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Explain to me how WOS is so different than Silsbee, Newton and other school districts in regards to this problem. These other school districts have single parent homes. These other school districts are experiencing tough times through the bad economy. How is this apples and oranges?

Now, now, K...............

Sorry, but I respectfully disagree that "football provides them an education". Colleges graduate maybe 50% of the football players, and also take into account many of the athletes take the simplest classes available. Students should attend school to get an education, "athletics" should not be the motivating factor to keep kids in school. Some schools simply don't get this. The GURU will now speak on this most unfortunate of topics! First of all bucky, I believe the comment about football helping kids with education was that extra curricular activities gives kids incentive to make good grades, stay in school, and get a college education. This is 100% accurate in the WOS school district. By cutting out transportation for extra curricular activities you will cut out the number of kids that will participate in these activities and will cause some to even not participate in school all together. I have a brother that has worked in this district and I can honestly say that the mismanagement of money for YEARS has caused this district the hardships that it is currently enduring! Unfortunately, the CHILDREN are ALWAYS the ones that SUFFER! Sorry bucky, but the buck stops here and The GURU has spoken!! I can only speak for my local school district, Silsbee, on this matter. Silsbee does not provide transportation back home for extra curricular activities, yet they have not suffered any loss to speak of in participation. The only numbers that have dropped in Silsbee are due to the population decline, therefore why we are in 3A now. The percentage of students participating in extra curricular have not changed. Silsbee hasn't provided transportation in years. I think it's great that WOS was still providing transportation for their students. But in these times, it was inevitable that it would change. I think you'll be suprised that the numbers will not drop significantly at WOS because of these changes.

I was in the house too. WOS is okay.

Thanks for clearing that up, Nos. I knew that but I was just curious if Boutte had a master's or not. Btw, like it was mentioned earlier, if he did get the job, do you have any clue as to who Ozen would be interested in? You can pm me your thoughts if you would like.

This is as about a smart a post as I have ever read on these forums. Kudos ECBucFan. Please continue on. BTW, these kind of changes are happening all over, not just at WOS.

Glad to see that Andre has bigger asperations in life, but it really doesn't suprise me that he does. My question, does Boutte have a master's?

and I've been preaching this for how many years? : My sentiments are, if you are going to have an all-state team, do the PROPER research and do it right! It's like last year's 4A team, Dravantti Johnson of Nederland was second team all-district, but garnered 1st team all-state and 4A defensive player of year. You can go back over the years and see this kind of assinine results on the AP teams.

I agree. The regional should have stayed at Lamar.

My thoughts on this is that the YMBL knew what they were getting this year. Moving back to the Montagne came with some stipulations. I believe in the future, things will be scheduled better. Contrary to what Miss Walters thinks, if I am Coach Roc, I am going to have my shoot around where I am going to play my game, the Montagne, not McDonald. This is my homecourt, and for this very important home game, I would not want to have to adjust to someone else's schedule. Lamar basketball is more important to Lamar University than the YMBL tourney is to LU and that it should be.

Believe me Lazeek, I am with you on all this back and forth Silsbee-HJ talk. But, it doesn't look good if the HJ players and coaches are concerned with what fans are saying about them. Now, if the Tiger players and coaches were making these comments, that definetly would be bulletin board material.

Another thing you guys need to understand on this, these awards are based on regular season, not playoffs. It is my understanding that they are decided on before the playoffs, but only are released afterwards.

You got that right, Chad.

The new floor had everything to do with the schedule. There were some setbacks in the instillation of the floor, therefore Silsbee had to move a couple of their home games to away games.

Who did you see New Waverly play? So in your opinion New Waverly is better than HJ? I saw my Silsbee Tigers beat New Waverly at the Big Sandy tourney, 70-60. I think HJ and New Waverly are very closely matched.

I will grace it in the basketball forum. I do love this website!

Hilarious!! Silsbee loses 1 game, drops 3 spots. HJ loses a game at home, moves up a spot.

I could not agree with you more, ST4life. Good post.

New Waverly definetly the better team. I'll put you guys ahead of Kountze though.

Yes. Silsbee's next home game is not until Jan.16, when they open district against WOS. In fact, Silsbee only has 3 home non district games this year. They opened with Legacy, then played Kelly on Nov. 25. They basicly will have had a 2 month road trip in between home games. No team in this area will have gone through that sort of schedule. Silsbee only has a total of 8 home games this year, out of a possible 30 game regular season. This should be great preperation for the Tigers playoff run.

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