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Post by gp37 on Aug 30, 2022 16:17:28 GMT -6
Leave Coach Gordon Wood out of it. R.I.P. Coach Jason Herring has 4 more state titles than your coach.
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Post by picodegallo on Aug 30, 2022 17:06:54 GMT -6
Leave Coach Gordon Wood out of it. R.I.P. Coach Jason Herring has 4 more state titles than your coach. Dodging the question.....
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Post by Hounhound on Aug 30, 2022 17:09:48 GMT -6
Leave Coach Gordon Wood out of it. R.I.P. Coach Jason Herring has 4 more state titles than your coach. Dodging the question..... Easy now Pico or he will call in wfcoyote to back him up. It's always 2 on 1 when you're disagreeing with him. Er, them.
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Post by gp37 on Aug 30, 2022 18:50:21 GMT -6
The Calallen players were lining up and cramming the ball down GP's throat and the Cal fan cheered and wanted more and wanted to get revenge on GP after Wes Danaher had broke the record. It was Coach Loomis responsibility to give Calallen a good game. When Refugio ran the score up it was the responsibility of the other team to give Refugio a good game. Got it yet? I watched on here when poor excuse of sportsman cheered for Shiner to punish Refugio players that had nothing to do with running up a score umpteen years ago.
My cousin is head basketball coach and assistant Football coach at Shiner. He lives at Cuero, the team Calallen has on their schedule.
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Post by sotex on Aug 30, 2022 22:11:27 GMT -6
The Calallen players were lining up and cramming the ball down GP's throat and the Cal fan cheered and wanted more and wanted to get revenge on GP after Wes Danaher had broke the record. It was Coach Loomis responsibility to give Calallen a good game. When Refugio ran the score up it was the responsibility of the other team to give Refugio a good game. Got it yet? I watched on here when poor excuse of sportsman cheered for Shiner to punish Refugio players that had nothing to do with running up a score umpteen years ago. My cousin is head basketball coach and assistant Football coach at Shiner. He lives at Cuero, the team Calallen has on their schedule. No you clearly don't get it. Clem explained it so simple that even a 3rd grader could comprehend. There's a difference in running up the score that you don't comprehend.
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Post by gp37 on Aug 31, 2022 0:52:58 GMT -6
Coach Jason Herring has 4 state titles more than your coach. Maybe your coach should come over to Refugio and learn something from Coach Herring. Why would I listen Clem. He wants to punish a bunch of teen age football players because he disagrees with the coach. You and this bunch of dead heads that has likes on your post has not had a creative idea posted on here since they first joined up. Heck you might try buying your coach a book "Finding A Way To Win" Bill Parcells (THE PRINCIPLES OF LEADERSHIP TEAMWORK & MOTIVATION). I have a copy in my library.
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Post by gp37 on Aug 31, 2022 0:56:42 GMT -6
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Refugio High School is currently ranked as the No. 1 team in 2A Division I in Texas. Their perfect 11-0 record has not even come close to being in jeopardy this season. The dominant offense, coupled with a tremendous defense, has given opponents no reason to have any hope when they take on the Bobcats. One of the reasons for this dominance has to go to head coach Jason Herring. Herring is a man who has lived and breathed football his entire life, and knew that coaching was something that he wanted to do ever since he was a young boy.
When Herring was young, he had a coach named Nelson Coulter. After playing for him for just a matter of weeks, he knew that he wanted to be a coach one day. Trending Stories more
“From the minute I got in my first seventh grade football practice, within two or three weeks, I go home and I tell my mom and dad I’m going to be a football coach just like coach Coulter,” Herring said. “No question. I fell in love. I fell in love with athletics and I fell in love with my coaches to be honest.”
Fast forward down the line to today, and not only is Herring a football coach just like he told his parents way back when, but he’s a pretty good one at that. His Refugio Bobcats are undefeated and are heavy favorites to bring home the state championship. His team has only given up double digit points on one occasion. That came in a 55-38 win over Edna High School. Other than that game, Refugio has not given up more than eight points in another game all season.
