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Post by bluecat on Apr 26, 2024 20:24:57 GMT -6
Chino it’s just possible that Reeves never gets all the accolades he deserves at Calallen. What credit did Danaher get in his first year at Calallen? He was a good young HC with a plan to hire the right coaches to help him and build up the program at Calallen and eventually those long playoff runs and accolades accumulated in all those decades of coaching. What motivates a good young coach like Reeves? His whole life has revolved around coaches and coaching with some successful coaches all over Texas. What motivates them is exactly what motivated Danaher the day he signed on at Calallen back in the 1980”s. Reeves want the challenge to walk in the footsteps of Danaher, rebuild the program to what it used to be and just maybe a lil better. It’s been over 40 years that Danaher and Campbell ran the show at Calallen before anyone ran that program and Reeves was not expecting the job to open up when. He took the job at East. His Dad did great things at Cuero just as his brother did also at Cuero. His motivation is to rebuild a program that has decades of success and traditions back to what it once was. Is reading a problem for you? You said a lot of stuff just to not even address my point. Reeve will not get credit for winning AT A PLACE THAT HAS BEEN WINNING FOR 4 DECADES ALREADY unless he wins a state championship. Whereas in Victoria he would have gotten credit just for even winning a couple of playoff games here and there. But I'm glad that you know that Reeve only took the East job because he didn't know the Calallen job would open up lol. Chino, did it ever occur to you that getting credit or not doesn’t motivate everyone? If he’s a good of coach as I personally believe he is he will get all the credit that he needs. There are many factors that he will need to be successful at Calallen. The Supt & school board have to give him their 100% support, hiring the right coaches and getting the community to buy in to what he’s doing at Calallen. If he gets the wins, district and region championships he will get plenty of credit. And if one day they get to a state championship win or lose he would match or surpass Danaher , not in wins but accomplishments. He may or may not, but the challenge is real and that is what’s motivating him, credit or not.
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Post by SouthTexasBloodsport on Apr 26, 2024 20:56:25 GMT -6
Didn't say Calallen isn't a great job. But since you want to go there... a local coach with only 1 year HC experience was the best applicant that they had sooooooooooooo... apparently not many actual coaches thought it was a great one. You have no idea who applied. We weren't looking for a coach with rings. How did that work out at GP? We wanted a young coach who wouldn't come in and change all of our traditions or shove the spread offense on us. We had a lot of expectations and boxes to check. Just lay off and stop it already. Your opinion is your opinion. Doesn't make it gospel. Lastly - you keep claiming that Charlie ran because he didn't have the balls for that district. Well he has the balls to step into Phil Danaher and Steve Campbell's shoes. That takes some big ones in my opinion. Oh stop it. Either he was the best applicant you had or your board has no idea how to hire the best applicant. Either way you can't win this. He ran from a district where he was gonna be fighting for last place, period. You say he's stepping into big shoes to fill because that's the convenient point to make for you but the reality is he's stepping into a 100% guaranteed district championship and a bunch of wins because Calallen will always be Calallen and that district, other than a T-M program on the way up, is complete dog chit.
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Post by SouthTexasBloodsport on Apr 26, 2024 20:58:54 GMT -6
Is reading a problem for you? You said a lot of stuff just to not even address my point. Reeve will not get credit for winning AT A PLACE THAT HAS BEEN WINNING FOR 4 DECADES ALREADY unless he wins a state championship. Whereas in Victoria he would have gotten credit just for even winning a couple of playoff games here and there. But I'm glad that you know that Reeve only took the East job because he didn't know the Calallen job would open up lol. Chino, did it ever occur to you that getting credit or not doesn’t motivate everyone? If he’s a good of coach as I personally believe he is he will get all the credit that he needs. There are many factors that he will need to be successful at Calallen. The Supt & school board have to give him their 100% support, hiring the right coaches and getting the community to buy in to what he’s doing at Calallen. If he gets the wins, district and region championships he will get plenty of credit. And if one day they get to a state championship win or lose he would match or surpass Danaher , not in wins but accomplishments. He may or may not, but the challenge is real and that is what’s motivating him, credit or not. There isn't a coach in the world that doesn't want credit or have an ego regardless of the politically correct things that come out of their mouths in interviews and discussions. He's not gonna get credit for just winning games the way they were already winning games with Danaher and Campbell. Unless he wins state he will always be seen as a coach that inherited a winning program that was already winning before him.
