AthleticSupporter - Jock

On what grounds are they allowed to deny a student's application. Unless a student has a criminal record or has a piss poor academic record, it seems like there could be some lawsuits in their future. Do they only accept "Communications majors" or what?

I don't know the origin of the phrase but people have been saying versions of it for over 100 years. I like the way Jim Collins describes it. “Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. We don't have great schools, principally because we have good schools. We don't have great government, principally because we have good government. Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life.” I am not questioning the hire. I like Dubois and think a lot of him. I hope the Vidor faithful will support him and give him a chance.

I might be remembering wrong but I believe Credeur's last football season in Lumberton was indeed 2012. 2013 & 2014 were Larry Haynes. Babin started as HC/AD for the 2015 season.

It is easy at the high school, and even college level, to not recognize talent and potential greatness. I didn't think Hurts was "all that" coming out of high school and I was wrong. For the record, I didn't see what all the fuss was about with Marshall Faulk at San Diego State either. I guess that's why I am not a recruiter. Hurts is the real deal and Faulk didn't turn out too bad either.

I know there are many more that could be added to that list but based on RBs I witnessed personally in HS, I would have to add Kevin Faulk to the list from his days at Carencro HS in Louisiana. Easily, the most dominant HS running back I've ever seen. Probably the fastest, strongest and most athletic person on the field every friday night and he was just 15 years old when I saw him.

That's funny. Who was it that said "We were promised flying cars during our youth and all we got was 140 characters on Twitter"? Happy New Year!

I think we are agreeing, or at least you are helping to make my point. My point was not that DFW teams won't travel. My point was that the UIL and others seem to think that the low attendance #s at NRG was because the games were hosted at NRG in Houston instead of at Jerry's World in the Metroplex. If Allen, Southlake Carroll, DeSoto, Cedar Hill, Highland Park, etc had been playing at NRG, the attendance would have probably been much higher. NRG and those of us close to Houston shouldn't be penalized by the UIL just because DFW teams in 4A-6A sucked that year. And for the record, George Ranch was pretty new that year as well (2010 I think). Bottom line is that the UIL should not base decisions off of one year at NRG when DFW teams that year were either sub-par or had a small following. I used to watch the games at the Astrodome in the 80s and I attended the games on Saturday at NRG without any of "my" teams participating. I would not travel 5 hours to watch a few state games unless a team that I followed was playing. It would be nice if the UIL rotated the games but I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for it to happen.

Just looking at 1 year is not very scientific. But that's all we have is 1 year in Houston so let's look at it. How many Dallas-area teams were playing in the state game at NRG, how good were they and what kind of following did they have? Here is the lineup: 2A Division 1 Canadian Refugio 61-20 2A Division 2 Bremond Albany 35-20 3A Division 1 Brock Cameron Yoe 43-33 3A Division 2 Waskom Franklin 33-21 4A Division 1 Waco La Vega Argyle 33-31 4A Division 2 West Orange-Stark Celina 22-3 5A Division 1 Richmond George Ranch Mansfield Lake Ridge 56-0 5A Division 2 Cedar Park Frisco Lone Star 22-6 6A Division 1 Galena Park North Shore Austin Westlake 21-14 OT 6A Division 2 Katy Austin Lake Travis 34-7 Kyler Murray and the Allen crowds of the previous 2 years were gone. Metroplex teams, the ones that made it, got dominated. Argyle, Celina, Lake Ridge and Lone Star all lost and the most were not even close. So, yea most people from the metroplex didn't want to travel to Houston to watch those arse whoopings.

Danaher had 90 playoff wins. Surratt is young and probably has another 20+ years to shatter every record.

Wimberly needs a world-class Communications Program like Yates has for basketball. Kids/Families travel from other continents to be a part of top academic programs like that.

That was a fun game to be at. The defending State Champs getting beat by little ole Lumberton. The win against Dayton might have been the most impressive IMO. Dayton made a deep run in 07 and won state in 08. Parade All American AJ Dugat was a beast. Lumberton beat Dayton 8-7 on a gutsy 2pt conversion to win the game. Lumberton defense holding Dayton to 7pts was about as impressive as anything I have ever witnessed.

Yes I do.

I'm trying to teach you how to fish instead of just feeding you a fish. But I'm tired of watching you struggle so I'll give you the answers. lol Here are the current enrollment #s for 8th grade thru 12th grade for 22-23 school year. 8th (335) 9th (336) 10th (315) 11th (263) 12th (316). We all know these #s fluctuate. Take the senior class, for example. They have 316 this year but they had 358 their 9th grade year. My point is that if we replace the 12th grade enrollment with the 8th grade enrollment, snapshot next year would be 1249. I would expect the new UIL cutoff # to be around 1330 and that is being conservative. Even if the cutoff # stayed at 1299, Lumberton still remains in 4A. Facts don't care about anyone's feelings.

I never said Lumberton wasn't growing or that LISD wouldn't have more kids each year. On average, LHS grows by about 10 kids every year and will continue to grow. But the UIL cutoff for 4A/5A will continue to grow also and it grows at a pace 3x that of LHS' growth.

Yes please. Post the link on here. I'd like to see that.