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  1. Bill Harper was a great coach and is a great man. You talk about unlucky? He finished 7-3 in '98, beat two number 1 teams in the state and missed the playoffs because we played in the toughest district in the State of Texas. If Harper had been around when we dropped to 4A, he would have rolled. Big difference playing Tyler Lee, John Tyler, Longview and Lufkin over Jacksonville, Henderson, Hallsville and Pine Tree. On another note: all you folks yelling for stability and for someone to stay - with the exception of the Dennis Parker-Bill Harper combination, no one has ever stayed in Marshall for over 4 years. The golden years were 1984 to 2000. Can that be recreated? Only time will tell, but you can't hire someone just because you think they will stay. You hire someone who can win and will leave it better than they found it. Everyone thought Clint Harper would stay. No one has the ability to forecast what will happen in the future.
  2. Man, this is an uneducated and untrue statement. I have never heard of a search committee that included current coaches in the athletic department. The search committee was chocked full of athletic minded people, many of whom having been coaches themselves. This "coaches leaving at the speed of light" is also not true. The girls VBall coach is taking a job at Leander Vista Ridge, a 6A school. She has done a remarkable job at Marshall, and as much as everyone would have loved to keep her, she is moving up in her profession. We wish her well and are very appreciative of everything she did in Marshall to turn that program around. Losing a coach to a 6A school is not an indictment on Marshall. The DC and OC are going with Griedl to Bastrop, which is also expected. May lose one or two more football coaches, but that is also not out of the ordinary with a coaching change.
  3. Love ya, Stepp, but you are off by a million miles on this one. Marshall has some outstanding applicants, the deepest pool of applicants in program history. This job has garnered a slap ton of interest. If somebody didn't apply for this job, then they don't want to live behind the Pine Curtain in a fairly small town. Simple as that. And lets face it, East Texas ain't for everybody. Great facilities, talent everywhere and fans that love their hometown, one-horse team. I don't see many red flags in that equation.
  4. Contrary to popular belief, there were lots of questions posed to the applicants about all sports. Marshall needs a solid AD to get all of the sports back on track. The girls sports have been atrocious as of late and only got worse over Harper's 4 years, not better. It's time to be good.......in everything.
  5. I was told Hallsville had a handful of kids who ran a sub-5.0 forty last year. Might as well time 'em with a sundial. Ain't winning many games with that.
  6. Ontheinside, The second facilities bond passed with almost 60% of the vote and passed by almost 1,000 votes. Those numbers seem pretty supportive to me. The bond was highly contested, as is very tax increase in today's political climate. By this time next year, Marshall will have three brand new elementary schools, a renovated STEM academy, and a brand new 6-8th grade junior high (which will be the nicest junior high in East Texas). Every kid in kindergarten through 8th grade will be attending a new school. Word on the street is that renovations on the high school may even start this summer. In less than six or seven months, Marshall's facilities problems will be a thing of the past. And the stadium, Marshall has a beautiful Athletic Complex, which is only six or seven years old, new Field Turf, and a brand new video board. I could care less that the visitor's coaches sit outside or that the visitor's locker room isn't new. Neither one of those affect Marshall kids or Marshall coaches. Coaches do get conference periods in Marshall, but the days of coaches teaching PE are over. Welcome to state accountability. The vast majority of school districts can't support coaches who don't teach. Back in Marshall's hay day, the OC was a history teacher and the DC was a health teacher. Not sure why teaching a class is a big deal. There is a reason football is referred to as an "extra curricular" activity. Both 5A districts last year were train wrecks. Marshall's district was the worst 5A district in the state. All the teams were terrible. The right person at the right time can win lot's of football games in East Texas, a la Scott Surratt in Carthage. The key is finding that person. I totally agree with your last statement.
  7. MavChamp is right on the money. Nobody is assaulting Coach Richters or saying that he is a bad guy. He is a good man with great intentions. But for whatever reason, it didn't work for him as the head man in Marshall. His teams were abyssmal. We couldn't tackle. We had to call a time out on the first play of the season because we couldn't get lined up correctly and this happened for the past two years. In the last game of the season, we failed to field a kickoff, resulting in a turnover. This happened at least four times this year, and for whatever reason, was never fixed. Our practices were similar to attending a wake. We looked confused and out of sorts all the time. We would change offensive philosophies from series to series. There was nothing about this situation that appeared like it would get any better if Coach Richters received another year. Quite frankly, I believe the situation would have worsened. The kids and the community had lost faith in this staff. Sometimes, coaching staffs just don't fit. This is one of those examples. I also believe Smoaky is way off base in his statement that this reassignment is a great deal of turnover. Coach Harris and Coach Richters were both part of the Southern staff. That staff, in some form or fashion, has been in Marshall for ten years. We have hired our last two coaches from within that original staff. That is not coaching turnover, but an attempt to continue the successes of the Southern regime. Coach Harris would likely still be employed but for some off field issues. Nobody could have foreseen that Coach Richters' program would be in this position at the end of the 2012 season. It is the job of MISD to hire the best and most qualified individuals for each position so as to provide kids the opportunities to succeed. Success was not going to come under this regime, for whatever reason. I wish Coach Richters nothing but the best. He is a good football coach and a better man. It just didn't work out in Marshall. I hope he finds success at his next stop. I don't believe this will be his last head coaching gig.
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