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Post by SouthTexasBloodsport on Apr 26, 2024 21:00:35 GMT -6
Calallen people are getting mad at me for holding their program on apparently an even higher pedestal than they do. Ironic.
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Post by picodegallo on Apr 27, 2024 7:11:48 GMT -6
Calallen people are getting mad at me for holding their program on apparently an even higher pedestal than they do. Ironic. Your take on all this is like a twisted pretzel. Why would a coach take another job if he was destined to fail or the fanbase will not give him credit? Reeve had a good gig at East and probably could’ve stayed for as long as they wanted him no matter what district East played in. A Calallen situation doesn’t come around everyday and from my observation I think he looks at this as something he can ride to day he decides to retire. Calallen fans will give him full credit year and year out as long as the product is competitive and doesn’t look like a complete chit show like it did at times last year. Does that mean we have to be playing in Arlington year in and year out? No. But our goal should be to get as close as we can and like I said don’t look like the unmotivated and poorly coached team from last year. I think you are misunderstanding how disappointed and disgusted many of us were with the product last season.
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Post by gpballer4life on Apr 27, 2024 7:51:01 GMT -6
Calallen people are getting mad at me for holding their program on apparently an even higher pedestal than they do. Ironic. Your take on all this is like a twisted pretzel. Why would a coach take another job if he was destined to fail or the fanbase will not give him credit? Reeve had a good gig at East and probably could’ve stayed for as long as they wanted him no matter what district East played in. A Calallen situation doesn’t come around everyday and from my observation I think he looks at this as something he can ride to day he decides to retire. Calallen fans will give him full credit year and year out as long as the product is competitive and doesn’t look like a complete chit show like it did at times last year. Does that mean we have to be playing in Arlington year in and year out? No. But our goal should be to get as close as we can and like I said don’t look like the unmotivated and poorly coached team from last year. I think you are misunderstanding how disappointed and disgusted many of us were with the product last season. Although I don’t always agree with Chino, what he is saying has to hold a little weight. Coaches are known for making decisions that are best for them, and they should. That district was going to be extremely hard and moving over to Calallen in a weaker district at a school that has rich history makes a lot of sense. I think every Calallen fan can admit Reeves is not the candidate you wanted. The expectation was to get a big time coach. This doesn’t mean Reeves won’t have success, or that he isn’t a good coach.
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Post by picodegallo on Apr 27, 2024 8:46:19 GMT -6
Your take on all this is like a twisted pretzel. Why would a coach take another job if he was destined to fail or the fanbase will not give him credit? Reeve had a good gig at East and probably could’ve stayed for as long as they wanted him no matter what district East played in. A Calallen situation doesn’t come around everyday and from my observation I think he looks at this as something he can ride to day he decides to retire. Calallen fans will give him full credit year and year out as long as the product is competitive and doesn’t look like a complete chit show like it did at times last year. Does that mean we have to be playing in Arlington year in and year out? No. But our goal should be to get as close as we can and like I said don’t look like the unmotivated and poorly coached team from last year. I think you are misunderstanding how disappointed and disgusted many of us were with the product last season. Although I don’t always agree with Chino, what he is saying has to hold a little weight. Coaches are known for making decisions that are best for them, and they should. That district was going to be extremely hard and moving over to Calallen in a weaker district at a school that has rich history makes a lot of sense. I think every Calallen fan can admit Reeves is not the candidate you wanted. The expectation was to get a big time coach. This doesn’t mean Reeves won’t have success, or that he isn’t a good coach. Then please tell us who that candidate was we wanted. Rick Rhodes? Brent Davis? Castellnos from Alice? Todd Dodge? Who is this big time coach you all think we kneeled in our morning or evening prayers and asked the Lord to deliver for us? Not one question in the survey asked if an established big name coach should be hired. The people who might be complain about the hire are probably the same ones who wanted the in house candidate and are still butt hurt about it even though he was partially responsible for the chit show last season and seem to forget about that.
