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Post by OCCNH on Aug 8, 2020 7:42:37 GMT -6
I was told he had kidney stones that became infected and cost him to become septic. Not cancer I’m not sure. I heard that from a Calallen Administrator who knew him well. I think he’s not been working for about 3 months. Irregardless it’s a shame. Yes Good guy.
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Post by FB fan on Aug 9, 2020 12:55:57 GMT -6
Latest tweet from Flour Bluff HC Steinbruck: "We will continue our workouts on Monday August 10th through Wednesday August 12th. Grades 10th-12th will workout from 8am-9:30am. Freshmen will workout from 9am-10am. Freshmen will need to arrive by 8:50am for your Covid-19 Screening."
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Post by FB fan on Aug 10, 2020 20:12:52 GMT -6
Flour Bluff schedule as posted with notice changes or any updates will follow:
Thursday 9/17/2020 Alice (Scrimmage) Home 7:30 PM
Friday 9/25/2020 Rockport Away 7:30 PM
Friday 10/2/2020 Victoria West Home 7:30 PM
Friday 10/9/2020 KingAway (Cabaniss) 7:30 PM
Friday 10/16/2020 Victoria East (Gold Game) Home 7:30 PM
Friday 10/23/2020 Gregory-Portland Away 7:30 PM
Friday 10/30/2020 Ray (Homecoming and Pink Game) Home 7:30 PM
Thursday 11/5/2020 Moody Away (Cabaniss) 7:00 PM
Friday 11/13/2020 Carroll (Cheer Clinic) Home 7:30 PM
Thursday 11/19/2020 CC Veterans Memorial Away (Buc) 7:00 PM
Friday 11/27/2020 Open
Friday 12/4/2020 Open
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Post by johnnys on Aug 12, 2020 20:05:49 GMT -6
Flour Bluff will be playing Rockport in Rockport on September 25th.
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Post by Saltydog on Aug 13, 2020 13:55:49 GMT -6
Corpus Christi Flour Bluff offensive lineman Johnny Dickson already holds offers from Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Texas A&M. In addition to playing football this season, Dickson will have to watch his younger brother while his mom goes on deployment for the Navy.
Aug 12 9:53 am Candace Dickson is bracing for the flood of tears that will inevitably stream down her face this December.
It’s then that the 13-year veteran of the U.S. Navy will embark on her fifth deployment, an 18-month tour that will keep her away from her adoring children, Johnny and Cameran Dickson.
“It’s been me, Johnny and Cameran for the last eight years,” she said. “So a big part of my heart will be staying in Texas while I’m overseas. I’m gonna cry like a baby for the first month until I get acclimated to a schedule. It’s going to be hard.”
An increase in parental responsibilities will fall on the broad shoulders of 16-year-old Johnny to look after his 13-year-old brother while the two stay with family friends in Corpus Christi.
It’s nothing that the 6-foot-3, 280-pound junior-to-be at Flour Bluff High School can’t handle though. He’s been the man of the Dickson household ever since his parents got a divorce and the three of them moved from Virginia Beach, Virginia to South Texas during his eighth grade year.
“I’m just going to have to watch my brother, which I’ve pretty much been doing my whole life anyway,” Johnny said.
He knows what’s expected of him. If he wants to continue to make a name for himself on the football field, he has to continue to prioritize academics first; mom’s orders.
“Johnny has to make sure he picks his brother up from practice, pick him up from school, make sure grades are still good; they’ll still be on my strict routine of doing homework as soon as you get home from practice,” his mother said. “They still know that if they get a C they have to sit out for six weeks until they get a B at the next progress report or if their grade goes back up. School to me is the most important.”
It’s extremely important to Johnny, too, which takes some of the stress out of the situation. He has a lot to play for as perhaps the biggest recruit in the Corpus Christi region for the Class of 2022.
247Sports has Dickson listed as the No. 49 player in the state for his class and the No. 10 guard in the country. There isn’t another recruit from the area ranked in the top 120.
