CardinalBacker

Who does Bridge City play next week? 

CardinalBacker ^^^^^^^^^ This is all that really care about in reality. Number of fans. LOL . Its a mental disorder.

Boy.... PNG fan is awfully quiet for a team that's playing in the third round this week.
I guess what they say about is really true... "it doesn't matter if we win or lose.... championships don't matter... as long as we beat Nederland."

I'll bite on that.  If each of three RB is as good as Hunt then how did Silsbee lose the game to WOS?  3 times 374 would be a lot of yards.

I can't imagine.  So sorry.

No it doesn’t.

So much for the hwy 190 three headed beast.

When I was coaching, a good friend of mine who is a very successful coach, gave us all some good advice. Before you take a coaching job, look at the size of the band. If the band numbers are larger than the football program numbers, look elsewhere. So now I catch myself always looking at the size of a schools band and booster club in comparison to the size of their football teams and athletic boosters. Tends to show priorities of the community.

In watched QB1 on Netflix and they followed 3 top qb prospects during their senior years. It’s amazing to see talented kids who are actually being trained to be qbs. 
I’d love to see a progression of kids from BC that were capable of running our Slot T AND coordinating a passing attack... kinda like the Pleasant Grove team that beat WOS for the SC last year. 
If you go back and look at our team for the last few... Junior Shugart was the guy in 13... he was drafted by Boston last year. Great pitcher, qb as an afterthought. 14 saw Shugart sit out his senior year with a shoulder injury. Qb was sophomore Trahan until he was hurt at LCM... middle linebacker Dearing finished the season at qb. That was our last year in the spread. 
15 saw Big Dubois under center, but without much of an arm. Strong runner, great game manager, though. Trahan was back at linebacker. 16 had Trahan back under center as a senior.  He was a kid with limited ability and back at qb after playing D his junior year and missing most of his sophomore season in a different offense. 
17 we got Little Dubois in his senior year and he wasn’t a passing threat, to put it nicely. I felt like Skinner was probably a better arm, but Dubois knew the offense. Skinner was back for his senior season in 18 and probably showed the best arm that we’ve seen in the last 5-6 years, but he didn’t have a supporting cast or any size. 
I’d lose my mind if we had a kid with a decent arm who (like Jake Frohm(sp)) had two older brothers also played quarterback... then got 2-3 seasons in the offense. I’d love to see kids who actually wanted to play qb at BC, and had folks that made sure that the kids were progressing like our pitchers progress. 
I’m guessing that Lum and LCM would benefit from the same. 

We beat Center in the first round in 16... Silsbee gave Carthage all that they wanted that year, too, if my memory is correct.
Consistently, no. 
Lumberton is like a lot of other schools here. BC, LiCk’eM, etc... Kids aren’t groomed to be qbs, and it’s not a skillset you can start to develop once you actually start to get some attentive coaching in high school. Trust me... if Babin had a kid with an arm and an ability to read defenses, they’d be mixing in some passing plays.  

Silsbee wins 56-14

Cardinal Backer..... I saw BC playing Kountze the other night in basketball. They are not great but they are a pretty good team and I was very happy to see that. This district could get a little more competitive with BC, HJ, LCM all being a little more competitive. That will make that sport more fun. Football will turn around for BC. It always does. 
 

Well said. What a convincing argument. You convinced me, and probably everybody else here today. 
Thank you so much. 

I don’t expect Fairchief’s stock to go up once the qb moves on. It makes since to get out while the getting is good. 
 

It’s the truth. I was always a Lamar man first and foremost. 
 

Before you talk about Coach's kids, maybe you need to ask the coach, or even the kid himself. The kid is in the 8th grade and played every game this year. He is also playing basketball.

The o-line son does play football, he started every game this year. He plays on Tuesday night since he is in 8th grade. 

Dude... I’ve said it before. Year in and year out we have athletes who don’t play football. You can see them on the sidelines, throwing prettier spirals than than the actual quarterback. Or maybe, like this year, you see the o-line coach’s kid (who obviously has the build) just hanging out on the sidelines because “he wants to focus on baseball.” It’s a tradition at BC to NOT play, but still hang around on the sidelines. Our sophomore starting tailback from last year didn’t play this year. Which is a bit more honest than the typical “shoulder injuries” that keep kids off of the field their senior year... the good news is that the shoulders aren’t so bad that they can’t raise their arms to put on their old fb jerseys and go to the pep rallies with their “team” and chill on the sidelines during games. 
I mean, it’s not a sport for kids who are soft. I get it.  But if you don’t want to play, stay off the flippin’ sidelines. 
Rumor has it that one of the reasons Dubois left was that he was into his second offseason program with a bunch of kids that wouldn’t show up to the weight room and so he moved on. You really can’t blame him. If Whataburger and weed are more important than winning, or even being as good as a player as you were 2 years ago, well... the team ends up 2-8. 
A complete and total lack of leadership on the team. 

Nice job on the Lum win, btw.  
There comes a point in any matchup where you, as a player, come to grips with the fact that you either did (or didn’t) do everything that you could to be prepared. I think this entire season was one where the team knew in their hearts that they weren’t ready and they knew it.
The only question is whether or not you get your you-know-what into the weight room and do something about it, or just put on your letterman and go drink beers. 
All kidding aside, I don’t know how much better we would have been with Dubois. We definitely were the opposite of “stacked” this year from an all-out athletic standpoint. Our team last year was hard-hit by injuries to key guys, and this year was just bad with no excuses we can point to.
I’m just glad the whole thing is over.  
 

CB lol I have a feeling your gonna get a response from a certain person for this. Ill  say this Dubois got yall  better prepared. When we played HJ this year  they wasn't the most talented but you could tell they were playing for there coach and played hard. I did not see the same type of play at Bridge City this year. 

wow lumberton drops down a class and still barely makes the playoffs.

The new coach is gonna LOVE it. 

Feathers scattered everywhere in Newton, Cardinal Backer jumps with joy until he realizes they’re Owl feathers and the nightmare continues.

We recently were warned for one poster calling another poster a loser. Within a short amount of time on another thread one of the Mods called someone a loser. I called him out on it and I’ll be honest I got kinda aggravated with the response that i got. So you know what I did? I took a deep breath, got over it, and moved on with life. Why? Because i love this site and I don’t wanna be the one to add extra drama. We’re all adults here (mostly) so we need to try to act like. Mods have special privileges, but they also have to put up with a bunch of crap at times and monitor who knows how many posts a day.

In 16 our freshman team went undefeated and had kids move up to play effectively on the varsity team during the playoffs. That’s the same group and kids that will finish with one win in the district this year. You can’t predict the future based on success at lower levels. Some kids quit. Some kids never grow. Some kids hangout at Whataburger and smoke a lot of weed instead of hitting the weight room. 
This group has made me pretty skeptical of future groups.