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calm down--it is only a hypothetical question---but one loss in two years hmmm............wouldn't that be a fluke? no lie 97..just take a breath. ;D Hold on.... give me a sec guys... give me that paper bag. Ok, OK, I think I am ok. Uh, ok, why does someone from PN-G care if Lumberton could beat Dayton again anyway? Because it is a forum and that is what people do, talk and give opinions, not fly off the handle about every comment. By the way maybe you should use a trash bag instead of a paper sack. If that doesn't work put the trash bag over your head and breath deeply. ;D ok, do you need this paper bag? Yeah, I guess I could probably use it.

calm down--it is only a hypothetical question---but one loss in two years hmmm............wouldn't that be a fluke? no lie 97..just take a breath. ;D Hold on.... give me a sec guys... give me that paper bag. Ok, OK, I think I am ok. Uh, ok, why does someone from PN-G care if Lumberton could beat Dayton again anyway? Because it is a forum and that is what people do, talk and give opinions, not fly off the handle about every comment. By the way maybe you should use a trash bag instead of a paper sack. If that doesn't work put the trash bag over your head and breath deeply. ;D

No doubt. I'm more excited about not having to waste so much gas going to Mesquite every Friday night, honestly. Will be fun seeing some old district mates and plus we get to face three teams we've never even played during the regular season. SFA is a great location and I'm very excited about returning there. How big of a crowd should I expect from the Barbers Hill side? I have no idea how far it is away from Nacogdoches but I'm assuming it's about half way between LGV and BH. The Hill should be represented well, not sure of numbers but they have great fan suport.

Yep. The Super Bowl, World Series, Stanley Cup and Master's golf championship all rolled up into one event for Vidor. Beat the Bulldogs in football and the rest of the year is a piece of cake. The pirate fans so much want this to be a rivalry game. It is hard to take it that way when only one school sees it as such. Good luck Vidor anyway. One of these years you will make the playoffs again and we are pulling for you. Heck, you've already got three playoff appearances since 1940. You'd better watch out though, Lumberton is hot on your trail. You ain't right. ;D ;D

EXACTLY!!!! We ain't even been gone a full year yet and they are already disowning us. ;D For the record, Dayton has a lot to prove yet, it is nice to get some respect though.

TP&WD releases 2008-2009 waterfowl season proposals [Hidden Content] Published: 08.11.08 Each year the US Fish and Wildlife Service will set a framework for the states to follow as they adopt their waterfowl seasons, including the Texas Parks and Wildlife Dept. This framework is a set of dates where the feds stipulate the earliest opening date and the latest closing date. They also tell the states how many days will be allowed in the season as well as harvest quotas for each specie. That is the easy part. The hard part is trying to determine what those quotas will be. The US Fish &Wildlife service, in cooperation with state and Canadian wildlife officials, conduct surveys each spring to determine the size of the breeding populations of each species and their nesting habitats. The results of these surveys (I wrote about those last week) are what are used to determine those quotas. As I said earlier, getting those numbers is no easy task. The surveys are conducted using fixed wing aircraft and covering over 2 million square miles that encompass the principal breeding areas of North America. These surveys have been done since 1955, allowing biologist to establish a long term average for each species of duck and geese. It’s these long term average numbers that are important. If the long term figures are low, the Feds will cut back on that particular specie. A good example is the pintail. Pintail nesting grounds have been plagued by drought conditions for several years and the pintail breeding numbers dropped so low that hunting was suspended for that specie until breeding numbers rebounded. Those numbers have rebounded, but not to numbers that would allow more than a very limited harvest of pintails. Now that I have explained how all this works, I’ll get to the season structure proposed by the US Fish & Wildlife Service for the 2008-2009 waterfowl seasons. Duck season will be a liberal package of 74 days (same as last year) and a five-bird limit in the north and south zones and an 89 day season in the High Plains Mallard Management Unit. Even with the liberal proposals, all is not well in the duck world. Scaup populations have fallen to record low numbers the past two years for the specie. As a result, the bag limit for scaup will be limited to two per day here in the central flyway. In other flyways, the season will be more restricted and the canvasback season will be closed altogether. Texas will be allowed to finish the three year pilot program called Hunters Choice, where hunters will be allowed to shoot five ducks, only one of which may be a pintail, canvasback, mallard hen or dusky duck. The ducks that are considered as a “dusky duck†are mottled ducks, black duck or Mexican-like duck. According to the federal guidelines, The Texas Parks and Wildlife Dept. has adopted the following season dates. • South Zone – Youth only season Oct. 25-26, regular season Nov. 1-30 2008 and Dec.13-Jan. 25, 2009 • North Zone - Will be Identical to the south zone seasons. • High Plains Mallard Unit will run Oct. 18-19 for youth only and regular season dates of Oct. 25-26, 2008 and Oct. 31-Jan. 25, 2009. The proposed daily bag limit shall be five ducks with the following specie and sex restrictions- 2 scaup, 2 redheads, 2 wood ducks, 1 mallard hen, 1 pintail, 1 canvasback, and one dusky duck. All other ducks not listed will be a limit of five. As for geese, the eastern zone white-front goose season will run Nov. 1 through Jan. 11 The Canada goose and light goose season will run Nov. 1 through Jan. 25, 2009. Daily bag limits will be three Canada geese, two white-front geese and twenty light geese. In the western Zone, The proposed dates are Nov. 8 through Feb. 8, 2009 with a daily bag limit of four Canada geese, one white-front and twenty light geese. Once again this year the light goose conservation order will be in effect and will start at the close of the regular season and run through March 29, 2009. Now keep in mind, these are the proposed dates and bag limits that have been adopted by the TP&WD. Public comment is now being accepted on these proposals by e-mail to [email protected] or by regular mail to Dave Morrison, TPWD Waterfowl Program Leader, 4200 Smith School Rd. Austin, TX 78744. Final approval will be at the commission’s Aug. 21 public meeting in Houston.