Looking at the other side of the ball, Herring’s offense has been nothing short of spectacular. The least amount of points that have scored in a game this season is 55 which has happened on three occasions. The high powered offense has been too much for anyone to handle and it is not showing any signs of slowing down as Refugio is marching on to what they hope to be a state championship.
Herring’s former coach, and the man who made him fall in love with the game, Coulter, had this to say when asked about his former pupil’s coaching style.
“I look in the mirror and I see that staring back at me as well,” Coulter said. “I’m sure a lot of the connection between us lies among those lines.”
As his team continues its pursuit of a state championship, Herring in turn continues to cement his legacy in Texas high school football. It is a bit crazy to think that all those years ago, after just weeks of being involved in the sport, this is what he knew he wanted to do. You have to wonder if even back then he ever thought he would be coaching at the level he is now with the success he is having now.
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Post by gp37 on Aug 31, 2022 0:58:40 GMT -6
best coaches in the state Jason Herring of Refugio is top 10 in the state when it comes to total wins with 254 Posted: June 23, 2021 10:02 PM by Geno Perez
Dave Campbell’s Texas Football wanted to find out who the best coach in Texas is and two local coaches were mentioned. Jason Herring of Refugio and Shiner’s Daniel Boedeker. Herring is top 10 in the state when it comes to total wins with 254 counting his time in Refugio, Sonora and Wall . Herring also made the top ten for most district titles in Texas with 14. When it comes to the most coveted prize in the state, the state title, Herring again makes the top 10 with four. Although Boedeker has only been in shiner for a couple of years, if you remove the minimum number of 50 games from the equation, Boedeker leads Texas coaches with the best winning percentage in the state at .963 with a record of 26-1 and a state title.
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Post by gp37 on Aug 31, 2022 1:02:37 GMT -6
REFUGIO — Jason Herring applied for three positions when he decided to leave Sonora after the 2006 season.
Herring was so impressed by the potential he saw in Refugio that he wasn’t afraid to go out on a limb.
“I thought there was a chance for us to be real special,” he said. “They made no bones about it. The interview committee said they were sick and tired of going a couple of rounds; they wanted to win state. So I told them, ‘If you hire me, we’ll win state, I promise you.’ At that time, I had been to the quarterfinals twice in my whole life.”
Refugio fights to win the Class 2A, Division I championship game at AT&T Field in Arlington on Dec. 18, 2019. The Bobcats defeated Post 28-7 to claim the title of state champions. Kendall Warner | kwarner@vicad.com
One of those trips resulted in a state championship at Sonora in 2000, and the other was a semifinal appearance in 2001.
But Herring felt Refugio had the necessary ingredients to go deep in the playoffs on a consistent basis.
“I think I’ve got the best job in the state,” he said. “For me, it is because I love needy kids. I love being very involved. I’ve said it a thousand times; to be the coach here, you better be ready to be dad, mother, counselor, preacher, friend and disciplinarian. You better be willing to wear every hat because that’s just what you’re going to get. A lot of our kids come from broken homes, and a lot of our kids come from not very much, and I love that because you can make a huge difference.”
Herring, 50, has made a difference on and off the field. He has compiled a 174-17 record at Refugio that includes 13 consecutive quarterfinal appearances, six trips to the state final and three state championships.
The most recent was the Class 2A, Division I state title the Bobcats claimed with a 28-7 win over Post on Wednesday night at AT&T Stadium in Arlington to complete a 16-0 season.
“It’s his heart and his relationship with kids,” said Refugio defensive coordinator Eli Boxell, who has coached with Herring for 13 seasons. “It’s his work ethic. I can speak for all the coaches – we are worn out. Don’t leave any stone unturned and check into every possibility, every situation and every scenario. He’s always been great with personnel. He’s a high-energy guy and it’s all you can do just to keep up.”
Herring’s intensity is apparent to anyone who has seen him on the sidelines during a game, but he displays the same drive in his daily interaction with the players.
“He’s very enthusiastic. He wants perfection,” said J.B. Brown, a member of the 2011 state championship team, who went on to play at Texas Lutheran University. “But he was always more than a coach. He was like a father figure if you didn’t have one in your life. I guess because he loves kids so much. He was always around. He was really good about stuff like that.”
