July 19, 2012
PRESS RELEASE—7/16/12
The Dru Nettles (Television) Show starts its feature of Livingston Parish News sportswriters with the appearance of Livingston Parish News Editor Mike Dowty.
Dowty has been editor of the Livingston Parish News for the last 57 years. Before that, he was a 10 time All-Pro in The NFL, a perennial NBA all star, and 4 time major league baseball MVP. After his sports career, Mike turned to politics and was president of the country 3 times—He could have tied FDR, but opted to go to The Livingston Parish News instead. The Dru Nettles Show will have LP News sportswriters twice each month to discuss area athletics. (For the real run-down on Mike, see the Livingston Parish News—7/19 edition or watch The Dru Nettles Show tonight.)
Denham Springs High School Basketball Coach Wynn Wingate, entering his 8th year as head coach of the Jackets will also be on the program.
The Dru Nettles Show will continue to feature Yellow Jackets assistant football coaches as running backs coach Josh Neal, who also serves as video coordinator of DSHS Football, graces the show. Neal is a former DSHS offensive lineman.
Ryan Pope, head coach of the Southside Junior HS Buccaneers makes an appearance on the program. Pope coached several standouts on the Jackets 2012 team when they played at Southside Junior HS.
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AFTER HOURS
Late-Night Musings From A Former LSU Beat Writer
By Carl Dubois, Sports Editor, (McMinnville, Oregon) News-Register
THE WILLAMETTE VALLEY, Ore. — Ha! I waited all week, in vain, for someone to e-mail me about my reference to the college football offseason being relatively quiet compared to last year. No, I didn’t forget about Bobby Petrino, about the ongoing trouble at Penn State (a story that blew up during the 2011 season) or about the new plan for a major college national championship. I was mostly focused on how the offseason was viewed through an LSU lens, and last year’s mini-dramas involving both the Tigers and Oregon made for special headline-scanning seemingly all the time as the teams moved toward the season-opening matchup against each other. But I should have done a better job of framing things in that context. So there. Moving right along …
I hate to bring up the weather as often as I do, but as I type this late in the morning, it’s 64 degrees here in Oregon, 89 in Baton Rouge. If I could send some of it your way to cool you off, I would. Tuesday afternoon was unusual here, and it reminded me of Louisiana. The humidity was off-the-charts high at one point, so it was a hint of those stifling, oppressive days down in the deep South. And yet, the air was still cool, so it was comfortable to walk around. It was just easy to imagine hot instead of cool, and having the air stick to you like rain that you never saw fall from the sky but seemed to just explode onto your skin. I imagine it was a great, exciting day for meteorologists and weather geeks. For me, it was a reminder about where I live and where I once lived.
I find myself anticipating football season more this year than at any time in recent memory, in part because I’m fascinated by the New Orleans Saints and their situation post-bounty investigation. It’s also going to be interesting to see how the season is covered by The Times-Picayune after its major round of cuts. I can tell you that Larry Holder, previously an NFL RapidReports beat writer for CBSSports.com, will do as good a job as is possible on the beat for the paper. But I’m not sold on the overall approach by management, and I feel for my friends who still work there. They have a thankless task trying to make things work there. I will be watching from a distance, hopeful they can sustain what strikes me as a questionable business model. Holder has been through some tough times himself, and he showed character and resolve, landing on his feet and grinding through with grace. The Biloxi Sun Herald gave him notice he was being let go just days before his wedding. Congratulations to him for being hired by The Times-Picayune, which will benefit from his hard work and enviable disposition.
As for the Saints, I would definitely follow a Sean Payton blog or Twitter feed during the season. Someone hire that man, OK? Jon, you can cut a million or so off my salary if it helps you land Payton for at least the 2012 season.
See you next week.
THE WIZARDRY OF OS
SEC Media Days are yet another example of a boring event people think is interesting because they can’t wait for football to start. Nevertheless, it is just a big tease since there isn’t any real news that comes from the experience. Instead, we get a bunch of quotes that anyone could have predicted.
If you are like me and bored with the actual interchange between coaches and reporters, then join me in my SEC Media Day fantasy world. In this fantasy, I ask questions nobody would ask because they know they would never get an answered. But, in this made up world, I get an answer.
Question to Mark Richt: How annoying is it that Steve Spurrier keeps taking shots at your program?
Answer: Super annoying because he is right. I have to suspend 3-4 guys for the first couple of games every year. Of course, what I really should do is take shots back for Stephen Garcia and all his mess at South Carolina, but I have more class that Steve.
