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That's harsh. Is there anyway we can get UNLV kicked back to UNLV? UNLV is an enthusiastic supporter of Lamar and there's nothing wrong with that. Exactly. All I want for Lamar is the best of the best. The best conference Lamar can get into, the best stadium, best recruits, the best everything yet that pisses off so many. We all want the best for Lamar. It's just that most of us realize that Lamar does not have carte blanche when it comes to conference, facilities, and players. We know they do not have the money to provide these opportunities but enough to get the ball rolling and to build from there. For some odd reason, you don't understand this concept. Now if you are proposing that Lamar wait till they get enough money to build these bigger and better facilities and go FBS, then I can understand that. But it seems you think they can do that right now, and that's just absurd. You're in LALA Land.

Here are the tax rates for Hardin County: Entity Code Enity Homestead Over-65 Disabled Local Option Tax Rate Hardin-Jeff ISD 15,000 10,000 10,000 15% 1.485 West Hardin ISD 15,000 10,000 10,000 0 1.69 Kountze ISD 15,000 10,000 10,000 10% 1.5 Lumberton ISD 15,000 10,000 10,000 0 1.456 Silsbee ISD 15,000 10,000 10,000 0 1.62 City of Silsbee 0 10,000 0 20% 0.37 City of Kountze 0 20,000 0 0 0.45 City of Sour Lake 0 10,000 10,000 0 0.45 City of Rose Hill 0 0 0 0 0.057742 Silsbee Fire #2 0 0 0 0 0.03 Batson Fire #4 0 0 0 0 0.03 EMSD #3-Saratoga 0 0 0 0 0.07 EMSD #1-Kountze 0 0 0 0 0.05 EMSD #2-Lumberton 0 5,000 5,000 0 0.08 EMDS #5-Sour Lake 0 0 0 0 0.048949 H C WCID #1 0 5,000 0 0 0.531417 Lumberton MUD 0 10,000 10,000 20% .18428 Hardin County 0 10,000 10,000 20% 0.58 If you notice, Lumberton is a municiple district and not an incorporated city.

Who?? Neeeeeeever heard of them. ;D

Actually, it's 7 Fridays away or 47 days away or 6 weeks and 5 days away or a little more than a month and a half away. Pick your poison. ;D p.s. I refused to break it down into hours and minutes, would make my head hurt.

It's easy to make the playoffs these days---especially in 4A but please remind me again how many playoff appearence PN-G had when they were 5A. Oh yeah, 0.... Back on topic: My question to you self-righteous PN-G people, if RTG didn't have a place to play, would Burnett the Benevolent extend the sacred Reservation for PAM to play in? If Burnett did, the community would probably let out a big war cry and say a collected 'No' to PAM. And I will maintain this posistion until proven otherwise.... That's technically incorrect there SFA85. Seeing that in the 70's when PNG was making several playoff runs including state championships, it was done in the top classification, 4A, which is now class 5A. Just the number changed in the class, but it is still the top classification. I thought a man of your intelligence would know this. I guess the hatred has blinded you.

Why Orange? Beaumont and Port Arthur have put out more Hall of Fame players.

I did not realize that the city limits of Orange included the communities of Mauriceville, Little Cypress and Orangefield. I thought they were their own communities, towns or cities, which is why they have their own school districts. Sorry for my bad assumptions.

I know since Silsbee dropped down to 3A four years ago, they have had 41,38,38,33 suit out for varsity. Don't know the total numbers from freshman to senior.

Some?? You mean one of you guys. Pretty obvious who that one is.

Milestone. Now all I need to catch Coop on posts is 44,967 more. Also need 13,824 topics started to catch him on that, all I got is 80. And the ultimate measuring stick, I have 28 days, 20 hours, and 44 minutes spent on this site, but I am 266 days, 2 hours, and 14 minutes behind Coop in most time on site. I am 9 months preg... I mean 9 months behind. Somebody steal Coops computer!!!!!!

Best team: in person, 1983 Dangerfield, on film, 1976 Beaumont Hebert Best game: in person, 1992 Silsbee vs. Nederland, on film, Plano vs Tyler John Tyler. Best player: in person Michael Bishop, playoff game against LCM, never left the field. He played qb, safety, was the punter and kicker and returned kickoffs and punts, he simply beat LCM by himself. On film, Eric Dickerson.

I understand about some industries closing and Rita causing population to drop in Orange. What I am questioning is what is the population in Orange right now? Is it the 18,000 that was posted earlier? If so, how can you have that many in the city limits and have less than 700 in high school? The numbers just don't make any sense. I compared Silsbee's numbers ( city pop. 6360, high school 843 ) and it just doesn't seem possible that WOS has that few numbers based on the cities population. Something else has to be driving students away from that school distict or the numbers are way off. Yes, the PERCEPTION is that the only thing that matters at WOS is football. I have seen the other sports digress over the last few years ( exception, that one year in basketball and track, which is football related ) and their UIL academic teams and their band. Their band has really fallen off over the years, I believe making 4's at contest the last few years, though I could be wrong on that. Bottom line is, yes several schools in our area have been hurt by the economy and other things beyond our control. But I think WOS has been hurt more so than others because of some things they could control.

3-7 overall, 1-4 in district.

That's so true, abtr. If that were to happen, my wife would be the first to picket the gates at Cardinal Stadium in protest of it. You got to have the band.

Other than WOS, huh. Funny, no team in that crappy Liberty district can beat Silsbee.

That just about says it all.

Just another failure waiting to happen. I think Beaumont has proven over and over again that it cannot support a professional sports franchise.

Using the DCTF rankings, how many and who are the ranked teams that your team will face this regular season? For Silsbee: 3 Diboll Newton WOS

Nederland 20 WOS 18

Is that 18,000 what is now the population? If so, how in the world can you have that many people within the city limits and only have 691 in high school? Just how many of those within the city limits attend LCM? I ask these questions because the numbers just don't make sense. In Silsbee, we have a population of 6,360, but have 843 in high school. We have 150 more students in high school than WOS but our city has 12,000 less. What's up with that?

I've got mine!!! It's so nice to have connections.

That's incorrect. Lamar would have to be FBS for that to happen. C-USA does not allow member schools to travel to FCS schools. That's another reason to go FBS. There's not too many FCS schools in this part of the country, so it limits who you can bring in for home games. Exactly, Lamar playing FCS is limited to home games with FCS or lower. With the exception of Mcneese, expect low attendance. Playing FBS Lamar can play anyone Lamar can bring in, both FBS and FCS. UH and Lamar could have cheap high attendance home and home games every year. Both schools would get fans going to each away game. It's a win-win. Give it time, give it time. Rome wasn't built in a day.

When did Carthage join 21-3A?

I predict Silsbee to return and do better than the semis.

Setxsports has got dibs on a suite. ;D