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Key question: What is Lufkin’s policy on coaching decisions re: the superintendent’s offspring?

Plot twist: Super makes himself head coach and finally realizes his son belongs on the bench. Fires himself for not playing him.

Exactly.

Art Briles is my vote

My mistake — These reports from multiple sources are all entirely made up. The superintendent is perfect, BH is a paradise workplace, and coaches are BEGGING to work there.

Your superintendent just drove off a good coach and is effectively drunk texting “you up?” to coaches to find a new one. “Embarrassing” is an understatement.

I’m not a BH guy. I literally couldn’t have told you the coach’s name until he left. I just know they have got a good base of kids and solid facilities, a lot of money, and a lot of growth. They’ve got a lot of obvious problems and their leadership is an embarrassing dumpster fire, but I still think they’ll be competitive in less than 5 years after joining 6A. We’re talking 6 to 7 years from now. A LOT can change in way less time.

Depending on the coach, I don’t think it will take five years

You overestimate how much anyone thinks about BH, for good or bad.

I’d also like to see that

What sticks out to me is the way the BH admin seems to be going about the hiring process. It smacks of (1) extreme overconfidence, (2) incompetence, or both. I may be wrong, but don’t schools usually proceed with some kind of system? That is, they announce the opening, put together a hiring committee, hire a consultant (if they want a consultant), interview the candidates, narrow down to a few finalists, and make a decision. BH doesn’t seem to be doing that. It all seems pretty haphazard.

I was agreeing with you, in case there’s any confusion

Exactly - Words don’t cost money. We can talk about it again in six months if people want to (RIP @purple eagle)

I don’t have any insight into why Abseck left. But my two cents: Based on watching my family members deal with the BH administration (I’ve got nieces and nephews in BH school district), I wouldn’t want to be employed there. It’s all petty politics and people letting power go to their heads. I’m getting this secondhand, but the “I can’t believe we have to deal with this” kind of stories I’ve heard add up to a giant red flag.

PNG loses Jackson Christian on the o-line. He’s irreplaceable. We’ll still have a good o-line, but unless we have another D1 caliber guy to fill his spot i think we’ll see a slight decline on the o-line. I expect we’ll be more physical and a little faster on defense next year. We were young in certain areas, and we’ve got some good guys coming up from jv. We’re getting our qb and Rb back. We’ll be at least decent there. overall, this next season feels like a “new” team without these seniors, some of whom have been with the team for three year (or more, in Jackson’s case). We’ve got a great coaching staff (I think we over performed in the playoffs, even with the loss to SOC. The coaches took a team that simply didn’t have the horses in certain key areas and got us to the 4th round). We probably were at least the third or fourth best team in the state (I think we would have beaten Argyle and Boerne). So, not a bad season. I expect we’ll be solid next year, but there’s a ton of question marks. I’m just glad we get a season to go in humble — No “defending state champion” nonsense. Just hard work and focus on the next game. As far as district goes, Huntsville looks like the unquestioned favorite on paper. We’ll be in the mix for the championship. Nederland is going to take another step forward. I have no idea what Lake Creek has coming up (they were pretty senior heavy last year). Montgomery is a question mark. Dayton will be better. West fork will be better (they impressed me all season - they might be scary soon). As a whole, our district will be tougher from top to bottom (except for splendora, who will be the exact same level of unfortunate as before).