Eric Cartman

1 hour ago, KF89 said:

PNG head coach learned how to make a solid cup cake pre district schedule from his mentor while at Ned to prepare his team well for district opponents & playoffs…..

Who do you suggest they play instead? Keep in mind these other teams you want them to play may already have games those days and can’t just drop their game because you want these coaches to play a tougher schedule. Or maybe they should load the bus up and go to Houston every Tuesday and Friday. Both of those coaches play over 30 games a season and we single 3 of those games out to say they aren’t being properly prepared for a state champion. I know math is hard for some people but that’s only 10 percent of the schedule. I think that using 10 percent of your games to build some confidence for your team and get some live minutes for your bench is just as important as playing close games. I want to tell myself you’re just a typical delusional setx sports fan, but since you took shots at both English and Smith in the same post I’m assuming you had some kids that didn’t get as much playing time as you would have liked at Nederland. 

Congrats to Coach Wallace and his team

10 minutes ago, oldman said:

Why would you schedule Sabine Pass when your district includes United, Crosby , PAM and Nederland.  How will this game get you ready for district??

PNG head coach and SP head coach are brothers, which is why they’ve played each other the last two years. 

55 minutes ago, Elvis Presley said:

This ain't true.  Png football boys are allowed to play.  I get you hate hufman but you can't make stuff up to make them look less impressive.

It actually is true. PNG football boys are allowed to play when it doesn’t interfere with football games or practice. Even when they do get them it’s after a football practice on Tuesday or after a late Friday night game on Saturday. PNG missing huge parts of their team right now.
 

With that being said, Huffman looked real good. 

6 hours ago, NetCat said:

You must not understand how much more work head football is than any other sport. (No offense) 

Also why would any head coach of caliber come to a school for less than AD? Only thing you'll get is first year guys that will leave asap for somewhere that will give them AD. 

I guess it just depends if you want your football team to be good or not. 

Just my opinion. 

You must not understand how much more help a head football coach gets than any other sport at the school. I understand that it’s more work to be the head football coach than it is for other sports, but they also typically get much more help (from all freshman/Jv/ and even middle school coaches along with varsity assistants). 
 

 And I definitely believe that you could get a quality head coach by choosing one of the many qualified assistants that would love to run their own program and be able to put that on their resume (even if you don’t get AD pay). Of course they would leave for the next available AD position, but those don’t open up too often or they would have most likely been an AD. 

I just don’t see why you can’t be good, or your expected to be bad if your football coach isn’t the AD is all I’m saying. sure it helps, but y’all are acting like it’s an excuse when baseball and basketball coaches do this every season (with their assistant coaches that the football AD hired to help him not basketball and baseball and for much less money) and they make it work without a problem and nobody feels bad for the kids in those programs. 
 

So by your logic if you want your softball team to be good the softball coach has to be the AD? 

I don’t know. I probably shouldn’t have even said anything because this clearly isn’t going anywhere, but i can’t sleep at night. I just thought it was weird to see people say they feel sorry for the kids because the basketball coach (Who is pretty good at that job)  was the AD and not the football coach when I don’t see that as a valid excuse to be bad. 
 

if WH made the football coach (Same guy that’s there now) the AD reassigned the basketball coach to just coach basketball on Monday would you feel less sorry for the kids and expect them to be better? 

5 hours ago, NetCat said:

Something you guys aren't thinking about is pay. Hard to get a good head football coach without giving him the pay bump for AD.

Why would that be so hard? The other head coaches at the school work hard without getting AD pay. I don’t think high school coaches go into coaching for the money. 

1 hour ago, TXHORN_ET said:

What I'm saying is there are good number of kids in small schools that don't play football and will 'specialize' in , let's say, baseball.  There is nothing wrong with that if they so choose.  Most small schools rely on their student athletes to participate in as many sports as they possibly are able. 

I once lived in a 5A district where the AD was the Tennis coach. How many times has anyone seen that?

 

 

I don’t see how it’s any different if a kid specializes in baseball or football, which is the typical case here since most ADs are football coaches. Which is why i think AD should be purely an administrative position. There’s obvious bias if they also are the head coach of a sport. Especially since we are talking about WH and I don’t think football is bringing in more money than basketball at that school and that was most likely the case before the basketball coach was the AD.