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Post by calcatgirl on Apr 27, 2024 8:46:26 GMT -6
Your take on all this is like a twisted pretzel. Why would a coach take another job if he was destined to fail or the fanbase will not give him credit? Reeve had a good gig at East and probably could’ve stayed for as long as they wanted him no matter what district East played in. A Calallen situation doesn’t come around everyday and from my observation I think he looks at this as something he can ride to day he decides to retire. Calallen fans will give him full credit year and year out as long as the product is competitive and doesn’t look like a complete chit show like it did at times last year. Does that mean we have to be playing in Arlington year in and year out? No. But our goal should be to get as close as we can and like I said don’t look like the unmotivated and poorly coached team from last year. I think you are misunderstanding how disappointed and disgusted many of us were with the product last season. Although I don’t always agree with Chino, what he is saying has to hold a little weight. Coaches are known for making decisions that are best for them, and they should. That district was going to be extremely hard and moving over to Calallen in a weaker district at a school that has rich history makes a lot of sense. I think every Calallen fan can admit Reeves is not the candidate you wanted. The expectation was to get a big time coach. This doesn’t mean Reeves won’t have success, or that he isn’t a good coach. That's where you are misunderstanding. We never expected or wanted a "big time coach". I was in one of the focus groups providing feedback on what we expected and no one in that room said a big named coach. In fact we said don't get a big name coach who's going to come in here, turn it upside down and completely change our offense. We want a balanced offense because we aren't a spread team. We wanted someone young, energetic, who'd respect our traditions and maintain and elevate our winning standards. It needed to be someone who supports multi-sport athletes as well. There were numerous focus groups and we were all in alignment. I'm sure PNG could attract many big name coaches. Countless in fact and yet they hired a first year coach with zero HC coaching experience. He fit their expectations. Don't see any of them complaining about that hire. We didn't expect someone big name. Everyone outside can claim what you want all you want but unless you were a part of the process at Calallen then you are making up your own thoughts. I'm sure there are some Calallen fans who preferred that but those truly in the process said otherwise. No offense to him but we weren't looking for a Rick Rhoades type of coach. Doesn't always fit the need of the program as you all learned.
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Post by calcatgirl on Apr 27, 2024 8:56:37 GMT -6
You have no idea who applied. We weren't looking for a coach with rings. How did that work out at GP? We wanted a young coach who wouldn't come in and change all of our traditions or shove the spread offense on us. We had a lot of expectations and boxes to check. Just lay off and stop it already. Your opinion is your opinion. Doesn't make it gospel. Lastly - you keep claiming that Charlie ran because he didn't have the balls for that district. Well he has the balls to step into Phil Danaher and Steve Campbell's shoes. That takes some big ones in my opinion. I mean we could use some logic with that last point there and say that the idea of following Phil and Steve scared many away. So those that applied had big brass ones and weren't scared. So that's a good point calcatgirl.... Exactly right. Just making the playoffs in the district we are in won't be enough at Calallen and Charlie knows it. NO ONE will be happy if we flop into district and don't perform well in pre-season or win district in that weak district and lose round one. We have very high expectations so basing this solely on performance in that weak district is the dumbest argument I've heard. He has big shoes to fill and expectations to live up to at Calallen. Now back to Vic East! So excited for John! Good family and I know he's ready to show what he can do.
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Post by picodegallo on Apr 27, 2024 9:08:47 GMT -6
From this point forward , you all that say Calallen fans are not satisfied with the candidates need to name some names. I’ll get it started for some of you local guys with the first one some of you all thought would be a good fit for Calallen.
1). Chris Soza
Start with the next name and carry on.
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Post by SouthTexasBloodsport on Apr 27, 2024 10:43:34 GMT -6
Calallen people are getting mad at me for holding their program on apparently an even higher pedestal than they do. Ironic. Your take on all this is like a twisted pretzel. Why would a coach take another job if he was destined to fail or the fanbase will not give him credit? Reeve had a good gig at East and probably could’ve stayed for as long as they wanted him no matter what district East played in. A Calallen situation doesn’t come around everyday and from my observation I think he looks at this as something he can ride to day he decides to retire. Calallen fans will give him full credit year and year out as long as the product is competitive and doesn’t look like a complete chit show like it did at times last year. Does that mean we have to be playing in Arlington year in and year out? No. But our goal should be to get as close as we can and like I said don’t look like the unmotivated and poorly coached team from last year. I think you are misunderstanding how disappointed and disgusted many of us were with the product last season. A calallen situation doesn't come around everyday? Really? But your last head coach only lasted 2 years. Let's not act like the Danaher era situation is something that happens all the time just because it happened once. The product last year and your disappointment with it is your fan's own faults for not accepting that you went 7-3 because you had 7-3 talent in comparison to the teams you played. This is where your fanbase gets annoying - you can't accept that you aren't the best team every season and so any loss to any local program means, "iT wAs A dOwN yEaR fOr Us", and you want to be able to claim that and expect the opponents that beat you down not to get offended. Lol crazy. You all seem to think that had your Center been replaced you would have somehow magically had one of Calallen's old 14-1 seasons or something and I'm sorry but that's laughable based on the talent product I saw on your field last season. The absolute entitlement attitude coming from you people having the nerve to call a Coach Campbell coached team, "poorly coached", is f'ing insane. This is why I always end up going on Calallen rants it's not because you're Calallen and I'm from Alice it's because your fanbase is full of a bunch of entitled douchebags.
