PrairieMan

Brazos is playing Boling for 4th place at East Bernard Friday so Crocketts opponent isn’t set. 

You are in a rebuilding phase. He would fit in really well with next years group. I mean if he’s leaving either way, I’m just saying…haha

Lol y'all been doing well for the last few years in basketball... We can't spare anymore players.

No hurt feelings here. My comments are strictly regarding their chances to even make the playoffs. Deep runs and such aren't really relevant here because you're comments are focused on the top couple teams of the district. It's not common that 3 or 4 teams from any district are typically advancing past the first round. Last year's results are a prime example, two teams from each district advanced one round. So to revisit my comments, I believe that when you go to the 4th and 5th teams in particular in District 10, I feel that they are good teams making it even harder for them to try and get into the playoffs with such a young team. 

Absolutely but loving it for these kids considering where we were this time last year. At this point last season I wasn't sure that Tarkington would still have a football program by the end of the year(obvious exaggeration but it was as dismal as it could get). 

Who is your team?    Tarkington Longhorns
How have they done compared to your offseason expectations?   Better than expected coming off one of the worst seasons I've ever watched in my life
What has been a positive? Offensively they have had some big plays, but more importantly they've had some long sustaining drives. Defensively they have played pretty well overall and the DC has made some good adjustments. Best positive so far is the fire and determination these kids have shown. Reflection of their AD for sure. 
What has been a negative? Passing game is still not good enough to fight off 8-9 in the box if a team decides to do so. Quarterbacks aren't really seeing kids open, just winging to a predetermined receiver. Defensively, tend to give up big plays and once district starts I feel like we are going to be undersized on our D-line. 
What are your new expectations for the season? We are still so young that playoff talks seem a bit presumptuous, but I'm really hoping we can pull off enough wins to sneak in. It would be such a huge boost to these kid's confidence who have had to deal with so much turnover and negative talk for the past couple years. 

!!score:6/21/1/2/05

I think you're doing great! This is my first time getting in on the picks and I've really enjoyed it, even though I'm not very good at it. Thanks for all the hard work, I know how much time this takes and its appreciated. 

Yeah I thought you meant strictly from a cumulative aspect as the year went on as a way to compare teams. 

Me personally, I'd rather just see the below. 
Offensive pass yards Offensive rush yards Defensive pass yards allowed Defensive rush yards allowed Turnovers

Good job......

10:40 left
Horns score rushing TD missed XP
21-12

#2 Junior Ma’Alaelu pick 6 XP good
Horns up
28-12

End of 3rd Quarter
Tarkington 15
Evadale 12

Halftime

Tarkington 7
Evadale 12
Coach Taylor has the Horns playing hard but they are making young team mistakes. They will only get better from here. 

I would tend to agree here because Tarkington is so young. Most of their impact players are Sophmores. Coach Taylor and his staff are working really hard with these kids, it's nice to see a little excitement in the area about football again. I think it will take them a couple games and a few more weeks of practice to get something really started. Most of these kids are still trying to learn the system. My hat's off to Coach Taylor though in what he's trying to do here. Hopefully the community, the decision makers and most importantly the kids give him a chance to build something here. 

I'm shocked to hear this. Seems like a lateral move for him. Does he have some sort of connection with Coldspring?
That seems like an upgrade to me. 

Trust me, I get it. I've been around Tarkington most of my life and I understand when it comes to football, we tend to be the whipping boys. The good years certainly don't outweigh the bad. That being said, I've seen that guy use Tarkington for every sort of pin cushion that you can imagine just in the past 6 months. It's just funny that, that was the example he used after he used the Tarkington head football coach post as his platform to unload his insults and "anger" on Tarkington sports, parents and athletes. 

Also as this is a Tarkington thread. Coach Taylor has already made a great hire for the school. Yesterday the school announced that Coach Kennedy, who previously coached at Liberty and recently was hired as head coach at a 6A school near the hill country has taken the Head volleyball coach position at Tarkington. He is a young guy with lots of knowledge and energy, this will be great for upcoming girls and people that want to see the volleyball program return to its Glory days that they had under Coach Johnson. 

