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Nederlad v. WO-S is always a good one. I like it any time the two Mid-County schools play WO-S. It's usually a close, hard-fought game. I think Jasper v. PNG will be a good gauge for both teams. 

On 7/14/2021 at 4:17 PM, prepballfan said:

PNG should be a pretty solid team all around. We have a stellar fieldgoal kicker. A bunch back on defense a new DC and a QB who has garnered accolades across the state in camps over the summer. The o-line will be pretty big this season ad well..

 A lot to be excited about. Hopefully the defense can pick up from the FB Marshall game and have a better season than last year. I’m not worried about the offense, we’ll be fine. But I think until we show otherwise a fifth place preseason pick is the right call. Nederland, Crosby, and BH finished the season unquestionably better than us. And the loss to Texas City at that score was kind of embarrassing. 

On 6/16/2021 at 7:43 AM, AggiesAreWe said:

Lot's of booster clubs and other organizations count on raising money at Friday night games.

If you can stay home and still watch the game, most folks will stay home.

Also, the majority of stadium press boxes just do not have the capacity to host multiple broadcast entities. Some will be forced out, mainly folks like us who only do audio.

I don't think most people will stay home. Watching live on the computer isn't comparable to the real thing, and if someone cares enough about the game to have a Texan Live subscription, they care enough to physically be at the game if they are able (not to mention that they care enough about the game to try to watch even though the streaming is often cut off, frozen, or lagging - Streaming is often not for the lazy fans, but for dedicated fans). I suspect most people streaming live are doing so because they otherwise wouldn't be able to go to the game. Or, it's people who weren't even considering going to the game but might want to watch. In both of those groups, no potential game-goer was removed from the stadium - It actually grows the list of people who watch the game because without streaming neither of those groups watches at all. I agree there is likely a third group that consists of people who might have otherwise gone to the game but choose to stream at home, but I don't expect that would be a significant number to appreciably reduce revenues, particularly if the schools are able to charge for the streaming somehow. But, in fairness, it would be interesting to try to come up with an estimate of game attendance vs streaming from year to year so see if you're correct. 

All of that being said, by choosing to stream last year I missed out on the radio color commentary, and I think the PNG guys do a really good job. I wish the 92.5 team would just do a video with their commentary to radio (for the radio crowd) so we can watch the streams with the PNG guys (or, with whatever team does it for the team you support -- I know Nederland, Silsbee, and West Orange have well-established radio broadcasts every Friday). 

It seems Bh is waiting an awfully long time to choose the new HC. The new guy will have under two months to get things in place, and that’s if they made a decision today. (Which, based on this thread, hasn’t happened yet). But I don’t have any perspective as to how long new coaches usually have prior to the new season. 

On 6/8/2021 at 1:19 PM, Coach85 said:

They’ve already made them. They are talked about in this thread. Wake up dude.

Nothing conclusive was said. Names? Final confirmation of hires? The last word was a “rumor.” Rumors are useless. 

15 hours ago, prepballfan said:

What situation?

Rumors are PNG is having coaching changes 

Any developments on PNG coaching situation? 

On 5/30/2021 at 3:25 PM, RealMcCoy said:

Uncle Pig would be correct. The student that was supposed to have gotten 22 pops only got 4. 3 of those were for F bombs. The coach who supposedly gave him 19 only gave him 1 and it was for an F bomb. Multiple adults and students have verified. Some people just ignore the truth.

So, just thinking toward the future: I’m (mostly) ok with swats (I got my share in school) for certain things. But to protect the school and the kid, I’d make sure there was documentation on every single one, with signatures from a witness or two, to protect from that kind of allegation. And I’d never, ever, even as the head coach, be alone with a kid for any reason, to protect from wild accusations. Some rules like this might already be in place, but if they aren’t they should be. 

Any possible movement to/from the 5a D2 ranks in the coverage area? 

20 hours ago, Separation Scientist said:

My take is Barbers Hill wants to remain a community with a high tax base. The average owner in a 300K house pays more into the system than the "public assistance" people in apartments or in trailer parks. Also, the roads are way overburdened with all the growth that has gone on there over the past 25 years. It used to be a bunch of rice fields left and right of I-10, but now new homes are everywhere. Why would they want to add apartments to an already overgrown area? Common sense, not an "ism" agenda some are trying to accuse them of.   

 

     

Just to clarify, and not comment on anything else in your post, the apartments pay property taxes. The people in the apartments don't pay property taxes directly, but the properties themselves are taxed, and apartments don't benefit from homestead exemptions. 

14 hours ago, Cougar14.2 said:

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 Second, there was supposedly some school meeting where the supt. informed the staff that the district bought some land around I-10 and HWY 99 to keep an apartment complex that would've been zoned to BH from being built. Comment was along the lines of "We don't need that in our district". 

....    

I have family in BH and I remember them telling me something about this. I don't know about the "We don't need that ..."  comment, but they did tell me Mont Belvieu has taken real steps to keep apartments from being built in certain areas. I can't verify any of this, of course, other than what I was told. 

