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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. 🤣

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!

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?

The president’s 49% overall approval rating in the Fox News poll matches the all-time high for Trump in the network's polling, which he last reached in April 2020, near the end of his first term in office. That is six points higher than where he stood at this point in his first administration (43% approval in March 2017). Looks like he is not doing as bad as the Democrats (who are polling the lowest in THREE DECADES......But please Democrats, keep doing what you are doing...... [Hidden Content]

You actually have to pay money to enter the CBI tournament so other than the little bit of exposure you get maybe it is not financially practicable.

Area Round Girls: 4A Girls Division 1 #13 Vidor vs Sealy TBA #6 Lumberton vs Brookeshire Royal, Ray Maddry Stadium, Channelview Tues 5pm 4A Girls Division 2 Hardin Jefferson vs New Waverly, Bronco Stadium, Dayton Tues 5:30pm Hamshire-Fannett vs Bellville, College Park HS, Woodlands Tues 5:30pm 5A Girls Division 2 Port Neches Groves vs Lake Creek, Galena Park ISD, Galena Park Tues 5:30pm Barbers Hill vs Montgomery, Tomball ISD, Tomball Tues 5pm Area Round Boys: 4A Boys Division 1 #16 Lumberton vs Sealy, Sealy HS, Sealy Tues 6pm Bridge City vs Navasota, Abe Martin Stadium, Lufkin Tues 7pm 4A Boys Division 2 East Chambers vs #9 Brookshire Royal, TBA Tues Liberty vs Harmony Innovation Prep , TBA Tues 5A Boys Division 2 Port Neches Groves vs Lake Creek, Galena Park ISD, Galena Park Tues 7pm Port Arthur Memorial vs#25 Kingwood Park TBA Tues

[Hidden Content] Coverage area players: 6A Region III Jaylen Fenner Atascocita Reggie Rideau Summer Creek Christian Thomas CE King 5A Region III Jakendrick Clevenger Kingwood Park Elijah Garrett Beaumont West Brook Aston Greene Beaumont United Kendall Hillstock PA Memorial David Mercer PA Memorial Ephriam Moore Beaumont United Terry Satcher Beaumont West Brook Aiden Williams Barbers Hill 4A Region III Matthew Bingham Huffman Aaden Bush Bridge City Ethen Gerth Huffman Payton Jones Silsbee Braxton Starnes Hamshire-Fannett 3A Region III Jayvon Bedford Crockett Mason Donald Kountze Cordell Lowe Kountze Jake Matthew Pollok Central Jaxson Pitre East Chambers Garner Rodriquez Central Heights Patrick Roth Onalaska Zac Sells Kountze Devon Vienneau Onalaska 2A Region III DJ Barnes Shelbyville Ja'Davian Mathis Shelbyville 2A Region IV Warren Brewer Evadale Jaden Gravis Evadale 1A Region IV Cade Morgan Brookeland Landon Smith Brookeland Congrats to all!!

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.

Doesn’t matter he’s got 7 years and the clock is ticking

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.

That concludes Day 1 of state championships. Tomorrow will be 3A DI & DII and 4A DI & DII championships. First game tomorrow will be the Kountze/Paradise game and it will have it's own game thread.

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.

A kid was ejected from a football game and was suspended for the following week. The President, head coach, and kids dad decided screw the rules and they are going to put the kid in a different jersey number and sneak him into the game next week… Turning kids away and hand selecting teams, swapping jerseys so LO kids can run the ball… all this coming from a close friend from LCM then called a Lumberton coach that’s been around and backed it all 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.

A lot of these scores just highlight the watered down impact of two divisions. Liberty Hill getting smoked by 30 in the state finals and Kountze winning by almost 40 is insane. Hey but more people got a trophy and get to claim they went to "state"

@tvc184 This is some of the discussion I posted about a year ago. I will admit, there may have been changes to the proposed legislation since I made these statements. Also, the comments jump around a bit, because it is a combination of previous posts.: "I am a pretty conservative guy, but I am against school vouchers. Who pays for the public schools (several of which were just built in my town of Lumberton)? I have yet to hear a comprehensive argument that pushes me to the school voucher system, and I've read quite a few. And I really have issues with taxpayer money being given to private "for profit" schools. With all the schools that have an open campus nowadays, there are other options for a quality education other than school vouchers. There's not usually a school bus to service private schools at this point, so the child already has to get picked up / dropped off. Folks do it all the time. Regardless, there are plenty of reasons against it. A voucher program that allows any Texas student to use public money (I like to think of it as "my (our) money") to offset the cost of private-school tuition would divert dollars from public schools, tightening already tight public-school budgets, without a proportionate reduction in public school costs - possibly to the point of raising taxes to keep them afloat. I also think it will incentivize the private schools to raise price of tuition (to put in their own back pockets) because they are getting subsidized by, that's right, my (our) money. I'm not saying school vouchers don't have some merit. Just not enough in my opinion. The average annual tuition for a private-school lands between $11,000 and $14,000. The proposed voucher would give a kid approx. $8,000 dollars toward that tuition (2024 numbers). The family still has to come up with the balance. Let's say you have a kid that goes to a private. Dad's a lawyer, banker, businessman, etc. and pays the full tuition to send his kid to the private school. With the voucher system in place, the dad will now get $8,000 towards the kid's tuition. A net savings of let's say $3,000 on the low side. No problem, right? Meanwhile, another family who is not so fortunate who sends their kid to public school has the same opportunity to send their child to private school and pay the $3,000 difference. Awesome, right? Only problem is they can't afford it, so that kid stays in public school that is now getting less funding. Net sum, the better off family gets a break on sending their kid to a private school for a helluva lot less, and the lesser off family is stuck in the same place they were to begin with. All to pay a privatized for-profit institution and have the quality of the public-school fall even further behind. That struggling single mom still won’t be able to send her kids anywhere. A voucher won’t cover rides to school (wherever that may be), uniforms, the entirety of tuition, they don’t have to have free lunch programs, etc., etc. A voucher won’t help a mom in a rough place get her genius into a private school that doesn’t exist in that area. But it will help that guy in River Oaks with the tuition bill on his three kids that he’s already paying. If the schools lose a percentage of their students to private schools, they’re going to have their funding cut, right? But much of their expenses won’t go down. The only way for this to work is if we raise local taxes to subsidize them for the funds that the state is redirecting to the voucher program… that’s what no one wants to explain. As an example, Lumberton is not failing to provide a proper education. Neither are the majority of the schools in our area where I live. This is a political move with the ruse of being used to keep liberal indoctrination away from our kids. While I agree with keeping our kids from being led down the happy blue path, I don't agree with the way they are trying to do it. Texas Conservatives (of which I am) are simply doing this to garner support from the right. If you think they really give two craps about your kids, my kids, any kids, then remember we are talking about politicians. We are being given a poor solution which will raise taxes in the end and could possibly be harmful to a lot of middle-class families on down to the lower class. There can be other ways to do it than school vouchers. From a guy that doesn't like paying any more taxes than I have to, I am definitely against it. I am also against fixing one problem by causing many more problems."

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.

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.

I think the Gonzaga player traveled when he stumbled before the block, but I keep forgetting they don’t call traveling anymore.

Costs. No NCAA money to support that tourney. Lamar men's team should have got an NIT invite. Saw a few of the teams that are playing NIT. Lamar had a better resume than a few of those teams. Question would have been if Lamar would have accepted the invite?

No problem.........I was there when we beat powerhouse LaPorte in the dome. I remember LaPorte's offense sitting in the stands before warmups eating hotdogs. That being said, that was the best backfield in high school I have ever seen. They all signed with OU if I remember correctly.