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That PN-G defense is good enough to beat VHS year in and year out. It easily passes the eye test...the Indians have a better defense this year, but BH made the plays when they had to make them. Tip of the cap to them. Maybe VHS will learn to do that one year. Good game between PN-G and BH. Impressed with the QB @ BH. Smart play maker and tough to get to before he distributes the ball. BH is the best team in the district. Props to the Eagles. Go Indians. Peace.

Enrollment numbers, transfers, and coaching. It is amazing that year after year, Katy ends up with an OL standing 6'4" - 6'6" and weighing 275 lbs. - 300 lbs. Year in and year out, Katy seems to find a RB or two that can play D1 football. The move-in program at Katy is second to none. NS is similar. My sister-in-law teaches at NS. Enrollment of 4,000+ kids and then the Mustangs sprinkle in 1 or 2 move-ins and transfers. Add good coaching to those ingredients and voila, you have a perennial top-notch program. Those programs have resources. They have athletes, money, facilities, solid coaching, and a commitment to staying on top. Go Indians. Peace.

Coach Faircloth has onions...and they are made of brass. Go Indians. Peace.

Fire up the iPads Indians and get this game turned around. Go Indians. Peace.

Hagar - that is the best news the Indians have heard tonight...not much good news coming from VHS tonight in the first half. Go Indians. Peace.

PN-G out of sync. No groove for the Indians. The game has the tempo and feel that favors VHS. Go Indians. Peace.

BH may do this to several teams in the district...including PN-G and VHS. The Hill may be the best team in district. NHS just keep playing. You never know when 'ol mo comes your way. Even if the game gets away, keep playing and use the reps to get better. Props to BH. Go Indians. Peace.

@ VHS is a tough place to get a W. Matthews knows the tendencies of Faircloth and vice versa. This season, the Pirates can throw the football beyond the line of scrimmage and the Indians are playing better defense. I think it comes down to the team with the least amount of mistakes (TOs and penalties) and the last team with the football wins. PN-G 21 VHS 20 How is the WiFi reception at VHS? The Indians need reliable WiFi for the iPads. Thx. Go Indians. Peace.

Hagar...VHS having flashbacks to the mid-seventies, 1974-1975, when Ronnie Thompson walked the sidelines and had the Pirates throwing the ball all over the field? Good for VHS. Jeff Matthews is a good coach, teacher, and leader of young men. I know that he is not in love with the forward pass and he wants his kids to line up and move the pile, but I'm glad the Pirates are having success with a little offensive diversity. Go Indians. Peace.

It has been a rough week for the alumni and fans of Port Arthur Lincoln. First, the passing of an all-time great in tennis and service to PAISD, Mr. Levi Adams. Second, the passing of a great football player, teacher, coach, and mentor, Mr. Richard Dick Williams. Two excellent role models for success in sports and life. A tip of the cap! Jobs well done and lives well lived! Prayers for the families. Go Indians. Peace.

PAM and BU fans give me the tale of the tape...who do you give the edge to in the following categories: Offense: Defense: Special Teams: Team Depth: Skill Position Players: Coaching (Morgan v. Louis): Off Topic: School Marching Band: PAM or BU? This should be the SETX game of the week/band of the week...football fans and college scouts must see game of the week. Go Indians. Peace.

I did not attend the game. Listened to the PN-G radio broadcast, only. PN-G missed Garth. According to the PN-G radio team, he will not return this year. Texas will honor his verbal commitment. He will heal-up, rehab, graduate, and focus on playing football in Austin. PN-G will miss him. Good size and athleticism, 2-years of experience, and a great teammate and friend to kids on the team. Hard not to miss those great qualities. All of that said, the Indians have to find the next man up. In the 2nd half, the PN-G OL created some running lanes. I heard the radio team mention the names Sasser, Dickerson, Callier, Lusauckis, Burt, and I am probably missing one or two other names. Breaking News: PN-G will not go undefeated. The Indians will have some growing pains. They have several kids that are worth watching. If the Indians avoid injuries, they should be a tough out in district. Bost can throw the ball around the yard, there are a few good WRs, and a solid rotating group of RBs. Remember the name Vaughn. JR RB. North/south runner and he runs with some meanness. I like the Vaughn/Connor combo at RB. Nice change of style at the RB spot. Everyone likes to hammer the PN-G defense. Per the radio team, the Indians were in position to make some stops, but the Silsbee RBs and WRs made some plays. The Tigers wanted to win, too. Their kids did not just roll over and let PN-G stop them. You tip your cap to the other guys and recognize that they want to play well, too. PN-G won because of depth. The Indians wore down Silsbee in the second half. The Tigers got tired and then turned the ball over. For PN-G, @ Huntsville and home for Tomball may be some of the growing pains that I mentioned above. Keep getting better Indians...stay away from injuries. Bost and Vaughn are some nice pieces to the puzzle. Just need to tighten up the secondary and keep playing hard on defense. Go Indians. Peace.

