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I have expected Monty to get some looks from some of the smaller schools in the area for several years now and it hasn't happened or maybe it has and he just doesn't want to leave Nederland for a smaller school. I doubt PNG is going to give the reigns over to someone without HC experience and a proven track record as a HC as well. Still not sold on MB not being the HC next year at PNG. The meeting is to create the position of Athletic Complex Coordinator and fill the position at the same time. This could be a way to subsidise an OC that is currently a HC at a smaller school. Could be to pay an OC more in line with what he may be making as a HC somewhere else??

No one from the GT considers Dayton Local. You guys have always been the enemy! ;D I suspect one of the MC schools might have a run in a few years from all I have seen and heard of the 9th & 10th graders this year. Lumberton could also with Crueder and that defense. Not sure about the offense, but defense wins more games in the playoffs. Central is not done yet! Their Defense is quick.

I was sitting in the endzone at the dome right by that hit and it was so quick. The WOS defender was going in motion and broke it off in the backfield as they hiked the ball and hit the RB as he was being handed the ball. It was incredible. Game. Set. Match!

Chris Reed from SFA was the most athletic big man I ever saw at the HS level. Wasted potential. 6'4" 280 lbs and could run in the 4.6 range in the 40. Had offers from every major program in the country, but had to go JC for grades. Went to Navarro JC in Corsicana and got into some trouble. I heard he went to an NFL camp, but ??. Anyone who saw him in HS can validate that he was incredible. Those linemen on that Hemphill team were beasts. I thought I was at a college game when I saw those guys! Unbelievable at a 2A school in the sticks!

Chris Gohlke (PNG) plowed right through a Lamarque WR trying to go across the middle on one of the first plays from scrimage for Lamarque in the 1999 playoffs at the dome. Looked like the guy never saw it coming. Chris got a personal foul called for standing over him after the hit (Chris stayed on his feet), but that set the tone for the rest of the day. LM wideouts got nothing else over the middle all day as PNG stomped 'em. I also saw A. Griggie hit a number of weary defenders when running the ball for SFA back in the 80's.

Good afternoon Tom! ;D

Without a doubt Dom Mercka is impressive. He is big 6'4 200 and has some break away speed for a QB. He has a pretty good arm, but he really is still developing mechanically and the arm strength and accuraccy will improve. He should be a big prospect in a couple of years and he and thay Junior WR they have could lead them to big things next year (i.e. Green and Dugat).

BINGO! I seem to recall articles before the season where MB was quoted as saying how much talent was returning on the offensive side of the ball and now they had no talent? He lost some favor with me there. I hope he makes some changes with the OC and offensive philosophy and rights the ship. And again all you outsiders that think you know about PNG football and us being spoiled, you don't know! Matt has 3 winning seasons in the last 9 years since D.Long and company left. That's 3 seasons of winning more than 5 games in 9 years. And in 15 years they have had 6 playoff appearences under Matt. Not as great as it appears. Trust me folks if Nederland goes to the playoffs only once in the next 4 years they will be asking for Nuemans head! Same goes for Lumberton after a few more playoff runs with Crueder.

They have scaffolding on the front of the pressbox going down into the stands. Can't host.

I like that. Good off the bench as well. 6-7 Worrell 6-10 Custer 6-7 Brown ? 6-5 Harper 6-6 Hall 5-11 McThay 6-1 Williams 5-9 Dawkins 5-10 Miles

If he is anything near the athlete that the last guy we got from Illinois was, I'm in! Teddy Davis!

Since gaurd play is essential to compete in the NCAA and the SLC specifically, I see this group doing pretty well come conference time. I think the Kentucky, Louisville, Memphis core will be tough. Those guys have the gaurds to match us and the bulk down low to overpower us. I really like the foundation for the future. Miles, Harper and Williams will make up a very dinamic 1-2-3 in a couple of seasons. Add a shot blocking big man and a rebounding 4 and this group could be a serious NCAA threat in 2011 (by that I mean 1 or 2 rounds). This is the best I have felt about the future in some time since we have been so loaded with JC talent lately. I think Roc has gotten it right. He went JC to build early and set a tone with experience and is slowly mixing in more, better HS talent now with the program up. This will pay off with experience and continuity.

