Ozen - La Marque Brawl

[Arbitrator]

"The University Interscholastic League, which governs high school sports in Texas, is looking into the brawl that erupted at the end of Saturday’s football game between La Marque High School and Beaumont’s Ozen High School."

Isn't that a hell of a comforting thought?

As long as  Mr. Hopelessly Childish is leading the investigation, I feel perfectly secure he will solve it and debunk the grassy knoll shooter.

 

Not unless, of course, one takes into due consideration that the only way that the UIL would ever get involved in this foray would be because they would like to find some other new scheme to help in the generation of revenue for itself, or maybe just to posture itself into position to take over those school districts, and then require all of those people therein to duly register and to pay their annual  "Manor Road"    dues!

In this economy, I'd reckon that the 15% off the top of the playoff gate just ain't nearly enough to cut it for them these days!  Now doesn't the mere fact that    "Manor Road"    has chosen to get itself involved in the midst of the investigation of this brawl just make everybody in the state sleep so much better at night, knowing how well that they have our backs while reaching for the bucks?

[TXMike]

La Marque folks are at it again.  Basketball this time:

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/highschool-prep-rally/texas-basketball-coach-attacked-angry-fan-following-team-173515503.html

[JasonTX]

La Marque folks are at it again.  Basketball this time:

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/highschool-prep-rally/texas-basketball-coach-attacked-angry-fan-following-team-173515503.html

I read some of the comments and agree with a couple of them.  Two options:  1.  Cancel all sports for 1 year.  2.  Play all games for 1 year without allowing any fans for all sports.

[HoustonUmp]

I have a basketball game in LaMarque in early February.  I hope that I will be able to report back how things went and that you won't read about it online or in the newspaper.  I have sent a note to the basketball chapter asking as to what steps (if any) have been taken to assure that adequate security will be available for our crew. 

[fencewire]

carry a taser...

[TexDoc]

I have a basketball game in LaMarque in early February.  I hope that I will be able to report back how things went and that you won't read about it online or in the newspaper.  I have sent a note to the basketball chapter asking as to what steps (if any) have been taken to assure that adequate security will be available for our crew.

If there isn't an admin in charge with a couple of cops, I think I'd wait it out until they provided them.

[Arbitrator]

I have a basketball game in LaMarque in early February.  I hope that I will be able to report back how things went and that you won't read about it online or in the newspaper.  I have sent a note to the basketball chapter asking as to what steps (if any) have been taken to assure that adequate security will be available for our crew.

If there isn't an admin in charge with a couple of cops, I think I'd wait it out until they provided them.

 

And yet another viable option is that your UIL Basketball Chapter could solicit the help of the heralded Manor Road  Director of Officials to make himself present for the game as a chaperone! And if he addresses the crowd pregame, then his mere presence there should actually put a damper on the gate and help to further insure the safety of the game officials! Escorting you out, he would volunteer to run interference by "railing and flailing" at the "rowdies" who might be sticking around in the parking lot after the game!   

[Coby]

For full disclosure purposes
We went 0-4 against La Marque in football all 4 years in high school.  We destroyed them in every other sport.

I have a lot of respect for the new AD and believe he is exactly what La Marque needs to clean it up and to win.

With that being said there have been 4 horrible incidents that have occured involving La Marque since July.

The old basketball coach was accused and dismissed from school for inappropriate contact with a 14 year old female

The girls volleyball team stole stuff out of the Dawson gym

The Ozen incident

Now this incident with coach Devers being punched


However, to suggest that they not have athletics anymore completely goes against everything I stand for as a researcher and educator.

The only thing that a lot of these kids, and the town for that fact, has to look forward to is La Marque athletics.  Yes, that is a sad thing to say about our society.  But it is what we are faced with.

As much as some believe that the team has a lot of thugs, I promise you that there are more thugs walking around the hall.  Athletics provides the kids with the structure they need to be productive citizens.  Take away athletics and you might as well give up on the kids.

My suggestion:  All road games for 2 years in every sport.  Set up video cameras that film the home fans in every sport for the next decade.

With all of this being said they are winning the 3A state championship next year.

[houstonjaguar]

With all of this being said they are winning the 3A state championship next year.

They are dropping to 3A?  WOW

[Headlinesman]

Also, if someone would be vigorously, successfully prosecuted, this type of crap might stop!

[Arbitrator]

Also, if someone would be vigorously, successfully prosecuted, this type of crap might stop!

 

Regarding the Basketball Coach getting punched in the eye at LaMarque, I'd be absolutely shell-shocked to see any arrests or indictments come down from Galveston County's DA's office or from their Grand Jury.

Now provided they don't let the statute of limitations up and expire, I'd be a little more optimistic about arrests and indictments coming out of Harris County, once their investigations are completed into the LaMarque-Beaumont Ozen football melee in Baytown. 

[texref]

Just released:

UIL reprimands and gives 2 year probations to Ozen football team and Coach Reply

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The University Interscholastic League's executive committee wasn't satisfied with the punishment given to Ozen football players following the postgame brawl against La Marque at a playoff game on Nov. 26. On Thursday, the UIL reprimanded and gave two-year probations to both the Ozen football team and head coach Jeff Nelson.

Nelson said the punishment to players included grass drills and tire flips in the week following the fight, which occurred in the third round of the Class 4A playoffs at Stallworth Stadium in Baytown. The fight erupted following the handshake line at midfield.

http://www.beaumontenterprise.com/sports/hs/article/Ozen-football-team-coach-reprimanded-and-given-3336399.php#ixzz1mZGPeI6Q

[TXMike]

February 16, 2012

AUSTIN, TX— The State Executive Committee of the University Interscholastic League issued penalties to schools and coaches for violations of UIL rules and handed down a decision on the eligibility of a student-athlete and on Thursday.

The Beaumont Ozen High School football program was issued a public reprimand and placed on probation for two years for a football altercation. Beaumont Ozen head football coach Jeff Nelson was also issued a public reprimand and placed on probation for two years.

The La Marque High School football program was issued a public reprimand and placed on probation for two years for a football altercation. Additionally, all sports programs at La Marque High School were issued a public reprimand and placed on probation until the end of the 2013-14 school year for a basketball altercation

[Joe Stack]

So what does probation mean? Do it again and we'll really give you a tongue lashing?

[Arbitrator]

So what does probation mean? Do it again and we'll really give you a tongue lashing?

 

Oh, yeah, haven't you heard?  Manor Road    will dispatch it's resident  Dancing Monkey(Director of Officials) post haste down to Galveston County to administer that "tongue-lashing!" Now a protracted threat of that extreme magnitude ought to keep'em all in line down there!   

[GoodScout]

Maybe if you put them on double-secret probation ...