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My sources are telling me Abseck may be out. He was given an ultimatum on firing his OC by the end of the week or he will need to seek employment elsewhere. 

This stems from fallout of discipline issues in game with La Porte and the OC having words with admins about it.

Word on the street has Abseck seeking job opportunity in Austin area and some Lufkin folks meeting with Pflugerville Weiss HC a couple of weeks ago.

Interesting situation.

Stay tuned.

PackAttack

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I agree there are different rumbling going around today, hard to keep the talk quite in a small town. For my part I can confirm the OC Kuykendall was released his position this morning for the reasons you mentioned. Anything else that has transpired further involving Coach Abseck is unknown to me. I'm personally not in the market for change in HC, I think the two men have coached together 16 years, so we'll see which option he takes. Personally, I hope he stays in Lufkin. It's a lot easier to hire a new OC. In fact there's an assistant on staff now that could handle the OC position.

LufkinPack

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32 minutes ago, PackAttack said:

I agree there are different rumbling going around today, hard to keep the talk quiet in a small town. For my part I can confirm the OC Kuykendall was released his position this morning for the reasons you mentioned. Anything else that has transpired further involving Coach Abseck is unknown to me. I'm personally not in the market for change in HC, I think the two men have coached together 16 years, so we'll see which option he takes. Personally, I hope he stays in Lufkin. It's a lot easier to hire a new OC. In fact there's an assistant on staff now that could handle the OC position.

At this point I think it’s time to move on from Abseck too. This is just wild and not the first incident this season from what I hear. Will the relationship with him even be worth moving forward on? We have so much talent in the pipeline, the wrong decision will waste it. 

I was big on what he was building here, don’t get me wrong, but this OC is the reason he’s out at barbers hill too. He seems to sink with this guy. Rather than see the issue and fix it, he lets it come to this. Check out barbers hill, they don’t appear to be missing this staff at all. 

AggiesAreWe

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This was sent to me from the Lufkin Sports Forum:

Tough news tonight. Coach Carl Abseck will officially resign Tuesday as AD and HC at Lufkin High School. Coach Matt Kuykendall left this morning. Also leaving will be Coach Chris Fudge who came with Abseck.

Coach Abseck spoke to the Panther team this evening.

Coach Danny Cowgill will remain as interim HC until a new HC and AD ae found.

There has been growth and progress in the football program in the two years with Abseck, the sub-varsity teams have grown in numbers and talent all because of his work. This is all new to me so I will post the official news later. I want to express a big Thank You for his time here and it's been a privilege to know him these past two years.

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LufkinPack

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19 minutes ago, ballwatch said:

With the new stadium, and apparent upcoming talent, just can’t believe he’s out after 2 seasons! 

There’s quite a bit to the story. It’ll be best for both parties. 
 

Allegedly 

Mr. Buddy Garrity

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That's the same OC I was talking about in the game thread when we played Lufkin. He got into it with one of the broadcasters outside of the booth and it was caught on hot-mic. I saw the writing on the wall that particular night. 🤷🏾‍♂️ 

 

And it's not the only bad thing I've heard about him off-the-field during this season. 

 

It's a shame for Abseck though, but probably better for him, he'll land on his feet somewhere. 

ponderossa220

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29 minutes ago, Mr. Buddy Garrity said:

That's the same OC I was talking about in the game thread when we played Lufkin. He got into it with one of the broadcasters outside of the booth and it was caught on hot-mic. I saw the writing on the wall that particular night. 🤷🏾‍♂️ 

 

And it's not the only bad thing I've heard about him off-the-field during this season. 

 

It's a shame for Abseck though, but probably better for him, he'll land on his feet somewhere. 

Sounds like Abseck loyal to this guy, if OC goes I go!!

Gametyme05

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12 hours ago, ballwatch said:

With the new stadium, and apparent upcoming talent, just can’t believe he’s out after 2 seasons! 

Lufkin is ran by idiots and entitled parents.  Literally seen a parent celebrating the coaching change on FB.  His kid was literally one of the ones ejected against LaPorte. Lost count of the number of drops he had on the season too. Like this whole situation over spilled because of the personal fouls by Lufkin from that game. 

Earlier in the year they dont like the way the OC talks to the kids but after last week they want the coaches to rip the kids off the field by the face mask. Good riddance with this current SR class and their parents. If you're getting your head bashed in by 40 as freshmen its probably not going to change when you're SRs.  They blame everyone but themselves for their kids being bad a football and then acting like punks because their kid is a sore loser. 

