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[quote name="smitty" post="1358628" timestamp="1356502294"] All I said was that it's been down hill for the Injun boys.  The record reflects that as a fact.  I give you what is; you give me what's hoped for!    ;) [quote author=Itiswhatitis link=topic=107616.msg1358521#msg1358521 date=1356370294] [quote author=smitty link=topic=107616.msg1358328#msg1358328 date=1356265967] 11-1, 8-5, 7-4, 2-8.  Like I said -- down hill.  [quote author=badndn link=topic=107616.msg1357502#msg1357502 date=1356099076] I beg to differ Smitty. This past season was bad we will all agree, but his second season the team went three deep and gave a huge Manvel team all they could handle. Third year we lost on the toe of a once in a lifetime kicker. His playoff record is 3-3 (not bad). Also he has had good coaches on staff that have helped to mold solid programs at the Middle Schools, which I think we are starting to see payoff now at the JV and Freshman levels and most of us expect to see on the Varsity level beginning next season. [/quote] [/quote] Smitty...keep this post for your records and see what you're writing the next 4 years. [/quote] [/quote] More like you can't pick on Coach Spell at Nederland anymore and need a new target. ;)

Merry Christmas. :)

Safe for another year. 8)

[quote name="GoDogs27" post="1357730" timestamp="1356135891"] Nothing bad to say about Faircloth, it just seems like its more of a who-you-know kind of thing instead of being based on performance. Which maybe it's not supposed to be based on performance or anything so more power to them. They should have no problem representing our area well. [/quote] It's debatable. Knowing Allman definitely helped Faircloth in 2011, but probably not in the sense that one is getting the job simply because he's friends with the other or a former protege of the other. Look at it from Allman's point of view. If I were in that position and getting ready to field a team that gets national attention, I would want a coach I'm familiar with who runs an offense and coaches in a style I'm comfortable with and brings plenty of good, diverse experience to the table. Faircloth fits that profile. Similarly, it helps him now in 2012 because he knows and has worked with the upcoming coach of the USA team, Aaron Brady. [quote] “Wearing the ‘USA’ logo across my chest and representing my country through the game of football will always be a highlight of my career,” Faircloth said.”We had a great experience in 2011. We did some work with Aaron Brady at Gonzaga College High School last summer. We went up there and did a coaching clinic with them. He invited us to be part of this staff and we were glad to be a part of it again.” [/quote]

Allen will bring upwards of 30,000 fans. The question is whether or not there will be enough fans for the other team plus enough Katy holdovers to break the record. If there is, as much as I hate to say it, so be it. If there isn't, it's a real testament to how seriously we take football at PN-G and in Southeast Texas generally to bring that many fans that far and set a record that's withstood so many trials over so many years. Whether or not the record is broken tomorrow, we all know where the standard is set for fan support in high school football. Scalp 'em.

If I remember correctly (and it's been two years, so I may not), Westlake's Coach Allman, who was head coach at Odessa Permian while Coach Faircloth was offensive coordinator there, was the HC of the USA team two years ago and brought Faircloth along for the ride. It looks like Faircloth is bringing Coach Cary with him this time. If you ask me, Team USA is every bit as lucky to get them for this game as PN-G is to have them on staff.

Will Faircloth apply for the job? I would be shocked if he didn't, and you can't blame him if he does. Will Faircloth be a finalist for the job and get an interview? I wouldn't bet against it. Will Faircloth get the job? I don't see how. I have immense respect for Coach Faircloth. I think he's a great coach and that he'd do extremely well with Permian if he were HC there. I'm fully aware of the fact that Permian was the last school he coached at before PN-G, that he's well like there and has many ties, I'm sure, left within the district and community. But it's hard to take one of the state's premiere HC jobs coming off a 2-8 season and going up against what will undoubtedly be an outstanding pool of coaching candidates.

[quote name="outanup" post="1356971" timestamp="1355960737"] [quote author=PN-G bamakid link=topic=107591.msg1356967#msg1356967 date=1355959120] I have it from someone very close to the freshman team that Morse has been selected as the starting QB on varsity next year and Walker will remain a starting CB. If that's true, and I see no reason to believe otherwise, I think Faircloth made a great decision and that both of them will serve very well in those positions. [/quote]Seriously.....The freshman has yet to take a varsity snap, hasnt even been through a high school offseason, or even competed against anyone for the job....Do you really believe this? No knock on either of them as Im sure both are more than capable. Surely you dont believe he has already been handed the job. [/quote] After watching Morse play, I believe he will do well at the varsity level. I have no doubt that he'll take some knocks early, but in the long run, he will make a fine quarterback for the PN-G Indians. As to whether or not I believe what I'm being told, the source this information came from is well placed and has yet to give me bad information. He may be wrong, but I would be surprised.

I have it from someone very close to the freshman team that Morse has been selected as the starting QB on varsity next year and Walker will remain a starting CB. If that's true, and I see no reason to believe otherwise, I think Faircloth made a great decision and that both of them will serve very well in those positions.

