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Was arguing with one of my best friends when UT last had a basketball coaching search. He said they should hire Buzz, I wanted them to hire Shaka. There is no telling if and when I will ever live that down.

Southland conference tournament is going to be family only (sort of, each player and coach gets so many tickets to their games only).

Yates has the best roster in the state, regardless of classification. They should mow through the teams, even at State. But I’m not close to convinced they will.

I’ve found it most humorous that the ones who complain the loudest when others get a move in, often are the ones who have benefitted the most from move ins on a consistent basis over the years. Goes to show that even basketball isn’t immune from hypocrisy.

Well at least we know one thing. Bray for MVP was the easiest vote in the history of all district selections. If you happen to see him 😉, please let him know how proud we are of him and especially the young man that he is.

I think it’s more give it to the guy who won district like happens the vast majority of the time. Which is fine - it is what it is. But it also provides us with fodder for the board which is nice when our teams’ seasons are over. Everybody has an opinion; the other coaches are the only ones’ whose counts.

With Bush getting MVP (which was a no brainer and a given), McClure is clearly the offensive POTY. Got nothing against the other kid who is a nice player, but it’s obviously just a case of let’s recognize as many kids as we can. Just a pet peeve of mine. Give the best player the award and put the other on first team. I can understand it in a blue moon if it’s too close to call. Not the case here.

I’m saying him winning this district with the roster he had isn’t earth shattering. And at least a couple of the other coaches in that district did more with less imo. And yes, I believe 2-3 other coaches in that district “could” (not “would” because this is obviously pure speculation and conjecture) have won district outright with that team. And again, let’s not turn this into a Sigler isn’t a good coach argument. He’s obviously an excellent coach. He just wouldn’t have been my choice for COTY in THIS particular year. Only because there were a couple of other remarkable jobs done in this district. But again, it’s not the worst part of the superlative voting on this team.

HJ had the team with the brightest future (if you don’t count players who would be incoming freshmen next year). Very comparable teams this season (thus, the split). But with Bush, if I’m picking a roster, it’s Silsbee easily imo.

I’m saying that if that’s the first time you’ve heard a coach voting for himself, there must never have been a unanimous COTY vote. Because by necessity, those two would be mutually exclusive.

Argument could be made that with that roster, Rideaux or Mitchell wouldn’t have needed a tiebreaker game to win district.

So based on those two sentences, a COTY vote has never been unanimous?

I would have chosen Rideaux or Mitchell. But I would have been fine with Davis as well. Nothing against Sig. He always does a great job. But this was a year to give it to someone else. Just IMO.

Agreed. Same with all the Co-players of the year. Obviously Bush is a no brainer. But in one of those categories, one of the players is in a different hemisphere than the other.

Bernie scares me. I like to be prepared for the unthinkable. If the unthinkable happened and he was able to “accomplish” half of what he’d like to in 4 years, could take us decades to recover. I know confidence is high, but 2016 taught us anything can happen. At the same time, if the “Shanghai” of Bernie is completed by the Democratic Party yet again, the President could get more mileage out of that than the economy.

Great thread @gonelsons ! 👏👏

The key word is parents. They could care less about education either. They care about votes.

Griggs on another level. That kid is the best prospect in the Houston area in any classification. Period.

No it’s directed at parents putting their kids in a school of their choice, for whatever criteria they choose. The very rhetoric behind it is parents making decisions on their kids’ educations, not others.

AND if you guys are paying attention to politics, “choice of school” is a huge talking appoint that actually gets bipartisan support. UiL might have this particular issue taken out of its lap eventually. In other words, this has a decent chance of getting sanctioned by the government. It just won’t be called recruiting.

It’s just finding it’s way to 4A. That Plano East team from several years ago that won state was probably the best recruited team I’ve seen. The metroplex state champ is always formed “by committee.” Last year’s team was no exception. AND the 4A champ (Dallas Family Faith or whatever) imported almost the whole team AND coaching staff. Houston area is just playing catch up. And it just goes on in a smaller scale down here. But it does go on and has for years. I could probably pull 20 examples off the top of my head but am not interested in doing that.

Yawn 🥱

Isn’t this a rematch of a state championship game from a few years back?

Wow! Congrats to the Horns. Keep believing in yourselves and who cares if anyone else does. Side note - there aren’t many better at dictating the pace and style of a game as your leader. Keep buying in and take it one game at a time.