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"I pay my taxes!" Lol.

Yeah, but science only has to worry about science. The CDC’s main focus is making sure that not a single person more is infected. They’ll recommend taking whatever steps are necessary to make sure that transmission of this virus is stopped. In the real world, leaders have to balance the CDC’s very focused suggestions on disease control with the practical needs of the community as a whole. it’s be great if we could send everybody home for 56 days of complete and total isolation, but people still need to eat. Trucks need to make deliveries, shelves must be stocked, streets patrolled, People are about to realize why having a savings account equal to six months months living expenses is so much better than having an iPhone 11, a new car, and a dozen pairs of Jordans. Later... gotta go tend to my garden.

Let's see.... Vidor tended to stay in the mix in 5A and Lumberton didn't. I don't see those levels of performance changing.

“Whitest District in Texas.” Livingston takes this easily.

1. Football 2. Baseball 3. Studying 4. Basketball

The spread is a DISASTER if you don’t have a qb. That’s been one of our problems.... no qb development. Kids with arms in BC want to pitch for the cards exclusively.

Nah... I’m not sure what we’re trying to do.

I think you'd have to put Silsbee high atop the list. The basketball titles, recent football success, and consistently competitive baseball program convinced me. I thought we were finally turning the corner in '16 when we won district in all but one sport (I can't remember which one... jk, it was boys basketball), but that wasn't the case. Don't kid yourself... a solid AD can make a difference across all sports.

Lumberton recently won their first ever playoff game in basketball. The school board reacted swiftly by firing the super. The community is well aware that winning starts at the top, so they wanted to nip "winning" in the bud.

That was subtle irony... we don’t see many of those down heah...

What’s a “recruiter?”

You realize that we play WOS pretty much every year, right? We have also squared up with talented squads like Newton and Silsbee... and occassionally (but not often) we're competitive. So we do play teams with talent... a lot of times we're facing much more athletically talented squads. The whole reason that this thing veered so far off of topic is that I was questioning BISD's selection for the new head coach at BU and somebody started with the "would BC beat either squad?" No, and we'd kick all of the crap out of High Island in our worst year. Same difference... and it's okay. Like I said... there are a lot of talented kids that play(ed) for Ozen, Central, and now BU that I feel are being cheated out of an opportunity to succeed by another puzzling hiring decision by BISD admins. It's nothing new.

So.... We've got a better record than all but one of the schools I've mentioned, and a state championship as well. And we've never even come close to having a fraction of the talent that walks around those campuses. You've made my case for me. Thank you, kind Sir. We haven't had any Tony Browns or Calvin Tylers over here, if you know what I mean. But I can also say that as a baseball first, "run decent football coaches out of town" kinda school.... we still wouldn't hire a guy that was 0-30.

Ummmm.... I think that was the “what if” game you were playing when you asked if we could beat either of those much, much larger schools in BISD. And this topic was about the search for a new coach, not football in particular. My problem is this... West Brook has had modest success while Central, Ozen, and now United have been sucking hind tit for a lot longer than two years. If you’d like to compare any of those three schools all-time records to ours, I’m game. The amazing thing is that those BISD schools I mentioned have had tons and tons of talented athletes, the likes of which BC has not. So.... you start doing the math. You guys have tons of talent, but no success. The key missing ingredient is coaching, IMO. The initial hire at BU was underwhelming to say the least... then they turn around and hire a guy that sporting a modest 0-30 record as a head coach. The dumpster fire that I speak of is BISD administration. The lack of success in football (aside from West Brook) is just a product of that dysfunction. I’m not dogging the kids at BU or the program itself. From the outside looking in it appears that they are literally being set up to fail by administration.

In standardized testing? Yes....Without our calculators. If we had your enrollment, I have no doubt that we would pin your kids’ ears back, just like your old 5A D2 district did. Serious question... how have y’all historically done so little with so much talent? I think y’all had nine kids get scholarships last year and two wins to show for it? I’d like to think it’s an aberration (noun... a departure from what is normal, usual or expected), but history indicates clearly that this is nothing new.

Wow. Can anybody imagine the response on the Reservation if PNG admin signed a dude that was most recently 0-30, alum or not? BISD is still a dumpster fire. I take back all of the bad things I've ever said about kids transferring out of BISD for Silsbee or whatever.

Week 11 with the DC on the line.... I like it. Lol.

Just not Silsbee, LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's a good one... Of course not.

11-4AD2 is gonna be the best local district IMO... Longest road game will be out to Liberty. Lots of good matchups and rivalries. Re-phrase that.... Most fun local district. We get to match back up with those skirts from Orangefield at long last and HJ is back on deck for us.

Silsbee Fan: "The other 32 Tigers got screwed."

Three times, if you count us stealing Tarver. Lol.

We beat the Mustangs last week in OT.

Voted for Memphis, Texas....

I honestly don't have a clue about how to start fixing it. I don't blame the teachers for the current state of education. My mama used to have a saying... She'd say that "nobody is raising those kids, they're just getting bigger." That seems pretty true about a lot of our youth today.