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Montgomery 35-Spring 19 Final

In the rain Leroy Dobbins doing what he does best. Bolfing had a nice Pass for TD to Peppe, Leroy did the rest. Spring had a huge O-line, but were getting beat off the ball by the smaller faster Bears. Dobbins, cut a slashed his way through the arm tackles of the Spring defenders. One step into the open field and it was off to the races. Another 200+ game for Dobbins and 4 TD's giving him 9 on the season already. If it wasn't for the mud hole the field was in, it would have been a lot worse.

Bye week next week and then it's Stratford at Bear Stadium. Going to travel next weekend to watch Johnny Manziel (Tivy) play Lake Travis in Lake Travis. Want to see if the future Oregon Duck can get it done against the Team of the Decade.
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You're correct my friend, and I have my own schedule screwed up, because we play Houston Jones next week, and the bye is the week after, and we are still traveling to see Tivy vs. LT.

Just got a text from my kid that says:  "Texas Football Magazine reported Johnny Manziel would be de-committing from Oregon and committing to TAMU, within a week!!!!"

Made a few calls to my Contacts at TAMU, and yes Mike (Sherman) made Johnny a serious offer, and the kid was seriously thinking about changing his verbal. That coulg be big for TAMU, because what I have seen of this kids, He is the real deal. To sweeten the pot, TAMU also gave hime the baseball package as well, which is also Johnny's passion. Sherman could grow leaps and bounds in trying to go with a more balanced run and gun offense, by getting this kid in house.
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[quote name="BrenhamFan" post="838668" timestamp="1283608275"]
I'm an Aggie/Hurricane so that's good news to me.  ;D Dobbins have any offers yet?
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Leroy has been asked to come visit again during the bye week. He as a few offers from D2's, but the D1's are still waiting to see him more this year. I think the way he ran over Spring, and stays on the roll he's on, the phone will be ringing soon. 17-4A just doesn't get the highlight reels until playoffs. Kinda torqued me off the FSSW had Del Valle pumping them up on their performance last year, and how they are so ready for 5A since moving up, but failed to even mention the kid that ran for over 300 yards on them and scored 4 TD's, in them being routed last year in the Bi-District finals in Waco. We are the Rodney Dangerfield's of the Midway. And Del Valle lost yesterday, go figure......
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[quote name="NDN79" post="838675" timestamp="1283608691"]
I haven't had a chance to see Dobbins in person,only on highlights,but he seems to be a very exciting player to watch.Got to see Quizz Rogers his senior year in the play-offs against us, he was/is something special--we lost that game too!! :(
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I highly recommend catching atleast one of his games.  You won't be dissapointed trust me.  I dread playing him every year.  I'm just thankful our defense is as fast as they are....  We don't stop him, but we do slow him down a little bit.
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You're correct my friend, and I have my own schedule screwed up, because we play Houston Jones next week, and the bye is the week after, and we are still traveling to see Tivy vs. LT.

Just got a text from my kid that says:  "Texas Football Magazine reported Johnny Manziel would be de-committing from Oregon and committing to TAMU, within a week!!!!"

Made a few calls to my Contacts at TAMU, and yes Mike (Sherman) made Johnny a serious offer, and the kid was seriously thinking about changing his verbal. That coulg be big for TAMU, because what I have seen of this kids, He is the real deal. To sweeten the pot, TAMU also gave hime the baseball package as well, which is also Johnny's passion. Sherman could grow leaps and bounds in trying to go with a more balanced run and gun offense, by getting this kid in house.
[/quote]If he gets Manziel A&M will win the NC within 3-4yrs. Yeah I said it. I said it cause kids will go to A&M to play with Manziel IMO.
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By Travis Stewart/Texas Football  --  Inside the numbers? Montgomery blows the lid off of the stat lines.

Ever read Moneyball?

Truth told, I never have. Being in the sportswriting business as I am, you think I'd be a total stat-head. In some ways, I guess I kind of am. But not to the Moneyball extent. I don't spend my Tuesdays trying to find a VORP algorithm for 3A Region I teams during rainy Thursday night games.

But you don't have to crunch the numbers very long to see that the Montgomery Bears have some serious offensive mojo on their side.

Leroy Dobbins, Montgomery's star running back, rushed for 2,629 yards last season, second-most in Texas amongst all 11-man public schools (Johnathan Gray rushed for 2,813 yards, but needed four more games to do it). That's more than Steele's Malcolm Brown. More than Abilene's Herschel Sims. Much more than SA Madison's Aaron Green or Brookshire Royal's Brandon Williams. Yup — Dobbins, little 'ole Dobbins, banged out arguably the top rushing performance in Texas last season.

Tyler Bolfing, Montgomery's star quarterback (and coach's son), passed for 1,566 yards in 2009, a pretty respectable number for a team that gave us a 2,600-yard rusher, too. But the yards aren't what dazzle you — it's a 64 percent completion rate and a stupefying 19-1 TD-to-INT ratio that surely makes the savvy passer one of the state's most accurate signal-callers. Combine that knowledge with the fact that Bolfing already has two seasons of starting varsity play under his belt ... and is there more than a handful of guys in 4A you'd rather have under center?

The JV program, Montgomery's hope for the future, was dominant last year. Those youngsters finished 9-0, and with the varsity losing 27 lettermen from 2009's second-round squad, there's suddenly plenty of room for fresh-faced go-getters to prove that they belong amongst the area's best and brightest. The rest of the district's JV squads? Here's the roll call: 5-4, 7-3, 6-3, 6-4, 1-9 and 3-7. Short of Magnolia West, whose number was not immediately available, that's a combined 28-30. Looks like Montgomery, once again, has found itself on the right side of the numerical equation.

But for all the upside — and as mathematically attractive as that upside is — Montgomery may not even win the district. That inside track may belong to Brenham, the '09 state finalist that returns 14 total starters and a cornucopia of future college talent. The two meet in Week 7 in Brenham — a year ago, Montgomery opened up district play with a sour note, falling at home to the Cubs, 14-7. While the Bears' playoff future doesn't hinge on the much-anticipated '10 version, a victory there and a subsequent district title would go a long ways towards boosting the confidence of a group that hasn't won double-digit games since ... yikes, 1989. Beginning to feel the darkhorse angle a bit?

Montgomery has the offensive dogs to stay in the title race, no doubt. The defense, which can lean on the linebackers and DBs to guide a pretty balanced — but aggressive — unit, gave up less than 14 points per game last season. So we know that half of the team can pull its weight. Look, all the pieces are there — the Bears just need The Breakthrough. You know what I'm talking about — the signature win over the signature team that elevates the program from pretty-good to pretty-damn-good. Brenham could provide that. A possible second round matchup with Crosby, the team that knocked them out in '09, could provide that. Angleton, Friendswood and Pearland Dawson, who should all be lurking somewhere in Montgomery's bracket, could provide that.

But to actually do it? To pull off The Breakthrough? Montgomery needs more than numbers and certainly more than Moneyball. They need a little bit of magic, the kind that makes a champ a champ.

Anyone care to try and calculate a stat for that?


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