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Rebels figuring things out while winning
pagne said. “The bottom first),
winning ways
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Better to the point that through, the reality is the
Baytown Sun photo by Alan Dale goal of making the nation-
Mastering the recruiting game
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and sophomore seasons.
opportunity. You have to be will-
are trying to get an early look at right it helps with improved net-
working.
where you send the kids to school,
his first year in the position and against some of the ideas some par-
SPORTS CALENDAR
Cole, Yankees strike record $324M, 9-year deal
dominant season
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a record for any World Series title in three seasons.
Cole’s deal established marks no-trade provision.
man visited Cole and wife Amy electronics to steal signs in 2017.
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Holden Hill
Sr,
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The importance of
helping players find
collegiate homes
10 and should have won
going away, but our youth-
fulness showed up. That’s
part of the process. Fortu-
nately we won. Kid had
a good looking shot from
half court that hit the rim.
If that had gone in, we’d be
LC coach talks
about new
contract Stephen Strasburg final-
ized a day earlier to remain with
the World Series champion Wash-
er Mike Trout’s $426.5 million,
12-year deal with the Los Angeles
Angels that started last season.
Cole gets an even $36 million
fully win that tournament Makoi (16 ppg) and Keon-
and accomplish a huge tae White (15.6 ppg) for a
used the influence of others in that
post to guide his evolution into the
player, beating
the $35.5 mil-
lion in outfield-
your kids as you do, and to take a
chance on them. Recruiting can
times disheartening, but I will not
stop working for my kids, cause
helped the Houston Astros come
within one win of their second
line is that we had some
nice young men, but they
weren’t competitive. These
guys are extremely com-
petitive and their knowl-
team leading Region XIV
in scoring at 97.4 ppg.
Center Chris Osten, one
of three sophomores along
with White and Ashton
Kenebrew has also come
up big among region lead-
ers in rebounding (ninth)
But it’s about keeping things in
perspective during the process.
“The job is to present realistic
options to our players and that goes
Thursday
December 12, 2019
Players like Goose Creek Memorial’s junior Brice Lane, 15, have begun the recruiting process in hopes of finding
a college football program that would take the running back in.(file photo)
BY RONALD BLUM
AP Baseball Writer
Lee College sophomore Chris Osten, 21, receives a pass
from classmate and Rebel teammate Keontae White. The
Rebels are 10-4 so far this season.
This is an example of some of the
packages the Goose Creek Memo-
rial football staff sends out on its
players for recruitment, including
senior defensive back Holden Hill,
(submitted photo)
he said.
Crosby’s Johnnie Freeman is in
out of the gate we are go-
ing to need to be ready and
hopefully win.
“Our goal is to be as
high of a seed, hopefully
with a bye, in the Region
XIV tournament. Then we
want to go 4-0 and hope-
ington Nation-
als.
Its $36 mil-
lion average is
ious services as soon as freshmen takes to get these young men that way to get these recruiters to see
Recognizing the
“angst” with
interference rules
BY SCHUYLER DIXON
AP Pro Football Writer
h
ma
tion that includes Luis Severino,
Masahiro Tanaka, James Paxton
and J.A. Happ or Domingo Ger-
man, who may be suspended at
the season’s start under baseball’s
domestic violence policy.
— Houston manager AJ Hinch
said he couldn’t publicly answer
questions about Major League
Baseball’s investigation into al-
legations by fonner Astros pitch-
er Mike Fiers that Houston used
BY ALAN DALE
alan.dale@baytownsun.com
BY ALAN DALE
alan.dale@baytownsun.com
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Boys Basketball
GCM at Anahuac
Tournament
BH at H-J Tournament
FRIDAY
Boys Basketball
GCM at Anahuac
Tournament
BH at H-J Tournament
REL at La Porte, 7
RSS at Hou. Sterling, 7
Girls Basketball
East Chambers at
Anahuac, 6:30
GCM at Magnolia, 6:30
Clear Lake at RSS, 7
BH at Kempner, 7
Boys Soccer
BCA at Galveston
OLConnell, 4
Astros ace leaves after for pitchers in total dollars, top-
ping the $245 million, seven-year
the Rebels have the Nos.1,
8 and 10 scorers in the
region in Ishmael Cruz
Paris (19 ppg), Jackson
(
a
their younger guys,” Nunez said.
“We get a lot of schools that come
through and it’s a lot easier to
get video out with Hudl now. Ul- those contacts tend to follow you,”
“A lot of bigger schools already ing to do the research.”
“Once you make the contacts they give their all for us.”
out and get the kids, who
in our heart, would com-
pete and get better.”
College football is big business
and many high school players and
their families want to become a
part of it.
In Texas, many high school pro-
grams hire recruiting coordinators
as a part of their staffs and these
coaches not only are entrusted in
helping find these young men a po-
tential new home, but one that fits.
All while doing their coaching
job and in most cases, teaching
classes.
Robert E. Lee third-year recruit-
ing coordinator Dwayne Nunez is
the football’s team offensive coor-
dinator and quarterback coach as
well as a P.E. teacher and he plows
ahead using his previous college
coaching experiences at the FCS
and FBS levels to guide his ath-
letes.
“The college experience doesn’t
hurt and you get more honest an-
swers from guys you are friends
with and what direction you should
go,” Nunez said. “I do it as much
as I can get to it while I do all my
other stuff. We have others guys on
the staff that also do stuff, so I am
not alone by any stretch.”
