CardinalBacker

Let’s Gooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!

No worries. Sometimes we could all use a little eye-opener from time to time.

Pray for us.

My apologies, Son. I should have known that one would fly right over your head. Here’s another reason. Prior to the 1960s, most schools were segregated. This is 2018 and now most schools are integrated. By definition there aren’t nearly as many schools without your “superior black athletes.” To say you “can’t win without black athletes” is about the same as saying “you can’t win unless your school has high speed internet access.” Because in this era, no school ever wins unless they have high speed Internet access.

My understanding is that Adrian Peterson has been on the record as saying that CT was a huge motivator for him... the story went that CT left the impression that he was leaving Palestine because the kids were soft and that motivated AP. I couldn’t find a link this morning, though.

Jesus, racism sucks. I guess you also need a white qb and a white coach to win, too. If it all comes down to having black athletes, then why do so many majority black schools have losing programs? Inner city Houston schools should be collecting hardware every December. This has been covered a million times.

I wonder if the coach is going to forfeit his salary, too?

Genetics related to a particular area has a lot to do with it, but not everything. All of the athleticism in the world won’t help without proper coaching and hard work in the years building up to the big stage. Kids from areas with a history of success have a lot more pressure on them to win and to prepare. They are also the product of parents who know what it takes to win. Kids from Livingston aren’t expected to win by their community like kids from places like WOS or Newton. Strong little league programs, followed by good coaching/program through junior high, and serious physical development through high school are key. I’ve said over and over how our kids were competitive through little league based on coaching. Our kids went to WOS for 7th grade (and won) but our coaching deficiency was obvious during warmups... WOS had kids drilling and ours were doing backbends and playing grab___ in the end zone. Our group literally learned nothing and developed nothing until Coach Dubois took over in 2015. That group lost an honest four years of progress because of woeful coaching.

Nah... I disagree. A D-1 QB prospect is a kid that you expect to play qb at that level. If the kid was a D1 qb talent, he’d be under center next year. Great athlete, good qb. Not a D1 qb, apparently.

That pretty much sums it up for me. Hanging with Crosby and having a comparatively better game against Newton makes me feel more and more like WOS is the man to beat this year. I expect a competitive contest, but a win nonetheless.

Isn’t PNG’s qb going to be moved to WR?

Yeah... Liberty “maybe,” but Im starting to doubt that you guys can handle WOS this year. Good luck, though

Go Stangs!

Livingston Coach Finis Vanover (in a Swedish accent): “Whale Oil Beef Hooked!!!!!”

I was gonna just copy/paste the roster, but that MIGHT have been considered bad taste.

Cardinals- Strength-halftime show

Cards win....

That was Hamm, if I remember correctly. He’s a junior this year, but he’s our ace on the diamond. He’s focusing on baseball, and I really don’t blame him. If our center weighs 185 pounds I’d be surprised. Not wanting to hate on the kids who are trying, but we look like our line is wearing roller skates on most plays.

I think this makes the Silsbee/WOS matchup more intriguing. Could this be Silsbee’s year to knock off the Mustangs? It looks like they’ve got a decent chance with both offenses sputtering.

But I’ll bet the school board isn’t rethinking their decision, lol.

Yes... this year our line is undersized and we don’t have any real speed in our backfield. It does seem like Deshazo is mixing in more passes.... or at least the passing game is more successful when we air it out. We don’t seem to have any speedy backs like Denton, Morris, Baker, or Draper from years past. I’m used to watching backs find a hole and take it to the house. Ply is decently fast, but otherwise it’s truly 4 yards and a cloud of dust. Which is fine unless you can’t consistently get the 6-8 first downs you need to score. Tonight we had a td and two fgs. I know it was wet, but that was against Anahuac and the road only gets tougher from here.

They scored 24 seconds into the game and then got shut out for the next 47:36. Discipline seemed to be a problem with offsides penalties keeping our drives alive. How big of a loss was #2 that got ejected? You guys also were in position to make it interesting. It was a close game and that is probably more positive for you than for us. Good luck.

I used to post the clip of us rushing the field after that missed fg as time expired, but I’m too lazy this year.

I don't think so. That was the year before the coaching change when you guys had Calvin Tyler, Tre Jones, and the rest of the transplants and still got sent home with snotty noses and bloodshot eyes.

I'm not giving up yet. I said when Dubois left that we were not going to find another coach of his caliber and record. Deshazo could still turn out to be the right caliber, but he'll have to build that record. This is a bad year to be starting out as new HC. I don't want to beat a dead horse, but a lot of the problems in BC start with the kids and their parents. After the success in 2016, there were a TON of kids turning out to play football. Unfortunately, 1-7 tends to turn a lot of kids right back off. Even I was shocked when one of the Jasper guys reported that we only had 32 kids on the varsity roster last week. I'm not sure where we go from here.