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[quote name="PN-G bamakid" post="1287470" timestamp="1349050218"] The only team that might be better is Memorial. Honestly, I'd but the Titans and Mustangs about on par with each other. [b]Nederland and Vidor might give WO-S a good game, but the Mustangs would win without a doubt.[/b] [/quote] Without a doubt?

Speed is everything. There is no way that Nederland can overcome the speed of teams like Livingston, Ozen, Central, WOS, etc. I doubt that Nederland has ever made the playoffs with Neumann as the head coach. If they ever got luck and did, they surely have never made it out of the first round. They simply don't have the speed to match up and speed rules the day.

[quote name="TexasMinuteman" post="1287294" timestamp="1349032993"] [quote author=Buccaneer#3 link=topic=103777.msg1283549#msg1283549 date=1348780610] Any tips to get the big one this year? Share any tips or tricks ya got [/quote]A 50,000 candle light spot light works well :D Jk [/quote] .... and a .22 Long in the ear.

[quote name="bullets13" post="1286629" timestamp="1348956730"] Curious to see how my season goes.  All of the trees that burnt last year have been clear cut, so there's not nearly as much cover, but we've put in about 10 food plots [/quote] I love clear cuts if they have good wooded areas nearby.

[quote name="Buccaneer#3" post="1286515" timestamp="1348948719"] I'm hunting in sour lake so I bet its a lot different than south or east or west texas [/quote] But probably not a lot different than when I hunt near Woodville which is where I hand tossed corn opening day only and killed a decent buck. In south Texas and the Hill Country I have seen big bucks walk in the open all the time to come to corn. Maybe it has to do with the conditions there and not nearly as much browse as in the heavily wooded east Texas. The only time that I have seen big bucks in east Texas is deeper in the woods or crossing an open area but not stopping to eat. I think a lot depends on the area that you are hunting and you have to play to their game.

[quote name="Mr. Buddy Garrity" post="1285769" timestamp="1348892148"] [quote author=PhatMack19 link=topic=103864.msg1285754#msg1285754 date=1348891924] Vidor @ Ozen next week will be huge! [/quote]not so fast my friend, Livingston might get NED  ;) [/quote] It still puts one of those two favorites in a 0-2 start and possibly having to just about run the table.

[quote name="jenks" post="1286176" timestamp="1348932151"] [quote author=GoDogs27 link=topic=103863.msg1285977#msg1285977 date=1348897711] [quote author=jenks link=topic=103863.msg1285958#msg1285958 date=1348896659] I love rivalry trash talk time. [/quote] We got a few more weeks until MCM! :) [/quote] If someone creates a thread that says "**OFFICIAL Vidor Crow-Eating Thread**" then you have a rivalry folks. Otherwise like normal games you comment on the game thread. [/quote] Two people arguing on the internet is not a rivalry.

[quote name="Buccaneer#3" post="1286166" timestamp="1348931613"] What about feed? Of course corn is going to be coming from the feeder but should protein be in the mix? Or mineral rocks on the ground? [/quote] Just my opinion, the deer love corn like it is ice cream for a child. It has very little protein compared to other foods. BUT.... the antlers have grown and are out of velvet. Proteins and minerals helps horn growth during the growing season but that has passed. Now we are only talking about getting the deer to show themselves. When a deer has the choice of chomping on leaves and twigs and a big bunch of corn, it will choose the corn. They can also smell it fairly easily and you can go to an area that holds deer and hand scatter a few pounds of corn where no feeder has been and there is a decent chance that deer will show up at some time during that day. For a good attractant it is just that good. Although protein may not help at this time of the year, in some areas a mineral block or rocks or salt might attract them. Where I hunt it seems not to get or hold deer very well but I have talked to others that say a mineral block will help hold deer in an area. It is probably worth a shot to see if it works. I have hunted east Texas, the hill country and south Texas and what will work in some areas will not always work in another and even two areas in east Texas might be different. But, for this time of the year if it was my lease, I would be working on attracting the deer and not worrying about protein unless you just happen to know that the protein attracts them as much as corn. On my last east Texas lease in Tyler County, the first year that I was on the lease I didn't have much time or money to put out feeders or build stands. I found a good spot that had tracks near a creek with a couple of scrapes in the area. I built a ground blind of cut down small trees and limbs. Opening day I hand tossed out (never pile up) a few pounds of corn before daylight and by about 15 minutes before shooting time, I had deer in the corn and killed my first buck on the lease that morning. Of course that area held a good population of deer but with one day of scouting and hand tossing corn, I was able to score. If you have time to get out feeders in a good area, you should be bringing some deer in. About the only thing that I have seen that will hurt them at feeders if there is a good crop of acorns on the ground at that particular time. Also if it is in east Texas, I haven't seen as many big bucks come out into big open spaces to eat corn and in my experience the more secluded or hidden the feeder, the more likely they will come in. Your experience may be different and when I have hunted in south Texas or the Hill County, they would walk into to the middle of a field to eat corn. For short range plans, I would put out corn and "maybe" minerals/salt. For long range plans like helping the deer during the growing season, I would lean more toward the protein mixed with corn to get them to the protein, at least in the beginning.