“Every time I play I think about my mom and my family, my family and teammates,” he said. “When my mom and dad got a divorce, the only thing that took my mind off of it was football; it was my escape route. I see every day how hard my mom works for me and my brother. Right now, my dad lives in Alabama; he’s still in the picture. But my mom has been there.”
He already boasts offers from Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Texas A&M.
Flour Bluff head coach Chris Steinbruck fondly remembers the day that the buzz around his promising prospect started to register across the region.
“When we got back from quarantine on June 8, it happened to be raining that day and all the linemen took their shirts off to do drills. I told my offensive coordinator that Johnny looks like he got bigger during quarantine,” Steinbruck said. “What happened was, everything was shut down for about eight weeks, but [Johnny’s family] live on base, so he had access to the weight room facility on the base and continued to lift every single day.”
Steinbruck snapped some photos of Johnny and sent them to a couple of coaches who had long recruited Flour Bluff.
“And, all of a sudden, the phone started blowing up,” he said. “Coach [Josh] Henson at A&M was the first one to acknowledge that he may be the best guard or center in his class. Coach [Charlie] Dickey at Oklahoma State was the first to offer, then Coach [Bill] Bedenbaugh at Oklahoma offered, and then Coach Henson got Coach [Jimbo] Fisher to look at the film and they offered. I know TCU and Texas are really interested.”
The physical attributes are easy to see. He viewed himself as a receiver as an eighth grader and moved around well on the basketball court, according to Steinbruck.
“That’s helped him tremendously and is exactly what colleges are looking for, being able to block those big, athletic defensive linemen,” he said. “They love his athleticism, how fast he is and how good his feet are. Then, when you hear about his character, they’re wasting no time to offer.”
Speaking of that character, Dickson is the youngest player on Flour Bluff’s leadership council.
“For an underclassman to be on our leadership team you have to have high-character and a phenomenal work ethic, a guy that always puts the team before himself,” Steinbruck said.
Those are qualities Steinbruck sees in many of his players whose families live on the nearby Naval base.
“We have a lot of Navy kids here, and the quality I see in them is that they’re really resilient,” he said. “They can respond to adverse things well because they never know at any point in time their whole life can change.”
Dickson’s life will change in December, there’s no getting around that. But he’s well-equipped to persevere while his mother tends to her duties.
“His time, dedication and hard work are paying off, but he still has to stay humble and remember where he came from,” his mom said. “He doesn’t get a big head. He’s still grateful. He still has two more years to get going.”
Candace Dickson is scheduled to return from deployment in time for her son’s graduation. By then, there is no telling how many offers he’ll have accumulated.
Even though she won’t be home, the two will be in lock-step about his future.
“I want him to go where he will get the best degree, so if he doesn’t make the NFL he will have a career path that he’ll want to follow,” she said. “So that should impact where you go; don’t just go because you like the facility, the football field or the color. Go where they are going to help you after football.”
For now, Dickson is focused on the three offers he does have.
“More will come, but right now those three are the main ones that have reached out and they trust in me enough to give me an offer,” he said. “I look at all three schools the same way; they all have equal opportunity right now.”
Born in Virginia, Dickson said his family would trust him wherever he decided to go.
They’ll figure it out together, just like they always have.
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Post by Clemensbuff on Aug 13, 2020 14:18:40 GMT -6
This young man is wearing some awfully big pants already.
Hats off to him and the way he is handling himself. And a huge thank you to his mom for serving our country and giving up so much to do it.
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Post by picodegallo on Aug 13, 2020 15:14:28 GMT -6
This young man is wearing some awfully big pants already. Hats off to him and the way he is handling himself. And a huge thank you to his mom for serving our country and giving up so much to do it. You Bluff Rats take care of this kid..... We need more like this.
