Moody's decision pulls plug on Orange Bowl

[Majestyk]

Just a question because I've been gone, what other games have been cancelled this weekend in the Triangle.

[KFDM COOP]

None!

[TheBigSwitch]

Surely you are kidding, College and NFL?  This  guy should not be coaching little league football much less college or NFL.  Please give me a break

[wosam]

  More importantly, this is not the message that a leader wants to send to his kids.  Look at last year's game, WO-S was supposed to totally dominate the game, but the result was a last minutes TD for the Mustangs to win the game.

this game is about bragging rights between high schools and their kids.  So many of these kids know one another from every aspect of the game. For a cowardly, under-moraled wannabe coach to just decide not to play...surely something can be done.  How happy is he to be the head coach...is he trying to NOT have his contract renewed.  Can LCM "buy" him out of his contract?  I did hear a nasty rumor about something of that nature happening at BC with their baseball coach.

I hadn't even thought about the financial impact.  Sad, sad example of what a coach shouldn't be. 

[mustangfan2]

I am just returning from evacuation and just learning of this garbage, but you better believe as a season ticket holder that I will be calling mlc tommorrow and finding out about a refund.  Since this was not a weather cancelation, but a coward cancelation they should pay me my money!!!  I GAURANTEE YOU I WONT BE THE ONLY ONE MAKING THE CALL!!

[wosam]

He does have 2 children, but lets not drag them in to this.

noone is "dragging" them into anyone...i asked a simple question.  Please do not read more into my post than a simple question.  Actually, as a head football coach, he has many more than two...he just needs to figure out how to be a positive example to ALL of them.

[Majestyk]

Who do the Bears play next week?  Maybe this guy is rooting for Hanna to swing on by.

[Gabe]

BC

[Mr. Buddy Garrity]

BC

since BC won i guess that had him shaking in his boots. 

[bearmom]

Yes, it was very sad to see Moody not step up at the Community Pep Rally like he has done in the previous years to talk about the team and the upcoming year. They are a young team and it will probably be a very tough year but you have to start somewhere. He should have at least showed the leadership of an AD and said they have been working hard and they were going to go out EVERY WEEK and do the best that they can....win or lose! Instead he goes on about how young they are and tells parents at a meeting "that they aren't using mouthpieces this year, he is giving them pacifers." He has to give the respect to the kids, coaches and community in order to receive it!

PLAY THE GAME!!!!!!

[lcmcoach4]

Sad and pathetic. Sad for the kids and community, pathetic for the coach. For a guy who told his fellow coaches recently he planned to coach in college and "eventually the NFL," it's not a good sign. WO-S had Nederland to prepare for last week when LC-M was off (and ALL of the coaches were scouting). The Stangs have had no more prep time than the bears. Pitiful, Moody. Either man up for the game on Saturday or throw in your coach's hat. This is not just a terrible football decision, but also a terrible example for the young men on the team for whom you provide a model each and every day.

Really ? BAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH  moody coaching Highschool is odd enough !

[Mr. Buddy Garrity]

Instead he goes on about how young they are and tells parents at a meeting "that they aren't using mouthpieces this year, he is giving them pacifers." He has to give the respect to the kids, coaches and community in order to receive it!

PLAY THE GAME!!!!!!

did he really say that?

[82 5A State Champs]

Yes, it was very sad to see Moody not step up at the Community Pep Rally like he has done in the previous years to talk about the team and the upcoming year. They are a young team and it will probably be a very tough year but you have to start somewhere. He should have at least showed the leadership of an AD and said they have been working hard and they were going to go out EVERY WEEK and do the best that they can....win or lose! Instead he goes on about how young they are and tells parents at a meeting "that they aren't using mouthpieces this year, he is giving them pacifers." He has to give the respect to the kids, coaches and community in order to receive it!

PLAY THE GAME!!!!!!

??? pacifiers? That aint good!

[Guest Dirk Diggler]

Yes, it was very sad to see Moody not step up at the Community Pep Rally like he has done in the previous years to talk about the team and the upcoming year. They are a young team and it will probably be a very tough year but you have to start somewhere. He should have at least showed the leadership of an AD and said they have been working hard and they were going to go out EVERY WEEK and do the best that they can....win or lose! Instead he goes on about how young they are and tells parents at a meeting "that they aren't using mouthpieces this year, he is giving them pacifers." He has to give the respect to the kids, coaches and community in order to receive it!