I think LU could handle ULL in this one. Gaurd play and harrassing defense at the top of the key will prevail 82-70.

Tech has struggled against the SLC in recent years. I could see a couple losses in their 4 game set with the SLC. Wonder how that will set with the Knight regime? ;D

As I have said on this topic every time, if MB comes back and brings in an OC with some imagination and lets him do his thing, then I will be behind MB 100%, but if it stays the same another year?? I though it should have been done several years ago. Pretty sure Welch lost his job at Clear Lake or one of those Clear Lake area schools as OC before he came to PNG. Welch needs to be focusing his time on our O-Line exclusively. He was great with that group before he took on the OC job. And the O-line has suffered.

So why not Long? He was at his best in the crunch. In the Semis he came to the huddle with a smile on his face and said "lets go to State" on that last drive and led that team down the field just as cool as a cucumber to the game winning TD. He had them 2 yards and 2 seconds short of beating WOS that year as well and against the allmighty Lamarque who was heavily favored he was something like 22-26 250+ and even rushed for 75 yards to blow them away. I'd say that qualifies as "Big Time". ok, i played against long, he was good, but dont forget he was throwing to two brothers that were pretty darn good themselves. alot of his completions came from deep balls go and get 'em balls. Actually the year they went to the Title game the Colburn twins were already graduated. That team had a whole new set of receivers (Baxter, Norton and Lumbley) and I saw every game he played and by no means was he a throw it deep and hope they get it QB. That team ate you up with the slants and crossing paterns.

I think he will return for the final year of his contract, but I am hearing that their will be a new OC. For what it's worth.

So why not Long? He was at his best in the crunch. In the Semis he came to the huddle with a smile on his face and said "lets go to State" on that last drive and led that team down the field just as cool as a cucumber to the game winning TD. He had them 2 yards and 2 seconds short of beating WOS that year as well and against the allmighty Lamarque who was heavily favored he was something like 22-26 250+ and even rushed for 75 yards to blow them away. I'd say that qualifies as "Big Time". I know I may look like a homer, but the guy was money in HS. Many people forgot that he rushed for nearly a 1000 yards his senior year also.

Yes there is enough room to expand eventually. I'd say make it a bowl first, then maybe a second deck later if needed. Single deck bowl would get it to roughly 26K (6K on the Montagne side and 2K on the field house side if you keep the filed house visible). Also, that TSU plan would be a perfect venue for HS State Title Day! Central location and 40-45K seats.

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What type of game does he have? How does he handle the ball? Is he really a Gaurd or more of a 3? I thought he was more like 6'3" at Kountze, but maybe I was thinking of someone else. Congrats to him! If he shot 37+% from 3 land last year I am sure he will progess even more this year and beyond into a 40+% guy and with a 6'6" frame he should be able to get his shots.

Or 5 man...Basketball? Did they slip that one in on accident? ;D

Shanderick Charles Lincoln High. Never saw JC play in HS, but SC was electric. Robert Straight -Cuero, was a monster in the late '80's.

LTown has the money to pay him they better pony up and keep him around. ;D

First of all thats the last 11 years you have up there and those include two years with D. Long. As I stated above since Dustin graduated PNG has made the playoffs 3 times (52-40 record). Yes the playoff years tend to bunch up together which brings up another issue that many of us have pointed out, MB and crew don't adjust to the talent. Every four or five years PNG has the talent to run smashmouth football. But in a season like this one when we where better suited to mix it up and didn't have the defense to beat teams 7-0, they don't make the adjustment. Can't fit a square peg in a round hole. Nederland wins year in and year out with the same talent. They adjust to what they have. They had Hood their with Yoder and they threw all over the place, then Mosley and a good run blocking OLine came on and they went more power run. Then when Mosley left they went to a spread because they didn't have the ground game. Then this year with Grogan, they stayed with the spread, but a running more to utilize his talents. Again I want to re-emphasize that my personal preference is that MB stay and hire an established OC and let him do his thing so that Matt can focus on Defense (which he is great at), but I just don't understand why this has not happened yet (by yet I mean in the past few years) and that makes me think it won't.