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Sorry about the loss West Orange Stark. From central Texas with a report on La Vega since they were an old jr high rival for us Marlin Bulldogs. I now live 10 from the school and watched a couple of practices during 2 a days. Met their HC, Coach Hyde I believe is his name , this summer at 2 a days and congratulated him on last year. They played Carthage very well last year at Jerry World for the state championship. He shrugged and said we gotta play better, kids and coaches got to work harder. On Thursday I reffed a quadruple header at La Vega versus solid football program China Spring, a recent state champ. China Spring is like Waco s version of PNG. La Vega easily won 7B ( I was only ref of my crew arrived at 4:30, 3 Pirate varsity assistant coaches put on stripe shirt and help me ref. The HC and coordinators were there also ( supposedly there were fights a year ago because of a big rivalry and hatred btw the 2 . I was the head line judge but at Coach Hyde s request the chain crew were on the home side. So I got to witness their junior high and varsity staff in action. They had five – – maybe six junior high coaches, and I critique coaches, so I’ll payed close attention to their demeanor. Their kids were discipline and disciplined when they misbehaved or exhibited attitude. Their older jr high coach was about 60 and a Jefferson Moore graduate while the other 4 were La Vega or Connally products. The varsity coaches were there helping, 3 ran my chains and the other 3 were behind the bench and coaching up kids but not stepping on jr high coaches authority. It was VERY impressive. And La Vega and also China spring had athletes but the pirates skill was awesome but discipline. The stands were very crowded but filled out quickly with no incidents. In the end highlight gamee La Vega won by 7 in the 4th. Most coaching staff that go to junior high games, often will just sit together in a pack and watch. That always bothered me because I believe it’s great for the junior high to see varsity coaches helping in anyway possible. And that is what La Vega did. Was very impressed and with Athletes they have Las Vegas gonna be a power For the next few years as long as the staff stay together. The head coach and the high school staff are so important to development of a program. And since I’m not coaching anymore, I love to watch this and compare, but I have to be honest for a junior high staff – – I don’t think I’ve ever seen a junior high staff as a whole, coach as well as the La Vega staff. Just organization and delegation of responsibility was superb. La vega has a 7 grade and then an 8 th grade receiver close to 6 ft each and great athleticism and technique ( route running by these 2 was impressive. Just from this junior high exhibition, I can predict that La Vega will be in the hunt for the state championship the next four or five years. They were very impressive – – maybe they’ll give cartage a little more run for the money if they get to meet. Anyway, I just thought I’d give y’all that report cause I know some of y’all were complaining about the West Orange staff – – and coaches don’t like to admit but often times the people in the stands can see a poorly run unit.. La Vega is NOT poorly run, to the contrary they are an exceptional staff + great players = state contender!

I don't know what WOS has but I went to La Vega to watch their first Saturday practice in full pads. Unfortunately, not much hitting just special teams work and pix. I spoke with their hc Coach Hyde I believe and congratulated him on last year where they lost at Jerry World to Carthage. They actually played a good game and kept it close for a while. He didn't want to hear that. If its the same qb as last year (i think it is cause I saw him at practice) he is built like a refrigerator with great feet but he thinks he is Dan Marino. He doesn't realize the damage he could do on running-- maybe he's more confident this year. Glad i don t have to feed him.

Yes, Kingwood has turned it around last year. I don't know the head coach, but he obviously knows what he is doing. I kind of figured that he would doing what Koch did at Houston Memorial. I know Clayton Maple, he was a bright eyed youngun when I was in my 40's, but he is at Kingwood Park. Does La Porte have any Saturday games? I would love to see them, but Thursday and Friday I am reffing central Texas and then Saturday morning i ref full padded 6 man football btw Waco and Cleburne. They have a league. They combine 2-3 graders, then 4-5 graders. Awesome to watch and ref. Friday I did a 6 man in Waco. It was Waco Home School team vs Bryan College Station. Awesome athletes- qb 6'3" on both teams and can go. FG kickers blasting it from outside of 40. Some of them will play small college. I never went to Jerry World on Day 1 to watch 6 man, but I will this year

I was close to going to Davis around 2010-11 with a guy as his DC--I was excited cause I knew the kids there after being at Ike for a few. But - never happened-- but did you see Ike beat Clear Brook????

