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Post by Clemensbuff on Aug 23, 2011 16:29:26 GMT -6
Well, my son had his 1st official football practice today at Dobie MS which is Steele's lone feeder school. The 7th grade actually practices before school and 1st period and he had to be there at 6:15 and on the field ready to go at 6:45. The 8th grade practices after school.
They have redrawn the border for feeding STeele and SC to try and steer some of the students out of Steele and back into SC so their 7th grade class has about 100 students less then last year's 7th grade class. However, they have about 60 more players in this class then last years. They have over 180 7th grade boys out for football this year!
When I was at this same school some 28 years ago, we (Clemens) were a 5a school fed by both Dobie and O'Henry Middle Schools. We had about 40- players at Dobie and OH had about 40- players in 7th grade. Now, Dobie alone has close to 200. My my my, how times have changed in SCUCISD! Simply amazing participation going on right now in the Steele program!
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Post by FB fan on Aug 23, 2011 17:33:22 GMT -6
Well, my son had his 1st official football practice today at Dobie MS which is Steele's lone feeder school. The 7th grade actually practices before school and 1st period and he had to be there at 6:15 and on the field ready to go at 6:45. The 8th grade practices after school. They have redrawn the border for feeding STeele and SC to try and steer some of the students out of Steele and back into SC so their 7th grade class has about 100 students less then last year's 7th grade class. However, they have about 60 more players in this class then last years. They have over 180 7th grade boys out for football this year! When I was at this same school some 28 years ago, we (Clemens) were a 5a school fed by both Dobie and O'Henry Middle Schools. We had about 40- players at Dobie and OH had about 40- players in 7th grade. Now, Dobie alone has close to 200. My my my, how times have changed in SCUCISD! Simply amazing participation going on right now in the Steele program! That is the way we did it in 7th grade. We had to be there early and have 1st period as PE.
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Post by johnnyduval on Aug 24, 2011 6:56:12 GMT -6
Congrats Clem...it's going to be a fun ride my friend. Get ready because your feed bill is going up!
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Post by Clemensbuff on Aug 25, 2011 6:46:16 GMT -6
Congrats Clem...it's going to be a fun ride my friend. Get ready because your feed bill is going up! Thanks JD Hey, my boy was dead asleep yesterday when I got home at 6:30. He slept until I woke him up at 5:20 this morning to take him to practice. He said that the coaches worked their butts off and that 30-40 kids left the field and went into the air conditioned gym to sit out. Me thinks that with only 3 7th grade coaches they are going to see which kids out of the 180+ really wanna be football players! LOL I think they may be down 30-50 players by the time the 1st game comes around!
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Post by OCCNH on Aug 25, 2011 7:11:09 GMT -6
Congrats Clem...it's going to be a fun ride my friend. Get ready because your feed bill is going up! Thanks JD Hey, my boy was dead asleep yesterday when I got home at 6:30. He slept until I woke him up at 5:20 this morning to take him to practice. He said that the coaches worked their butts off and that 30-40 kids left the field and went into the air conditioned gym to sit out. Me thinks that with only 3 7th grade coaches they are going to see which kids out of the 180+ really wanna be football players! LOL I think they may be down 30-50 players by the time the 1st game comes around! A younger version of the Junction Boys? LOL I remember us only getting one water break and a handful of salt tablets. At the time that's was what they thought we needed.
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Post by FB fan on Aug 25, 2011 7:56:31 GMT -6
Awww Crap......I forgot the salt tablets. Yuck.
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Post by Clemensbuff on Aug 25, 2011 19:42:10 GMT -6
A younger version of the Junction Boys? LOL I remember us only getting one water break and a handful of salt tablets. At the time that's was what they thought we needed. LOL Yeah, our 1 water break consisted of stepping up to an outside, non-cooled, hotter then hell water fountain and the coach counting out 1, 2, 3 in a total of about 1.5 seconds and slapping you on the back of the helmet to move your --- so the next guy could go! I promise you that we did not get more then 2 oz of hot flippin water! LMAO Somehow, I don't believe that would work in today's world!
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Post by Clemensbuff on Aug 31, 2011 8:27:39 GMT -6
Well, my boy made the A team so that is pretty cool. Pretty proud of him since he's never played organized ball and many of these kids have been playing football for 3-4 years or more. I think he'll play DE this year. I heard they had about 30 or so kids drop out so they are down to a very small number of players at about 150+. LOL
At parents meeting last Friday afternoon, the coaches said they'd structure the teams as follows:
A Team 30-35 kids B Team 50-60 kids C Team 50-60 kids
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Post by 278ibewfb on Aug 31, 2011 8:41:49 GMT -6
Well, my boy made the A team so that is pretty cool. Pretty proud of him since he's never played organized ball and many of these kids have been playing football for 3-4 years or more. I think he'll play DE this year. I heard they had about 30 or so kids drop out so they are down to a very small number of players at about 150+. LOL At parents meeting last Friday afternoon, the coaches said they'd structure the teams as follows: A Team 30-35 kids B Team 50-60 kids C Team 50-60 kids Man that great, i remember when mine made the a team in 7th also never played organized ball made my head swell, by the way is he a big old oger like you
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Post by Clemensbuff on Aug 31, 2011 13:08:26 GMT -6
Man that great, i remember when mine made the a team in 7th also never played organized ball made my head swell, by the way is he a big old oger like you [/quote] ROFLMAO No, my heads not swelled yet, but I'm proud of his effort so far. Lots and lots of talent right now rolling through the Steele pipeline. He's got some size but not like papa yet. He's bout 5'7, maybe 5'8 and 140. Pretty dang strong for his size with narrow waste and broad shoulders. He's just now hitting the growth spurt and actually was same height as his soph sister when summer started and is now about 2" taller. He should really put it on the next 1.5 to 2 years. Dr says he should end up 6'2"-6'4" but I don't put a whole lot of stock in that though. LOL If so, he should be able to carry 230-250 easily and still have pretty good wheels.
