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3 minutes ago, Eazy said:

So, I wonder if the total attendance was 10K.  It seemed to be at least 3 to 1 PNG fans.  Maybe it was more. Not sure. 

Sat on Huntsville side as I mentioned in a few post. To say it was thin in number would be an understatement. Would take someone that sat on the PNG side to "guesstimate" how many section they could have filled.  Each section seats around 800. 

NRG's lower bowl holds 26,000. PNG did bring a large number but for them to reach the 12,000 range they would have needed to fill just shy of 1/2 of the bowl.  The PNG crowd filled most of the seats between the goal lines. Thus, leaving all end zone and angled corner seats empty other than those occupied by the band and drill team.  Likey 7500-8500 in the PNG crowd.  

1 hour ago, PN-G bamatex said:

I want to share a story from last year.

After the game, my folks and I went to the Whiskey Cake in Katy for a very late dinner. I had driven in from Leander that afternoon and they had left PN-G late due to work. Nobody’d had the time to eat beforehand.

There was a family in the restaurant from Liberty Hill sitting a few tables down from us. They had a little girl with them, maybe seven or eight years old, and an older boy who appeared to be late middle school or early high school age. I figured he was a player on the freshman team.

That little girl realized we were from PN-G and gave us the evil eye for the entire dinner. I’m talking a full hour of this girl glaring at us from across the dining area, non-stop. You could feel the heat coming off this girl’s gaze. I had to fight not to crack up all night because every time I’d look over to my left, I had the possessed girl’s hellish stare from the exorcism movie looking straight back at me. You could tell the PN-G crowd, the War Chant and Cherokee had driven this poor girl insane that night.

Her parents picked up on what was going on and came over to talk to us after they finished their meal. Couldn’t have been nicer folks. Wished us luck in the championship, complimented the fan base - just nice, small town people. I told them I lived just down the road in Leander and drove in for the game. Even for a fan base like Liberty Hill’s that generally travels well, you could tell they were shocked that out-of-town alumni would make a drive like that to see the Indians play.

This is the game where our fan base earned the “rabid” label online last year. Every time I think about that, I think about that ferocious glare from that little girl. I have a feeling I’m gonna feel it coming across the field at me again this year. Scalp ‘em!

Sat on Huntsville's side last night. Never, yes never do I recall noticing a fan base other than the numbers. Seeing from the opposite side was interesting. That was a sight to behold and very impressive.  Not sure how to describe it other than to say again, impressive. 

1 hour ago, pine curtain said:

 what was the attendance numbers tonight?

PNG fan base filled most of the seats between the goal lines.  7500-8500 guess.  Sat on Huntsville side that was much thinner, but couldn't venture a guess on their numbers. 

14 minutes ago, PhatMack19 said:

PNG

206 yards

72 rushing 

133 passing

 

 

Huntsville

138 yards

85 rushing 

53 passing 

 

In stadium board updated Huntsville to 84 yds passing bringing total to 169. 

17 minutes ago, prepballfan said:

Id say more like 15-20k

Each section in the lower bowl on the sidelines hold around 850 people (22 seats per row with 36 to 39 rows depending on the section).  PNG has 3 sections at least 90% full and other sections filling 35 minutes before kickoff. Rough, very rough approximation of minimum 3000 already on PNG side. 

Band and Drill Team seated in the north end zone. 

26,000 seats in lower bowl at NRG, fwiw. 10,000 guarantee will likely do it with room to spare.  If that is the concern for the group in charge (it's not the Texans and I'm drawing a blank on the game operation group) it will definitely reach that point and then some. 

Southern Illinois 35 Nicholls 0.  Close the book on the 2023 SLC season. 

41 minutes ago, spidersal said:

Their not getting beat, they are getting anialated 

Annihilated?  If you anialated someone, you are one letter away from jail. 

8 minutes ago, lionpride08 said:

Franklin 52 Academy 27 final

Lorena 42 Columbus 21 final

I tried to tell every one about Hitchcock and Columbus but was called crazy. State runs through the district of doom

Speculation on site for next week?

