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All we needed was a new PRESIDENT. Great line.

We love to bitch and moan about coaches/coaching but aren’t so quick to give credit where it’s due. Lamar has improved every single year under Brooks’ tenure. I don’t know how much more you can ask for, especially when the one team finishing ahead of you is paying to get players who have played, could play for some lower power 4/5 schools. Marco Born was pretty much a train wreck as AD at Lamar but I think we can safely say he got this one right. Not only has Alvin Brooks done a good job building this program, he’s a fine man who is 100% loyal to the University. Let’s give credit where it’s due.

Final Onalaska 88 Hitchcock 85 There will be no 3-peat for Hitchcock.

3/14 Lumberton 8 Silsbee 10 Silsbee head coach Michael Nelson with his 300th win. Also, my grandson Wyatt Davis got to throw out the first pitch tonight. Was a strike right down the middle. Proud grandpa.

Final 63-57 West Brook Beaumont West Brook the 2025 5A DI State Champions

If one thinks that their child is not getting the proper education at a school district, then you currently have that CHOICE to move your child to another school district. Don't need a voucher for that. People have the CHOICE to enroll their kids in a private school. State dollars should not go to a private school. Folks pushing this bill are campaigning that it's about school choice, which is not the case. You have a choice now.

Brookeland 79 Fayetteville 70 Final Brookeland is Regional champs for first time since 2000

Let me help you. In removing DEI from the government, the administration has removed obstacles such as set asides such as requiring a certain number of contractors or minimum of anything. So they can’t hold contracts for certain people or companies That has been taken to mean in this political opinion piece, that we can now return to segregated lunch counters. When the article brought up that the Civil Rights Act was still in place and discrimination is against the law, the response was….. “The Civil Rights Act of 1964 still bars discrimination, and segregated facilities, in the United States. But civil rights groups have feared that Mr. Trump’s war on D.E.I. programs has signaled the federal government’s willingness to retreat from enforcing it”. So… we fear that something may happen. Nothing has happened and nothing has been proposed. But by golly, we know that he has something up his sleeve!!! It is more meaningless dribble. It is an, “in our opinion” piece. More hard core journalism. 🤣

Dr. Jackson has stated it will be ready for graduation this year. That’s right in the 18-24 month window that was originally proposed. I’m sure the kids will be excited & be able to say they were the first graduating class in the new stadium.

Final 67-41 Kountze Kountze is the 2025 3A DII State Champion

Appreciate the kind words. Kudos to Columbus they played well and role players stepped up. Our kids did their best tonight and it wasn’t there. Proud of what they accomplished. No playoff wins ever in program history to making this run is special. Back to work tomorrow.

Wonder if any veterans were laid off when the Keystone was shut down?

@Reagan - what is your favorite charity?

Hard fought battle. Down 25-20 at halftime with one of the worst shooting performances of the year. Proud of the boys for staying confident to explode on offense in second half. To be the champ you have to beat the champ so we are excited to play Hitchcock. Should be a fun game.

So you’re saying the Southland Conference is one of only nine conferences with a team in the second round of the NCAA tournament? Cool!

RIP, great athlete, great man!

Good luck trying to convince Israelis they aren’t really Jewish. While you’re at it, go ahead and convince all of their opposition that they are waisting time because they are not really Jewish.

They were going to be deported because they weren’t American, and led disruptive protests on an American college campus. It makes sense. If you’re not American, hate America, and IN America, it’s probably best if America helps you out and sends you home.

The way schools are funded are as follows (2022/2023 numbers): About 95% of the money comes from 3 pots: $29B - Local property tax revenue, which is determined the value of properties in a district and a tax rate set by each school board. $23.1B - State funds that come from numerous state taxes, including Texas’ sales tax. $14.13B - Federal taxpayer funds, which largely help cover the costs of providing meals to kids and giving support to low-income children and students with disabilities. There's another $4B (roughly the other 5% that comes from miscellaneous local resources - not sure what that really is) Here's what I'm concerned about. If a local ISD loses too much funding due to voucher kids going to private schools, the government (pick which level) is going to come in and bail that school district out. Where does that money come from? You guessed it! US, the taxpayer! The net effect is that private "for profit" schools make more money, higher earners who already pay for private tuition get a large break in tuition and my tax liability gets increased to fund it. Meanwhile, the poor bastards that couldn't afford private tuition in the first place STILL can't afford it, and the saga continues. Make it make sense...

Until we agree to take back Rosie O’Donnell

They have guys on their bench Lamar would have no chance of getting due to the NIL they command. Their top 3 guys, coming off the bench, were Saint Louis’s leading scorer last year (top tier mid major program) and two guys who started games for Arizona State and Ole Miss. Their bench players. They have more than one guy making 6 figures. In short, every player that plays for them could arguably be Lamar’s best player. They have a high mid major roster if you ask anyone who knows their butt from their elbow about college basketball. So yes, Alvin has improved Lamar’s record every season he’s been there. He played a team with a roster WAYYYY better than his very competitively twice in the past couple of weeks. You guys expecting them to win the conference need to start raising money. Because you give Will his roster and give him Will’s roster, those games have the same winner. It’s about the dudes and McNeese has bought a bunch of them.

