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20 minutes ago, WOSgrad said:

Didn't hear the when and where.  Still trying to find that.

Today (Saturday) at 11:00 in Winnie.

1 hour ago, longball24 said:

Nothing against evadale they have a very good team. Woodville has been going down hill for a while. This team is expected to go a long ways. This year and next . Dixie league World Series must mean nothing.

That team was made up of kids from other Tyler County towns as well..Not solely Woodville... Besides I think most of those boys graduated over the last couple of years...

3 hours ago, BADSANTA said:

As adults you have to have more in life than being involved in high school sports. Going to the game and cheering is one thing but going and acting a complete ass is another. There is nothing wrong with cheering for your school but when you Sit on the visitors side and talk smack like your 15 it's a shame. I go to many Silsbee games and its always the same 3 or 4 people doing the bull $#%=÷. Sit down cheer for your school and leave others alone. It is a kids game. Let the kids be kids. You paid $3 to come in and cheer. Some people I see that all they have is high school sports. They live and die with the high school team and your like 40 gets old. Embarrassing! 

Come on man you have over 11000+ posts on a mostly high school sports forum and you want to call out other adults for getting wrapped up in school sports!?! Look in the mirror... You're the one that started this thread...

1 hour ago, REBgp said:

That's true, and I'm not aware of circumstances, since I wasn't at game.  Did see Evadale up 54-0 with 3 min to go in 2nd Qtr against some Prep team, trying a 45 yard FG on first down, and know the JV and subs played whole second half with a running clock.  Evidently Tenaha made a similar effort, so I have apologized.  

Jmo, but having four playoff teams in 2A, with all six team districts (except for 3 with 5 teams) is ridiculous.  Even three would be pushing it.  But I seriously doubt the UIL cares what I think.

I agree Reb...I would like to see them go back to no more than 2 teams from each district but I don't think that happens...Good luck to the Rebels.

9 hours ago, REBgp said:

Lost respect for Tenaha.  Had hoped for them to beat Bremond, but can't do that anymore.  Be pulling for Bremond.

Didn't you guys hang 83 on Colmesneil?

No problem with last nights score...No quarter asked for..none given...We would have scored as much if roles were reversed...I've always said if you don't like getting blown out then do something  about it...and no there was no parade for beating the Eagles....See you next season...

29 minutes ago, camsdad said:

Go Cats?

You mean go Warriors! LoL!

I've seen both teams..I believe the Rebs take this one. 

Congrats to the Bucs! Best of luck in y'all's new district! 

Final:

Warren 12

Huntington 0

7 hours ago, fox said:

didn't mcmurray move from baseball coach to AD/head football coach?

That is correct.

1 hour ago, camsdad said:

My son played on that field from 2011-2014 and never had a problem with it.

I thought it was in good shape myself...

Lovelady wins 5 to 2.

Top of 5th:

Lovelady 4

Colmesneil 0

Good Job Dogs!

Congrats to the Pirates on a solid season! A lot of good wins this year despite what the community went through.

1 hour ago, OneChance said:

Does anybody know where the money came from for Lumberton's turf? I never heard about anything for the public to vote on! Normally, if taxpayer money is going to be used on stadium upgrades it is placed in a school bond to be voted on by the public.

Wouldn't require a public vote if the money used came from the fund balance. The Board could vote to use if brought to them by the Superintendent..

If more taxpayers had a clue about how poorly the state legislature funds school districts they would understand why more fields aren't turfed or why gyms don't have stadium seating...Hard to spend that kind of money when you're trying to make sure you're holding on to all your teaching positions, fixing the roofs and A/C units, buying replacement buses etc etc especially when the oil and gas prices are in the dumpster which takes away a lot of tax dollars..Not to mention the increase cost districts have seen caused by the affordable care act. (yes this effected public school districts too as they are employers)...When districts face this they got to prioritize and turf usually doesn't make the list...

1 hour ago, Chester86 said:

Worth the read... For everyone especially parents and coaches

In Nashville, Tennessee, during the first week of January, 1996, more than 4,000 baseball coaches descended upon the Opryland Hotel for the 52nd annual ABCA convention.

While I waited in line to register with the hotel staff, I heard other more veteran coaches rumbling about the lineup of speakers scheduled to present during the weekend. One name, in particular, kept resurfacing, always with the same sentiment — “John Scolinos is here? Oh man, worth every penny of my airfare.”

Who the heck is John Scolinos, I wondered. Well, in 1996 Coach Scolinos was 78 years old and five years retired from a college coaching career that began in 1948. No matter, I was just happy to be there.

He shuffled to the stage to an impressive standing ovation, wearing dark polyester pants, a light blue shirt, and a string around his neck from which home plate hung — a full-sized, stark-white home plate. Pointed side down. Seriously, I wondered, who in the hell is this guy?

After speaking for twenty-five minutes, not once mentioning the prop hanging around his neck, Coach Scolinos appeared to notice the snickering among some of the coaches. Even those who knew Coach Scolinos had to wonder exactly where he was going with this, or if he had simply forgotten about home plate since he’d gotten on stage.