8 hours ago, TXHORN_ET said:

Goes back to the old argument when it comes to kids specializing in one sport. I’m not saying this is happening at West Hardin, but it’s difficult to put a winning football team on the field year in and year out if the kids don’t play.  I wonder how many of these small schools in the area stress their track program. That’s where your overall program is built.

Now someone please help me off my soapbox. The balance isn’t as good any longer.

I still don’t understand why the AD needs to be the football coach and the only answer I got was “football is king” 

Why is it different? You bringing up specializing just implies that AD’s get gets to specialize in their sport which is typically football, and basketball and baseball coaches deal with that every year and nobody feels bad for them? 

On 9/19/2020 at 12:04 AM, Uncle Pig said:

I feel badly for those WH kids; this is the type of stuff that happens when you have the AD being the head basketball coach...recipe for disaster. 

Basketball and baseball coaches use that same recipe every season without issue. If they can make it work without being the AD, why can’t the football coach? 

I was told number 2 had 45. That kid can straight up hoop. He will light it up next year. 

On 2/19/2020 at 5:41 AM, glassjoe said:

Congrats to PN-G and especially Smith. He seems to have some excitement over there around basketball. He took over a team that lost its 3 top scorers and made some noise.And  3 local teams in playoffs from this district is nice...but I wouldn’t call it a tough district. It’s top heavy with 2 good teams and then a considerable drop off...it’s like Aggie chanting SEC after every game...

 

21-5A....21-5A...21-5A!!! 😬

21-5A is home of the 2018 state champs...

Just now, 5GallonBucket said:

Wb and cv do not have a great following

I really just meant a silsbee-hj game and a Nederland-memorial game at the same site. 

2 hours ago, AggiesAreWe said:

Hope it's a double header with another seed game.

Memorial/Ned or West Brook/Cview

Honestly not enough seats for those four programs in one gym. 

PNG in the playoffs for the 4th time in school history? Pretty impressive first year from coach Smith in a tough district. 

Congrats to HF players and the new head coach on a very impressive road win. Imagine if somebody had told you last year that this would happen... like him or not, new coach has already made huge jumps with that program. 

Some of you guys should look up the report cards of the schools these “shady“ transfers are coming from and and going to. Factor in that HF is open enrollment so you do not have to live in the district to attend the school and it becomes even less surprising that this is happening. I understand that if students do not live in the district zone they must sit out a year or play sub varsity, but in my opinion if you are transferring from a lower preforming school to a higher preforming one then that should be waived, especially if the old school received an F. Sometimes it’s bigger than basketball.  

Confirmed PNG won but I don’t know the score. Congrats to coach smith and the Indians on getting a huge district win. Hopefully then can take care of business on the road Friday. 

I heard PNG won. I hope that’s true. 

6 hours ago, SETXSPORTSGUY409 said:

The question that you people who love this game so much are missing is. Why do you think one team is allowed to “stall“? Well I’ll answer it for you. It’s 100% because the opponent refuses to play man to man defense. “Stall ball” would be obsolete without teams sitting in zones. Since we want to outlaw “stall ball” should we outlaw zones as well??? So who do we blame for “stall ball” the offense or the defense? Before you judge someone please become knowledgeable of what you are talking about. 

It’s definitely not 100% because the opponent refuses to play man to man defense. I remember watching Westbrook play stall ball against Nederland in 2017 because they had a lead and Nederland started to make a run, so they refused to shoot the ball (and Nederland was in a man to man defense). They ran a motion with the guards that basically just passed back and forth for about 4 minutes in the second quarter. Nederland switched to a half court press to try to make them play, but then they went 4 corners and moved the ball well enough to not turn it over and they passed up plenty of wide open shots in the process. Opposing teams defense is not always the reason an offense will decide to play stall ball. 

I would say not having a football program is a big factor in that 

8 minutes ago, Hagar said:

2A Close games with Big Sandy are rarely close.   Those Wildcats are always well coached, and very good.   No disgrace here.

 

I thought coach Smith had the Indians playing well. I wouldn’t be surprised to see the Indians in the playoffs this year. 

PNG wins 69-42. Congrats to coach smith and the Indians on their first district win. 

SP 56 HI 26

Indians 58

Sharks 40

Congrats to Coach Smith. PNG got a high quality coach and if the kids are half as hungry as he is then they will be successful. Can’t wait to watch them play next year.