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Post by Clemensbuff on Aug 14, 2020 5:47:18 GMT -6
This young man is wearing some awfully big pants already. Hats off to him and the way he is handling himself. And a huge thank you to his mom for serving our country and giving up so much to do it. You Bluff Rats take care of this kid..... We need more like this. No doubt I'd imagine this young man and his little brother will have plenty of 'temporary parents' that will be watching out for them while their mom is away.
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Post by FB fan on Aug 14, 2020 8:38:22 GMT -6
You Bluff Rats take care of this kid..... We need more like this. No doubt I'd imagine this young man and his little brother will have plenty of 'temporary parents' that will be watching out for them while their mom is away. They live in base housing on the Naval Air Station Corpus Christi. They have Navy and Flour Bluff "family" support.
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Post by j4212 on Aug 14, 2020 20:30:08 GMT -6
Looks to be a good online this year with a couple of big athletic fill ins to replace the graduates of last year. At this point I’m just praying we still have a season, and can move on with some normalcy.
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Post by FB fan on Aug 17, 2020 8:31:53 GMT -6
I guess Flour Bluff has moved beyond the never been heard of stage. Two scholarships offers this week indicate that's the case. One from Long Island University New York the other Puget Sound University in Tacoma Washington.
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Post by picodegallo on Aug 17, 2020 8:42:17 GMT -6
I guess Flour Bluff has moved beyond the never been heard of stage. Two scholarships offers this week indicate that's the case. One from Long Island University New York the other Puget Sound University in Tacoma Washington. I've noticed this on Twitter with several South Texas athletes. What gives with the sudden interest from schools like these two and a few others who are unheard of on the grid iron much less even knowing they existed as a school in the first place? I've seen a few offers from Valaprasio in Indiana, but they are known for having a basketball program which causes some chaos in March madness. None the less this is a good thing that more kids are getting noticed and are given a chance to continue their passions and expand their horizons.
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Post by Clemensbuff on Aug 17, 2020 9:05:41 GMT -6
I guess Flour Bluff has moved beyond the never been heard of stage. Two scholarships offers this week indicate that's the case. One from Long Island University New York the other Puget Sound University in Tacoma Washington. I've noticed this on Twitter with several South Texas athletes. What gives with the sudden interest from schools like these two and a few others who are unheard of on the grid iron much less even knowing they existed as a school in the first place? I've seen a few offers from Valaprasio in Indiana, but they are known for having a basketball program which causes some chaos in March madness. None the less this is a good thing that more kids are getting noticed and are given a chance to continue their passions and expand their horizons. Definitely a very good thing for these young men for sure!
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Post by FB fan on Aug 17, 2020 20:06:25 GMT -6
I guess Flour Bluff has moved beyond the never been heard of stage. Two scholarships offers this week indicate that's the case. One from Long Island University New York the other Puget Sound University in Tacoma Washington. I've noticed this on Twitter with several South Texas athletes. What gives with the sudden interest from schools like these two and a few others who are unheard of on the grid iron much less even knowing they existed as a school in the first place? I've seen a few offers from Valaprasio in Indiana, but they are known for having a basketball program which causes some chaos in March madness. None the less this is a good thing that more kids are getting noticed and are given a chance to continue their passions and expand their horizons. Yep. FB has two with offers from Valaprasio.
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Post by Clemensbuff on Aug 18, 2020 6:59:03 GMT -6
I've noticed this on Twitter with several South Texas athletes. What gives with the sudden interest from schools like these two and a few others who are unheard of on the grid iron much less even knowing they existed as a school in the first place? I've seen a few offers from Valaprasio in Indiana, but they are known for having a basketball program which causes some chaos in March madness. None the less this is a good thing that more kids are getting noticed and are given a chance to continue their passions and expand their horizons. Yep. FB has two with offers from Valaprasio. I honestly didn't know they even had a football program. I guess that is no different though than a lot of folks from other areas probably don't have a clue that UTSA has a program. This is great for these young men, especially if they are getting their education partly or fully paid for to play ball!
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