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I most certainly did not say there were no other options in that area.. what I said was that any high school student living within the boundaries of Yates’ attendance zone HAS to be provided an education by Jack Yates high school.  And.. any student living there is legally eligible to play varsity athletics for Yates high school.  There is nothing anyone can do about it.  Just like any student living within the Hardin Jefferson attendance zone.  The students living outside of the Yates attendance zone still live in a school’s attendance zone.. there aren’t any empty spaces.
Yes.. it’s highly suspect that these kids happen to have moved into this attendance zone.  One can speculate that their coach is recruiting or maybe the school itself is recruiting via namesake.  Unfortunately, not UIL, you, nor anyone else can control where the legal guardian of a high school student decides to live.
If I was from out of state and got a job at one of the refineries in SeTx, do you think where I decided to live would reflect where I’d rather my kids go to school?

No.. but the point is that the kids living inside that boundary HAVE to be provided an education by Houston Yates and ARE eligible for UIL competition.  Kids living outside of it ARE NOT able to just enroll in school at Houston Yates and start playing basketball.  Those are transfer students and are ineligible for UIL competition for one calendar year from their enrollment date.  The school does not have access to the whole city.  NO SCHOOL can stop or deny who lives in their attendance zone.  

Great point !!!Finally someone with some understanding ,can’t beat a dead horse and there are a lot of ppl on this forum that have no idea what their talking about 

I’ll simply say, poor LaMarque.

Silsbee should win this game in the 2nd qtr. 

Won’t even be close!!! Lumberton gave la marque all they wanted!!!  Yates by 50-60 

The only question for this year in 4A is can anyone keep yates under 100.

You can type on this thread until your fingers are blue, UIL has stamped their approval on Yates and their transfer portal 

The AD is making those statements because Yates is making money for the district. Don’t let politics fool you, if HISD was so in love with Yates why is it they didn’t schedule one game for Yates in the New Delmar Field-house. Yates game attendance is greater then Bellaire, Lamar and The Heights but those schools gets to play at Delmar.  

WOW BTW won 2 playoff games 

A lot of those kids have ties to yates .. great grandparents, grandparents , or parents went there ..yates is a very old school ...with yates basketball  ur argument goes both ways ... they lose kids to the ft bend schools which are always exceptional in basketball , they lose kids to Prep and private schools ... this balances out.. yates does not have to recruit any players ...players already want to go there .. 

If it’s a legit transfer (meaning no recruitment was involved) it’s fine with me. I have no reason to favor any one of these programs over the other. I support all SETX programs. I’m just giving my opinion from the outside looking in. I have no clue who’s actually recruiting who’s not but certain things look more suspicious than others. Transfers happen all the time. Kids go to different programs for different reasons. Not every time do these reasons involve recruiting. In fact I believe my hometown, Woodville lost a good 2 sport athlete to Silsbee a couple years back. We don’t get a whole lot of great athletes in Woodville so that hurt us I think. But I don’t think any recruiting was involved. I believe he had family ties in Silsbee or may have lived there before at one point and it didn’t hurt that Silsbee has a great athletic program which I think had something to do with him and his family’s decision also. I think that transfer hurt Woodville a lot more than it helped Silsbee which is the killer part lol. But I don’t think there was any recruiting involved. I think that was a decision he and his family made on their own. Now those type of things happen all the time but when 4 or 5 good athletes transfer to a program at one time with no ties to the community that raises eyebrows. If you can prove a coach is recruiting players on a small or large scale than I am all the way with you but if your just going to throw allegations out there because a program has had a transfer or 2 over the years sounds like your reaching 

You from Beaumont right, so if you live in Beaumont that mean your Kids who played for H.J was recruited...

All this unnecessary typing back & forth because one team got smashed and now ppl are all in their feelings,over some basketball a sad world we live in!!!!

