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[quote name="skipper" post="814871" timestamp="1277667420"] WOSgrad, those were some super games that will stick out in the history books at wo-s. cant remember the year but we were behind in the playoffs agnest jasper, and i belive our OC at the time was berry norton  not sure about it. he called a middle screen to adrean steen and we won with  with very little time left it was a outstanding call.    PS two all of you that have posted on this  thanks [/quote] Your a little off on timeline Skipper. Barry Norton was my OC during the late 90's. Adrian Steen was a running back in 87 I believe. Im not sure of ever being behind of Jasper in a playoff, but many in regular season.

[quote name="kville-backer" post="808348" timestamp="1275471149"] [quote author=AggiesAreWe link=topic=69435.msg808328#msg808328 date=1275447812] [quote author=Jaguar-J link=topic=69435.msg808326#msg808326 date=1275447685] [quote author=skipper link=topic=69435.msg807978#msg807978 date=1275353067] this might just upset a few mustang fans. after watching the KV ,mustang game last year i will lean with KV this year becouse  the mustang chain gang  is no longer there. at one time years back alot of teams had a HARD TIME running the ball and putting up points.MUSTANGS FIND THE CHAIN GANG and bring them back ,then i might change my mind .PS good  luck to both teams this year [/quote] Last year is what fans in WOS call a down or rebuilding year . They were young and will improve alot from last year. IMO [/quote]   I somewhat agree. BUT, according to SOME of the WOS fans, they were gonna be state champs last year. ;) [/quote] Kirbyville says the same thing every year also,and I hope they continue to think that way..You gotta believe in your-self..WOS is no different They believe they can win State,They are doing exactly as they should do.."If you [b]don't [/b] think you can do it,Your'e probably right".   JMO [/quote] Exactly! In the field house, there is a goal board and the board stops at state champions. you have to give these kids goals and help them acheive or come close to them. Thats the whole point of playing right?  And how many teams start two adays saying "man, if we can just go 5 and 5 this year"? None.

Good luck Bot. your a fighter, we all know that. you will win this battle. the Thibodeaux family is praying for you!

This one wont be close at all. WOS runs over K'ville like a drunk stepfather on Christams Eve. ;D

lol, this is great stuff.

[quote name="ST11" post="797558" timestamp="1272941371"] [quote author=old_wildcat link=topic=67288.msg780138#msg780138 date=1269265251] It would be nice just to win District.... ;) [/quote] Too bad they couldnt this year ;) who beat them??? Oh wait Silsbee [/quote] For the love of God, we get it, yall beat us. It's funny, some teams around here think if they beat WOS thats their state championship. Dont get me wrong, Silsbee has a great team and deserved to win district last year, but really? Yall win one out of 10 and thats all we here about. That was last year, this is this year. No way yall win district again.

I have no dog in this fight, but Thomas stadium has a good ring to it. Hopefully it will draw some playoff games.

[quote name="td" post="790747" timestamp="1271366908"] [quote author=Rizon link=topic=68630.msg790743#msg790743 date=1271365119] I haven't seen Kiper or McShay's mock drafts, but most of the other ones I have looked at has him going to the Texans. [/quote] Kiper and McShay have him around the 10th pick. [/quote] Im confused on the whole thing, seems no one knows where he will be. It all depends on the quarterback picks i think. I just posted the Cowboys because ESPN said so, and what ESPN says....goes. :D It does seem every week that he moves up a pick or two. They first had him 20th overall, and now you say 10? Wonder what he did to move up so much.

I have a sneaky suspision that jerry jones will do some finagling, move up in the draft and get Earl around 14th pick. just a feeling. The Cowboys need a safety after releasing Hamlin, and they love Earl.

[quote name="Bucof2010" post="787490" timestamp="1270692411"] [quote author=cooligan link=topic=67627.msg787341#msg787341 date=1270665721] Oh man! I thought you would be the man to help me with my term paper kickie. "Undersized athletes in Sports" Don't get me wrong. Many can contribute. Thus my comment about his 40 time and vertical. Sounds like my guess was pretty close as one pointed out. I'm pretty familiar with the Big 12, and you just don't find many recruits 5'8" and 160. I'm sure the young man is a great athlete. Oh yes, no jealousy here. You just don't admire 5'8" and 160 when yours is 6'3" and 210 as a freshman. Good luck with your Championship run this year.          [/quote] Have you seen him play? [/quote] Obviously he hasnt. And I have no idea about the "yours is 6'3"" comment. Wonder what school he backs? Doenst sound like winner talk. I can probably look up all the big 12 DB's and the majority of them are 6' or under.