Abseck had the program going in the right direction..The new coach Will have a lot of pieces and talent to work with in the 9th and 10th grade classes. Oh well this is my rant. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk.

OlDawg

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44 minutes ago, Gametyme05 said:

Lufkin is ran by idiots and entitled parents.  Literally seen a parent celebrating the coaching change on FB.  His kid was literally one of the ones ejected against LaPorte. Lost count of the number of drops he had on the season too. Like this whole situation over spilled because of the personal fouls by Lufkin from that game. 

Earlier in the year they dont like the way the OC talks to the kids but after last week they want the coaches to rip the kids off the field by the face mask. Good riddance with this current SR class and their parents. If you're getting your head bashed in by 40 as freshmen its probably not going to change when you're SRs.  They blame everyone but themselves for their kids being bad a football and then acting like punks because their kid is a sore loser. 

Abseck had the program going in the right direction..The new coach Will have a lot of pieces and talent to work with in the 9th and 10th grade classes. Oh well this is my rant. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk.

Something must have been going on before the La Porte game. I saw jawing from both sides on the streams. I don't think that was the main cause of this issue. Maybe, something else brewing for a while and this was the final straw? I don't know. I watched both streams just to see the different viewpoints. Both sets of commentators tried to downplay to a pretty good extent like they were embarrassed as well. I'm not on Facebook, so I don't know if anything else was/is going on there.

I know it's the first time in my 45+ years of watching La Porte football that I haven't seen them have a post game handshake. It was probably for the best, because it's also the first time I've seen a player blasted way in the backfield when the team was trying to kneel in a victory formation to end the game, and get the teams off the field.

I would guess the La Porte players got a good chewing on as well. I saw Berneathy jumping all over a couple kids near the end. Not a man I would want to be upset with me. He's a pretty large man, and I've seen him pretty animated when players do stupid stuff. La Porte was playing backups from about the end of the 3rd on. So, I don't know a lot of the young men that were on the field in the latter parts of the game.

Gametyme05

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29 minutes ago, OlDawg said:

Something must have been going on before the La Porte game. I saw jawing from both sides on the streams. I don't think that was the main cause of this issue. Maybe, something else brewing for a while and this was the final straw? I don't know. I watched both streams just to see the different viewpoints. Both sets of commentators tried to downplay to a pretty good extent like they were embarrassed as well. I'm not on Facebook, so I don't know if anything else was/is going on there.

I know it's the first time in my 45+ years of watching La Porte football that I haven't seen them have a post game handshake. It was probably for the best, because it's also the first time I've seen a player blasted way in the backfield when the team was trying to kneel in a victory formation to end the game, and get the teams off the field.

I would guess the La Porte players got a good chewing on as well. I saw Berneathy jumping all over a couple kids near the end. Not a man I would want to be upset with me. He's a pretty large man, and I've seen him pretty animated when players do stupid stuff.

It was embarrassing as a Lufkin fan. Thats not who we're or what we're about. The parents have enabled that behavior around here. My son was one of the ball boys that traveled. The kid that got ejected had planned to hit a LaPorte player during tha handshake. Discipline starts at home. Now we have to blow everything up and start over. Our 9th and 10th grade classes are loaded. Now they have to learn a new system and the Coach will have to start fresh on his evaluations.  Im hoping we can keep some of our assistant coaches that were former players here. We have to really good ones in Kordell Roger's and JaVante Ellington.  That would help the transition because they will know where to put each kid. 

LufkinPack

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5 minutes ago, Gametyme05 said:

It was embarrassing as a Lufkin fan. Thats not who we're or what we're about. The parents have enabled that behavior around here. My son was one of the ball boys that traveled. The kid that got ejected had planned to hit a LaPorte player during tha handshake. Discipline starts at home. Now we have to blow everything up and start over. Our 9th and 10th grade classes are loaded. Now they have to learn a new system and the Coach will have to start fresh on his evaluations.  Im hoping we can keep some of our assistant coaches that were former players here. We have to really good ones in Kordell Roger's and JaVante Ellington.  That would help the transition because they will know where to put each kid. 

Man I think Abseck wanted out of this mess anyways. Those folks ran that mean clean out of here smh 

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