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Post by bluecat on Dec 14, 2020 8:21:38 GMT -6
Over the years there have been far too many below the belt and derisive comments about GP to EVER convince me that he supports GP in any way. I still say someone at GP hurt his feelings or pissed him off and now he vents his negative crap on this board. I think he cares about the GP program ... I just don’t understand why he disses Harris so much and puts Anastacio on a pedestal. The era of larger than life coaches is mostly winded down. There is no long term loyalty to a program and the ones who remain like Coach Danaher, Randy Allen, etc are becoming a rare breed. You will see less coaching trees because of this too. Oh there’s no doubt he cares about the athletes at GP. Coaches and staff are paid coaches and that’s the difference. Harris was a good coach and Anastacio was a good technical coach but he had some issues personally with the wrong folks. 37 keeps referring to some coaches of some of the top programs in Texas to make comparisons to some not as good. A truly good program is run just like a well run business. The CEO is the Supt and the HC is the COO who operates the program. Assts are managers who trains the athletes and are hired by their specialty, offense, defense or special teams. The programs of the Allman,Allen’s and Surratts are some of the best high school coaches in Texas. They want to learn coaching at a very high level. Everyone of those coaches could easily sign on with other programs and make much more money. They choose to stay on staff because they want to be the best coach they can be. Every premier program is run this way and that’s why they are successful.
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Post by picodegallo on Dec 14, 2020 9:01:17 GMT -6
I think he cares about the GP program ... I just don’t understand why he disses Harris so much and puts Anastacio on a pedestal. The era of larger than life coaches is mostly winded down. There is no long term loyalty to a program and the ones who remain like Coach Danaher, Randy Allen, etc are becoming a rare breed. You will see less coaching trees because of this too. Oh there’s no doubt he cares about the athletes at GP. Coaches and staff are paid coaches and that’s the difference. Harris was a good coach and Anastacio was a good technical coach but he had some issues personally with the wrong folks. 37 keeps referring to some coaches of some of the top programs in Texas to make comparisons to some not as good. A truly good program is run just like a well run business. The CEO is the Supt and the HC is the COO who operates the program. Assts are managers who trains the athletes and are hired by their specialty, offense, defense or special teams. The programs of the Allman,Allen’s and Surratts are some of the best high school coaches in Texas. They want to learn coaching at a very high level. Everyone of those coaches could easily sign on with other programs and make much more money. They choose to stay on staff because they want to be the best coach they can be. Every premier program is run this way and that’s why they are successful. Good points.... But it's a shame you all had a chance to do this at GP with a coach who was at the top of his game when brought down this way. Indeed as in business sometime the dream CEO doesn't end up fixing the ship... JC Penny hired one of the Apple big dogs and he made things worse. It's not that he was dumb, it was the landscape from tech to clothing retail is a different enviroment.
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Post by bluecat on Dec 14, 2020 9:19:12 GMT -6
Oh there’s no doubt he cares about the athletes at GP. Coaches and staff are paid coaches and that’s the difference. Harris was a good coach and Anastacio was a good technical coach but he had some issues personally with the wrong folks. 37 keeps referring to some coaches of some of the top programs in Texas to make comparisons to some not as good. A truly good program is run just like a well run business. The CEO is the Supt and the HC is the COO who operates the program. Assts are managers who trains the athletes and are hired by their specialty, offense, defense or special teams. The programs of the Allman,Allen’s and Surratts are some of the best high school coaches in Texas. They want to learn coaching at a very high level. Everyone of those coaches could easily sign on with other programs and make much more money. They choose to stay on staff because they want to be the best coach they can be. Every premier program is run this way and that’s why they are successful. Good points.... But it's a shame you all had a chance to do this at GP with a coach who was at the top of his game when brought down this way. Indeed as in business sometime the dream CEO doesn't end up fixing the ship... JC Penny hired one of the Apple big dogs and he made things worse. It's not that he was dumb, it was the landscape from tech to clothing retail is a different enviroment. As in business or athletics from top to bottom everyone has to have a plan and a vision. To be honest I do not thing the coaches and the administration even had a plan and if they did it was poorly run.
