rhino1877

Don't get in that argument with Cardinal Backer.   He has an Elitist view........

I couldn't disagree with you more!!!  Why is/should teaching be a lower-middle class profession?  Everyone in the world has been taught something by a teacher that has made them successful.  Doctor's, lawyers, engineers wouldn't be anywhere without teachers. Why is it ok to pay larger salaries for those jobs but next to nothing to the people that taught them?

I believe you are hitting the problem right on the head. There are many problems with a lot of schools these days and pay is certainly one of those problems. Most would debate this topic for hours, but of all the coaches I know that LOVED coaching and still left the profession anyway it was due to what seems to be the same issues over and over again...
PAY ( most assistant coaches that work in a winning program usually work about 70-80 hrs a week during season and probably 55 hrs a week out of season. There is no such thing as having summers off anymore. If your program is successful, most likely your program is getting after it and training during the summer also in order to improve your kids. Most coaches are ok w/ working the long hours, but to do all that, work those kinds of hours all year and still only make $55k-$70k / year...? Some just find that is not worth the time. ) Weak Administrations/Discipline ( There is a disease going through most schools these days when it comes to administrators cow tailing to griping parents in regards to discipline in the school. I was at my kid's school last semester and I wanted to puke at all the kids just casually walking through the halls cussing like sailors [ MF this, stupid B!&@h that, I don't give a F*#&, etc... just openly not caring 1 bit who heard them. I asked the office personnel why in the world kids were talking like that, and they responded "they always do". I wanted to puke. You also have the teachers constantly pleading with administrators to help FORCE kids to act right in the classroom, stop cussing in the classroom, quit being disrespectful in the classrooms... and they say it just falls on deaf ears. Nothing ever gets done about it. Forced Academic Policies ( teacher being forced to allow kids to keep doing work until they pass when the kid absolutely refused to do anything, turn in any work or give any effort academically for entire grading periods/semesters. I am 100% in agreement with doing absolutely everything a person can to help kids. But like when the kids has missed 20 days in a semester, hasn't turned in 1 single assignment in 2 weeks, and when they do show up to class they are disrespectful to teachers; and then when the kid finds out he/she won't graduate with classmates, the parents come up to the school and throw a fit. And the result is the administration just puts the kid into credit recovery classes and do some kind of little computer credit and gets credit for the entire class and passes and graduates. I agree with the teachers - that is complete Bullsh!%...!!!! ) Completely Idiotic and Unrealistic Parents ( Parents who come to the school and go bezerk on people b/c there is "no way that little Johnny/Suzie did that", you ( the coach/teacher ) are lying and have some sort of horsesh!@ prejudice against their kid. The kid has only been written up or tried to be discipline 15 times already this semester, but "Johnny/Suzie didn't do anything wrong." And then on the sports side of it... Little Johnny/Suzie who is 5'6", 160 lbs, runs like an elephant and jumps like a sloth, catches w/ frying pan hands, and throws like a 6 yr old - "should be going D1 to Alabama..!!!" You ( the coach ) are "just trying to screw my kid over. He was 4x All Star during little league." Stuff like this where parents are completely off the reservation on seeing their kids w/ blinders on. This new "everybody gets a trophy", "don't hurt anyone's feelings", "we are all the same and we are all equal regardless of talent/skill/work ethic/preparation/desire" is DESTROYING our country and our kids.

Personally, I can see this game being like the Silsbee at Bridge City game to start district.

exactly......

and make the insurance affordable!!

No Worries Buddy! I remember watching Chip play baseball! He was legit!

#22, i remember him, seen him run over many of ppl back then. He won in 96. Chip won in 97. 
 
Edit: i stand corrected you're right, the 09 Enterprise article i was reading with the winners had the wrong years. 

Did y'all get all the cobwebs off this thread before reposting? 

From what I have seen and heard, this is a district that will be more competitive than it has been in a long time.   No team can walk into the gym against most of the opponents with assurance of a W.

100% agree.

“Silsbee by 30 +”? 😬

Nope

Hearing that HF held the ball for 3 minutes... is this true and why would they do that?

Beat an unbeaten and very good Hudson team Tuesday night, then lose to Gary by 16 two days later.

Woden vs Evadale would be a good matchup!

Dang poor Lumberton back in 5a by 12 students 

Tigers vs Tigers oh my!!

How about take your Butt whooping and move on

PACA (Parents Against Coaches Association) has tried to make this a rule at some places. 

I was told that it's UIL rules that coaches have to play every kid on the basketball team in every game? Is there any truth to this?

They played a good game last year, but Im afraid Diboll could beat them by 70 if they wanted to, but Coach Morrison is a good coach and never likes to beat teams eyes shut, heck we were leaving our 3rd string in after the first quarter against almost every team in district 

I would rank the games tonight involving our coverage area teams in this order:
1. Orangefield vs. Franklin at Woodforest Bank Stadium, The Woodlands
2. Anahuac vs. Crockett at Moorehead Stadium, Conroe
3. Lovelady vs. Wortham, Tiger Stadium, Centerville
4. Groveton vs. Timpson, Eagle Stadium, Rusk
5. Lumberton vs. Houston Wheatley, Stallworth Stadium, Baytown

Also splendora, went from district champs to missing the playoffs.

I’d like to point out that I called this one.