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there are plenty of schools who don't use it properly, but plenty who do. my only point in my reply to him is that, as someone who provides scores for maxpreps, I know without dispute that Lumberton is a school that reports all wins but relies on the other school to report their losses. So when he stated that using maxpreps is not a fair way to attain Lumberton's record over 10 years I agree, but that their record is without a doubt worse than what I provided.

correct. a lot of lumberton's losses don't get reported on there. tournament games that have to be added by an admin tend to not get added when they're losses. when a team plays a tourney, a team admin (coach) or MP admin has to add games to the schedule. In the most recent tourney Lumberton played, Mitchell reported their win over goodrich and added the game vs apple springs to the schedule which another lumbertoner reported the score to, but didn't add either the woodville or jasper game onto their schedule, both of which they lost. The woodville coach reported their win over Lumberton, but the jasper coach did not, so Lumberton's record is currently incorrect. as a scorekeeper who reports local basketball and football scores for maxpreps, I've scored 3 lumberton basketball losses this year that weren't reported. Someone from Lumberton has managed to report every win, though. But i'm just going by what's in front of me. I do agree with some of your other points, and like I said, he deserves some credit for what he's done. But not as much as he's given himself. As for having the talent to beat those 5A teams, I feel like an elite coach would find a way to do better than 3-44 (out of games reported) over 4 seasons. Central, PAM, Nederland and Ozen were obviously tough, but there were plenty of opportunity to beat bad and average teams during those 4 years in district. Lee, GCM, Vidor, PNG, twice a season: every one of those games should've been winnable. He shouldn't have won them all, but 3 in 4 years when you're getting 8 district games a year with beatable teams is pretty bad.

I've mentioned before about the fact that there's a lot pointing to him coming on this site with multiple accounts talking crap about coaches way more accomplished than himself, while making himself out to be one of the elite coaches in the area. One of those coaches is a man i played for and have much respect for, so that's part of it. That said, I'm fully willing to give him some credit for improving Lumberton in his time there. But is it really a testament to his ability as a coach that he took them to the playoffs in 2019 for the first time in 20 years? What about the fact that he had the best player in school history, an elite coach in his first and only year as his assistant, and that they'd dropped down to 4A after he'd managed to coach them to 3 total district wins in the previous 4 years in 5A? A 117-131 record, with more than half of those wins coming against 3A/below competition, and a 40-71 record in district over ten years just doesn't scream "Elite" to me, despite what some might say.

IMO it's premature to fire someone over allegations that were almost immediately retracted. But I don't have access to the evidence, and I'm sure the powers that be at UT are able to get it. I expect the charges to be dropped fairly soon. How can you take someone to trial when the alleged victim is saying "I lied about him choking me, and told the police as much that night before they even arrested him. All of my other minor injuries were a result of him defending himself against me." That said, I never expected him to survive this in today's ultrawoke climate. I'll never support a wife beater, but I'll also never support an atmosphere where the mere allegation that somebody did something leads to the immediate cancellation of their entire life.

"The suspect's phone arrived near the scene of the crime at 2:47 a.m. local time, at which point, the phone stopped working, the affidavit states. It was turned back on at 4:48 a.m. and cellular resources showed the phone was on the highway driving away from the scene shortly after. At 9:00 a.m., police said the phone left the suspect's home and arrived at the crime scene at 9:21 a.m. It had left the scene by 9:32 a.m., showing that the suspect likely returned hours later."

Interesting tidbit of info... investigators are stating that they have his phone returning to the scene at 9:21 am, several hours after the murders, but before 911 was called. Perhaps he was returning to look for some evidence he'd left? You'd think he'd be smart enough to not take his cell phone with him considering his educational background.

Admittedly, I selfishly wanted this to work out as a UT basketball fan. They were set to become a powerhouse for a long time under him. That said, if he's guilty, he deserves this. But from what I've heard, she's crazy, and on top of that she almost immediately retracted most of her claims, some of them even before he was arrested to begin with. Without being privy to the evidence, who knows. I've "heard" the pictures are damning, but if it's self-defense, it's self-defense. If someone tries to rob me when i have the kids in the car, the pictures of them when I'm done are going to look pretty damning without context as well.

