Dove Hunter

At this point HF should give up sports and focus on books.  Parents will not allow their children to be coached and truth be known if the parents cared as much about the classroom as they do the sports field many of the great teachers they leave as well.  Micromanaging parents at its best is on display at HF

Have they named their new girl's basketball coach?  Great community, outstanding facilities ingredients for a great job.

On job board this is open where did coach go?  Really respected ability to build on an already rich basketball tradition.  Good luck coach fair thee well

dove - did you not kinda sorta cheat when you moved? Seems like you didn't go to a school that was terrible in basketball, I hope you hold everyone including yourself accountable like you do all these coaches that keep letting your kids down.

Guys on here that cry foul when Yates gets players are pretty funny, its only cheating when it goes against you right?  The funnier thing is blue dove started this segment, the guy who saw the writing on the wall(Yates being in HF region) and took his kids and ball and moved.  Then goes on rant when Central coaches do not let the kids play and grow on their own.  He and his crew of whiners talk about the good ole days when you watched "Great" coaches let the athletes develop and win state championships, while today's coaches just lack that special something.  Truth is dove, you and your friends saw kids from long ago accomplish great things because their parents were not on message boards all day.  These parents worked for a living, not sitting behind a desk all day clicking and clacking on message boards.

Awards are have little meaning and it helps coaches keep jobs.  Not sure why all the anger solo communities have been giving participant trophies for years.  Coaches are just giving you what you want.

[quote name="cowboy fan" post="1316887" timestamp="1351872427"] The coach did not have her key players buy in to playing club ball like in the past, this is where other  coaches teach them the basic and technique of playing volleyball.and then she will get  the finish product.the coach is still playing home town politics.and favorite.u play to win the game.u play to win the game. [/quote] BUY IN is probably the key word that club stuff is expensive and most kids could save that money and pay for the junior college scholarship that they can earn by playing all that club ball.  Wondering why coach needs a finished product from the club programs to compete?  I thought a HS coaches job was to develop and produce a finished product but oh well if HF VB players need to pay for coaching and skill development at least it is understood by the HF community.  I can see the HF community going crazy on the boys side if the football coach told the parents they need to shell out money to another coach so the could be taught skills.

[quote name="texas2step4u" post="1315112" timestamp="1351648223"] I think Central, Ozen, and Nederland are the top 3 in 20-4A this year, in no particular order.  The rest of the district will have to battle it out for the last spot.  I do agree with the post that mentioned that the Central coaches "give up" on the team when things are bad.  Heck, I dont see much basketball discipline from that team at any time.  They get by with lots of basketball talent.  It sure aint the coaching.  If that team had an English on the sidelines, they could be incredible.  As it stands, they wont make it very far past district play. [/quote] Not sure fans or players would play for English, they won their state title when they beat Yates, this season is just a victory tour for them and they deserve it.  Great team accomplishment

This district on the girl's side is unable to do well in playoffs and for the life of me I can not figure out why.  Everyone on here talks highly of these players and they have not had near the success that the boys in this district have had.  It is something that is never discussed but if you are Orangefield and HJ(which one 30 straight district games) do not have a regional finals appearance that is hard to believe with all the passionate voices on this board.  Maybe the kids are not as passionate as the adults

I bet at least ten years.  That is tradition.  Just looking in from outside both HJ and orangefield have new basketball coaches(old ones may have left with dwindling focus on basketball) and probably have as much athletic ability as Silsbee and Bridge City two other strong Volleyball schools.  HF may have seen their best years and now will have to really develop at a higher level to keep up.  HJ coming up has to be a concern for HF since that just adds another athletic team to compete with for a playoff spot.  Back in 2000 when the HF run started both HJ and Orangefield had three sports preseason basketball, basketball and postseason basketball.  Now they are putting emphasis on it and now they are winning.

What was their streak of consecutive playoff appearances at before this year?  Seems that Volleyball like Football is starting to be hurt by HJ and Orangefield's athleticism and new desire to be good at volleyball.

[quote name="SilentVoices" post="1259722" timestamp="1346710365"] Personally, before Friday nights game against Splendora I had them at 3-7 by the end of the season. But with the loss against Splendora I think the Horns will have another upsetting 1-9 season in their future [/quote] Silent voices is that an oxymoron?  You will move as did the Dove so do it ASAP so the true Longhorns can battle for what ever form of success that can be reached.

Blue dove did the right thing, he knew his kids couldn't keep up with the regions best team.  So he cut his losses, he predicted multiple state titles with his sons and he should have they are talented.  Just hope that they win it all the next three yrs they are so gifted and really well raised.

I guess she no longer wants to play basketball?? by now she should have gotten everything in order with the college of her choice, so saying that she was a good player, she lead her team to two playoff wins in four years as a starter.  Can't really call that district tough because it rarely represents the region at state and no team has made regional finals in last fifteen yrs.  Any one do better??

I think all parents should follow Blue Dove and move them out of Yates way!! Go to Ozen or Central and avoid Yates at all cost.  I remember the days that HF was going to win all these state championships with the Dove Boys leading way, now they move to avoid Yates moving down to 3A.  Blue Dove must be related to Floyd Mayweather have not seen someone dodge ballers(Yates) like Mayweather dodges Pac Man.  Blue dove loves his fixed boxing and recruited HS basketball teams