Congratulations Dogs from beautiful central Texas!

Congratulations Bulldogs!! From Central Texas, sending best wishes to one of my old schools in Southeast Texas for a great season!! Beating your rival in an opening day classic like this can really propel your team through the season. Only rival game I have seen as intense is old school Baytown Sterling vs Baytown Lee or PNG vs Nederland! Football is BACK! coachbear

Home of new Jets coach Aaron Glenn, right? They use to have some athletes--

Thursday Mcgregor @ Hillsboro 9-jv head line judge Friday Mart @ Whitney official 25-40 clock operator 👍🏻 Should be a good one as I believe Whitney beat the tar out of Mart, embarrassed them last year. Plus hopefully the food selections in Whitneys press box are good. In my coaching years in Southeast Texas, the best food as a pressbox coach were The Rig in Pearland ( always Cajun seafood and chicken) or Port Arthur Memorial ( homemade plates of smothered pork chops, mashed potatoes and macaroni with cheese).

Wow amazing how things have changed. I was there 2003-07 and we couldn't get kids to leave the weightroom after school in the offseason. Great numbers and athletes. Administration, like always has a lot to do with it as far as head coaching hires. Without the right head coach, a championship contender can become a dumpster fire quick. I was there during Coach Carson s last years before moving on to College Park. The head coach is the most important part of a football team. This is why I did it for almost 4 decades and write about it now. FiretheCoach on Substack

Man, I remember hearing about Al, heard he was a beast. I played against his cousin Ted Bundy--think he was at Crawford, didn't stay long, heard he was running from the law. Wonder what happened to him. I heard Al also became a pee wee football coaching legend. Not sure.

I agree, La Porte is so unique surrounded by Houston industry and neighborhoods, but it still has that small town feel. I would like to see a game if its on Saturday--since i will be reffing Friday- but want to get back for some Saturday games. I try to record college games and blast through the commercials;

I understand that you want to have faith in coaches, and he has turned it around in 3 years. But after coaching almost four decades I hate it when coaching ego or "the Franklin way" causes teams to lose. We as coaches can always blame the kids, but often it is the coaches stubborness or lack of innovation or just plain common sense that costs us, and by us i mean the team, coaches, school,administration and town. Right now Jackson Dart who may be a good quarterback from Ole Miss and now at the Giants, cannot take a snap from under center!!!!! Because EVERYONE offensively believes in the air offense, shotgun snap--whatever you call it. There is just things that go on, like in government, that coaches pull the wool over the publics eyes. Coaches, especially head coaches are the MOST important part of any team sport. And many are great leaders and build character in our young men. But some aren't and it , like society is getting worse every year. I would tell my defense at Crosby after each game, win or lose, to not point the finger but to look in the mirror and ask what I could have done different. I worked for Jerry Stewart, who had great success at Dayton, at Clear Lake in his first coaching job and that was the type of head coach he was. We turned a state champion basketball team Clear Lake (the year after La Porte won State) into a football power. Anyway,since i am a coach, retired, I know how much control coaches have. I also understand the pressure we are constantly under. I am going to start an online blog on Substack called "Fire the Coach cause we deserve better!" It will come out twice a week. Please follow and tell me what you think. I will start it on August 25 or26. [email protected] Isn't it great that football season is almost here!

Tremendous rivalry, I was lucky to get to coach in one and we gave it away by shotgun snapping from the goalline/ fumble and missed field goal. I am old school, when you are at the one, quarterback sneak!!!!

