Rez

PNG

That’s sad to hear. Condolences to his friend’s and family. WOSgrad was a constant welcome presence on this site .

That was a shared championship. PNG beat Vidor, PAM beat PNG, Vidor beat PAM. But honestly, Vidor’s win over PaM was huge. Without it, PAM had the championship outright, but Vidor forced them to share and let PNG in with them. Very considerate of Vidor.

We’ll bring in Nederland afterward to install their old sprinkler system and clean it up

I forgot about Crosby v Carthage. It’s THE game of the week for the area, if you ask me. One of the top games in the state that week.

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.

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.

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.

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?