TexazBall

Lol I passed by, it was to hot to get out but from what i seen i think 

Westbrook

Memorial

P.N.G 

Silsbee

Jasper

Kelly

LCM 

Im not sure if i seen United or not 

Guess we can now start a 7on7 touney list

I know Westbrook held one today. Any idea what teams was there? Did United put a team out?

Can’t really say Greatest, about 15years ago Central had an athlete come out name Ivory Williams who also ran a sub 10.2 100, plus 200 and 4x1, and ended up making Olympic teams...

like someone stated earlier 

It’s been allot of great athletes to come thru these parts so I wouldn’t ya someone was the greatest 

Knew it was possibility But I’m still kinda surprised Boutte didn’t apply 

I sitill like the Yellow Helment and Maroon Jersey like the Minnesota Gophers 

Can’t believe they picked Taylor to OC over Nelson, smh ..I’m starting to think this dude has some Help as to how he keeps gettin these positions over more qualified ppl 

On 3/18/2018 at 5:58 PM, STiger85 said:

Any talent being lost from the Bevel Oaks students transferring to the HJ ISD?

Nah, the only area the new United High school will be losing talent will be Vothz, as they will start attending Westbrook 

1 hour ago, Alpha Wolf said:

And Adidas will be the supplier of all athletic uniforms.  Hopefully I'll have some samples that I can post after my meeting Thursday night.

So have they came up with an official logo??

Im at a little Tournament right now with 7th and 8th graders and ima just say United got some future guards coming up that are nice. These boys can play 

2 hours ago, BigPanther said:

No coach was told they could not bring in coordinators and they couldn’t make the money work for one and another his family did not want to relocate to Beaumont. 

So your saying we had coaches who applied for the job just becaues they could? Cause from what your saying there was no restrictions, coaches just applied and turned it down

Also

Why interview for a coaching job if your not willing to move there?? 

Not saying your right or wrong but this is not the same information i was receiving 

8 hours ago, WOSgrad said:

I might be the naive one in the room, but I am impressed with the hire of Arthur Louis as the new coach.  Remember folks, the new coach at United will be charged with much more than building a new football team....he will be in many ways responsible for building a new community  As impressive as the resumes of Todd Peterman, Lydell Wilson and Kirk Botkin might be in other respects, they do not have the experience that Coach Louis has in either of those regards.  And as folks from old school Ozen remember, he was kind of successful in that regard.

As many have noted since news of the merger came about, mending of the community will be necessary.  What better man to do that than a respected member of the community?  What better man to do that than a man who BISD fans had expressed hopes would fill a BISD head coaching job, whether Central, Ozen or West Brook, every time one of those positions came open?  You need someone within the community that can command the respect of all who come to it.  Folks, whether you care to admit it or not, Arthur Louis is that man.  No he may not have been the "splashworthy" candidate that some were hoping for.  But the building that will be required here will require more than just a splash.  In Arthur Louis, you have a man who is invested in the community, and having come from a school that looked to such candidates to lead them and have had success in doing so, there is something to be said for that.

I know that there is this undercurrent, that Coach Louis is merely a placeholder and that in a couple of years one of the current Ozen or Central coaches will resume the helm.  And that may very well be the case.  However, with the outside hires that so many coveted, do you think that the coaching situation would be any more settled?  Do folks really believe that folks like Peterman or Wilson, who have state championships on their resume and coaching stops (as well as AD stints) at much bigger school districts, would have actually put down permanent stakes at a smallish 6A school made up of a couple of schools who really have no major playoff success to speak of?  If you believe so, perhaps I am not the only naive person in the room.

But the folks at United are faced with the choice.  They can, as a community, rally around Coach Louis and work as hard as they can to help build the program that many of you think it can be OR you can spend your time lamenting about the "big fish" that got away.  As Alpha Wolf, who I know to be an avid fisherman, can tell you, that second choice never gets you that far.

I really understand what your saying Grad, and he very well may be the one but I just wish they would have giving everyone fair opportunity . Instead of interviewing coaches and telling them who they could and couldn’t bring. To me that’s a bias process.

