PN-G bamatex

At least he can beat an FCS school.

The way UT wastes money on a daily basis, it wouldn’t surprise me if they started doing exactly that.

My picks: #22 USC at Texas (-3) Fox 7pm (A blowout warning is in effect for the following counties: Travis.) LA Monroe at Texas A&M (-26.5) SECN 6:30pm (I don't understand how Michigan State is ranked but Texas A&M isn't after last week.) #5 Oklahoma (-17.5) at Iowa St ABC 11am #17 Boise St at #24 Oklahoma St (-3) ESPN 2:30pm BYU at #6 Wisconsin (-21.5) ABC 2:30pm #12 LSU at #7 Auburn (-9.5) CBS 2:30pm (I'm picking Auburn only because they're at home. There won't be a lot of separation in this game and I'm rooting for LSU.) Houston at Texas Tech (-1.5) Fox 3:15pm #1 Alabama (-21) at Ole Miss ESPN 6pm (There are two places where Alabama has notoriously bad luck: Auburn and Mississippi. We can't keep messing around with a two QB system this week. It's all Tua or nothing.) #4 Ohio St (-12.5) at #15 TCU ABC 7pm (Don't let me down, horny toads. You're my upset pick this week.)

As I was saying.

I’ve got a feeling the Aggies will be surprisingly competitive in this game.

I’m sure some of y’all remember a poster from several years ago named squaw. Arguably PN-G’s biggest fan, this was an old woman famous for having purple underwear and sneaking into the Astrodome early to get better seats at PN-G games in the ‘70s. She had a couple of sons who played on those teams in PN-G’s vaunted glory years. She frequently used to say that the best motivation for some of those PN-G teams was taking a hard loss early in the season. In those days, it was normally to TJ or Lincoln. For the vaunted PN-G teams of 1989 and 1999, it was losing to West Orange-Stark. My senior year, the 2010 season, it was losing four games by a touchdown or less in the regular season. The point is, getting kicked in the teeth has a way of focusing high school kids. I think we all know what those teams I’ve mentioned went on to accomplish. What I’m seeing described in these threads - players fighting on the sidelines, excessive penalties because kids are getting too emotional on the field, players not paying attention to the coaches, and so on - sounds like exactly what you would expect of a team that’s gone 23-4 the last two years and has only lost to the likes of Nederland, Memorial and College Station. They didn’t walk into this game expecting to get beat on their own field by a dark horse team nobody’s paying attention to. And when they got exposed, they didn’t no how to react. This is a learning experience. We now know every way a defense can throw a wrench in our offense, and we’ve seen it done by arguably the best 5A defense in the state. This is the first opportunity I can recall in the Faircloth era for a good PN-G team to take a hard look in the mirror early in the season, and work on its shortcomings. Now we really get to find out how these kids respond in the face of real adversity. Bear Bryant had a famous quote Alabama lives by that I wish some Texas fans would learn. “It’s awfully important to win with humility. It’s also important to lose. I hate to lose worse than anyone, but if you never lose, you won’t know how to act. If you lose with humility, then you can come back.” Let’s do that. Scalp ‘em.

I knew it’d take all of five minutes for some insecure Crosby fan to take offense to that statement.

My understanding is that he came out of the game with cramps, went back in and took a hard hit. Looked very frustrated while being carted off the field.

We'll see.

I suspected Crosby would pull this one out. My sources tell me the Manvel of this year isn't the Manvel of years past. I picked Crosby to win this and I'm glad the Cougars didn't let me down.

1. Nederland 2. Newton 3. Beaumont Kelly 4. West Hardin 5. West Brook 6. Dayton 7. Port Arthur Memorial 8. Port Neches-Groves 9. Crosby 10. New Caney 11. Montgomery 12. High Island 13. Liberty 14. Jasper 15. Lumberton 16. Livingston 17. Diboll 18. East Chambers 19. Hamshire-Fannett 20. Edna 21. Buna 22. Hardin 23. Woodville 24. Evadale 25. West Sabine

I’ll give you props on that one. That actually made me laugh.

I hate to break this to you, but if all goes well (knock on wood), the job I’m going to take after November is one I’ll be taking in spite of my second degree, not because of it. And believe me, saying that hurts me a helluva lot more than it does Texas fans.

When you’ve had the up close and personal dealings with UT’s administration that I’ve had, and you get the firsthand sense of how they really operate, let’s just say that statement takes on new meaning. And it’s why A&M’s catching up to UT so quickly, and will surpass UT if John Sharp has his way.

Oh, I understand exactly what it means.

If there is a statement out there that encapsulates everything wrong with UT (the whole university, not just the football program), this is it.

At PN-G or Huntsville?

Texas is back!* *-to-back losing to Maryland at halftime.

And I have no doubt Huntsville will field a very fine team that will be a good pre-district test for the Indians. But Silsbee’s no slouch. They’ve got D1 talent of their own up there. And after taking a quarter to work out a few kinks, PN-G all but obliterated them tonight, on both sides of the ball. If we can do that to Silsbee, the potential’s there for us to beat every team in our classification. I count Manvel in that assessment.

Silsbee’s a good team. They’ll do well in district and have a solid playoff run. PN-G’s the real deal this year. We finally found a defense to complement RJ. Scalp ‘em.

Gentlemen, gentlemen. Y'all are forgetting the best place in college football to get crabs. The Tallahassee Publix.

Speaking of which, when the district shifts administration over to the credit union building, somebody needs to make sure we take all that vacant space over there and turn it into overflow parking. We have the old district administration building and the lot where the old city hall was. That's easily a few hundred parking spots.

Maybe that's why Nederland's always making fun of our defense. We still haven't recruited the groundskeeper to play twelfth man.

Never doubt the power of that Indian rain dance.