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yEA JUST TALKED TO HIS AUNT AND SHE SAID IT WAS A REAL BAD SPRAIN SUSTAINED WHILE PLAYING BASKETBALL WITH jARVIS AND THE GUYS IN FOR THE HOLIDAYS! SAID HE WOULD BE READY TO PLAY AT THE EC TOURNAMENT NEXT WEEK! sORRY FOR STARTING THE RUMOR SHOULD HAVE DONE SOME CHECKING BEFORE i SAID ANYTHING.

Has anybody else heard anything about Jacoby Turner from HJ breaking his ankle?

Thoughts or comments on this one?

HJ will be fine without Ricossa, I am not saying it will be easy for them, but Sutherland has 3 that he can rotate in and out of that position. They will be fine.

They are right Lazeek its the Hoopinsider that is keeping us down, he don't like anything HJ!

Keep looking for HJ in that championship game, and get blind sided by another team cause you were looking ahead and not paying attention!

Predictions?

[quote name="Bucof2010" post="725219" timestamp="1260133909"] It seems like there are fewer refs around here than a few years ago and those that are left are doing a serious amount of games...anyone verify? [/quote] Well let me explain that to you in three little letters [b]UIL[/b]. The local chapter plit up and part of the guys stayed with TASO and the other part went with the UIL! Depending on if your coach chose to use UIL officials or TASO officials depends on which half of the refs you are seeing. See in our 3a district everyone is supporting TASO except one school! That one school went with the UIL officials, sure the coach had his reason! But back to the subject Bucof2010 that is why you are seeing fewer refs, because some of them went to a new chapter that your coach does not use or they stayed with the old chapter that your coach does not use.

If you don't like the cals, go join the chapter and make a difference! Otherwise, take what you get and keep your mouth shut! And no I do not ref basketball!

I was told today that the game is cancelled, Tarkington will not travel due to the winter storm blowing in around noon tomorrow. Smart move on the part of both coaches! There will probably be a lot more cancellations before it is over with!