PLAY THE GAME!!!!!!

Be sure to call LCM school Wednesday!

[Mr. Buddy Garrity]

Yes, it was very sad to see Moody not step up at the Community Pep Rally like he has done in the previous years to talk about the team and the upcoming year. They are a young team and it will probably be a very tough year but you have to start somewhere. He should have at least showed the leadership of an AD and said they have been working hard and they were going to go out EVERY WEEK and do the best that they can....win or lose! Instead he goes on about how young they are and tells parents at a meeting "that they aren't using mouthpieces this year, he is giving them pacifers." He has to give the respect to the kids, coaches and community in order to receive it!

PLAY THE GAME!!!!!!

??? pacifiers? That aint good!

he would have been gone if i was the Supt.

[Gasilla]

Yes, it was very sad to see Moody not step up at the Community Pep Rally like he has done in the previous years to talk about the team and the upcoming year. They are a young team and it will probably be a very tough year but you have to start somewhere. He should have at least showed the leadership of an AD and said they have been working hard and they were going to go out EVERY WEEK and do the best that they can....win or lose! Instead he goes on about how young they are and tells parents at a meeting "that they aren't using mouthpieces this year, he is giving them pacifers." He has to give the respect to the kids, coaches and community in order to receive it!

PLAY THE GAME!!!!!!

??? pacifiers? That aint good!

he would have been gone if i was the Supt.

Moody obviously has difficulty making the right decision. The pacifier comment was very poor as was the game cancellation.

[WOS92]

The problem I see is this: in his mind, Moody is already a step past LC-M. It's a stepping stone that is no longer worth seeing his personal record shredded. If he chooses to off this game and, at the end of the year, move on to another school, it's very important that both WO-S, LC-M, and fans of TX HS football in general let the administration know that Moody is a chicken who will never take a risk to improve his team. If this is really the decision he makes, he is a loser. Right?

[49ers]

EVERYONE CALL LCM ADMINISTRATION BUILDING TOMORROW.  THIS IS A TRAVESTY.  THIS IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN A GAME, IT IS ABOUT GIVING YOUNG TEENAGERS A POSITIVE EXAMPLE IN LIFE.  DO NOT GIVE UP WHEN TIMES GET HARD,  KEEP FIGHTING.  NEVER GIVE UP MOODY!!!!!!!!  JIMMY VALVANO FOUGHT A HARD FIGHT AGAINST CANCER TO THE VERY END.  HIS WORDS WERE TO NEVER GIVE UP.  I DO NOT THINK HE SAID FIND A WAY OUT.  

WORD IS HE WAS TALKING ABOUT THIS EVEN BEFORE THE STORM CAME.  THEY WERE HOPING THAT IT HIT SO HE WOULD NOT HAVE TO PLAY.  TERRIBLE EXAMPLE FOR THE YOUTH OF LCM

[lcmcoach4]

I thought if there was a scheduled game By UIL rules if Both coaches decide to not play they cancel it, BUT if only one he can either play or the team can forfeit ...?  so will LCM forfeit this game ??  Just a Swell way to start the LCM Battlin' Bears Football season !

[skipper]

GOOD POST    (BEARMOM) coach step up and be a leader    PLAY THE GAME

[24 over par]

just sad

[jesusfreak]

quote from beaumont enterprise:

Vidor coach Jeff Mathews said his team will play at 7 p.m. Friday at home against Houston St. Thomas.

"We've got to play it either way," Mathews said. "The only way to get better is to play games."

[Gasilla]

GOOD POST    (BEARMOM) coach step up and be a leader    PLAY THE GAME

Yes, play the freakin game!

[lcmcoach4]

quote from beaumont enterprise:

Vidor coach Jeff Mathews said his team will play at 7 p.m. Friday at home against Houston St. Thomas.

"We've got to play it either way," Mathews said. "The only way to get better is to play games."

That says it all !!

[Majestyk]

Hey people forget it, this guy is genuinely scared.  He would rather jump in a lions den wearing a pork chop vest than to play the Mustangs this weekend.  I wish they would change this but I don't see it happening.