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He definitely knew what was in the pipeline.

Jasper lost to Shepherd because Shepherd had better players by a good margin. It would not have mattered who Jasper played in the pre district schedule. It is going to be worse next year because nearly every player on the roster is returning for Shepherd and Shepherd will have much more depth.

Yep. Jimmies and Joes.

Got it. Who made it farther in the playoffs? Barbay or the "home cooking guy"?

Why would they do that? Based upon your logic, he is not a good coach. They need a "good coach" if they want to beat WOS and Carthage this year. Just a coach away from State Championship.

If Warren gets a good coach, they should be able to beat Newton. As you indicated multiple times, winning has little to do with talent and primarily comes down to coaching. Speed, coordination and strength meaning very little. I was recently at an event and noticed how the Warren kids looked exactly like the Newton kids and that there is no reason for Warren to not compete with Newton. Still cant figure out why college coaches only recruit athletically dominant players? Seems like they could win with any group of players with good coaching.

Center best player moved to San Augustine

Looking forward to Warren beating Newton this year when they get a good coach.

Thanks for the validation. I have been fortunate to see kids develop from Jr High through High school for multiple decades. Not sure about the number of kids but I believe it to be well into thousands. There is guaranteed 1000% proven fact that winning is about "Jimmies and Joes, not Xs and Os". In Jasper's case, I have actually "looked at them in the weightroom" and based upon that observation I am certain they will look like Jasper again after one more season, and it will not matter who they have for a coach. Although, everyone will all of a sudden proclaim the greatness of the new coach (similar to how they proclaimed Crumedy a few years ago, after Barbay was run out of town for bad coaching). I can even think of another 4AD2 program in SETX where everyone wanted to fire the coach for a few years and they even thought that "little league coaches" knew more. After the coach that everyone wanted to fire, got a good group of talent in the upper classes they went to the State Championship game and the whole community then thought the coach had an epiphany and learned how to coach.

Especially since he will be doing it without WRs this coming year.

Yep, they are the ones on the field. Cant "make bricks with no straw". Been watching these cycles at various programs for a few decades. I am going to go ahead and make a prediction for you to come back and check later: The next coach will struggle this coming year and will turn the tide back to being "Jasper" when the current sophomores become SRs.

Sub varsity was not good because the top players were on Varsity taking their lumps.

The biggest “headache” is “poor talent” in the current upper classes.

How so? Little league coaches not on board?

No one can accuse Newton of scheduling "light".

Only chance is Kountze. Might be the only win of the season. Possibly Tarkington.

Don’t be surprised if WOS beats Carthage in wk 5

18 JR starters back for Shepherd.

There is no replacing Trevor Jones. I expect Hardin will finish a distant 3rd behind WV and Newton. Not going to be any kind of playoff threat.

Brilliant insight, they "dont want to be good in football". It is priority for the community that the football team is bad. Always enjoy the great comments.

Million dollar NIL was not around when his grandfather was in school.

CC is pretty decent. Keep in mind that Hardin is coming back to the pack this year.

Only explanation is WV coaches just wanted to lose. They clearly didn’t know the players. Despite seeing how they practiced, behaved in the locker room or at school. The people who really know are the folks who saw none of that but coached them in little league or sat in the stands.

Shepherd: Huffman Tarkington Coldspring Madisonville Katy Harmony

Not at WV. They had a QB with D1 offers playing JV.