CardinalBacker

The question was worded about greatest football player EVER from the Golden Triangle. I took that to mean guys who’d gone on to greater success. Is anybody local in the NFL HOF? I know Jimmy Johnson will go in this summer, but not for being a football player. The only local NFL MVP that I can recall is Mark Moseley (Livingston), and that’s not even Golden Triangle.

“Colton Mackey.” And I’m gonna say Matt Bryant.

Yeah... Kinda like Jasper being ranked #2 last year, huh? BURN!!!!!

Maybe you could be Roy and Santa could be Siegfried ... or vice versa. I'll be honest.... I'm stockpiling tons of new Tiger material for football season. I doubt anybody will be more disappointed than I if they end up canceling it.

Sooooooooo...... are you gonna change your username to "Tiger King?" I would. lol.

Dang it.... posted from the wrong account.

I bet the mods are laughing at you right now , you know the ones that are privy to the I.P. addresses .They know when multiple accounts are set to the same I.P. I bet CardinalBacker is too. You are a regular Sherlock Holmes !

Bad news, boys.... [Hidden Content] If the IRS is sending home most of their employees, I kinda wonder whose gonna be there to press "send" on all of those stimulus checks? Obviously the treasury department will be issuing them, but they need data from the IRS to do so.

I never said "most money." But definitely the best coaches are correspondingly paid the best. You have some outliers like Carthage and Barbers Hill who are willing to throw cash at top tier guys, but typically your best coaches (and therefore highest paid) are in the bigger schools. That's not a knock on guys like CT and WT Johnston who are legendary coaches in their own right. The only reason that both haven't gone on to bigger schools is that they are well aware that their styles and techniques won't work in larger, nicer areas like they do in Newton and West Orange. The kids and parents would revolt. So I'll ask you a question... please answer honestly. Does a Junior College National Championship "matter" as much as the NCAA Division I Natty? If so, please explain.

By your logic the cowboys ARE one of the best teams in the NFL. They have five championships, just like the Eagles. it doesn’t really matter that it took a hundred years to get them.

I just turned it on last weekend... I hadn’t heard anything about it, but I watched the whole thing. Nobody could make up a story like that. Joe mostly wanted to be famous... I hope somebody tells him how famous he is right now.

Those people are nuts.

Unless Aggiesrus feels like it’s time to freshen up his own username.

Silsbee’s head coach shall be referred to as “The Tiger King.”

I’m wondering if they’ll push the schools into making some of this time up over the summer.

That’s what I’m talking about. They’d have hung 3 or 4 scores on you in the first quarter before they let the backups put another six tds on you. Y’all might have scored once in garbage time. Then y’all would have blamed it on having to ride school buses to the game. Everybody knows it. That’s why nobody who isn’t wearing purple is disagreeing with me. Anyways. I’ve made my point. Anybody else wanna take a few whacks at this dead horse?

I haven't seen where they're officially closed for the rest of the year... do you have a source?

It doesn't make me a hater if I say that winner of the 2020 NCAA Division II National Championship is NOT the same and comparable to the 2020 LSU Tigers. I'll bet you can't even name that D2 Natty champ without looking it up. That's my problem with the whole argument. If you're a fan of the Eagles, feel free to throw your chest out say "we've been 3A champs 5 times now! That's pretty good isn't it?" What you have instead is Eagles fans (not in this thread, but previously) in 2018 saying "boy, it's a shame that we never got to face off with Carthage... that'd be a good game" when in fact you guys needed a last second interception to hang onto a victory in the 3AD2 SC game. Every reasonable person knows that Carthage would have beaten Newton until their was blood in their purple socks. I used to drag race stock Mustangs in the 90s. My car was really fast for a stock one, and still fit within the rules of the factory stock class. I beat plenty of modified cars on the street and on the track. But on Sunday afternoon, when I was standing next to my 13 second stock mustang holding my trophy, it was hard to say that my accomplishments compared to the guys who were winning their classes with 10 second cars. It is what it is. Know your spot. Be proud of your spot. But quit pretending that your accomplishments are in any way superior (or even comparable) to those of the bigger programs who have achieved similar successes.

Not that they don’t count... but that WOS’ count more than Newton’s. You could make the same argument about WOS playing in what now appears to have been a “watered down” classification (4AD2) during that run 14-17, except they were beating good playoff 4AD1 5A teams to sleep in that stretch, too. I kinda wonder if WOS might find themselves on the outside looking in for SC runs as big schools (Silsbee, Carthage, and now BC, lol) are joining them in D2.

That just proves that I am obviously unbiased and my opinions should be given more consideration than yours, lol.

No... West Brook hasn’t had nearly as much success as either Newton or WOS. There’s a reason why the small school games kick off on Thursday morning and play in front of a couple of hundred people while the big boys play in front of huge crowds during prime time. It’s true of every sport and competition that gets played. Somewhere there’s a 2A State Champion marching band and they can’t even begin to compare to a 6A state championship marching band... except in the minds of those 2A band nerds and their parents. Don’t get me wrong... I’m envious of all of the success that the Eagles have had. They’re obviously out-kicking their coverage on a pretty regular basis.

Oh, that’s easy... the coach making the most money is the one holding the 6A trophy.

Well.... the whole purpose of this thread was to ask which program was the bigger powerhouse. Since WOS regularly steps up and plays 5As like Nederland and PNG, you can’t claim an advantage there, either. WOS’ football program outshines Newton’s in every way possible.

Mayweather ducked Moseley for years. Pacquiao for years.... etc, etc, etc.... So why has WOS been in existence since 77 (I think) and won four, but it's taken Newton 100+ years to win 5 against much, much weaker competition? Do you really want to talk winning percentages? I'll put it to you like this... 2015. The Eagles started out 1 and 4, losing to teams like WOS, Henderson, (neither of which are anything to be ashamed of) BRIDGE CITY and Orangefield. The Eagles then "flipped a switch" and went undefeated in District play and were "upset" by Franklin in a close game in the 3rd round of the playoffs. Except it wasn't so much a "flipped switch" as much as the fact that there was a tremendous drop in the level of competition faced by the Eagles once district play started. And that's true of every year. Newton's dominance has a whole lot more to do with playing sorry opposition when it counts. It's not Newton's fault, but everybody realizes that you guys have a cakewalk through the playoffs compared to the paths taken by the teams to which you keep trying to compare yourselves. Be proud. You guys have won more than your share of small school championships. It really is impressive. But you guys believe that having the prize-winning pig at the Jasper County Livestock show is the exact same thing as having the Grand Champion at the Houston Livestock Show. I mean, they're both pigs, right?

And everybody knows that Mayweather's record is a joke because he never faced any decent competition in their prime.