Then, finally … “You’re probably all wondering why I’m wearing home plate around my neck. Or maybe you think I escaped from Camarillo State Hospital,” he said, his voice growing irascible. I laughed along with the others, acknowledging the possibility.

“No,” he continued, “I may be old, but I’m not crazy. The reason I stand before you today is to share with you baseball people what I’ve learned in my life, what I’ve learned about home plate in my 78 years.”

Several hands went up when Scolinos asked how many Little League coaches were in the room. “Do you know how wide home plate is in Little League?” After a pause, someone offered, “Seventeen inches,” more question than answer.

“That’s right,” he said. “How about in Babe Ruth? Any Babe Ruth coaches in the house?” Another long pause.

“Seventeen inches?”came a guess from another reluctant coach.

“That’s right,” said Scolinos. “Now, how many high school coaches do we have in the room?” Hundreds of hands shot up, as the pattern began to appear. “How wide is home plate in high school baseball?”

“Seventeen inches,” they said, sounding more confident. “You’re right!” Scolinos barked. “And you college coaches, how wide is home plate in college?”

“Seventeen inches!” we said, in unison.“Any Minor League coaches here? How wide is home plate in pro ball?”

“Seventeen inches!” “RIGHT! And in the Major Leagues, how wide home plate is in the Major Leagues?”

“Seventeen inches!” “SEV-EN-TEEN INCHES!” he confirmed, his voice bellowing off the walls.

“And what do they do with a a Big League pitcher who can’t throw the ball over these seventeen inches?” Pause. “They send him to Pocatello!” he hollered, drawing raucous laughter.

“What they don’t do is this: they don’t say, ‘Ah, that’s okay, Bobby. You can’t hit a seventeen-inch target? We’ll make it eighteen inches, or nineteen inches. We’ll make it twenty inches so you have a better chance of throwing the ball over it. If you can’t hit that, let us know so we can make it wider still, say twenty-five inches.’”

Pause. “Coaches …” Pause.

” … what do we do when our best player shows up late to practice? What do we do if he violates curfew? What if he uses drugs? Do we hold him accountable? Or do we change the rules to fit him? Do we widen home plate?

The chuckles gradually faded as four thousand coaches grew quiet, the fog lifting as the old coach’s message began to unfold.

Then he turned the plate toward himself and, using a Sharpie, began to draw something. When he turned it toward the crowd, point up, a house was revealed, complete with a freshly drawn door and two windows. “This is the problem in our homes today. With our marriages, with the way we parent our kids. With our discipline. We don’t teach accountability to our kids, and there is no consequence for failing to meet standards. We widen the plate!”

Pause. Then, to the point at the top of the house he added a small American flag.

“This is the problem in our schools today. The quality of our education is going downhill fast and teachers have been stripped of the tools they need to be successful….to educate and discipline our young people. We are allowing others to widen home plate! Where is that getting us?”

“And this is the problem in the Church, where powerful people in positions of authority have taken advantage of young children, only to have such an atrocity swept under the rug for years. Our church leaders are widening home plate!”

I was amazed. At a baseball convention where I expected to learn something about curveballs and bunting and how to run better practices, I had learned something far more valuable. From an old man with home plate strung around his neck, I had learned something about life, about myself, about my own weaknesses and about my responsibilities as a leader. I had to hold myself and others accountable to that which I knew to be right, lest our families, our faith, and our society continue down an undesirable path.

“If I am lucky,” Coach Scolinos concluded, “you will remember one thing from this old coach today. It is this: if we fail to hold ourselves to a higher standard, a standard of what we know to be right; if we fail to hold our spouses and our children to the same standards, if we are unwilling or unable to provide a consequence when they do not meet the standard; and if our schools and churches and our government fail to hold themselves accountable to those they serve, there is but one thing to look forward to …”

With that, he held home plate in front of his chest, turned it around, and revealed its dark black backside. “… dark days ahead.”

Coach Scolinos died in 2009 at the age of 91, but not before touching the lives of hundreds of players and coaches, including mine. Meeting him at my first ABCA convention kept me returning year after year, looking for similar wisdom and inspiration from other coaches. He is the best clinic speaker the ABCA has ever known because he was so much more than a baseball coach.

His message was clear: “Coaches, keep your players — no matter how good they are — your own children, and most of all, keep yourself at seventeen inches.

 

Good read Senor Bean!

Sounds like an exciting game!

Congrats to Ross!

Most taxpayers do not know how  The State of Texas funds education ..If they did they would be camped out in Austin every other year to demand it get fixed. Until that happens I would be very reluctant to spend $1 million on turf or any other like extra curricular activity project..That money would stay in fund balance until the state gets it right..

The Bucs will be in the hunt for the DC just as they've had for the last 20 + years...Good Luck over there EC!  

2 hours ago, Octfeb said:

Steps that would need to take place.

1. Complainers would have to have a meeting with the coach himself. ( If not satified with that meeting)

2. Complainers would have to have a meeting with the principal of said school.(If not satisfied)

3. Gather any and all FACTS. Call school admin. Make a time to be heard at school board meeting. Make copies of all FACTS so each school board member can have a copy when it is time to present the complaints. 

4. Say your peace.

 Then the ball would be in the school boards court. 

Well said...