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Post by SouthTexasBloodsport on Apr 27, 2024 10:45:56 GMT -6
I mean we could use some logic with that last point there and say that the idea of following Phil and Steve scared many away. So those that applied had big brass ones and weren't scared. So that's a good point calcatgirl.... Exactly right. Just making the playoffs in the district we are in won't be enough at Calallen and Charlie knows it. NO ONE will be happy if we flop into district and don't perform well in pre-season or win district in that weak district and lose round one. We have very high expectations so basing this solely on performance in that weak district is the dumbest argument I've heard. He has big shoes to fill and expectations to live up to at Calallen. Now back to Vic East! So excited for John! Good family and I know he's ready to show what he can do. lmfao Charlie? So you're on a first name bases with the new coach already? There's that calallen entitlement. I can't imagine coming online and referring to Alice's Coach as, "Joe Richard", lol you people are funny.
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Post by SouthTexasBloodsport on Apr 27, 2024 10:48:04 GMT -6
From this point forward , you all that say Calallen fans are not satisfied with the candidates need to name some names. I’ll get it started for some of you local guys with the first one some of you all thought would be a good fit for Calallen. 1). Chris Soza Start with the next name and carry on. I have a social media platform with close to 20k followers between the couple of them. With my own eyes I saw your fans complaining about the Reeve hire and honestly so did most of you coming in here and acting like it's all being made up by me. Your fans were all over my STXB platforms whining about Reeve being the choice. I'm not gonna waste my time on people that can't even accept facts.
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Post by calcatgirl on Apr 27, 2024 11:07:01 GMT -6
From this point forward , you all that say Calallen fans are not satisfied with the candidates need to name some names. I’ll get it started for some of you local guys with the first one some of you all thought would be a good fit for Calallen. 1). Chris Soza Start with the next name and carry on. I have a social media platform with close to 20k followers between the couple of them. With my own eyes I saw your fans complaining about the Reeve hire and honestly so did most of you coming in here and acting like it's all being made up by me. Your fans were all over my STXB platforms whining about Reeve being the choice. I'm not gonna waste my time on people that can't even accept facts. First of all - congratulation on your 20K plus followers. We know about it. You continue to tell us. Not everyone is going to agree on things. Just like the people of Alice on the bond. But many of those are just fans who don't know what's been happening behind the scenes at Calallen. Pico and I happen to talk to board members and the superintendent and coaches and players. Just because those people feel that way doesn't mean that's what the district and community wanted overall. Many of those are bellyaching because they wanted the internal candidate so now they are butt hurt over the hire. No need to argue. Just let it play out. I for one am very happy with the hire. He's shared his plan, they are working hard and parents and players are excited. You aren't a Calallen fan or supporter anyway so why worry or ***** about it?
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Post by calcatgirl on Apr 27, 2024 11:09:42 GMT -6
Exactly right. Just making the playoffs in the district we are in won't be enough at Calallen and Charlie knows it. NO ONE will be happy if we flop into district and don't perform well in pre-season or win district in that weak district and lose round one. We have very high expectations so basing this solely on performance in that weak district is the dumbest argument I've heard. He has big shoes to fill and expectations to live up to at Calallen. Now back to Vic East! So excited for John! Good family and I know he's ready to show what he can do. lmfao Charlie? So you're on a first name bases with the new coach already? There's that calallen entitlement. I can't imagine coming online and referring to Alice's Coach as, "Joe Richard", lol you people are funny. I met him and he said to call him Charlie. What would you like me to call him? Who gives a crap how I refer to him anyway? A lot of people are calling him Charlie because that's his name. Just like I called Campbell "Steve" and Coach Danaher "Phil". In fact I call our Superintendent "Emily" because that's her name. Good Lord. You make an issue out of everything.
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