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

Rumors are PNG is having coaching changes

Any developments on PNG coaching situation?

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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?

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?

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.

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.

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

Welp...

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

I know we aren't really talking about taxes here, but just to throw off a misperception: Amazon doesn't have a $0 tax liability. Amazon pays millions and millions and millions of dollars in taxes. In particular, Amazon pays property taxes across the states it is located in in (including Texas), as well as turning over billions of sales taxes in every state that has sales taxes (and those taxes have only gone up over the past couple years due to a recent Supreme Court decision). Amazon, due to credits and incentives from the federal government, has had a relatively low federal tax payment, but that doesn't mean Amazon isn't contributing to federal and state revenues. Not to mention the fact that the money is taxed when it is paid out to Amazon's employees, meaning Amazon's people are contributing millions of dollars in federal income taxes. The real question isn't whether Amazon pays taxes, or whether Amazon should pay more. It's whether it's worthwhile and beneficial (to individuals and to the economy) for the government to incentivize investment by offering credits and incentives to companies who have the option of going elsewhere. Every community where Amazon sets up a distribution center instantly gets thousands of jobs, with all of the money and investment in the local economy that brings with it. It's not Amazon's job to choose to pay more taxes, it's Amazon's job to follow the law. So if Amazon can pay fewer taxes in one state as opposed to another state, it's the fault of the high-tax state for driving away jobs, not Amazon's fault for choosing a place where it can keep more of its profits and pay its employees more (money which will be spent, and taxed, anyway).

SmashMouth has a point. The IRS doesn't look that closely at tax returns as they come in, at least in the few weeks after they are sent in. The IRS has the resources to catch about 3% of tax evasion/fraud. Sometimes a discrepancy, error, or lie on taxes won't get caught for years, and many don't get caught at all. The IRS is even required to send out refund checks so quickly that they will send out the checks without doing a deep look to make sure the refund isn't fraudulent, and then follow up after the fact and come after the fraudsters they sent the checks to (that kind of fraud doesn't work every time, but I have seen it work in big enough numbers to get people in a lot of trouble).

I'm sorry for the old DC. I hope he finds another assignment and is able to keep his young coaching career going, if that's what he wants. That being said, I hope the new DC can bring PNG's defense to the right place this season.

Condolences to all.