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You often miss the forest for the trees. Not a soul on earth is going to come into Tarkington and make them an above .500 team right now. The point I'm making is, at least Howard loved it there and wanted to keep investing in the kids. People with champagne dreams that maintain a Natural Light budget will run a guy like off, hire the next Johnny Come Lately, who is also unsuccessful, and do that again and again and again. In the meantime, the program dwindles to nothing because there is no continuity or relationship between the HC and the kids to make them even want to play football in that town anymore. A few cycles of that and you are DOA. Tarkington is nearing DOA.

Exactly. He was good at Tarkingon considering the situation. No clue why people were so interested in making a change at the time.

I wonder what Stan Howard is up to?

Congrats Jasper and congrats to Coach Foreman. I have been hoping he could work his way back into SETX eventually, so I am happy to hear this.

I have seen with my own eyes, entire wings of new campuses vacant during the school year but built anyway in anticipation of growth. They do that to avoid overcrowding. School grows, open the new wings. Incredible foresight and planning.

My understanding is that bond you speak of was posted and passed to avoid some kind of robin hood taxes the district would've had to pay otherwise. Now, don't quote me on that, but I remember reading about it in the school's social media announcement of the bond being put up, and the guys at work talking about it. Someone more versed on school finance may be able to speak more intelligently on it.

If any district can be trusted to stay ahead of the growth and be good stewards, it's BH. The planning that has gone into the new campuses and sustaining adequate space when experiencing exploding growth, has been a marvel to watch. I work over here and have heard from residents that BH has only passed one bond in the history of the district? Anyone know if that is true? If so, wow is all I can say. I'm also interested to see if Enterprise or any of the other local operators is contributing to the project. I know that happens quite a bit and is a major benefit for BHISD.

Any names?

At this point, just make it a recurring post about this time every year.

What an ignorant comment. He had great success at Jasper, and they are paying the price for having expectations of beating Carthage when he was there and pressuring for a change. A lot of schools would be lucky to have a guy like Barbay and, if he has the desire, I hope someone will bring him back to the great state where he belongs!

Congrats Coach Barbay, now get back to Texas where you belong! lol

Eh, I once saw a 4A D1 district right down the street from WF post their AD/HC job on THSCA with a starting salary of $84k. Clearly an attempt to say they posted with no real intention of going outside the fold for replacement. We will see what WF does.

Interestingly enough, I noticed the SOC defense is called "Death Row Defense", and they love it. I wish WOS would get outta their feelings and get back to the Chain Gang. Blue Link sounds like a Marvel character.

Edwards…..whew

They’re not here and all tracks are pre recorded and being played over the speaker.

Man hope they’re not stuck in traffic! That would be awful!

No band for WOS??

This is a fact. My kids stood in line for hot chocolate for most of the 3rd quarter and when they finally made it up there they were out. BISD at it's finest......

Eh, at least half of the second deck on the PAM side was empty. Maybe they could've stood in the endzone like that Principal and dance.

Wow.

So freaking excited for this one!

Man, HH must’ve woken up this year and learned how to coach. They wanted this man run out of town last year and now he’s in the state semifinals? Crazy how quickly things changed. Congrats WOS! Finish the job.

Injury, new coach, new staff, new teammates. All those. It gelled at the right time and they’ve hit their stride. Let’s hope it keeps ascending and BH can keep it rolling.

Hold up. If I’m not mistaken, you were calling for the lefty less than a month ago.

It seems like BH is peaking at the right time. Barrier played his absolute best game of the season against Anderson, and they are teed up with a very winnable game against Weiss. Weiss's QB can spin it so BH needs to shore up a couple of things in the secondary in order to win. Overall, things are looking good for the Eagles. Confidence is a hell of a drug.