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BillyClydePuckett

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  1. I saw someone post that they did not think some folks do not feel comfortable going to the school to vote. I find that odd because in most small rural schools the vast majority of folks are at the school all the time for ballgames, graduation, Ag stuff, NHS, heck everything. The only things that rival schools for social activities in these communities are the churches. I am not sure how someone would be comfortable going to the HS for a football game but not the Admin building to vote?
  2. THis just rocks my world. I will never ever understand how so many scumbags in this world can walk through a thunderstorm and never get wet yet things like this happen to the very best among us. I hope the Lord blesses this family every way possible. God Speed Coach. You are one of the good guys.
  3. I never knew him before I retired. But I knew of him and had friends who knew him. Very respected. We go to the same church now. He is good people.
  4. NO doubt. Probably many resumes sent in.
  5. Funny you should mention Decatur. When I retired six years ago this is where I wound up. They got it going on here.
  6. Have they updated their Football Stadium since 2005? If not, run far away. It was three decades out of date then.
  7. I meant no disrespect. And if y'all have it going the right way I applaud you. I was just stating that over the course of the last thirty plus years there have been a bunch of good coaches go through there and could not stick. Starting with Coach West one of the most respected names in the state who had them going great and got run off because they wanted to "go in a different direction".
  8. Glad to hear it. They were very close friends of our family growing up. Sorry to say I lost track of him a few years ago.
  9. I can assure you that they do not. They do not turn out for many elections. I taught government for thirty years and our fall project was accumulating data on who did and did not vote in the communities I was teaching in. For whatever reason minority turnout in East Texas is pretty low.
  10. I have not seen them in six or seven years but I know the same crew is there running it. I know some guys at Cisco and they've played them the last two years and confirm they can still deal it. One thing I know about the Bone. The better the FB the better the Bone. Wall gave me all I wanted several years ago in the playoffs. Great team, great staff, classy program.
  11. Where is Coach Adair these days? His Mom was my 2nd Grade Teacher.
  12. "I heard racist comments therefore no bond is ever passed in ETX because of racism" Dude........ Also the young "black and brown" families you speak of outnumber the old white folks in just about all of these communities. Before I retired I was at an East Texas HS that for every one white student there were 8 kids of color. We could not get a bond passed there either. But it was not because of racism. Also East Texas is the same as any other rural part of the state. The only places really growing are the areas within a 90 minute drive of DFW, Houston, SA, and Austin.
  13. They do a helluva job running it too.
  14. Yup. A rose by any other name still smells as sweet.
  15. Yup. A rose by any other name still smells as sweet.
  16. I would respectfully disagree. I did both. True Bone OC for three years. Flex Bone for two, Shotgun for four. IMO you can read much better and more importantly more defensive personnel in Gun everyone in the Box to be exact. I am retired now but if I got back in I would never go back under Center for my Bone Schemes. And for the record if you google "Texas HS Coach who hated the Spread the most" you will find a pic of me. I fought switching to gun for years. When I did I realized I was a total fool for letting my ego interfere with learning new concepts and schemes. Just for an example when in Gun. I am not limited to reading #2 or whoever the side my Dive Back is going too..... In Gun I can literally read any Box defender I choose. This opens up a whole new new world of possibilities. For starters if you read the BS DE you can pull and go out the back door then pitch off of #3 to a receiver that is ten yards downfield. Still Triple Option. And for the record at my last stop the ONLY person on Staff or in the community that had a clue we were a Bone team was me. Even the HC thought we were a Spread team. He never would have hired me to be OC if he thought I ran "the Bone" he wanted a Spread guy.
  17. I hear you. I could write a book on BS moves Boards have made behind closed doors that they think nobody will ever find out about. LOL
  18. Exactly. It is not perfect. But for a government agency the UIL comes about as close as you can get. And I am a huge critic of the UIL. But not on the transfer issue.
  19. Nope. The system has made Texas HS Sports the best in the nation for a reason. It is not perfect but it is as close as it can be.
  20. The DEC looks at one thing and one thing only. That is the PAPF. If it is signed off by the kids former AD then they ask nothing.
  21. The DEC votes on EVERY Transfer no matter what the circumstances.
  22. Yes, just like the DF AD had to sign off on his PAPF. But don't get in the way of everyone screaming "illegally recruiting". LOL
  23. In my thirty years of experience of coaching, for every time that a coach changes jobs and takes their kid to a powerhouse program the EXACT same thing happens 100 times when a coach takes a job at a historically weak program and moves their kid with them. Funny how nobody ever mentions the vast majority of those examples. It happened to to me. When I took a job at schools that could not win open week nobody ever thought about it. The one time I took at job at a program that is historically a state title contender all of a sudden my kids and I had been "recruited". Bottom line: Nobody has the right to tell a coach that they cannot take a new job. Cuz "Murica". If the kids former HC signs off on the PAPF and the new DEC signs off on the transfer it is NOT illegal recruiting.
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