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Post by picodegallo on Dec 20, 2019 13:41:48 GMT -6
On a separate topic,surprised ,but glad,to see theTexas A&I Javelinas( A&I ‘till I die)hired former hoggie,Michael Salinas to be their next HC.Salinas was a long time successful RGV high school , football coach,built Edinburg Vela into the Valley power it is today,last coached at Weslaco High in 2018.Hoggies have no place to go but up. It's a horrible hire. Has no College HC experience and never was a coordinator in college and was out of coaching until now. The Javs will not be back to where they need to be if ever.
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Post by coyotes2019 on Dec 20, 2019 13:48:55 GMT -6
On a separate topic,surprised ,but glad,to see theTexas A&I Javelinas( A&I ‘till I die)hired former hoggie,Michael Salinas to be their next HC.Salinas was a long time successful RGV high school , football coach,built Edinburg Vela into the Valley power it is today,last coached at Weslaco High in 2018.Hoggies have no place to go but up. It's a horrible hire. Has no College HC experience and never was a coordinator in college and was out of coaching until now. The Javs will not be back to where they need to be if ever. I have to agree! I was shocked when I saw that! Oh what A&I has become!!
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Post by Coyotes2018 on Dec 20, 2019 14:02:29 GMT -6
On a separate topic,surprised ,but glad,to see theTexas A&I Javelinas( A&I ‘till I die)hired former hoggie,Michael Salinas to be their next HC.Salinas was a long time successful RGV high school , football coach,built Edinburg Vela into the Valley power it is today,last coached at Weslaco High in 2018.Hoggies have no place to go but up. It's a horrible hire. Has no College HC experience and never was a coordinator in college and was out of coaching until now. The Javs will not be back to where they need to be if ever. tamuk had a write up for him and it seems he was the defensive coordinator of west texas a&m back in 2005 so he does have some experience as a coordinator in college..I'm surprised by the hire but tamuk football has been horrible the last few years
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Post by picodegallo on Dec 20, 2019 14:24:30 GMT -6
It's a horrible hire. Has no College HC experience and never was a coordinator in college and was out of coaching until now. The Javs will not be back to where they need to be if ever. tamuk had a write up for him and it seems he was the defensive coordinator of west texas a&m back in 2005 so he does have some experience as a coordinator in college..I'm surprised by the hire but tamuk football has been horrible the last few years From what I heard, a good Head Coach from the college ranks and and Offensive Cord were choices number one and two and they turned the job down because the school was not serious about increasing the recruiting budget and other issues like facilities. These two items right here have hurt the program the most.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2019 14:50:07 GMT -6
Talent will definitely not be a problem at least for the next 3-4 seasons. Now let’s just hope AISD hires the right coach. Alice has talent to spare... at the skill positions. But that's never really been Alice's problem. The linemen are never strong enough for teams like Calallen that can push you around.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2019 14:54:08 GMT -6
On a separate topic,surprised ,but glad,to see theTexas A&I Javelinas( A&I ‘till I die)hired former hoggie,Michael Salinas to be their next HC.Salinas was a long time successful RGV high school , football coach,built Edinburg Vela into the Valley power it is today,last coached at Weslaco High in 2018.Hoggies have no place to go but up. It's a horrible hire. Has no College HC experience and never was a coordinator in college and was out of coaching until now. The Javs will not be back to where they need to be if ever. A&M K still has the talent. I filmed the Tarleton game and they barely lost to that #4 team. How can they play the #4 team close yet get massacred by average teams? They have a motivation problem from what I saw when I was on the sidelines. There wasn't any ra ra guys or coaches on that sideline. If Salinas is a motivator then hes already better than what they had.
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Post by picodegallo on Dec 20, 2019 15:16:24 GMT -6
It's a horrible hire. Has no College HC experience and never was a coordinator in college and was out of coaching until now. The Javs will not be back to where they need to be if ever. A&M K still has the talent. I filmed the Tarleton game and they barely lost to that #4 team. How can they play the #4 team close yet get massacred by average teams? They have a motivation problem from what I saw when I was on the sidelines. There wasn't any ra ra guys or coaches on that sideline. If Salinas is a motivator then hes already better than what they had. I agree they still have some talent. But they need more along with a bunch of infrastructure improvements to help bring that talent down here. The other two who were finalist could not get a guarantee the school was committed to doing this. From what I understand, the recruiting budget is half of what other LSC schools have too. They can't just rely on local players and have to recruit more the better high school football regions of the state and the JUCO and they can't do it on a thin budget. And their is really no need for them to be like this from what I hear as well. The current and former administrations are just not football people. And Tarleton kinds of sucked at the end of the season. They lost in the first round of the playoffs and looked like a team that didn't want to be there.
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Post by picodegallo on Dec 26, 2019 22:01:38 GMT -6
It's a horrible hire. Has no College HC experience and never was a coordinator in college and was out of coaching until now. The Javs will not be back to where they need to be if ever. I have to agree! I was shocked when I saw that! Oh what A&I has become!! Very bad search. I’ve learned a very well funded group of alumni we’re trying to lure a big name coach down there and had secured enough money to pay his contract, but the administration balked at the last minute and rushed this new hire. The administration is very anti football. I also heard some of the same groups along with some investors want to build a convention center, hotel and stadium complex on campus and they are hesitant to do so because of the way things have gone down. I mean the dollar amount they are talking about for the complex would put Kingsville back on the map and would be the showcase venue for all of South Texas. The leader is very successful alumni member who made his money in banking and had 70% of the project committed.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2019 8:51:16 GMT -6
I have to agree! I was shocked when I saw that! Oh what A&I has become!! Very bad search. I’ve learned a very well funded group of alumni we’re trying to lure a big name coach down there and had secured enough money to pay his contract, but the administration balked at the last minute and rushed this new hire. The administration is very anti football. I also heard some of the same groups along with some investors want to build a convention center, hotel and stadium complex on campus and they are hesitant to do so because of the way things have gone down. I mean the dollar amount they are talking about for the complex would put Kingsville back on the map and would be the showcase venue for all of South Texas. The leader is very successful alumni member who made his money in banking and had 70% of the project committed. Stadium complex? A new stadium?
