Waterboys

Well there was several players in the 50 and 60s that were great. Clayton Allen was 3A player of the year in the early 90s. McMahon was the star of the early 2000’s team that was coached by Jamie Harrison. Kreston Richardson was all state in 2015. 

Marcus Powdrill
Eric Roddy
Emmanuel Thornton 
Norris McGhee( dunking machine) 

Understood. Using that logic, no coach in the history of the state has reached "good" status. 

Marcus Powdrill
Eric Roddy
Emmanuel Thornton 
Norris McGhee( dunking machine) 

Marcus Powdrill
Eric Roddy
Emmanuel Thornton 
Norris McGhee( dunking machine) 

Marcus Powdrill
Eric Roddy
Emmanuel Thornton 
Norris McGhee( dunking machine) 

Marcus Powdrill
Eric Roddy
Emmanuel Thornton 
Norris McGhee( dunking machine) 

Since everyone is down on Buna, I’ll say they make the playoffs and give the upper teams some trouble. Wilson is working hard and will get the most out of a scrappy squad.

You're probably right.  A lot of times teams are considered overrated so much that they become underrated.  I think Warren and Anahuac have a shot, but Buna likely outperforms those two.

Dick Davis, Travis Bickham, James Wilson, Steve Gibson ,David White and Bimbo Wilson they were all all state and played in the north south all star games, saw all them play very special players!

TJ White was pretty damn good, led EC to state that year. They had a very good group but he was the man. 

The nature of baseball has changed.... (whether it is right or wrong) chirping/taunting is now apart of the game. Turn on any college baseball game or high level high school game and you are going to see lots of things we didn't see 5-10 years ago.
 
Congrats to Ofield on a great season and good luck to CH.  

Good for OF!

Good for OF!

As someone that is actually aware of the facts I can tell that statement is 100% false.   Couple of facts before I get on my rant.  11.7 athletic scholarships in D1 baseball w rosters of 27 players or more.  24 athletic scholarships in Junior College baseball.  Depending on the Junior College you might see rosters as high as 45 to 60 players in the fall before they cut half to play in spring season.  Facts... Driskell after summer had zero offers.  After playing well in fall he had multiple offers.  Ultimately he chose to take a full scholarship to Panola.  Noah Kendrick was committed to Alvin Community College at the end of summer.  After playing well in Jupiter Florida in the fall he received interest from some D1s and ultimately chose to take a scholarship to pitch for Sam Houston.  Which is a program he had always had high interest in but there was never an offer until they saw him at there camp in October.  Although you might see a number of commitments come after a senior's school season very few actually have scholarship dollars associated with them as the money is gone.  That is before you take into consideration the transfer portal.  I know multiple kids that had scholarship amounts change or even pulled due to transfer portal, injury, coaches been fired, or a number of other reasons.  Ultimately those boys made a tough decision which was theirs to make.  They dedicated themselves to a dream and goals.  Did they hit all their goals no but it wasn't from a lack of effort or talent on their part.  They are still working toward there goals.  The funny thing is I read a lot of these blogs and I do not ever hear a pep when a kid decides to stop playing baseball or basketball to focus on football.  This kind of stuff just blows my mind.  How about you tip your hat to couple kids that left on the field for Nederland instead of taking pop shots at them.  I promise this community and culture around our sports would be better for it.  If Navy Dog or anyone else peeking on a keyboard would like to speak further about this matter please fell free to contact me anytime.  Be happy to meet you in person and have chat.  Just let me know I'm not hard to find.  Jamie Kendrick 

@TxHoops that is a hard Jab at Connell calling him a kid.  He is far from that but if you actually knew as much as you thought you did you would know they're about the same age as @gogo173489 stated. I had let this topic go after my last post because I really do hope Coach Johnson does well and I will always give someone a fair go at it.  To address only 2 candidates that was because the only place BunaISD posted the jobs to my understanding was their website. I've been told the job did not get posted to any of the other coaching sites where coaches find jobs.  To me this is  a problem that BISD needs to fix to get a more competitive field or it was done because the job was already a done deal. Again and I will say it again, we now have Coach Johnson and hope he does great.

"Well we worked 80 hours making time and a half,
But La Grange was too damn hot." - Charlie Robison 

Congrats!!!
he would look great in burnt orange  

Bryan had a good run. He was great to my boys. He knew when to leave Buna. I think Buna overachieved some years and underachieved some years. I didn’t have problems with the results, I had problems with other areas of the program. I know some parents were very critical of him when they shouldn’t have been. 

In 2013-14 they weren’t in district together, 14-15 Buna was loaded with Richardson and Edwards leading the way and went 1-2 against Kountze. Not sure of head to head after that but Grayland was gone in 2016. Stanford didn’t have much help and Buna had both Connell boys at that time. Whitmire treated both my boys great. One was all-state and the other was a fouling machine. 

Well I had kids in his program for 8 years and wasn’t very impressed with him. You can message me or call and I’ll tell me my reasoning. Im not sure how much Buna basketball you have watched but I feel like we should have had more success then what we did. 

Realignment has a great deal to do with which teams will be one of the four to make the playoffs. Adding Orangefield to the mix made it much more difficult to secure that last spot in this district.

Well I’m assuming I’m the school board member that you are referring to. I can guarantee you that Mr. Whitmire employment  was never discussed from 2018-22. Hard to miss the playoffs when they take 4 teams. Buna had some talented teams from 2013- now, I’m sure I could have made the playoffs with them and I don’t know shit about basketball.

Yep people get caught up with race thing. But....if you know Orange, there's ALWAYS been a race thing. We just swallowed it and kept moving. I played at WOS and I don't feel sorry for them. When you start picking coaches and race is a factor, then you're actually not looking for the best...just a criteria. Sad end to an era. 

Well
atleast the basketball program will improve