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Post by 5001 on Aug 31, 2011 17:33:03 GMT -6
Well, my son had his 1st official football practice today at Dobie MS which is Steele's lone feeder school. The 7th grade actually practices before school and 1st period and he had to be there at 6:15 and on the field ready to go at 6:45. The 8th grade practices after school. They have redrawn the border for feeding STeele and SC to try and steer some of the students out of Steele and back into SC so their 7th grade class has about 100 students less then last year's 7th grade class. However, they have about 60 more players in this class then last years. They have over 180 7th grade boys out for football this year! When I was at this same school some 28 years ago, we (Clemens) were a 5a school fed by both Dobie and O'Henry Middle Schools. We had about 40- players at Dobie and OH had about 40- players in 7th grade. Now, Dobie alone has close to 200. My my my, how times have changed in SCUCISD! Simply amazing participation going on right now in the Steele program! We don't have A, B & C, we have Black, Gray and White, but the same participation numbers at Hudson Bend MS and LTMS. If I didn't know any better, I would say someone over there recently won a STATE CHAMPIONSHIP . Steele keeps winning, participation will stay thru the roof. Big participation = Big pipeline = High caliber teams = CHAMPIONSHIP seasons = Big participation . . . . . . you probably already know this. I am supprised that Steele has only one feeder, are the two MS giant sized, like over 1500 students?
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Post by Clemensbuff on Sept 1, 2011 7:30:17 GMT -6
We don't have A, B & C, we have Black, Gray and White, but the same participation numbers at Hudson Bend MS and LTMS. If I didn't know any better, I would say someone over there recently won a STATE CHAMPIONSHIP . Steele keeps winning, participation will stay thru the roof. Big participation = Big pipeline = High caliber teams = CHAMPIONSHIP seasons = Big participation . . . . . . you probably already know this. I am supprised that Steele has only one feeder, are the two MS giant sized, like over 1500 students? In SCUCISD we have two middle schools, Dobie feeds Steele and Corbett feeds SC. Both schools house only 7th and 8th grade, 6th graders attend intermediate schools. Dobie was built either in the very late 70s or early 80s and Corbett has about a 3 year old rebuilt campus. The funny thing is that Dobie is way overcrowded while Corbett has room for several hundred more kids. Just like the STeele campus is overcrowded by a couple hundred while Clemens has room for about 500 more kids! Crazy........huh! Somebody didn't do their jobs very well on demography now did they!!!!! I believe Dobie has probably has between 1000 & 1100 kids and I think Corbett is under 1000 still but the numbers should begin to turn as redrawing of the borderlines is in the very near future to redirect traffic. To answer your question directly, I believe Dobie is probably designed to handle about 1K students, Corbett is probably 1200 or more. Corbett is a beautiful new campus located on about 25 acres just S of Schertz on FM 1518. Dobie is located on the same street as Clemens is about 1 mile east towards Cibolo. My brother's son is playing 7th grade football at Corbett yet lives only about 1.5 miles from Dobie................and about 5 miles from Corbett! LMAO serious demographic issues man!
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Post by Clemensbuff on Sept 14, 2011 7:59:35 GMT -6
My kid's team played their 1st ever game yesterday in Seguin. It went pretty well I guess. Our D allowed a total of -23 yards offense for the game and we scored on our 1st 4 touches of the ball. 1st TD was on a 50 yd punt return and next 3 were two different RBs on 3 successive offense run plays! They ran the clock non stop from about 3 min remaining in the 2nd qtr (we were up 32-0 and hadn't been tackled yet, even on 2 point conversions) until the end of the game. Our 2nd team played the entire 2nd half and still scored 2 offensive TDs on 7 plays and totalled about 110 yds of offense. The competition level should go way up the next three weeks facing New Braunfels and Smithson Valley middle schools. We have some SERIOUS SPEED AND SIZE to put it mildly. #1 RB is about 5'6", 135 and his pops told me he is running 4.8-4.9 right now. Kid is strong and has great balance. Our largest kid is about 6'1", maybe 6'2" and about 220 lbs. He ran one play at FB on a 2 pt try and carried the ball like it was a candy bar in his right hand while running over a defensive kid that was about 150 lbs at the goal line. Not fair at all. Our two best RBs got two touches each and took each to the house. 46-0 final B team.....36-0 final and they ran the clock continous as well in 2nd half.
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Post by johnnyduval on Sept 14, 2011 12:47:28 GMT -6
Congrats Clem!! We have room for your second and third teamers down here so don't forget about us!
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Post by 5001 on Sept 14, 2011 17:22:50 GMT -6
Congratulations. Tripod, video camera, cell phone camera, donβt worry about the rain gear, and you might invest in a really good stadium seat. Keep us posted.
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