[quote name="cooligan" post="786206" timestamp="1270476889"] Can you forward me the height and weight of those 35 - 40 players that went on to the next level and played in the Big 12 ? I would like to research them. Or please forward me those that you are aware of and what school's they actually attended. Just curious. Thanks    [/quote] I said about 30 more, not 35-40. And not all big 12. Im sorry I dont have time to look all that up. Have a wonderful day. Jealousy cracks me up.

[quote name="cooligan" post="784740" timestamp="1270062338"] Wow! If the Big 12 is recruiting a 5' 8" 160lb player he must be able to run a 4.2 40 with a 42" vertical. Can't say I've seen him play. He will definitely have to be able to take a pounding at the next level.  [/quote] Well, lets see how many WOS players were too small to do anything at the next level (In no particular order)...... Kevin Smith,Kerry franks, Jacoby Franks,Trey Franks, Deon Beasly, Earl thomas, and about 30 more.....

All this is making me think even more now. i guess I may have to put those Orange Pawprints, a friend gave me, on my back window now.............

WOCCISD is running everyone out of the district. I guess it may be time to finally put both arms in that Orange and White t-shirt my wife bought me. :'(

Congrats Tigers!! Keep your heads up! Way to make us 21-3A'rs proud!!

[quote name="BLUEDOVE3" post="775311" timestamp="1268331627"] [quote author=bullets13000 link=topic=67197.msg775302#msg775302 date=1268330783] [quote author=PoppaBearstarr link=topic=67197.msg775230#msg775230 date=1268327854] I dont have a dog in this fight but it appears to me that there is bias on both sides, one that doesnt agree with whats happening and another thinking it's ignorance becuase they haven't spent time there. It just looks to be biassed on both parts. I dont think it has a thing to do with trailor parks, wards, woods, or cities, goodole boy's, or home boy's. Its just preception and opinions. I personally hate it when the steriotypes start flying. [/quote] yup.  well said. [/quote]The man was corrected in his opinion of 3rd Ward in Houston. He WAS saying 3rd Ward was a ghetto. Well I know Ms. Morris (former teacher)would not like her neighborhood being called a ghetto when I know she has a nice fine -two story home off of McGregor Blvd. with neighbors who have pools in their back yards. :P [/quote] I used to make that trip down mcgregor daily when i played for UH. Its a nice part of town. Sure, there are some bad spots, but everyone has them.

Racism=ignorance. Its Basketball, and a good team. Why did this turn into a racial issue? Ive said it a million times, if you dont want to get beat bad.....dont suck. And the comments about the ghetto and uneducation are rediculous. Just like someone said, go drive through some "white" trailer parks or the backwoods and see all the crackheads and morons. Doesnt matter what a person's skin color is, there all the same. Just watch Cops on Fox. That show explains it all.

Keep your heads up guys! Great season. I dont know much about the BB tournament, but do they play a consolation game between both semifinal losers?

[quote name="ambrose23" post="775167" timestamp="1268323950"] We will see bout that Our coaches alreadyy said we have ppl saying we wasnt goin to be nothin,he says we goin to show yal WRONG,leave it at tht!!!!!!!!!!! [/quote] Word from the wise, go work hard in the offseason, and get off these boards. Dont put bulletin board material on the site for your opponents. I like you entusiasm, but save it for the field. ;)

Google maps has the Gulf of Mexico named as the Atlantic ocean. Funny. :D

[quote name="venom33" post="761120" timestamp="1266420651"] [quote author=GUNHO link=topic=65894.msg760584#msg760584 date=1266350721] [quote author=AggiesAreWe link=topic=65894.msg760580#msg760580 date=1266350210] [quote author=skipper link=topic=65894.msg760566#msg760566 date=1266348499] where did you get the the 19 starters from aggie [/quote] From Coop, the resident WOS Mustang football expert. (just for clarification, I was told by one of the coaches at WOS that the actual number of returning starters for WOS is 16) With that many starters returning, that's far from a rebuilding year. [/quote] Skipp might be right this time aggie.[b]We have to find a kicker [/b] and you know how few and far between those are at WO-S. ;D [/quote] weve got a dang good kicker coming off the jv team. he will be more than ready, i will see to it!  ;) ;D ;) ;D [/quote] Yes, he will be great. He just needs some polishing. He needs to be more fluid with his technique. He was a little robotic when i worked with him. Once he relaxes and smoothes out, he will be awesome!

