Willie Ray Smith Award

[PNG1977]

Press conference tomorrow to announce the finalists...does anyone know how many people vote?  And who does everyone think will be finalists for offense and defense?

[AggiesAreWe]

5 minutes ago, PNG1977 said:

Press conference tomorrow to announce the finalists...does anyone know how many people vote?  And who does everyone think will be finalists for offense and defense?

There will be 4 finalists for offense and 4 finalists for defense.

There is around 30 voters and I am one of them.

[PNG1977]

9 minutes ago, AggiesAreWe said:

There will be 4 finalists for offense and 4 finalists for defense.

There is around 30 voters and I am one of them.

Thanks, I wasn't sure how many people there were that voted...remember you being one last year

[fox]

53 minutes ago, AggiesAreWe said:

There will be 4 finalists for offense and 4 finalists for defense.

There is around 30 voters and I am one of them.

well there is one vote for silsbee players.....

[kicker]

50 minutes ago, fox said:

well there is one vote for silsbee players.....

Well in all fairness, you dont have to be a homer to see that Silsbee has a kid that needs to be a finalist or even win the offensive award.

[NDNation]

So many deserving kids this season.

[Whoa]

IMO there is no REAL clear cut guy  couple of good Qbs, many good Rbs on the Oside

Defense - cant think of a Tony Brown type stand out this year.  The soph db from WOS is strong

Seniors only right?

[AggiesAreWe]

8 minutes ago, Whoa said:

IMO there is no REAL clear cut guy  couple of good Qbs, many good Rbs on the Oside

Defense - cant think of a Tony Brown type stand out this year.  The soph db from WOS is strong

Seniors only right?

nope

[MAYFIELD]

Want to say we are proud of our son Tavian Mayfield for being a FINALIST, a very PROUD MOM & DAD!  Thanks Coach Spell & Theriot

[johnnyarm]

Who are the finalists?

[NDNation]

Surely Morse will be a finalist for Offense.

[prepballfan]

I hear Morse will be

[johnnyarm]

Well? Who are they????

[MAYFIELD]

8 hours ago, AggiesAreWe said:

There will be 4 finalists for offense and 4 finalists for defense.

There is around 30 voters and I am one of them.

How many schools our how far area do they select from?

[AggiesAreWe]

3 minutes ago, MAYFIELD said:

How many schools our how far area do they select from?

As far North as Jasper, east to Sabine River, south to Gulf, west to Liberty

[WOSgrad]

I have only seen tow who have been identified on twitter, Adam Morse of PN-G on offense and Michael McCain of Silsbee on defense.

There are more (as well as Tavian) but we might not know until tomorrow.

[JG1834]

23 hours ago, Whoa said:

IMO there is no REAL clear cut guy  couple of good Qbs, many good Rbs on the Oside

Defense - cant think of a Tony Brown type stand out this year.  The soph db from WOS is strong

Seniors only right?

There was a defensive standout. Innis Gaines Safety at West Brook. Led a Stout defense in tackles had like 5-6 picks took 3 of them to the house (one against state champion North Shore) blocked two kicks and a punt block. Took a missed FG 100+ yds against Ozen and led the team in tackles. Had 23 Tackles 4 TFL 4 PBUs 1 INT 1 FF  against PA, dominated the game against Deer Park with like 18 Tackles also according to the teams website. And the 6 A Defensive MVP in a district with North Shore who won state by shutting out every one with Defense in the playoffs and had 2 kids committed to LSU on the squad. Those coaches who coached the LSU commits still voted to make Gaines the Defensive MVP. I'd say that stands out way more than Tony Brown was. Brown had games without even making tackles or breaking up passes playing 5A ball, and was Tony Brown even Defensive MVP in that district b/c I think it was the DL kid from Nederland that year. Not to mention Rose WR kid at PNG balled on Tony his Senior Year. The Gaines kid balled out and dominated every game played in a tough ass 6A district.

[wosfan1992]

Mandel Turner King for WOS should win it on the defense side of the ball.

[Whoa]

thanks JG that put it in perspective on the D side

I am all over Dallas the WOS kid - think about it last year a state game in FB as a qb/  state game as a pitcher in baseball

Then this year wins the State FB game.  And he won the wiffle ball tury too.

I'm not a WOS fan (geaux dawgs) but the db that ran a couple punts back Tims maybe? Strong

voters may not want 2 from the same school  you could argue big time for them!!

[MAYFIELD]

Man I saw the stats of Tims and Thomas Whoa

[AshlyHasBeen]

Also note these schools did not nominate anyone.

 

Offense

High Island, Hull-Daisetta, Kountze, Liberty, Newton, Sabine Pass, Vidor, Warren

 

Defense

Hardin-Jefferson, High Island, Hull-Daisetta, Jasper, Kountze, Liberty, Newton, Ozen, PNG, Sabine Pass, Vidor, Warren, West Sabine, 

[CougarCal]

7 hours ago, ShlyKBMT said:

Also note these schools did not nominate anyone.

 

Offense

High Island, Hull-Daisetta, Kountze, Liberty, Newton, Sabine Pass, Vidor, Warren

 

Defense

Hardin-Jefferson, High Island, Hull-Daisetta, Jasper, Kountze, Liberty, Newton, Ozen, PNG, Sabine Pass, Vidor, Warren, West Sabine, 

The PNG games I saw this year that linebacker Rembert was everywhere, at least worthy of a nomination.  Did he play every game or miss some due to injury?