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Jasper 82, Cleveland 0 in 1989. There were at least 2 other TDs that were called back on drives that we came away with no points and the clock ran the whole second half. Total yardage was something like 650 to -30.

While it's true that Jasper rarely has two bad years in a row, coming back from a 2-8 year is tough on any program. Besides, whoever we hire to coach the team could change philosophies and if that happens, it might take longer to contend. I never thought I'd say that after we dropped to 3A, but the last couple of years have been strange...

I was thinking the same thing the other day when Jasper beat Kelly in 11 innings and whoever pitched threw a complete game. I've known Coach Mixon since we were kids and admire what he's doing with the program, but I agree with you. Those kids are gonna be burned out if he doesn't find ways to use other kids that can at least eat up innings in lopsided games.

I would say that Jasper's biggest rival historically is Silsbee and I believe that the series is pretty close to even and it does go back to the mid-1920's. As for the most intense in the past 20 years, it's probably WO-S. They lead the series by quite a bit, but most of the games have been pretty close.

He hasn't gotten them all there. He got most of them in Woodville.

10 k's and 3 BB through 6 1/3 for Travis Reagan. I wonder how much fun Art had calling Girdley's 29 K game back in '99. That must have been something...

Boooooring. Art Lay just said it was in the mid-50's down there. It reached 72 here in Seattle on the most beautiful day of the year so far.

9-3 middle 6th

9-2 Jasper. top 6th one out.

Well I would have suggested by the end of the night, but I didn't want to rush you. So...any new word on the coaching situation today?

I have 10 now. I'm not sure why yours isn't working...but you better get that figured out by the end of the summer.

The Dogs will be back once they find a football coach...lol. Mixon's doing a nice job with the baseball team and it would be nice to make a run at state this year, but we'll see. Art Lay's a very good broadcaster and has been doing Jasper games forever, it seems. He's a little better with football, though...

I had to rollback to whatever my previous Windows Media Player was. Now the webcast comes in as clear as a bell. I did this be uninstalling the current version and it prompted me to roll it back.

Can you send me the link to the webcast? For some reason I can't get it to play on my Windows Media Player like I normally can. Thanks...

Not a bad start at all for the 'Dogs. Coach Mixon seems to be doing very well in following up probably the most successful coach in our baseball history in Mike Rogers. Where did Coach Rogers go anyway and how's he doing?

Let's also see what Dodge can do at UNT. I think he'll do well there, but you never really know. LU would certainly have to pour in a ton of money just to promote the product well enough to meet the 15,000 average attendance requirement for home games. Some of the bigger high schools in the area drew at least as well in those days.

Looks like there have been around 20 new applications and that Coleman won't be ready to present a coach to the school board until around 3/18. This is per kjas.com.

And I'm quite possibly the worst pitcher to EVER take the field in Jasper. I'm so glad Shawn has put more emphasis on pitching for the Bulldogs...

1991- Jasper 4 x 400 meter relay (Charles Adams, John Davis, Bryan Bronson, Terence Davis) ran a 40.32 to set a national record. 1985- Current Bulldog track coach Tony Allen ran a 46.76 400-meter dash 1991- Jasper's Bryan Bronson ran a 36.53 in the 300m intermediate hurdles 2002- Bulldog Jaimoy Bryant had a 49-3.5" triple jump. These are all 4A Region III records. The late Lloyd Weatherspoon (1955-2006) was our coach there. He has worked with every one of these guys and will be sorely missed and fondly remembered.

Agreed. ;D

I can understand covering Title IX to add football, but to jump right into D1 is very ambitious. The only conference I could see them joining at this point would be the Sun Belt and they would get mauled for the first few years and be amongst the national bottom-feeders. Why not start out in 1-AA while the facilities are being ramped up? You could still schedule the guarantee games with bigger schools to bring money into the athletic budget and possibly move up to 1-A after a few years. A similar example would be South Florida. They started out as Division II (I think) and worked their way up through 1-AA within a couple of years and up to 1-A a few years after that, making money and having success along the way. They are very competitive in 1-A and I would hope to see Lamar do something similar. There are plenty of schools that are in 1-A that might never win there (Idaho, LA-Monroe, LA-Lafayette, etc) consistently and might best be served dropping back to 1-AA. I would be very careful not to put LU too high too soon.

I completely agree, but is there enough of a groundswell in the community and within the university to actually put this in motion?

Your points are all well taken. If you're right about the population boom and the growth in the talent pool, it shouldn't take LU long to become a very respectable 1-AA football school. It would be nice to have some Jasper kids in the program, too. It always seemed like they would opt for everybody else (McNeese, SHSU, SFA, etc.) and being a lifelong Cardinal fan, that always bothered me. I know that those schools are pretty strong in football, but I'd love to see LU get to that level...

It would be great to have football back at Lamar, but at what level would they start and how would scholarship numbers be affected by that? I totally agree that the Cards would have to get as many recruits from the area as they can, but how many of those kids can afford tuition if there are limitations on scholarships? We all know the economy isn't very good in Southeast Texas, so for a while it might be tough to get some of the better available local kids when they can get their educations paid for at more established football schools. Thoughts?

Mine was projected to be around the same number in '92, but I left a year early. The lower classes then were bigger. It's just amazing how enrollment has dropped so much since then, but a lot has happened to make people consider leaving, too.