Goslin

You forget, old man, that those changes from UIL didn’t go into effect until today and like I said in my prior comment, I’m sure any moving around happened back between March and May. Swing, and a miss… Not that I’m confident that much of anything will really change after today, regardless of the lip service UIL pays it, we’ll just have to see. It’s a fact, though, that Aug 1 was the start date for those changes.

I bet they won’t, no one ever seems to, and no one from the DEC ever seems to say a word. Isn’t just Baytown either, it’s that way all over the State. You ought to ask Dr Poole about that since he’s been on the UIL Legislative Council for the past couple decades as well as sits on the same DEC as RSS since both BH and RSS are in 9-5A-1. How come no one ever checks those PAPFs like you want them to, old man? That’s a good question for you to ask him. Let us know what he says in reply.

Mostly before, I’d say, following Coach Anthony over after he was hired for RSS.

So you’re covering 9-5A-1 but not 9-5A-2?

I wouldn’t say REL is “on the rise” per se. I’d say that it’s more like they’ve consistently beaten low expectations due to superior coaching and superior development of the kids they have walking their halls. Take a look at their last few seasons compared to the other 2 High Schools in GCCISD, both of which have far more resources and more District support. You’re right about Coach Sutterfield. Played for Coach Stewart at Dayton High, for ETBU and SFA in college, came back to Dayton to coach under Stewart before coming to REL under Finn. He looks like a solid dude and is Finn’s handpicked replacement. We’ll see if he can keep it going. I hope he can, I’d hate to see REL go the way GCM/RSS have.

Well, the one tiny ray of hope is that it isn’t just anyone “coming in” from the outside. It’s Finn’s assistant HFC for the last few years taking the reins. Finn waited long enough before tendering his resignation that GCCISD had no time to post the position/hire a replacement. Baytown Sun reported it wrong, Sutterfield isn’t the Interim Coach, he’s the HFC/AD at REL going forward. It ain’t much of a ray of hope, but it’s something. Hell, at least REL was on the field as the freight train rolled by this morning getting their work in as usual ahead of this coming season. I hear GCM took the week off so their whole staff could go to the Coaches Convention. Really shows where their priorities lie.

Sutterfield isn’t just the interim, he’s the new HFC. The Sun knows and cares more about what happens in Barber’s Hill than they do about what happens in Old Baytown and it shows. They told the players a week or so before it made the paper but I suspect it’s been in the works for a lot longer. I think Finn waited as late as he did just to make sure GCCISD didn’t have a chance to hire someone else in. Sutterfield was his right-hand man at REL the last few seasons and I think that’s why his DC who came with Finn to REL was trying to get the GCM job and did get the RSS job, (he already knew when those jobs popped up he wouldn’t be taking over for Finn at REL this summer). So now GCM’s HFC is former REL OC, RSS’ HFC is former REL DC, REL gave up a bunch of assistants to both programs to keep them afloat this season. Folks talk all the time about consolidation but at this point all 3 Baytown programs have a REL coaching staff so we’re already halfway there.

GCM would be my answer. 0-10 last year. They share a District with North Shore, Atascocita, Summer Creek, C.E. King, Humble, Kingwood, and then Channelview on the bottom with them. The only team in their District they had any chance of beating last season was the Channelview game and of course they lost to them too but other than that CV game all their District games were extreme beat downs from some of the best in the state, at least 2 of which were nationally ranked and surely will be again this year. Now, THAT’S a tough schedule.

Their problems are bigger than that. PISD enjoyed spending other folks money so much that before they knew it they’d gone ahead and built one too many high schools, and a “Memorial” High School at that! Reminds me of another little refinery town ISD I know that had too much fun spending other folks money…

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They were 6th graders in the last week of school so average age of 12. They were also in the “Preathletics” program rather than a regular PE class so they all intend to participate in athletics in 7th grade and I’m assuming a lot of them for 🏈 which would explain why the kids would push themselves that hard. This guy is a former local HS football stud and one of their football coaches and with summer Strength&Conditioning coming up and then 7th grade ball once school starts I’m sure these kids were telling themselves they had to do it to stay on Coach’s good side for playing time, roster spots, etc.

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New HFC for Baytown Sterling is former REL DC Spencer Anthony. So now GCM’s HFC is a former REL OC and RSS’ HFC is a former REL DC. You think eventually GCCISD would just consolidate the programs since the coaching staffs are all-REL anyway.

Gov Abbott signed it into law last Saturday. Done deal.

LOL, no. Back when BH really was “Country”? Sure, and that’s how a LOT of folks felt back then. Nowadays? Have you taken a look at BH/MB lately? Riceland? Baytown is a working-class Company Town, always has been and always will be regardless of how much time/money our elected officials waste trying to change that. I can’t think of anyone down here that would want to claim MB these days. I guess all the folks so ashamed of who they really are and where they really come from already packed up and moved out there and good riddance. BTW, since you mentioned North Shore, they consider themselves so big now that they claim Highlands, Channelview, McNair, and New Baytown as their suburbs. Where do you think half of that Eastside talent comes from?