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Yes, glad to be back for our final year. Conditioning over, now time to see what we got!

That's why I said each situation should be looked at for its situation! I agree with ST413 you cant group together what you grouped together.

What annoys me is when people who have no ties to the kids or the programs try to give their opinions without knowing all the facts or the situations of these kids. Yes football is an extra curricular activity and athletes are held to a higher standard. Athletic programs are educational programs also. An opportunity for coaches who are also educators to instill life lessons into these kids and make them better adults who will be entering adulthood in the very near future. Each situation should be looked at for its situation. Kids come from different backgrounds. Some have both parents at home. Some have one parent at home. Some have no parents at home. At the end of the day, its not about sports, its about the kids. There should be consequences! There should be discipline! There should be forgiveness! If he screws up once, who helped make a difference? If he screwed up twice, who helped make a difference? There should be an opportunity to right the wrong! If there are 200 kids in the program and the coaches have an opportunity to change 1 kids life, that is what it is about! To have a kid comeback 10-15-20 years later and say thank you coach! You changed my life, Kicking the kid to the curb is not always the correct thing to do! Taking the one thing that may bring structure to a kids life is not always the answer. Instead of being critical and demanding of what should be done, be part of the solution! Kids need mentors! Leaders! Both fellow teammates and adults. I know a lot of the kids who are Sophs, Jrs, And Srs all over SETX at this time from BMT, Lumb, WOS, NED, Vid, & PNG. No one school is immune! No one kid is immune! No one family is immune! I am hear to help make a difference in anyone of their lives! Step up! Man Up! Lead!

Player Class School HR's Michael Mott Sr. Lumberton 1

Well said! Don't know much about Barbay other than my Dad played for his father @ Newton. Typically if you want to know about a coach, you get no better an interpretation of the man than to hear it straight from a former student or player of his! Though few may not realize it at the time, later in life they usually understand the purpose he played in their lives. I've heard my Dad recollect about playing for his Father Curtis Barbay all the time. Sounds like Jasper just ran off a Quality Football coach for no apparent reason!

Yep!

She ran off two of the better ones! One @ Ozen and One @ Central! Would personally rather see him @ Central, but that's me being bias.

Nelson?

Lumberton vs Kingwood Park Monday Feb 13th @ 6pm @ GCM HS

I too have seen some of the video! A lot led up to this happening. I have coached some of these boys in the past and it is disheartening to see these things. These boys have a lot on the line and sometimes youth gets in the way and they don't realize what the consequences are. Now they are at the point where they must serve out whatever punishment they have coming their way, learn and grow from it, and apply it to become better young men. We ask these young athletes to play with passion, emotion, intensity, and then try to instill in them the control of checking their emotions and intensity after the whistle blows. The worst thing that has happened in todays game at all levels is social media. It brings into play another part of the mental game that coaches have to learn to control and coach to. JMO

Same here on being interested in some info.

To put it plain and simple, to attack a man's integrity and try to damage his career for the sheer fact you disagree with the way he disciplines his players and runs his team is childish, retaliatory, and sums up why his players need the discipline in the first place. To coach in todays world means you really love the profession and the kids! Cuz it dang sure ain't the money!

I look for this non sense to be over fairly quickly also!

Awesome! Hook 'em!!

Let's just hold off until it all comes out. Let them do their investigation.

32-10 PAM @ half.

My money would be on this one with English being AD.

Kicker

Funny thing is, none of the football parents I know and have talked to want him fired!

Awesome, but cannot do this today! Imagine the can of worms this would open up also!

Curious to see how this turns out. I coached in Bmt for a few years and know many of the coaches. Know many of the struggles that they go through. They all have good intent in teaching these kids more than just football skills, but life lessons! They all teach that a Football Team is a family. No matter race, background, politics, or religion. A high school football locker room is one of the few places left like this today! You stand up for your Your Team! Your Family! You Protect Your House! We never had to lock up anything! We held each other accountable! Coaches and players! Guess times have changed! Just saying!

Congratulations to an awesome young man! Stay humble, continue to "Do Work", and great things will be ahead!

Would love to be there this Friday, but my son is having shoulder surgery Friday afternoon. We will be there to support next week and the following week if everything goes as planned! Good luck to "Dem Mighty Mustangs" from Lumberton and The Ward's!

It has been hard raising a football family in Lumberton. My wife and I didn't think about a schools athletic program when we decided to move here 20 years ago. My oldest just finished his junior season this year which was his 2nd on Varsity. We had opportunities to move him to other school districts and we thought a lot about it. PNG, Nederland, WOS, etc! We thought a lot about it. Not because of the coaching, but because of the community and the make up of the town. Football just is not one of the big priorities and it does not fit my families personality. It's not what we experienced growing up in Beaumont. However, if we had moved and went somewhere else, what would we as parents be teaching our kids? I have coached in middle school, high school, and now I coach my youngest in the STJFL. We decided to stay here and stick it out and do what we can to teach our kids life lessons and be apart of a change that will hopefully carry over to when my 5th grader steps on the field to rep the Raiders on Friday nights. I know Babin and what he is trying to accomplish in a tough situation. I know he has the boys working harder than I've seen any group work in the last 4-5 years! With that you will lose some kids who don't want to put in the work, and hopefully you will gain some who really want to play the game. It is a numbers game! It is not an overnight fix! The mentality has to change! Work ethic has to change! They must "do work"! Compete! I don't always agree with every call they make, and no one ever will! But I do know that Babin is full of fire, energy, and that he has a desire to turn this thing around. My son and I talk about football all the time. We travel every weekend to watch games. Been to the last 3 PNG games and will be there tonight to watch his buddies play CS. He loves playing for Coach Babin! He will not hear complaints from me about his coach. If I do complain about the coaching with my son, then I become part of the problem! Gotta be part of the solution, not the problem!!

This is a stupid topic! It's not just restricted to Lumberton! Kids quit in all programs for various reasons. Some stated above!