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Saturday, July 29th...Practice Begins, Spears Injured, T.O. "and" Family Visit KTBB's Hayes RV Luxury Suite... 8:00am-I rarely eat breakfast while at home, I'm an early riser, my wife Cindy is a night-owl...so any breakfast I get is usually on the go. But when I travel, I eat a big breakfast, usually at the hotel, and the options are great, eggs and omelets, waffles, pancakes, sausage, bacon, hash-browns, and much more. Today: Ham & Cheese Omelet, Sausage and Bacon, large glass of orange juice, and my favorite..."Diet Coke". 8:30am-ESPN's John Clayton met us at the Hayes RV Luxury Suite this morning, he's hosting his show back in Seattle from our facilities, and will also host his show with Sean Salisbury in our "Luxury Suite". Clayton was a guest on my show on Friday, and he definitely knows his stuff. It's been interesting watching him work the phones about rookie contracts, reminds me of "me" working the phones with high school coaches and trying to find out the latest recruiting news. 8:45am-Clayton and I walk out to Cowboys practice together...I told him the atmosphere this morning reminded me of the Cowboys first-ever camp appearance in Austin, pretty electric. The crowd appears to be a little rambunctious. T.O. was the last person out of the clubhouse, and the crowd went nuts. Later on, T.O. said he's always one of the last players out of the clubhouse. 9:05am-Offensive tackle Flozell Adams isn't in pads, he failed the conditioning test, but no one seems alarmed. Larry Allen failed this drill basically every year. Adams actually looks in great shape if you ask me, but who I am to talk about anyone being in shape? Adams is working out on the side with strength coach Joe Juraszek 10:20am-T.O. catches touchdown pass from Tony Romo...crowd starts chanting "T.O., T.O., T.O."... 10:40am-My favorite part of any practice, goal-line drill, the offense gets the ball at the one-yard line and both sides completely maul each other. Best hit of the day, (besides anything involving Roy Williams), Kevin Burnett drills fullback Lousaka Polite, but Polite somehow scores anyway. The intensity brought some expletives from both sides, but it also brought a huge smile to the face of safety Roy Williams. 11:00am-Usually, players from different positions are avaialble after morning or afternoon practice...and it's usually whoever gets there first gets the best position. However, Cowboys P.R. man Brett Daniels set everyone up nicely with a small podium and Jamie Lent and I were right smack in the middle of the circus. T.O. answered several questions, mostly about today's practice, but Gary Myers tried plugging away with some questions about the Eagles and Donovan McNabb...to no avail. T.O. said he enjoyed the atmosphere at this camp, and now knows more than ever why the Cowboys are "America's Team"...even though he didn't grow up wanting to be a Cowboy. 11:30am-Oops, it's time for Bill Parcells' daily press conference...be right back...again, not much to say...but defensive end Marcus Spears twisted his knee, will have an M.R.I. on his right knee, it's apparently a cartilage injury, which shouldn't take much time to heal and rehab. Spears missed three weeks of training camp a year ago with a knee injury, but was ready for opening day. 12:09pm-Our shipment of Sadler's Smoekhouse BBQ brisket from Henderson has arrived! This was great news to the KTBB "entourage", but even better news for the massive media horde, and especially the Cowboys p.r. department, players, and training staff. Now, we're on alert for our expected shipment of the John Soules Fajita Meat from Tyler... Training Camp has been good so far, but we "take it up a notch" with the late-afternoon cookouts, and media arguments about the NFL, College Football, and anything else for that matter. 3:00pm-Double Great News! The John Soules Foods fajita meat arrived this afternoon, it's time to cookout. 7:00pm-Afternoon practice ends, and after 2-3 hours of cooking fajita meat, brisket, and the 'Bama beans, several media members show up to eat free food...which has been a training camp tradition since our first year in Wichita Falls. Surprise guests tonight, besides Bradi James and Keith Davis, are Terrell Owens and Hollywood movie star Sanaa Latham (who you may know from movies such as Love and Basketball), and T.O.'s immediate family, his publicist, and others. We didn't wrap everything up until 10:00pm tonight, Mac Engel, Steve Dennis, Dale Hansen, Jim Reeves, Mickey Spagnola, Mike Doocy, Clarence Hill, Jacque Taylor, Sean Hamilton, Joe Trahan, Larry Rodriguez, and several media friends hung around discussing everything important in sports and life. I honestly don't think we ever solve anything, but there are always some great arguments. I always enjoy feeding the Cowboys training staff, equipment staff, team doctor's, public relations department, and several interns. They usually don't wrap things up until well after practice, and so I've always left something for them...they really seem to enjoy and appreciate the hospitality. We'll cook again perhaps on Wednesday or Thursday... My son Craig and I are heading to the lobby to relax for an hour or two... Nice to know there's only an afternoon practice on Sunday, but Bill Parcells' press conference will start at 11:30am...sharp. We're expecting Cowboys running back Julius Jones to stop by and record an interview for Monday's show.