I don't know much about Crockett, but we know they will be athletic, likely more so than the rest in the district. Coldspring has a stud that will be a Junior. Tarkington lost their main scorer and the person that was likely going to step into his role has confirmed to have moved. Still bringing back 4 kids that were juniors last year and a good group of sophmores to be but who knows how they are going to mesh especially going through a coaching change. New Waverly loses it's best player but I will be honest I'm torn between them and Tarkington at the 3 & 4 spots. The rest have only proven to be inconsistent so who knows what the bottom four look like, but that's my best guess. 
3A - District 23
1. Crockett
2. Coldspring
3. New Waverly
4. Tarkington
5. Trinity
6. Anderson
7. Shepherd
8. Onalaska

I'm not here to give an opinion on his basketball knowledge. I just know from watching multiple games in various situations, this dude is a clown on the sidelines. Some of you are going to justify it as "passion",  but to me he is way over the top. Ever since I watched him give teenagers the throat slash in a playoff game, I lost respect for him and take some enjoyment in watching him lose his mind with every loss I happen to be at. Don't know him personally but he has ZERO class on the sidelines. 

Ah, that makes more sense!!! I do remember now that there was a person on the Tarkington thread who kept gauging coaching success on strictly overall records and state titles. That's my bad, sometimes sarcasm is hard to read... 

Please send me the quote where anyone from or around the situation that said that Tarkington had the talent to win the state title in football? Won't be able to because nobody did. 
Just looking for a good man that can come in, get the kids excited about playing ALL sports because every ounce of talent is needed in all of them to be competitive. Then maybe that person can motivate them to use their spare time in the summer and such to put in the extra work. Try to grow some focus on preparing the younger kids for high school ball and for the ones that are already there, put in a system that gives them the best chance of winning some games. They have some athletic kids, just need to be pushed and taught the right way to go about their business. Nobody here is looking for state titles, we aren't mistaken, this isn't Argyle. We want to give our kids the ability to pursue sports in whatever capacity they want to, achieve as much as possible and then go out into the real world and be good people.  
You should maybe spend a little less time polishing your youth football trophy and a little more effort into learning how to have a real conversation.

I don't know who you are but you are clueless if your basing their coaching abilities off of the records that for the most part you entered wrong by the way. (How does a coach play 84 games in 3 seasons???) 
Brandon Carpenter is currently the head football coach of Klein Oak 
Zach Bass is the current OC of BW
Don't forget the aforementioned Coach Snelson who is currently one of the top coaches in the state. 
As I mentioned in my other post, many other factors at play. Considering that both of them came into programs that were in total disarray due to the previous regimes. So what this proves more than anything is, good coaches that help turn around the program end up leaving for greener pastures and unfortunately they haven't done a good job of hiring the next guy which ends up turning the program up on it's head again and for a school like Tarkington, that can mean dark years before the next light can be seen. That's why this next hire is so important for a school like them. 

Yeah but that came from a person who couldn't be further from Tarkington. Your post reads as if the community or other posters on here from the area think that. Which is the source of your constant thoughtless bashing of the kids. I will repeat, NOBODY from the area made this claim. 
I can guarantee you that most of the kids that are currently enrolled in Tarkington don't have parents that went there. So rationale should tell you that people have come and gone. Why haven't more "athletic" kids moved in is the question then, right? Well, we can all agree that the high school sports teams aren't bringing them in. So the people that are moving in to the area are coming in for a number of reasons, my guess is led by the fact they want their kids to have a yard or maybe a few acres to go outside, breathe fresh air and maybe raise a farm animal or two. So like I said previously, very few people here are looking for a football dynasty. They just want to see their kids become respectable adults and maybe a couple wins from whatever sports team their kid is on.
That's just the mentality of the majority and even for me who is a sports fanatic and been here most of my life, it drives me crazy that we aren't more competitive or that kids aren't willing to put extra time in to improve their chances of getting better on Friday night. But for the most part that frustration goes away on Saturday morning when I go to the store and see kids hold open the door for adults and say yes sir and no sir to me when I ask them questions. By no means am I saying those things can't go hand in hand but that's the trade off that most people here are willing to make.