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Post by gp37 on Dec 14, 2020 9:52:14 GMT -6
As you can see when you try to defend or answer one of these attacks,negative comments against, you wind up bogged down and if you answer it is like digging yourself a hole and to solve the problem you give up and walk away and stop digging. gp37/wfcoyote does not care about the kids at GP. There was a teen that had health issues long with ADHD and my grand daughter who was a school teacher at the time put on a fund raiser fro him and his family. She was really good at it. They also had a deal at Chili's where 10% of revenue for that day went to him. He played football in junior high. He was tall and good looking kid and he had played QB in little league and Coach Jimmy Moore had him play defense in Junior High and he was upset and considered quitting and I recommended he keep playing and he might could play QB in High school. If I am a HC, the fastest way a junior high coach to get a pink slip is to tell me that some kid is not good enough to make varsity. Anyway I found out he dropped football and I talked to him and the doctor recommend he drop football because of his allergies. I,m having to mind my own business and not get cross ways with the parents but I gave him the book "Finish Strong" by Dan Green. I wanted him to make his own decision in case he might want tell the doctor to go pound sand. I have not seen his name pop up in football and I need to follow up on his latest. I wanted to motivate him to be the best he can be. I got the idea of the book from Drew Brees autobiography. I also sent a copy to Coach Sam Harrell. I also sent Coach Sam Harrell a picture of a Brownwood varsity player in the stands watching a Junior High game with his tee shirt that he wears under his pads that said "Wood Tough' on the back. Coach Sam Harrell emailed me a thank you. Coach Sam Harrell has been through a lot with his MS. I don't think he needs motivation but I let him know he has someone looking over his shoulder and cheering him on. He was playing Aledo the next week. Coach Tom Allen of Sinton has a different version of MS and had to retire early. I have another goal of not minding my own business and getting him together with Coach Sam Harrell and find out if the same treatment that Sam got would work on Coach Tom Allen. He's got Multiple System Atrophy, which is similar to ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease. The FDA has not approved the stem cell treatment that is used in Panama. Coach Sam Harrell said don't listen to the experts. President Donald did not listen to the experts that said it would take 5 years to develop a vaccine for Covid 19. The treatments coat $20,000 a pop and takes about 4 weeks in Panama. Ennis took uo $100,000 for Coach Sam Harrell. His 3rd treatment was successful. Fund raising would not be a problem in Sinton. I would ask Sintonfan to chip in.
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Post by wfcoyote on Dec 14, 2020 13:26:44 GMT -6
I received feed back on Logan that I mentioned above and he is working,hunting,fishing.
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Post by gpfan55 on Dec 14, 2020 15:08:19 GMT -6
I think he cares about the GP program ... I just don’t understand why he disses Harris so much and puts Anastacio on a pedestal. The era of larger than life coaches is mostly winded down. There is no long term loyalty to a program and the ones who remain like Coach Danaher, Randy Allen, etc are becoming a rare breed. You will see less coaching trees because of this too. Oh there’s no doubt he cares about the athletes at GP. Coaches and staff are paid coaches and that’s the difference. Harris was a good coach and Anastacio was a good technical coach but he had some issues personally with the wrong folks. 37 keeps referring to some coaches of some of the top programs in Texas to make comparisons to some not as good. A truly good program is run just like a well run business. The CEO is the Supt and the HC is the COO who operates the program. Assts are managers who trains the athletes and are hired by their specialty, offense, defense or special teams. The programs of the Allman,Allen’s and Surratts are some of the best high school coaches in Texas. They want to learn coaching at a very high level. Everyone of those coaches could easily sign on with other programs and make much more money. They choose to stay on staff because they want to be the best coach they can be. Every premier program is run this way and that’s why they are successful. Guess we'll have to agree to disagree. Too many negative comments to take back.
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Post by gp37 on Dec 14, 2020 18:23:57 GMT -6
"Good grief Charlie Brown". The question what happened to the storied GP program keeps popping up". I give my analysis and I am dissing the coach are making negative comments. It was obvious that Coach George Harris run a soft program. If that is being negative or dissing the coach by telling the truth so be it. You saw what happened when Coach Matt Anastacio came in working the kids hard and instilling discipline. If I remember correctly Coach Rhoades came in and did the same thing and then backed off. The assistant coaches had to shave mustache among other things.
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Post by CC_Varmints on Dec 15, 2020 5:51:45 GMT -6
"Good grief Charlie Brown". The question what happened to the storied GP program keeps popping up". I give my analysis and I am dissing the coach are making negative comments. It was obvious that Coach George Harris run a soft program. If that is being negative or dissing the coach by telling the truth so be it. You saw what happened when Coach Matt Anastacio came in working the kids hard and instilling discipline. If I remember correctly Coach Rhoades came in and did the same thing and then backed off. The assistant coaches had to shave mustache among other things. No, it's obvious on your disdain for Coach Harris and your Love Affair with Coach Anastacio.
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Post by OCCNH on Dec 15, 2020 6:31:37 GMT -6
Hash and rehash. Booster club needs to meet with the Supt. Get something worth talking about and start the process. Otherwise the longest GP thread will be the same as it has been for the passed several years.
