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One year anniversary of Don Shows death
Posted on 3/5/15 at 1:38 am
Posted on 3/5/15 at 1:38 am
This week marks one year since Coach Shows passed away. Man, time goes by quick. He was a great coach and loved to send his players to Baton Rouge.
Miss you, Coach!!!
Miss you, Coach!!!
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Posted on 3/5/15 at 2:25 am to wmtiger69
I am not trying be a prick but are we going to do this every year? Because Don Shows did such a great job cheating at West Monroe I will do my best to honor him with you.
Posted on 3/5/15 at 7:26 am to TOKEN
Screw ypu. Don was a great man.
Posted on 3/8/15 at 5:06 pm to Tiger Ryno
Shows did more to develop average players and coached them up to be great players. He seemed to put the best player in the best place for the team. If this is cheating then all coaches should
Posted on 3/8/15 at 5:33 pm to hill durham
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If this is cheating then all coaches should
Personally recruited a friend of mine from another town. Funny when WM people in college would say the same thing you're saying and then he'd interject. Don't be so naive, bro.
Posted on 3/8/15 at 7:16 pm to PurpleNGoldFan
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Don't be so naive, bro
Every single school in this Parish recruits and I'm sure it's not exclusive to Monroe.
This post was edited on 3/8/15 at 7:29 pm
Posted on 3/8/15 at 8:05 pm to wmtiger69
He never could beat Coach Vallery in football, no after how much he recruited. East Side High went to T Total shite when Coach Val went to Kilgore. This is he only reason West Monroe became relevant.
Posted on 3/8/15 at 8:19 pm to 4LSU2
Richwood closing/opening directly coincides with Ouachita's rise and fall.
Posted on 3/8/15 at 8:28 pm to hill durham
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Shows did more to develop average players
Yeah by holding them back in school so they were men playing against boys.
Posted on 3/8/15 at 8:37 pm to clhstrojans
West Monroe Holdback article from 1996
Holding back 19 kids in 1996, some strait A kids just so they had another year to get bigger and stronger to play football. I guess that's one way to develop them.
WM holdback article from 2012
Decades later, rule changes later, still going on at WM. Show's seemed like a good guy, but playing with teams full of 18-19 year olds against teams full of 17-18 year olds makes his job a little easier.
Holding back 19 kids in 1996, some strait A kids just so they had another year to get bigger and stronger to play football. I guess that's one way to develop them.
WM holdback article from 2012
Decades later, rule changes later, still going on at WM. Show's seemed like a good guy, but playing with teams full of 18-19 year olds against teams full of 17-18 year olds makes his job a little easier.
Posted on 3/8/15 at 8:38 pm to TOKEN
Provide the proof
Posted on 3/8/15 at 8:40 pm to clhstrojans
Again, check the birthdays of kids playing. WM isn't the only school holding kids back. Hell OCS had a program called 8+ just for holding kids back. Booty skipped his entire senior year at Evangel once his Dad was fired.
Posted on 3/8/15 at 9:06 pm to JJ27
So if some other schools do it it's ok for West Monroe to do it?
I'm not saying they're the only ones holding back kids, but they sure seemed to have perfected it over the past 25 years. Holding back kids is just as much as an advantage as private schools being able to get kids from anywhere they want.
All I know is my school and schools in my area are not holding back kids for athletic purposes. Maybe it's what we would need to do to be competitive, but we're about running schools down here not football factories. If they make the grades they go to the next grade no matter how fast they can run a 40, plain and simple.
Hell this year we won district in basketball for the first time since 1975. Right before our first round game our best player got caught stealing a coke and got kicked off the team pretty much guaranteeing a loss. How many teams would have just made the kid run a million suicides as punishment? I'm willing to bet WM would be one of those schools. Schools should be about educating kids and setting a good example, not about bending rules, recruiting a team of the best kids in the area, or holding back perfectly capable students so they are more physically mature than their opponents.
I'm not saying they're the only ones holding back kids, but they sure seemed to have perfected it over the past 25 years. Holding back kids is just as much as an advantage as private schools being able to get kids from anywhere they want.
All I know is my school and schools in my area are not holding back kids for athletic purposes. Maybe it's what we would need to do to be competitive, but we're about running schools down here not football factories. If they make the grades they go to the next grade no matter how fast they can run a 40, plain and simple.
Hell this year we won district in basketball for the first time since 1975. Right before our first round game our best player got caught stealing a coke and got kicked off the team pretty much guaranteeing a loss. How many teams would have just made the kid run a million suicides as punishment? I'm willing to bet WM would be one of those schools. Schools should be about educating kids and setting a good example, not about bending rules, recruiting a team of the best kids in the area, or holding back perfectly capable students so they are more physically mature than their opponents.
Posted on 3/8/15 at 9:10 pm to clhstrojans
Sorry your school sucks at sports.
Posted on 3/8/15 at 9:12 pm to Dale Murphy
Sorry your school had to finally cheat to win, cause you guys sucked way more than we do now before ya'll started doing that.
Posted on 3/8/15 at 9:20 pm to clhstrojans
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I'm willing to bet WM would be one of those schools.
WM lost their leading returning rusher because of his hair.
Posted on 3/8/15 at 9:23 pm to JJ27
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WM lost their leading returning rusher because of his hair.
That sounds interesting. What's the story on that?
Posted on 3/8/15 at 9:24 pm to clhstrojans
That's pretty much it. Always been a team rule, no hair hanging out of your helmet. No exceptions. WM is much more disciplined than you think.
This post was edited on 3/8/15 at 9:25 pm
Posted on 3/8/15 at 9:34 pm to Dale Murphy
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Sorry your school sucks at sports.
I wondered when you would show up.
Posted on 3/8/15 at 9:58 pm to JJ27
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That's pretty much it. Always been a team rule, no hair hanging out of your helmet. No exceptions. WM is much more disciplined than you think.
Gotcha, so really a rule to gain a tactical advantage. Don't want your kids to get tackled by the hair.
I'm joking. Just for the record I don't dislike WM or Shows. I do have respect for what he's done building that program from nothing, as I do for JT Curtis. I do think they are great coaches, but I just think it's pretty obvious they have advantages that most schools don't have and aren't willing to push the rules to have.
When or if we ever win something I'd rather it not be cheapened by the fact that we won with kids from outside the area, or with kids we held back not because they couldn't make the grades, but so they could be more physically mature.
I'm sure you feel different because WM is your school, but if it wasn't and your school was losing to teams that played by a different set of rules than you did you might feel differently. I guess I just have an appreciation for schools that run good/solid programs and win big when the stars align not when it's manufactured.
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