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Head football coach at Newton or WOS has never been fired because the other sports teams were unsuccessful and/or neglected. It works only one way.

I think that with a lot of "smaller" schools.. in the area for sure.. it's easier to justify giving a higher salary to the head football coach if AD is attached to the job. In turn, being able to attract a higher caliber of applicant for the job. Plus, you won't get a good football coach (in most cases) if they know they have other job responsibilities other than just coaching football. Even if it's a "coaching job" like teaching P.E. or something... but head coaches will want to reserve those kinds of jobs for their coordinators. And yes.. there will be cases where HFC/AD are much more partial to the football program than to the entire athletic program as a whole. To be fair, their job will be on the line based on the success of the football team.. even if every other athletic teams in the school flourishes. So I get it. That's also why I don't really have a problem with hiring an AD only. AD only can be solely responsible for the entire athletic department.. and the HFC can focus solely on the success of the football team.

Just watched the video. Hardin kid slid into 1st as the ball got there, got by or away from 1st baseman, 1st baseman started running in the direction of the missed ball I'm assuming.. as the base runner was getting up to run to 2nd, they ran into each other and got tangled up it looked like. Not sure if the contact was intentional or not.. looked coincidental. In the fray, baserunner struggled to get off of the 1st baseman.. but may have thought the contact was intentional.. so he pushed the 1st baseman while trying to get up. After that, the 2nd baseman ran in and grabbed the baserunner around the waist to prevent him from running. No punches were thrown. Benches definitely cleared.. but Hardin's entire team was in the dugout.

Congrats. Tough place to coach.. hopefully the community leaves him alone. If history holds true, they likely won't. Hopefully it changes in that regard.

Not 100% sure. I've heard but can't confirm.. and don't want to say something that I don't know for sure.

Put his kids in a better situation?

Completely taking Sells out of the offensive equation 2nd half. That’s gonna do it.

Tarkington won by 2. EC came back from down 10 late to tie. Tarkington scored with about 12 seconds to go. EC then turned it over with about 5 seconds left. I think it was 63-61

IF they did that.. it might certainly stay somewhat respectable. IF. But.. I have a sneaky suspicion that Silsbee's perimeter players would make it a little more difficult to do than the current district foes. Closeout speed is likely considerably magnified. You could theoretically say that about any team. IF X hits most of their 3's and Y misses... then it could be respectable at least. And Kountze may have a higher likelihood of that happening than some.. but still doesn't mean it's likely. It wouldn't be worth betting a playoff warmup game on that likelihood.

I'm glad Kountze is having an improved season. I am. And I believe the Sells kid is a player.. But.. beating up on their district doesn't mean they could give Silsbee anything competitive. Like already said.. not gonna happen. And I personally don't even believe it would be a game.

The list of things that can change between JH and HS is vast. It's more likely than not that JH success won't be the same in HS. 1st and foremost.. 7th grade kids playing against everyone else's 7th grade kids and 8th grade kids playing against everyone else's 8th grade kids is not evenly remotely the same as 9-12th against 9-12th. A grade level of kids playing with either the grade above them or below them.. or both can dramatically change the success/failure compared to when it was just them. Not only do kids mature, gain strength, gain speed, gain size, and gain skill (both physically and mentally) at completely different levels and pace individually, but kids actually WORK and/or gain/lose interest completely different. Forget about the other obvious variables.. like: academic eligibility, transferring (both losing and gaining kids), quitting, reclassification, coaching change, etc. etc. etc. The situation for a Senior IS NOT THE SAME as that same kid's situation was when they were a 7th grader. To think so is idiotic. It's truly funny to me to hear people make predictions based on what happened in JH... might as well add little league as a predictor lol.

According to Maxpreps.. OF beat EC, Woodville, and Jasper in 2011. And played Silsbee within 4. I'm pretty sure Huckaby was a Slot-T guy if I remember correctly.

I put it in parenthesis for a reason. Every week leading up to that week.. Silsbee was supposedly too good to be knocked off by BV.

My mistake.. Franklin (Slot-T team) made the finals this year.. after winning two consecutive. And Bellville (Slot-T team) made the state finals.. after running through the "best" that SeTx had to offer. My mistake. They only made the finals running the Slot-T. That's terrible.

So the coaches who run Slot-T that won state championships this year and the years before don’t know how to coach? Interesting take..