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Man, BH might beat Dayton. We play them right out of the box after coming off Santa Fe and Vidor, Westeberg is going to get baptized in his first district game. I know kids that they're looking at to play specific positions and those kids will be absolutely no threat to Crosby. You need players to win, why do you think Dayton isn't having that same success without Green and Dugat? Why do you think Ricky Tullos took a backwoods system to George Ranch and turned them into a powerhouse? You ever watched Katy run their bread and butter play, the toss crack out of a 1970's SWC game? You can coach up and scout whatever you want, better have you some players.

Very true, they're actually the 17th most talented school in the nation since 2000. Off the top of my head I can't even think of one D1 prospect BH has even had in that period, I'm sure there's at least one though? Mix that with the fact that in his time at Allen Westeberg never coached a qb that didn't end up in the SEC or what is currently the Big 12 before Seth Green signed with Minnesota this year. While they're in different classes most of the time, those SEC and Big 12 qbs were being protected by at least four D1 offensive linemen too. Then they had at least two D1 receivers to throw to at all times, even had NFL backs like Jonathan Williams to had off to. What some people don't realize is that when you play in a semifinal and title games and you literally have TWICE the enrollment as your opponent, you have major built-in advantages that do not exist at BH. [Hidden Content]

I usually don't bring this up because it doesn't matter but didn't we just beat BH 74-19 in 7 on 7? That's before we add in the line of scrimmage. They probably ran the ball a lot because it's very obvious they still can't throw it. There were people scouting our Spring game though, they all had NCAA logos on their shirts.

Lol, and you're from Hardin right. Totally understandable.

Whenever I watched PNG play Angleton this past year it looked like some kids from Barrett Station would've helped . . .

Your source set you up failure and lied to your face.

Man, when somebody comes up with a fallacy like that you can bet that they have no clue what they're commenting about. Just someone felt they needed to comment on something, even they didn't know the first thing about it, sort of like earlier this offseason with the coaching moves.

Very nervous when Hutto took the ball and marched it right down the field on us. Lucky for us the poor kid never saw it coming, he dang sure did his best to rectify the mistake though. Chronicle had him down for 237 passing and 191 rushing, thankfully the time ran out and we at least got a regional crown that year.

Herrick made Hutto relevant. If he doesn't have that kind of year on a senior heavy team in '14 then Sawyer probably doesn't even get the job. You can see from their record this year that even with kids like Ondario Robinson on defense, once they geared up to stop Herrick this past season Hutto struggled. That's even with a solid defensive coach like Steve Van Meter(Friendswood former coach). They gave up 35, 54 and 42 points in their three district losses this past season and got beat in the first round 38-6 by College Station. Not really sure that gets you a head job being a DC and giving up those numbers unless you can revert a couple of years back and show how Herrick was killing people and making them one dimensional and thus easier to defend. That's how.

Well, now all Sterling has to do is find a kid like Tyler Herrick that got Sawyer the job and they'll be just fine. Kid annihilated Crosby in the regional final a couple years ago and almost won it by himself. I think he threw for over 3,000 yards and ran for another 1,000. He really put Hutto on the map since they made the move to 5A. Here's the kid that I would say was the catalyst for him getting the job. Tyler Herrick(QB), signed with Pennsylvania - [Hidden Content]

I don't think he's at Rusk more than two or three years. I heard he was from around Jacksonville so maybe he views it as a retirement job? I just think that after he gets that program going he'll have other offers from around the area that will be too good to pass up.

After being let go at Dayton after the '15 season, former Dayton head football coach gets an A/D job:

I guess Lee's coach has been in education less than 5 years because he started at $80k, I don't know their raise structure though so who knows what he makes now. When Sedberry was at Lee he applied for the Central job so I would imagine it was a raise for him to leave GCCISD and go to Central at the time. If it is Flannigan it would make sense because he's been a coach for a long time and could probably negotiate a higher salary. I know BISD started Foreman and Suggs around $80k so if Flannigan isn't making much more than that it's understandable for him to apply for a potential raise closer to home. Westbrook isn't in a far easier district either. North Shore and Atascosita are tough and will finish 1-2, but the rest of the district is mediocre to sub-par for the 6A level. Westbrook, The Woodlands, Lufkin and Montgomery are pretty solid for the top half of a 6A district.