Man U sound ridiculous Adams lived in the west end of Beaumont Texas throughly his entire silsbee career and played at Vincent middle school. Did not have to sit out one minute at silsbee. You are a hypocrite. U bash some and gives others passes aren’t u an administrator of this forum? Just sad 

Yates has only 1 middle school that feeds into the school and coaches did call out other coaches on their athletes and the transfer portal. Maybe the HJ coach is upset because he is 0-4 against Yates and the transfers. This is my personal op
 
WOW, transfer portal worked for 2 rings for Silsbee Tigers 👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿

HISD Athletic Director denied the transfers, Yates had to file an appeal with UIL. HISD has been working behind closed doors to sell the property that Yates is on to The University of Houston. HISD doesn’t care for Yates, they prefer Bellaire, Lamar and The Heights. The transfers those schools get justify my statement. HISD ran the clock in the second half of Yates Games in an attempt to stop them from reaching their record 100 point streak. 

HISD Athletic Director denied the transfers, Yates had to file an appeal with UIL. HISD has been working behind closed doors to sell the property that Yates is on to The University of Houston. HISD doesn’t care for Yates, they prefer Bellaire, Lamar and The Heights. The transfers those schools get justify my statement. HISD ran the clock in the second half of Yates Games in an attempt to stop them from reaching their record 100 point streak. 

The comment the HJ Coach made (Probably have to go recruit some players,” said ClayDavis on preparing for Yates) was very disrespectful toward Coach Wise. I have never heard Coach Wise disrespect any coach after a loss. This is my personal opinion 

Be aware.. if that were the case, it would have a major impact on even local "small town" schools.  Notably the recent East Chambers football/basketball year, currently HF, and countless other area schools who had success with one or more transfer kids. 
Gotta take the bad with the good if that's the rule. 

HJ played good defense against a great team and almost stopped the 100 point streak. That would have been a great moral victory.
But to go on about recruiting after the loss is sour grapes. They played the Lions tough last year and not a peep about it. If you're so sure about this, go file a complaint with the UIL, which frowns on this.
The reporter should have pushed back on this comment. Where is your evidence? Otherwise, he's just letting the coach libel another coach. Bad job, Beaumont Enterprise. When there were veterans in the editor desks, this would have never happened.
HJ could have avoided this by hanging on last Friday. They lost to the better team and there's no shame in that. 
This was an opportunity to teach his kids sometimes your best isn't good enough but that it's no reason to be ashamed because they laid it all on the line. Clay Davis is wrong.

What are we teaching kids that the playing field should always be level or do we tell our kids that they need to get better in order to compete . That they need to put In the work ,get in the gym and work on your game . They don’t hand out participation trophies which is what some of you are looking for. GET IN THE GYM AND GET BETTER !!!! PERIOD!!!!! And coaches get better watch tons of film see how you can play multiple styles the game is evolving if you don’t evolve with you’ll get left behind. 

It’s just finding it’s way to 4A.  That Plano East team from several years ago that won state was probably the best recruited team I’ve seen.  The metroplex state champ is always formed “by committee.”  Last year’s team was no exception.  AND the 4A champ (Dallas Family Faith or whatever) imported almost the whole team AND coaching staff.  Houston area is just playing catch up.  And it just goes on in a smaller scale down here.  But it does go on and has for years.  I could probably pull 20 examples off the top of my head but am not interested in doing that.  

I guess some can’t take a loss. You cry about the system that allows you to do the same thing . Quit getting on this board crying about kids transferring when it happens everywhere . Some get better players some don’t and when it doesn’t work to your advantage your crying a river . The entire UIL is made it up of well you guessed it . So how does that happen or are the kids there legit . All a coach can do is prepare his/her  team to play. Your job isn’t to worry about what the other team has going on but to give your kids the confidence to play the game at a high level. Oh and kids have to get better period !!!!!!

Yes
Sunrise Christian Academy 88 - Yates 47
Montverde Academy 98 - Yates 46