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Chase Tucker was a stud. I havent seen much else of buna besides Clark and Hillin. They are good but they werent near as good as chase
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hows reggie wilson doing?
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Corbin Bell had 11ks
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my roomate said we won the world cup one year. Is this true and is so what year was it?
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Friendswoodfan is ethier a child or actting like a child. CoachL I didnt come to your game against central bc I thought I might have been bad luck plus my cousin had a baseball game. anyways where and when is the next game. and when is the girls game I wanna watch Jason be unclassy.
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Shark your dancing around what you said earlier. go read your post.
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Cory Lemeire. Right now sophmore Corbin Bell and Cory have become the 2 starters for this team with Beard and Erickson both having injuries. Corbin has still not allowed an ER this year and is 3-0 and Cory keeps getting betting every game. Lumberton just has some growing up to do having 4 sophmores and 1 freshman starting at the moment.
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shark are you saying Jason Hopson is a bad sport? The guy is one of the classy coaches I've been around.
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whats Jeff Nelsons Resume?
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Guys who post their whole football team must not watch football. WOS has the most talent and legit threats on there team but they have 4 maybe 5 guys that could be considered homerun threats.
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Is Tyler Tucker related to Chase Tucker? My brother played with Chase at Buna and that guy was a stud. ended up at South Carolina.
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Football is the best but I LOVE March Maddness
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heard sophmore Corbin Bell was dealing those first 3 innings
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pretty sloppy really looked like a scrimmage. both teams moved players around alot and used alot of pitchers. I did like the lefty from silsbee who was a freshman. Lumberton pitchers need to throw more strikes but the umpire was poor for both teams but hes known for being poor so atleast he didnt disappoint. Lumberton hit the ball better than i thought they would but they are gonna have to get alot better. Losing Beard is gonna make it alot tougher for them
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who was the starter that quit for Lumberton? and Lumberton has always been classy so this post by the HJ guy is comical at best.
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I think thats not very accurate bc I was at the game and Lumberton scored more than 4. I could be wrong but I dont know who won
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Bourg wont play much at PA. to much talent led by Earl Hines
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great article
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Ive heard quit a few of yall at Lumberton games acting just like this so read this and rethink your ways
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This Article was posted on baseball site and I had gotten it in email already. But great reading..
Parents out of bounds; respect for coaches waning
« on: February 04, 2009, 08:48:02 PM » Quote
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Interesting article, it fits all high school sports.
Parents out of bounds; respect for coaches waning
Commentary By Scott Kaiser
Times Sports Writer
par~ent (par'ent) n. 1. A father or mother; 2. Any organism in relation to its offspring; 3. A source; origin. Definition from the Second College Edition of Webster's New World Dictionary
coach (koch) n. 2. (a) A private tutor; (
one who instructs or trains a performer or a team of performers; © One who instructs players in the fundamentals of a competitive sport and directs team strategy. Definition from Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary
You will notice in the above definitions that parent and coach are not related. However, it appears that more of the former think they know more than the latter, and aren't afraid to cross that line.
Example No. 1: At last Friday's Cinco Ranch-Mayde Creek girls' basketball game, the Lady Cougars posted an impressive 21-point road victory to remain in a first-place tie with Taylor in the District 17-5A race. This was a huge road win against a Lady Rams' squad that lost at the buzzer to the Lady Mustangs just three nights earlier. It was also Cinco Ranch's 56th win its last 57 district games, one of the most impressive streaks in the history of Texas high school sports.
After the game, I had just asked Lady Cougars coach Eric Bartlett about the victory when a gentlemen stopped in front of us and said, I'm embarrassed to be part of this program.
I want to re-emphasize that this comment, which left both of us dumbfounded, came after a 21-point road victory by the four-time defending district champions. Here are some of the other gaudy numbers posted by the Cinco Ranch girls' basketball program:
** A record of 152-55 in the last six-plus seasons;
** Playoff qualifiers the last six years, including four straight trips to the regional quarterfinals before advancing to the Region III finals last season;
** A district-winning streak of 54 games over four-plus seasons;
** A 17-13 record this season, with 12 of those losses having come against programs with a combined 243-71 record. Eight of those teams have already won 20 or more games;
** Led by a coach who has won 462 games in his 22-plus seasons.
Boy, I bet Coach Bartlett tosses and turns every night in bed thinking about how embarrassing his program is.
Example No. 2: A veteran coach recently told me that one of his former players had considered getting into high school coaching, but said, I don't think I can take the criticism. I'm not tough enough.
