OVER THE HILL

I agree the culture changed when they hired actual basketball coaches.  After watching about 60 games or so the last 3 years, I feel like I have a good handle on the teams capabilities and what could have been.  I also enjoyed watching your son cardinal 1 and my son enjoyed playing with him, he tried to play team basketball even though he could have fallen right in with the me, me, me stuff, he didn't.  I think he will do well at the next level.  

They probably would have finished the same.  To much me,me,me on the team and not enough team.  That showed last night and in previous losses with HJ and Huffman.  The Washington team played together and should go far in the playoffs, if not outright win it.  As soon as HF got down, one player tried to take on the whole Washington team and all the others could do was stand and watch.  Washington was hitting shots and making great passes to the open man.  They were just as excited to make a great pass as they were to hit a shot.  You did not see that from HF at all during the big games over the last three years.   You might say well, the coach could have changed that but even with the previous coach the same thing was going on.  That has been the problem with them the last three years.  This team won a lot of games over the last three years but overall were a big disappointment because they couldn't play together when they needed too.  HF should be ok with the new coach in charge because the kids he has coming thru the next few years play together and share the ball.  

They probably would have finished the same.  To much me,me,me on the team and not enough team.  That showed last night and in previous losses with HJ and Huffman.  The Washington team played together and should go far in the playoffs, if not outright win it.  As soon as HF got down, one player tried to take on the whole Washington team and all the others could do was stand and watch.  Washington was hitting shots and making great passes to the open man.  They were just as excited to make a great pass as they were to hit a shot.  You did not see that from HF at all during the big games over the last three years.   You might say well, the coach could have changed that but even with the previous coach the same thing was going on.  That has been the problem with them the last three years.  This team won a lot of games over the last three years but overall were a big disappointment because they couldn't play together when they needed too.  HF should be ok with the new coach in charge because the kids he has coming thru the next few years play together and share the ball.  

No ill-will here brother, just curious on the thoughts of others. The horns got 3 or 4 really good transfers, and maybe not as many wins as they expected.... carry on. 

A lot of coaches only see some athletes abilities to run fast or jump high and ignore the bad things they do because they are awesome athletes.  Those coaches are always wondering why can’t we win at a high level?  The good coaches know chemistry between teammates is what wins.  I agree that these problems should have been addressed in preseason.  He can still save the season and make a run in the playoffs if he makes the hard decision.  Their is chemistry with some of the players and you can see it especially with the second unit and Cardinal 1s son but like I said above everyone loves the athletes so they will stick with that even though it may bury them.

On his coaches bio, it says he played  basketball at the college level at ETBU, I believe.  Why wouldn’t he want to coach at what got him to where he’s at?  HF is a small school and generally any coach hired does multiple sports.  They don’t have the financial support of the plants in the area to be able to afford just a sport specific coach like many of the other schools in the area so having a background in multiple sports is a must.  We have had ADs in the past that only cared about football and it was one of the reasons our other programs such as basketball suffered.  Wagner isn’t like that or Rideaux wouldn’t have been hired in the first place.  He wants all the programs to succeed.  It shows because multiple teams at HF have made the playoffs since he has been AD so to say this is a football hire isn’t true.

If going 1 - 5 in district is having a bunch of ringers, then yes we have a bunch of ringers.  This coach is teaching hard work, perseverance and loyalty to those boys.  If he wasn't then they would quit on him and they haven't , so teams aren't getting the easy win . This wouldn't be a problem if it was the same old HF and they were getting beat by 40 or 50 like they have in the past.  

If going 1 - 5 in district is having a bunch of ringers, then yes we have a bunch of ringers.  This coach is teaching hard work, perseverance and loyalty to those boys.  If he wasn't then they would quit on him and they haven't , so teams aren't getting the easy win . This wouldn't be a problem if it was the same old HF and they were getting beat by 40 or 50 like they have in the past.  

Careful.  You want to talk about transfers, HF certainly didn’t invent that concept.  In fact, several of the juggernauts in this area of feasted on transfers for a long time.  Can’t help but think some of the outrage about HF is that they have dipped their fingers in the talent pool that was monopolized by other for some time now. And no, I’m not getting into the particular schools or the particular players.  But believe me it’s nothing new in these parts. 

The HF team only has one true transfer student and he is playing JV so he will be able to play next year.  Whoever is giving you info is wrong.  The team has 1 senior, 4 juniors and the rest of the team is sophomores.  The two newer players live in the district and are 10th graders.  Everyone is talking smack about this team because they are wondering how they got so good so fast when the reality is that they finally got a coach that cares about winning and his players.  The talent was always there.  The kids are just now figuring out they can win and when the coach and the kids figure it out the rest of the district will be really wary of playing HF.