Herring knew he wanted to work with young people growing up in Robert Lee, outside of San Angelo, and turned his attention to the coaching profession while in college at Angelo State.
“There are not a lot of things I do well, but I think I do a real good job of loving on kids,” Herring said. “I love kids. I mean I love it, I love it. A baby could walk in now and I’d just stop. I just love kids of all ages. I remember telling my dad that I couldn’t wait to have kids. I don’t look at rich, poor, race or nothing. I just love kids and always have. Honestly, if you treat people like they want to be treated and you love them and respect them no matter how different their culture – everybody wants to be loved and wants to be treated right.”
Herring’s concern for his players is genuine, but so are the demands he places upon them.
“It’s the tenacity, redundancy, repetition and the passion,” said T. Wayne Price, the team Chaplain. “He does it by genuinely expressing concern for them and, he says, love. It’s exhibited in practical things he does for them when they need it. They really do know that he cares, though he’s hard as nails to play for.”
Herring’s drive for success has drawn criticism, as it did when the Bobcats were accused of poor sportsmanship while setting what was then a state scoring record en route to the 2011 state title.
But Herring admits his around-the-clock football mentality was tempered after Hurricane Harvey battered the town before the 2017 season.
“I’ve always been crazy, wired and focused on the task at hand to a fault where I thought I had to do everything,” he said. “That’s just the way I was raised. You do everything for yourself.
“When the hurricane hit, I didn’t have a choice. People were fighting for their lives. There were very basic needs like mattresses and water and food. All of a sudden, I was pulled 10,000 ways right at the start of the season. What I did is I just took my hands off the wheel and let the staff do 90 percent of it and I tried to help people. The hurricane forever changed me.”
Refugio entered the season as the No. 1 team in the state, but Herring wasn’t certain the team could make a run at a state title until it rallied from a 28-6 deficit and claimed a 48-40 win over Mart, which won its third straight state championship on Thursday.
“I’ve never had a group of kids who could come back 28-6 against anybody much less what turned out to be the state champs,” Herring said. “When this bunch rebounded and won that game, I remember telling them we may be even more special than we thought. I sensed right then that this was a different animal. That’s when our kids started believing we are for real.”
The Bobcats scored three times in less than 3 minutes to rally in the regional round against Shiner, blew out Holland in the quarterfinals and defeated San Augustine in the semifinals before completing their streak of wins over undefeated opponents against Post in the final.
“It don’t get any better than this,” Herring said. “I’m so happy for the community, I’m happy for the kids and my coaches. We’ve worked our ever-living tail ends off for these kids. We’ve never worked this hard.”
Refugio left for AT&T Stadium at 8 a.m. Wednesday morning and didn’t return until 8:15 a.m. Thursday morning.
Herring departed the field house at 10 a.m. and went home, where he watched the state finals on TV before finally going to bed Thursday night.
He was back at the field house Friday washing clothes, taking congratulatory calls and doing what he does best.
“Everywhere you turn in Refugio, from the community to the teachers to the superintendent to the school board to the principal, it’s all the same thing and you get the same answer,” Herring said. “It’s about the kids, and we want to be as good as we can be at everything we do. And then they give you the resources and they let you do your job.”
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Post by gp37 on Aug 31, 2022 1:07:43 GMT -6
Refugio’s Jason Herring is one of the most polarizing coaches in Texas high school football. He’s won 216 games and three state championships as a head coach. At times, he’s been painted out to be a ruthless, win-at-all costs signal caller. He can be seen on Friday nights pacing up and down the sideline yelling with a high-level of intensity no matter the score. Those in Refugio love him – a few outside the football-crazed town comprised of just under 2,900 people don’t. Maybe both sides would be surprised if they knew his story a little better. While Herring has taken the Texas high school football world by storm, he spent the first 12 years of his life with a much different career path in mind. Herring wanted to be a dentist. It wasn’t until his seventh-grade year in the small town of Robert Lee, Texas that Herring decided he wanted to follow in the footsteps of Nelson Coulter, who was the Steers’ head coach and athletic director at the time. Herring made the decision to pursue coaching as a career a short time after experiencing life as an athlete under Coulter and never wavered through high school and college before embarking on what has turned out to be an extremely successful career. “I don’t know why a dentist, I guess I was thinking about the money,” Herring said. “But from the minute I got in my first seventh grade football practice, within two or three weeks I go home and tell my mom and dad I’m going to be a football coach just like Coach Coulter. No question. “I fell in love. I fell in love with athletics and I fell in love with my coaches to be honest.”
