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PNG scores from today
Porter, W 54-25
Lumberton, W 48-19
Huffman, W 34-13
Crosby, W 34-33
Kincaid, W 33-27
Championship
Pearland Dawson W 48-33

Unless I'm blind, I haven't noticed a slew of recruiters beating down the doors at the Reservation. Why choose to move here, when PAM and the Beaumont schools get the attention?  If you transfer to PN-G, you might not get an offer from any D1 school, but you will get an EXCELLENT education, you will be a part of some Awesome Tradition and you will be Coached by people who care.

Unless I'm blind, I haven't noticed a slew of recruiters beating down the doors at the Reservation. Why choose to move here, when PAM and the Beaumont schools get the attention?  If you transfer to PN-G, you might not get an offer from any D1 school, but you will get an EXCELLENT education, you will be a part of some Awesome Tradition and you will be Coached by people who care.

Mustangs have 7 wins over PNG by 7 or less

2003- WOS 21-20
2002- WOS 3-0
2000- WOS 7-0
1999- WOS 21-14
1998- WOS 17-12
1989- WOS 25-20
1978- WOS 28-24

It must be "Pick on Your Rival" day. :D

1. PNG

2. Ozen

3. Central

4. Nederland

5. GCM

6. Vidor

7. Lumberton

8. Lee


Something's just have to change!

1. PNG ( This is the start of several years (about 5-6 to be exact) where PNG is going to be stout)
2. Central ( The Jags have some good returners and second year for head coach to get things rolling)
3. Nederland (Neuman, enough said)
4. GCM  (Making the playoffs in one of the toughest region 3 districts last year is enough for me)
5. Ozen  ( A big question mark on what direction program will go, same song, same dance until proven wrong)
6. Vidor  ( Back to the drawing board until they get a couple of Q's to come through program)
7. Lumberton  (heart, but just not enough firepower, Shame they couldn't drop in new realignment)
8. Lee            (Hurting program that once was an area recruiting ground for QB's)

1.Port Neches Grove
1.Central
3.Nederland
4.Goose Creek Memorial
5.Ozen
6.Vidor
7.Lumberton
8.Baytown

You can't reduce it to any one factor. There are several factors needed for the environment to be conducive to it.
 
First things first, you have to have the teachers sold on it. To this day, the kindergartners are marched into the music rooms at every elementary school in the district on the first day of the year to learn Cherokee. The first words I can remember learning to spell after my name were Indians, spirit, fight, and victory (these days, they're spelling conquest too, so I guess you could say they're faster learners than we were). Most of my teachers made wearing a purple shirt on Fridays a requirement during football season, and several made it extra credit after football season was over. There were pep rallies with the Indian Spirit present, and several of the teachers wrote exclusively in purple ink. My first grade teacher, Mrs. Cobb, drove a purple cadillac. While things kind of died off in middle school (probably a result of letting the pride in the middle school programs die off without a real replacement), in high school, we had been so indoctrinated at such a young age that all of the underlying groundwork was in place for the pride to come back with a vengeance. Just like in elementary school, all of the high school teachers were in their purple on Fridays.
 
Second, you have to sell the community on it. When I was a kid, there was a store in Central Mall called Purple Pizzazz that sold, among other things, PN-G memorabilia. I remember parents staying up all night to decorate Merriman Street my senior year so that the players, coaches, cheerleaders, Indianettes and band members could see their community behind them when they got on the buses to leave for a game. Every organization known to man had booths set up under the bleachers selling memorabilia to fans, keeping all of that money in the hands of the school district and ultimately, the students. 
 
Third, and most importantly, you have to have successful programs. In order for people to take pride in something, it has to be something to be proud of. PN-G has that. The success in athletics is well known and documented on this site. Our band program has a long and successful history as well, capped off by all three high school bands and both middle school bands taking sweepstakes last week (only one other district in the state had that happen this year). Our academic prominence is well publicized, too; we've now won the district crown in UIL academics fourteen of the last fifteen years, and we were recognized by the US Department of Education as a blue ribbon school several years consecutively in the late 90s and early 2000s.
 
When you provide those three factors, and you manage to keep them for an extended period of time, you start to build a history - the honor, the pride and the tradition become entrenched standards around which the school is built. You wind up with a pseudo-symbiotic relationship built between school and community that pervades in one way or another almost every facet of the lives of student, teacher, parent, administrator, and average citizen. And from there, it typically only grows. That's what results in your school being the centerpiece of an exhibit about Texas high school football at the Bullock Museum. That's what gets your purple letter jacket recognized all across the state and, to a lesser extent, even the country. That's what keeps both towns emptying out and all the alumni coming back with their families from wherever they are in the world to fill up the Astrodome, and the Alamodome, and Texas Stadium, and Kyle Field and hopefully Jerryworld one day to set national attendance records written in purple ink. That's why you get a stadium literally big enough to fit everyone who lives in your hometown with about four hundred seats to spare, and a Friday night radio broadcast with a viewership thousands of listeners strong - more than double that of the second most popular broadcast - that gets email responses from as far away as Siberia and Iraq.
 
And perhaps best of all, that's why you get fans of other schools who hate your fight song so much, that they know it better than their own.  :D

FYI Indian and Bulldog Fans, Walmart has Stone Indian chief Heads and Bulldogs in the garden section. Got me one!

But we will on West Brook. ;)

LOL :D That or use it as an excuse to get off early. :ph34r:

Lol, Indians taking Coat sizes so soon??
I'll need my Panther Coat back. Hope to have a nice head piece. Good luck Indians, look forward to the Season
Go Panthers!!!

Kids around here can spell Indian before they can spell their own name.
 
My pets even love Cherokee. No matter where they are in the house or yard, I start singing Cherokee and they come running.
 
 
They may think I'm being attacked. :ph34r:

And if we are so blessed to see Crosby in the 1st round, karma is a ....... :D
 
 
 
Cougar Coats!

Kids around here can spell Indian before they can spell their own name.
 
My pets even love Cherokee. No matter where they are in the house or yard, I start singing Cherokee and they come running.
 
 
They may think I'm being attacked. :ph34r:

And if we are so blessed to see Crosby in the 1st round, karma is a ....... :D
 
 
 
Cougar Coats!

well the purple and white in my background will take the other purple and white team west of the river to beat the cougs this year, No twins means now win against either purple and white team :D

It's all about the Purple and White.... Free Purple band-aids for all Cougars on their way to the buses.  :lol:  :D

7:00P home games are fine, but I'll have to break some laws for the away games.

Meanwhile.............. Back @ Ozen, the Panthers are....................... I don't know what the Hell we're doing. But be Afraid, very Afraid. Lol
Go Panthers!!!!!!

Lol, we need a little Silence at Ozen under the circumstances surrounding the District. It's time for our kids to focus & handle their Business & let the Adults properly handle theirs. It will be nice to get back to Football though.
Are You Ready For Some Football!!!!!!!!!

I gotta feeling the pipeline has dried out over there for the time being. ;)

Silent but Deadly over at Ozen :D

I'm so glad we got the other side back!!! I hated facing the sunat a home game