[quote name="HoopInsider_Cooper" post="722923" timestamp="1259862493"] Austin, Tex.  – The Texas Association of Sporting Officials (TASO) has filed suit in Travis County District Court to block the University Interscholastic League (UIL) from what TASO sees as an illegal and unauthorized takeover of sports officiating in Texas. The lawsuit charges that the UIL not only is attempting to exercise powers that it does not possess, but that its proposed rule changes would create monopoly control over sports officiating and impose an illegal occupation tax. The attempted takeover marks a serious rift in an otherwise cooperative relationship that has spanned 33 years. Until now, Section 1204 of the UIL’s constitution and contest rules has recommended that schools use officials registered with TASO for their varsity games. At the UIL’s Legislative Council meeting on Oct. 26, however, the organization approved new language requiring sporting officials to register and pay a fee with the UIL, rather than TASO, in order to officiate at UIL varsity games. The new rules, adopted in final form on Nov. 6, take effect July 1, 2010. Although the UIL constitution states that it subscribes to the Texas Open Meetings Act, the TASO lawsuit alleges that the amendment was not publicized prior to the meeting, nor was TASO’s leadership notified of the planned change, even though two UIL representatives serve as ex-officio members of the TASO Board. Adding further insult to injury, Tony Timmons, an assistant athletic director for the UIL, allegedly attempted to intimidate and coerce Houston sporting officials two days after the October vote, telling them it would be “bye-bye” for those officials who did not comply with the new UIL registration scheme. “It is a sad day when an organization such as the UIL that professes fair play and rule enforcement is not even able to follow its own rules,” said Austin attorney Gary Schumann, who brought forth the lawsuit on behalf of TASO. “Although the UIL has the right to regulate its own members and their activities – the law will not allow it to use this power in a back-door fashion to regulate other professions and trades,” said Schumann, a partner in the law firm Savrick, Schumann, Johnson, McGarr, Kaminski & Shirley, L.L.P. “What are they planning to do next? Require that all the sod farmers throughout the state register with the UIL if they want to provide sod to football and baseball and soccer fields?” At issue is what power, if any, the UIL has to regulate and/or tax sporting officials, who contract with and are paid by individual school districts. As it currently exists, the UIL’s legal status is unclear. Its only governing documents are its own self-drafted constitution. Over the years, various courts have wrestled with whether the UIL is a private association or a state administrative entity. Most courts have concluded that the UIL is simply a “voluntary-member association of Texas public schools.” The courts have further noted that there is no statute creating the UIL or empowering the University of Texas to create the UIL. The UIL professes to be a non-profit organization. The Texas Secretary of State, however, has no record of the UIL ever having filed any organizational documents. In 2003, Rep. Joe Nixon (R-Houston) introduced House Bill 580 to abolish the existing UIL and replace it with a legitimate state agency having clearly defined powers. Nixon said in its current form the UIL does “not legally exist” and “has no legislative oversight” and “is not subject to sunset review.” Nixon’s bill, however, failed to become law. TASO, in contrast, has a clearly defined mission and a long and distinguished history of advancing the ideals of good sportsmanship and fair play through qualified officiating and encouragement of respect for the authority of officials. Its roots go back to the late 1930s, when the Southwest Conference (SWC) recognized the need for training sports officials and developing local officials’ associations. The Southwest Conference Official's Association (SWOA) was established to handle football and basketball officiating duties. Many high school sporting officials joined the SWOA ranks in those early days, even though the association’s original focus was to train collegiate officials. By 1977, the Texas football, basketball, and baseball officiating associations had joined together to form the Southwest Officials Association (SOA), a statewide governing body for high school officials. The SOA umbrella soon expanded to include volleyball, softball and soccer. Operating under the TASO name since 1999, the Austin-based professional trade association registers Texas sports officials, provides educational materials and training, promotes the professional interests of the officiating trade, and advocates on behalf of its members. TASO also conducts formal disciplinary hearings and oversight of its member officials. Its more than 15,000 members officiate at varsity and sub-varsity games throughout the state. “Most of our members have been doing this a long time,” said TASO Board Chairman George Coit. “We do it because we love the sport and are concerned about the student athletes. We want the kids to have a fair and equal chance to win or lose. To do that, we need to have the best quality of officials out on the field.” The TASO lawsuit, filed Dec. 3 in Travis County District Court, requests a temporary injunction against the UIL until the legal issues surrounding the UIL’s new rules are resolved. “We don’t think the UIL has the power to do any of this, and we don’t want our members feeling pressured to pay what may be an illegal fee to protect their jobs until the court sorts this out,” said Coit. On the surface, the UIL changes apply only to certain varsity sport contests, but TASO says the new rules requiring sporting officials to pay a special fee and register with the UIL would have a much deeper and widespread impact. “School districts don’t contract with a few sporting officials for each individual varsity game and a whole different set of officials for each sub-varsity game,” said Coit. “They don’t have time to do that and it’s not efficient. They use the same group of officials for all their games. So if our members decide to hold off on paying the UIL fee, which essentially duplicates the fee they already pay the TASO association, they risk being shut out of all the games, not only the varsity ones.” The TASO lawsuit states that the UIL, by virtue of its mandating a sporting official registration fee and its stated intent to form a “UIL Officials Department,” is seeking to usurp the functions of TASO and force all sporting officials in Texas to submit to the UIL as their representatives for obtaining insurance, lobbying, and looking after the interests of their profession. TASO’s attorney notes that UIL currently has no authority to undertake any of these “trade association” activities it now advertises on its website. “If the UIL wants to engage in such significantly new operations, they would have to amend their constitution with the approval of their membership,” said Schumann. “They haven’t done this. Instead, a few of their staff members have initiated what seems to be a poorly thought-out raid on a respected professional trade association.” Schumann believes this situation, which is being forced upon Texas sporting officials, is a clear conflict of interest. “It is impossible for the UIL to operate as the sole advocacy group for sports officials in everything from obtaining insurance to lobbying, as the UIL’s website now implies it will be doing, because the UIL’s true allegiance is to their members, which are the school districts,” said Schumann. “That’s why the UIL currently has the sole power to set the pay scale and working conditions for sporting officials – they are negotiating the pay scale on behalf of their member schools. But now the UIL seems to think it can play both sides. That it can hold down the official’s pay per game and then run around to the other side of the field and operate as a pseudo-TASO entity and pretend it is representing the best interests of sporting officials. It doesn’t work that way.” For its part, the UIL rules state that the new fee it seeks to impose would be “to help offset costs of programs for officials.” This explanation, however, makes little sense to TASO, whose individual sports divisions already produce training programs and educational materials that are highly respected within the sporting official profession. “I have a hard time imagining the UIL taking over this function,” said Coit. “For example, we just printed 6,000 copies of our new baseball mechanics manual. The baseball division’s budget, which comes from TASO membership fees, paid for the printing expenses, but developing the manual was something our people did on a volunteer basis over the course of three years. They weren’t getting paid for it, but these experienced officials knew the manual needed to be done and they wanted to make sure it was done right. There’s a lot that goes into officiating a game properly. You don’t accidentally end up in the right spot to call a play. This is all stuff sporting officials have to learn. That’s why we focus so much on training.” Of specific concern to TASO is the fact that the UIL rules, as newly approved, require all sports officials to register with the UIL if they want to practice in their profession and give the UIL the unfettered right to charge sports officials an unlimited amount in “fees” to offset the cost of the programs and services that the UIL in its sole discretion intends to provide. “In short, the UIL is essentially empowering itself to charge an ‘occupation tax’ on a historically independent profession, without any limit or cap on its powers, and without giving sports officials any say in the leadership that would be controlling them and charging them fees,” said Schumann. “The fact is the UIL has absolutely no right to tax and regulate TASO’s membership. It is not a governmental agency and the legislature has given it no authority to impose fees, tax, regulate, require registration, or act as the sole or exclusive trade association of an independent profession.”  This gives new emphases to the phrase, “Taxation without representation.” TASO is also asking the court to curtail the UIL from travelling around the state to meet with local TASO divisions and chapters. In these meetings, the TASO lawsuit alleges that the UIL has made substantial misrepresentations in an effort to coerce and intimidate TASO members into leaving the association and registering with the UIL rather than TASO. TASO further claims that the UIL has put pressure on local TASO divisions and chapters to turn over TASO monies and assets to the UIL. And, according to TASO, the UIL has tried to obtain proprietary TASO membership and contact information from the venders who provide “sign-in” software to TASO chapters. “Basically, we’d like their guys to stop bad-mouthing our association and threatening our members until the court figures out what power the UIL has,” said Coit. “We’re hearing a lot of troubling things from our members, including that representatives of the UIL may have convinced some of our local chapters to turn over TASO dues money to the UIL. If this has happened, it would be illegal.” The TASO lawsuit seeks a temporary restraining order and temporary injunction to: (1) block the UIL from enforcing, implementing or taking any action to pursue the adoption of the Nov. 6 changes to UIL Rule 1204; (2) prevent the UIL, its employees and agents from taking any action to compel, coerce or encourage any person not to register with TASO as a sports official or to register with the UIL in lieu of registering with TASO as a sports official; and (3) bar the UIL, its employees and agents from charging or collecting any fee, tax or other revenue directly from any sports official as a condition of engaging in the officiating profession. “It’s a shame that TASO finds itself in this position,” said Schumann. “We always advise our clients that litigation should be the last resort to resolving a problem. Unfortunately, the UIL’s improper efforts to push through this power-grab over Texas sports-officiating left my clients with no options other than filing this lawsuit.” For more information about the TASO lawsuit, contact Gary Schumann at 512/347-1604 or 512/431-6544, or email [email protected] [/quote]Coop thank you for making this public, it is time for everyone to see just how money hungry the UIL really is!

