CardinalBacker

I wasn’t there, can’t speak on the specifics of this game. But I can say that it’s a crying shame that Silsbee has had all of that talent over the years and got nothing to show for it. They won’t be playing in December again this year unless they miraculously learn how to control their emotions. This is Texas High School Football, not some AAU tournament. It’s time to grow up, guys.

It’s football… it happens. He’ll be fine. On to the next one.

B Unit!

I, for one, am glad to see BC moving back up into the our rightful home-the Whitest district in Texas, bar none. Maybe we can win a district game. BC Huffman Lumberton LiCk’eM Livingston Vidor We’re just gonna be playing some really aggressive two-below in slow motion.

I was gonna say “Newton vs the Alphabet” but I’m trying not to get kicked off of here again.

WOS vs their own Coaches? Bridge City vs winning?

Not bad... I'd lean more like 50/40/10, when you consider that coaching isn't just scheming and adjusting-it's putting the program in place and developing the talent. But I like what you"re saying.

I agree… like 53-47 athletes over coaching.

I think it's a lot closer to 50-50 than most people from schools with a lot of talent believe. Quite often those athletes are a product of a preparation in a system that goes back 6 or more years. When you start naming great athletes that came from your program, ask yourself "how successful would they have been if they'd played for a crappy program?" I use WOS as an example. The Mustang faithful always go back to it being the athletes, not coaching that made them great. All they need to do is hire one of CT's old assistants and there WILL be a return to glory, right? How many WOS kids are in the NFL right now? How many are playing D1 ball? Being a part of that program helped to make good athletes have great high school careers. But it's a mixture... the best coaching in the world won't help a bunch of unathletic kids get to the State Championship.... but top notch coaching can help a bunch of good players have a GREAT season/career.

But the last act of the outgoing board was to extend the super for three years… and Burkeville had to cough up three years worth of his salary, if my memory is correct. It was a very costly decision and I’m pretty sure Burkeville has had two supers since. I mean, the new board won and made good on their promise, but the whole ISD lost in regards to a severance that cost the school hundreds of thousands… and they had to hire another super.

I thought we’d see a slight decline in year one (maybe drop a district game) noticeable decline in year two (maybe a loss or two in district) and by year three post CT you’d be fielding an entire group that had never really played under him. Year three was when I thought it would start to really fall off… but in my mind, year three wouldn’t be as bad as the last two years have been already. If WOS goes a different direction (and I don’t think that they do… no time soon, anyways), it’ll be starting from scratch. It doesn’t matter if you run the 50 if the guy coaching it up can’t match the guy y’all used to have. I think the problem is still that WOS fans are still not realizing what made them great. It was a combo.. pretty good athletes, developed in a pretty good system, with great community support and an absolutely top notch HC. I’ll be the first to confirm that CT in Bridge City would have yielded a fair share of DCs, but I don’t know if we get any rings. But I also think that WOS would have little to no hardware to show for the last 25 years if not for CT and his player development, either. Help me understand… if the a man is a HC/AD and has the full support of his super, why would he resign to go be a line coach elsewhere? I’ll bet HH gets extended before he gets run off. The super is gonna let y’all know that football doesn’t run WOS anymore. He couldn’t have done it before, but the community empowered him with their protests.

What about Earl’s brother? I understand that they are into the same thangs.

I guess those guys with “ties to the program” will suddenly become winners once they take the reins at WOS…. Because they can’t seem to string wins together anywhere else. It’s like this… one thing has been constant at WOS for decades. One thing the community has BADLY mistaken is that the athletes haven’t been uniformly awesome for all of those years… the coaching was. And I hate to point out the obvious, but the current coach isn’t doing a bad job…. He’s actually a decent coach and his teams have performed well against top ranked competition. But now you’ve had a two-year decline in preparation at the varsity level, but it’s been a break at lower levels, too. Kids have lost two years of development from the 7th grade on up. It’s simple, really. If WOS wants to resume being the “winningest program in Texas,” all they have to do is hire a hall of fame level coach. But it’s not going to be easy considering that they only got a baker’s dozen of burnouts to pick from before the hired the current coach and the program fell off to where it is today. And y’all need to figure out who’s going to buy out a super AND a coach…. It’s not cheap.

It doesn’t help that HJ is in a stacked district. The four seed out of this district would be the one seed in a lot of other districts. You’re basically guaranteed four losses in district if your team isn’t pretty darn good.

😂🤣😂

So…. Is this considered less than 112%?

I ask again… what happens first? WOS winning a DC or WOS misses the playoffs? Can we do a poll?

No way.

I’m a little surprised.

I don’t understand why this isn’t KFDM’s game of the week.

I was about to say.

I was there…. The bands/temps/goalposts were the same for Silsbee and Cuero. What I did see was Silsbee having to convert 4 and long at the end of the game to stay alive. It seemed like Silsbee stayed in the game based on athleticism and luck… Cuero just kept executing. Cuero never kicked a returnable ball to Silsbee, but Silsbee kept kicking it to the kid from Cuero who would just gash the tigers for multiple big returns. That’s just my opinion based on what I saw-and there weren’t any D1 looking kids in green that day, as far as i could tell.

Cuero had a better gameplan and made adjustments. Silsbee had the playmakers.

As bad as it pains me to say it, I think your Tigres will win by at least 14.

Silsbee wins this one… but I’d like to see them DISMANTLE HF if I’m going to buy into them making to Dallas in December.