Who from VHS transferred to PN-G? Thanks. Go Indians. Peace.

We only do that to Nederland fans. (joke) 🙂 Go Indians. Peace.

It takes talent to win. PN-G had elite coaching and talented kids during the 1974-1977 run. Matt Burnett, Wilson Weber, Kyle Aguillard, Richy Ethridge, Ted Brack, Justin Eicher, and Robert DeRutte all played DI college football. The coaching staff during that four year run was outstanding: Doug Ethridge, Ken Clearman, Butch Troy, Greg Davis, Tim Nunez, Bruce Bush, Terry Cobb, Jerry Hooper, et al. The Indians had talented kids with some size. TE Kyle Aguillard was 6'6" 220 lbs, LB Ted Brack was 6' 2" and 215 lbs., RB Justin Eicher was 6' 2" and 200+ lbs., and FS Robert DeRutte was 6'6" and 200 lbs. It did not hurt having Richy Ethridge at QB. He was a coach on the field and he could play. He had size and skills. He earned his stripes to lead PN-G in 1975 and 1976. The coaching staff had great schemes, they motivated talented kids to play well, and the results were good times for PN-G. Post-1978, there was a drop in talent, school consolidation in other areas of SETX led to growth and good new teams, growth in Houston area suburbs, and good coaches left PN-G for new opportunities, e.g., Bruce Bush, Greg Davis, and Tim Nunez. PN-G is land locked. Not much room for growth. The work forces at local refineries have shrunk. All of that and the talent pool becomes cyclical. Some teams will have some talented kids, others will not. Coach Ethridge had a similar run of success in New Mexico before he moved to SETX. He won a state title in New Mexico and one at PN-G. I know that some old PN-G fans argue that Ethridge would have won big at PN-G in the early seventies with Jeff Bergeron at TB, but I think Joe Washington, Kenny Washington, Little Joe Washington, and the Lincoln Bumblebees would disagree. It takes talent and coaching to win hardware. You need both. Go Indians. Peace.

A sad day for PN-GISD, but a happy day for Coach Comeaux. I am not sure if she is retiring, semi-retiring, or simply leaving the coaching ranks so she can devote more time to teaching and overseeing the girls athletic programs at PN-GISD, but whatever she is doing, she has earned the right to do it. If it is retirement, good for her. I hope that she enjoys every second of it. Whatever makes Coach Comeaux happy, I am all for it; she is entitled to it. As a great coach, educator, and lady, she has given PN-GISD more than the district can ever repay her. 1971 or 1972 to 2019...she has given PN-GISD, the Rock-a-Noos, Rock-a-Noo fans, and PN-G alumni 47 or 48 years of greatness. She has put a ton of hardware in the PN-G trophy cases. Thousands of wins, three state championships, too many district crowns to count, and her career at The Reservation paralleled the tenure of seven head football coaches (Ken Watson, Doug Ethridge, Butch Troy, Danny Malone, Tim Owen, Matt Burnett, and Brandon Faircloth). What more can you say? She is a legend. If PN-GISD has a Mount Rushmore of greatness, Barbara Comeaux is on it! All the best to one of the best! PN-GISD was lucky to have her. She is one of the pillars that upholds the foundation for PN-G's core values of HONOR, PRIDE, and TRADITION! Go Indians. Peace.

Is Lamar University's poly sci dept, sociology dept, or statistics dept conducting exit polls to assess if the bond is trending towards passing or failing? Any local news services conducting exit polls to make any predictions based on early voting? Go Indians. Peace.

