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Great job over the years! Thank you for the service you provided and if I see you on the beach, I’ll have a cold one waiting for you! Headed down there today as a matter of fact! As far as the site, I’m assuming this is going to leave a pretty large admin void. Let us know how we can pitch in to help. We can’t afford to lose this. This is the best site out there. Sorry Smoaky, but you just don’t compare!! Shots fired!

Once again, program out of control. This was literally last year. Letting them play last night only fortifies the belief that you can have guys like this on and around the team and there will be no consequence when they pop off. UIL was weak with this one. Too worried about blowback and the R word getting thrown around.

This is my question. Dallas ISD has had many issues in the past and this is just another one to add to the table. They are as close to "lack of institutional control" you will ever find in high school basketball. Maybe it's time for the UIL to forbid it and tell them to pack that charter and head home.

I've been waiting on somebody to say it. This is the guy if you want someone who wants to be in Tarkington. Word to the wise though: if you do this LEAVE HIM ALONE!!! The community is as much at fault for the program's poor state as any coach. You have to leave a guy alone and let him work. Let him bring a class from 7th grade through Senior year before you fire him. Tarkington is going to lose either way, you might as well let a guy try to build a program.

You and I both know he didn't just pick up and leave for no reason. The politics in that town, especially in relation to athletics, are unbelievable. We can go back and forth on this, but there's no use. He's happy, Jasper is happy, so were just beating a dead horse. The "I Told Ya So" comment would be for the ones who would rather see him leave than stay. I hope that is not the case, but I've been around long enough to know the grass isn't always greener in these situations. Also, conceding games, come on man.

Don't forget, Jasper wasn't really the most attractive job when he was hired, and he probably should've told yall to kick rocks after hiring the Carthage boy wonder the year before and leaving him at the altar. Rather than criticize him for carrying on his father's tradition, maybe you should be proud that the name Barbay has been synonymous with Jasper for the last 10 years or so. Look around the coaching ranks, there are a lot of Barbay's doing a lot of good things. Brian had quite a few great teams in Coldspring and led one to a state championship appearance, You are familiar with Darrell's work, Kevin just landed an OC job at a Division one school after being very successful at Western Michigan, Florida, and SFA just to name a few, Brady is at Newton and is an up and comer in SETX and there are several other's in the pipeline behind them. And I haven't even mentioned Mrs. Barbay's contributions over the years to JISD in various positions. The ongoing legacy left by the OG Barbay's in Newton is something to be applauded and not brushed off by nitwit's who could only wish their last name carried some type of clout. The grass ain't always greener bubba......I hope I'm not back here in November saying I told you so.

What a BS thing for you to say after he has already gone. The community really seemed to support him a few years back when the board tried to run him out of town. If I remember correctly, he kept his job because of the ground swell of community support in his favor. You must've still been suckling teet back then.

Man, I remember a day where the likes of Hemphill and Kountze would play all of their games in an unairconditioned gym because that is what most small schools had. Kids these days are soft.

Wow. Dude bailed!

Johnny Louivier? Rhett Bomar? Flanigan coming off of a state semi finals appearance with a team no one expected anything from? Everyone's enamored with the Joseph name, but this guy ain't done a thing in the game on his own merit. PNG will be going through this process again in two years once Joseph realizes he doesn't know squat about PNG football or culture, and hopefully guys like Flannigan and Bass will be interested again. Thumbing your nose at locals who actually know what it takes to win at PNG to hire a guy who hasn't even proven he can carry his own water is weak.

Some interesting names on this list. Zach Bass couldn't get a sniff? He's done about as much as Joseph, except have a legend dad.

I am sure Cuero is super excited to see him applying around already.

Great accomplishment, but if she's really a player and wants to pursue basketball beyone high school. She's gotta get out of Daisetta. Move her to HJ and she can really test herself.

Big question is this: If he takes the PNG job if offered, will he still have time to do his podcast "The Coaches Lounge"? It's been dormant since the summer, I'm assuming due to Football, and I am patiently waiting for new life to be breathed into it. Preferably with Matt Marshall muzzled. lol

If he loses more than 2 regular season games, it will only be a 1-2 year thing. Lord have mercy, I hope this wasn't his motivation. WOS will now begin to fade back into a typical local program, and not a state power. The door is open for someone else to grab the mantle and run for SETX.

You mean "Former Hull Daisetta Bobcat Head Coach Josh Finney", don't cha? lol

Is it possible, that the best quarterback in Liberty County this season, was on the Hardin Hornet 8th grade team? If you've had a chance to see him play, you know how talented the kid is. Hull Daisetta Hardin Cleveland Liberty Dayton Tarkington I seriously think he would've started on most of these teams listed this past season if the opportunity had been presented. Dayton is the only question mark, and it's a big one. It's the offseason, we need stuff to talk about, so what do you guys think?

It ain’t over yet

Ok. Makes a little more sense then

There has to be more to this story. He still has a daughter in school at Jasper.

Is this confirmed?

I wouldn't leave Crosby right now regardless of what the money is. I really think the Cougs are primed for multiple deep runs and potential titles over the next 4-5 years, and once that starts happening, those assistants can choose any job they please.

If they don’t hire Toby, it’s over for WOS. This generation of player and parent will “take their ball and go home” if things don’t go their way. If Toby isn’t hired, mark my words, there will be a mass exodus to LCM. LCM is the new pretty girl on the block, and everyone will want to be a part of the program on the rise, not the one struggling to forge a new identity. WOS pride means nothing to this new generation. You see it in college and Hs already throughout the nation and state of Texas. If the board messes this up, it will be nuclear. Do the right thing folks!

Chad Taylor might also be a good hire for them. The guy can coach, he just didn’t have the talent he needed in Liberty. I believe he lives in Baytown already, which is a plus.

Should be a pretty attractive job I’d think. They should’ve hired Coach Maan when they had a chance a few years ago. The guys tearing it up out in Lubbock, as we all knew he would!!