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Post by picodegallo on Dec 27, 2019 9:16:52 GMT -6
Very bad search. I’ve learned a very well funded group of alumni we’re trying to lure a big name coach down there and had secured enough money to pay his contract, but the administration balked at the last minute and rushed this new hire. The administration is very anti football. I also heard some of the same groups along with some investors want to build a convention center, hotel and stadium complex on campus and they are hesitant to do so because of the way things have gone down. I mean the dollar amount they are talking about for the complex would put Kingsville back on the map and would be the showcase venue for all of South Texas. The leader is very successful alumni member who made his money in banking and had 70% of the project committed. Stadium complex? A new stadium? New stadium, training facilities, locker rooms, etc. I think what they envisioned would tie in the convention center, hotel and stadium into a complex. Not sure if the convention center is supposed to replace the SPEC which is the main gym on campus. I'm going to try to get some more info on this. None the less if they can get their crap together down there, this would be a huge game changer for our region as far as having a stadium which could rival some of the better ones in the state on the small college level which would make it a destination stadium for high school playoffs, etc.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2019 10:22:02 GMT -6
Stadium complex? A new stadium? New stadium, training facilities, locker rooms, etc. I think what they envisioned would tie in the convention center, hotel and stadium into a complex. Not sure if the convention center is supposed to replace the SPEC which is the main gym on campus. I'm going to try to get some more info on this. None the less if they can get their crap together down there, this would be a huge game changer for our region as far as having a stadium which could rival some of the better ones in the state on the small college level which would make it a destination stadium for high school playoffs, etc. They should get John Randle and Darrell Green to get involved with some fundraising type of stuff. Just getting their names involved would have influence.
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Post by picodegallo on Dec 27, 2019 12:07:09 GMT -6
New stadium, training facilities, locker rooms, etc. I think what they envisioned would tie in the convention center, hotel and stadium into a complex. Not sure if the convention center is supposed to replace the SPEC which is the main gym on campus. I'm going to try to get some more info on this. None the less if they can get their crap together down there, this would be a huge game changer for our region as far as having a stadium which could rival some of the better ones in the state on the small college level which would make it a destination stadium for high school playoffs, etc. They should get John Randle and Darrell Green to get involved with some fundraising type of stuff. Just getting their names involved would have influence. No doubt that might help. I hope it can be put together and done. It would be a huge boost for the area and possibly shift some of the playoff games south instead of automatically being defaulted to San Antonio.
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Post by coyotes71 on Dec 29, 2019 12:03:34 GMT -6
On a separate topic,surprised ,but glad,to see theTexas A&I Javelinas( A&I ‘till I die)hired former hoggie,Michael Salinas to be their next HC.Salinas was a long time successful RGV high school , football coach,built Edinburg Vela into the Valley power it is today,last coached at Weslaco High in 2018.Hoggies have no place to go but up. It's a horrible hire. Has no College HC experience and never was a coordinator in college and was out of coaching until now. The Javs will not be back to where they need to be if ever. Glad in the sense that A&I will finally give a Hispanic a chance to be HC,if he doesn’t get the job done,so be it,at least he was given a shot.Pretty certain A&I is still predominantly Hispanic,I think he will improve the program.Don’ t recall the Alice Coyotes ever having a Hispanic Head Football Coach until Chris Soza was hired.Politics( and injures) curtailed his tenure at Alice.I think a good high school football coach can have success at the next level ( especially DII)
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Post by picodegallo on Dec 30, 2019 8:57:05 GMT -6
It's a horrible hire. Has no College HC experience and never was a coordinator in college and was out of coaching until now. The Javs will not be back to where they need to be if ever. Glad in the sense that A&I will finally give a Hispanic a chance to be HC,if he doesn’t get the job done,so be it,at least he was given a shot.Pretty certain A&I is still predominantly Hispanic,I think he will improve the program.Don’ t recall the Alice Coyotes ever having a Hispanic Head Football Coach until Chris Soza was hired.Politics( and injures) curtailed his tenure at Alice.I think a good high school football coach can have success at the next level ( especially DII) They could hire whomever and crap isn't going to improve down there unless they give him a recruiting budget which they cut seven years ago and new facilties to compete against other colleges in the state. The last two coaches for which one was Anglo and the other African American were given the same crap sandwich Salinas has been given. None of the changes will occur down there until the current AD and President are ran out of town. Like I said, this is a bad hire in the sense Salinas has been away from the college game for several years and he was the last man standing from a group of current college HC and seasoned coordinators who pulled out because the current administration was not being straight with them.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2019 11:09:17 GMT -6
They could hire whomever and crap isn't going to improve down there unless they give him a recruiting budget which they cut seven years ago and new facilties to compete against other colleges in the state. The last two coaches for which one was Anglo and the other African American were given the same crap sandwich Salinas has been given. None of the changes will occur down there until the current AD and President are ran out of town. Like I said, this is a bad hire in the sense Salinas has been away from the college game for several years and he was the last man standing from a group of current college HC and seasoned coordinators who pulled out because the current administration was not being straight with them. Its gotta be hard enough as it is to convince kids to move to Kingsville and its just that much harder if you don't have bad ass facilities that stand out. They need a legit stadium like that one West Texas A&M got.
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