Not sure how to feel about this...

[Dannyluvssonic]

I get that his son is in line to be the starting QB next year but the head coach of the UofA also has responsibilities to sell the city, school, etc to potential recruits and how do you do that when your own kid won't move here.  Maybe I just don't understand it.  Is this normally what happens when a coach takes a new job?  Seems sort of strange to me.

[younghog]

old thread on this... and I would do the same...

let the kid play where he has been playing.. HP is a renown school and one he should be proud to graduate one.. Heck they just one the State playoffs.

go figure.. I mean ~go hogs

[Hawgphish]

I am not a fan of that.

[SPAL]

We can find anything to be unhappy about.

[Hou-Hog]

I get that his son is in line to be the starting QB next year but the head coach of the UofA also has responsibilities to sell the city, school, etc to potential recruits and how do you do that when your own kid won't move here.  Maybe I just don't understand it.  Is this normally what happens when a coach takes a new job?  Seems sort of strange to me.

seems completely responsible to me

[MissippHog]

I agree with younghog, let the kid stay at home and play if he's able to do so.

[Dannyluvssonic]

I just assumed his family would move to Fayetteville.  Maybe this is normal but I am not sure how that looks in recruiting.  That isn't looking for things to be unhappy about.  It is a legitimate concern.

[IronMountainHog]

Worry about raising your own kids, not how somebody raises their kids.

[OneTuskOverTheLine™]

We They can find anything to be unhappy about.

Some people just go around hunting for stuff to b!tch about...

[welchog]

Absolutely nothing to see here.  Go on with your lives citizens.

[HogT]

Ok first off your feeling one way or another about the parenting practice of another adult is irrelevant. No one is abusing or mistreating the young man.

Next, with him competing at a top Texas school he gets more exposure and higher levels of competition than he would at Fayetteville.

Also, there is no sense of impropriety if he came to Fayetteville and had an expectation of being the starting QB because he is CCM son.

Lastly, get a grip! Surely you have more important things in your life to worry about than where CCMs son goes to high school.

[jgphillips3]

A football coach is rarely home anyway.  Might as well let the kid stay with friends and do his thing.  Also, does it really hurt to have the son of the Arkansas head coach competing in the upper divisions of Texas football in the DFW area with ALL of those recruits we covet?  Seems like a good thing to me.

[IronHog]

So NWA isn't the greatest place on earth?

[247Hog]

A football coach is rarely home anyway.  Might as well let the kid stay with friends and do his thing.  Also, does it really hurt to have the son of the Arkansas head coach competing in the upper divisions of Texas football in the DFW area with ALL of those recruits we covet?  Seems like a good thing to me.

Exactly. I wouldn't want myself nor my kids to move Senior year of high school. That kids entire life is at HP and everything he knows.

[goodguytex]

He's played there all through HS. I don't blame him for not wanting to uproot his life there after working so hard, make new friends, work for a spot on a new HAS team in an entirely new state, with people he doesn't know.

If I had been Coach Morris, I would've set my Son down, told him about the new position, then brought him up to Fayetteville, got to meet folks, talk to folks, then let him make his own choice what he wants to do. If he divided to stay where he's been at, give all the support a loving Dad can give. And help him in every way possible prepare for college. That's love. That's support.

[LZH]

If I lived in Highland Park I wouldn't care to move to NWA either.

[247Hog]

Ok first off your feeling one way or another about the parenting practice of another adult is irrelevant. No one is abusing or mistreating the young man.

Next, with him competing at a top Texas school he gets more exposure and higher levels of competition than he would at Fayetteville.

Also, there is no sense of impropriety if he came to Fayetteville and had an expectation of being the starting QB because he is CCM son.

Lastly, get a grip! Surely you have more important things in your life to worry about than where CCMs son goes to high school.

Don't think the OP has a concern about abusing the kid or whatever. Think he/she is worried about CCM commitment to Arkansas with his son staying at HP.

[Dannyluvssonic]

Is this a message board or a sunshine pump?  I sort of like the look of stability and long term commitment in a head coach.  I didn't condemn the coach or the kid but I have a concern about how it looks to recruits who you are trying to sell the great benefits of living here to.

[OneTuskOverTheLine™]

So NWA isn't the greatest place on earth?

Close, but it's not the place the kid has built his opportunity. People claiming he should enroll his kid in Fayetteville probably don't understand that CCM doesn't want Fayetteville High feeling obligated, and also doesn't want his son to have to learn a whole new system when he's been patiently waiting to get the keys to a team he already knows. It's best for all involved the way he chose to do it. Now if he was a tuba player however...

[mr_v8horsepower]

Jerry Jones grandson just won TX State Champ there, Matthew Stafford, Detroit Lions graduated from there. I believe Stafford won the TX State Championship also while at Highland Park.
Highland Park puts out some graet quarterbacks.

[IronHog]

Is this a message board or a sunshine pump?  I sort of like the look of stability and long term commitment in a head coach.  I didn't condemn the coach or the kid but I have a concern about how it looks to recruits who you are trying to sell the great benefits of living here to.

Everyone in NWA wants to live in Texas anyway


Play a game there every year to prove it

[Big Daddy]

Some kids don't take to new places quickly. If you pull him out before his senior year it could really mess him up. I know from experience. Let the kid finish with his friends. At his age they're more important to him than his parents are anyway.

[hoggusamoungus]

Exactly. I wouldn't want myself nor my kids to move Senior year of high school. That kids entire life is at HP and everything he knows.

Not his senior year.  He will graduate spring 2020.

[IronHog]

Close, but it's not the place the kid has built his opportunity. People claiming he should enroll his kid in Fayetteville probably don't understand that CCM doesn't want Fayetteville High feeling obligated, and also doesn't want his son to have to learn a whole new system when he's been patiently waiting to get the keys to a team he already knows. It's best for all involved the way he chose to do it. Now if he was a tuba player however...

Go Aggies

[HogT]

Don't think the OP has a concern about abusing the kid or whatever. Think he/she is worried about CCM commitment to Arkansas with his son staying at HP.

My point was that it's not his place to worry or feel a certain way about a persons parenting style unless there was abuse going on. I was no way implying there was abuse going on or that the OP suggested it was going on.

[RockyMtnHog]

I get that his son is in line to be the starting QB next year but the head coach of the UofA also has responsibilities to sell the city, school, etc to potential recruits and how do you do that when your own kid won't move here.  Maybe I just don't understand it.  Is this normally what happens when a coach takes a new job?  Seems sort of strange to me.

I commend the son for wanting to finish his high school years with his teammates and friends.  As stated earlier he will get more exposure playing for HP than playing for Fayetteville or another school in NWA.  Let CCM both be a parent and the coach.

[LZH]

Go Aggies

Ha! You're probably exactly right.

[IronHog]

This is the most UA thing ever


Right up there with 70-17 vs USC and having a Sooner as color man

[farmhawg]

I get that his son is in line to be the starting QB next year but the head coach of the UofA also has responsibilities to sell the city, school, etc to potential recruits and how do you do that when your own kid won't move here.  Maybe I just don't understand it.  Is this normally what happens when a coach takes a new job?  Seems sort of strange to me.

Thank God you don't have children....