October 4, 2012
BROADCASTING SCHEDULE:
THURSDAY, Oct 4: 6PM—7PM: The Dru Nettles Show Television: Cox 4, Baton Rouge
Dru Nettles, Jon Fine
FRIDAY, Oct 5: 10:30AM—11:30AM: replay of Thursday night’s The Dru Nettles Show
FRIDAY, Oct 5: 6pm: Central HS at Zachary HS
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WPFC, 1550AM, Baton Rouge
Central Now App
Josh Ward, Scott Osborne, Dr. Les Bueche, Victoria Eskola
MONDAY—FRIDAY: 5:30PM—6:30PM***: THE CENTRAL STORY JonFineProductions.com
WPFC, 1550AM, BR
App: Central Now App
Thursday, Oct 4: The Sid Edwards Show (from Zoe’s Pizza Buffet) Sid Edwards, Steve Johnson
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Monday, Oct 8: From Me And My House (from The Jambalaya Shoppe) Steve Johnson
Tuesday, Oct 9: The Central Business Report (from Café’ Delphi Greek & Lebanese Restaurant) Matt Price, Jon Fine
Wednesday, Oct 10: Central Speaks Radio Hour (from Zoe’s Pizza Buffet) Dave Freneaux
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Richard Dow
Friday, Oct 5: 6:45pm: Sulphur HS at Lafayette HS
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Bruce Merchant, Clopha Boudreaux
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Central Speaks Radio Hour on THE CENTRAL STORY featured Louisiana Treasurer John Kennedy on Wednesday, October 3. Host Dave Freneaux did a terrific job interviewing Kennedy.
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This week’s The Dru Nettles Show (Thursday, 6pm-7pm, with a replay on Friday, 10:30am-11:30am, both on Cox 4 Television) will feature several guests. They include:
Brody Guillot is a starting defensive lineman on the DSHS Football team. The Jackets defensive line has been stout this year and Guillot, a first year starter, has been a big contributor to the line’s success.
Eric Randall, the head football coach of Scotlandville HS, will make an appearance. The Hornets will be the Jackets next opponent. Randle is a former Southern University quarterback.
The academic segment will feature Hallie Byrd. Hallie is a representative of the DSHS FCA.
Beth Clark will come on to discuss Mighty Moms.
Our sponsor of the week is Big Mike O’Neal Jr, owner/proprietor of Big Mike’s Sports Bar and Grill. A standout football player for the Jackets in the 1980’s, Big Mike was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, Harvard, before making a road trip to Southeastern Louisiana, This preceded Big Mike’ standout NFL, NBA, major league baseball and Olympic gold-medal athletics career.
Having hit hard times after his athletics career, Big Mike was down to his last $20. At that time, he met Jon Fine, who convinced him to advertise with one of his Denham Springs HS sports programs. The rest is history.—Big Mike parlayed that $20 investment into Jon Fine Productions into a tremendously successful business.
Big Mike might recount a vastly different story in describing his road to success.—This is understandable in that Big Mike did suffer several concussions while playing with the Dallas Cowboys.
Highlights of the Jackets victory over East Ascension will be showed on the program.
The Dru Nettles Show is co-hosted By DSHS athletic director/head football coach Dru Nettles and Jon Fine. It is a Jon Fine Production. For more information on The Dru Nettles Show, please visit JonFineProductions.com or you can “Like” The Dru Nettles Show on Facebook.
PRESS RELEASE
This week’s guests on The Central Business Report, hosted by Matt Price and Jon Fine (on THE CENTRAL STORY) are Nic Carmena of Carmena’s Collision Center, Keith Kepper of Design Fab, Auistin Myer of Centeral Emergency Power, and Jimmy Quebedeaux of Central Imaging Center. The Leader Report, with information furnished by Central Speaks Newspaper, highlights upcoming events in the City of Central. The Central Business Report airs Tuesdays, 5:30pm—6:30pm, broadcasting live from Café Delphi Greek & Lebanese Restaurant.
THE CENTRAL STORY airs Monday—Friday, 5:30pm—6:30pm, on WPFC, 1550AM, Central Now App and JonFineProductions.com. Central HS Football broadcasts can also be heard on these outlets. Both programs are a Jon Fine Production. For more information on these programs, please visit JonFineProductions.com or one can “Like” TheCentralStory on Facebook.
THE WIZARDRY OF OS
Growing up in New Orleans when I did, being a Saints and LSU fan, attending a magnet school that was not good at football, I should be better at handling weekends like last weekend. The fact is I have been spoiled since around 2005 with the success of Central, LSU, and the Saints.
The Central game was the easiest to handle. The Wildcats competed hard in adverse conditions against a quality opponent and came up short. It happens.
The LSU win was not easy to watch, and actually more frustrating than the Central loss. It is hard to watch your team play so far below their capabilities and make so many mistakes. I’ll get to them in more depth in a minute.
