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I don't believe that UH is that far off. Coach Briles is an excellent coach. These things take time and this will be his 4th year ( I think). So, this year and next should show it. Since, these should all be kids that he recruited and had 3 or 4 years in his system. Peolple have gotten down about the program because they expected too much too fast after going 7-6 in his first season, with a bowl game. I credit that season too the fact that he was running a new system that the other schools hadn't seen. Therefore, they were being out schemed. The past 2 years the other schools have caught up now it depends on the his recruits comming through. It will happen, remember they had Oregon down 21-14 at the end of the 3rd quarter and just ran out of gas, due to the lack of depth. That was an Oregon team that was 10-2 last year, their only losses were to USC and Oklahoma in the Holiday Bowl. This year they have Miami on 9/30. It will be good to see how they hang with the big boys this year.

I think that too many kids make that a decision to go to a school because of who the school is and what they did in the past. Which is fine if they fit into that system or scheme. Also, they need to take into account who else is there and whether or not they could go to another school and get more playing time. I know everyone wants to win championships and dream from the time they start play a sport of playing for that championship but I would rather be on a good team and playing then sitting the bench for a championship team. Plus you never know when the powers may switch. Utah made a run at it a couple of years ago and eventually someone will make that jump. TCU has had a high quality program for years and UH is up and coming. Just my two cents....

It would have to be a toss up between a chug bug and a Zara spook, but in the spring an orange bellied Long-A catches some monsters.

My biggest bass was 10.9lbs. I caught it on Toledo at night in July '02 on a buzzbait.

I have spent Tues-Thur the past 2 weeks at Toledo and have been catching an estimated 20-40 keepers a day ( of course I'm releasing them) ,including a 7.7 and a 8.2 this week. I'm catching them on watermelon/ red senkos ( actually I'm using Luck E Strikes version- jogger worm) rigged wacky style in water 0- 5ft on banks with grass. I also caught 17 crappie in 5-10 ft on green bettle spin.

The only reason to have an artificial field would be if you are having to share a field with other schools. I know that it has changed considerably in the years since I played, and I have been on the new field turf (Northwestern State). There is still a greater risk for injuries. I think that it is a better and safer game played on grass.

Culbert redshirted his first year and mainly played special teams this year. He should see some playing time next year at free safety.

Rick Culbert (Vidor)- Arkansas

I believe that 4 teams makes more since than 3. I think that whether you are in the "large" or "small" bracket, that you should play the same number of playoff games in order to be state champ. For that to happen, there would have to be the same number of teams that make each bracket. Thus either 2 or 4 should go, definitely not 3. That is unless you do away with the "large" and "small" bracket and just make one.

You deffinately have to go with Noah, after all he did win the three point contest at the end of last season.