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dirty D 17. D=Dustin 17 was your #. ;D I would like to see Long back as well. I don't put a whole lot of stock in this years Kelly record because he was starting over with a lot of Freshman and Sophomores. I just think of the local candidates he would be my first choice. I think he and Dustin would work hard to develop our young skilled position talent and develop a pipeline much like Dodge and Ledbetter before him did at Carroll high. I am though very interested in the list of applicants from outside the GT.

God forbid any of you guys favorite HS team ever fire your HC! I love all of these people from outside this district who have not seen PNG play in years and just assume he was "DONE WRONG". The guy had one great season and you all thaught he was Lombardi. He had maybe the best HS QB this area has ever seen that season and the QB and the offense was being coached by his father. MB had nothing to do with that offense. He did what he does best and coached the defense and let Mike do his thing. I saw it first hand. Without Dustin MB won just barely over 50% of the time. They made 4 playoff appearences in 12 years around the D. Long years. Imagine if WOS or Nederland or Newton went to the playoffs 4 times in the next 12 years. Gone would be Hooks, Neuman, and Barbay. Like it or not the board made the right call. It was time for a change of philosophy and if MB was not going to adjust then the change needed to be made at the top. I said many times on this board that I would like for MB to stay and make the neccessary changes at the OC and at other areas and allow those coaches the freedom to do what they felt was best for the talent they had, because MB was purple through and through, but it just wasn't going to happen.

If AC is seriously going to consider going to LM as second fiddle to Jordan for what couldn't be more than 70K a year, then the PNG HC job at 90K+ must look like a dream come true. I just don't see Lumberton letting him go that easy. For their sake I hope they keep him. The better the district the better the winners perform in the playoffs!

So because you worked in a school district and have examples you know for a fact that the new position would not have been created had MB not been needing to be reassigned? You do realize how ridiculous that sounds, right? What you have is speculation that it was created for MB based on past history that you have witnessed. Again that is S-P-E-C-U-L-A-T-I-O-N...Not F-A-C-T. I was told that the position was discussed last year when the renovations began. But that was not fact.

Actually this was his 3rd season and they are 23-10 under AC. Still pretty good considering where they were the 40 years before!

No. School districts do that to give the person a chance to finish out thier contracts. And you know this to be fact?

Should be free chicken night

Don't want either of them...But we'll take Stewart! ;D

Yeah...And one of 'em just became a reality.

96-64 record in 15 years. Made the playoffs in 6 out of 15 years with three teams going. 66-57 in the 12 years without D. Long. Made the playoffs 4 out of those 12 seasons. If your team went to the playoffs 4 times in 12 years you would have run the HC out of town on a rail! I hear rumors that he will be on staff at LU coaching the D Line after next year when his contract runs out, which is what he excelled at. That would be a great move for both parties.

How could they pay him well enough as an assistant to leave Lumberton? This just sounds like AC is using LM to get more money out of LTown.

I hear Muschamp was approached, thus the need for Mack Brown to name him his successor at UT! ;D

I think each of those candidates brings something different to the table. Alvarez is firey with a good recent track record. Long will develop skill players at the lower levels. Crueder to me is a lot like MB (power offense and tuff defense), but he really pays attention to his feeder programs. Barbay is a Barbay! And appears to have Coldspring on the up turn. Sure would make his daddy proud for him to get the PNG job!

There is no $$ at Kelly. Just because it is a private school doesn't mean they are loaded or that the coaches are paid well. Actually my understanding is the opposite. I hear that he is short staffed due to lack of money and I would bet he isn't making much more than 60K. The PNG job will pay 85K+. I think if offered he would jump on it. Just not sure he will be offered. If MB is not coming back and the search begins, I would look for these local candidates: Alvarez - HC @ K'Ville Long - HC @ Kelly (former OC @ PNG) Crueder - HC @ Lumberton (Former coach @ PNG) Barbay - HC @ Coldspring Outside of the GT ? Will be interesting to see what the HC community thinks of the PNG job. The facilities will be a big sell, but the PNG mistique may be diminished.

None! But he was at PNG.

I have expected Monty to get some looks from some of the smaller schools in the area for several years now and it hasn't happened or maybe it has and he just doesn't want to leave Nederland for a smaller school. I doubt PNG is going to give the reigns over to someone without HC experience and a proven track record as a HC as well. Still not sold on MB not being the HC next year at PNG. The meeting is to create the position of Athletic Complex Coordinator and fill the position at the same time. This could be a way to subsidise an OC that is currently a HC at a smaller school. Could be to pay an OC more in line with what he may be making as a HC somewhere else??

No one from the GT considers Dayton Local. You guys have always been the enemy! ;D I suspect one of the MC schools might have a run in a few years from all I have seen and heard of the 9th & 10th graders this year. Lumberton could also with Crueder and that defense. Not sure about the offense, but defense wins more games in the playoffs. Central is not done yet! Their Defense is quick.

I was sitting in the endzone at the dome right by that hit and it was so quick. The WOS defender was going in motion and broke it off in the backfield as they hiked the ball and hit the RB as he was being handed the ball. It was incredible. Game. Set. Match!

Chris Reed from SFA was the most athletic big man I ever saw at the HS level. Wasted potential. 6'4" 280 lbs and could run in the 4.6 range in the 40. Had offers from every major program in the country, but had to go JC for grades. Went to Navarro JC in Corsicana and got into some trouble. I heard he went to an NFL camp, but ??. Anyone who saw him in HS can validate that he was incredible. Those linemen on that Hemphill team were beasts. I thought I was at a college game when I saw those guys! Unbelievable at a 2A school in the sticks!

Chris Gohlke (PNG) plowed right through a Lamarque WR trying to go across the middle on one of the first plays from scrimage for Lamarque in the 1999 playoffs at the dome. Looked like the guy never saw it coming. Chris got a personal foul called for standing over him after the hit (Chris stayed on his feet), but that set the tone for the rest of the day. LM wideouts got nothing else over the middle all day as PNG stomped 'em. I also saw A. Griggie hit a number of weary defenders when running the ball for SFA back in the 80's.

Good afternoon Tom! ;D

Without a doubt Dom Mercka is impressive. He is big 6'4 200 and has some break away speed for a QB. He has a pretty good arm, but he really is still developing mechanically and the arm strength and accuraccy will improve. He should be a big prospect in a couple of years and he and thay Junior WR they have could lead them to big things next year (i.e. Green and Dugat).

BINGO! I seem to recall articles before the season where MB was quoted as saying how much talent was returning on the offensive side of the ball and now they had no talent? He lost some favor with me there. I hope he makes some changes with the OC and offensive philosophy and rights the ship. And again all you outsiders that think you know about PNG football and us being spoiled, you don't know! Matt has 3 winning seasons in the last 9 years since D.Long and company left. That's 3 seasons of winning more than 5 games in 9 years. And in 15 years they have had 6 playoff appearences under Matt. Not as great as it appears. Trust me folks if Nederland goes to the playoffs only once in the next 4 years they will be asking for Nuemans head! Same goes for Lumberton after a few more playoff runs with Crueder.

They have scaffolding on the front of the pressbox going down into the stands. Can't host.

I like that. Good off the bench as well. 6-7 Worrell 6-10 Custer 6-7 Brown ? 6-5 Harper 6-6 Hall 5-11 McThay 6-1 Williams 5-9 Dawkins 5-10 Miles