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Nope. Woodville is in two different districts.. gonna be a busy year.

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Here's what I know... last year's Kountze team wouldn't have beat Silsbee.

Winning cures everything. If Lumberton was losing every game and not a playoff contender then there would be a problem with "yelling" or whatever else a parent could come up with.

Two thumbs up.

Not that I necessarily agree with both sides of the argument, but I do realize that complacency could trigger many "the grass is greener somewhere else" feelings. Especially considering that most teachers that do a lot of complaining (I'm assuming) can remember a time when conditions were seemingly better. A time when if a teacher had issues out of a kid all they had to do was walk outside and three on the backside would fix it. A time when expectations of their job was probably much lower. So in that regard, I understand why they are making the argument.. ya know.. "we don't get paid enough for this". Like you say and I agree with, it's not difficult to do something else. I also think that the teachers' salaries are reflective of the amount they have to deal with in regards to school size. It's true that you won't get paid the same in a tiny school as you would in a huge school... but you also won't have 40 kids in a room that may or may not include gang members (embellishment). So yeah.. maybe the grass is greener somewhere else and maybe it's not. Go find out if it's that hard to deal with. I think a good number of educators are ok with their job and are perfectly happy with the reward vs. risk. Just my opinion based on the friends/family I have in the profession.

Are you assuming gender? Totally kidding.. Sometimes I guess I'm perceived as a jerk, but mostly I'm really just trying to be funny. I guess that's why my career path veered away from comedy.

Looks to me like SA scored more points than SV did.

I would've lost big money on this one.. Good job Kountze. I love when teams win that weren't "supposed to win".

Maybe true.. but even though people are just getting random degrees then becoming certified through alternative plans, there are still significant shortages every year all across the state. People aren’t even becoming teachers and then falling back on their degree.. They’re skipping becoming a teacher altogether and teachers that have been so for years are leaving the profession in mass numbers.

I'm told regularly from my many friends in education that there is a mass exodus concerning both coaches AND teachers from the profession. Not just BISD. I also have a friend that words in the education department at SFA that tells me the number of students they're having in the education program lately is scary low. I'm not sure if teacher pay would correct the issue or not.. people can speculate but the reason may not be money. Like you said..."despite having one of the higher paying districts in SETX".

I would have also.

Like I stated earlier.. Doesn't matter if you give up 7 but only score 6. And scoring 50 means nothing if you give up 51.

Well... technically it is. By definition anyway.

What's even more staggering to me is that there's only one state champion out of the 20 teams.

It matters when the defense can convert turnovers to points.

Upon further expection.. it's similarly successful to have a top defense as it is to have a top offense. Top 10 Offenses: Atascocita- 12-2 Round 4 San Augustine- 14-1 Round 5 Panhandle- 8-3 Round 1 Shiner- 12-1 Round 3 McKinney North- 10-2 Round 2 CC Miller- 12-1 Round 3 Midland Lee- 11-2 Round 3 Red Oak- 11-2 Round 3 San Saba- 13-1 Round 4 Highland Park- 11-2 Round 3 Top 10 Defenses: Diboll- 11-1 Round 2 San Saba- 13-1 Round 4 Cy-Fair- 11-1 Round 2 East Bernard- 14-1 Round 5 Austin LBJ- 8-3 Round 1 Ralls- 10-2 Round 2 Austin WL- 15-1 Round 6 SC Alto- 12-1 Round 3 Lindsay- 9-3 Round 2 Duncanville- 15-1 Round 6 Offense= 114-17 Collectively 31 rounds deep Defense= 118-15 Collectively 31 rounds deep

Soooo.... does defense really win championships? Only one team on this list won the title. Also, the top 10 offenses seemingly won more playoff games than the top 10 defenses. Just sayin

Derrick and I have talked quite a bit of ball.. y'all have a good one. I know he was a handful in college because of his work ethic. Not many freshmen start on that level. I have no doubt that you guys are getting the same effort with his coaching. I haven't been to a game but I think it's all he knows.

Coach Daniels is a friend of mine from way back. He's been around a lot of winning basketball.

I wasn’t implying it’s anybody’s fault.. I know that fans should be updating. It’s aggravating because I have other ways of finding scores but can’t even count on those for girls basketball.

I really do. I actually have friends with ties (one way or another) with all of those schools.

In my complete opinion, it seems that schools locally are so hindered by not only numbers but by players with completely different skill sets it seems to me that it would be a nightmare to come up with something that your specific group of girls can actually do (system) from year to year. It also seems that the reason so many girls teams in the area are so "pressure, steal, layup" oriented is because they may not have 5 kids capable of a conventional half-court basketball style of play. Not sure. Can your "shooters" create their own shots? Because I wouldn't put it past a lot of these area schools to junk defense your shooters. Do you do dribble drive stuff because you see a lot of man defense? I love dribble drive stuff but I rarely see high school girls teams capable of doing it. It's pretty much all what most NBA teams do nowadays. If so that's kind of great. That you see man AND you have the personnel necessary to run a dribble drive type of offense.

Then HJ is most certainly doing it right. They are making all of the necessary deposits. That's what I used to tell my kids growing up.. If you need a withdrawal later, deposit the time/effort now.