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Woodville Eagles are heading into 2025 with a new HC after losing coach Rob who's been the most successful coach we've had. He's been replaced with coach Heath Clawson. Coach Clawson's head coaching career hasn't been super impressive but he's had a couple good years as an assistant at Aledo and I think he has some ideas that may work pretty well for Woodville. 

Clawson hired coach Clay Mayo as OC for 2025. Coach Mayo's resume doesn't look that great other than a year or 2 at Summer Creek but his son will be a good sized sophomore who might be able to help us out up front. 

Clawson also landed legendary coach Bill Hoppers as the 2025 DC for the Woodville Eagles. Hoppers has around 60 years coaching experience. Had a ton of winning seasons at A&M Consolidated and Navasota. Also has 6 state championship appearances and 3 rings. Would have loved to have him 10 or 15 years ago when he might have had more energy to put into it but we'll take him now as well.

Woodville retained 2 or 3 assistants from last year's staff and hired a couple new young coaches I feel pretty good about as well. 

Woodville players and coaching staff are ready to roll for 2025. Go Eagles! 🦅

55 minutes ago, kirkwood29 said:

Was thinking BH returned a QB from last years squad?  Does Barrier fit into this as the every down qb or is it a split role? 

 

Not everybody.  I think AP will still have some pieces to work with and be competitive. 

Maybe one or 2 but a lot less than last year. Last year was supposed to be Anahuac's year honestly but I guess things happen. OF's the favorite followed by Hardin but I wouldn't completely count EC out even though they lost their QB 

8 hours ago, AggiesAreWe said:

He is at Barbers Hill. Both are at BH.

I figured he would leave. Everybody else graduated

18 minutes ago, Woodvillian1980 said:

We play real ball not flag!!! May not be this year, but going back to Jerrys soon.  Mark my words!! Multiple starters not playing etc.

Understood. But 7on7 helps improve your passing game and secondary play which normally comes in handy playoff time durring the season. Would've been nice to have everybody there to get good reps in against decent competition but oh well. Definitely got something to work with but got a lot of work to do 

Woodville lost C/D championship to Wolf City. Score was 19-18. Sounds like a decent showing but still got a lot of work to do. 

On 5/26/2025 at 12:17 PM, Mr. Buddy Garrity said:

The more I look at his footage that's out there the more I believe he'll be playing DB. 

 

Maybe backup QB?? 🤷🏾‍♂️

Im thinking DB cause I think that's where he's being recruited for the next level. He's a pretty good QB in my opinion also though 

Good hire for the eagles. No where to go but up for the bball program after whatever that was last year

16 minutes ago, wo-s#1 said:

Everything I’ve read says there were only 2 choices,do a tik tok challenge or do a workout?

I wasn't referring to the options given to the kids dude. I was referring to the options of areas available for him to have the kids do the exercise in. 

8 minutes ago, AggiesAreWe said:

If you are saying that a grass or dirt field was another choice, then common sense was definitely not used in this situation.

Never said it was. Just pointed out the hypocrisy of pointing out someone else's lack of common sense meanwhile suggesting turf which isn't much better

8 minutes ago, AggiesAreWe said:

If I have to do bear crawls and my only two choices is do them on is an asphalt track or wood chip filler turf, I am taking the turf each and every time. But I have common sense.

If I am a coach and my choices are an asphalt track or a wood chip filler turf to have my athletes do bear crawls on, I am choosing the turf. But I have common sense.

FYI, Woodville ISD and any other schools that have the wood chip filler turf fields have to put water on these fields regularly to keep the wood chips from getting too dry. This keeps them cooler than the rubber filler turf fields.

I am 100% certain that the field at Eagle Stadium was cooler than the track that day.

There's more than 2 choices

23 minutes ago, purpleeagle said:

You are right, all the people on this site are weird except for one. I am glad I am one of the weird.

Good for you 👍 

10 minutes ago, 5GallonBucket said:

Now you just sound like your trying to point fingers or lead the convo elsewhere with your  unnecessary points to try to disqualify common sense.

i played both sports and coached both sports….that’s irrelevant….doesnt take a football only guy to understand HOT + FLESH = BURN…..a 2 year old learns this pretty quick in life. So nice try.

i can see this is going no where.  ✌️ 

Trying to lead the convo elsewhere? Looks like your just getting upset about points being made about a topic you claim you have no ties to. Yall weird on here

5 minutes ago, BBfan061 said:

Turf does not  get hotter than asphalt

Says who? 

6 minutes ago, 5GallonBucket said:

Well I never heard of it and I ve been around the block…..maybe it’s a woodville thing.

not sure if your referencing others but I never once said anything about turf.

I was at la Porte in mid 2000s when we got turf and yeah it felt like my soles on my shoes were melting off.  

I think your probably a bball guy and bear crawls in general are more of a football thing anyway. The guy you quoted was suggesting the field next to the track which is turf. 