[quote name="badndn" post="1353851" timestamp="1355292464"] Bulldog8 "We did not see the same Ozen team you are refering, our freshman could have hung 100 points on them. They scored 1 td, 48-6" PNG Freshman had to rally late to beat the Panther Freshman. They had some playmakers the night we faced them. [/quote] I believe Nederland faced them a few weeks earlier than we did. They may have just been starting to fire on all cylinders. I know several people who were at that game and they were saying Ozen was by far the best competition our Freshman Purple faced all year.

I'm probably going to upset a lot of people by saying this and I know she was very popular while in office, but Ann Richards did two things that really hurt Texas. The first was holding up the concealed handweapons permits bill, which George Bush later made up for by signing it into law. The second was the Robin Hood plan, which we've never quite gotten rid of. They've tweaked it, changed the name and tied a little tax break to it, but the basic system is still very much in operation, and it's hurting more school districts every year. Sorry if this is in the wrong place.

[quote name="swampdude" post="1353297" timestamp="1355195087"] [quote author=Txdragon link=topic=107288.msg1352866#msg1352866 date=1355150228] What I want to know is how is the Robin Hood law being administered. I see WOS sending several million dollars a year to Bridge City and WOS barely being able to afford anything. Then I see schools up in North Texas building college size stadiums. I see Friendswood with their own tractor trailor rig just to haul band instruments. The state of Texas needs to look anew at public school funding. Someone mentioned Jumbotrons, that is just to bring in better crowds, remember at most schools the football program is the primary revenue for the entire schools sports program. I can see a Jumbotron as an investment. I know WOS used to host at least one round of playoff football every now and then. Would field turf and a Jumbotron put them in the mix to make revenue again? Debatable I think. [/quote]There is no Robin Hood plan.  Bridge City would love for WOCCISD to send us a million or two but that has not happened in many years.  Check with your admin. or school board if you don't believe it. [/quote] Robin Hood is still very much alive and well in the state of Texas. [Hidden Content] Bridge City may not be getting EWL transfers, but that doesn't mean nobody is.

[quote name="Txdragon" post="1352866" timestamp="1355150228"] What I want to know is how is the Robin Hood law being administered. I see WOS sending several million dollars a year to Bridge City and WOS barely being able to afford anything. Then I see schools up in North Texas building college size stadiums. I see Friendswood with their own tractor trailor rig just to haul band instruments. The state of Texas needs to look anew at public school funding. Someone mentioned Jumbotrons, that is just to bring in better crowds, remember at most schools the football program is the primary revenue for the entire schools sports program. I can see a Jumbotron as an investment. I know WOS used to host at least one round of playoff football every now and then. Would field turf and a Jumbotron put them in the mix to make revenue again? Debatable I think. [/quote] The state establishes what it calls the "Equalized Wealth Level" based on a district's total taxable property value per student and uses that to determine how much funding it will cut from schools that are above the EWL range and how much extra it will hand to schools that are below the EWL range. Originally, the system literally required "rich" districts to transfer money to "poor" districts directly, but the state supreme court said that was bogus, so the state decided to keep the same formula but deduct the money it would have originally required the districts to forfeit from what they send to the districts rather than have the districts write the checks themselves. Originally, there were only 30 school districts above the EWL in the entire state. Today, there are more than 300 out of roughly a thousand. PN-G has been dealing with this problem for more than ten years (to the tune of $13+ Million a year - almost 30% our district's budget) because a hefty portion of our district is industrial and that drives our tax base up, and Nederland was added to the list of "rich" districts this year. It's total crap. I've been saying forever that the state would be much better off if they would tie funding to performance levels and then add some leeway for schools with low property values to that.

[quote name="Mr. Buddy Garrity" post="1353062" timestamp="1355172323"] ned, png, vidor, ozen. not in that order though  ;) [/quote] I don't know what order it will be in, but I think those are your four playoff teams. Only other possibility I see is Livingston replacing one of the four. As of now.... 8) ;D

[quote name="Richard Cranium" post="1352870" timestamp="1355150736"] What do the top programs in the state have that SETX are school don't? $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ And willing tax payers!!!! When most of the population in this area live below the poverty level this is what you get. [/quote] [quote author=Richard Cranium link=topic=107288.msg1352873#msg1352873 date=1355151189] Look at us at PNG. We cannot even raise enough $$ to build an indoor training facility. [/quote] You have to be fair about that. We just finished up a ~$120 Million bond that included a ~$9.5 Million total stadium overhaul and brand new facilities at the middle school level, and we're trying to build that indoor facility in the midst of a bad economy. If the recession hadn't happened, we probably wouldn't be having any problems coming up with the money.