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Lumberton is not doing well either. they're sitting at 10-12. 9 of their wins coming against teams with BAD losing records, the majority of which are in lower divisions (although to be fair, the majority of their non-district is always like this). their one win against an opponent with a record above .500 was against a 3A school sitting at 11-8. Not exactly a marquee win. What's going on over there? Last year it was "injuries." Maybe it's something a little deeper, and their brief run of success had a lot more to do with their D1 player than other factors?

What's up with the basketball team at WOS this year? They were pretty dang competitive last year, took out HJ in the playoffs and almost dropped Yates as well. 1-13 this year, and not really even any close games.

Maradona was great, but not top 5. It’s really 1A) Messi, and 1B ) Ronaldo at this point, then everyone else. Nobody in the history of soccer has come close to their stats, and they’ve done it at the highest levels their entire careers against a generation of players that are head and shoulders above those that preceded them.

Kind of a loaded question, as the game has changed so much. Are we going by versus who they played at the time, or overall ability? An average PGA tour player could go back in time and win just about every tournament. the numbers of Hall of Fame QB's line up with the bottom quarter of the league now. I don't think Pele's skill level would be good enough to crack the starting 11 of Brazil's team these days, but what he did back then was unprecedented. But that said, factoring in International and Club play, my top 5 would be: 1. Lionel Messi (2nd all time goal scoring leader, all time assist leader, WC champ). Spent the vast majority of his career at high ranking European clubs. 2. Christiano Ronaldo (all time goal scoring leader, 3rd all time assists, European champ) Spent the vast majority of his career at high ranking European clubs. 3. Pele (3rd all time leading goal scorer, 4x WC champ). Played weaker competition in Brazil before coming to the US and playing terrible competition. 4 and beyond: many debates can be had. Kylian Mbappe for France is 24 and is way ahead of Messi's pace of goals and assists at the club and national level. He also has as many world cup goals through 2 world cups as Pele did in 4. I think in 10-12 years He'll without a doubt be an easy inclusion to the all-time top-5 list, but the question is how high will he be. If he avoids injury and chooses to play into his late 30s he'll likely be the all-time leaders in goals, assists, and possibly world cup goals as well. There's a very good shot he's at the top of it when it's all said and done. An argument can almost be made to put him in the top-5 now. He's the Luka of soccer at this point. Can we say Luka is a top-5 all-time player? Not yet, but there's not much doubt he will be when he's done.

There have been 8 touchdowns scored in less than 9 minutes of game play. I’ve never seen anything like this, and I’m not sure anyone has. What an insane game!

Funny to me how HJ can have 5 losses (and some wins) against qualify 6A squads and drop, but on the boys side Silsbee stayed top with something like a 4-8 record playing the same type of schedule

Fantastic result, but I’m wondering if pearland has some injuries or sickness or something. In the same tourney they lost to 7-11 Colleyville Heritage, and 14-10 Shadow Creek took them to OT. They’ve played a legit schedule with lots of really good wins, so it’s definitely not a case of them playing cupcakes and getting a good record.

Motive is what has me the most curious. He was getting his phd in criminology. It kinda makes you wonder if he was some kind of psychopath trying to be the next Dexter, or if this was a crime of passion somehow

Such a crazy case. Will be interested when more details come out

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So did I

Starting to think BU might actually have state chances in 6A. Still think there’s a high probability they slip up in the playoffs against bigger, better opponents, but they’re dang good

I worked with a guy, really like him, and every time a police officer was near him it was due to race. BISD cop car parked at Sallie Curtis: it was because he had jogged past earlier. Pulled over for speeding and got a warning: he makes a giant Facebook post about how he feared for his life. Cop car behind him while he’s driving: looking for him to do something wrong. Like your buddy, this guy is a good dude, but nothing can convince him that every cop isn’t out to get him, even those he’s over 40 and has never been arrested, has gotten breaks on speeding tickets, etc. I’m with you, I don’t know how you fix it. Because there ARE instances where police murder people of color, and we aren’t really that far removed from police abusing minorities regularly. But these days it’s by far the rarest outcome, but is portrayed as an epidemic.

I mean, she’s his fiancée, so I doubt he paid her off. It sounds like she tried retracting some of it before he was even arrested, which kinda lends some credence to his claim that she freaked out on him. Possibly made some false claims against him because she was mad.