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Dr. D!!

Lidge or Lieber to Rangers?? Insider reports that the rangers offered the astros Rod Barajas and Brad Wilkerson to the Astros for Lidge, but the Astros said no and another source says that the rangers are in serious talks with the phillies on getting Jon Lieber __________________

Anybody going Tuesday Night?

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It will be a fight every Friday Night.

Nederland is winning in the votes..

That will be a good scrimmage to scout out.

I'll buy that. Kirbyville always causes some teams problems.

The first year after Relignment is always the best. Everyone's anxious before the season with the new teams and Districts.

When Schools Starts they should practice after school.

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Well said. I think alot of people have seen Freshmen and JV teams go undefeated and then when Friday Nights roll around it's completely different.

The Houston area pays better. Much larger area overall.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Hidden Content] Neumann tops Mid-County coach pay Nederland football coach Larry Neumann is the highest paid coach in Mid-County while Port Neches-Groves football coach Matt Burnett isn't even the highest paid coach at his school. In his 13th year as Nederland's athletic director and head coach, Neumann earns an annual salary of $73,136, according to figures provided The News in response to a Texas Public Information Act request. Burnett, in his 12th year as PN-G head football coach, earns $68,862. He is not his school district's athletic director. He is the boys' athletic coordinator for the PN-GISD. Barbara Comeaux is the district's athletic coordinator for girls and the veteran volleyball coach, in her 34th year at PN-G, collects an annual paycheck of $70,306. For the record, PN-G's second-year superintendent, Lani Randall, is the highest-paid Mid-County school employee, knocking down $118,150 a year in pay, compared to $109,999 by Nederland superintendent Gail Krohn. PN-G principal Roy Esquivel makes $84,852, according to figures provided by his school district, while Nederland's Randy Lupton is at $77,836. Like the superintendents and principals, Neumann receives a straight salary as Nederland's AD. All other Mid-County coaches are paid separately for their work in athletics, on top of their teaching pay. Comeaux, who was teaching and coaching at PN-G when Burnett was still a student there, receives teaching pay of $54,305 -- compared to $46,834 for Burnett -- and that puts Comeaux over the top. A third PN-G coach, veteran football assistant George Pachuca, tops $60,000 in total pay, collecting $63,180. A total of 17 of the 40 coaches in the PN-G district earn $50,000 or more. Five Nederland athletic department employees earn at least $60,000 from the district and 14 of the 48 district coaches top $50,000 in pay. Assistant head coach Delbert Spell ($66,286) and Southard ($61,881) join Neumann at the top of the coaching pay list at the high school. Central Middle School head coach Gary Babin ($64,937) and C.O. Wilson Middle School basketball coach Jack Lynch ($60,857) are other coaching vets earning in excess of $60,000. Next on the list at Nederland, in terms of combined teaching and coaching pay, are football assistant Phil Pate ($58,000), football assistant Terry Pool ($56,997), volleyball coach Toni Leach ($55,310), track coach Steven Beagle ($54,964), football assistant David Crommett ($53,884) and girls' soccer coach Julie Johnson ($53,081). Topping the list of 50-thousand-aires at PN-G are assistant football coach Boyd Edwards ($59,986), softball coach Dale Fontenot ($59,516), assistant football coach Richard Bethea ($57,989) and baseball coach Jay Stone ($57,148). Fontenot is not a teacher, but earns a salary of $54,915 as the district's director of information services on a 228-day contract with the district. As a coach, he receives a $3,100 coaching increment for being softball coach and another $1,500 for being assistant girls' basketball coach. PN-G's athletic department