Area coaches discuss what they’re looking for during first week of practice [Hidden Content] By MIKE GEORGE Published: 08.11.08 A swing through South Liberty County and West Chambers County brought reports from the five area teams about what each head coach was looking for going into fall practices. JERRY STEWART – DAYTON (19-4A) “Nothing is set in stone at Dayton. Every position is open to competition. Nothing has to do with anything else; our practices will proceed just like they were going to. People don’t want to hear excuses – people don’t want to hear about that stuff. They want to hear about what you’re going to do. In the end they’re not going to know or care who’s on the team and who’s not. They just want to know if the team can succeed, so we’re not going to make any excuses about winning or losing, or anything. If you lose a game, you lose a game and if you win a game, you win it. So we won’t spend any time on that – we’re going to go out and our kids will be ready to play. Now, it might take a game or two. Our pre-district and scrimmages are going to have to be used to get some experience right now – that’s the biggest change. We’re not going to be able to focus as much on some other stuff, but we’ll be fine – Dayton will be fine.†DON PRICE – BARBERS HILL (19-4A) “We’ll be looking to find players that can play. Then we’ll try to get them to learn our system and plays on both sides of the ball, offense and defense while we’re in shorts and t-shirts and be ready to go when we get to that first day in pads. We’re still looking for starters. We’re okay at quarterback with Tony Carmona coming back and we’ve got our basic receivers and a few offensive linemen back (Matt Peterson, 6-3, 265, 5.5) but we’re looking for a running back (loss of Andrew Little). Defensively, we’re looking for outside linebackers and secondary players so it’s going to be a time of evaluating players and see who can play on Friday nights. Last year we didn’t have but about three starters back on either side of the ball, so we had to take some JV kids and sophomore kids and find some Friday night players, so we’re a little better. We’ve got about six players on offense and five on defense. I mean we’ve still got to hunt for some people but we’ve got some kids who have played on Friday night and that makes a difference. As far as running back it’s all suspects and no prospects. We’re going to be looking at anybody and everybody – the position is wide open and no front runner and we really won’t know anything until we get into our full scrimmage format.†SHANE DEEL – LIBERTY (22-3A) “I can’t wait. All the work is done, the field house is finished, we’ve gotten all our coaches hired, the kids have been coming in and out every day, and it’s time to go do the fun part of it. We basically have the 50 on defense, and I feel like we’ve got some kids that are going to go over there and help us out and hopefully make an improvement on that side of the ball to start with. At linebackers we’re looking at James Freeman, another junior, a very quick kid, and we’re going to have an all-out battle for the other linebacker spot. We’ve got several I think can get it done. In the secondary, we’ve got Andy Beene coming back who played corner last year. He had four interceptions and I never saw him make a bad play. We’ve also got Tevin Goodman coming back, who saw action both ways last year, so we’ve got a good chance to be really good at the corners. With Ryan Hebert we’ve got three guys coming back, but we’ll have open competition for that one safety spot, but the three give us a good foundation to build off of and some flexibility in what we can do back there, like rolling our coverage to help out the fourth position. So, I’m really excited about what’s happening on the defense right now in overall speed. John “Bubba Zalesak is coming back at quarterback and he’s as smart a kid as I’ve been around when it comes to football. He’s very savvy about the game, takes control of the huddle and he’s literally a coach on the field and we’re going to do some things to help him get opened up. We’re a power football team, so we’re going to find the best five blockers we can get and let them go to work. We work out of the multiple-I set. We base out of a two-back system, but it’s flexible. Our thing is we have to go establish a new line of scrimmage. We don’t want our OL to learn a whole bunch of different plays so our skill kids will do all the adjusting. We are a keep it simple type football team. We’re not tricky, we’ll just come after you as fast as we can run. LARRY HAYNES – HARDIN (23-2A) “At quarterback we’re looking at Jeremy Dickey (Jr) who came in from New Caney, a transfer, his dad is our defensive coordinator. John Stelly is returning at running back and he rushed for over 1,000 yards last year (1,109) and was all-district both ways at running back and linebacker. The three returning starting seniors that we have are Garrett Perry, Wade Williams (OL) and John Stelly, and all three will play a big role in our success and the type of leadership they give us will have a lot to do with how we do this year. Wade Williams is a 2nd team returning all-district OL and Garrett Perry also started on the OL for us last year. WR Hunter Davis (6-2, 4.6) is our top returning leading receiver who finished sixth in the state last year. He had better than 43 catches for 809 yards and 11 TD’s. We haven’t seen QB Dickey in pads yet, but 7-on-7 went pretty well, but John Stelly will run the ball along with Mitch Villemez who played a little bit at RB last year and started for us on defense. He’ll start of at free safety for us this year and play running back. Then, Marquis James (So.), who started on defense last year, will move to TE for us, but he’ll also play some at DE. As far as offense, how much we run it and throw it will depend on sometimes our opponent and at other times with how well we’re doing what we try to do, so that’s not been determined yet, either. Anchoring the defensive line is Dylan Barber – he’s the only returning DL we have and he’s only a junior, starting last year as a sophomore. The rest of the spots are pretty much wide open, and that goes for offense as well. We lost quite a few kids on both sides of the ball with 5 kids back on each side of the ball.†JOE ALLEN SLACK – HULL-DAISETTA (23-1A) “We lost Adrian Robinson, Franklin Smith and Anthony Walker, but with Sam Elliott back at QB and Aaron Cook, we should be able to move the ball. Then, with 9 of our defensive starters coming back we should be able to stop somebody, at least I would hope so. We’ve already replaced the two defensive positions so our defense is pretty much set. Offensively, we have more question marks, but frankly, our defense should help make our offense better because that’s who they’ll be practicing against.â€