1 hour ago, 2wedge said:

You have to think, how much did all of the parents beating the table about tradition and history have to do with the hire of Louis? If the BISD parents would have been a bit more optimistic about the opening of a new school and all the opportunities it would bring, then maybe BISD would've been more open to going outside of the usual norms and hiring an outsider. I am sure they wanted to make those "tradition and history" parents believe they were invested in keeping the "tradition and history". Due to that, you guys got Arthur Louis rather than Todd Peterman.......simple as that IMO.

Tbh, me as a future United parent and ones ive been around and talked to all wanted an outside hire, i really think this was all the Boards doing...I feel they wanted the buddy-buddy thing, not us as football parents, cus we knew better and knew if we wanted our kids to be the most successful and play at the highest level and be competitive we needed someone outside of the usual norm..

I was personally a fan of Botkin as well as Lydell but Peterman would have been just as good if not better then both.

42 minutes ago, 2wedge said:

Did Peterman really apply for this job and get passed over?

His name was on the list 

39 minutes ago, Alpha Wolf said:

At least you have some time to see how things unfold and if they smooth out.  I don't have that luxury.

More power to you brother, idk how you aint called up there yet to give them a piece of your mind on how this process was handled lol

13 minutes ago, 5GallonBucket said:

Not to change sports, when are they picking the bball coach and are they gonna go about it the same way

I would think so...Our only saving grace for that is, both schools at least have decent candidates, and if they choose to go old school like Louis it would be Boutte

16 minutes ago, 5GallonBucket said:

it was just a show.  It was rehearsed before hand.

It’s decisions and stuff like this that makes it hard to support your own. Like it’s just not fair to the candidates or the kids. Sometimes black people really are our own worse enemy . I know it’s not life or death but I just hate the way this process went 

l know I’ve been harping about this a lot but that’s because I have a kid who will be in the 6th grade next year smh 

5 minutes ago, Alpha Wolf said:

Supposedly it's a 2 year deal then the guy with 3 wins is supposed to take over.  Glad my 2 boys and nephew will be out of there by then if that's what happens.

Please tell me thats just a rumor with no truth to it

24 minutes ago, NHSBulldogFan said:

I understand Todd Peterman former DeSoto coach applied for the job as well but not being able to bring in your own coaches is a deal breaker for most coaches 

This had all the makings to be really good. Dont get me wrong i like Louis but how do you hire him over Peterman, Boytkin , Lydell and names like that? 

Ill never understand how you tell a coach he cant hire his own staff, but like @Whoa jyst said. BISD just wants to do the Buddy buddy system..i feel bad for the kids, cause there the ones effected by these decisions

This is nothing but a sh** show. You start off by not giving the kids what they wanted as far as the hurricanes mascot becaues you didnt wanna step on anyones toes. 

Then you get to the coaching hiring process, and totally lay an egg. How do you tell a coach he cant bring in his own corrodinators? Like are you trying to hire a quality coach or not. I really believe,  its because they want to hire from within like BISD is known to do

30 minutes ago, Alpha Wolf said:

You are 100% percent correct.  They are trying to keep several people from the 2 programs and that's not how it works in the football coaching world.  Head Coaches are usually allowed to bring their own people if the choose.  It's a trust thing.  How can the new regime trust that old holdovers are not trying to sabotage them?  Several have turned it down for that reason.

So I’m guessing Botkin is out, and Whoever gets it has to keep coaches from the previous 2 schools?

1 hour ago, Bugatti said:

Nelson or Taylor will be offered the job TODAY!!  BISD is in full panic mode as we speak.  

*Logs back off* smh

48 minutes ago, Alpha Wolf said:

I was saying further back on the list of Ozen coaches, not Central's...

Gotta be talking about Louis or Brooks 

56 minutes ago, DannyShapiroBE said:

Waiting on official word from BISD. But in the meantime, all four are on the initial list I put out last week. Only two are current head coaches.

So does that mean the coach Alpha Was talking about didn’t make it?

14 hours ago, Alpha Wolf said:

Found out that the head football coaching job is not officially closed for United.  The list that was given out was just the list of qualified applicants at that time of the initial request.  And since then a "throwback" has applied and will be interviewing soon...

Throwback from Ozen or Central and if it’s Central I already know who lol

That 2001 36-0 Ozen team is probably arguably the best team to ever come through SETX in any classification