CardinalBacker

In a district so bad Liberty, HJ, and BC all want in.

I’ll do you one better. Here are the qbs that I wouldn’t take over Dak. 1. Zach Wilson (but only because Rogers got hurt). 2. Bryce Young 3. Bailey Zappe 4. Sam Howell Anybody else in the league with our current lineup is still playing next weekend. Piling up regular season stats doesn’t mean a thing when you lose games when it matters. If it’s a stat contest, Marino, Romo, and Dak are the greatest qbs of the Super Bowl era.

Parcells 2.0 Three problems, as far as I can see... the 'boys are incapable of playing good football four weeks in a row-and they have been for years. They seem to lay an egg every third or fourth game, except the playoffs are three to four games. All it takes is coming out flat in the first half of a playoff game and you can call it a year. I don't think Dak is that dude. Heck of a nice guy, but I'm terrified when the game is on the line and Dak is under center... and he is, too. You don't want look across the field and see Aaron Rogers, Mahomes, Brady, etc under center if you've got a one score lead and two minutes on the clock... they're about to score on you. On the other hand, if the Cowboys have a 14 point lead in the fourth quarter and Dak has the blank, unblinking stare at the grass.... he's about to choke it away. You know that look. The Cowboys haven't taken a qb in the first round since '89. That guy is in the HOF, and we haven't won anything since he retired. Coincidence? I think not. There are literally 28 or 29 teams in the NFL with a better starting qb than DP... Tony Romo was stat monster, too.... except when it mattered. Dak is no different. I'm not sure that MM is the guy at head coach, either. Dan Quinn didn't look like a defensive genius Sunday, either. It could be that the Packers are a young team on the way to the pinnacle... and the cowboys just aren't capable of getting there in this current period. I can't even begin to think about the Cowboys extending Dak. It's like canceling your gym membership and admitting your just gonna be fat.

I just don’t understand the thought process behind that decision.

Can you verify that BC actually opted up? I’ve seen nothing official. And for what it’s worth, I’d rather get out-athleted in 4aD2 than laid on by fat white kids in that D1 district.

I’m not in touch with the program much anymore, but I didn’t do a lot of cheering. Everybody knows that BC athletes are far superior to those that OF produces in every way, but we also play in a much tougher district. I don’t expect Smallley to have any better results in BC than he did at OF. Who knows? We might even finish as a four seed sometimes. I mean… if your district is populated by Silsbee, Jasper, HF, and WOS (the old WOS, anyways) you’d want to hire somebody capable of elevating the program to point where you’d be competitive, right? Or not.

Not true. Most of ours never sign up… the ones who actually turn out are in it for the long haul. So you’re wrong again.

But I bet he could make half of those OF boys quit the team just by hiring in.

Nobody wants to play Newton. Schools Newton’s size or smaller don’t want the beatdown, and for bigger schools it’s like picking a fight in a gay bar. You can’t brag if you win, but you’d better not lose.

No… the Golden Triangle is BMT, PA, Orange, and anything inside of the triangle formed by those three cities. Or the Triplex, if you were around in the 80s. [Hidden Content] SETX for me is basically anything East of the Trinity up to 190. But schools on the on that 190 corridor are kind of SETX outsiders. Livingston, Woodville, Jasper, and Newton are still in, but barely. Lum and Silsbee, for instance, are SETX but not Golden Triangle. Winnie? Setx, not triangle. Vidor? Triangle. Deweyville? SW Louisiana. It’s simple.

Just hang a clipboard and whistle on one of those stupid telephone poles between the stands and the field and let them boys play.

Yeah.... i tried to turn over a new leaf for 2024 and it lasted about five days.

Truer words have not been spoken. After a vigorous recruiting cycle, all of the hype regarding stars and offers, then suddenly you’re just another receiver somewhere down in the depth chart? What better way to get a bump in attention than to hop in the portal (or decommit, if you’ve not yet made it to campus)? I read somewhere that some D1 programs were planning to use their open scholarships to up two dozen portal transfers and a half dozen incoming freshman. I completely expect to see abysmal rating numbers from tonight’s national championship game. Who wants to watch a team made of up first year guys, most of whom will be in the portal tomorrow… win or lose?

I'm insulted. I've had way worse takes than this... you weren't paying attention.

I know the thread was about Smith, but I was thinking of both young men (and hundreds of others who we are reading about daily… “former four star WR enters the portal after one season at …..” or “so-and-so decommits from …. by tweeting that he is re-opening his recruiting”) when I wrote it. It’s hard to compare BC to Jasper, since most of our kids go on to college anyways… my understanding is that Smith is the only 2025 Jasper graduate that will be attending college, period. But you have guys like Wooster, Matt Bryant, and Shane Dronett who have had remarkable careers after leaving Bridge City… and a State Championship. Y’all just salty cause you got all that NFL talent and can’t win when it matters.

What's this "macho" you speak of, Pawpaw?

Here's the crazy part... I can think of two guys from SETX that are currently on NFL rosters. Grayland Arnold (Kountze) committed to Baylor, then stuck with his commitment when Briles got the boot.... Then you have Roschon Johnson (PNG) who went to UT as a qb, then accepted a move to RB and is now in the NFL. I don't expect many kids who can't keep their commitments to a school show any commitment to their career, either. The transfer portal and NIL are ruining college football, and by definition the NFL careers of many very talented athletes who will never develop their craft because they're too busy trying to land someplace else. But that's just me. Carry on. Good luck with the Longhorns next year. We'll all be curious as to where you end up for 26.

Yes.... Slot T from 15-17. Went three rounds with it in '16.

Ummmm… way more applied for BC than WOS two years ago. To be exact, only 13 applicants wanted to take the reins at WOS, which is impressive considering that they are the winningest football program in Texas. id expect less applicants in five years when Hickman decides to go elsewhere.

Anybody checked on 89Falcon?

It all depends... I've watched lots of trustees run on the promise of sacking a supe, but forget all about it once they're sworn in. My guess is that Hickman has at a minimum, three more years....

It’s very debatable, because I don’t care how athletically gifted a team is…without coaching, they’ll be going home by the third round. It’s a toss-up as to which is more valuable when both are equally necessary to achieve success. Like a hall of fame coach said “you can’t win the Kentucky Derby with a mule,” but when he left they’ve made a first round exit two years in a row.

Science teaches - to have a fire you need three things… fuel, air, and ignition source. I’d argue that to have a TOP TIER football program, you need athletes, coaching, and community support. Sometimes you end up with a really talented bunch of kids or a really exceptional coach and it’s the last thing that you needed… but not “the biggest reason for our success.” You can look at the recent local rises and falls of historic programs and take your own conclusions, but the fact remains… you’ve got to have all three to be consistently successful. Did Coach Rowe at Bellville finally learn how to coach over the summer? No, he’s got a good group of kids. PNG has shut a lot of mouths that said “you’ll never see another SC from mid-county-they don’t have the athletes.” WOS is an example of what a great coach (or a not-so-good coach) can accomplish with a group of good athletes. It takes all three (talent, coaching, and support) with the first two being almost equally important and the last being a minority third.

“I’m about to change their minds!!!”

Well, it won’t take them long…. Since it’s the first game of the day and there won’t be anybody in the stands to clear out.