Hey Navydawg31, I retired after 38 years of coaching. I am now living back in central Texas and am part of the TASO Waco chapter and I will drive to Southeast Texas to ref youth league at $100 a pop as long as I can get 3 games, seriously. Give my email to the people you know. I copy all my college games and watch commercial free. Seriously if they need help [email protected] yes we are short of officials here to.

Just to let y’all know I received my Texas Football magazine in the mail today in Waco. Now I am going to read for the next 12 hours!!!

This late usually means the former head is doing it to help a young coach on staff secure the job, but every school has their reasons and 90 percent of the time the public doesn’t. Who knows, my profession is sometimes crazy. Like Bum said, “There’s two kinds of coaches, them that’s fired and them that’s gonna be fired.” Anyone know when Dave Campbell’s mag will start coming in the mail?

As a coach of 40 years experiencing the Houston area and some good years at Crosby, I agree with 14.2, 💯! The problem with a lot of coaches is they defend other coaches no matter what. And that has hurt our profession. And I’m talking about the Texas High School Coaches Association who often cover up poor or bad coaching with good old boys, or even worse coaches who actually hurt kids. Yeah it goes on, but you never hear about it because school districts don’t want to get a bad wrap. To me, it goes in this order for success at the high school level 1) great head Football Coach who is also a good man ( very important in my book) 2) great defense coordinator 3) solid offensive scheme 4) Great quarterback, and running back 5) all other athletes on defense again, I would like to say that the quality of Head Coach is out there in Texas is great, it may be better than most states. I’m in Louisiana now and I plan on going watching some high school football around here. But Louisiana is a different animal because you got so many private schools and so many athletes that get scholarship to private schools. Texas is very unique. I became a coach because my father served in Nagasaki and had radiation and chemical poisoning which made an alcoholic. So my father was my Football Coach who became the head coach at Waco.Midway one of the most successful in central Texas history, Kent Bachtel. But unfortunately, just like it is in the construction petrochemical and business industry. A lot of good old boys, hire good old boys. You never really know who is in charge of hiring because it differs in each job.. sometimes a committee has power, sometimes a soup, sometimes the owner of the Chevrolet dealership has the power! seriously it changes with every hire. But if you don’t get it right, you can screw up a great system. FYI, of the 11 head coaches who might work for as an assistant, coach, assistant, Head Coach or defense coordinator, two were great men, and both were very successful at training, young men to strong men, and also by wins on the scoreboard. The other nine, seriously, if they were on the ground burning, I wouldn’t urinate on the stop the fire. And I’m not exaggerating. But they kept getting head jobs because they were in the old boy network names here in Southeast Texas. But they taught young boys— not good things but they could sell themselves to the superintendent, board or public. See Tom Herman , Jimbo and Irving Meyer as examples. Sad but true

Yeah, actually it’s not that big of a deal because you are in superintendent and most of the departments or assistant superintendent are already there with the job description. To me would be much more of a problem if I high school principal left or Head Football Coach left at this time.

I remember some of those Katie La Porte games, I was at the game I believe in the playoffs when it was done at Memorial Stadium off of I 10. Can’t remember the name of it. It’s where former teammate Craig James played for Stratford all of his games. Anyway, those were some great games And I remember watching a great coach team get beat by an even better coach with a little less talent La Porte team. Great memories. i’ve been in Texas the last two weeks I didn’t get to attend any high school football games, but went to University of Texas and Colorado State game and just watch some games but if All still in Texas, I would love to go see the Hill versus La Porte. Hill has one of my former players, Chance Nelson , coach of wide receivers, and I’m familiar with La Porte‘s offense. In my opinion, Coach needs to open it up a little bit to make La Porte really dangerous. He didn’t do that at Dobie with a lot of talent. He was too predictable a teams good defense coordinator could defend them very easily! He leaves a lot of points on the field with his lack of innovation.

