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[quote name="Smoking Baby" post="1134613" timestamp="1322596833"] [quote author=lobos link=topic=92359.msg1133922#msg1133922 date=1322523614] I think the whole restaurant has been cleared for all the Ozen fans to come chow down! [/quote] Who yall boxing with this week?  I need to start selling pepper-spray to the local PD...... ;D ;D ;D Nothing like puff-daddy playing in the back ground, some car hopping the front tires in the parking lot, and a good ole fashing police intervention AFTER a football game is over.  What would LaMarque do if they had lost, break out their "9's".......  Bunch of irrelevant thugs!  Pick on my boyz from Ozen, you pick on Smoking Baby!!!!!!!  ;) [/quote] Sick em Smokey  8)

[quote name="dustoff03" post="1134589" timestamp="1322594971"] [quote author=TEXNIFICENT link=topic=92332.msg1134548#msg1134548 date=1322592581] [quote author=vp32 link=topic=92332.msg1134525#msg1134525 date=1322591520] A quote from the article: [i][b]"La Marque head coach Mike Jackson said he was disappointed that the fight was the topic of discussion rather than his team's ascending to the quarterfinal round of the playoffs."[/b][/i] This statement right here shows how spoiled and arrogant this team is. This right here is why everyone does not like La Marque. [quote author=TEXNIFICENT link=topic=92332.msg1134518#msg1134518 date=1322590974] [quote author=raideroldtimer link=topic=92332.msg1134466#msg1134466 date=1322587451] [quote author=LM2000 link=topic=92332.msg1133691#msg1133691 date=1322507839] We havent had this problem before. We will always get hatred from a lot    of people no matter what we do. So we'll just keep winning [/quote] My only experience with LaMarque before this incident occurring last saturday was when Lumberton played them a couple years back in the playoffs. Their team had a bad attitude back then as well although no fights started. Before the game, their players were acting arrogant and actually taunting the fans on our side. After the game and they lost, many of their players and several of their coaches (where the attitude really comes from) refused to shake hands with our players and coaches, opting instead to storm off the field into the field house. I've heard that this bad attitude is the norm and if this is the case, maybe the school district needs to try again in hiring a new head coach. [/quote] The coach who was with LM for that game is long gone. Has been for YEARS! WOW, Is Lumberton STILL  celebrating. Its been what 5 years? [/quote] And the head coach may have been fired but has every single coach that "refused to shake hands" with the Lumberton players been fired? I don't think so and even if you do fire all the coaches from the team and start completely over it still takes more than that to install a new attitude into that school. Its not just football. Its the school. We can all see that from the declining enrollment numbers. [/quote] [b]I find it hilarious that someone from Vidor is attacking someone else's reputation[/b]. Dude La Marque's town is like a lot of towns across the country, that is feeling the pain of the economic downturn. It's proximity to chemical plants also doesn't help it in terms of construction of new homes. It has nothing to do with the town's football team. [b]Both teams acted like jerks[/b] & BISD has had its own problems of late [Hidden Content]; so check yourself. But your problem with LM is really obvious. [/quote] I'm pretty sure he misinterpereted what the coach ment, which is simply it was a shame that this happened and is overshadowing LM's run for state. Now, if you stay on here long enough, you will notice that VP32 will argue with everyone including others from Vidor. I think he likes stirring the pot and he is good at it. Just the way he is. [/quote] When have i argued with someone from Vidor?

