harder since he took over.   The playoff loss this year was really the only bad playoff loss he’s had in his career, and his best player was suspended and two other starters were injured (he’d tell you himself that they still had no excuse losing).   Davis may not have a state championship, but he consistently takes decent athletes and builds really good small school basketball teams.  He may not be the best coach in the area, but he’s earned the right to be on a list of the best coaches around here.  He’s also undoubtedly had the opportunity to move to schools that would give him a better shot of advancing, but has stayed loyal to HJ.  

It’s true they’ve all had good athletes but that doesn’t necessarily transition into basketball success. Jasper’s basketball team was not real good before he took over up there. He’s done a good job at HJ year in and year out. 

That family has been through an awful lot in the past year.  Prayers that the news keeps getting better. 

Please keep Coach Davis at HJ and his family in your prayers.  I am not going to elaborate on what is going on since it isn't my place, but I know prayers would be much appreciated.

Head coaches will live or die with their decisions!  But the question is:  Can Lumberton field 22 players that can make a run for the State Title?  

I’ve been a big critic of Marco Born, but joining this conference is a win. Facilities are also looking good with the new upgrades. Now we need to win some championships.

Nope,  looks like the landing spot is back at LU:
 

That is quite possibly the DUMBEST statement I've seen on here in quite a while.  First of all, Lamar was in dire need of a figure that could attract top notch talent AND have the experience to direct the program to greater heights.  This was actually the PERFECT hire! Wait...were you wanting Lamar to hire a WHITE, young, assistant? Yeah. That's probably it.  When will you people learn? SMH

Time to scrap all the coaches and the AD. Every program consistently underperforms every year. With the exception of women’s soccer. Since Marco Born has taken over baseball has went 37-72. Basketball is 40-38. Football is 9-12. Volleyball is 16-42. Softball is 60-74. Women’s basketball is 36-34. 
 
When you have a guy from Memphis running the show what do you expect. Hired a guy from San Diego as the football HC. 
 
SETX is home to some of the best talent in Texas. How can the home town school continue to fail to get these guys to commit? My guess is the AD and HCs don’t see the value and talent in this area. 
 
Baseball is atrocious. No reason it should be like that. 37-72 over 3 years!!! 
 
All Marco Born cares about is raising money and doesn’t care about wins and losses. He needs to go. We need a local guy running the show who will go after the best talent and can compete with bigger schools. I know Lamar isn’t going to compete with A&M, UT, or Tech. But there’s no reason we shouldn’t be competing with La Tech, ULM, UTSA, Rice, etc. 
Obviously the people in charge don’t have a clue how to get wins and build programs. They are just happy to be there. 

They simply don’t care.
 

Marco Born is a complete moron and doesn’t know how to run an athletic program. All he cares about is fundraising. He could care less about wins and losses. He had a golden opportunity to make an exciting hire in football and we see how that’s going. He will probably hire a first time HC to take over the basketball program. Lamar needs someone that actually cares about winning to be the AD. Not some slap from Middle Tennessee.