19 minutes ago, 5GallonBucket said:

In all my years of playing and coaching I ve never seen or been part of a program that had athletes do bear craws on a track.  

It's not the most popular thing but it's not completely unheard of. My point is a track is not a good idea but turf is not much better. So pointing out a lack of common sense while suggesting turf doesn't make sense to me

17 minutes ago, 89Falcon said:

Was it several girls at Caldwell (like WV)? 
 

Also, whether the turf is hotter or the same is irrelevant. Enjoy your irrelevant analogies. Can’t wait to see what you come up with next.

Bro I really don't feel like even entertaining you because your motives aren't genuine at all but to answer your question there was only one girl complaining at Caldwell because there was only one girl participating in the exercise. Meanwhile there were 10 complaints about a bear crawl incident in Crandall a couple years back. 

52 minutes ago, AggiesAreWe said:

With 100% certainty? No. But I do know many teams do bear crawls on their turf fields and I have never heard of any athlete complaining about getting burns or blisters from the turf.

The likelihood of someone getting burns or blisters from bear crawls on a track are much much higher than doing that on any turf field. I think most folks would understand that difference.

But I see that if one person got burns or blisters from bear crawls on turf while 100's got it while on a track, you would see it as the same.

The point being, if that activity had to be a choice, then it would have been much more sensible to do that activity on the field and not the track. If you cannot see that, then I can't help you.

Athletes don't always complain about these type of injuries. That type of behavior is just not encouraged in athletic circles. You know that. Mothers don't always take their children to the ER for burns/blisters and if they go to the ER they're not always referred to the burn unit. Scenarios just don't always play out like this but if they did lots of coaches would constantly be in trouble. There was a 7th grade girl who publicly complained of 2nd degree burns she got from bear crawls on a turf field last April in Caldwel though. And turf gets hotter than grass or asphault regardless of what type of filler is used by the way 

1 minute ago, AggiesAreWe said:

Not nearly as hot as a track will get.

Also, that turf at Woodville is the wood chip filler type. It stays much cooler than the rubber pellet filler turf fields.

That turf would not have caused those type injuries.

Do you know if the turf hasn't caused burns/blisters in the past? 

1 hour ago, 5GallonBucket said:

Exactly.  Where is common sense?

It's easy for us to be super critical of the guy's mistake from the outside looking in but these suggestions make it clear some of us might not have done much better. The track definitely wasn't a good idea but the turf might not have been much better. Yall know how hot turf gets? 

34 minutes ago, purpleeagle said:

We did not give up130 points. The score of the Daingerfield game is wrong. It was 41 to 21 not 62 to 28. Newton scored 165 points to 98. 

OK yall still gave up 100 plus and half the 165 was because EW barely even put a defense on the field 

21 minutes ago, purpleeagle said:

Maybe the Bears will not get shut out again. Maybe they can at least crawl there way across mid field.

Rather get shut out in state game than give up 130 plus first 3 rounds of playoffs. 

4 hours ago, purpleeagle said:

The odds for the Woodville Bears making state again is very dim. 

We'll see. Hopefully yalls secondary don't get torched all durring the playoffs again 

44 minutes ago, wo-s#1 said:

Damn dude is he your son or what? Or is he you? I mean you seem very protective of a guy who definitely made a horrible decision and maybe/probably broke some laws…

He's just a young guy who made a mistake and has allready paid for it more than some others in the past have. There was a coach in Alabama who had a simular issue a while back and he didn't even lose his job till he voluntarily resigned later. Much less get criminally charged. Like I said the kids hands will eventually heal. You can't erase what has allready happened but you can try to prevent it from happening again. And he won't be able to do it at WISD again because he's been fired. There's nothing else to be done at this point unless your gonna go charge all the teachers who have made kids do bear crawls previously. Hey let's charge the cheerleading instructors who allow little girls to do cartwheels and what not on the track Saturday evenings at this point. Like, what are we doing here? This stuff has to be fair across the board. Can't just have super severe punishment for certain people and let others get away scott-free.

10 minutes ago, purpleeagle said:

No I saw his record and he brought a bad team to a 5/2 district record and to the playoffs. Maybe Woodville found out he knew the bear crawl.

Yea I saw that and also saw he had losing seasons 2 out of 4 years going 0-10 one year. That's not enough consistency for me to be sure if he "brought" them to 5/2 or if he just arrived at a good time? Granted he'll probably have some good years at Woodville but if he turns out not to be that good of a head coach that could make our chances of making another state run a bit slimmer 

2 hours ago, purpleeagle said:

So Woodville hires the Elgin  head Coach who comes from a 5A2 school to a 3A2 school. Not saying that is bad but seems a little odd. Looks like a good hire. Welcome Heath Clawson.

So if a 6-30 guy comes from a 6A school to Newton you'd assume that's a good hire for Newton just because he comes from a 6A school?