It's very simple. Why employ 25 when 10 can do the job just as efficiently?

The city should have the same feeling it had when United won , but it definitely doesn’t and that’s a whole other story

Congratulations to Kennendale. My old college roommate is the school board president ✊🏿

This gotta be the most senseless thread, and the most traffic that H-D has gotten since the HDbobcat55 days.

You saw that too?! My wife found the episode much more interesting than my history lesson of the Four Horsemen of HD…

The small/big split should've been done so as districts. Honestly, if they're dead set on doing it that way, they should have created the football districts the way they currently do... and then just said that those were the districts for every sport. Doing it this way, there are examples where the "small" schools that made the playoffs in one district are bigger than the "big" schools that made it in others. What a joke. Small school champions and big school school champions? Ok.. fine.. just make the football districts the districts for every sport.

Elijah Garrett is unranked and only has 2 D1 Offers. This guy is proving everyone wrong every single week. His recruiting is about to skyrocket.

Couldn’t even stand for the Riley family…..y’all got some real issues

I’m willing to bet qb 1 just might be the current freshman on varsity baseball… or at least a chance unless a certain Nederland kid moves back from Kelly… RB I bet it’s by committee not a sure fire #1

Recruit.. ? ..

In my opinion Lamar is fortunate to have Brooks. lamar being his Alma mater is the”fortunate “ part because I believe he could ve went elsewhere that had a better program. he inherited a mess when it came to players, their attitudes and mental make up.

I thought this thread was suppose to be Abseck to Lufkin? Appears everyone is off of topic. Looks like losses for Goslin teams again.

Regardless that still is 5 schools in 5 years. Sounds like his dad can't stay in one place for more than a year.

After 7th grade in Lumberton my kid told me he wanted to go to Evadale. To this day he has never really said why other than he initially said the kids are jerks in Lumberton and they bully too much. He assured me he was not being bullied, and being a starting football player, I didn't doubt him. I always taught him to protect himself regardless of school policy. Evadale was the best decision he could have made, and I reluctantly agreed because it was only a 15 minute drive. Small school, he made varsity his 9th grade year(that small of a school), started from 10th till gradation. They had small classes and the teachers cared. A-B student.....never got in trouble - watched like a hawk lol My point is I believe Aggies is 100% correct - the surrounding of your kids in schools and influences is probably more detrimental to your child than the quality of teacher. I'm not knocking teachers, I'm just saying typically peer pressure will have more influence than the best teacher.

?? Hopefully intentional, and not some random guy just running around with a backhoe .

They’re just gonna reply with a meme dude. You can’t use logic and reasoning these type of people

I can see the teams that have to play on Thursday next week play their games Monday.

Soulja please stop it, I had to chance to work closely with Green during his time at NS & he’s NEVER been a big X&O’s guy. Even if you go watch him the past 4-5 years with Yates & company…he didn’t run anything spectacular, he just had the players. Which nothing is wrong with that, but when you don’t have those dudes you gotta be able to make adjustments & like I said earlier Green is a sure fire HOF, but I call a spade a spade. Side note: being in the building and watching this game, I can’t help but wonder how much more successful BISD athletics would be if it only had one school.

One could say that the Region III D2 championship was played in Winnie a week ago.

Elon paid 11 billion in Taxes in 2023. He also employees over 130,000 people. This may be an unpopular opinion, but I don’t think you should be penalized or demonized for success.

Well, if that existed before he got started working at BH, that seems to indicate a lot of division existed in the selection process, maybe other community powers trying to pull strings. I know Carl Abseck says he is happy to be in Lufkin, and everyone associated with the program likes what he is doing right now.

Because of its consistency, Silsbee has been the standard in 4A. The names and faces have changed out of DFW and hasn’t been one particular school like Silsbee.

Was telling someone the other day that you know a program is in rarified air when you spend a season ranked in the top 10, go undefeated in district, win a playoff game, and then lose in the second round to one of the most storied programs in the history of the state from a city 350 times bigger than yours and the season feels like a huge disappointment. A bad year for Silsbee is a dream season for most schools. And this season will be the exception to the rule I’m sure for awhile.

Onalaska vs Hitchcock Friday 7pm Aldine MO Campbell Center

If you're so concerned about someone giving money back, why don't you give back the money you were given for your school loans?

If your giving up layups in a 2-3 zone you have some defensive issues

Showing a final! Onalaska 62 Franklin 52

One thing I do like about the hire is Ron Jackson finally hired some youth! Because before this hire it seemed as if he had thing for hiring old coaches lol But Dre is a good dude & should bring a lot of excitement into the program, however he’s already been told by Ron Jackson that he can’t get rid of the entire staff apparently because the current coaches have family, kids & homes in the Beaumont. He can only bring in coordinators, which makes zero sense. He’s definitely fighting an uphill battle because the admin is clueless as to what it takes to have a success athletics/football program. Also he’s going to be hard pressed to find good quality coaches to come from Austin, SA, Houston etc to come take pay cuts in Beaumont.

Get a little better at blocking and tackling. Improve on catching the ball and running the ball while also making some gains passing the ball. If they can do this, they should improve.