is full of veteran teacher-coaches, most of whom are on 187-day contracts. Five of them earn in excess of $50,000 teaching, a group headed by Comeaux and Pachuca ($54,305) and including assistant football coach Boyd Edwards ($51,348) and Port Neches middle school coaches Sandra Rogers ($50,499) and Catherine Mendoza ($50,128). Six Nederland coaches make more than $50,000 based solely on their teaching seniority: Spell ($54,191), Southard ($51,386) and Pate ($50,916) at the high school, and middle school coaches Babin ($54,191), Lynch ($53,191) and Pamela Lawson ($50,386). As a rule, the two schools' extra coaching pay, referred to by both districts as increments, isn't large. Most PN-G coaches make between $3,600 and $4,600 per year from their increments. Nederland's coaches do a little bit better, with most coaches making between $4,000 and $6,000 in coaching increments. At PN-G, the biggest increments go to Burnett as head football coach ($10,600) and trainer Joe Martin ($5,600). Burnett and Comeaux also each get $2,850 for being athletic coordinators. Football assistant Dan Welch gets $4,100 for being the football team's offensive coordinator. PN-G's supplementary salary schedule for athletics, from which the increments come, is a bit confusing, but appears designed to keep the coaches' pay as equal as possible. Like PN-G, Nederland pays high school head coaches in sports other than football $3,100. But the two differ in that Nederland pays the same hard and fast numbers for coaches' second sports as they do their first while PN-G's schedule seems all about keeping it equal. That explains Spikes Sturdivant and Eldridge Ravey receiving $3,600 as PN-G head coaches for soccer and golf, respectively. They get more than most other PN-G head coaches because they don't coach a second sport So-called "extra days" pay is an important part of coaching compensation for a majority of coaches at both schools. Nearly 75 percent (29 of 40) of PN-G's coaches receive extra days pay. Football assistants get 15 extra days, volleyball assistants 10 extra days. Martin and Welch get 20 extra days. At Nederland, 29 of 48 (60 percent) coaches receive extra days pay. Football coordinators get 20 days, football assistants get 15 days and volleyball coaches get 10 days. In many cases, that pay is nearly as much as their coaching increment. In Comeaux's case, it is more. She receives 30 days extra pay, which PN-G's report shows comes to $8,551. That's compared to a total increment of $7,450. Burnett receives 35 days extra pay, $8,578 in his case, which comes close to his total increment of $13,450. Nederland's Spell racks up $5,795 in extra days pay, while PN-G's Welch earns $4,498. Trainers Southard ($5,495) and Martin ($4,567) earn a chunk of change with extra days. In PN-GISD, extra-days pay is figured based on the coaches' teacher pay from 2004-2005. The school district froze the extra-days pay at that level this school year when it agreed to give all PN-GISD teachers a $1,000 across-the-board raise. Extra-duty days pay boosted coaches' pay $92,944 in Nederland this year, pushing total coaching pay to $363,680 once you figure in Neumann's salary. Total coaching pay in PN-GISD is $267,897, including $88,797 in extra day pay. Listed below are the supplements being paid to coaches in the Nederland Independent School District and the Port Neches-Groves Independent School District. Nederland's Larry Neumann is paid $73,133 as head football coach/atheltic director. PN-G's Matt Burnett is paid $68,862 as head football coach/boys athletic coordinator. NEDERLAND HIGH SCHOOL COACH SUPPLEMENT SPORT Cindy Baker $2,000 Softball assistant Monte Barrow $3,500 Football coordinator $2,000 Assistant track $,4089 Extra days pay Steven Beagle $3,000 Varsity football $3,100 Head coach track $3,628 Extra days pay Jeff Bennett $2,000 Assistant baseball $,2000 Freshman football $2,991 Extra days pay Rob Bledsoe $3,100 Head coach soccer $2,000 Freshman football $2,915 Extra days pay Brian Cates $2,000 Assistant soccer Lynn Crawford $2,000 Assistant track David Crommett $3,100 Head coach powerlifting $,3000 