[quote name="TEXNIFICENT" post="1134548" timestamp="1322592581"] [quote author=vp32 link=topic=92332.msg1134525#msg1134525 date=1322591520] A quote from the article: [i][b]"La Marque head coach Mike Jackson said he was disappointed that the fight was the topic of discussion rather than his team's ascending to the quarterfinal round of the playoffs."[/b][/i] This statement right here shows how spoiled and arrogant this team is. This right here is why everyone does not like La Marque. [quote author=TEXNIFICENT link=topic=92332.msg1134518#msg1134518 date=1322590974] [quote author=raideroldtimer link=topic=92332.msg1134466#msg1134466 date=1322587451] [quote author=LM2000 link=topic=92332.msg1133691#msg1133691 date=1322507839] We havent had this problem before. We will always get hatred from a lot    of people no matter what we do. So we'll just keep winning [/quote] My only experience with LaMarque before this incident occurring last saturday was when Lumberton played them a couple years back in the playoffs. Their team had a bad attitude back then as well although no fights started. Before the game, their players were acting arrogant and actually taunting the fans on our side. After the game and they lost, many of their players and several of their coaches (where the attitude really comes from) refused to shake hands with our players and coaches, opting instead to storm off the field into the field house. I've heard that this bad attitude is the norm and if this is the case, maybe the school district needs to try again in hiring a new head coach. [/quote] The coach who was with LM for that game is long gone. Has been for YEARS! WOW, Is Lumberton STILL  celebrating. Its been what 5 years? [/quote] And the head coach may have been fired but has every single coach that "refused to shake hands" with the Lumberton players been fired? I don't think so and even if you do fire all the coaches from the team and start completely over it still takes more than that to install a new attitude into that school. Its not just football. Its the school. We can all see that from the declining enrollment numbers. [/quote] I find it hilarious that someone from Vidor is attacking someone else's reputation. Dude La Marque's town is like a lot of towns across the country, that is feeling the pain of the economic downturn. It's proximity to chemical plants also doesn't help it in terms of construction of new homes. It has nothing to do with the town's football team. [b]Both teams acted like jerks[/b] & BISD has had its own problems of late [Hidden Content]; so check yourself. But your problem with LM is really obvious. [/quote] If you actually read some stuff on here you would see that i wrote earlier that i had no problem with La Marque. I was actually a fan of them because they were a school with low numbers that was still competing with the best in the state and winning some but that was until this happened i heard about the Lumberton thing and i actually realized why your numbers were declining. And if a power plant is to blame for the reason your numbers are declining then what about PNG and Nederland. I'm pretty sure that when i was driving towards the PNG game this year that i passed a few plants. Someone correct me if i'm wrong. And we all know PA has some plants and yet they are 5A.

[quote name="dustoff03" post="1134547" timestamp="1322592557"] [quote author=vp32 link=topic=92254.msg1134543#msg1134543 date=1322592339] [quote author=7mary3 link=topic=92254.msg1134529#msg1134529 date=1322591603] [quote author=BHFAN link=topic=92254.msg1134516#msg1134516 date=1322590924] [quote author=7mary3 link=topic=92254.msg1134489#msg1134489 date=1322588747] Not bothering me a bit bro...seeing how I started one of the BH threads  8)  It's all in good fun and I've definetely seen worse stuff on here.  Just spell Dayton right next time when starting a new thread, thats all i ask.  Can't wait until next year. [/quote] Sorry about the mis spell I was typing so fast that I missed the "T" ;D Good luck to Dayton next year it looks like you guys have a lot coming back! I hope the UIL doesn't screw up our district too much, but we will have to wait and see. I don't know what Crosby has coming back to support the twins, but they are going to be tough! [/quote] Crosby will be tough but they'll find a way to screw things up somehow, always do.  You are correct on the districts but I don't see them moving BH, Dayton, and Crosby out of the district but who knows. [/quote] Wouldn't that be something if yall move down here. I could see that happening. Dayton had there two years and so did Livingston now its BH's turn.  8) [/quote] There you go. Swap em out with Livingston, they need to play closer to home. [/quote] Yeah definitely. I'll tell you what they would definitely be some competition......competition with lumberton for the title of the floor mat  8)

[quote name="7mary3" post="1134529" timestamp="1322591603"] [quote author=BHFAN link=topic=92254.msg1134516#msg1134516 date=1322590924] [quote author=7mary3 link=topic=92254.msg1134489#msg1134489 date=1322588747] Not bothering me a bit bro...seeing how I started one of the BH threads  8)  It's all in good fun and I've definetely seen worse stuff on here.  Just spell Dayton right next time when starting a new thread, thats all i ask.  Can't wait until next year. [/quote] Sorry about the mis spell I was typing so fast that I missed the "T" ;D Good luck to Dayton next year it looks like you guys have a lot coming back! I hope the UIL doesn't screw up our district too much, but we will have to wait and see. I don't know what Crosby has coming back to support the twins, but they are going to be tough! [/quote] Crosby will be tough but they'll find a way to screw things up somehow, always do.  You are correct on the districts but I don't see them moving BH, Dayton, and Crosby out of the district but who knows. [/quote] Wouldn't that be something if yall move down here. I could see that happening. Dayton had there two years and so did Livingston now its BH's turn.  8)