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Post by wfcoyote on Dec 15, 2020 7:08:14 GMT -6
“It’s like wipin with a bicycle inner tube, they ain’t no end to it”. I see posters criticism of me for my disdain for Coach George Harris that had disdain for the coach at Flour Bluff years ago. I remember talkeing up for the coach at Flour Bluff. I felt like he was doing the best with what he has. I have made comments about the coaching at VM because I felt like they had better talent than the results they were getting. What is wrong with my love affair with Coach Matt Anastacio. Glad somebody did.
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Post by OCCNH on Dec 15, 2020 7:22:15 GMT -6
“It’s like wipin with a bicycle inner tube, they ain’t no end to it”. I see posters criticism of me for my disdain for Coach George Harris that had disdain for the coach at Flour Bluff years ago. I remember talkeing up for the coach at Flour Bluff. I felt like he was doing the best with what he has. I have made comments about the coaching at VM because I felt like they had better talent than the results they were getting. What is wrong with my love affair with Coach Matt Anastacio. Glad somebody did. If I might say. He’s gone. His fault, supts fault, kids fault or no one’s fault. He’s gone. Just like Harris and just like it appears Rhoades is too. WHY? Fix the problem and quit dwelling on the past. That’s what a lot of your other GP posters telling you.
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Post by gpjarvis on Dec 15, 2020 7:44:30 GMT -6
"Good grief Charlie Brown". The question what happened to the storied GP program keeps popping up". I give my analysis and I am dissing the coach are making negative comments. It was obvIious that Coach George Harris run a soft program. If that is being negative or dissing the coach by telling the truth so be it. You saw what happened when Coach Matt Anastacio came in working the kids hard and instilling discipline. If I remember correctly Coach Rhoades came in and did the same thing and then backed off. The assistant coaches had to shave mustache among other things. The difference is that Coach Harris WON!!! I don't know what you're problem is with Coach Harris, critizie him all you want...he won. Has any coach since Harris had a team ranked in the top 20 in the state?!?! Hell has GP even been ranked since Harris? You're going to tell me that we had better athletes then? It had nothing to do with the coaching? Harris has forgotten more about coaching than most of us will ever learn! Again, the new coach needs to have the freedom to hire his own staff, at all levels. He also needs to be able to adapt/tailor his offense to the talent he has each season. GP37, you and I actually agree on something when it comes to the new guy.
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Post by gp37 on Dec 15, 2020 9:54:09 GMT -6
It gets interesting when you get posters to post or talk. It is OK to have a love affair with Coach George Harris but not Coach Matt Anastacio. I don't have a problem with Coach Harris. He gave me 2 GP Ball caps and I congratulated him at his ceremony at the Coastal Bend Coaches Association Hall of Honor. GPJohn be my witness as he was the one who introduced him. I had a problem with his coaching staff and many are still at GP today. I had the honor of introducing my wife to another Coach I Love as you might say. His name was Coach John William Kline. I have repeated Coach George Harris is a nice man. I put a like up there with on OCCNH post but it just says one more. Probably I should add to OCCNH post to tell them to get off my back. I had to change toys as my ipad battery was low. Lets look at gpjarvis opening statement and is he saying Coach Anastacio did not win? One year a missed extra point kept him out of going to the next round instead of booting Flour Bluff from the playoffs. Are we supposed to know as much about football as Coach Harris? Anybody want to jump in here and agree with him that Coach Anastacio or Coach Rhoades had as much talent as Coach Harris. Both coach's would like to have Kyle Fishbeck. Another kid I loved to watch was Jimmy Salinas who was one of the forgotten kids that had great talent.
Let me add a story that happened while Coach Harris was AD. My grand daughter was about 6 ft tall and played basketball in junior high and went out for Volleyball in HS. She was on the freshman team and she and another 2 players were dropped from the team. One of the other girls was 5 ft 10 in or a little less tall than my grand daughter. She is now married to the San Pat county judge's son and appears on Facebook . Anyway they cut back to 12 players. I was at games of George West who carried 17 players and counted the players on a Freer team I was watching and they had 15 on their freshman squad. I told the George West coach about it at the time who was also my daughter in law by marriage. She asked what has GP got against tall players? The answer was and was well known in the junior high. The coaches like girls who or quick and can get that ball. Slow developing tall girls were not quick enough at the junior high and freshman level. At lest one of those coaches is still at GP. My grand daughter then went out for track and being big strong she throw ed the Shot and discuss. Coach David McKinney who came with Coach Harris from Refugio was her coach. He did not like her results and told her he did not know why she came out for track. She dropped out of track. Coach David McKinney was also the DC in football. I have told the story before about a contractor from Sinton was near the Football dressing room when he overheard the Coach telling the players that they were not going to embarrass him like they had last Friday night. It was after Sinton beat GP and GP had about 28 yds total offense in a shutout. It was either Coach Harris or Coach David McKinney. Bring it on.