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Coulter developed Herring’s passion for kids and did much more than just guide him on the path into coaching. Like many athletes, Herring’s coaches – most notably Coulter and Ed Poehls – ended up spending more time with him during the day than his parents were able to. As a player, Coulter taught Herring the importance of the little things – and the lessons went beyond the football field. Photo by Russell Wilburn “We would stop and eat a chicken fried steak or a hamburger after a game and it was way, way more important what the manager and the people in that restaurant said to Coach after we left than even how we did on the field that night,” Herring said. “They made you do all the little things right that would help you out in life and that is the reason we were so successful.” While he didn’t know it at the time, Coulter significantly influenced the way Herring modeled his own program down the road. Coulter and Herring formed a tight bond during their days together at Robert Lee High School and it was a bond that grew deeper as the two grew older. Coulter eventually served as best man and sang in Herring’s wedding. It was easy for the two to connect because they are so alike. Herring is competitive, passionate and energetic both on and off the field. As a student, he would go above and beyond in Coulter’s math class. He would outdo his classmates in physical fitness testing. A self-driven man, Herring never needed to be motivated – the desire to succeed was there from the start. “I look in the mirror and I see that staring back at me as well,” Coulter said. “I’m sure a lot of the connection between us lies along those lines.” Most importantly, Herring and Coulter love kids. They always have. Herring spends his weekends teaching Sunday school classes with his wife, Lisa, at First Baptist Church in Refugio. He said he often fills the role of father, counselor, preacher, dad, teacher and coach all at the time for some kids in a town where football is the only saving grace. “I definitely think that’s true,” Herring’s son Kobie Herring, a redshirt freshman football player at UTEP, said. “He’s been the same everywhere we’ve been and teats everyone the same even outside of football. He’s always loved kids and always wanted to be involved with kids. “It’s his passion and that’s his true calling.”
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Herring began his coaching career as a junior high assistant for one year under Sam Harrell at Big Lake Reagan County after graduating from Angelo State in 1992, but quickly moved on to work under Ross Rogers at A&M Consolidated. Working for Harrell and Rogers – two of the game’s brightest offensive minds – was a dream come true for Herring, who learned a great deal in the first few years of his career. Rogers, who groomed a number of successful head coaches including Lee Fedora, John Stillwell and Tim Buchanan, took note of Herring’s drive and determination and elevated him to the varsity level within three years. “Even though I started as a junior high coach and would scout on Friday, I would spend every Saturday and every Sunday right up there with the varsity coaches doing whatever they needed,” Herring said. “Mostly I just kept my mouth shut and was a sponge.” Herring’s offense at Refugio is based on a lot of the same innovative spread concepts A&M Consolidated used decades before they became popular. He credits Harrell and Rogers for helping him develop into a head coach and giving him the opportunity to jumpstart his career. “I couldn’t have picked two better guys,” Herring said. “We don’t call our offense exactly like they did but it’s the exact same stuff. You can watch us play and plug in a Consolidated game and dang sure know where I cut my teeth.”