Oh and by the way Colmesneil Fan I spoke with your athletic director and he says he is totally against the UIL takeover! But that is the case with most of the athletic directors I have spoken with! Can you say National Federation Rules! Thats right, if the UIL has their way, it will be the end of NCAA rules used in High School sports in Texas!

[quote name="Colmesneilfan1" post="723177" timestamp="1259882057"] You better read the article...If TASO prevails, the UIL is finished and high school sports as we know and love them will be over.....TASO has decided that if they can't have their way, then the kids will just have to do without extracurricular activities....how selfish can you get???  [/quote] No the UIL will not be finished, it just means that TASO will stay in charge of officiating and UIL will handle whatever it is that they do ( counting their money). UIL which is run by Superintendents have no business being in charge of the officials in this state. And if TASO loses to the UIL that is when you have to worry about High School Sports coming to an end! You can't play the sports if you have no officials! And every official in this state has vowed to stick with TASO and not pay the UIL a dime. Which means the UIL takeover of what! Officiating with no officials! My suggestion to anyone who has a student athlete is to support TASO so that your athlete can continue to have games to play in! Contact your state representative and let them know that you support TASO! Trust me your state Representatives know what is going on, their email boxes are full and their phones have been ringing off the wall! Come on out and support TASO so that these kids can play and have a fair game!

[quote name="swampdude" post="723163" timestamp="1259880448"] The UIL has been headed down this primrose path for the past 15 years.  They keep adding playoff teams to the point of being embarrassing.  There were several 2 - 8 teams in the playoffs in football this year.  Why have playoffs if everyone is playing?  Oh, you mean the UIL gets a cut of playoff receipts???  Gee, who would have thunk it?  IF you are wanting to know the UIL's motive....."follow the money"!!!  Here is one coach hoping that TASO prevails here!! [/quote]Thank You for your support coach!

Ok Kerry your holding out on us! Oh did I just say HOLDING thats yours and Dan Rays saying!

Thoughts Anyone?

Is anyone going to be posting results from the Aransas Pass tournament?

Thoughts? Another Victim for HJ!

I know you went, You sat next to me!

Any Thoughts?

HJ JV played excellent dow the stretch of this tournament! They defeated Anahauc 59 to 7 to get to the chapionship game against Atascocita! Atascocita defeated the JV Lady Hawks 35 to 34!  Atascocita several girls that went close to 6' or taller! Good run Lady Hawks!

Hardin Jefferson Jv 61  Galena Park JV 10 at the Huffman tournament today!

[quote name="KFDM COOP" post="712215" timestamp="1258655114"] [quote author=indianforever link=topic=62624.msg711753#msg711753 date=1258593448] hey coop doesnt it look like the rain will be ending early friday evening in houston??? [/quote] Nope. WET! [/quote]Hey Coop how can you tell, is that what Dan Ray told you to say!    LOL

After the performance last night, Coach Davis will get them back in shape and ready for tomorrows game!

Congradulations Lady Hawks! And to LCM great job, sounds like you are getting it together now that volleyball is over, never saw this coming! Again congats to both teams!