On 5/25/2021 at 8:44 PM, BHFAN said:

Traden you know your wasting your breath. Everyone outside of BH always know what’s going on, what we should do and how stupid we were for making decisions. It’s like the housewife’s of SETX after a couple of bottles of wine😂.  Glad TW was here and hope they spend a million on the next one just to piss everyone off! We have a good class coming back this year, just hope the spread stays and we don’t start completely over.

Hahaha -- All joke's aside, I can't see BH going cheap on their next coach. 

On 5/24/2021 at 2:51 PM, Cougar14.2 said:

Keotting coaches at a lower level but he's pretty much what they've already been hiring. Koetting is already older like Westerberg and Gage were and they have talent near the top of their class. After seeing how it went for TW I think the biggest name they could potentially get is a guy like Carl Abseck at Cedar Park. If I was BH I would look hard in Central Texas where a bunch of winning teams do it with not much more than average talent. 

If they're not going to go the Riordan-type route then IMO a guy like Trey Sissom at FB Travis would be the perfect fit. BH doesn't produce rbs so a system like Sissom's would be ideal if they continue to play relative decent defense. I also like a guy like Brandon Schmidt at Prosper who does it against tough competition with slightly above average talent.  

I'd be interested to see Barbers Hill with one of the coaches from Liberty Hill. 

BH did get significantly better under Westerberg, we have to give him that. 

On 5/10/2021 at 4:03 PM, Bigdog said:

I don't agree with you often , but you are on the money with the statement in bold.

PNG’s o-line is always good. Maybe one or two off years in the faircloth era. The qb always has loads of time in the pocket. It was a main piece of PNG’s comeback against Nederland. 

On 5/12/2021 at 11:19 AM, Pot Stirrer said:

I've seen plenty of old film, and I hate to break it to you Uncle Rico's living in 1985 (1975 for PNG fans), but tackling wasn't that great back in the day. Some down right atrocious at times. Offense didn't use space like the offensives of today. More space = advantage offense. Offensive athletes are starting in that at the position because guess what, they can make the big play. Good offensive players are going to make people miss. Bad offensive players don’t get the ball. Every school at every level has guys that can run through tackles or make people miss.  

Tackling against Stephenville was absolute garbage in PNG’s 1999 state game. 

Do PNG and Barbers Hill meet in the 4th round if they both make it past the 3rd? 

Congratulations, Indians! 

Who is next opponent?

On 4/27/2021 at 2:23 PM, prepballfan said:

 The year of 2015 top defense in the district, 

PN-G’s defense allowed a league-low 262.3 yards and 14.4 points per game through the regular season. After giving up 30 to Nederland in the Bum Phillips Bowl, the Indians defense gave up 27 total points in its last three 22-5A games.

His defense has ranked first in district 3 times and his total defense for the entire history of our school all 96 football seasons rank in at number 14, 29, 31, 34, and 35th all time in our history. Those are his best five defenses vs the other 96 Indians teams. Just some real actual stats and not feelings presented. 

I agree the defense wasn't always as bad as its reputation (excluding last year, which was painful), and your numbers back it up. But if we added just a little more physicality in practice wouldn't we be that much better? I'm not saying we need to be killing each other in practice, but there is no reason PNG shouldn't have a touch, gritty defense like West Orange's, and from what I hear, West Orange has pretty aggressive, physical defensive practices. I'd also like to know about other schools -- Nederland had a tough defense last year (except for when it played Lufkin and PNG) and Crosby's defense was rock solid (except for against Aledo and Liberty Hill). Do they do live tackling in practice? What about Barbers Hill? 

On 4/25/2021 at 4:21 PM, NHSBulldogFan said:

Meanwhile across the tracks were losing many of our skill players but bring back the biggest name of 2020 Kyndon Fuselier...much of the defense is back led by 2nd team All State LB Jaice Beck

Fuselier is a stud. Does he have any college offers yet? In 2018 when he was playing as a freshman on varsity against PNG I would have bet he was the fastest player on the field not named Roschon Johnson. 

On 3/27/2021 at 6:28 PM, Cougar14.2 said:

PNG players look like they need a better strength and condition program. The vast majority of PNG’s players look like BH’s used to before TW got there. Santa Fe has an excuse as they have the smallest enrollment in the district so you expect some personnel deficiencies, same can’t be said for PNG though. Other than a few linemen PNG’s players look like they’ve gotten smaller over the last 6 or 7 years, but that may just be optics as other team’s enrollments have grown? 

I agree -- Generally PNG players need to be much more athletic. We need at least some tweaks to the strength and conditioning program. It really showed against BH. 

15 hours ago, AshlyKBMT said:

King was the secondary coach this year at PNG. Before he was head coach at Liberty-Elyau he was defensive coordinator at Richland High School in North Richland Hills. 

Someone can correct me, but it seems to me the secondary was "ok" last year. Our biggest problems were in first-level tackling. 

9 hours ago, PdaddyBball said:

Looks like from that same site they scored 152 and gave up 480 on the season. 

Welp...

4 hours ago, TurtleMan said:

Confirmed. Coach Klint King, most recently the HC of Texarkana Liberty-Eylau. 

Do we know anything about his previous success on defense? Any salary info?