September 12, 2025
RENEWABLE OF TRADITIONAL RIVAL
Coming off a 35-14 road win over Hammond HS, Denham Springs HS Football plays host to Central HS, in the Jackets 2025 home opener. You can catch all the action on YouTube @dsjacketvision Please Subscribe… on Family Radio, 91.9 FM, Baton Rouge… and on the net at Jon Fine Productions.com. Sport-n-Center Yellow Jackets Warmup gets things underway at 6 pm.
TONIGHT’S GUEST INTERVIEWS
We will be interviewing former DSHS Athletic Hall of Famer and DSAA Board Member Julie Jacobsen during Sport-n-Center Yellow Jackets Warmup. The Whistle Stop Half-Time Report will include an interview with Brandy Robertson of Brandy Robertson State Farm Insurance.
DSHS ATHLETIC HALL OF FAME
Julie Jacobsen tells us… DSAA would like to invite you to the DSHS Athletic Hall of Fame banquet that will be held Thursday September 18 at Forrest Grove Plantation. Tickets are just $50 and can be purchased at i2tickets.com.
Every year this night never fails to be one of my most favorite events of the year. If you have a passion for the purple and gold of Denham Springs High School as an alumni, parent, student or community member, I have no doubt you will walk away from this event with a deeper sense of pride and appreciation for our great community and the outstanding individuals that are a product of Denham Springs High School. I am a strong believer in everyone who has any association with DSHS athletics should attend at least one Hall of Fame banquet and you can make this year the year!
Check our DSAA Facebook page for more information on each of the inductees for the 2024-2025 class.
If you would like to see a list of all of the DSHS Athletic Hall of Fame inductees, check out the link below.
https://www.denhamspringshs.org/hall-of-fame
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Scott Osborne discuses LSU Football in The Wizardry of Os. Please scroll down below.
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THE WIZARDRY OF OS
It shouldn't make a difference, but it does and it did.
It shouldn't make a difference that LSU and Clemson stepped down in competition in week 2. Clemson should have had something to prove at home. They were down 16-3 at the half. LSU had its home opener, and should have been riding the momentum of the most impressive week one victory in college football. The Tigers struggled to put away LA Tech, so it clearly made a difference.
The difference was partly because Troy and LA Tech are not Long Island University or whoever FSU played Saturday. I did not see the first half of Troy and Clemson, but I saw LA Tech take care of the ball and force LSU to go the length of the field. I have no idea how good LA Tech is this year, but they had a good plan and they executed it well enough to stay in the game. At no time were the Techsters in a position to win the game, though.
It also shouldn't make a difference that LSU’s starting center went out of the first play. LSU should still be able to put up 35 points or more against Tech. But it does matter when there are four new starters and now you lose the chief that holds it together. There is a reason LSU paid Braelin Moore lots of money to come to LSU. Losing him hurts. It will make a difference. I hope it makes less of a difference because DJ Chester is a year older. Still, the offense is playing without the starting center and isn’t the same.
The players are older and they get paid more money than in the past and legally now. But college football is still college football. Preseason polls and early season polls are ridiculous and that is why the College Football Playoff committee doesn’t release any polls right now. We need a bigger sample size to make our observations more accurate. After two weeks, I do think we can be pretty sure about two things regarding LSU.
First, the defense is a championship level defense. LSU is able to stop the run which forces long yardage situations and then these Tigers are fast and aggressive getting after the quarterback. I don’t know if the secondary is elite, but it is good enough and helped immensely by the pass rush.
I think Bernard Gooden is the one guy LSU needs to stay healthy on defense. He is the first LSU defensive lineman in a long time that I have seen do more than stalemate blockers at the line of scrimmage. The ability to collapse the pocket from the middle has been missing for a while at LSU.
Second, the offense is going to be inconsistent until they can find a way to run between the tackles in the red zone and short yardage. I appreciate the effort and creativity to use different runners and try to outflank the defense. LSU would not have beaten Clemson if they didn’t have these wrinkles in the run game.
Maybe the answer to the short yardage, inside run game will be to use the Wildcat package that we know they have with Ju’Juan Johnson. Another possibility could be to get into some power formations with lead blockers. Maybe more power formations could be the answer to taking advantage of Kaleb Jackson’s talents. Or maybe the offensive line needs more time to gel. Whatever the answer is, LSU is going to have to figure it out to make a serious run at the national championship.
