scat_trap

12 hours ago, spidersal said:

Have you noticed that he doesn’t stay at one place very long. I think that they get tired of his arrogance in a hurry 

Or he moves along when the talent starts to dip.  There's been a lot of lucky coaches in their career that have hung their hats on that and are called successful.

Realignment will be released and the UIL servers will crash until 10:30.

I drove out to the game and that it lived up to the matchup.  

College Station had the opportunity to win by a couple of scores but had a pick 6 called back due to an "illegal blindside block" and the RB dropped a pass out of the backfield.

Has the UIL even come out with the official cut-off numbers?

The Todd Dodge's of the world?

Remind me again what his record was outside of Southlake and Westlake?  I don't remember Marble Falls being world beaters by any stretch and he had, what, maybe 2 decent years in Keller?

On 11/6/2021 at 4:55 PM, Huffman Hargrave Falcons72 said:

I Love my Falcons, believe me I feel good when the boys do well and are awarded for this hard work. But Kids are cherry picked (not all) some have to work extra hard to show coaches, we’re as some are molded by coaches.  All boys work very hard this isn’t bought the kids.  It’s about talent that don’t even get the chance, or give up cause they get shamed for things going on in their personal lives that the coaches don’t know about, don’t wanna know about, or just don’t feel like it’s worth it.  And you know what I’m ok with that. Just tell the kid or his parents so they can move on my first son at Hargrave received this treatment starting fresh year.  He cry wanted to quit, even tried baseball, but it was more of the same.  We dedicated every waking moment from mid sophomore year till senior year working learning cause if he was the best how could he not make varsity.  He did but IMO he should of started, but no complaints here he played a lot. So senior year comes and my boy ( the one that would of been giving up on by our coaches) started all year and both ways for a lot of games.  End of year all district DL, academic All district, and a football scholarship in a small school in Missouri (that I help him get) not his coaches.  Not saying they didn’t do things fir my boys I’m sure they have and I’m sure they mean well, but my other son has talent more than the oldest one I just told u about.  He’s a little different but gifted somehow they don’t see it.  I’m not one to have blinders on when kids are involved.  If my kid had no potential I would say.  All in all I think HH has plenty of talent going through, but the playing field isn’t level.  Status, money, personal relationship, should not get in the way of business.   Best kid should play bottom line.   

That was a tough read and not because of content...

Not every kid is going to get treated the same and preferential treatment definitely happens.  Some kids get a 1st and 2nd shot over a lot of kids because they're there and putting in the work (look at your oldest son).  I would also say the coaching staff has at least 100 other kids they're trying to evaluate, put in the right position, and monitor academically so sometimes kids fall through the cracks.  I've seen places where it's obvious the superintendent's/school board president's/booster club's/Baptist preacher's kid gets playing time over everyone else because of how political situations can be, but Huffman, I've thought, hasn't been that way AS BAD as some other places.

I've always been taught the best ability is dependability and sometimes with more talented kids (or kids that have "potential") they think their natural ability should make up for the lack of accountability, preparation, or execution.

You didn't post the other side about your younger son but when I see a parent rant on a social media platform in the way you have my 1st question is going to be "what kind of dedication does your son have?"  If it's spotty do you really think thrusting him into a position over others who have been dedicated is the right way to build a team/program?  Also, what is that teaching your son in the long run?  I'm only assuming because of what I've seen in the past but you never did specify what your younger son's work ethic is like.  My take would be to go meet with the coach directly in charge of him and ask what he has to do to get better and get more playing time (again, I don't know if you've done that but you definitely haven't given any inclination that you have).

I hope your rant helps you out and I'm pretty sure if the Huffman coaches are reading what you posted they probably know who you are.  I don't think going after people on a platform behind a screen name is the right way to address an issue and I can only assume what you're saying in and around the community that causes division.

20 minutes ago, lcm93 said:

Pearland isd ? Alief isd? Tomball memorial? Santa fe?

Go to the Texas High School Football link that's posted. I think they're all there now. 

My guess is that the 6A cutoff will be around 2250 since Highland Park turned in 2245.5 (that's if, you know, that whole rumor of keeping HP out of 6A is correct...)

I hope the numbers are in your favor for this alignment and the UIL doesn't shat too much and leave some of you up when you should be down.

Oh, and good luck tonight!

6 hours ago, cat001 said:

When you're fighting history and unsupportive community (in terms of support for football) I get your point. My point is success in Tarkington cannot be measured in wins and losses unfortunately. Competitiveness and kids enjoying the game and learning life lessons should be more of the focus and if they get a coach that can focus on those things and they stay long enough then the wins will come just takes a special person to commit to such a task

There are guys like that all over the state of Texas that are willing to commit to that.  The point you're not getting in saying exactly what you just posted is contradictory.  "History dictates...but if someone commits..." the people in charge of hiring or firing have to realize that; not the guy signing the contract extensions.

I know of a guy that was a holdover from Howard's staff that would have done EXACTLY what you're talking about and the powers that be wanted to bring in someone that had a track record with the supt.  The guy I'm in reference to wanted to be there and would have fallen on the sword for any of those kids.  That's not a stab at Bass, but again, those who make decisions there.

I'm also going to ask you this.  Is it more imortant to win or have fun?  Isn't teaching kids how to battle through adversity what those life lessons are all about?  Are the life lessons you're wanting supposed to be sitting around a camp fire singing Kumbaya while someone is teaching them as long as things are fun and that life will be ok?  Is it ok for ALL of them to be taught those lessons or just the ones with or without the last name? 

