“U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva, a Tucson Democrat, has called for a boycott of convention business for the state and other calls have come for a boycott of Arizona goods, services and tourism because of the nationally controversial immigration law.”
This guy is a US representative for Arizona and he’s calling for a boycott of his own state, costing them much needed revenue? How is this “representing” the state? This guy is part of the problem. If he and his other colleagues up in Washington would help boarder states in enforcing federal laws, such drastic steps would not have to be taken. Ridiculous!
Vipers end the season with a 27-9 record; which ties for 2nd highest number of wins in MHS boys basketball history. Those were huge wins over Judson and East Central to finish off district and force the tie breaker. I enjoyed watching you play this year and appreciate the coverage from both the Victoria Advocate and Newscenter 25.
Hey VA sports, what ever happened to the "High School Scoreboard" that was printed once a week and listed all of the stats for the area boys and girls high school basketball teams? Sure miss reading through those. Thanks
Mr. Molitor, While we can agree to disagree concerning yesterday’s article including Henry Hill and his dad, there is no mistaking that this article more qualifies as a human interest story that the subscribers of the Advocate have come to expect. Good job on this one and I look forward to reading others in the future. Good luck to Tyler and all of his teammates.
While I respect your job and motives in writing such pieces, I think your article did a disservice to Henry Hill and his progression on the court while focusing on his dad. If the focus of your article was about how parents live through their kids and are overbearing from the bleachers, then do a piece without names. Don’t steal Henry’s thunder by making the article about his dad, who, more than likely is hollering instructions that are contrary to Coach Grammer’s game plan.
The Vipers play two games in their own tournament and this is what the Advocate reports on? I’m all for human interest stories, but a dad who embarrasses his son by hollering from the stands certainly doesn’t qualify as such. Mr. Molitor, please give us more specifics about the games or the players themselves rather than a loud mouth dad who admittedly didn’t even play high school basketball. This is the most ridiculous article I think I’ve seen on the front page of the “sports” edition.
It’s all in the numbers. In the previous nine years, MHS basketball has never had a season where they haven’t won at least 20 games. So the money has to at least go in the 21 or over. During that same period they have only missed the playoffs once (last year). Last years’ team won 21 games without a single player with varsity experience and they missed making the playoffs by one game with a season ending loss to East Central in their last game of the year. Grammer gets the most out of his players and has proved to run one of (if not the best) programs at MHS. They have good, experienced returning letterman that will get them back to the playoffs this year. Good luck.
Based on the MHS Basketball Booster website, MHS holds a 72% winning percentage. ’00-’01 21-13 ’01-’02 26-7 ’02-’03 26-9 ’03-’04 33-6 ’04-’05 24-11 ’05-’06 not listed ’06-’07 23-11 ’07-’08 27-8 ’08-’09 21-13
The time for a change is now. SuperDad is correct about football coaches being “placed” in other athletic positions. Back when my son was a freshman, his coach was a football coach who knew NOTHING about baseball. Well, I guess he watched a little MLB, because he thought the pitcher should always bat 9th, regardless of his batting average. Oh yeah, when you got to the park, positions were assigned on a first come first serve basis. A player arriving early could pencil himself into the lineup. It was embarrassing. He had my son throw over 240 pitches over the course of a three day tournament. No trainer, no ice down after the game. He was clueless about the possible effects of such to my son’s arm until I gave him a pretty good tongue lashing and he told me “I’m sorry, do I need to be keeping track of his pitches? You know I don’t know a whole lot about baseball”. Can you believe that!
Multiple, and I mean multiple, attempts to contact Finley to discuss my concerns (safety and other) went unanswered. You just don’t treat people with such disrespect. Before any of you start accusing me a being one of those parents that want to gripe about playing time or my son not being treated fairly, please understand that is not what I’m talking about. Neither of these were a problem, however there were legitimate concerns I wanted to discuss concerning the program but never was given the courtesy to express them. If you meet with me and don’t agree with my views; that’s one thing, but to never give me the respect of a return call or e-mail is another. Well Mr. Finley, your stall tactics worked…. I reluctantly just gave up and my son dropped out of baseball to move on to another sport.