Varsity football $3,548 Extra days pay Dale Dial $3,100 Head coach track $3,100 Head coach cross country Torrey Gomez $2,000 Assistant soccer Bill Jardell $3,000 Varsity football $2,000 Assistant track $3,484 Extra days pay Julie Johnson $3,100 Head coach soccer Bruce Kilchrist $2,000 Assistant basketball Toni Leach $3,100 Head coach volleyball $1,500 Freshman basketball $2,574 Extra days pay Sissy Lemons $3,100 Head coach softball $2,000 Assistant swimming Rob Long $2,000 Assistant golf Jorge Lopez $3,100 Head coach tennis Melissa Martin $2,000 Assistant volleyball $2,000 Assistant basketball $1,903 Extra days pay Karen Martinez $2,000 Assistant cross country Phil Pate $3,000 Varsity football $4,084 Extra days pay Terry Pool $3,000 Varsity football $2,000 Assistant baseball $3,861 Extra days pay Cody Robbins $3,100 Head coach baseball $3,000 Varsity football $2,769 Extra days pay Kimberly Robbins $4,500 Assistant trainer $2,594 Extra days pay Tommye Robbins $2,000 Assistant softball Judith Sandoval $3,100 Head coach swimming $1,200 Pool operator Larry Southard $5,000 Head trainer $5,495 Extra days pay Brian Spell $3,000 Varsity football $2,000 Assistant baseball $2,730 Extra days pay Delbert Spell $4,000 First assistant football $2,300 Off-season coordinator $5,795 Extra days pay Kelli Spell $2,000 Assstant soccer James St. Pierre $2,000 Freshman football $1,500 Freshman basketball $2,769 Extra days pay Brent Stark $2,500 Freshman football $3,484 Extra days pay John Tillie $3,100 Head coach golf Laurence Williams $3,100 Head coach basketball $2,000 Video coordinator PORT NECHES-GROVES COACH SUPPLEMENT SPORT Pat Abel $3,100 Head coach basketball $1,800 Freshman football $2,902 Extra days pay Stephanie Ansel $3,100 Head coach basketball $1,500 Fall tennis Aimee Bates $3,100 Head coach soccer $1,500 Volleyball Assistant $1,721 Extra days pay Richard Bethea $3,100 Varsity football $1,500 Powerlifting $3,890 Extra days pay Brock Buchanan $1,800 Softball assistant $1,500 Volleyball assistant $1,721 Extra days pay Riley Burnett $3,100 Varsity football $1,500 Track assistant $1,611 Extra days pay Jay Cegielski $1,500 Varsity baseball $2,100 Freshman football $2,834 Extra days pay Terry Cobb $6,000 Varsity football** Track assistant Barbara Comeaux $3,100 Head coach volleyball $1,500 Golf coach $2,850 Girls' athletic coordinator $,8,551 Extra days pay Boyd Edwards $3,100 Head freshman football $1,500 Varsity baseball $4,038 Extra days pay Justin Esquivel $1,800 Cross country $1,500 Softball assistant Dale Fontenot $3,100 Softball head coach $1,500 Basketball assistant Brant Graham $3,600 Head tennis coach Eric Laing $1,800 Soccer assistant Jake lefort $3,100 Varsity football $1,500 Basketball assistant $2,582 Extra days pay Joe Martin $5,600 Head trainer $4,587 Extra days pay Wiley McKeller $3,100 Varsity football $1,500 Basketball assistant $2,558 Extra days pay Vivian Myers $1,500 Track assistant $1,800 Spring tennis George Pachuca $3,100 Varsity football $1,500 Track assistant $4,275 Extra days pay Eldridge Ravey $1,800 Head coach golf Don Sandell $2,100 Freshman football $1,500 Soccer assistant $2,703 Extra days pay Kyle Segura $3,100 Head coach track $1,500 Varsity football $3,304 Extra days pay Jana Sheffield $3,100 Head coach track $1,500 Cross country Jeff Smith $3,100 Varsity football $1,500 Baseball assistant $3,069 Extra days pay Jay Stone $3,100 Extra days pay $1,800 Freshman football $3,805 Extra days pay Spikes Sturdivant $3,600 Head coach soccer Dan Welch $4,100 Football coordinator $1,500 Varsity track $4,498 Extra days pay

Pasadena Dobie's are just like UT's. Their nice.

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::sc WOO, you scared me there for a second.

Oh NO!! Man it's close. Game situation, officals. Come on! It's football. :shock:

I'll have to sell that one. I think even Central would have a hard time going 10-0.

Sell. They will both make it. Anahuac has alot of speed and well in the 3A district. Buna has some talent back, they'll get in.

And surely i'm not the only one ready for Kickoff??

I'll have to admit it's pretty amazing!