PrairieMan

Trust me, I get it. I've been around Tarkington most of my life and I understand when it comes to football, we tend to be the whipping boys. The good years certainly don't outweigh the bad. That being said, I've seen that guy use Tarkington for every sort of pin cushion that you can imagine just in the past 6 months. It's just funny that, that was the example he used after he used the Tarkington head football coach post as his platform to unload his insults and "anger" on Tarkington sports, parents and athletes.

They still have a couple guys that are good but yes their best players have graduated over the past couple years. With this news, I see New Waverly falling out of playoffs if Anderson-Shiro's young guys can play well.

Just odd considering how many bad teams there are out there and they're always your punching bag. Remember I've got a history with your Tarkington bashing by this point, there's definitely a trend and hatred with you. All good, not here for hometown drama. Just found it funny (but not surprised) that, that's were you went.

I'm shocked to hear this. Seems like a lateral move for him. Does he have some sort of connection with Coldspring? That seems like an upgrade to me.

Here we go with this guy again..... still trying to determine where your hatred lies with the Prairie. I'm convinced you lost a girlfriend or a wife to some guy out there. Don't worry buddy, you're probably both better off!!! Carry on with the football talk.....

Position filled!!! Haven't seen anything official yet but my understanding is the kids met him last night.

Tarkington Boys basketball still needs a varsity coach. This is a shame that this position is still not filled. Good returning players and lots of talent coming up. Of all positions at Tarkington, I'm surprised that this is the one that's still open.

Tarkington position is still open. There was some rumors going around from usually in the know people a couple weeks ago but those got squashed last week with inside info from another local school. Don't have a clue what's going on around here. If anyone has any insight, would love to hear it.

Also Hardin's head basketball coaching position is posted as well.

Tarkington just finished up Spring league with the following schools: West Hardin, Hardin, Hull Daisetta, Liberty, Anahuac Overall did pretty well, lost to Anahuac by 2 and 3. Won the rest of their games by double digits. They only had 2 of their 4 returning seniors play. Not sure of the results of the other games. Tomorrow they start Summer league at Cleveland with the following teams, but they only play the ones with the asterisk, not sure why they don't do double headers anymore: Cleveland*, Cleveland (red), Huffman*, Anahuac, Shepherd*, Splendora, Dayton* Still no coach announcement though.

I don't know much about Crockett, but we know they will be athletic, likely more so than the rest in the district. Coldspring has a stud that will be a Junior. Tarkington lost their main scorer and the person that was likely going to step into his role has confirmed to have moved. Still bringing back 4 kids that were juniors last year and a good group of sophmores to be but who knows how they are going to mesh especially going through a coaching change. New Waverly loses it's best player but I will be honest I'm torn between them and Tarkington at the 3 & 4 spots. The rest have only proven to be inconsistent so who knows what the bottom four look like, but that's my best guess. 3A - District 23 1. Crockett 2. Coldspring 3. New Waverly 4. Tarkington 5. Trinity 6. Anderson 7. Shepherd 8. Onalaska

If your CPA throws himself on the ground, kicks chairs and does throat slashes at you, you might want to look into being more organized for both of your sakes.....

I'm not here to give an opinion on his basketball knowledge. I just know from watching multiple games in various situations, this dude is a clown on the sidelines. Some of you are going to justify it as "passion", but to me he is way over the top. Ever since I watched him give teenagers the throat slash in a playoff game, I lost respect for him and take some enjoyment in watching him lose his mind with every loss I happen to be at. Don't know him personally but he has ZERO class on the sidelines.

Ouch! Maybe from a football standpoint. But you can't say the same about basketball and baseball. He is a three sport athlete at Tarkington and you can't really argue with the success that the baseball and basketball programs at Tarkington have had compared to Splendora. Don't get me wrong, they haven't won any state titles but they both made it two deep in the playoffs for how many years in a row? Splendora boy's sports didn't make the playoffs in ANYTHING.

I'm not so sure that I'd be putting kids business on the street (message board) on the "I heard". That's just me though.

Well the off and on varsity starter from last year was a sofphmore, Pavlat, he will likely be the day 1 starter. The JV QB, Johnson, should be moving up as well, as he was a sophmore also. The JV will likely start a next year sophmore, Edwards, that played some on JV last year and was that groups starter in middle school.

Also as this is a Tarkington thread. Coach Taylor has already made a great hire for the school. Yesterday the school announced that Coach Kennedy, who previously coached at Liberty and recently was hired as head coach at a 6A school near the hill country has taken the Head volleyball coach position at Tarkington. He is a young guy with lots of knowledge and energy, this will be great for upcoming girls and people that want to see the volleyball program return to its Glory days that they had under Coach Johnson.

The other thing is from my understanding (from Hardin people), he is already 15. If that's bad information then my apologies. But lets be honest that 13 to 14 and 14 to 15 development from a physical standpoint can be pretty big depending on the kid. Not to downplay the kids abilities, but lets say he's more developed and he's playing against 13 and 14 year olds who haven't yet, it can be a substantial advantage. I watched him throw, he was pretty good. He hit open targets and the game I was at there was plenty of them. Let's just say he wasn't having to thread the needle at any point. There were plenty of plays were nobody was within 5 yards of receivers.

Tarkington is open right now

Ah, that makes more sense!!! I do remember now that there was a person on the Tarkington thread who kept gauging coaching success on strictly overall records and state titles. That's my bad, sometimes sarcasm is hard to read...

So you're telling me that if he doesn't win a state championship at HJ in seven years, his time there is going to be considered a bust? I think that's rather presumptuous considering their record is 9-30 since 2018. I will make no guarantees regarding their future football success as I know nothing about HJ's talent concerning their up and coming youth. However, I will guarantee you this, those kids and the parents there, of course except the few whose kid doesn't get to play that are always mad at everyone, will love him and love playing for him. He is a great person and great coach to help kids become young men.

Definitely ran spread. Had a very athletic wide receiver that played for him at Tarkington and is playing football at Henderson State. Great kid, Cole McLawchlin.

Absolutely not. I don't know anyone from HJ. That was just based on thought process. Thanks for playing though.

Just a reminder....

So in theory you think a coach isn't willing to bet on himself to go for new facilities, bigger school, closer to home and more money? All the coaches I know are taking that opportunity 99/100 times. You don't think everyone of them wants to prove they can go out there and establish their own program? The only way you get somebody to pass up on that opportunity is if they were already involved in the building process or maybe they are from there. Do you know for a fact that he didn't think long and hard about it. Do you think this process happened overnight? I would think if you asked him, he would tell you this was a hard decision because I think he had tremendous support here. I only know of one situation that was not positive and it was because a kid wasn't getting PT and at the end of the day, every program has that situation come up. Come on man, I know how bad you want to "pin" this one on Tarkington because in theory everyone leaves there because they hate it. I understand that this doesn't fit your Tarkington is horrible place with horrible people agenda but you're going to have to dig into another situation for your proof on this one.