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After shining as an assistant for four years, Herring got his first shot as a head coach at Wall in 1996 – but things didn’t work out as expected. The Hawks struggled to a 6-14 record in two seasons under Herring and he was fired. The rookie head coach turned to Coulter for guidance. “He and I had a lot of conversations and consultation,” Coulter said. “I tried to help him exit that situation as gracefully as he possibly could. Those things are ugly – losing almost always presents some challenges you don’t relish.” Losing wasn’t something Herring accepted. After the brief stint at Wall, he landed on his feet as an assistant at Sonora and quickly found success with the Broncos. Herring was promoted to head coach in 2000 and went on to win his first state championship that same season. While Coulter had guided Herring through the struggles at Wall, the two fell out of touch over the next few years while Herring worked his way up the ladder at Sonora. But when the Broncos knocked off Blanco to win the state title, Herring didn’t wait long to give his mentor a call. “I got this phone call late on December night, just out of the blue,” Coulter said. “I hadn’t talked to him in a long, long time. He said, ‘Hey Coach, I just want you to know we finally won that championship.’ And I said, ‘Do what?’ He used the pronoun ‘we’ like I was involved somehow. “He said, ‘Coach, we just won a state football championship.’ All I could said was, ‘Wow.’” It was the beginning of a dominant run for Herring as the Broncos went on to win 63 games from 2000-2006. But even with as successful as he was in Sonora – and despite the bond he developed with the community – Herring admitted there were a lot of small town politics to overcome. He left West Texas for the first time in 2007 to take the job at Refugio, where his determination to win and competitive nature were welcomed by a title-thirsty town looking to put an end to a lengthy run of regional semifinal and state quarterfinal appearances.
The Bobcats, who in 2007 had advanced to at least the regional semifinals in six of the past eight seasons but hadn’t been to the state championship game since 1987, wanted nothing less than a return to the pinnacle of high school football. They ensured Herring knew that from the get-go. But Herring quickly found himself four seasons deep with the program without a championship. The Bobcats went to the state semifinals in 2009 and 2010 but he began to fear for his future with the program as the 2011 season rolled around. After reviewing his system from top to bottom, Herring developed a plan to get Refugio over the hump. The Bobcats were loaded in 2011 and boasted what was arguably one of the most talented teams in the program’s history. Guys like Lynx Hawthorne, Travis Quintanilla, Shiloh Whetsel and Draigon Silvas had the town buzzing and craving a December run to Arlington’s Cowboys’ Stadium. Competing in District 16-2A Division II for the second straight year, Refugio was coming off a season in which they outscored their district opponents by an average of more than 56 points per game. In fact, Refugio was a perfect 23-0 in district play through Herring’s first four seasons as the head coach. The dominance was a product of the UIL’s biennial realignment process consistently putting the Bobcats in a weak South Texas district featuring one of the widest talent disparities in the state. Herring was trapped. After playing by the unwritten rules for four seasons and pulling his star players at halftime of blowout games, Herring made the decision to leave his starters in through third quarter of every regular season game – regardless of the score. He knew the result would be brutal on some occasions. The Bobcats opened district play with a 48-0 win over Skidmore-Tynan before things began to escalate. 82-6 over Kaufer on Sept. 30. 91-6 against Freer on Oct. 7. 73-0 against Premont on Oct. 21 and 74-0 against Santa Gertrudis Academy on Oct. 28. The scores drew rising levels of backlash as ESPN’s Outside the Lines caught wind of the situation and sent a camera crew down to follow the Bobcats. Despite the unwanted attention, Herring’s plan was working. Refugio cruised through its first four playoff games in unprecedented fashion, finally securing a spot in the state title game with 63-33 drubbing of Lexington. OTL published its piece in an 8:21 video the same week the Bobcats were set to play Cisco in the state championship game. Herring received death threats. He was called Satan and “Halftime Hitler.” He referred to the season as one of the most difficult of his coaching career. “They were just choosing to look right then in the moment and not even take the time to understand the reason,” Herring said. “There were four years on record where I had already done what you’re ‘supposed to do’. I didn’t just all the sudden become Satan. I was to a point where I had to get over the hump.” The Bobcats did just that, knocking off Cisco 36-35 in the state final to finish the season a perfect 41-0 from the seventh grade to the varsity level. “Our ring that I’m looking at right now has 41 diamonds in it,” Herring said. “41 stones – one for every win in the program that year.” Not only did the win rejuvenate Refugio as a football town, but it also may have saved Herring’s job. Coulter, who was following the situation from afar and was at Cowboys Stadium for the championship game, was emotional when he saw the relief the victory brought Herring and his family. “The picture that is most clear in my mind,” Coulter recalled, “Was when the game was over and Lisa met him on the field. They captured his face as he and Lisa embraced. You could see the emotional release. “He needed to win that game. He needed to win that.”
