PrairieMan

Tarkington wins 3-1 vs Buna Coach Kennedy is already turning this group around!

FYI, Stephen Pavlat is not the QB as he's moved to Splendora. Current QB's are Tanner Johnson and Trace Edwards

I would tend to agree here because Tarkington is so young. Most of their impact players are Sophmores. Coach Taylor and his staff are working really hard with these kids, it's nice to see a little excitement in the area about football again. I think it will take them a couple games and a few more weeks of practice to get something really started. Most of these kids are still trying to learn the system. My hat's off to Coach Taylor though in what he's trying to do here. Hopefully the community, the decision makers and most importantly the kids give him a chance to build something here.

Don't know the scores but Tarkington won both of their games vs Kountze 2-1 vs Woodville 2-0

Hardin-Jefferson @ Tarkington tonight JV @ 5 Varsity to follow

Well to make sure I'm being transparent, below is what I previously posted on the first page of this topic. I had a little breakdown as to why as well but don't want to muddy up my reply to you here. 3A - District 23 1. Crockett 2. Coldspring 3. New Waverly 4. Tarkington 5. Trinity 6. Anderson 7. Shepherd 8. Onalaska That being said below is my new predictions now that the coaching spots are now being filled and vacated I suppose. 3A - District 23 1. Crockett 2. Coldspring 3. Tarkington (I see Tarkington splitting with Coldspring this year but still landing at 3) 4. Anderson-Shiro 5. New Waverly 6. Trinity 7. Shepherd 8. Onalaska

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