I would be curious to know the results of an employee survey for all of the coaches, managers, etc that report to Mr. Finley. Does he treat his employees with the same dignity and respect he treated a concerned parent? Does he respond to their attempts to meet to discuss their needs? How often does he show up at your games to support your team (middle school included)? Maybe an anonymous survey may be in order. I have met Mr. Moore and respect his efforts on correcting problems he inherited when becoming superintendent. However, we are moving into a new era for our school district and future athletics of Victoria. Please be absolutely certain that we have an AD that is a good ambassador for Victoria and one that respects and supports all athletic programs and their respective coaches. Currently, I’m not sure we have either.
Ringer is close. The term is "Sundry". Each organization is allocated a small amount of money, to be used for miscellaneous items (sundry)that may surface during the year. The booster clubs, if they so choose, can vote and donate money to the Sundry accounts, but they have no direct say in how the money can be spent. The sundry accounts are managed by the district and requested by each respective coach or organization rep, not the booster clubs.
Ringer is correct. The booster clubs will raise money for a particular organization and use those funds to support that organization. There are rules established by UIL concerning what booster clubs can and cannot provide for organizations.
Scout- This is an excellent question. One we have discussed over the last four years while serving in three different booster clubs @ MHS. Although it sounds good in theory, we always seem to come back to the same problem(s): • How is money going to be allocated? • Which clubs and organizations would be included? • How would each of these organizations have fair representation on the booster club? • Would the AD that is in charge of distribution also serve as the head football/basketball/baseball coach? Would there be a bias for the particular program if they were?
There are certainly lot’s smarter people out there than me that can address each of these problems, but I haven’t heard any in the last four years.
I know that some of the smaller towns use this one booster system. I have no idea if it’s successful or not. Hopefully, some of them will post their comments. All I know is that at MHS, no one wanted to touch this topic with a ten foot pole.
Newsletter
“U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva, a Tucson Democrat, has called for a boycott of convention business for the state and other calls have come for a boycott of Arizona goods, services and tourism because of the nationally controversial immigration law.”
This guy is a US representative for Arizona and he’s calling for a boycott of his own state, costing them much needed revenue? How is this “representing” the state? This guy is part of the problem. If he and his other colleagues up in Washington would help boarder states in enforcing federal laws, such drastic steps would not have to be taken. Ridiculous!
Vipers end the season with a 27-9 record; which ties for 2nd highest number of wins in MHS boys basketball history. Those were huge wins over Judson and East Central to finish off district and force the tie breaker. I enjoyed watching you play this year and appreciate the coverage from both the Victoria Advocate and Newscenter 25.
Hey VA sports, what ever happened to the "High School Scoreboard" that was printed once a week and listed all of the stats for the area boys and girls high school basketball teams? Sure miss reading through those. Thanks
Mr. Molitor,
While we can agree to disagree concerning yesterday’s article including Henry Hill and his dad, there is no mistaking that this article more qualifies as a human interest story that the subscribers of the Advocate have come to expect. Good job on this one and I look forward to reading others in the future. Good luck to Tyler and all of his teammates.
While I respect your job and motives in writing such pieces, I think your article did a disservice to Henry Hill and his progression on the court while focusing on his dad. If the focus of your article was about how parents live through their kids and are overbearing from the bleachers, then do a piece without names. Don’t steal Henry’s thunder by making the article about his dad, who, more than likely is hollering instructions that are contrary to Coach Grammer’s game plan.
The Vipers play two games in their own tournament and this is what the Advocate reports on? I’m all for human interest stories, but a dad who embarrasses his son by hollering from the stands certainly doesn’t qualify as such. Mr. Molitor, please give us more specifics about the games or the players themselves rather than a loud mouth dad who admittedly didn’t even play high school basketball. This is the most ridiculous article I think I’ve seen on the front page of the “sports” edition.