With recruiting of athletes start-
ing earlier in their prep careers,
coaches like Nunez deal with var-
in tough times right now.”
The Rebels return to
action at 4 p.m. Jan. 3 in
Carthage against Panola
College.(ll-2). They re-
turn home for a 6 p.m. Jan.
al tournament.”
The past two years, Lee
won 13 and nine total
games.
“To be at 10 wins right
now with an entirely new
roster, I would say is a
ents do have,” Dever said. “Some
believe their kids are DI players
and they have the measurables, but
it’s not up to us to make that de-
cision. Our job is to help kids we
know are recruitable from D1 to
Scary as it sounds, Lee
Rebels basketball coach
Roy Champagne thinks
his team can be a lot better
than its current form.
Well, considering this is
Champagne’s best team in
three seasons with a 10-4
overall record with two-
plus months left to go, that
could have Rebels fans
looking forward with an-
ticipation.
Lee goes into the holi-
day break with a 1-2 Re-
gion XIV mark and on the
heels of a dramatic 86-84
win at home against Bossi-
er Parrish last weekend.
“That was huge; We had
to win that game,” Cham-
pagne said. “We were up
players have brought oo-
dles of ability to Baytown.
Of course it will help
if they improve a defense
giving up a region worst
81 ppg and while allowing
44.2 percent total shoot-
ing by opponents although
they are putting the clamps
down behind the arc at a
third-best 32.2 percent.
“We can always be bet-
ter on defense,” Cham-
“Obviously, when you are
talking about a player at the lev-
el of Gerrit Cole, in a lot of ways
that’s a game-changing type tal-
ent,” Yankees manager Aaron
Boone said earlier in the day.
“This is a guy that’s really hungry,
sive line coach, is also entrusted position.
with being the Patriots recruiting “It is a lot of work, but it is work
coordinator. that is necessary,” Freeman said.
“This job is a passion for me, “As coaches, we ask our kids ev-
After finalizing the agreement in California last week, bringing
for 31-year-old Strasburg, agent along Boone, new pitching coach
Scott Boras predicted he would Matt Blake and special adviser
go even high for Cole, a 29-year- Andy Pettitte.
old right-hander. After helping Houston beat the
Cole was baseball’s most domi- Yankees in a six-game AL Cham-
nant pitcher for much of 2019 and pionship Series, Cole joins a rota-
timately, all we can do is put the
information out to the college. The
school ultimately has to decide.”
Goose Creek Memorial’s
Dwayne Dever, the team’s offen-
positive thing,” Cham- and blocked shots (tied for pagne said.
Still, Champagne isn’t
satisfied.
“We are still nowhere
near where we want to be,”
Champagne said. “With
a roster full of freshmen,
you never know what’s
going to come out of the
locker room or the huddle.
We are still a huge work in
progress.”
Yet, despite the growing
pains the Rebels are going
"What I have seen in the past is that is what matters.
there are coaches that don’t have “The frustrating part of being the
the desire to put in the leg work it recruiting coordinator is to find a
know their seniors and juniors and Dever said if one does the job be a tricky business and it is some-
because I believe the more you put ery day to push to the last second, NAIA and junior colleges.
into the kids and give them more work harder, go stronger. So why “Over the years you develop an
opportunities, the more success- not for the same with them and for understanding of what kids can go
ful they will become,” Dever said, their future, because ultimately to what level.”
IRVING, Texas — Amid
the concern and controver-
sy over coaches challenges
and video reviews of pass
interference, the NFL plans
a hard look at the rules ad-
justment instituted this sea-
son.
The change was for the
2019 season only and the
32 team owners would have
to ratify it again — on a
temporary or permanent ba-
sis — for it to be continued.
Thus far, inconsistencies in
how the penalties are being
called and with decisions
made after video reviews
have plagued the system.
“There’s no question
there’s been angst,” Rich
McKay, president of the
Atlanta Falcons and head
of the NFL’s powerful com-
petition committee said
Wednesday at the league
meetings. “I’ve felt the
angst. I felt the angst with
our team, feel the angst
of others. But it’s a new
rule. It’s a big change. It’s
something we haven’t done
before. So I don’t want to
prejudge what the outcome
could be.”
McKay and league foot-
ball operations chief Troy
Vincent said the subject
will be “a point of discus-
sion” in the offseason.
“I think from the com-
mittee’s standpoint, what
we typically do is we’ll
go back and we’ll look at
every single review and
we will look at it from the
standpoint as a committee,
‘Would we have reversed
that? Would we not have
reversed that?’ McKay ex-
plained. “After you do that,
which is what we did last
year with use of helmet — I
think we looked at 120 use
of helmet plays. You get a
good sense of, ‘Can we do
this better? Does this have a
path to get better and more
efficient and more effective
and more predictable? And
what are the challenges?”
annually and can opt out after the really driven.”
2024 season. He also has a full Yankees general manager Cash-
:633
6 showdown with Trinity edge of the game, their IQ
Valley CC (8-4). is pretty high.
“We have some extreme- “We just went out and
ly tough games when we to the best of our abilities
come back,” the coach tried to get all the distrac-
said. “The first three games tions out of the way and go
? #
21%
SAN DIEGO — Gerrit Cole
quickly ended Stephen Stras-
burg’s tenure as baseball’s high-
est-paid pitcher.
Cole agreed to a $324 million,
nine-year contract with the New
York Yankees on Tuesday night,
a person familiar with the agree-
ment told The Associated Press.
The person spoke on condition
of anonymity because the agree-
ment had not been announced.
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