[quote name="knows2much" post="1352851" timestamp="1355147165"] [quote author=PN-G bamakid link=topic=107288.msg1352721#msg1352721 date=1355099106] I can't really speak to the other classifications, but in 4A (soon to be 5A, I guess), I think the problem in the playoffs has more to do with the discrepancy in enrollment numbers than it does the amount of money spent or the caliber of facilities. The range for the 4A classification is more than a thousand students. Sure, we have divisions in the playoffs, but even in DII, there's a huge discrepancy. PN-G played Manvel a few years ago in the regional semifinal. Manvel was almost a 5A school with about 2,000 students versus middle-of-the-pack PN-G with a little more than 1,400. I swear Manvel (which has since moved up a classification) had more kids suited out on the sidelines than most college programs I've seen, and that depth really showed in the second half. I'm sure the Nederland fans know what I'm talking about from the games against Dawson and Georgetown. Now when it comes to some of the other areas of competition such as band and academics, I guarantee the funding is what makes the difference. Friendswood and Dawson at one time had enough money to bring in the people who wrote the UIL tests to tutor their students regularly while PN-G and LC-M could barely scrounge up enough money to send their kids to a single workshop. Dawson used to have a Baby Grand piano that did an accompaniment with their halftime show and Friendswood had a little sound booth mounted on a cart where they would have soloists play and/or sing. [/quote] You're really not going to like what happening after this next realignment then. [/quote] I haven't liked what's happened with the last two or three realignments so I don't see why I'd like what's coming with this one.

I can't really speak to the other classifications, but in 4A (soon to be 5A, I guess), I think the problem in the playoffs has more to do with the discrepancy in enrollment numbers than it does the amount of money spent or the caliber of facilities. The range for the 4A classification is more than a thousand students. Sure, we have divisions in the playoffs, but even in DII, there's a huge discrepancy. PN-G played Manvel a few years ago in the regional semifinal. Manvel was almost a 5A school with about 2,000 students versus middle-of-the-pack PN-G with a little more than 1,400. I swear Manvel (which has since moved up a classification) had more kids suited out on the sidelines than most college programs I've seen, and that depth really showed in the second half. I'm sure the Nederland fans know what I'm talking about from the games against Dawson and Georgetown. Now when it comes to some of the other areas of competition such as band and academics, I guarantee the funding is what makes the difference. Friendswood and Dawson at one time had enough money to bring in the people who wrote the UIL tests to tutor their students regularly while PN-G and LC-M could barely scrounge up enough money to send their kids to a single workshop. Dawson used to have a Baby Grand piano that did an accompaniment with their halftime show and Friendswood had a little sound booth mounted on a cart where they would have soloists play and/or sing.

[quote name="dawgnut" post="1349916" timestamp="1354746224"] Some Indian project celibration person should get a boat load and help your cause since you guys didn't get any playoff games to sell shirts at, that is if you guys do such! [/quote] We do, but it's Project Graduation on our side of the tracks. I don't think our playoff shirt money goes toward it, though, so it may make no difference. However, I could be wrong. It's been two years since I've thought about it. ;D

Prayers on the way.

[quote name="ECBucFan" post="1346308" timestamp="1354342696"] [i]"As long as I've been coaching, this is the toughest one because [size=14pt]I think we're better than this team we played tonight[/size]," Wells said. "[size=14pt]I don't think the better team won.[/size]"[/i] What a piece of work! [/quote] The things I could say about some of these schools right now... :-X

[quote name="YankeeDawg" post="1346387" timestamp="1354345787"] [quote author=PN-G bamakid link=topic=106942.msg1346358#msg1346358 date=1354344310] [quote author=PhatMack19 link=topic=106942.msg1346249#msg1346249 date=1354339587] A couple of Bulldog fans watching the game.  Andre is even sporting the black and gold.  ;D [/quote] Johnson was there. However, Schaub was not. Per his Twitter account: [quote] “@jvidrine_7: Can @MSchaub8 confirm he is at the Nederland vs. Dawson game #confirmtweet ??” Not there. Date night with the Mrs [/quote] [Hidden Content] [/quote] isn't that him to the right of Johnson? [img][Hidden Content]] [/quote] I thought so too, but Schaub himself says otherwise. I happened to be glancing over my Twitter feed when I saw that particular tweet.

[quote name="PhatMack19" post="1346249" timestamp="1354339587"] A couple of Bulldog fans watching the game.  Andre is even sporting the black and gold.  ;D [/quote] Johnson was there. However, Schaub was not. Per his Twitter account: [quote] “@jvidrine_7: Can @MSchaub8 confirm he is at the Nederland vs. Dawson game #confirmtweet ??” Not there. Date night with the Mrs [/quote] [Hidden Content]

Congratulations, Bulldogs. Thanks for teaching those over-funded, should-be-5A Houston schools that they can't just overlook Southeast Texas.

Good luck to the Bulldogs.

[quote name="tvc" post="1345237" timestamp="1354304721"] [quote author=foosballfan link=topic=106926.msg1345002#msg1345002 date=1354280333] this sign was put up for the Stratford game last week.......grow up they are high school kids! [/quote] You mean the parents aren't playing the games? Whew, I was worried that I would have to suit up when I got to Reliant. Now I can sit back and watch the game. Glad you pointed that out. [/quote] I hope the students aren't working as the trainers.... ;D