Herring largely flew under the radar in the years after the OTL report despite winning the state championship that season and adding another ring in 2016. He returned to the national headlines in a much different way when disaster struck Refugio last fall. Hurricane Harvey, a Category 4 storm, crashed directly into Refugio in mid-August and caused damage to 75 percent of the county’s infrastructure. A town Herring described as downtrodden before the storm hit was devastated and the start of school was pushed back to Sept. 16. Refugio was littered with debris and was without both power and water for nearly a month. “I thought I was ready to come back because I had seen pictures,” Herring said. “But the moment I pulled in, tears just started running down my face. It broke my heart.” With football often serving as the lone uniting force in the town, Herring and the Bobcats were back on the field in time for their season opener against Goliad. Even so, Herring’s mind wasn’t 100 percent on football for the first time in his coaching career. Photo by Russell Wilburn Herring spent much of his time as a relief coordinator, directing the delivery of supplies and went from house to house helping the cleanup process. He worked with the administration to set up a fundraising process and assisted in gathering more than $100,000 to support rebuilding efforts. “I think it goes to show how much he really cares about people,” Kobie Herring said. “He’s willing to take that extra step and go seek out help for anyone who needs it.” The tragic situation was compounded by the heartbreaking injury Refugio’s Casey Henderson suffered in the team’s Week 2 game against Edna. Henderson suffered a broken neck making a tackle and broke two vertebrae, requiring emergency surgery. The Bobcats dedicated their season to Henderson and watched as he miraculously regained the ability to walk after long rehabilitation process. But Herring went a step further, helping corral a contractor who volunteered to rebuild the Henderson’s home after it too was destroyed in the hurricane. Months later, Herring is still helping his players and their families restore their homes from the damage caused by Harvey. Herring finished the repairs on his own house in late March and continues to lend a hand as others attempt to do the same. Even with everything the town was going through last season, the Bobcats still managed to advance to the state championship game before falling to Mart. But Herring said the experience changed him for the better and has caused him to adjust his coaching philosophy moving forward. “It helped me realize there are things in life more important than football sometimes,” Herring said. “Football is important – I know it is. But we had kids scrambling for their lives. It will change me forever. “I learned to trust my assistants more and realized I don’t have to be in charge of everything.”
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Herring may delegate more responsibilities to his staff in the coming season but it’s his ability to make those decision and control the program from top to bottom that adds to his legacy as a coach. The Bobcats’ success goes beyond the talented pool of athletes at Herring’s disposal. He has set up his program with eight coaches in charge of football from seventh grade all the way to the varsity level, ensuring there is consistency from the top down at each position group. It’s the same way Coulter ran things at Robert Lee – one of the many facets of Refugio’s program modeled after Herring’s mentors. “They ran the whole program from top to bottom and that’s exactly what I’ve emulated,” Herring said. “The seventh grade, eighth grade and JV are running the exact – I mean the exact – same thing as the varsity. We’re miles ahead of the game with that consistency.” Herring also credits the Refugio administration for fully backing his program. “There’s only one politic in Refugio,” Herring said. “Win baby win. That’s it. Win baby win.”
Herring embraces the expectation of winning on a daily basis. But in a town that eats, breathes and sleeps football, there isn’t much free time away from the field for the head football coach. When Herring does have time to himself in the off-season, he likes to spend it with his family. Otherwise, he enjoys fishing. Herring will go out on his boat with Refugio County Sheriff Raul “Pinky” Gonzales and spend an entire day tracking down trout and redfish with the same intensity seen on the sidelines. Of course, football is off the table as far as discussion goes when the two are on the water. “We get there and we’re there all stinkin’ day long and we catch our limit,” Herring said. “We’ll walk for miles in the heat and we fish and we fish and we fish. It’s not for the weary. It’s not no half day trip – if we’re fishing, we’re gonna fish. “That’s just the way I’m wired and the way he’s wired, and that’s why we’re fishing buddies.”