A rival is simply a person or a group that you are playing a game with, in business competition with or whatever. By every sense of the word, Vidor is Nederland's rival.... just like Central is a rival an Ozen and Lumberton, etc. There are long term or continuing rivalries that may come and go. Maybe like district opponents or a team that you play a few times a decade in preseason and/or in the playoffs. Then there are archrivals. Archrivals are your hated enemy for whatever reason. Merriam Webster dictionary defines archrival as "principal rival". It is Texas vs. Texas A&M, Ohio State vs. Michigan, USC vs. UCLA or in baseball, Red Sox vs. Yankees. You could almost toss in the word "hated" and mean it. There might be teams that you like to beat more than others but an archrival is one that you point to all year starting with the day after the last game. In Texas high school football it is the likes of Midland Lee vs. Odessa Permian and Nederland vs. PNG. It is more of a state of mind than a game. A couple of weeks ago a friend from Beaumont said about Nederland/PNG rivalry.... "It's just a game". No, it is not a football game. It is a football game, a little league baseball game, a soccer game, who has the best band uniforms, who has the best colors, who has the best float in the Christmas parade and if one can beat the other in tiddlywinks. It is 365 days a year and covers anything that someone can conceive that can be measured. It is "bragging rights" between two schools whose districts are literally across the street from one another. Vidor is definitely a Nederland rival and lately, it is more intense because Vidor has been more consistently competitive than in most of their history. For the most part however, except for a week or so a year, Vidor is not on Nederland's radar screen. PNG is there night and day, every day of the year. There simply is no comparison and even the MCM week doesn't even cover it. It is more like MCM year that ends in MCM week. Then there are mini-versions for baseball, basketball, soccer, volleyball............. And if you wonder why we often abbreviate MCM or PNG, it is because many of our friends that like to wear purple and white can't spell out the words Port Neches, Groves or Mid-County Madness. Anything to help our friends from the other side of the tracks. [IMG][Hidden Content]] Oh yeah, and great game by Vidor as usual. It is almost too bad that their new tradition of the cannon that fires when the Pirates enter the stadium had to start on a loss....... almost.

[quote name="Laurie75" post="1284299" timestamp="1348857520"] [quote author=tvc link=topic=103187.msg1284297#msg1284297 date=1348857263] [quote author=Laurie75 link=topic=103187.msg1284295#msg1284295 date=1348856984] [b]BH isn't playing tonight, sounds like it'd be a good game to go watch!  [color=blue][size=10pt]But probably standing room only![/size][/color][/b] [/quote] Which is anything over 500 people on the visitor's side. [/quote] Never been to Vidor's stadium but that's how alot of visitor sides are!  Not all of them but alot of them! [/quote] In 2A maybe. At least you can't get a bad seat on the visitor's side. They are all within the 30 yard lines.  8)

[quote name="Laurie75" post="1284295" timestamp="1348856984"] [b]BH isn't playing tonight, sounds like it'd be a good game to go watch!  [color=blue][size=10pt]But probably standing room only![/size][/color][/b] [/quote] Which is anything over 500 people on the visitor's side.

Maybe that is their excuse why their visitor's side looks more like a 2A stadium than a 4A (and formerly 5A) team. Sorry, we can't handle any more parking.