[quote name="PirateGirl4ever" post="1134520" timestamp="1322591040"] [quote author=PN-G bamakid link=topic=92328.msg1134511#msg1134511 date=1322590490] [quote author=PirateGirl4ever link=topic=92328.msg1134510#msg1134510 date=1322590281] [quote author=Purple/Silver/White link=topic=92328.msg1134051#msg1134051 date=1322532074] Great season Pirates! I expect we shall meet again possibly next year as you have an excellent team and coaching staff! I look forward to it! BTW, it's niether here nor there as they say, but the "tunnel" that you guys run out of at the start of each half (don't know the technical name for it) is one of the coolest, & most intimidating I have seen all year! Looks eeeeevil. ;D [size=24pt]GOOD LUCK NEXT YEAR PIRATES!!!![/size] [/quote] It's pretty cool, huh?  We love it!!  When the smoke starts and the boys run out of it and in to the smoke it is AWESOME!!  My kids LOVE it!!  I work with somebody from PNG and they said the same thing, it looks evil and creepy! [/quote] Vidor's tunnel is pretty cool. The Vidor crowd also impressed me at this game. I wish PN-G's crowd would get that into the game. [/quote] I know you guys and Nederland as well get into football just like we do, but as I tell people all the time, there is nothing like sitting behind the Vidor Pirates.  The crowd is awesome, the feeling is amazing, it's truly like no other.  [b]I have always wanted to sit across from us on the other side of the field just to hear how great it sounds when everybody chants....GO PIRATES, GO!!![/b] [/quote] Same here lol. I often wonder how loud we really are.

[quote name="speechless" post="1134327" timestamp="1322579107"] I have said this before....you base a community's level of support by how many people show up to a week 9 road game at the end of a 1-9 season?  Seriously? HJ excels in many other areas of school related activities.  If you want to see for yourself come look at the list of state champions on the statue in front of the gym....only a few of them are basketball.  I don't list them because I am not here to get into a pissing match about accomplishments. [b]Bottom line, you don't live in the community so you have no idea what the level of support really is.  When you win, people show up...when you don't...they don't and that is true of any sport and any school.[/b] [/quote] That's funny because i remember when Vidor was 0-10 and 1-9 and We still had 3000+ fans in our stands and going to away games like houston and such. (2 hours away) That's called supporting a program. Which HJ obviously does not know how to do.

A quote from the article: [i][b]"La Marque head coach Mike Jackson said he was disappointed that the fight was the topic of discussion rather than his team's ascending to the quarterfinal round of the playoffs."[/b][/i] This statement right here shows how spoiled and arrogant this team is. This right here is why everyone does not like La Marque. [quote name="TEXNIFICENT" post="1134518" timestamp="1322590974"] [quote author=raideroldtimer link=topic=92332.msg1134466#msg1134466 date=1322587451] [quote author=LM2000 link=topic=92332.msg1133691#msg1133691 date=1322507839] We havent had this problem before. We will always get hatred from a lot    of people no matter what we do. So we'll just keep winning [/quote] My only experience with LaMarque before this incident occurring last saturday was when Lumberton played them a couple years back in the playoffs. Their team had a bad attitude back then as well although no fights started. Before the game, their players were acting arrogant and actually taunting the fans on our side. After the game and they lost, many of their players and several of their coaches (where the attitude really comes from) refused to shake hands with our players and coaches, opting instead to storm off the field into the field house. I've heard that this bad attitude is the norm and if this is the case, maybe the school district needs to try again in hiring a new head coach. [/quote] The coach who was with LM for that game is long gone. Has been for YEARS! WOW, Is Lumberton STILL  celebrating. Its been what 5 years? [/quote] And the head coach may have been fired but has every single coach that "refused to shake hands" with the Lumberton players been fired? I don't think so and even if you do fire all the coaches from the team and start completely over it still takes more than that to install a new attitude into that school. Its not just football. Its the school. We can all see that from the declining enrollment numbers.

[quote name="ispeakjive" post="1134290" timestamp="1322576387"] Quirante is a great player, but how can the Defensive MVP not come from the district's best defense?  That doesn't make any sense to me.  Corbin Carr was the most dominant defensive player that I saw all season. [/quote] Wasn't Carr injured for some of the season?

[quote name="football" post="1134177" timestamp="1322540702"] One hyphenated word tells why some stay in the gym: TWO-A-DAYS!!!  Now there are some that just don't want to play.  [b]Football is not for everyone.[/b] [/quote] Amen there.