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Post by gpjarvis on Dec 15, 2020 10:03:05 GMT -6
It gets interesting when you get posters to post or talk. It is OK to have a love affair with Coach George Harris but not Coach Matt Anastacio. I don't have a problem with Coach Harris. He gave me 2 GP Ball caps and I congratulated him at his ceremony at the Coastal Bend Coaches Association Hall of Honor. GPJohn be my witness as he was the one who introduced him. I had a problem with his coaching staff and many are still at GP today. I had the honor of introducing my wife to another Coach I Love as you might say. His name was Coach John William Kline. I have repeated Coach George Harris is a nice man. I put a like up there with on OCCNH post but it just says one more. Probably I should add to OCCNH post to tell them to get off my back. I had to change toys as my ipad battery was low. Lets look at gpjarvis opening statement and is he saying Coach Anastacio did not win? One year a missed extra point kept him out of going to the next round instead of booting Flour Bluff from the playoffs. Are we supposed to know as much about football as Coach Harris? Anybody want to jump in here and agree with him that Coach Anastacio or Coach Rhoades had as much talent as Coach Harris. Both coach's would like to have Kyle Fishbeck. Another kid I loved to watch was Jimmy Salinas who was one of the forgotten kids that had great talent. Let me add a story that happened while Coach Harris was AD. My grand daughter was about 6 ft tall and played basketball in junior high and went out for Volleyball in HS. She was on the freshman team and she and another 2 players were dropped from the team. One of the other girls was 5 ft 10 in or a little less tall than my grand daughter. She is now married to the San Pat county judge's son and appears on Facebook . Anyway they cut back to 12 players. I was at games of George West who carried 17 players and counted the players on a Freer team I was watching and they had 15 on their freshman squad. I told the George West coach about it at the time who was also my daughter in law by marriage. She asked what has GP got against tall players? The answer was and was well known in the junior high. The coaches like girls who or quick and can get that ball. Slow developing tall girls were not quick enough at the junior high and freshman level. At lest one of those coaches is still at GP. My grand daughter then went out for track and being big strong she throw ed the Shot and discuss. Coach David McKinney who came with Coach Harris from Refugio was her coach. He did not like her results and told her he did not know why she came out for track. She dropped out of track. Coach David McKinney was also the DC in football. I have told the story before about a contractor from Sinton was near the Football dressing room when he overheard the Coach telling the players that they were not going to embarrass him like they had last Friday night. It was after Sinton beat GP and GP had about 28 yds total offense in a shutout. It was either Coach Harris or Coach David McKinney. Bring it on. I mean win consistently. Coach A just didn't win consistently. I'm friends with Coach A. I wish things would've worked out better for him here, as I'm sure he is as well. Both him and Coach Harris are good men, and set a great example for our boys. GP37 you're right about Fishbeck, he would've been great in both offenses.
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Post by bluecat on Dec 15, 2020 10:05:31 GMT -6
"Good grief Charlie Brown". The question what happened to the storied GP program keeps popping up". I give my analysis and I am dissing the coach are making negative comments. It was obvIious that Coach George Harris run a soft program. If that is being negative or dissing the coach by telling the truth so be it. You saw what happened when Coach Matt Anastacio came in working the kids hard and instilling discipline. If I remember correctly Coach Rhoades came in and did the same thing and then backed off. The assistant coaches had to shave mustache among other things. The difference is that Coach Harris WON!!! I don't know what you're problem is with Coach Harris, critizie him all you want...he won. Has any coach since Harris had a team ranked in the top 20 in the state?!?! Hell has GP even been ranked since Harris? You're going to tell me that we had better athletes then? It had nothing to do with the coaching? Harris has forgotten more about coaching than most of us will ever learn! Again, the new coach needs to have the freedom to hire his own staff, at all levels. He also needs to be able to adapt/tailor his offense to the talent he has each season. GP37, you and I actually agree on something when it comes to the new guy. The Harris program established a culture of winning and turning out good young men. After Harris retired GP started the period of 3-5 yr rotation of coaches. This has to stop and that happens by getting the Supt, school board, booster club and some community leaders sitting down and hashing out a plan to fix the issues. The athletes at GP deserve that much and this the opportunity to do it.
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