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  1. CardinalBacker
    Burn!!!!!
  2. CardinalBacker

    "

    The question is, was one of those STAR players hurt in an unnecessary drill?

    Was this STAR football player also a STAR baseball player?

    Did both of DuBois kids graduate?

    Was there a POWER struggle between football and baseball? Because if there was, then Baseball was always going to win that battle in BC."

     

    The kid that got hurt didn't play baseball.  Dubois's younger son will graduate in May.  The older kid only attended BC during his senior year.

     

    Here's the rub, and I'd rather not put the kid that got hurt on blast.  He's a really, REALLY talented kid that has a lot of problems... The kid somehow managed to fail the 8th grade or he would have graduated with my son in 2017. He participated in two events in the state relays as a sophomore.  He was out on bail for a DWI that he got while driving the $50k pickup his folks got for him when he failed out and was unable to return to the state track meet in 2017 as a junior.  I'm drawing a picture of a kid that is really funny, supremely talented, spoiled, and totally unmotivated.... 

    I wasn't at practice the day he was hurt... but i have a good friend that was there.  I'm just relaying the information as it was given to me at this point.  This kid was apparently out-of-line (which was a common occurrence with him) so Dubois punished him by sending him over to practice with the JV squad.  He was practicing with the JV squad, not the varsity when he got his leg broken.  The story goes that Dubois sent him over there, then the teams got back together and some kid had gotten the best of the star kid... so the star kid went back over to the JV area to go at it again (we're talking coverage, not a fight) and it was during this time that he was injured. Nobody is even sure if Dubois knew where this kid was when the accident happened.  That ends the part of the story that I'm not certain about.

    I talked with the kid's dad at the football game that Friday, and he specifically told me that the accident shouldn't have ever happened because the kid should never have been over there to get hurt in the first place.  The Dad told me that the coach had ruined his son's career by punishing him, basically. The belief was fairly widely held around here.  

    I personally think that WOS's old baseball coach coming to BC and our old baseball coach wanting to move into administration have a lot to do with the changes.  

  3. CardinalBacker
    Nah.... our next coach already lives in BC. And has a stadium named after him in West Orange.
  4. CardinalBacker
    BC isn’t a football town. The kids, PARENTS, and community aren’t willing to do what it takes to have a winning program. I mean, they wouldn’t mind winning... unless it meant getting sweaty. Coach Dubois is, in my opinion, easily one of the top ten “x &o”coaches in the area, and the absolute best leader of young men. BC will not likely see another coach of his caliber in our future. Band parents didn’t like that he had the band removed from the sidelines during the actual games... so they complained. There were too many “why don’t they throw the ball more... we’ve already ran that play five times” from Day One. Ummm... because BC isn’t a qb factory. Year before last we beat teams with multiple D1 recruits with a bunch of kids that had one kid move one to play at a D2 school. One. That’s coaching. A lot of heat came up last year when one of the star players was injured in practice. The parents were very vocal in blaming Coach Dubois for that injury... plenty of others were quick to join in. I’d have gone back to HJ, too
  5. CardinalBacker
    Dubois himself posted it on FB.
  6. CardinalBacker
    Good for Coach Dubois... he’s a fine man. With the realignment and fine tradition of sucking I think we’ll have a hard time attracting any serious names for HC. I hope that all of the Cardinal fans who were vocally unhappy with Coach Dubois are happy now.
  7. CardinalBacker
    Mama Jacks > Dairy Queen
  8. CardinalBacker
    You’re right. You guys LOST in the title game in 2015 and look to miss the playoffs in 2018. I stand corrected. Still fell off a cliff, though.
  9. CardinalBacker
    Things can change so fast. I know of a team that won a state title four years ago and will probably not make the playoffs this year. No division changes, no new district... they just fell off of a cliff. You might have heard of them. They’re the West Orange Stark Mustangs Baseball team. The Mustangs have had an incredible run, but things can definitely turn for the worse. The good news is that “worse” for WOS will probably mean a DC and four rounds... just no title game.
  10. CardinalBacker
    I'll cast my annual "no" vote. But, hey.... I've been wrong three years in a row.
  11. CardinalBacker
    How many DCs will this give BC if we can hold it together?
  12. CardinalBacker
    I know, right? Uncalled for.
  13. CardinalBacker
    Shocker. It's what I'm always saying about Silsbee Fan.
  14. CardinalBacker
    Son! There wouldn’t have been a Day 2.
  15. CardinalBacker
    I was coming over to say the same thing.
  16. CardinalBacker
    I don’t know anything about Coach Morgan, so i really don’t have an opinion about his coaching attributes. I’ve got to say that I’m totally surprised by the school board down there. Apparently there are people down there on the board who managed to look beyond the coach’s “qualifications” and just make a hire. Some of the predominately white schools need to look around and pay attention. Respect.
  17. CardinalBacker
    “The only real question is which one of them will deserve to win the WRS.” Silsbee Fan
  18. CardinalBacker
    I know.... I get really tired of them complaining about being left out, too.
  19. CardinalBacker
    “Where are the rest of the kids from Silsbee? We’re getting screwed again!” Silsbee Fan.
  20. CardinalBacker
    Seems like a solid guy... not sure about hiring a coach that’s been out of coaching for 8-9 years and forcing him to recycle almost all of the old assistants. I mean, you can’t say anything bad about the guy, but I’m not sure he’s ready to bring the team into 6A relevance. In fact, it seems pretty unlikely. I smell a West End fix to keep the Bruins as the big dog @BISD.
  21. CardinalBacker
    In all fairness, he had some really big shoes to fill.
  22. CardinalBacker
    That’s what I’m talking about!
  23. CardinalBacker
    So I guess if our point totals matched theirs, we could beat anybody in 3A or 4A, too? That’s Newton logic there, son!
  24. CardinalBacker
    I disagree... a coach with good connections to the college level can get a lot of kids looks who wouldn’t normally get a look.... Coaches who don’t focus on the recruitment process tend to end up with fewer recruits.
  25. CardinalBacker
    No... we’re a remarkably average fish but we definitely start seeing the big fish in the playoffs... and that’s something Newton can’t say.
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