Ozen had the guy when they hired Plez Atkins away from North Forest, only other upgrade that I would say was the perfect fit for the situation at Ozen would be James Williams at FB Marshall. I would imagine FB ISD is a probably a more beneficial district to work in though. TK Harrison just left Crosby to be the OC at PAM, if Ozen is looking for a new head man Coach Harrison should be on the short list . . . the very short list.

That's definitely the truth. Question is will he be used like Craig Williams was as a sophomore last year, 89 carries for 985 yards, or will he be given a heavy workload as a sophomore due to the lack of players around him. I think Calvin can be a lot like Craig, but I would also say that if Craig played at Sterling he would be run into the ground and probably wouldn't be the #3 APB in the country right now. Sort of like D'Onta Allen's improvement once he left GCM for Crosby and was given a role instead of a load.

Well, he made more than the position was offered for at GCM. Starting salary for a GCCISD head football coach was a little over $79k last year, whic is why I remember the Lee guy that came from Texas City starting at $80k. Maybe the teachers are paid great but when you can go to the SW side of Houston or north to Montgomery County, not be expected to win, and still start at 6 figures, GCCISD and their lack of talent becomes a hard sell to sought after coaches. [Hidden Content]

You must not have seen them play on the underclass levels? They have a qb/rb combo that will be at least as good or better than Brantley(Tulane) and Williams(A&M). King's talent pool is growing just like all the other schools that are currently in our district except for maybe Dayton. They're doing a lot of upgrades at the school but Sheldon ISD will just eventually need another high school once the Liberty subdivisions are finished and they'll also see enrollment increases as Generation Park is being completed. The kids in that whole area north of 90 between CE King prkwy dang near to John Ralston are trying to go to King now. I believe Flannigan still does live in Crosby. The problem with GCCISD trying to get a good head coach is that they don't pay very much starting out, I believe the guy that took the Lee job started around $80k and Gerari was something similar. Hard to attract quality coaches around this area if you're going to pay Beaumont ISD salaries.

Kid killed it last year with no other perceived threats on the team except the qb, if he's healthy he might put up JK Dobbins-like numbers dropping down a classification to Silsbee. I think with the Spring evaluation period drawing to a close you probably won't see many more Power 5 offers for him because of his size but I fully expect him to dismantle 4A competition next year. Pretty solid rating as the #24 APB in the country - [Hidden Content]

The role of recruiting coordinators per the Houston Chronicle - [Hidden Content]

How the three districts with $60M stadiums compare - [Hidden Content]

Good post Coach Bear. I hope some people on here were digesting those "why" reasons from the horses mouth. I never told you before, but thanks for having your guys take it easy on me in practice and letting me make it to college healthy. Really wished I would've listened to more of what you guys were trying to tell me. Freeman was #4, Clack was #7, this is #14 that went to South Dakota State y'all thought was a head case. I know I missed out on multiple offers because of it but sometime the hard way is the most tangible way to learn. Keep doing what you do coach, glad I got to be around you.

My point was that any time you see an astronomical amount spent on a high school stadium you start getting the detractors writing stories, like USA Today, about what could've alternatively been done with the money. You're helping me make my point when you highlight that it doesn't take away from the students in any manor.

The district I was talking about building a new school was Plano. They have three senior highs alone with enrollments totaling over 16k students. Highland Park is a wealthy district but very small when compared to Plano, Plano ISD already has two nice stadiums but when they were ready they could build something $60-$65 million and swallow the cost better than all these other districts except Katy. Plano ISD's operating budget last year was something like $435million, not to mention they probably have the biggest egos in Dallas so there's little to no chance they let $120+ million worth of stadiums go up within 5 miles of each other, right in their backyard, and not build anything to match.

Heard he looked real nice at the 7 on 7 between Crosby and PAM before the game had to be stopped. That's pretty high praise for him since Crosby had already taken out a loaded North Shore earlier.

It may be a while down the road but there's another district on 75 where the real money in Dallas resides outside of Highland Park. When that district decides it's time for a new stadium, it will become the new crown jewel of THSF. The district already has two nice stadiums but you can bet the egos in that part of town will want the best one, the residents could care less about the actual product on the field.