[quote name="bigdog" post="1133919" timestamp="1322523513"] I think Nederland will have something to say about that .  ;) [/quote] That game will, IMO be the deciding factor in who wins district. Both teams have a lot coming back and this year was a nail biter down the end. I expect next year to be no different. But remember what happened last time you played in our house.  ;)

[quote name="Purple/Silver/White" post="1134034" timestamp="1322531100"] [quote author=vp32 link=topic=92297.msg1133911#msg1133911 date=1322522646] [quote author=Purple/Silver/White link=topic=92297.msg1133896#msg1133896 date=1322520638] The fumble that angleton turned over last friday late in the game which resulted in an immediate score for vidor happend, once again, because we had mostly second and third string players on the field at the time. The coach has always said "A win is a win, whether it's by one point, or fifty points." That being said, I believe that he is more concerned about letting everyone play if he can, than he is concerned with winning by the most possible points. (More points for the opposition makes the Cats look easier to beat on paper than they really are too. That leads some teams to believe that they have more of a chance to win than they actually do ;)) I do think that for next game we'll have the first string out there the entire game. Unless...for some odd reason... we have a HUGE lead and it's late in the fourth. (Even I don't think that will happen against dawson) THEEEEN they may play 2nd or 3rd string and risk giving up a few points. 8) [/quote] Not trying to down your story either but #30 (the guy who recovered the fumble and ran it back) definitely isn't a starter either in fact i think he was JV until the playoffs. He's a sophomore. [/quote]No problem brother. I understand that many teams have a lot of great players which may not always start.I was just saying that (in general) the starting players wil make less mistakes, that's all. We have a lot of young ones too. Our starting kicker (the really small one) is a freshman with an extensive soccer background. His older brother who graduated last year- same thing. He was starting kicker then.:) [/quote] For a freshman he wasn't doing that bad. I know how it is to have rookie kickers in as your starter we went through that last year and brought up Brandon Clayton, a soccer player, and he has done the best that he could ever do.

[quote name="strother78" post="1134039" timestamp="1322531293"] I do want to wish a great and successful powerlifting season this year. This is the only sport I know of that truly shows comraderie from every individual on the floor. I've been doing this for a while now and have never seen any altercation between lifters/coaches/parents or anything. Everyone is very helpful and will always be there to lend their best advice. I look forward to seeing many familar faces as we all push our kids to extreme to show them what they are capable of. [/quote] Same here. Its definitely gonna be a great year. I love going to powerlifting meets because only true fans and family go and you don't have to deal with kids getting in your way of seeing stuff and you get to see everyone at once.

[quote name="12gage" post="1133912" timestamp="1322522669"] I understand that when a team , in football or basketball, leaves the bench or sideline they are out of that game, period! I am a high school coach for 22 years , this is what we have been told. Seems like the officials Dropedthe ball on this one , [b]now the uil will look the other way and nothing wil happen , teaching these young boys nothing[/b]! [/quote] This right here is why society is so messed up right now. Why can't we just go back to the way it was.

[quote name="Purple/Silver/White" post="1133896" timestamp="1322520638"] The fumble that angleton turned over last friday late in the game which resulted in an immediate score for vidor happend, once again, because we had mostly second and third string players on the field at the time. The coach has always said "A win is a win, whether it's by one point, or fifty points." That being said, I believe that he is more concerned about letting everyone play if he can, than he is concerned with winning by the most possible points. (More points for the opposition makes the Cats look easier to beat on paper than they really are too. That leads some teams to believe that they have more of a chance to win than they actually do ;)) I do think that for next game we'll have the first string out there the entire game. Unless...for some odd reason... we have a HUGE lead and it's late in the fourth. (Even I don't think that will happen against dawson) THEEEEN they may play 2nd or 3rd string and risk giving up a few points. 8) [/quote] Not trying to down your story either but #30 (the guy who recovered the fumble and ran it back) definitely isn't a starter either in fact i think he was JV until the playoffs. He's a sophomore.

[quote name="BetweenTheBuriedAndMe" post="1133887" timestamp="1322520113"] I'd just like to say that I'm sorry if I offended anyone with my comments over the last week.  Coach Mathews got in touch with me last night and apologized for the tribulations that EVERYONE went through that season; not just the players, but the coaches as well.  It was just an off year for everyone in that locker room and it explains a lot.  Again, I'm sorry if I offended anyone and wish the Pirates good luck next season and on. I still believe [/quote] Its all good. I apologize for letting my anger get the best of me. I just don't like it when someone attacks a man that i hold in the highest respect. I'm glad you got everything worked out for you man.

