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Just crunched some numbers. We are officially at Christmas break and so far on this high school basketball season I have watched over 50 games and 77 high school boys basketball teams. My goal each year is to see 100 teams. Now I have seen some of these games online but the vast majority of the games I have seen I have attended in person. (tournament season helps get the numbers up). Next week is the last week of tournament season then it's nothing but district play until playoffs. Just Tuesday/Friday schedule after next week. Next week I'll be attending East Chambers, Little Cypress-Mauriceville/IP, Lee College Classic and Hull-Daisetta tournaments. Looking forward to the final week of tournaments and then district season in full tilt.

Last year was a Dallas crew. Do we need to go pull backgrounds on them? Check Facebook friends? Relatives? Any ties to the SOC community? I don't like the optics of it due to all the negative conversation that it has triggered but the ref had absolutely ZERO impact on the outcome of the game. People need to move on.

There's about 30 of us from the YMBL that helps host this tournament..

The Longhorns got an absolute stud. I wouldn't be a bit surprised to see him get snaps at strong safety or on the edge. He's that versatile.

Active State Championship Coaches S Surratt 9 G Joseph 5 T Westerberg 4 R Allen 4 J Herring 4 J Fieszel 4 J Kasowski 3 R Rhoades 3 C Koetting 3 S Harrell 3 H Carter 3 K Hoffman 3 T Rodgers 2 M Fannin 2 L Fedora 2 J Gibson 2 D Boedeker 2 J Todd 2 W Keeling 2 D Faith 2 C Mathis 2 R Samples 2 B Butler 1 C Worrell 1 C Abseck 1 J Willis 1 T Sitton 1 T Beatty 1 S Huff 1 T Reeve 1 D Henigan 1 J Alvarez 1 M Kirchhoff 1 J Thompson 1 R Tullos 1 R Ebner 1 J Bomar 1 M Ables 1 B Gotte 1 D Hyde 1 J King 1 J Drennon 1 B Carney 1 S Ponder 1 J Miller 1 S Doty 1 M Lovorn 1 T Ward 1 C Tackett 1 J Driskell 1 S Parr 1 A Metzel 1 R Jones 1 J Joseph 1

The ref in question is a Nederland Alumni? We should file a grievance over that. 🤣🤣

Todd was more busy organizing "white outs", ordering custom jackets and shoes, and talking about breaking the attendance record than he was preparing his team for the game. That is why SOC was beaten when they took the field. Bravado and flash are all fun and games until you get punched in the mouth. And don't forget walking onto the field to start the game. Humble pie isn't easy to swallow when you relish the spotlight as much as he does. Hell, I'll bet he had his afterparties already set up like he did last year. Some of the videos from the parties he was at after last year's game made me lose a lot of respect for him as a leader of men. Pride always comes before the fall Coach Todd. There is a new Sheriff in 5ADII.

It does not matter what makes sense or what the people want. It is all about the money......... The Dallas area does not travel well and the Houston area does. They can make more MONEY having it in Dallas......... Until the Houston area people stop going to Dallas to watch games it will stay there.

That would cause too much issues with scheduling non district games. If you want them on separate weekends, then push back the 4A-6A a week. Would give them a week off leading up to championship games. But I am pretty sure Jerry World wouldn't be available for two straight weekends.

The Clintons can eliminate a lot of threats in 14 days.

Or maybe it has more to do with the travel. Notice outside of PNG it was all DFW area or teams that had less than two hours of travel that won. And PNG came up the day before. Those kids said last year they were worn out by the time the game started from being up early and a 6 hour bus ride. This game should rotate between Alamodome, NRG and Jerry world.

Agree, it wouldn’t help anyway, but we (the great state of Texas) certainly don’t want to mimic the behavior of the likes of Colorado.

I agree. biden should be eliminated due to his mental capabilities decline

No, don’t do it. That is a complete undermining of democracy and our constitution. Just because Colorado has seen fit to break the rules of the Constitution, doesn’t mean that we should all go down that road to be spiteful.

Agree.. but I think Timpson will still be contenders for the district. They did lose a lot but they still have some remarkable young athletes. I do think Garrison wins the district but it won't be a cake walk due to Timpson and SA. I don't think next year's Hemphill team will be able to hang with any of these teams.

Talent will change from year to year in all programs. These programs are successful because the get the most out of their players like you said. That is why coaching is more important that the talent.

Exactly. I mean, I don’t think there was a resulting problem overall, but you can’t blame that mid county ref calling the PNG game on a shortage.

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They were part of the chain crew they were from Beaumont chapter

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A three day pass is only $30. If you're a high school basketball fan I don't see how you can beat it.

I've often wondered how the interviews go for coaches who have awful records - How do you explain in three seasons your record as 3-25?

parents split up and mom moved to that area. Havent checked to see how they are doing.

Nothing in football or life is guaranteed. That being said, I think PN-G has the best chance to go to state of any team that will or may be in 5ADII Region 3 during the 2024 season. History repeating itself has been a running theme for the Indians the last two seasons. I might point out that, with the exception of 1999, whenever the Indians have gone to state, they’ve made multiple trips over a short period of time. In particular, this season saw the Indians’ second consecutive title game appearance. The only other time in PN-G history the Indians have made consecutive championship appearances, they went to three title games in a row. All that’s to say, I like our odds. 😎

Something tells me there will be some big names missing

This!

Not sure how we ranked higher than the team that beat us in the state championship but ok😂😂😂

I was told by a friend on here that Nederland's coaching directed weight training program was basically non-existent. This is part of the future of a potential elite coach. It appears PNG has it right. Some laugh when I say there's no difference in the athletes at Ned and PNG. Then they say, well, how can you say there's no difference, look at them. I said there is no difference in the athletes that "are available" to each team. Now, how each coach develops what's available to them is the difference in what you see now between PNG and Nederland.

you missed the point but that does not surprise me. I hope you get the big box of crayons for Christmas this year........

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