He's gone. Experts say 1st round 15th pick to............TEXANS! 8)

He doesnt have to stay. Redshirt Sophomore means three years of College. So he can go

He's getting alot of publicity. I wonder if he is going to stay or go into the draft?

By Pat Forde ESPN.com NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. -- When it was halftime, the West Orange-Stark (Texas) High School Mustangs did what football teams do: They jogged into the locker room. [+] EnlargeJohn Rivera/Icon SMI Earl Thomas is a man of many talents. Except Earl Thomas. The guy who ran fastest with the football, caught the football with verve and played a stellar defensive back would stay on the field. He'd take off his helmet, shrug off his shoulder pads, pick up his tenor saxophone and fall in line with the marching band -- still in cleats and football pants. "At times it was embarrassing," Thomas said. But the football hero/band geek double life wasn't embarrassing enough to stop. The band played on, and Thomas played with it. When you're good at everything and you attend a small-town high school, you're often asked to do it all. Thomas was a four-sport athlete at West Orange-Stark and a four-instrument musician as well. He played piano, organ and drums at his grandfather's church, and sax in the band. He still is multitasking at Texas. He is an All-American strong safety for the Longhorns -- and when time permits, he's a jazz pianist with a group of 30-something musicians in a group called Bad Bones, which performs at clubs in Austin's exceptional music scene. Teammates who have seen him tickle the keys give him solid reviews. "He has skills on the piano," linebacker Roddrick Muckelroy said. "Excellent," said defensive end Sam Acho. "He can really play." He can really play football, too. The 5-foot-10, 192-pound Thomas is the leading playmaker on a defense that made a habit of wreaking havoc on opposing offenses. Only one team in America has more than Texas' 35 takeaways on the season, and that's an Ohio team that has played one more game than the Longhorns. Nobody has more interceptions than the Horns' 24. Thomas personally has one-third of those 24 picks, ranking him second nationally in interceptions per game. The redshirt sophomore also broke up 16 other passes. He's second on the team in solo tackles (45) and total tackles (71), including five tackles for loss. He forced a fumble as well, just to round out the stat line. "He's real fast," Alabama receiver Julio Jones said. "Probably one of the fastest [defensive backs] we've seen all year. And he's a ball hawk. He gets to the ball." Who can do it all for the Texas defense? His name is Earl. Last year, at one particular time, his name was mud. Thomas was one of two defenders who failed to stop Michael Crabtree from catching the famous pass from Graham Harrell and then scoring with it as Texas Tech beat Texas on the final play from scrimmage and kept the Horns out of the national title game. [+] EnlargeAP Photo/Harry Cabluck Thomas and Texas' D will be tasked with shutting down Alabama's potent defense. Thomas was in a tough spot then, a redshirt freshman probably being asked to do too much in a callow secondary. But he's been in much tougher spots in his life. His family's home in Orange, on the Gulf Coast of East Texas, was destroyed by Hurricane Rita in 2005 and has not been rebuilt. Today, Thomas' family lives with his grandparents. The family didn't expect much to happen when they evacuated ahead of the hurricane, but they believe they saw video of their devastated house on television while relocated in Louisiana. When they returned home, they knew for sure. Thomas and his family spent a difficult year living in a Super 8 motel room next to a Waffle House -- his mom and dad sharing one bed, he and his brother sharing the other. "You can be put in tough situations," Thomas said. "You can't control it. It's how you adapt to it." No familial situation, not even a home-destroying hurricane, was as difficult as the one Debbie Thomas endured before her children were born. She had already had a miscarriage and was pregnant with Earl when she was told she had cervical cancer. Life expectancy at that moment: six months. But according to the family, a subsequent doctor's visit showed no signs of cancer. Earl was born healthy and happy, and his brother followed. That happy circumstance did not come without some heightened responsibility, however. "My mom always reminded me, 'You're a miracle child; you can't do what everyone else does,'" Earl Thomas said. "That just helped keep me out of trouble." Thomas spent much of his time in Orange "going muddin' and running around barefooted." From the sound of it, he lived a Tom Sawyer lifestyle with a pious twist. "I was in church most of the time," he said. The church was run by his grandfather Earl Thomas Sr. He was the man who got little Earl to sit down at the piano, goading him into it at church at age 12. "Go up there and make some music," his grandfather told him. He has been playing ever since -- in clubs, in the band and on the football field -- but his next performance is all about football. If Texas is going to beat Alabama for the national championship Thursday night, it will need a virtuoso performance from the versatile Earl Thomas. Pat Forde is a senior writer for ESPN.com. He can be reached at [email protected].