Stewart discusses first week of fall practices By MIKE GEORGE Published: 08.11.08 Dayton’s athletic director and head football coach Jerry Stewart sat down Saturday morning after practice and talked about the first week of practices, giving his thoughts on where the Broncos are at this stage of the game. “The non-contact work in shorts and helmets has gone pretty good,†said Stewart. “Friday we had our first day in pads and had a lot of kids who didn’t hydrate and wound up having to take a couple of them to Liberty to get IV’s and get fluids in them. You have to hydrate properly each day and the night before and not just the day of practice.†The coach then described the first “contact†workouts. “For our first day in pads, to be very honest, it was about as bad as we’ve been in 12 years,†lamented Stewart. “Not because the kids didn’t try, but it’s just that we’re trying to fill a lot of holes. The kids are trying hard, but we’ve got nine kids on defense who have never played, so they’ve just got to keep trying harder, but we’re a very poor football team right now.†The coach then got specific as to what the team’s needs were. “We have the same question marks,†Stewart explained. “We’re still trying to find a couple of linebackers, we need a couple of strong safeties, 8-techs we call them, and we’ve got a lot of people standing around that are hurt and can’t get in yet. We still need a running back. We don’t know who our running back is.†The coach went on to list the candidates and added that a new face had joined the mix. “Right now we have Smokey (Darius Detiege), B.J. Jones and now we’re adding Jakari Delasbous, a freshman,†said the Bronco boss. “We’re putting a freshman up there to try. That’s a sad state when you have to have a freshman. The last freshmen we had to do that with were Mike Dugat, and he was really special, and Wilford Bowers who was also special. We had “the beast†and the leading rusher in the history of Dayton in Mike, so maybe that’s an omen for Jakari. I don’t know if he’s quite as dedicated as Mike was, although he’s bigger than Mike was at 183 lbs, but we’re going to have to see what he can do.†The coach went back to the episodes of cramping due to improper or a lack of hydration. The conditioning was fine until those kids jumped out there with us trying to find some hitters, and we lost some to the heat,†said Stewart. “Like I said, it’s not because they don’t want to, but talent-wise we’re just not very good right now.†The coach told both his coaches and kids not to rest on last year because last year is gone and the Broncos are only going to be as good as their next ball game. No one is going to remember last year after this year starts. “What we’re faced with having to do is get game experience in our two scrimmages,†commented Stewart. “But if it came to it, we couldn’t stop water right now.†The coach got off defense and got on offense for a minute. “Offensively, we thought Cody did a good job of throwing and AJ (Dugat) did a good job of catching the ball,†Stewart stated. “But here’s what we’re lacking right now – we’re still looking for some John Gable/Ford Smesny type leadership out there. Somebody’s got to step up and go hard every time, every play and set the pace. We’re still looking for that ‘war-daddy’ in the middle of our defense like Brent Kimmy. We want Tony Hill to become that, but to become that you’ve got to do more than just talk about it.†That led the coach to describe the culprit holding this team back – talk. “It’s like I told all our kids, right now we do a great job of talking about being good, but we’re just not doing a good job of being good. So, there’s the difference. We’re not very good right now, and we’ve got to do a better job of coaching this next week – and we are – we’re fixin’ to do a whole lot better job of coaching, too. We’ve got to get these babies ready to play, and get these kids to grow up. We went from a very experienced defensive team to a very inexperienced. That’s ok, because we’re going to use the two scrimmages and two pre-district games to get ready.†The Broncos scrimmage West Orange-Stark in Dayton this Saturday with the varsity on the field at 7 p.m. Then, the following Friday, the Broncos will journey to Lumberton to meet the Raiders with a similar format; JV and freshmen at 5 p.m., followed by the varsity at 7. [Hidden Content]

