ispeakjive

Vidor definitely gets a bad rap.  99.9% of the people there are great and they get pulled down by people that live on the outskirts of or out of Vidor entirely.  In my experience, what was described here is more the norm than the old stories of racism.  Hopefully more people in this area will come to see what Vidor really is now as opposed to what it may have been in the past. 

Corbin Carr

If you are trying to get an indication of what type of talent different teams have coming up, you should focus on Freshman results, not JV.  Especially in 3A and above.

Quarter?

Still impressive for a freshman to kick on a varsity team, but that is completely different from a freshman playing every down on offense or defense.

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I knew that when I started it, but also knew that I would get some honest feedback. All opinions were appreciated and I am going to use them to turn this situation into a positive one.
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If you and your son can use this situation that way and he learns to harness his aggression and competitiveness, then this can be a great teachable moment.  I'll give you this, you are pretty brave for putting this out for everyone to see and comment on.  It sounds like your son is very talented.  I hope this is just a bump in the road for him.

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He's a very aggresive kid who hates to lose. He does have an attitude, but lots of kids do in every sport. I expected his coaches to maybe sit him or work with him, but that didn't happen. He's not perfect, but to just ignore the problem isn't acceptable to me. He needed a positive role model to work him thru it and didn't get that.
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If your kid has attitude problems, you need to be the role model and take care of it.  Period.  It's great that he hates to lose, but if he is becoming a cancer and you aren't doing anything to remedy it, then I would tend to side with the coach.  The coach may have faults in other areas, but the attitude problem is yours to work with and fix.

I feel sorry for Credeur and his staff.  He seems like a good guy, by it looks like he rode an ultra-talented group pretty far a few years back and it looks, unfortunately, like that program is taking a few steps back. This year's 8th graders look pretty talented so hopefully that program will get back to respectability pretty soon.  This district is definitely much more fun to watch when L-train fans are being cocky.

Just my opinion, and it might not be worth much, but Corbin Carr should be considered the frontrunner for district MVP. The way he (and the rest of the D-line) is playing right now fundamentally alters how the opposing teams run their offense and even call plays. Livingston's OC was shellshocked last night. 

I wonder how everyone feels about the Heartsfield hire now? 

Good teams find ways to win when they are not playing well.  Nederland did that tonight and deserved the win.  Raines will play better than he did tonight and the running game appears to be improving.  If those two things continue, Nederland will be tough to beat throughout district.

Vidor played well and will make the playoffs.  Those kids are scrappy and look to pop someone in the mouth on every play on offense and defense.  I can't imagine anyone in district will be looking forward to playing them this season. 

is this a joke?

My son's team beat a Bandito group a classification higher than them a couple years ago. In the younger levels I don't think there is any benefit to playing with a group like that and subjecting yourself to the travel.  The kids may get a little more exposure playing for their high school-age teams, but  realistically the Gladiators and Sun Devils are getting kids noticed and placed on college teams at about the same level as the Banditos.  I think you are wasting a bunch of trips.

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Sept 20th....Raiders vs PNG @ Lumberton. This will be a great preview of things to come!
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Same old same old. Lumberton beats thier chest in youth and middle school football. Come Varsity time, the NDNS puts it on the Raiders. Enjoy your district championship at the middle school level. ::)
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What people in Lumberton need to remember is that they are playing with all of their kids in middle school where in Nederland and PN-G, the groups are split.  Lumberton should be winning at the middle school level because they have their entire talent pool to draw from. 

But, what you play with in 7th and 8th grade is what you are stuck with when they get in high school.  In Nederland and PN-G, you have two feeder schools that are developing kids.  The high school coaches have a much deeper pool of players to choose from when they come out of 8th grade.  C.O. is definitely the better group in Nederland, but when they get to high school if you augment that group with even three or four players from Central that may be able to help, I definitely like their odds against Lumberton the next four years.  Same goes for Port Neches and Groves.  The whole will definitely be better than its component parts. 

