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Good competitive game Central Jags.  You guys didn't back down and played with heart the entire game.  Great season Jags!  

No Service in gym. 
End of 3rd Qtr Evadale up 59-20
Final Evadale 68 Joaquin 25
Congratulations to this fine group of young Lady Rebels.  

55-46 BH Final
Congrats Lady Eagles!

Congrats BH, keep it rolling!

AthleticSupporter & Bobcat:
On behalf of the fans of BH, "thank you" for the good luck and the congrats!  Appreciate that!

Charli Collier finished with 
35 points and 13 rebounds

Ozen almost lost to Goose Creek Memorial when they started playing not to lose instead of playing to win.  They were fortunate that GCM allowed them to pass the ball around and run off two minutes at the end of the game.

The #1 seed going into a stall against the #4 seed up by 10?  Wow!  Yea, that's likely to cost ya!

58 - 50 Final Dayton wins

Final Score:  BH 77 - Humble 52

Unfortunately, games are not always officiated equally.  Part of basketball is "adjusting to the officiating" in spite of the disparity in calls.  Early, I learned it was unproductive to remain "upset with how the refs called the game," and more productive to make whatever necessary adjustments to minimize the harm.

Unfortunately, games are not always officiated equally.  Part of basketball is "adjusting to the officiating" in spite of the disparity in calls.  Early, I learned it was unproductive to remain "upset with how the refs called the game," and more productive to make whatever necessary adjustments to minimize the harm.

After an hour and a half and Approx 319 fouls (Lost count eating cheestixs lol).
Evadale def Colmesneil 52-27.
Good Job lady Rebels.  Record now is 25-4

Final Score:  Beaumont Central 57 - Baytown Lee 20

66-54 Dayton Final

My thought, independent of whether or not I agree with the protesters, is that I wholeheartedly support their right to protest - a long-standing protection afforded by the U.S. and Texas constitutions.  Obviously, the protesters's feelings and beliefs are important and strong enough that they resulted in the online petition.  What may be important to them may not be important to me, and what may be important to me may not be important to them. That's what makes America great...the ability for each of us to decide what's important enough to protest.  In addition, I wholeheartedly support the Coach/AD's right to administrate and coach his teams as he sees fit.  When all is said and done, the Board of Trustees will act, or not act, in the best interest of H-D ISD.   

That is a problem.  Before speed and size....heart! If kids are wanting out of the program, doesn't matter who you bring.....

You hit the nail on the head, cannot hire a coach who wants to improve salary over the next 5 years to increase pension.  Don't need a ring from 1967, or someone that just coached a big program,  We need a coach that can teach our kids to love the game again, energy, does not make a kid feel like crap all the time. I bet half our coaches did not play past high school, most the good ones left, (Coach Taylor is awesome though).  I tried to give Gage some credit for the past, he had to do something right to win state and win as many games as he won, but looked to be just there for the ride the last 4 years and so caught up in his system he refused to change anything, that would had been work..  I agree the administration killed the desire of football in most kids, that is why they went to other sports.  Who searches for a coach ?  How does that work, because our school board knows nothing about football and our superintendent, not sure on what he knows.   
I agreed with you on everything, except the over all genetics for all of our kids, I think the kids work hard when they are there, but it is about technique and train like a football player, I didn't see that, and not alone on that one, plus look at our kids, there are some that are genetically cursed , but there are some big dads and sometimes in BH some bigger MOMS, LOL.     We have a lot of kids 6'0 plus and weigh under 180 lbs, the potential of having 6'0 plus 245 lb kids vs 6'0 plus 170 lbs kids is there.  I also think we have kids that can play, not all super athletes, but we have kids that can throw and catch, we have no leave you in the dust kids, but there are a couple of kids that can play QB, one was on varsity this year and never got a chance, the other is in baseball, there may be a few more, but no matter who gets the QB job there will be critics and same as  the new coach,  but we don't know until we go into another system..   JMO, so lets see what will happen.  Maybe they can put a team together from this forum to be the search committee,.  My last long winded post (I know, Thank Goodness, rambling BH poster)
 

Wrong, wrong, wrong and still wrong. Three yards and a cloud of dust is garbage. You can NOT completely stop the teams in that District. Defense and ball control are not the way to go. Nobody with any sense will tell you that Southlake and Highland Park out athlete people. These are the type of kids on the Hill. Do NOT pigeon hole them because of the color of their skin or their academic abilities. This is the type of program where you can teach the kids highly intuitive concepts in the passing game and running game, be multiple and check plays at the line based on the fronts and coverage. You can take advantage of what the defense gives you because of the intelligence of the kids. Also, because of the financial advantage of the community, these kids will get the best individual coaching possible. If you commit to the passing game, you will have multiple kids with specialized training and receivers with great route running skills because the parents will seek out the extra coaching the high school staff can not give them because of UIL restrictions. Vision and progress, NOT turn back the clock to some OLD ways. Tried and failed.

Loosing the pride over the past 5 years is on the administration.  They hired Gage. They have the arrogance of having the stipulation that the new coach has to have a ring.....worked out well with this last coach they hired. One of BH's problems is the administration getting caught up in image.  Doesn't matter what you look like on the outside if your broke on the inside. School board should think about going after a guy that can get the kids to want to play and not worry about the political bs......worked out well for crosby.....I'm not saying you have to go out and hire a 1st time head coach, but make sure it's the right guy. Just because a guy won a ring in the 90s doesn't mean he's a good coach. Find a guy that wants to be there not one that is looking to help his retirement numbers go up. Don't help somebody pay off their lake house.... hire the guy that can truly make a difference in those kids lives, one that coaches not stands there with his arms crossed, one that motivates by actions and is there during athletics,  not one that shows up at the end and gives a 5 min speech. Go get one that relates.....as far as having big strong kids.....strong you can help....big is still genetics.....can't coach your o line to be 6'2 280......just saying

C'mon man. You're talking apples and oranges. Tatum produces NFL players, Barbers Hill is probably close to three times their size and can't produce a D1 kid. I'm not at all saying that's what you need to win but you also have to ask yourself who they're going to beat? It's a lot easier to win when you have better players than everybody else. 
Price and Gage both won district titles at BH, Price going undefeated. Last time they were able to get into the playoffs they won 31-0, the next two years they went 6-4 and missed them. It's just hard to win consistently given some of the factors against them. 
 
 
 

How about they need some athletes.  Job pays well, but until they get some move ins or group of athletes come through a couple of consecutive classes, they will be the same year in and year out.  Your offense is limited for a reason.  Long distance track does well though, I think.

Going about this all wrong, in my humble opinion. They really need someone without a pedigree. Somebody that can come in with some innovative ideas and really connect with the kids. Somebody with the personality and charisma to play the political game in the community, but a coach with a passion for coaching and some new ideas to inspire these kids to think differently about the Offensive side of the ball.  

Just to be clear,I think this hire is great. TW will improve BH. How much? None of us know. Crosby's improvement under Riordan has put pressure on others to improve, and they will. As all of us in 21-5A and SETX improve we're all forced to improve to keep up or in Crosby's case, stay ahead ;-).  We shouldn't be satisfied with just beating each other. We need to beat the best in Texas. For that to happen we need to be the best in Texas. So thank you BH, you just helped us get closer to winning our first FB state championship :-)
Seriously, it's good for all of us.
Glad to see 21-5A getting stronger. 
Go Crosby!!!

Dayton 49 Porter 34 Final