Reflecting on a coaching career spanning more than 20 years, Herring doesn’t shy away from crediting his four mentors – Coulter, Poehls, Harrell and Rodgers – for laying the foundation that has resulted in three state championships and an overall head coaching record of 216-50. While bigger programs call down to Refugio on an annual basis trying to gauge Herring’s interest in a potential new job, he said he’d be hard pressed to find a situation better than the one he has in Refugio. Though the effects of Hurricane Harvey are still felt in Refugio community to this day, Herring will continue to lead the recovery and rebuild while leaving a mark much deeper than football on the town. And to think – for a brief moment as a child, he wanted to be a dentist. “I’m certainly sure I wouldn’t want a dentist that’s wired as hot as Jason is sticking power tools in my mouth,” Coulter said with a laugh. “I’m not sure his bedside manner would be conducive to dentistry.”
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Post by gp37 on Aug 31, 2022 1:12:54 GMT -6
Bobcats legends recognized on state level
by Thomas Leffler Editor Jan 7, 2021
One of the more legendary figures in Refugio sports history has gotten his due on the state level more than a few times, with a new honor tacked on at the end of 2020.
Refugio Bobcats football coach and athletic director Jason Herring, winner of three state titles in his time with the team, has been recognized by the University Scholastic League (UIL) as one of the 100 top coaches to walk the Texas sidelines. The selection is part of UIL’s 100th anniversary, with the organization teaming with Dave Campbell’s Texas Football to “honor the best, the brightest and the most unforgettable icons and legends in the sport’s illustrious history.”
Herring was chosen along with nine others as the Week 8 recipients of the honor. The Bobcats’ leader was chosen alongside the likes of former Baylor football head Art Briles (inducted for his four state titles in Stephenville) and seven-time state champion Carthage coach Scott Surratt.
After two seasons as the coach of Wall, Herring moved onto Sonora, immediately making an impact with an undefeated state championship season in 2000. He would accrue two more 10-win seasons in Sonora, including a state semifinals appearance in 2001.
Herring then jumped to Refugio in 2007, where he made his mark once again. He reeled off eight straight district titles from 2007-2014, finally achieving the state crown with the Bobcats in the 2011 campaign. The feat was repeated in the 2016 and 2019 seasons, cementing Herring’s place among the Refugio, and Texas, greats. His overall coaching record through 2020 is 253-56, amassing a record of 184-18 with the Bobcats.
Along with coaches, UIL honored the best players, teams, rivalries and memorable games in its football history throughout 2020.
Herring’s 15-0 state champion 2011 unit was chosen as one of the top 100 teams in UIL history, outscoring opponents 891-191 en route to the title. The squad featured a richness of talent, including offensive player of the year Travis Quintanilla at quarterback, along with five other first team all-state performers.
On the memorable games list, the Bobcats appear for the 2017 UIL 2A-D1 state championship clash with Mart on Dec. 20, 2017. The Bobcats would lose the contest, 34-21, after a Panthers comeback.
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Post by gp37 on Aug 31, 2022 1:25:01 GMT -6
This is looking at running up the score from both sides. Read down to where Coach Herring allowed his QB to stay in the game and set a record same as Coach Phil Danaher did for his RB son Wes Danaher.
Compassion necessary when playing against outmatched football foes Vandegrift head coach Drew Sanders argues a call with the line judge during against Hendrickson earlier this season. Sanders has been on both sides of blowout games in his coaching stints at Travis and Vandegrift. [JOHN GUTIERREZ/FOR STATESMAN]
Drew Sanders has seen the anguish of lopsided football games with two sets of eyes.
As varsity coach at Travis High from 2006 to 2008, he was on the wrong end of scores such as 48-0 to Lanier, 42-6 to McCallum, 45-3 to Hutto and 42-6 to Dripping Springs. At Vandegrift , he is the architect of a program that has gone 68-35 since it began playing varsity football in 2010.
Vandegrift is a consistent winner and playoff participant. But while the Vipers outclass many of their opponents, Sanders refuses to run up the score.
“My mindset is that I’ve been on both sides of this scenario before,” Sanders said. “So we always remember that if we happen to be fortunate to be up by that much in a game.”