Enjoy the victories in middle school, because it doesn't necessarily mean that it will carry over to high school.  Ask Vidor from a few years ago when they were dominating the middle school league and had no playoff wins (or even appearances I think for that matter) to show for it when those groups were in high school. 

Raiderwhatever:

I can definitely see dogging Ned's QB when Lumberton was apparently an offensive juggernaut last night against a much weaker 3A team coming off of a terrible season.  Stay classy there in Hardin County.

Smitty:

Let me try and save you a week's (and maybe season's) worth of posts:

WOS is too fast for us and the Defensive Coordinator won't make any adjustments to compensate for their speed.  He will be the cause for it if we lose this week and for a poor season if it happens. 

That should about cover it.  If I left anything out I am sure that you will grab the stick and start flogging that dead horse again soon.

All of these areguments are moot.  While some of the lecturing has become tiresome, Mmosley is right, the AD can only hire coaches within the constraints of the teaching positions that are provided to him by the administration.  Period.  And the fact is that J. Walker is a very attractive commodity to a principal and AD because he teaches science.  There are very few coaches that can teach science and math and getting someone who can teach science and coach three sports is a huge asset to an AD.  Once you do that a sport is going to get short changed and speaking objectively, basketball was it in this hire.  

With that said, I seriously doubt that Neumann did that just to torpedo the basketball program.  I would bet anyone that Walker filled several needs and fit within the budgetary requirements Neumann had to work with.  End of story.  Plus, at this late in the year, it is way easier to fill a freshman football / assistant basketball / assistant baseball position than it is to find a new girls head coach.  

I am sure that coach Smith is disappointed, but he probably understands all of the moving parts and implications of what happened way more than some of the people on this board do.

Lighten up, Francis

Wow!  Sounds like a head football coach / AD trying to kill a successful basketball program.
Mackey may be a great basketball coach, but having a varsity football coordinator coach basketball is a bad idea.  If the football team make any kind is playoff run the basketball program will be on the back burner.  Plus basketball practice starts before the end of football.  Where will his commitment be?  Definitely not fair to the basketball program.

Bottom Row (seated - left to right): Zack Friesz, Logan New, Kody Kolb, Cole Girouard

Middle Row (kneeling - left to right): Jacob Jones, Austin Krautz, Chase Warren, Jacob Guilbeaux, Zack Collier, Colton Hicks

Top Row (standing - left to right): Mgr - Troy Jones, Eric Bankston, Adam Morse, Christian Walker, Steven Yarbro, Bryce Hoffpauir, Coach Johnny Krautz, Coach Rickey Hicks

Nederland- 9
Bay City -  3

Nederland plays Wharton at 4:00 Saturday in semifinals

West Brazos - 1
Nederland    - 11

Final

Nederland plays host Bay City at 7:30 tonight.

It is if it is genuine.

I see that Little League Intl.'s never ending quest to drive more people to select baseball continues.  I understand and respect their rules, but some are so arbitrary and arcane that you can't even tell when some of them have been violated.

At this point, the only reason to play Little League and all-stars is for some misplaced sense of community pride.  If the goal is to expose young players to the best possible baseball, then select is the way to go. 

I can't speak for anyone else, but I understand that completely.  But, I also know that in a couple of districts that I was in that you usually had the OC and DC that had two athletic periods and maybe taught one PE class.  Not to take away from what they did in athletics, but from an administrator's perspective and scheduling classes, they don't bring anything to the table as far as core subjects.  I understand that is not the norm, but that situation exists in most 4A and 5A districts. 

Again, if you look at block scheduling and two four period days, a regular teacher teaches six core subject classes over the course of those two days while a coach may teach three to four.  If the funds are there, I am all for having as many coaches as you can afford; that's how I made my living for several years.  But, if the money isn't there, you have to focus on core subjects.  My bet would be that instead of just mass lay-offs of coaches, you will instead see them just put into the classroom with a full slate of classes and no coaching duties (for those who teach core subjects).  If I were a PE teacher / coach right now, I would be a little worried.