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Kountzer

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  1. 40 minutes ago, bullets13 said:

    Starting to think BU might actually have state chances in 6A.  Still think there’s a high probability they slip up in the playoffs against bigger, better opponents, but they’re dang good 

    They had to adjust at the beginning of this season: new season, changed responsibilities, Arceneaux is gone, etc.  They should be fine now.  Deal with eve playoffs when they get here.

  2. There was a coach I knew of that was probably a roll out the ball coach. I can’t prove that. I’ve spoken to an ex NBA player who he coached. He talks glowingly of him. His son played on a highly ranked Yates team. He mostly came off the bench. He was kind of a nerd. After JY he went to Texas A&M and earned a masters in mechanical engineering. He married a 3rd ward debutante. She earned the same degree from A&M as well.  I could go on & on with that story.

    HISD has some produced some positives.

  3. HISD has problems, administrative problems, for years. I don't have the knowledge or expertise to say what exactly the root of the problem is.  Alas there was a stereotype of some coaches that was around  back when I spent a year and a half in HISD schools. It was the legend of the roll out the ball coach.  Not at all schools, not all coaches, but some.  This type coach was assigned to an inner city school, that had low morale, and unmotivated students & teachers.  The roll out the ball coach would split his players into two teams and then roll out the ball and let them run, back and forth.  Street ball style.  Meanwhile the coach is marking days off on his calendar until he could retire. 

    I think saw such a team once.  Silsbee was playing in a tournament at the now shut down Smiley High School. Yates was in that tournament.This was the Silsbee team with Thad Holden, Arline, Herb Sapp Jr, etc.

    That JY team was loaded with talent.  They ran, threw down some attention grabbing dunks then run out of gas and lose. This was a year or two before Coach Wise took over.

    The roll out the ball mentality is still around apparently, to some degree.

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