Example No. 3: The constant ringing tune of Play a different quarterback! shouted from the Morton Ranch stands during the majority of the 2007 football season. I'm sure that was pleasant for the quarterback who was playing.
Example No. 4 through infinity: Time-wasting, mind-numbing meetings with parents who aren't happy with their child's playing time.
Now, understand that I come at this from three different angles: parent of a teenager, a former high school coach, and a sports writer.
As a parent whose child played basketball as a freshman and has been in the tennis program at Cy-Fair High School for three years, it is tough to watch her play. It ached at times when she didn't get to play as a freshman because I love my daughter. I am selfish and am extremely protective of her well-being. We all want our children to play the entire game, succeed, and be champions.
This is unrealistic. It is Fantasy Land, spurred by our changing society.
High school sports is not Fun-Fair-Positive-Soccer. FFPS is a great program for youngsters, but playing high school sports prepares teenagers for life. Life is not always fun, it's hardly ever fair, and you're never going to live a day without someone being negative about something.
So, how do I best love my daughter? By letting her experience all aspects of high school sports, the good times and the rough times. By letting her learn to deal with adults, i.e. the coach, if she has a question or is discouraged. If I start fighting her battles now, what will she do in college and once she has a job? Will she expect me to call her professor or boss when she has a problem or dilemma? Even worse, will she expect me to go over the head of her direct supervisor/teacher/coach to the athletic coordinator/principal/dean/CEO, without first privately following the chain of command?
Although my daughter has rarely complained about anything in athletics, when she does, her mother and I say, Talk to the Coach. Rather than fighting these battles for her, I stand deep in the bleachers or far away from the court and mumble about strategy or coaching techniques, but I keep them to myself.
As a former high school coach, albeit for only three years, I agonized over lineups and trying to get everyone into a match. In tennis things are more cut and dried because we have a challenge ladder and you can prove one-on-one who best deserves a certain spot, but I can promise you that the No. 1 dilemma, and there isn't a close second, for all coaches is how to decide playing time.
No coach, repeat, NO COACH!!! goes into a match or game thinking, Boy, I'm not going to play so-and-so just to upset him/her. Deciding who does or does not play, or how long someone plays, is not based on malice. It's done after watching hours of practice and games, watching tape, and scouting opponents. Varsity coaches have to decide on what lineup can best help them win on that night, not on stroking the egos of the players (or sometimes, the parents).
As a sports writer, one who wrote his first story for a professional paper in 1976, I have seen a disintegration of the team (Together Everyone Accomplishes More!). Instead of having a team of players, you have individuals who play for a team. Encouraged by greedy club coaches and sometimes-misguided parents who have forked out thousands of dollars to chase that not-inevitable scholarship, high school coaches have become targets with large red circles on their backs.
These coaches, who, by the way, are first and foremost classroom teachers, go to clinics, study tapes until all hours of the morning, or go scouting when they could be home with their families, but somehow that doesn't make them as qualified as those of us who sit in the stands.
Do you not see their bloodshot eyes late in a season? Do you not see them when they are at the hospital with an injured player at 3 a.m., then head to 6 a.m. practice? Do you not see them representing our schools and our children with humility and grace? Do you not see how much they LOVE children?
Trust me, it's easy to be a coach from the stands. I do it every time I cover a game, but that doesn't mean I'm qualified to do so from the field or the bench. Like any sports writer, there's not a coach alive who hasn't questioned the strategy of a fellow coach, but you're not hearing them yell it from the stands or calling the principal the next morning because Johnny or Julie didn't play.
Winning at all costs or being a breeding ground for college programs is not the ultimate goal of a high school sports program. It's about teaching kids about academic and behavioral responsibility, and sacrificing the goals of the individual for the betterment of the team.
I'd say probably 90 percent of the parents understand this; it's the 10 percent who make coaches dread answering the phone or looking at their emails.
Friends, our coaches deserve better. Before shouting that slur or making that call or sending an email, please look in the mirror and ask yourself, Is this about the TEAM, or this about ME?
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who is it AJ? from what I hear it couldnt be anyone who even played last year
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All I know is Lumberton is the better team
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calm down their huntfishsoccer. is it that time of the month?
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hes being brought in as an OLB which i think he will excell at in college they are very excited about getting him at WT
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got any stats on him? my cousin is his age and they know him pretty well and I got watch him play alittle the last few years. very talented kid like u said