Kountzer

Quit trying to read into what I wrote more than what it is. People make all kinds of stupid remarks all around this board. My post fits right in.

The rednecks or whatever they are don't have to explain their racist innuendos why should I have to explain mine. throwing out bigoted stereotypes like "he should win cause he got a bunch of running, athletic studs. Call it straight across the board.

it means what ever u want it to mean.

If Trey Jones showed up in Silsbee his sr year from another region or another state that is one thing. Trey Jones dad played for Sigler and Silsbee 25 years ago. Same applies to Braelon Bush. The family lives In Silsbee. That does not bother me. The district committees and the UIL saw it the say way. Compared to the recruiting and outright mercenary transfers happening all over the place this is not even worth mentioning. In Houston a student can transfer to a magnet school on the other side of town, 15 to 30 miles away, no problem. Silsbee is only 15 to 20 miles from Beaumont. You can drive from one to the other in 20 minutes, depending on how fast you can get through Lumberton. Don't even mention what the private schools like FFA, Bellaire Episcopal, Strake Jesuit Yates, et al are doing. Oh yeah Yates is a public school, my bad. Or that home school fakery that resulted in a state championship up in Bridgeport a few years ago. They haven't taken that away so it still stands. A lot of good DNA has moved from Silsbee to Beaumont. That has been going for 30 or 40 years. I talk to classmates and friends and they are all in Beaumont. The current BU team has a definite Silsbee flavor. One or two players come back home to Silsbee in the past five to seven years and somebody wants to make federal case. Give me a break.

If I remember correctly he wanted to play for Silsbee his Sr year. But the district committee with the backing of the UIL said he had to return to Kountze.

I didn't get to see Silsbee play every year. Some seasons I had to depend on what I read or heard on this msg board. I saw the team with Chris Elam and Holmes twice. The year after that I didn't see any games. Then in 15/16 Silsbee was ranked #1. I went to a showcase game at Houston Episcopal. Silsbee vs Bellaire. A lot of football players were out, but the Tigers still beat Bellaire. Bellaire had Max Evans. Devon was a 5'8" freshman. Jay Adams was about 6'1" and slender. By the time the playoffs came season Devon had grown to 6'2". I watched them all four years. I didn't see anything irregular on those rosters.

Name some names. I can't think of any player on those 2 championship teams for Silsbee that attended 4 different high schools. If this mystery person exists he sat on the very end of the bench. Those were some long and deep benches too.

The big guy. That's true.

Put em up in a stash house, with no adult supervision. Make sure they have enough game controllers so nothing really stupid happens.

Wow. I just saw a picture of Mr. Patrick Brown, HJ's principal. I didn't know. My opposition has softened.

Wow. HJ has a principal named Patrick Brown. I just saw his picture. My opposition has softened.

typo.

Silsbee coach Terry Cylley # 20 on an all time coaches list. Never heard of him before just now.

Basketball in Bridge City. Wow. There is a thread on here about how Orange county basketball is on the come up. I didn't read any of it but maybe I should have. I've been checking out BC scores this season and I've noticed an upward trend. It is a good thing. Dist champ is not a given. Could be a battle. Success breeds success. District games used to be boring for Silsbee. Not this year.

PA Memorial won a championship. It was a beautiful thing. PA Lincoln closed 25 years ago. You really haven't seen Port Arthur basketball. The Lincoln Bees had teams scared from the suburbs of Houston, to Dallas, all the way to El Paso, and all points in between. What you're seeing now is PA basketball lite.

HF is on the up, for now. Maybe it will stay. Closing Ozen helped. Tigee is a good coach, one of the better in the area. Time will tell. He's had his share of luck. Ozen talent came his way. And if you have a 6'10 250lb post on your team at the 4A level you should have at least 1 championship ring as a player. Can't take that away. Navigate the way to a ring & his legacy should be set. That's a lot of basketball dribbling but he's young.

Way too early to trip. The football playoffs are not over. Still dealing with covid and the holidays. should be some interesting district match ups. Then legacies are made in the playoffs. A win right now? it counts for something but otherwise meh. HF has come a longs ways though.

Man coach is doing his thang, closer to retirement. got 2 championship rings, accolades. They archive that stuff at the UIL you know, not here, thank goodness. Meanwhile, in regards to basketball, u & will still be here perfecting your trolling skills.

That was an anecdote I remember. I am glad things have progressed along those lines. I think that event occurred in 1958, '59, maybe '60. It should be mentioned that Silsbee schools integrated relatively early, like in 1963.

The earliest Silsbee game I can remember I was 3.5 to 5 years old. It was played at the old Waldo Matthews gym. It was Waldo Matthews vs. some other PVIL school. That was the first basketball game I ever saw. I didn't know what I was watching. Me & my lil heathens spent most of the game harassing this gay trans type guy named Robert. Looking back I am thankful he didn't go wild and kill one of us. True story. That is what I remember. At the time I didn't know anything about Silsbee High School. That was a parallel universe.

I saw Silsbee last year on the Wednesday before thanksgiving. They had players our for football. They didn't look too good. It was bush and everyone else. I kept up with them on Texan stream, this msg board, etc. I could tell they got to be a better team than what I saw. They lost in regionals to that Waxahachie team. They prolly would of met Yates in the regional finals, but covid19 caused everything to get shut down. That Dallas Soc FFA would of probably won it alll, but you can never really know.

I'm just speculating, but it is probably hard to schedule a game the week of thanksgiving. Dec 1st is only 8 days away.

I was expecting to see the Tigers make some slight progress in this game.

A good head coach is a prized possession. I'm not talking about any particular coach. You have to evaluate a coach over his or her total career. A lot of variables go into winning and winning big. You have to have talented and motivated players. There is no such thing as born basketball players. You can't lift weights and run sprints to get the. A player has to spend time learning muscle memory, stuff like that. Science is built on math. Probably statistics, genetics, economics. What I'm trying to say is if a high school program is consistently blowing out the opposition year in and year out. Decade in decade out you can be sure something sideways is going on somewhere. I am not calling no names, or even what sport. Just call them the usual suspects. So, if a prominent program goes down that says that program is pretty much walking straight. If and when that program gets back up, (throw if out, when) the fans can truly appreciate that.

This is the real boogie man: "The Sovereign Pontiff John Paul II" sees himself as the one capable of (if not ordained to) bringing in World Government. Through his new Catechism he declares, "It is the role of the state to defend and promote the common good of civil society. The common good of the whole human family calls for an organization of society on the international level." And from his perspective, the "common good of civil society" is Roman Catholicism, embraced by the rank and file; defended and enforced by civil authorities; subject to the will of the Holy See. The Pontiff’s goal for ecumenism plots towards world government in political, economic, and social life. This is the way his predecessors on the Pontifical Throne also expressed themselves. For example, Pope Paul VI in his 1967 encyclical on the topic of "The Progress of Peoples" in an entire section titled "Toward an Effective World Authority’’ proclaimed,