I'm not saying winning can't be fun, but how do you teach a group of individuals how to win without instilling discipline and mental/emotional toughness with it all being "fun"?  The answer is you can't fully have fun while you're teaching life lessons.  People only learn from negative self-experiences to be able to empathize with the things they're learning.  Bottom line unless the community is willing to bring a guy in and let him grow the program they're either going to keep attracting guys that are young and just trying to get the head coach title on his resume or guys that are burned out.

Just now, cat001 said:

Kids actually enjoying football again and being around the coaching staff and speaking positively about things was a change. It did not equate to wins and losses (losing an entire offseason to COVID didn't help) but overall it became a better place because he was there. But keep going off you obviously know it all.

I made ONE comment about an observation I've personally witnessed...the rest of my comments are directed elsewhere and this is what you're hyper focused on?  And before you jump on the "he's an angry assistant" I'm not.

I really do wish Tarkington people would get out of their own way and look at how to better enrich ALL the students' lives there instead of the few that have kids in admin and "big names" in the community.

13 minutes ago, 2wedge said:

 

 

Scat, clearly you are part of the problem in Tarkington. I do not believe for one second that Bass M-F'd kids at halftime. He was always going to be a short timer in Tarkington and the only way that would've changed was if the community rallied around the program and things began to change. Clearly that didn't happen and was never going to happen. 

I am sure you will enjoy him being the head coach of successful 5A and 6A programs into the future while Tarkington continues to be what they've always been. 

I wish the guy nothing but luck.  He knows the right people in SETX and has the right connections to get another head gig.  I hope he ends up like John Snelson because it will further prove my point that there are successful coaches out there that have been in T-Town and that Tarkington WILL NOT do the things that they need to in order to try and be successful.

I have never lived in Tarkington or remotely close to Tarkington whatsoever.  If you go back and read my previous post instead of drooling over the chance to defend someone you'll see why I think the way I do about Tarkington.  In fact, according to Google Maps my house is exactly 261 miles from T-Town.

1 hour ago, cat001 said:

You're a clown bro. Bass actually left Tarkington in a better place than it was before he got there. 

The 1st comment was directed at him, the rest was directed to the community at large.  If you mean by making the program better by not making the play-offs the 2 years he was there with a more talented group than Tarkington has than I guess you're right; he did leave it off better.

19 hours ago, AggiesAreWe said:

Lost a good head coach

A guy that m-f's his kids for motivation at half time?

It's more than just a head coach; Nick Saban would get his brains bashed in there.  The community wants someone to fix the athletics problem there with certain kids getting the accolades and other kids put on the back burner; and the kids they want with the accolades are babied and coddled at home and told they're the best out there cause cousin, or brother, or uncle was an exceptional athlete there (even though he wasn't mediocre anywhere else).

I'm pretty sure Tarkington started to create a "utopian" society and has ended up the way it is.  I distinctly remember walking out of their gym in 7th grade after a basketball game and hearing one of the elder people say "they just won cause of dem black kids"...so if that's what's being up out there they're getting built in excuses

Buna.  T-town people and kids will find a good excuse on why they didn't win.

44 minutes ago, TrojanWarrior08 said:

But I will give Shepherd a lot of credit... Hopefully they can be a dark horse team in 4A-D2

I sure hope so. That group of kids they have now were a good group in middle school. 

Good luck Coldspring. 

Congrats to the Pirates!

I wonder how many times a purple towel was being swung around the sideline last night...

I think I also heard Ranchview and Hillcrest cancelled too.

Boswell and Eaton (I know that's more around Ft Worth)

Naaman Forest and Rockwall-Heath

Arlington Seguin and Dallas Carter

I understand why they're doing this.  What I don't get is kids had all summer to get vaccinated and now "we're going to shut it down to give kids an opportunity to get vaccinated".

Maybe it's the climate, maybe I'm just being cynical, but I can also see this as a school district pressuring kids to get vaccinated by taking athletic events away. 

I guess people forget about his very mediocre stint in Marble Falls?

Nothing against the man personally but wasn't Cameron Yoe, Southlake  AND West Lake winning before he was there.  Oh, and hasn't Southlake and Cameron been successful since he left? 

1 hour ago, Uncle Pig said:

Exactly. I just don’t understand the hold up on more schools building them down here. Football is obviously a lot more important up there than it is down here. 

I wouldn't necessarily say it's not as important but rather more competitive with admin in the DFW than it is in SETX. They're in a situation in a lot of DFW schools where they have to build to compete with the Joneses in getting kids in.  A lot of SETX schools still have guys that "played back then" without anything like that and don't realize that facility upgrades are things that are important.  A lot of school personnel also only think it'll service football but it'll take care of other sports throughout the whole year. They preach they want what's best for the kids but it's all about convenience for them...it's an inconvenience to go and politic around the community to get those things done. Heck, there's even plans floating around for indoors that harvest rain water to be recycled for watering facilities so you can save the district money in the long haul.

I'm surprised Katy hasn't started putting together indoor facilities for their schools.  I'm sure once they started doing that others would follow.

8 hours ago, Ty Cobb said:

The LCM defense will be very good in a couple of years, if not sooner, and they will create turnovers. Coach Davis is a very good DC!!!

I hope you're right.  I've seen really good coordinators take head gigs and struggle not because of coaching but because of gene pool.

8 hours ago, Uncle Pig said:

It’s about time someone other that B Hill got the ball rollin on an indoor facility here in Setx. First class indoor facilities are a dime a dozen up in DFW area; literally every school up there has one

Most DFW schools have them...not all. 

If there's anywhere in Texas that schools need them the most I'd say SETX does. Y'all know as well as I do the weather in the fall is all over the place.