AthleticSupporter - Jock

Harder in what way? It's not harder to get accepted into college, get financial assistance, gain meaningful employment and even become president of the greatest and most powerful country on Earth. It's harder to get fired from a job, I'll give you that one. You can't call Davis a crybaby for pointing out undisputed flaws in a system and that Yates takes advantage of those flaws to create an unfair advantage and then cry about fairness in society that is easily disputable.

We need to take a page out of Sanders/AOC's book and offer free health care to the families or something. Get creative people. Trying to compete with the Yates Communication offerings is never going to work.

Lumberton 31-8 at half

LCM travels to HF on Tuesday and the winner of that game is in the playoffs, I believe. And let me say for the record that as good of a coach as Rideaux is, he may be a better teacher in my book. He's old school and has kids put phones away and actually use the physical copy of their book. No Google or social media. Just in your face, challenging, confrontational discussions about real world, controversial topics. And he's not afraid to hurt a student's feelings if it will help prepare them better. I hope HF knows how good of a teacher they gained in addition to a good basketball coach. Not many of those kids will earn a living in basketball. He prepares kids for life. In a world where we need good liberals for good honest debate with us conservatives, Rideaux is a breath of fresh air.

Very similar to when Grayland Arnold dropped 40 something on Tatum in the playoffs around 2015? but Tatum won. Talking to a Tatum alum recently about that game he said the game plan was to shut everyone else down and just let Grayland do his thing. Sounds like a good game plan against Bush and the tigers as well. Either way, sounds like an exciting game. Congrats to HJ.

Carthage is a great team. They did what they were supposed to do which is advance without getting any kids hurt. I hope that part happened because I saw a few kids leave the field. What I'm most proud of is that our coaches and kids came in ready to fight and let the chips fall where they may. We killed ourselves early with bad snaps, a chop block, etc which would have made for a closer game. But even into the 4th quarter, I saw kids launching their bodies into a bigger stronger opponent and never giving up. I would never question a coach using timeouts at the end of an unwinnable game to try to score again. It's one more chance to teach kids that it is never ok to give up or lay down. If someone can't understand that, then they need to spend some time looking in the mirror. The Lumberton players had nothing but good things to say about the Carthage players. That says a lot about those kids, their parents and coaches. Great job Carthage!!! I think some other parents could learn a few things from your example. Great season Raiders!!

Wasn't El Campo a pretty strong 4A (now 5A) team a few years prior to that? Or am I thinking of a different school?

I remember a D1 caliber rapper that came out of vidor. What was that big hit he had?

Carthage is the better team but the better team doesn't always win. Injuries, turnovers, flu bug, trap games, more turnovers, etc can all contribute to upsets. The kids and coaches have to believe that it is possible. I have seen bigger upsets than Huffman beating Carthage. The fact that nobody thinks it will happen, including Carthage, is why it sometimes happens. If y'all meet up, I think most of our district will be rooting for you guys. Good luck

Did they finally replace that turf at Stallworth from the 1970s?

Do you also believe that we have aliens and UFOs hidden at area 51?

Like a lot of others, I was dead wrong on this one. What a huge win for BC!!! Great job and good luck in the playoffs

Honestly, I thought we were evenly matched before the game so I was shocked for 3 quarters. LCM has some big boys and some nice athletes. It took some crazy determination and great play calling to pull off that comeback in the 4th quarter. After watching LCM, your prediction should have been accurate. But like they always say, that's why we play the game. I would have lost a lot of money on the Splendora/BC game btw. Crazy night.

Great post. That's what it's all about. Teaching young men to be scrappers and to never give up. Life lessons are being learned and memories made. Gotta love it.

There are a bunch of people on here that should not give up their day jobs. Forecasting, prognosticating and fortune telling is not for the faint of heart. And quite frankly, some of you suck at it. But keep trying. Statistically speaking, you have to get one right eventually. Hang in there. Go Raiders!!!

the top enrollment of a classification should not be more than double the bottom enrollment #. I do remember that rule that they set for themselves

I personally liked him as well. And look at how Lumberton treated him after the awesome 07 and 08 seasons, when he didn't have the same playmakers and things took a turn for the worse. Same coach, same system, same work ethic but the teams went 3 seasons with only 1 win. Was that poor coaching? Wrong player at QB? Wrong Offense? I'm sure some of these daddies on here would say it was those things. I saw that man and his family get attacked on here and in the community worse than I've ever seen happen to a coach. And people forget, Babin was the OC under Credeur calling plays during those 07 08 seasons. The answers to figuring out how to win in a community like Lumberton are not easy answers to come by. Credeur and Babin have done a pretty damn good job of developing young boys into men and trying to prepare them for a world that is not so kind. I thought that is why we encouraged our kids to play sports like football in the first place. It's not for scholarships or trophies because those things are largely out of our control. Along the way, these 2 coaches both managed to have some really good seasons when they had some studs on the team. I don't fault Babin for choosing this offense for this team. I also don't fault him for the many times we get behind the chains with penalties. I don't fault him for the kids getting hurt and having to finish a game with a 3rd string QB or finding a way to be competitive while missing your starting Center and NG for the last few games. I'm not making excuses because these are all parts of the game. But sometimes they contribute heavily to why we lose the game and we just have to deal with and make the best of the situation. And sometimes we are just not as good as the other team and it's not anyone's fault. Hopefully these kids come out of this high school experience as Scrappers with some fight in them. That's what it's going to take to be successful when this short period of their life is over and they move on to the important stuff.

Exactly. NS with almost 5000 kids playing little bitty ole WB with only 2500. And how many times did WB score? Amazing! How would sportsfreak explain such a strange phenomenon?

I like our chances against BC if we protect the ball and stay away from penalties.

I'm curious what the #s will look like for these 6 schools this year. Lumberton has increased by about 100 and will likely be back in 5A. How about the others? BTW, cry me a river. Lumberton will be back to playing schools with 1800+ kids. BC with 791 playing schools with 1100 is not bad at all.

I feel like I get just a little bit dumber every time I read one of spidersal's post. My hope is that it is a middle school kid playing on the computer but I'm afraid it's a young adult who did a few too many drugs while his/her brain was still developing. It's kind of sad really.

Agreed. I was curious why that would be considered a trick play. Great call and players executed perfectly. Huffman coaches and players deserve credit for the win. They were the better team and should go 10-0. Lumberton has nothing to be ashamed of. Just have to protect the ball better and keep getting better at executing. No need to press the panic button.

Yes sir. Speed is not a concern at the moment for Lumberton. It will come down to execution, blocking and tackling. With our kids and coaches, I like our chances.

It's a football game not a track meet, so I think the raiders will be fine. We have enough speed to play with anyone in our district, as long as the players execute the way they have been coached. If our offense can keep from getting behind the chains with penalties, the Raiders should win in a close game.

That was #2. #25 and #7 would not have been caught. But the tiger D never let either of them loose. Well, 7 got loose down our sideline on the 2nd TD. Silsbee defense is tough.