Oh, I forgot to tell you this morning. I went to racetrack to eat breakfast here in Chase Bell or Bill Chase I get him confused, anyway Raceway got great breakfast. It was about 7:30 in the morning and there’s a group of 10 Hispanic young man down in about three cases of Modelo’s, they just got off the night shift. They were all graduates of North Shore high school a couple of football players one baseball. So we talk football And North Shore Texas high school football. I wish I got a picture with them, but I was in a hurry breakfast and and get my three hours of sleep before coming back to the afternoon shift. They talked about the great rivalry they had Duncanville. And they hope they play again this year.. The smell of humidity in the morning with fresh cut grass, we are blessed by God to be able to participate in such a awesome sport! Long live football

Hey guys, it’s been a few weeks since I’ve checked Southeast Texas football. I’ve been working my ass off here at this natural gas plant south of New Orleans, seriously haven’t had a real day off in six weeks. Working 13 – ones and on the ones I’ve had to drive back to my hometown Marlin pick up crap and then drive back. That’s a round-trip about 18 hours. so I’m just trying to catch up on my breathing in my sleep. But man Football‘s around the corner. Up here the LSU talk is hot and heavy and on the local Espn station they have some High School talk from here Louisiana but yes, I did get my Texas Football. And I go to breakfast after work from 330 to about 730 to a lot of the local eateries here in Chase Bell, St Bernard, Port Sulphur and I always have my Texas Football magazine. And all these football guys Are very impressed about size, come on guys we like that size even though usually we lie 🤔😆 . Anyway, can’t get any more ready for football. Over 40% of the people getting on my bus or from htown and former football players and we talk football on the bus trip along with the little Astros. Got some Louisiana guys too big on LSU and actually got a lot of Tulane people here. The parents of the Holy Cross high school receiver that’s gonna go to H with the former Tulane coach. Look out you, UH maybe pretty awesome in a couple years. I’m going to start a blog in a few weeks on the app called Substack called.” Fire the Coach”. Please read along and tell me what you think. Joe Berezoski Coach Bear The Urban Farmboy

Sorry the former helluva player of mine at Crosby is Cougar 14:2! Smack talker, great athlete, smart, son is a rb at Crosby senior i believe unless he used nil transfer. Helluva powerlifter,,qualified for state i believe at the most competitive weight- outside linebacker weight 175! Jalen Hurts was also a helluva powerlifter. Did great at regionals but just missed state

Oh yeah, hell yeah as a 40 year coach in East Terrace county and a graduate of great football at Marlin High School. I know in Belleville y’all got great football. Good luck on your season. I’m gonna enjoy it from here in New Orleans as I work and understand I’m 63 going on 23 and a little bit of a smart ass, my coach y’all favorite I think his name is Cougar 23. That boy can talk to smack but he was a hell of a player that Offensive Coordinator screwed over. Seriously he was jealous of him because of the girl he was dating and he wouldn’t give him the football. I could change stories how men have let their feminine emotions get to them in football and screw things up. Anyway, I smell that wet grass in the morning and feel the sweat of forehead can’t wait football star I’m a crazy guy go go Aggies go LSU, go Texas go Cowboys go Saints. Do you think I like football?

Why I can’t lie to y’all, this is Coach Bear and I started this topic. South of New Orleans working here after 40 years of coaching piss cause I hadn’t got my Texas Football yet. But I saw Dave Tepper delivered to y’all. Great job. I got that beat this morning, after doing my morning bus run at the construction job here in Port Sulphur Louisiana. I drove up to my travel trailer. There is a limo, and guess who gets out Roger Staubach and Earl Campbell and Dhat Nguyen, followed by my teammatesin the 1979 THSCA all-Star game in Fort Worth, Erik Dickerson and Craig James, then it’s kind of like clowns coming out of a car, 2211 for offense and 11 for Defense Victoria’s Secret models came out and finally they presented me my Texas Football magazine. Then the heavens opened up and the Angels sing hallelujah I was going to attach a picture that I took sitting on my toilet reading Texas Football but it said the file was too big, I understand that because I am Ukrainian and you know the saying once you go Ukrainian the love connection makes you insane again. Just saying. — Seriously, Football right around the corner and I’m excited