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He tried very hard to make me a believer in the extraterrestrial. If he’s right, I PROMISE you he can’t wait to give me a big ole “I told you so.” 😂

Top 3 in my all time favorite classes at OF ( right behind the two my kids were in).

Lawrence does a great job with his guys. Not sure what he might have available at this point though. Might be worth reaching out.

He thought a lot of you as well. We both mentioned you and LRF often as guys we knew we would like and enjoy their company. I’m so grateful we met (I think AAW and I met him at the same time during the Evadale tournament years ago). I was blessed to be able to watch several games with him over the year. We shared a love of sports and complaining about officiating.

He really does. I think it helps too that he has a reputation as the kind of AD people love to work with. He genuinely loves all the sports. Like most Texans (myself excluded), just football the most. The OF community is blessed to have him.

It is with great sadness I report that Hagar passed last night. He had been battling cancer for some time, along with his wife of 55 years. She passed less than 2 months ago, and our buddy just joined her. He missed her dearly, obviously, and was surely overjoyed to join her. He had just gotten a positive report but developed an infection this week his body couldn’t fight off. His daughter reports that he passed peacefully in the night. Hagar was someone we all enjoyed posting, and he was a great friend. I met him through this message board, and was blessed to develop a friendship over the past several years. I debated where to post this (either here, the football board, or the Locker Room), but I feel like this is the one where he posted and enjoyed the most. He will be deeply missed. Prayers for his beloved son, daughter and grandchildren. As you can imagine, he was very proud of them and an incredible dad and grandad to them all.

Is Drelon playing? He’s got to be one of the top few guys in the state in 7 on 7. Can’t imagine trying to deal with him in that format.

Everyone has their own opinion. Personally, I love the hire. Always enjoyed watching his teams play and seems like a great guy. Glad he’s coming back closer to home. And I think he only lost to OF once during his time at Buna so happy to see him on the orange bench.

Really good kid from a really good family. Wish him and the Bobcats well. And as usual, I really like Smalley’s hire here. Hope it’s another home run.

I would say Orangefield and Buna have very similar gene pools. OF has more students so they should win slightly more theoretically. But I think Whitmire only had one loss against OF during his tenure at Buna. I’m not positive on that but I believe that’s correct or at least close.

Man I hope not. What a hire that could be for OF.

Yeah his athleticism was what set him apart. All 3 had nosebleed basketball IQs (and IQs in general from what I hear) and could shoot the leather off the ball.

What a run for the Cougars with those three. How would you rank them (for fun)? I would go Alex, Remi, then Garrison. But full disclosure, I by far have seen the least of Garrison. You usually don’t see the middle kid being the best for whatever reason but that’s where I feel the strongest. Much less confident ranking the other two. All three were an absolute ball to watch and ALWAYS conducted themselves with class on the court. Kudos to Manny on raising quality young men.

I was hoping you could! My understanding is he’s already interviewed.

Thought the same thing. Makes sense then. Still gotta think they will be in the mix.

Not sure what EC has coming back. Kountze will be better for sure. OF will be tough to not drop at least a little with that Senior class. Not just Ragusa either, that was a special group. My guess is it will be a fight between the Bucs and the Lions and then a dogfight for 3rd and 4th with the usual suspects.

You don’t owe anyone any kind of explanation but good for you. Personally, I wish you the best whether it is at OF or elsewhere. I respect the sacrifices you guys make and all you do to help our kids.

He made a Facebook post in support of Shores.

You may be right. Higher classification. It’s his alma mater. I’m assuming pay is better (I know, I know what they say about assuming). Regardless, he apparently didn’t apply.

Ok so the language is a little rough, but only because he is reading lyrics. This may be the best example of the ridiculousness of wokeism and how our country is losing its ever loving mind.

Yeah it sounds like the person I talked to may have been confidently mistaken 🤣. As in bad info all the way around. Oh well

NVM

Hearing a name will be announced soon as the new head coach. If true, another home run hire by Smalley.

I’m a huge fan of Whitmire’s. No idea if he would want to move back to SETX. Would be fine with the other two as well.

Like when Jeffcoat was mentioned, this wouldn’t seem a move that would make a lot of sense for Josh.