Ah I get your point, our offense was potent and our defense was stingy all year but neither one was up to par that night.

6 posts and already trying to be a wiseguy.

Beard is at LB, so that means Hanna will be the starting RB, right?

Hey 1, I saw the guy I told you about yesterday and spoke with him about the copy of the game. He said he may have recorded it, but he isn't sure. He is going to check and let me know the next time I see him. I'll let you know as soon as I see him again (it will be soon). Thanks man, I hope he has it.

I was gonna ask if you were Steven Segal. ;D Sure, lets do a little meet and greet. KFDM Coop is bringing the groceries. ;D

I am just gonna go camp out up at the stadium, from Thursday thru Monday. ;D

Wal-Mart is the devil, it eats $100 dollar bills like candy.

Thanks.

If ya'll thought it was tough the last 2 years this year will be even worse. This ain't a good year to be seeking revenge. ;D

I think it was like 7-6 or 13-6, it was a good one. That was the game between this years seniors. My son made a long run 30 or 40 yds) for the only TD we scored and I would love to have that footage.

I know I have asked this before but, I need to find out if anyone has a copy of the 2005 WOS vs. Dayton Freshman game. We lost but I need a copy of that game. If anyone has any info on how I could get a copy let me know.

;D No doubt. I just say I will be home late from work and go straight to the game. Although my wife really doesn't care, I love it and she knows it. She is a big fan too, plus we got kin folk to watch.

Yep its gonna be hard watching BH and Dayton play! I have been a Dayton fan for a while! It's gonna feal wierd to root against the Broncos (Aleast one game anyway). I can't say I have always been a BH fan but, I was plum tickled when BH rolled through all those 4A teams 2 seasons ago. I will be pulling for BH to do good this year. It will be nice if we are both in the playoffs.

It is gonna be a good season new teams, new district, brand new schools, its gonna be good.

I have nephews scattered all through the Dayton program so this year I will catch everything from 8th grade to Varsity. I would go either way, got to watch me some football.

I believe it will be a game situatuion scrimmage.

I believe if that was the case in Dayton they would no longer be players, let alone key players.