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How? Because he was in a district with Silsbee who had the talent for several years to possibly make it to state a division higher? Because he keeps running into Houston AAU teams in the playoffs? The talent level isn’t what it was at HJ 10 years ago. They’ve had some good players, but not like before he took over. All he does is win 20+ games a year and competes most years for a district title with decent athletes. It sounds like you have some sort of axe to grind more than anything else.

Admittedly a biased post here, as Clay coached me when I was a kid, and I’ve always liked him. I did a little research, and talked to some HJ folks as well. As best I can tell, Tatum won about 7 games in two years before Davis got there, then won 19 his first year, 26 his second. Two district titles in his two years there, and a regional tourney appearance. Took over Jasper and won the district his first year, and took them to the regional quarters. Missed the playoffs the next year, which was the year he was dealing with some family stuff that led to him coming back to HJ as an assistant. I believe his playoff runs at those schools were the deepest both schools had ever gone at the time. HJ hasn’t gone as far under Davis as they did under Sutherland in the playoffs, but they’ve lost in the playoffs to Sterling, Navasota, Yates x 3, and Silsbee. Every one of those teams went to state or the regional finals. He took over basically right at the time that houston all of a sudden had 4A AAU teams, and Silsbee was able to play 3 D-1 players at once. HJ has had some good players in his time at HJ, but nothing compared to what Sutherland coached there, and the route to state has been infinitely harder since he took over. The playoff loss this year was really the only bad playoff loss he’s had in his career, and his best player was suspended and two other starters were injured (he’d tell you himself that they still had no excuse losing). Davis may not have a state championship, but he consistently takes decent athletes and builds really good small school basketball teams. He may not be the best coach in the area, but he’s earned the right to be on a list of the best coaches around here. He’s also undoubtedly had the opportunity to move to schools that would give him a better shot of advancing, but has stayed loyal to HJ.

A lot of those “any level” players are kids that don’t even look like they could dominate a middle school game. It’s impressive what they’ve done with those guys.

You’ve literally said the same thing three times. By college type players are you talking about D3? NAIA? You’re severely overstating the quality of players and talent going through HJ. What HJ does is build good players, but they’re not overrun with college ready athletes like you keep saying.

Not sure. One thing I do know, is people i know are starting to get sick again, and they all have one thing in common.

He’s also had to coach in the era where 4A has become a big city classification, with all of these houston and Dallas schools somehow fielding 4A squads. Not to mention the insane talent silsbee has put out. It’s kind of funny that you talk about the talent he inherited, but want to give Mitchell full credit for making the playoffs 3 years in a row with a D1 player (something I’m not positive Davis has ever had, except for a couple of seasons with Parquet).

If they lied about half of them then only 100x as many unvaccinated people died as vaccinated.

They said going in that some people would still get it after being vaccinated. It prevents it in the vast majority of people, and greatly reduces the symptoms for most of those who do get it despite being vaccinated. People can question “future side effects” if they want, but it’s unarguable that the shot is incredibly effective in fighting Covid.

Of the nearly 9,000 Covid deaths since February in Texas, all but 43 occurred in the unvaccinated. For whatever that’s worth to y’all. I’m all for people choosing to get it or not, but these numbers are pretty telling. [Hidden Content]

I wish I’d woken up in the middle of the night to watch them lose.

Interesting topic. It brings up a lot of questions: does one only become a citizen by being born in the state? Can the state reject your moving into the state based on your political beliefs? What about college students who want to attend college out of state? I can think of a dozen more

Probably a golf cart salesman or something important like that.

Completely asinine. And I spent so much time on here thinking you were reasonable and intelligent. Care to tell us what you do for a living?

I’m surprised more of these folks haven’t been shot. If I was driving through a city and protestors surrounded my vehicle, started screaming, banging on the vehicle, etc., I don’t think it would be unreasonable to fear for my life in that situation. If my wife and kids were with me, I’d be very quick to get out of the situation, no matter what it took.

I worry about that stuff. I do a lot of fishing in the summer, and it’s hard to go on a trip and not end up cut by something, whether it be a fish fin, or a hook, or any other number of things. I got sliced up a couple of years ago pushing a stuck boat in lighthouse cove, and I didn’t relax for about 2 days.

Why do you hate teachers so much? Sure, there are some bad ones, but there are a lot of great ones, and the vast majority of us are at least competent. This entire thread all you’ve done is insult the profession. You’ve labeled teachers, belittled them, downplayed the difficulty of the job. According to you we’re lazy, whiners, don’t want to work, and anyone can do the job. I’d sure like to know what you do for a living.

One thing I thought about later was this: say the shooter attacks the victim, the victim pulls the knife in self-defense, then the shooter pulls the gun and shoots him. You can’t claim self-defense if you’re the original aggressor. We’ll see if more facts come out.

In an article I read yesterday it stated that the victim pulled out a knife before being shot. If that’s the case I don’t know that the murder charge will stick.

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Ridiculous.

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Or someone having a mental break. Although those two do go hand in hand sometime

Yup. But they don’t want to pay them anything. Makes it tough I wholeheartedly agree with your first comments. Teachers now have to worry about standardized testing so much that they’re limited in how and what they can teach. I don’t have issues with some performance based pay, but you’re saying that every child in every class must raise their grades for me to get a raise? Like if I teach high school and one of my kids starts using drugs, or gets pregnant, or their parents split, or they decide they just don’t care anymore, or they get stuck up their new girlfriends’ butt, or they make varsity football and have less time to study than last year, (I could literally list 100 more reasons a kid’s grades could dip outside of a teacher’s control) etc. etc., and their average drops even one point, I don’t get a raise? That’s irrational. That’s kinda like denying a raise to a boss of 100 employees because ONE of them doesn’t meet his performance standards. And of course, teachers can’t fire their students, nor do they get to choose them.

BISD just fixed their school hours for next year. That’s going to be a big step in the right direction to help keep teachers. They screwed employees last year trying to save money on busses and drivers. One of the perks to the job has always been the schedule and hours. BISD got away from that and it cost them a lot of employees.

A couple of quotes from the second articles to show just how bad the wreck was: Lashon Proctor, director of Proctor Transport, said his employees removed only what was marked by police. “When our guys got on the scene, they were able to pick up the pieces that were marked,” he said. “So maybe, the victim's car was in so many pieces that it posed a problem.” Jimmy Singletary: “The scene of the wreck was horrific and was spread out over almost 100 yards,” he said. “We had several officers and first responders search several times.”