🏈 Hardin Hires Lumberton O/C Jake Smith 🏈

[rolltide3315]

Hardin Hires Lumberton O/C Jake Smith For Head Football Coach 

[KF89]

Congrats & Best wishes to Coach Jake Smith at Hardin!! Mr. Smith is now on the 7 year clock to win a state championship or be fired.😎 

[Reagan]

4 hours ago, KF89 said:

Congrats & Best wishes to Coach Jake Smith at Hardin!! Mr. Smith is now on the 7 year clock to win a state championship or be fired.😎 

If he’s any good he’s got nothing to worry about.  LOL!

[purpleeagle]

Yes, that’s a good year, only missing 4th place by 10 points. 

[rolltide3315]

Why can’t we just congratulate the guy and move on no need for useless BS, give the community and the team a chance and move on! 

[KF89]

1 hour ago, rolltide3315 said:

Why can’t we just congratulate the guy and move on no need for useless BS, give the community and the team a chance and move on! 

It's all good natured humor amongst posters, give us a chance with our useless bs. No harm intended towards Hardin. 

[navydawg31]

When is Hardin getting turf?

[AggiesAreWe]

7 minutes ago, navydawg31 said:

When is Hardin getting turf?

Have it already. In fact, was the first area school to get it.

[navydawg31]

25 minutes ago, AggiesAreWe said:

Have it already. In fact, was the first area school to get it.

That’s right, they have the Hardin Hornet logo at mid field.

 

I thought PNG was right before them? 

[rolltide3315]

1 hour ago, navydawg31 said:

That’s right, they have the Hardin Hornet logo at mid field.

 

I thought PNG was right before them? 

Hardin has had turf 12-13 years was replaced two years ago with new! 

[AggiesAreWe]

2 hours ago, navydawg31 said:

That’s right, they have the Hardin Hornet logo at mid field.

 

I thought PNG was right before them? 

To my knowledge, Hardin was the first. Not 100% sure though.

[Separation Scientist]

5 hours ago, rolltide3315 said:

Why can’t we just congratulate the guy and move on no need for useless BS, give the community and the team a chance and move on! 

Amen bro! I do not see the constant SNARK thrown about here accomplishing a thing. Why people thrive on tearing down others is beyond me.

I wish Hardin and the new coach all the BEST!  

[Raider24]

Hardin got a good one. Fiery, passionate, energetic coach. Lumberton will miss him. Hardin kids will love him! Will be rooting for the Hornets.

[2wedge]

Here's the question: Will he be allowed to bring in his own staff and begin implementing his own program? Think about it, Hardin has not hired an unfamiliar coach since Tod Stark, and that lasted about half a season. Haynes has been hired twice and Barrier has family all over the school, both teachers and students. This has traditionally been Hardin's Achilles heel. Even when they have gotten promising coaches to take the job, the community, parents and school board can't get out of the way long enough to give the guy a chance. I saw this announcement on Twitter last night, and there is a ton of positive energy around Coach Smith from many txhsfb coaches throughout the state. This leads me to believe they may have gotten a real good one with this hire. Those in Hardin need to stand down for a couple of years and let him work. If you will let him bring his own staff and let him lay the foundations of a program from the 7th grade on up, you might just have a chance to improve your program. Only time will tell....

[SmashMouth]

23 hours ago, rolltide3315 said:

Why can’t we just congratulate the guy and move on no need for useless BS, give the community and the team a chance and move on! 

That’s just not how it works anymore. 

[purpleeagle]

Best of luck to the new coach. Hopefully he can get the kids to buy into his system. Remembering several years back when a coach (Alvarez) came to Kirbyville from W. Sabine and turned that program around.  
I think it was Bear Bryant that said “winning isn’t everything but it beats the h... out of coming in second”.

[DP#1FAN]

Congrats Coach Smith !

[Dirty_but_Dazzling]

21 minutes ago, sooner said:

None of those reasons you listed have been Hardin's issue.

Let me give you the why's as to why Hardin can't win.

1 Numbers

2 Numbers

3 Athleticism / Numbers 

Men & women both lie.

Numbers when presented correctly NEVER lie.

[Reagan]

1 hour ago, sooner said:

None of those reasons you listed have been Hardin's issue.

Let me give you the why's as to why Hardin can't win.

1 Numbers

2 Numbers

3 Athleticism / Numbers 

So -- it's the always kids fault and never the coaches fault?!

[Mr. Thornton Melon]

Uh ....oh........  the Lumberton coaching familia has infiltrated the hornets nest. 🙄 Keep your heads up Hornets

[navydawg31]

10 hours ago, sooner said:

No.  The only school in the entire region that had turf (same year as Hardin, was Dayton).

Dayton was in 2007, PNG was in 2008. So Hardin had it same year as Dayton in 2007 you say, good for Hardin ISD starting the trend early and investing early. 

[oldschool2]

On 6/7/2022 at 4:41 PM, Reagan said:

So -- it's the always kids fault and never the coaches fault?!

More so than you think.

[oldschool2]

On 6/7/2022 at 12:22 PM, 2wedge said:

Here's the question: Will he be allowed to bring in his own staff and begin implementing his own program? Think about it, Hardin has not hired an unfamiliar coach since Tod Stark, and that lasted about half a season. Haynes has been hired twice and Barrier has family all over the school, both teachers and students. This has traditionally been Hardin's Achilles heel. Even when they have gotten promising coaches to take the job, the community, parents and school board can't get out of the way long enough to give the guy a chance. I saw this announcement on Twitter last night, and there is a ton of positive energy around Coach Smith from many txhsfb coaches throughout the state. This leads me to believe they may have gotten a real good one with this hire. Those in Hardin need to stand down for a couple of years and let him work. If you will let him bring his own staff and let him lay the foundations of a program from the 7th grade on up, you might just have a chance to improve your program. Only time will tell....

Surely you jest.  Remember.. he’s not athletic director.  I’m not sure if he can hire anyone.. at all.  Hopefully he’s at least in on the interviews and making suggestions.  But..

[Mr. Thornton Melon]

Is Coach Smith full blood AKC Lumertonian ? Or did he come from somewhere else ?

 

[Raider24]

On 6/13/2022 at 9:24 AM, sooner said:

Believe he came from east Texas

Lindale