Athletic Bowl is their greatest achievement so they need to claim something"Despite leading the Bears to a few BCS bowls. WTH? A few? Horrible, lazy writing.Since when is two, a few?
I'll never forget the day that a Russell Athletic bowl rep came by our tailgate and said he was pre-scouting (or something to that effect) and said we'd need to win at least 9 games to make it into their bowl, as he was asking for directions. This was 2014.Athletic Bowl is their greatest achievement so they need to claim something
They claim they’ve been to the Rose Bowl. They haven’t, but they claim it. They also didn’t rape.Athletic Bowl is their greatest achievement so they need to claim something
Perhaps it should have said "led them to a few BCS defeats". Regardless this guy is a crook. Everyone knows it but people in Waco and Mt. Vernon. News must travel slowly to those backwater towns."Despite leading the Bears to a few BCS bowls." WTH? A few? Horrible, lazy writing.Since when is two, a few?
You peoples need to be nice to F Art. His Mammy and his Pappy died in a car crash but he still sucked it up and played in the game. or some such.
Your hatred only reveals your own inadequacies.
Hey, no analogies comparing Briles to Frogs.If he is in hot water already, the key is to turn it up slowly so that he doesn't jump out. Before you know it, he'll be all done.
this is very interesting for a few reasons.
first, the complaint can only be filed by a member of the district and sometime in august the district approved the transfer of the four players prior to mount vernon.
that raises the question did something turn up that wasn't known in august or is someone from outside the uil district driving this second meeting.
kids move all the time and if people think players don't move for better programs and schools your are crazy.
atm's highest rated recruit (demond demas) is sitting out this year after transferring from north forest to tomball. north forest staff would not confirm the transfer wasn't for athletic reasons.
when demas was ruled ineligible he made it clear he wasn't going back to north forest and i don't blame him.
not defending briles in any way, but i am not sure these are cases of kids being recruited by briles and his staff.
one of the players grew up in mount vernon, moved to dallas and played at molina, and then moved back this year.
another one of the transfers is from out of state and the family moved to mt vernon.
i agree with brewingfrog that mt vernon's supt had to no he was inviting this type of scrutiny when he hired briles as indicated by announcing the hiring prior to the board meeting late on a friday.
For the most part you are completely correct in this post.
However, I can personally vouch for the fact that kids are recruited by high school coaches to come and play for them. We need look no further than our own back yard for that, with SR's history of moving teams in HS. Of course some will truly be moving just because of their parents job situation or a million other reasons for why people move. That being said, I can guarantee you that some of the people that are moving schools like that are looking for something. And that something is a coach that will get them on the field, no matter what. "If I can get on the field and show them what I can do, they'll help me get into the league! Then it won't matter what my grades were!" Briles has proven himself, time and again, to not care about the moral or academic fabric of the kids that are under him. "Just win. We can handle the rest, you just focus on football, son."
I would love to see the phone logs of these transfer kids, and see how many calls just "happen" to be from a Mt. Vernon area code some time after May 21st, specifically from a MVISD telephone. (Or a burner phone that had never contacted them before or since...) I'd also like to see a transcript of their classroom performance last year compared to this year, and how suddenly so many things are just "clicking" into place this year
Call me a cynic, but I trust this man about as far as I would trust a shark in a koi pond.