Lorena and Franklin holding large 4th quarter leads. Rematch of district opponents next week looking highly likely. 

Nicholls travels to Southern Illinois. UIW despite an 8-2 record is left out. UIW's lack of a quality win and close games against what would be considered weak opponents by the committee was the likely reasons. 

Fourteen of the 24 teams come from 3 conferences. Missouri Valley has 6 and the Colonial and Big Sky each have 4. 

Note: 27,000 plus attended the Montana v Montana State game yesterday. That total is approximately 2.5% of the state's population. Interesting that the 2 biggest sports programs of any type in the state are FCS schools.

If that happened in Texas, you would need a 750,000 seat stadium. A silly but fun thought. 

LU knocks off McNeese. LU finishes 6-5 with a 4-2 in conference record. McNesse could have a new coach next season. 

UIW beats HCU. UIW despite an 8-2 record will be hoping for an FCS playoff invite as the weakness of the SLC and some close calls leave it in limbo. Some projections have them in and others have them as a first 4 out. HCU and new coach Braxton Harris complete the most successful season in school history despite today's loss. 

Nicholls beat SELA on Thursday. Nicholls is the SLC champion and will learn their first round opponent tomorrow. 

LU up 52-27 with under 4 minutes left in the season. 

Congratulations to all involved on a quality season. Can they build on it?  

Curious on that as well. Other than SHSU, can't think of anything over 10,000 near Montgomery without it not coming south making the drive for PNG not much difference than the present neutral site. 

Was Lake Creek willing to agree to traveling to PNG's backyard?  Was there going to be a coin flip for "home" with PNG using LU as its designated home site and this fell apart due to a NO from LU on availability?  Would be amazing for SETX to have the opportunity to see the game, but I'm curious on the accuracy if this. Not trying to stir up anything, but this would be a quite unusual site based on the location of the schools without an unusual, but not unheard of agreement. 

Thanks, Snake. 28-7 half.  

This is a portion of a post I placed in the Southland Conference Football thread in the College Sports Forum.

LU will host McNesse for the final game of the season next Saturday. A win and the Birds finish no worse than 3rd in conference.  Could end up tied with UIW for 2nd if UIW loses.  

Lamar win would give them a 6-5 record with 1 loss to an FBS program, 1 loss to the SLC champions, and the other 3 to ranked FCS opponents. Going into this past weekend, those 3 teams were ranked #4, #6, and #10. Most, I assume, would consider this a good start for the team, the new coach, and his staff.  Some might say much better than just good. 

LU loses to Nicholls.  Nicholls clinches the automatic qualifier spot for the FCS playoffs. 

UIW was scheduled for NWST, but that game had been cancelled for weeks. UIW can still share the SLC title with Nicholls with a final weekend win coupled with a Nicholls loss. As stated Nicholls holds the SLC playoff spot, this is due to the head to head win earlier over UIW.  

SELA beat A&M Commerce. 

HCU knocked off McNeese and set the school record for wins.  This win also ensures the first winning season in school history (includes forfeit by NWST).  

Next week...

LU host McNesse. A win and the Birds finish no worse than 3rd in conference.  Could end up tied with UIW for 2nd if UIW loses.  

Lamar win would give them a 6-5 record with 1 loss to an FBS program, 1 loss to the SLC champions, and the other 3 to ranked FCS opponents. Going into this past weekend, those 3 teams were ranked #4, #6, and #10. Most, I assume, would consider this a good start for the new coach.  Some might say much better than just good. 

UIW travels to HCU.  UIW will playing with hopes for a committee selection into the FCS playoffs.  

Thursday night game as SELA host Nicholls.

Commerce was scheduled to play Northwestern S. 

LU falls 37-24. 

34-24 early 4th.  Nicholls leads. 

LU denied, stopped on 4th and goal at the 1. 20-11 halftime. 

20-11.  LU with a safety. 

LU fumble in the red zone and Nicholls follows with a 69 yard touchdown run 4 plays later. 20-9

Nicholls has scored twice, but LU scores a defensive PAT after the 2nd touchdown. Early 2nd 13-9 Colonels.