As for the Saints, the line of scrimmage is where they have lost each game. The Saints haven’t been efficient in the red zone because they can’t run. On defense, the line of scrimmage is consistently re-established 2-3 yards toward the Saints linebackers. Once again, it is extremely hard to watch. Hopefully, Loomis and Payton are watching closely and realizing they need to spend EVERY draft pick finding defensive players in the front 7 that can hold their ground and every once in a while disrupt the offense.
Back to LSU, I can’t remember a team dropping so consistently in the polls while still winning. The uninspired effort against Towson is actually understandable, yet the bigger concern is that it is getting harder to distinguish whether the mistakes are from lack of concentration or a sign of an average team. The Tigers are almost halfway through the season and by this point they have spent more time playing sloppy than efficient.
Without a doubt the intensity will be there against Florida. But that won’t be enough because LSU is not THAT much more talented than Florida. So the game will come down to strategy and execution. Here are four keys I see:
1. Break tendencies on offense. While LSU should still maintain their identity, they do not have the ability to just line up and move the ball if a team like Florida always knows what is coming. LSU should try to make life easier by doing the unexpected to slow down Florida’s defense. Make them think. Catch them off guard.
2. Watch the first play of the Towson game and make it an actual part of the game plan. I have been trying to understand why a team would run something that produces a 78 yard touchdown and never come back to that concept again. Even if it is only to set up another play.
3. LSU has not been a consistent big play team so far, in any of the three phases. Consequently, they have to be a team that doesn’t hurt itself, and takes advantages of opportunities. That means penalties, turnovers, making field goals, converting in the red zone.
4. If option 3 doesn’t come around, then it is time to start making big plays to overcome mistakes. A few trick plays on offense and special teams wouldn’t be a bad place to start in order to steal a possession.
Personally, I think LSU is very talented, but not the most talented team in the country anymore. They might have been when they started fall practice, but they are not now. Based off some of the quotes this week, it seems as though the team hasn’t realized that last year’s team had more special qualities than just talent. So this year’s group will have to start doing things that “regularly” talented teams do to win.
HEY REF
They’re back!! By this time you’d have to be living under a rock not to know the NFL and its game officials have kissed and made up. Bad call after bad call the fans had to suffer through more than four weeks of piss-poor officiating. But it was the poorest call of all time in the Packer-Sea Hawk game for the decision to be made to correct this most egregious adventure of playing games with individuals that couldn’t officiate a game of tic tack toe.
The rank and file of the referee’s union took a vote and ratified a new eight year contract Friday night. With plenty of blame to go around I want my readers to know the one fact that should be made public so that every NFL fan will call for the immediate resignation of Commissioner Roger Goodell.
Seems Mr. Goodell had/has the power to unlock the doors and allow the true professional referees to suit up and continue to call during any and all negotiations with the owners. After the Green Bay game a meeting with the powers that be in the owner’s camp was held and a settlement was rushed to the membership to vote on. Under any labor agreement a contract must be in place before you can call an end to any strike or lockout.
Commissioner Goodell used his power to set aside the fact no labor agreement was in force and had union referees in place to work last Thursday’s game between the Cleveland Browns and Baltimore Ravens. Before the owners invoked a lockout union reps confirmed they’d continue to work all games under the old contract then have any provisions under a new contract to go retroactive to the beginning of the season. The owners rebuffed this attempt by the refs to continue to work.
The owners were counting on the vastly non-union workforce in today’s America (less than 10% of American workers are covered by a union contract) to rise up and get on their side and cause the refs to take whatever was offered just to save face. But it backfired because it didn’t take long for everyone to see that it takes someone heads and shoulders above all else to work the fast paced NFL game.
It might have turned out different if the NFL were allowed to pick and choose from the cream of the crop of Div.1 officials. Facts are this, the top conferences; SEC, Big 12, Pac 12, etc. told the NFL to stay away from ALL OF ITS OFFICIALS. They went a step further and told all officials thinking of working as a replacement that any and all officials better hope they are picked up by the pros because they’d have nowhere to return if they weren’t.
This was the second time in recent memory that the owners have locked their employees out trying to force them to surrender and accept working conditions they felt weren’t acceptable. A lockout is completely different than a strike. The owners once again were playing the heavy in their attempt to grab as much cash from the “Kitty” as possible. Professional football is a NINE (9) BILLION DOLLAR A YEAR ENTERPRISE. That 9 BILLION is divided among 32 owners.
You don’t need to be a math wiz to know 9 BILLION divided by 32 leaves each and every owner pretty well off. So, Mr. Owner I can’t and won’t believe you when you say all your employees MUST TAKE PAY CUTS SO YOU CAN SURVIVE AND MAKE A PROFIT.
What I find ludicrous from last year’s players lockout was the owner’s complaint of the high cost in salaries paid to first round draft picks. Excuse me Mr. Owner; it is YOU and only YOU that sign those checks. No agent, player, wife or anyone else signs on the dotted line for you. If you don’t want to pay an individual some outrageous some of money then don’t. It’s as easy as that. Let some other team fork over the big bucks you won’t or don’t want to. But it is greed that has ruined the GAME of football. Greed has ruined everything in this country.
Till next week… …
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