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When will the new district be released?

Maybe some staff didn't want to come?? I mean if he got to "hire" Meeks and Griffis once he got here....pretty sure he would have been able to "hire" his old coaching staff.

Barker brought in Meeks and Griifis plus a few others that I can't think of. He may have happened after Haggerty and Shans were shuffled. Your right, water under the bridge. Maybe we can get some consistency with our coaching staff.

I know Tatum would have been happy with a Keeling in 2015. The interview committee picked the West Rusk guy and went with Barker instead. I'm sure if the choice was between Barker/Keeling at the time, we would have went with Keeling. I think people were expecting more high profile names to apply at the time to no avail. After all, Barker brought his people with him so I'm not buying the "bringing his people" as the reason Keeling didn't come back then. Keeling was asked for sure during that time. Why he chose to not entertain the position could be based on several factors. The AD at the time had a strong positive relationship with coaches around East Texas and had a very close relationship with the former superintendent. At the end of the day, I'm glad he is coming now. Everything I've heard has been positive and most importantly how he builds relationships with kids - which with the exception of Hylander has been the biggest complaint since Evans left. Im happy for our kids and community with this hire. No matter how we finally got him here.

Tatum's Kendric Malone broke Lennon Creer's overall career TD record Friday night and Jalen Overstreet's season record of passing TDs with the win against WO. Passed for 219 yards, rushed for 119.

Talked to D1 WR last night and he's playing next week and according to the kids, so is FS #1. I've been pretty proud of our boys because those three guys are key players/factors. To have as much success over the last two weeks that we've had without them says a lot about our depth. Hopefully all three are back full speed come play-off time.

At the time, our backups were a sophomore that had shown to struggle during live games and a freshman that is now the three year starter at QB.

HS laid it on Tatum 2 years ago when a large percentage of the team was sophomores. I don't think they have forgotten that game.

If you talking about me, been posting on here since 2005....just forget my password a few years back. Plus, my son is one of the seniors, so a little more vested interest.

Well, I believe it was already stated on this thread that we have 26 seniors, of which about 10 have been on varsity since their freshman year. Hence, three years ago I think it's safe to say we were young. Just curious....do you have a DF education? Cause that would explain a lot.

16-3A is an interesting district with the top 4 teams all making regional appearances within the last two years. So is Tatum that much better in what was promoted as one of the more competitive districts in the area, or was the district just not as competitive as originally expected?

He went out of this game for a few minutes for what seemed to be a nose bleed but didn't seem hurt other than that.

I would agree with the addition of Collins would put Tatum over the top. Tatum put their little scrappy ones on him and stripped him several times or caused him to turn the ball over. Tatum's Boyd was the standout Saturday....add three inches to him and nobody in 3A would be close.

Meh. This is an athletic group. The difference I think is consistency. Carr has been here for years for basketball, minus 2 years he went to work in the oilfield. The football guys have had a new coach every year practically. The sophomore group have had a different head coach every year since 7th grade. Hopefully some consistency there will help get football back on track. Plus football was super young, too. No seniors on the basketball team and only 4-5 in football.

Should make a deep run. The interesting part is that there isn't one senior on the team. Made up of all sophomores and juniors.