It’s all in the numbers. In the previous nine years, MHS basketball has never had a season where they haven’t won at least 20 games. So the money has to at least go in the 21 or over. During that same period they have only missed the playoffs once (last year). Last years’ team won 21 games without a single player with varsity experience and they missed making the playoffs by one game with a season ending loss to East Central in their last game of the year. Grammer gets the most out of his players and has proved to run one of (if not the best) programs at MHS. They have good, experienced returning letterman that will get them back to the playoffs this year. Good luck.
Based on the MHS Basketball Booster website, MHS holds a 72% winning percentage.
’00-’01 21-13
’01-’02 26-7
’02-’03 26-9
’03-’04 33-6
’04-’05 24-11
’05-’06 not listed
’06-’07 23-11
’07-’08 27-8
’08-’09 21-13
The time for a change is now. SuperDad is correct about football coaches being “placed” in other athletic positions. Back when my son was a freshman, his coach was a football coach who knew NOTHING about baseball. Well, I guess he watched a little MLB, because he thought the pitcher should always bat 9th, regardless of his batting average. Oh yeah, when you got to the park, positions were assigned on a first come first serve basis. A player arriving early could pencil himself into the lineup. It was embarrassing. He had my son throw over 240 pitches over the course of a three day tournament. No trainer, no ice down after the game. He was clueless about the possible effects of such to my son’s arm until I gave him a pretty good tongue lashing and he told me “I’m sorry, do I need to be keeping track of his pitches? You know I don’t know a whole lot about baseball”. Can you believe that!
Multiple, and I mean multiple, attempts to contact Finley to discuss my concerns (safety and other) went unanswered. You just don’t treat people with such disrespect. Before any of you start accusing me a being one of those parents that want to gripe about playing time or my son not being treated fairly, please understand that is not what I’m talking about. Neither of these were a problem, however there were legitimate concerns I wanted to discuss concerning the program but never was given the courtesy to express them. If you meet with me and don’t agree with my views; that’s one thing, but to never give me the respect of a return call or e-mail is another. Well Mr. Finley, your stall tactics worked…. I reluctantly just gave up and my son dropped out of baseball to move on to another sport.
I would be curious to know the results of an employee survey for all of the coaches, managers, etc that report to Mr. Finley. Does he treat his employees with the same dignity and respect he treated a concerned parent? Does he respond to their attempts to meet to discuss their needs? How often does he show up at your games to support your team (middle school included)? Maybe an anonymous survey may be in order. I have met Mr. Moore and respect his efforts on correcting problems he inherited when becoming superintendent. However, we are moving into a new era for our school district and future athletics of Victoria. Please be absolutely certain that we have an AD that is a good ambassador for Victoria and one that respects and supports all athletic programs and their respective coaches. Currently, I’m not sure we have either.
Ringer is close. The term is "Sundry". Each organization is allocated a small amount of money, to be used for miscellaneous items (sundry)that may surface during the year. The booster clubs, if they so choose, can vote and donate money to the Sundry accounts, but they have no direct say in how the money can be spent. The sundry accounts are managed by the district and requested by each respective coach or organization rep, not the booster clubs.
Ringer is correct. The booster clubs will raise money for a particular organization and use those funds to support that organization. There are rules established by UIL concerning what booster clubs can and cannot provide for organizations.
Scout-
This is an excellent question. One we have discussed over the last four years while serving in three different booster clubs @ MHS. Although it sounds good in theory, we always seem to come back to the same problem(s):
• How is money going to be allocated?
• Which clubs and organizations would be included?
• How would each of these organizations have fair representation on the booster club?
• Would the AD that is in charge of distribution also serve as the head football/basketball/baseball coach? Would there be a bias for the particular program if they were?
There are certainly lot’s smarter people out there than me that can address each of these problems, but I haven’t heard any in the last four years.
I know that some of the smaller towns use this one booster system. I have no idea if it’s successful or not. Hopefully, some of them will post their comments. All I know is that at MHS, no one wanted to touch this topic with a ten foot pole.