I know the easy storyline from Saturday’s game was that LSU was flat after playing Clemson. From my point of view Nussmeier’s inaccuracy/inconsistent decision making, issues running between the tackles, and penalties put LSU in a ridiculous number of long yardage situations. I think those are the real issues, and they are not the result of “being flat.” These were these exact issues that led Clemson to being the favorite in the opener.
I appreciate Coach Kelly saying the coaching staff needs to coach better, and oftentimes I think fans assume that is always talking about motivation. In this case, I don’t think that is what he was saying. The toughest part of not competing against other teams in preseason is you cannot possibly know your team as well as you need to in order to put them in the next positions to succeed.
College baseball coaches use the first four weeks of the year to learn their teams before starting conference play. Which pitchers are ready for high leverage situations? Who is the Friday starter? What is the most effective batting order?
The LSU coaching staff has it figured out on defense. Defense should be ahead of the offense. Speed, aggressiveness, and talent overcome execution issues. The offense will take a bit longer for LSU to figure out the execution piece and different tactical changes to make to unlock its offensive potential. That is where the coaching staff has to get better, but that is coaching.
Coaching is not showing up in game one as the best version of your team and maintaining that version. Coaching is always looking for ways to get better, through individual skill, motivation/belief, different lineups, different schemes, and practice. I am guessing the coaching staff learned as much about this team in week two as it did in week one and we will see another step forward in this team in week three.
DENHAM SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL IS BACK ON THE AIR!
The 2025 school year marks the 29th season that Jon Fine (Sports) Productions will have the privilege of producing and calling play-by-play for Denham Springs HS Football broadcasts. In 2025, the broadcast slate will include the Jamboree, all 10 regular season Denham games, and every playoff game. Broadcasts can be seen on YouTube, @dsjacketvision (please subscribe) and can be heard on Family Radio-91.9 FM Baton Rouge and on the Internet at JonFineProductions.com (click Listen Live on the Denham Springs Football PBP page). “Sport-n-Center Yellow Jackets Warm-Up” gets the broadcasts underway at 6:00 pm. The first broadcast is Friday, August 29 when the Jackets play host to Walker HS in the Denham Springs Jamboree.
Josh Ward returns as the play-by-play announcer of the Jackets. Ward will, once again, be joined by Mitch Covington as the color commentator. Jon Fine will contribute to the pre-game and half-time programming. Darren Ferrante is back as the Producer, with Chris Ledoux joining the team in the capacity of @dsjacketvision Camera Operator.
“Sport N Center Yellow Jackets Warm-Up” will feature an interview with Jackets Football Coach Brett Beard conducted by Josh Ward. Jon Fine will speak with a prominent Denham Springs community and/or sports figure. Ward and Covington will also offer a preview of that night’s game and other pertinent information.
“The Whistle Stop Half-Time Report” will include Fine interviewing another Denham Springs personality. In addition, Ward and Covington will provide a recap of the first half and a look ahead at the second half of action.
During the “Ralph Sellers Chevrolet Post-Game Show”, there will be an extensive game recap, final stats and a look ahead.
“The James Drug Store Starting Lineup” appears in “Sport N Center Yellow Jackets Warmup”. When Denham Springs picks up a first down, they’ll achieve a “Big Mike’s Sports Bar & Grill First Down”. When the Jackets score, the scoring drive will be recapped on the “Brandy Robertson State Farm Insurance Scoring Drive”. When the Jackets have secured a victory, Ward will indicate such and it will be brought to you by Bank Plus.
Jackets play-by-play announcer Josh Ward, a Denham Springs HS graduate, was a Yellow Jackets assistant basketball coach. He is an executive at Guaranty Broadcasting.
Mitch Covington, a 3-sport star at Denham Springs HS, would later serve as a Jackets assistant football coach. He is presently the head football coach at Denham Springs Junior High School. He is a graduate of McNeese State, where he played baseball.
Jon Fine co-hosted and produced daily 2-hour drive-time radio sports-talk programs in the Greater Baton Rouge area for close to 20 years. His programs (first SportsTalk, which changed its name to SportsGumbo), aired, at times, in New Orleans, Lake Charles, Monroe and Alexandria, in addition to the Baton Rouge market. His company, Jon Fine Productions, has produced numerous Denham Springs HS and area HS sports programming on television, radio and internet. Fine owns an EBay store—ArrestedDevelopmentMediaGuides, which sells sports publications. He is a native of Valley Stream, New York and a graduate of Penn, where he majored in Marketing.
Ferrante is a graduate of Brother Martin HS and UNO. Ledoux is a graduate of Opelousas HS and USL. He presently serves Doyle Middle School as their offensive line coach.
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