Running up the score drew national attention when the varsity coach at La Joya Community High School in Avondale, Ariz., a Phoenix suburb, resigned under pressure after his team posted a 60-0 victory on Sept. 27. Devin Dourisseau said he was threatened to be removed from the sideline midway through the third quarter by the school’s administrative staff if they continued to score.
Dourisseau, though, showed compassion during the second half, using second- and third-string players. La Joya would score touchdowns on a fumble return, an interception return and another on special teams.
Mismatches are common in high school football, but sometimes there is nothing a coach can do to prevent an embarrassing outcome. The opposing coach, Sean Freeman of Copper Canyon High, told the Arizona Republic that his players simply were outplayed and La Joya did not try to embarrass his team.
After a strong public backlash, Dourisseau was reinstated last week.
In Central Texas, coaches from powerhouse schools such as Lake Travis, Westlake, Hutto and Liberty Hill routinely remove key players when scores get out of hand.
Derek Long, Westlake’s head coach from 2003-2008, said it was important to let backup players in game as a "reward" for their contributions in practice. Before he tasted success at Westlake, though, he absorbed the pain of "regular whippings" as an assistant at Class 4A Red Oak from 1979 to 1982. His first three teams were a combined 3-27 before the Hawks won district in his fourth season.
"When you're down 50-0, it sticks in your craw," the retired coach said Wednesday. "Having been there, I kept that in mind at Westlake."
Long said the Chaps were fortunate because Drew Brees and Nick Foles were "both team players" during their high school glory days.
"When you listen to Nick and Drew in press conferences today, they still have the philosophy that the success they've had is because of everyone else on the team."
Liberty Hill coach Jeff Walker had a similar viewpoint regarding lopsided scores.
Walker said his team "slows the game down" after gaining a big lead by using almost the entire play clock before running a play.
"Our starters understand that if we're up big they will be out of the game and cheering on their teammates," he said.
Such is not the case for longtime Refugio coach Jason Herring, who routinely shows no mercy while piling on touchdowns to bury opposing teams. With a 57-0 lead after three quarters in a 2012 game against Taft, he allowed starting quarterback Travis Quintanilla to throw three touchdown passes in the fourth quarter so he could set a state record with 10 scoring tosses. The final score: 80-0.
During the 2012 season, Herring’s team posted victories of 76-0, 77-0, 80-0, 70-0 and 84-0. At times his team tried onside kicks with a 50-point lead. All those blowouts meant nothing when Refugio was trounced 54-23 by East Bernard in the third round of the playoffs. Herring is currently in his 13th season at Refugio.
Hutto coach Brad LaPlante said he does not allow trick plays or deep passes when his team has a 40-point edge. While coaching at Rochester (Minn.) Community and Technical College in the early 2000s, he recalls an embarrassing incident when his quarterback changed the play at the line of scrimmage with a commanding lead.
"We signaled in a hitch route and our QB called for a 60-yard fade for a touchdown," LaPlante said. "I felt all eyes were on me as the head coach even though that wasn't the play I called."
It's a lesson LaPlante instills in his players today.
"You never want to be in lopsided games such as these," he said. "It's not great for either coaching staff or for players on either side of the ball. ... I have been on both ends and neither is fun."
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Post by Clemensbuff on Aug 31, 2022 6:44:58 GMT -6
Really? OK, how many timeouts did Calallen call on that last drive of the game and how many reverses were ran? Deflect all you want to try to do. It was indeed Refugio's mindset 110% to run it up on people and that mentality went all the way up to people sitting in the stands! It was a 4th round playoff game............GET THAT THROUGH YOUR THICK SKULL! There was nothing about that game that had a damn thing to do with getting starters reps, in shape, or anything else except to rub it in deeper.
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Post by Clemensbuff on Aug 31, 2022 6:46:36 GMT -6
Your love affair with Gordon Wood & Jason Herring is well noted
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Post by wfcoyote on Aug 31, 2022 7:21:29 GMT -6
The thing that is well noted is your double standard . It is OK for Coach Danaher to run up the score so Wes Danaher can break the record but not OK for Coach Herring to run up the score so his QB Travis Quintinilla can break the passing record.
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