Crawdad

I'm not sure who you are Separation Scientist, but you and I are on the same page entirely. BH has not played tough, physical football for 4 full quarters in years (before the Gage hiring). I feel it has 99% to do with how we work in the offseason. I know we lift weights and spend a great deal of time lifting those weights and doing footwork drills, etc., ......but are we hurting and learning to fight through the pain and get to that next level and continue on? I firmly believe in quality over quantity. Do the coaches work the kids until exhaustion and then continue pushing them? I know the answer.... they do not! We practice in an indoor air conditioned taj mahal even when the weather is great. It is much different than what the BH offseason program was in the nineties and early 2000s....and the programs of Katy and PNG of today. We worked through multiple agility, plyo, mat drills, bleachers, hill training, weight training circuits until we were puking and after we finished non-stop motion for 50 minutes all groups would meet on the track to run a quarter for time. If you didn't make the time you had to run it again. We did this every day and would routinely test strength and speed (included a mile run for time...which hasn't happened at BH in years...yes, big boys can run a mile) ....and 90% of all athletes would improve in both strength and speed throughout the offseason. This all took place in 4th period of the school day, and it got results. We didn't have any big, sloppy dudes because they couldn't make it through the offseason (they lost weight and became hosses.... or quit) and our numbers were streamlined to only include those that really wanted to be there and put in the work. One thing that didn't happen is we didn't have kids lay out injured on the field. I do not remember many, if any, ever getting hurt or missing a game. I contribute that to how we worked in the offseason. Until we get the program back to this way of thinking and working, we will continue to be mediocre. We have twice the athletes and numbers today than we did then so it would be fun to see the results. It can be done. Not sure it will be done.

Gave up a 21 point lead going into the 4th quarter against Porter, and a 25 point lead last night going into the 2nd half…..something isn’t right!

A tale of two halves…..Guzman (#5) did not play the second half and I think that hurt us. Not that Farmer didn’t play well, but Guzman adds a spark and was making plays for the defense in the first half. I’m told he had the flu. Guess this was a reoccurrence since he was at the volleyball playoff game last weekend since having the flu last week. IDK, it seems our best players could never consistently stay on the field throughout the season. Our best players have to be tough and set the tone and the example for the rest of the team. Other than Gaskamp this didn’t happen all season. This was supposed to be our year, but without our best players the consistency evaded us all season. It’s disappointing….toughness and accountability has to be built during the offseason. We look to have a long way to go in the toughness category…..my opinion.

O-Line play (specifically run blocking) was non-existent and we gave up on the run too quickly. The big uglies better get it together. They seemed like all they wanted to do was sit back shuffle their feet and pass block. The O-line has to get more aggressive and Fuentes needs to take the opportunity to run the ball when the opportunity presents itself (he is capable…been my opinion all season). The passing stats look great though!

That’s what I see…believe whatever comes out after Friday…if there is still a 3 way tie. I still say 14 is too low and it should be 18 or 21.

Yes, for sure demote the last Scribe! 😆

Still the big question….So what are they going with?

Point cap makes all the difference here. Unless Stepp and Elam sat in the District Coaches meeting prior to the season, or got hold of the meeting minutes, they don’t know for sure either. We’ll see…..

Sense

Of course it makes since to PAM who just got whooped by 29….and should have been more. I still feel it’s 18 or 21.

Exactly

I really doubt there have been any meetings among coaches prior to the final games….I’ll believe it when it comes out after the final games….never heard of 14 points being max….seems a bit low to me.

I had heard that….was a great athlete…believe he triple jumped 49’ among other track and football accolades….Jadon is on BHs sprint relay that ran a school record 41.9 this past season…..don’t sleep on BHs speed…was pretty apparent last night among skill players.

I don’t know of any District that would not use the 3 way tie throughout….why should LaPorte’s win over BH have any less weight than PAM’s win over LaPorte?