[quote name="elhector1" post="1133823" timestamp="1322516399"] Having gone back and read the original "letter to the editor", I saw a lot of similarities to something that I am close too (Mods, will you grant me a little lee way?) While this is high school we are talking about, it very much parallels the college I attended, UTEP.  For years, heck, decades, UTEP was everyone's stomping boy.  We were the doormat, under the doormat.  0-12, 1-11, 2-10 records were the norm.  A good season was considered 3-9. Attendance stank, and every 3-4 years, the chorus went out..."we need a new coach!"  And every 3-4 years, they got one...only to suffer the same fate. A few years ago, we got a coach "in disgrace".  Mike Price had been summarily fired by Alabama, before even coaching a single game.  Seems he was supposedly in Florida with strippers after a golf tourney(a lawsuit later clarified the situation, and he got some big bucks for slander, but I digress).  He took the hapless Miners from losers to bowl games, and his records have been 9-3, 8-4, 4-8, 5-7, 5-7, 6-6, 5-7 since.  He has had the team in 90% of the games they played and lost, and defeated teams like Houston.  However, since the fans got a taste of success in his early years, they think that this is normal, that a team that was always on the wrong end of ugly, should now compete with the likes of SMU, Houston,  and other storied programs.  I am again hearing the chorus of "new coach, new coach", and "bring in a young hungry guy" as the coach.  Like HJ is percieved as a high school, UTEP is also percieved as a college...a basketball school. The problem is, the singers of this chorus of "new coach new coach", want to get a great "champagne" name on a watered down beer budget.  They want first class results at a 5th class price.  I don't know the dynamics of HJ's administration, but reading the letter from the "fan" in the BE, I can see the same type of thinking... How do you get a winning program? 1.  Get out there for the kids...whether it's Pop Warner, junior high, or high school, or college, whether the record is 10- or 0-10, get out there for them.  These kids and young men get out there and take their health in their hands to give you a game.  They get sprains, broken bones, concussions, and other injuries for no pay, for only the chance to hear a cheer from you every once in a while. 2.  Don't think the new guy will be any better...sometimes, he can be worse.  Support the program, and you would be surprised how much the program improves.  If you haven't done anything but complain, and haven't gone to many games, you have no room to talk.  That would be like a player getting to play first string without attending practice.    3.  Get stupid for your hometown team.  The colors, the spirit stickers, whatever.  Let those kids see the community behind them.  Plain and simple, if they see you don't care...why should they? Good luck HJ...in EVERY sport! [/quote] And that pretty much sums it up. Great post elhector1

IMO the player who won MVP deserved it. IMO MVP should be the player that proves that there team would not be where they are without that person. Yes I know that Montana Quirante proved to be very important to his team but IMO we could've wen't just as far as we did with the other qb choice.

rumor has it that they closed the voting a lil while ago because they caught people voting more than once. and jimmy salter's numbers jumped up 1000+ wonder who that was  ::)

7 offensive starters and 9 defensive starters coming back next year. District title contenders at the very least.

[quote name="dustoff03" post="1133645" timestamp="1322504781"] [quote author=uandme08 link=topic=92276.msg1133640#msg1133640 date=1322504384] [quote author=cougar2011 link=topic=92276.msg1133530#msg1133530 date=1322497229] www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcqTsHhymV8 [/quote] It's funny that these highlights don't show the 3rd qtr when LaMarque cleared their sideline and ran across the field to Ozen's. Another dose of one-sided reporting. Both teams are to blame and should be held accountable for their actions and this is from a parent of an Ozen Panther. [/quote] it's because it's a highlite film of plays not [b]fighting[/b]. [/quote] They have a totally different highlight film for that right?  ::)

[quote name="AggiesAreWe" post="1133604" timestamp="1322502078"] [quote author=bulldogbacker link=topic=92332.msg1133599#msg1133599 date=1322501829] [quote author=vp32 link=topic=92332.msg1133582#msg1133582 date=1322500769] I'll tell you what needs to happen. Both teams need to be disqualified from there next games. For Ozen that's next years first game and for La Marque that's the game with Manvel. Now that may not happen but its what needs to happen. [/quote] that is a great idea.... [/quote] Not so sure that is a great idea. Seems a bit unfair. Big difference in forfeiting a non district game versus a Regional championship game. But, something needs to be done in some capacity but I don't see anything really happening to either school. [/quote] They should've thought about that when they were fighting. Just because one school has more to lose doesn't mean that they shouldn't get the same punishment as the other. That's like saying two kids get in a fight in school and one of them happens to be the star quarterback for the football team. And the usual punishment for fighting is a ticket and suspension but everyone is saying don't suspend them because tonight is the game and we will not be able to play him.

Honorary Captain: Matt Thomas, sr., Vidor This is the best part.  :)

I'll tell you what needs to happen. Both teams need to be disqualified from there next games. For Ozen that's next years first game and for La Marque that's the game with Manvel. Now that may not happen but its what needs to happen.

[quote name="speechless" post="1133555" timestamp="1322499129"] Do your research before you assume you are closer to the program than I am.  Your comments are very blind and very uneducated. [/quote] The same could be said about your statements as well speechless.