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Another DC and early exit. 
Oh, and this year it’s loaded bats (not bad calls) that sent us home early. 
 

If it makes you happy to bring band in. Agree or disagree, annoit him or not the fact is he has the hardware to prove it. For example, wouldn’t one say the WOS has the best football program in SETX, they prove it with the best winning percentage. What about BC Baseball, they prove it by the number of DC. Or Silsbee basketball. No matter how you go about it Kalon has the hardware to prove he has done something the others haven’t. 

He’s good, but he’s not Mackey. 

I’ve got nothing. I’ve heard mention that Deshazo might stay on and carry on the Slot T, but I don’t know. 
They might try, but we don’t have the personnel. Stump ran a spread with a lot of 4 receiver sets and we were horrific. There just aren’t any kids with the skill set to move the ball down the field in the spread.  I’d like to see them cultivate a passing game out of the Slot T. Kinda like the team that beat WOS in December. 
I doubt it. Most of the baseball kids are the sons of guys who should have played in the bigs if they hadn’t gotten screwed by their high school coach. We have a long tradition of baseball-only athletes. 

Barnes will play football and run track at Baylor

He’s good, but he’s not Mackey. 

No way he leaves Jasper and the familial proximity he has to enter into that dumpster fire at BC.

No, a coach can’t “create” a D1 athlete, but coaching essential to becoming a D1 athlete. All of the talent in the world won’t succeed without direction and training, but the best coaching in the world can’t develop everybody into a D1 prospect. 
There are thousands of great athletes who never move on because they were, unfortunately, enrolled in bad programs with crappy coaching and never came close to achieving their full potential. Surely you won’t disagree with that, too.
 
 

Is it wrong of me to hope, just a little, in a teeny-tiny way, that HJ wins this after BC baseball pushed Dubois out?

Feels like I’m looking for the guy on the grassy knoll...

We know how you feel HJ

BC isn’t a football town. The kids, PARENTS, and community aren’t willing to do what it takes to have a winning program. I mean, they wouldn’t mind winning... unless it meant getting sweaty. 
Coach Dubois is, in my opinion, easily one of the top ten “x &o”coaches in the area, and the absolute best leader of young men. BC will not likely see another coach of his caliber in our future. 
Band parents didn’t like that he had the band  removed from the sidelines during the actual games... so they complained. There were too many “why don’t they throw the ball more... we’ve already ran that play five times” from Day One. Ummm... because BC isn’t a qb factory. Year before last we beat teams with multiple D1 recruits with a bunch of kids that had one kid move one to play at a D2 school. One. That’s coaching. 
A lot of heat came up last year when one of the star players was injured in practice. The parents were very vocal in blaming Coach Dubois for that injury... plenty of others were quick to join in. 
I’d have gone back to HJ, too  
 

Will they ever!

What I hate to see is a School with those kind of Athletes, but they refuse to see the COACH is what is keeping them from winning championships.
Some COACHES have no business coaching the caliber of athletes they are blessed with.

I like their chances. I annually pick against WOS because it always seems like they’re replacing so many pieces. Newton seems like they’re bringing back a lot of kids after last season’s success. I think they’ll romp through the 3A playoffs and probably should be considered as favorites to repeat. 

I like their chances. I annually pick against WOS because it always seems like they’re replacing so many pieces. Newton seems like they’re bringing back a lot of kids after last season’s success. I think they’ll romp through the 3A playoffs and probably should be considered as favorites to repeat. 

I think at 26 (or 27, I dunno) DCs, it’s pretty obvious we have a consistently good baseball program. It’s also fairly obvious that we’ve had some pretty rotten luck in the playoffs... coinflips that led to single game series in which we came up short against a team that we were favored over, questionable calls like last year, etc, etc... but we don’t have the hardware that counts. It’s safe to say that we should have already cashed in at some point.... that’s something we have to push past. 
We do have that football sc, though.... not bad for a baseball school to fall back on. I don’t know if there’s a more depressing, former championship-level football program in the state, though. 

I had a meeting Monday with some higher ups one of which was Coach Louis.  His estimated numbers for football for this coming year was approximately 90 from Central, approximately 80 from Ozen and approximately 100 from the middle schools.  Not too bad of numbers to start United with...

You do realize that BC went into the third round in 2016, right?
Livingston has the tools to make the playoffs and win a game or two with the right coaching staff, I believe. 

We all know programs that have won consistently for decades...and we all know programs just down the road from them that have lost consistently for decades. Why is that? I do not believe God just anoited kids in one zipcode with more ability to play football than kids in another zipcode. Im not talking about that rare 4*-5* player that happens to come along...Im talking about the kids that will not play beyond hs that make up the bulk of teams (even successful one's).

Say all you want about talent, this is a difficult time to hire coaches.  The effort of turning around a program starting in the summer as well as getting coaches at that time is going to be difficult.  HJ at least made a hire 10 days after their AD/HC resigned.  Hopefully the same is being said for Livingston.

How come Ozen always had kids going D1 when was the last time they made the playoffs or a winning season? Livingston has the athletes I saw them play Nederland twice the coaches didn’t utilize and get the best out of there players. There team was small in numbers. But Livingston has size and speed. They will bounce back quickly with the right coach 

All jokes aside, it's not uncommon to see a trainer (who plays baseball) warming up the qb on the sidelines with a better arm than whoever is actually going to play the game.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again.  There are multiple kids in Port Neches who have every intention of growing up to be the quarterback of the PNG Indians... and doing everything that they can to make that dream come true.  That's not the case in Bridge City.  Shugart didn't pay his senior season in 2015 because of a "shoulder injury."  I'll be honest... I wouldn't have played on a losing team, either, if I had a spot locked down to pitch for the Longhorns.  The kids who play baseball are too involved playing select ball, etc, to ever hone their qb skills.  It's not something you can pick up once you're in high school.  
In 2014 we were starting Trahan as a sophomore... He went down at LiCk'eM and they moved the middle linebacker Dearing to QB to finish the year.  It was a long season running the spread without a true quarterback.  We had big Dubois in 2015, then moved Trahan back to QB from linebacker in 2016 for his senior year.   Little Dubois was under center for 2017.  If you consider that both of the Dubois were transfers, you get a really good idea of how bad the qb situation really is.  
Baseball is king.  Football started to compete with Baseball at BC and they ran off a good HC/AD.  That's just how it goes over here. 

You don't see many kids going to D1 schools from losing programs.... You can ask all day whether or not it's the lack of athletes or the lack of program success that ends up with a situation where nobody goes to the next level.  I like to think it's a combination of both, and I'm confident that Livingston still has their fair share of quality athletes.... they just don't get to display it. 

I knew Greg had built it, but I was unaware that it had been sold to the school. 
It’s amazing how little support the Lions have there at home. There’s talent there... you have Corrigan as their neighbor to the North, Coldspring to their West. The community just doesn’t put any emphasis on supporting their programs, most specifically the football program.