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Art Briles coached two years at Mount Vernon HIGH SCHOOL, went 20-6 there, and very, very nearly beat State Champ Jim Ned. Briles is often mentioned here in relation to LOCAL high school openings, see above. I guess the rules are just enforced or ignored arbitrarily as we go along, right?

"Splash hire" is profanity words at BH, don't do it Huffman! LOL!

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"Tallest Midget" That's great, made my day, LOL!

I dunno about their soccer, but good in Football? They along with the rest of the 3A's here vaporize quickly in the playoffs. That's why I said its not as impossible as it seems that Tark "could" go .500 in the local district. Not a prediction, just a possibility. Its a real low bar to step over. No matter what the turf is this district goes down quick.

Well you know how it goes, some communities can be bashed, others cannot. Barbers Hill has had so much garbage spewed at it, its ridiculous. Haters gonna hate. In a similar vein, coaches are not supposed to be bashed here, per the site rules, but Art Briles is routinely beaten to a bloody pulp and no intervention happens. See, IT ALL DEPENDS.

Excellent post above, PrairieMan.

It won't grow nearly as fast as Cleveland. Anything on 59 is blowing up, but Tark is 9-10 miles away in the woods. The district is a good one, and people are slowly moving there getting away from the larger schools, but it is slow. There is lots of wooded, rural acreage, but its not ready to quickly build on. Utilities are not readily available in many places. Now 10-15 years later it might be a different story but not yet. I think the UIL cutoff is 544 and Tark turned in 519.

No, I was referencing a type of coach. I'll leave it at that too. Just trying to make a suggestion, not looking to argue, that's all. Good luck Tark.

What should they do then? Just give up and shut the program down? In that district not every team has 15 great athletes, BTW. Think about that. Tark could notch some wins if things come together.

I am not from Tarkington. I live in Mont Belvieu. As I said above, I have some friends there who has kids. He has a son that did not play. What I see is a lack of interest, thats why I say get em' off the deer lease and into pads. You are right, it will take their community to light a fire under their sons. A Rah-Rah coach that's committed to stay and MOTIVATES is the first step. Think the late Jeff Walker at Liberty Hill. He had those LH kids ready to run through a brick wall for him at a moments notice. I am not saying Tark will win state of course. I do think they could be better than 0.500 and win a playoff game or two sometimes. Again, that weak district they have should be easy to win in with any real improvement from Tark.

Tark needs a coach like Vidor's Matthews. Someone who can win without a ton of athleticism, who can motivate the kids, and get larger numbers to get excited and come out. Its not as hopeless as it might seem. They were winning some a few years ago. Get the right coach + newly motivated kids and things will turn around. Get them off the deer lease and into helmets and pads! Kill Bambi later!

[Hidden Content] Thank God it was an overnight event, zero injuries.

Belichick absolutely could go .500 at Tarkington. All they have to be is "less bad". As I said before, it would not take much to place in the middle of that 3A district. Its a low bar to hurdle. Now if you put them in District 11, with Lorena, Franklin, Cameron Yoe, they don't even score a point!

Given the fact that Walt Disney himself proudly posed with huge chieftain head dress, and the people who run Disney today proudly post that image on their website, the name "Disney" should be immediately removed from any and all parts of the company, and those who allowed his picture to be prominently displayed on their site should be immediately fired. We need to lift our voices in unison and firmly stand against Disney corps racism.

Was McNair literally speaking of "inmates"? NO, but it didn't matter. It was immediately and forcefully deemed a racist slur. If "inmates' is a racist slur, and Chain Gang is a racist slur, then "Suspects" is absolutely a racist slur Coach T used. Randomly ask anyone on the streets what a "suspect" is, and they will tell you its someone the police thinks committed a crime. Every single time. Note even one of WOS own posters (mat) alluded to T being a closet racist. We have to have zero tolerance across the board. Its shameful some of you are here defending racist slurs used against the African American student athletes at WOS by a white man.

You can believe anything you want. Personally, I abhor racist language from anyone, but its especially hurtful and harmful name calling coming from a privileged white man as addressed to young black males at WOS. You know, if a white person calls the police on a young black male, and describes the black male as a "suspect", you can bet the Justice Department, BLM, etc. would go ballistic. If any type of altercation was to ensue, the white male WOULD be charged with a hate crime just because of using that word. Maybe T is a closet racist, like the poster mat alluded to above. You just can't pretend away the fact that word has clear racist connotations just like Chain Gang, but that's exactly what most here are trying to do.

I don't know where he lives, or do I care. I am asking the posters here, the outspoken WOS community, why they allowed a white coach T to call his players a racist name. Clearly feeling were hurt with the Chain Gang moniker, so calling young black males on the WOS team "suspects" is just as bad. My question why is there hyper sensitivity about the hurtful Chain Gang name, but not the Suspect name, has yet to be answered. Don't you care about the hurt feelings of young black males at WOS? No young black male WANTS to be called a "Suspect". The administration at WOS should erase every record and image of T in their system. There should be a zero tolerance for for the hateful, hurtful speech he used to describe his predominantly black team.

I never thought Chain Gang was a racial term, but WOS sure did. Chain Gangs have had inmates of every ethnicity on them, but clearly its offensive to the black community at WOS. Feeling were hurt and the term was eliminated. There is no difference here. "Suspects" is a term used for a criminal investigation, and young black males are highly incarcerated, relative to others. I have already explained that.

Still avoiding the question, 99. "Suspects" by definition means part of a criminal investigation. Its directly linked to criminals, like it or not. Young black males have an inordinately high incarceration rate. WOS is African American (58.1%), Hispanic (18.6%), White (17.8%). 84.8% receive a free or discounted lunch. Young black males compose the vast majority of the WOS football team. WOS needs to self examine why they allowed (especially) a white coach to use the racist term "Suspects" to describe WOS student athletes. T probably should have been fired for racism. Still looking for a real answer, not continuing deflections. Why are you so badly triggered by this? If Chain Gang is racist, then Suspects is racist.

WOW. That's just rich, Disney.

Your deflection fails. The word "suspects" is commonly used to identify a criminal in an investigation. You, I and everyone else knows that. "Suspects," once convicted, become "inmates", the exact word McNair used that caused the meltdown. All who live in the WOS ISD should rightfully take offense to a racially loaded term like "suspects" given the inordinately high incarceration rate of young black males. If "Chain Gang" is offensive, "suspects" certainly should be too. No way around that! No one is yet willing to answer why T gets a pass. If T was a 0.500 coach, who goes out 1st or 2nd round, would he have still got the pass? Anyone want to man up (or woman up) and give a straight answer? Why has this question triggered the otherwise vocal WOS posters so badly? T should not have called his players that racist term.

Maybe PNG can get a settlement from Disney. [Hidden Content]

Maybe PNG just ought to do halftime skit where a white presidential candidate sucker punches a black politician. Oh wait, that was already done somewhere, but in reverse, right?

There was a MELTDOWN when Bob McNair said "inmates running the asylum". The Houston media and ESPN freaked out, calling McNair a "racist". The comment T made is very nearly the same. A fair question is "Was T called out for Racism? Why not?" All you are doing is calling people names like clown and bottom feeders, stooping low. WOS posters are always vocal, so why is this fair question being avoided? Why is it triggering you and 99? Can't you just man up and answer the question straight? Why wasn't T called out for racism?