[quote name="Mr. Buddy Garrity" post="1283784" timestamp="1348800079"] [quote author=First Down link=topic=103758.msg1283778#msg1283778 date=1348799964] [quote author=tvc link=topic=103758.msg1283776#msg1283776 date=1348799699] [quote author=First Down link=topic=103758.msg1283315#msg1283315 date=1348768697] Just thought I would throw up another topic about Ned/Vidor game ;D [/quote] When do they play? [/quote] There is a rumor going around, they play tomorrow night [/quote] [size=10pt][b]Yeah, [color=blue]there's 10 tickets left[/color] also on the visitors side.[/b][/size]  ;) [/quote] So they haven't sold any yet?

Do some scouting to get off the beaten paths to find some good scrape lines, put out a feeder if at possible where you can see the scrapes but it does not interfere with their usual paths, get far enough away that you aren't as likely to spook the big one, practice good scent and wind control. Should be no problem. [IMG][Hidden Content]] I almost always bow hunt now so I usually a lot more up close and personal. I love getting within 10 yards of a deer and not spooking them.

[quote name="First Down" post="1283315" timestamp="1348768697"] Just thought I would throw up another topic about Ned/Vidor game ;D [/quote] When do they play?

[quote name="dawgnut" post="1283733" timestamp="1348797743"] Nederland, they have an older darker black ;D [/quote] ........ and Nederland's road uniforms are usually better than most teams home uniforms. [IMG][Hidden Content]]

[quote name="CowboysNIndians" post="1283758" timestamp="1348799018"] [quote author=tvc link=topic=103776.msg1283699#msg1283699 date=1348795351] [quote author=Mr. Buddy Garrity link=topic=103776.msg1283698#msg1283698 date=1348795259] [quote author=CowboysNIndians link=topic=103776.msg1283697#msg1283697 date=1348795184] Vidor is the seat of hospitality.  Best fans in Texas (between Beaumont and Orange, North of I-10, south of Buna.) [/quote]i see what you did there lol  ;) [/quote] Except the school and stadium are south of IH-10.  ;D [/quote] Thanks.  I think I actually parked in an unpaved field / visitor parking lot NORTH of I-10. [/quote] Then you are walking over a mile since that is about as close to the stadium that IH-10 is.  ;) I know the parking is bad in Vidor but..........

[quote name="Mr. Buddy Garrity" post="1283698" timestamp="1348795259"] [quote author=CowboysNIndians link=topic=103776.msg1283697#msg1283697 date=1348795184] Vidor is the seat of hospitality.  Best fans in Texas (between Beaumont and Orange, North of I-10, south of Buna.) [/quote]i see what you did there lol  ;) [/quote] Except the school and stadium are south of IH-10.  ;D

[quote name="JollyRoger81" post="1283692" timestamp="1348794955"] I think the better question would be who has the most fans with TICKETS!??!  :D [/quote] You mean compared to the Vidor visitor stands that hold about 1,000 people?

[quote name="1motime" post="1283565" timestamp="1348781573"] 1 PNG 2 Nederland [size=10pt][b]3 Vidor 4 Lumbeton 5 LCM last three [color=blue]only if having a good season[/color],  first 2 always[/b][/size] [/quote] No kidding......

Bow or gun hunting?

Get there early enough to get a parking spot and then park close to the road. I would say that 5:30PM might get you a decent spot. Then leave right after the 4th quarter starts and beat the majority if the crowd out. That is about only way to get in and out of that stadium in a timely manner.

[quote name="Tigersvoice" post="1283049" timestamp="1348753469"] [quote author=Coach Comeaux link=topic=103729.msg1283041#msg1283041 date=1348752794] PIRATES    34 NEDERLAND 27 [/quote] OOOOOOOOOOOH!  That's a lot of points being scored against two very good defenses. :-\ [/quote] But Coach didn't say how he arrived at the score. Coach just assumed that everyone knew that it was all defensive touchdowns and safeties with no offensive points scored except extra points.

I had it at Vidor 21-20 in the first prediction thread but after deep contemplation I figured it more like Nederland 20-14 however things changed and I realized that Vidor was about a 35-14 favorite although I then read the great news article on Larry Neumann and figured that Nederland would surely be a 28-14 favorite. And now Blackbuc wants a "FINAL" thought? Hmmmm..............

Do admins even have personal info other than knowing someone personally? I thought that all you needed was a screen name and an email address to sign up. In any case, I am a moderator and not and administrator but I have never heard of such a thing.