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Advantage or Disadvantage is the question. Year in and year out Ozen plays a 5A now 6A preseason schedule resulting going 0-3 more times than not. What type of morale booster is there in being 0-3 going into district. There's no getting around Westbrook with the overrated Beaumont
Bowl game every year. Westbrook hang their hat on defeating under maned 4A/5ACentral and Ozen every year then struggle in their district to make the playoffs. When was the last time Westbrook was out right district champions just curious ? Take a look at teams in Ozen's district and their preseason schedule.None schedules Memorial on a regular basis or will ever schedule Westbrook. The myth about playing top teams makes you better aint always true. Wins gives you confidence that you can play with anybody ask Jeff Matthews and the Vidor Pirates. With the low numbers at Ozen the preseason schedule should be 4A schools. Just one opinion.........

We get to see another day of pads. Working on the little things, bringing it back to the basics of football.  Block, Tackle, Pass, Catch, & my Favorite RUUUUNNNN!!! :lol: 

And your single AGAIN!  :mellow:  :lol: How does that saying go? Can't keep doing the same thing and expect a different result... 

Hmm, seems like I remember some PNG faithful calling for Morse to come in when Walker was throwing INTs, and were happy when he was in.  Never mind, no controversy here!!  ;)

Yes you can't put a lot of stock into 7-7 but you can't totally ignore the help it puts into a team. Especially a team with a new qb like png.

Yes you can't put a lot of stock into 7-7 but you can't totally ignore the help it puts into a team. Especially a team with a new qb like png.

Well that was a statement!

Come on BC!!!

That's great for the kids. Love seeing a kid (no matter where they go to school, get scouted like that)... Doesn't make the Crosby program any better at making it far in the playoffs.. IJS 

Congratulations to all selected.  I have watched many of these young ladies grow up and proud to see them recognized after years of hard work and dedication.

I am a huge college fan but this ruling is ridiculous. I say if they want to be considered employees of the college then they need to see what it is like to be in the work force. Go ahead and pay these kids but, cut back on the scholarship percentage and let them see what it's like to be a working man and pay for what you want......I believe an athlete that gets his tuition paid for and stays in the athlete's dorms with meals is enough for these kids. If they want spending money then let them work in the offseason and learn to save......receiving a scholarship to a college is an honor not a priveledge. Some kids now days are so spoiled they don't appreciate what is given to them, all they want is more. This is going to hurt college sports a whole lot more then help it. Big schools will even suffer in the long run. This is just the tip of the iceberg. Look what happened to the NFL since the union came in. It created a lot of greedy men who are basically playing for the money and not for the passion of the game like it should be. Same will happen in college....Just wait.

There was something going on between him amd the owner.

Next Lakers coach. I'm calling it.

Man I can not wait till Johnny shuts up the haters.

Man I can not wait till Johnny shuts up the haters.

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

I agree.

Mcshay & Kipers last mock draft has Johnny going 16 to Dallas

Freeze the frame at the 6 second mark . Pay attention to the release angle and direction. FAKE .............................

Watch and see soulja. Watch and see. I will say this. He may not be as good as his older brother but the team around him will be better than the team that Montana had.

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

Let's see how long that lasts.

I like my crow spicy grilled with a beer.

Good game kp. Y'all earned it.

I like my crow spicy grilled with a beer.

Good game kp. Y'all earned it.

The baseball experts are awfully quiet now!

Go to Korea and get Soju. Put some hair on your chest.