Question to Steve Spurrier: Coach, you have the option of going 11-1, playing in the Sugar Bowl, but you rank 80th in the country in passing. Or your team goes 8-4, you play in the Peach Bowl, and you rank in the top 10 in passing. Which season do you choose?
Answer: Is this a trick question? Can I run up the score on teams going 11-1, but a bad passing game?
Question to Kevin Sumlin and Gary Pinkel: How obnoxious is it to have to kiss the SEC’s butt non stopas the new guys?
Answer: Highly obnoxious, but at least we aren’t kissing Texas and Oklahoma’s butt anymore.
Question to Nick Saban: You haven’t fared too well the year after your first two National Championships. Your team is talented enough to win 11 or 12 games again. Will you be disappointed if you don’t win 11-12 games this year?
Answer: Yes.
Question to Dan Mullen: How irritating is it for your record against the top teams in the West to be thrown in your face all the time?
Answer: Every time I see it, I want to shout, “Don’t you know I am coaching at Mississippi State?!”
Question to James Franklin: There is no doubt you are a rising star in the college coaching world. How much longer do you expect to be at Vanderbilt?
Answer: Vanderbilt is nice, but I am hoping this year is my last.
Question to Les Miles: Are you amazed at how many games you have been able to win the last two years being as bad in the passing game?
Answer: You would think I’d get more credit wouldn’t you? Those quarterbacks we had were awful. Just shows want can happen when you have players that enjoy big games and have the want to dominate their opponent.
Oh well. Enjoy the same old same old from the actual Media Days. Real football isn’t too far away.
HEY REF
BY Dennis Dearie,
Veteran Louisiana High School Referee
I hope everyone had a great fourth. Now it’s time to start concentrating on the important things that make life in south Louisiana worth living. With all the rockets and Roman candles lighting up the midnight sky there was something worth celebrating; the start of a new football season.
What; the start of a new football season? Well, yes, I can guarantee you that all good football officials have been hitting their rule books hard and often. Quarterbacks can use the excuse that their timing is off just a little bit because it’s early. Running backs will be allowed a few games to get into mid-season form.
Defenses usually dominate at the start of the season while the skilled players work off the rust due to the long layoff. I could go on but I’d rather just cut to the chase. Officials can never use an excuse for not being in top form no matter their experience. For them there is never rust to work off or timing to get right.
No, for all officials there is nowhere to be but on top of your game the first down of inter squad play all the way to the final down of the final game. I’m not complaining or trying to make an issue where there isn’t one. Just the opposite, I demand my officials to walk out onto the field for the first scrimmages as though they were about to work the Super Bowl.
Imagine would you for just a second what reaction you’d get from the coaches when you miss a call then try and blame it on the season just beginning! You’d never work for that coach and/or school ever again. And that’s the way it should be and has to be. In fact when I was still working on the field I’d use March Madness and the end of basketball season as my reminder it was time to crack open the books.
The first thing you do before pouring a cup of coffee is refresh your memory from the previous season’s changes. Many times a change only lasted one season. What looked good on paper turned out to be just the opposite and the rule reverted back to where it was just two years ago.
The high school game is just about as perfect, rule wise, as any game can get. So many times the changes are actually just editorial tune-ups. That’s about what we have again this year. One tune up is a change where a player must sit out one play if his helmet comes off without any contact from an opponent. The Federation is just trying to keep players from removing their helmets in an attempt to look cool.
Another “change” allows corporate advertising on the field of play. Previously all advertising was only allowed in the end zones or outside the field. And we needn’t print that all advertising can’t obstruct any lines/markings on the field of play.
There aren’t but two actual changes that will take some getting used to. First amends blocking below the waist. It wasn’t a foul last year if in fact the first contact on an opponent was with outstrectched hands and then the blocker continued to make contact below the waist. The “old” theory was the player could protect himself since he was able to use his hands in front of the blocker. This year you’ll be flagged for a block below the waist so coaches just teach your kids to keep your head up and make that first contact above the waist.
The BIG change comes as to possession of a pass when a player is airborne. A covering official was charged with whether a player could’ve come down in bounds had he not been hit before he could get a foot down in bounds. Now that player must catch the ball AND come down in bounds no matter what his opponent does.
And yes coaches it will be legal for the defender to catch a player in the air, carry him to a sideline, deposit him out of bounds and the pass will be ruled IN-COMPLETE!! Oh, well, that’s a change I don’t like simply because you take away an officials judgment of a play. Soon you’ll only need officials to flip the coin or maybe we can have a rule change to take that hard chore away.
This official will be missing till Aug. 9th as he’s taking a well-deserved vacation to the Holy Land and beyond… … … But I’ll be back… …
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