If any coach in the world deserves upgraded facilities, it is Jeff Matthews. That man gets more out of his kids than any other coach. He has fielded tough competitive teams in that old Vidor cow pasture for years. It is long overdue for VISD to give some love to Coach Matthews. When are the next set of Quirante kids or grandkids coming through the ISD? Go Indians. Peace.

The lens that I use...I see saving everyone. I don't view abortion or capital punishment as acceptable. There is no choice or interpretation. Thou shall not kill = do not kill anyone. Peacel.

What about those on death row that don't belong there? People on death row have been proven not guilty of their alleged crimes. Some have luckily walked away after serving time on death row. What about those that "get justice" when they don't belong there? Is the taking of those innocent lives OK? Do we just mark those off as the State getting it wrong. Too bad, they should not have been there to begin with. DNA or other evidence may prove the State wrongly took a life, but that happens. It is justice; it is not state sanctioned killing? I'm not advocating for abortion or capital punishment. Ethically, I see the state allowing murder, be it a fetus, a baby, or an innocent person on death row, as wrong. I'm a fan of your original statement. Murder is murder. Thou Shall Not Kill does not need any interpretation. Apply it across the board and do so consistently. Save babies, innocent people on death row, and even those that are guilty on death row. Let's not have the State involved in any type of taking life. And, I'm a centralist with a lean to the left. See, not all liberals are evil. Peace.

So-called liberals encouraged changing those laws of the land. Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and others that challenged the establishment and status quo.. And, we had that thing...let's see, what was it...the War of Northern Aggression a/k/a the Civil War. That brought about change. The 14th and 15th Amendments, reconstruction, Jim Crow laws, Plessy v. Ferguson and Separate-But-Equal, the industrial revolution, Upton Sinclair's book, The Jungle, the rise of unions to prevent unfair labor practices, WWI, the 19th Amendment, the Great Depression, FDR, WWII, Thurgood Marshall challenging Separate-But-Equal with Brown v. Board of Education, the Warren Court, the Burger Court, the Rehnquist Court, etc. Change happens. Whether it is good or bad depends upon the lens with which you view the change.

Does the murder is murder statement apply to capital punishment?

That is the plan at UH. We want Coach Sampson to stay as long as he would like. He has rebuilt our program from the ground up. He has run a clean program. No issues with recruiting, kids on the team, staff, grades, or cell phones (the show cause issue that forced his ouster at Indiana). He re-established recruiting links in the Houston area, over in North Carolina where he has strong ties, and on the national AAU circuit. We are getting better recruits thanks to Coach Sampson. He has told the administration (i.e., Dr. Renu Khator and Tilman Fertitta) that he would like for UH to be his last college stop. If the NBA comes calling, he will consider it. If the NBA knocks on your door, you answer it. If that happens, Little Sampson (Kellen) will be the successor at UH. Nightmare scenario for UH would be Coach Sampson leading the Cougars, Kellen gets an opportunity elsewhere while his father is coaching at UH, and then, after Kellen leaves UH, the NBA comes calling for Coach Sampson. For now, we will enjoy the ride. You can't worry about the things that you can't control. If the NBA stays away and we can keep Coach Sampson for a couple of more years, I'll be happy. He's due for raise and he will get one. Khator and Fertitta have a good relationship with Coach Sampson. Running joke among UH fans is that Fertitta will move Coach Sampson up the chain and over to the Rockets bench and then he will promote Little Sampson at UH. Who knows what will happen. Enjoying 2018-2019 for now. Go Indians...Go Coogs. Peace.

Joe Burrow was a JR in 2018. Unless he declares for the NFL, which I do not believe he has, then he should return as the starter at LSU. Go Coogs. Peace.

I'm aware of where the money comes from for college sports and how TV contracts work for conference realignment. The networks/advertisers hand-out the money, but the NCAA controls the product on the field. The NCAA will do what ND, Texas, Alabama, Southern Cal, Michigan, Ohio State, and a few other power brands dictate. The rest of us need to be attractive enough to be selected to fill-out the framework. That includes TAMU. The formula to get picked: win, continue to win, win some more, win big on the national stage when you have your shot, have outstanding facilities, solid fan base, and always improving your brand. TAMU does great at most of those criteria. Props to TAMU. Others of us have a ways to go, but we're moving in the right direction. Go Indians. Go Coogs. Peace.