http://texasprepsoftball.net/blog1 Personal thoughts from webmaster Coach Billy Hicks Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:16:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en NOTE: The following entry is for use in my Instructional Leadership graduate class at Lamar University. We have been instructed to develop our own blog, or use the one that we already have, to use for our assignment. From time to time, I will add pieces of information to use for my class.         The website ... http://texasprepsoftball.net/blog1/2008/07/14/webpage-evaluation/ With the state tournament beginning tomorrow, I wanted to jot down some things and thoughts about the 2008 softball season and hopefully where we are headed as a sport. Remember, these are my thoughts and you don't have to agree. I think good civil discussion in the open is a ... http://texasprepsoftball.net/blog1/2008/05/28/thoughts-on-2008-season/ There has been some very lively discussion on the TPSN forum during the past week. Much of the discussion has been on how the TGCA summer clinic is run and on the pitching distance issue. As moderator and owner of the forum, the decision on whether a post stays on ... http://texasprepsoftball.net/blog1/2007/09/20/texas-prep-softball-forum/ Keep sending those open date postings! If you know of coaches who need to be our list, please let me know. http://texasprepsoftball.net/blog1/2007/08/31/open-date-postings/ I have some thoughts after watching some games this summer and fall that have disturbed me somewhat. I may step on some toes here, but that's how it goes. You can disagree and that is ok. One thing that drives me crazy about volleyball is that they use kids to call ... http://texasprepsoftball.net/blog1/2007/08/30/volleyball-parents-and-kids-as-line-judges-very-sorry-situation/ I sent out the first e-mail of 2007-2008 on Tuesday afternoon to check my e-mail program and to confirm those who are/are not coaching softball anymore. I had about 50 e-mails sent back out of the close to 500 I sent, so I am in the process of deleting those ... http://texasprepsoftball.net/blog1/2007/08/08/2008-open-date-e-mails/ Here is a link to a great reading resource for softball issues-- www.spysoftball.com -- Rayburn Hesse does a great job of covering softball during the college and high profile travel ball seasons and has several great opinions and editorials about the state of softball in the USA. http://texasprepsoftball.net/blog1/2007/08/06/spy-softball/ Well, I guess I may be the only one to say they attended 3 national tournaments in one week. Or people could say that I was the only one stupid enough to spend a week of my summer on the road at softball tournaments. But it really was nice to ... http://texasprepsoftball.net/blog1/2007/08/06/back-home-in-texas/ 8/3 -- I'm in Broken Arrow, OK at the 14U Southern National ASA Tournament. I was in Sioux Falls, SD for the 16U ASA Nationals earlier in the week. I will give a report about my thoughts about the tournaments this evening. I have been impressed so far. http://texasprepsoftball.net/blog1/2007/08/03/vacation-16u-14u-national-tournaments/ The final weeks of ASA national competitions are coming up. The 14U nationals are in Illinois next week, 14U Southern Nationals are in Broken Arrow (Tulsa), OK; the 16U Nationals are in Sioux Falls, SD; the 18U Nationals are in College Station; and the 18U Gold are in Oklahoma City. ... http://texasprepsoftball.net/blog1/2007/07/27/asa-national-tournaments-metal-cleats-pitching-distance/