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Post by The Professor on Dec 24, 2008 21:58:24 GMT -5
It was a 9-0 PV advantage b4 a P.I. call & the pick 6 changed the entire momentum of the game. And due to those 5 ints Gram only had to drive the ball from their own territory maybe 2 times...and I believe both would be GREAT candidates but lets not be petty just to pump our candidate! Take into account all things... Thank you for the assessment. I sat through the entire game, like I traditionally would, and I can guarantee you that toll of travel, toll of "ike," and other things about campus exhausted our kids. I knew they weren't mentally and PHYSICALLY prepared to play this game. 5 ints in ONE game (3 by starter Spivey and 2 by backup Bluford) will NOT get you a victory. Also, GSU threw a wrinkle in Dillon @ QB (dual threat qb). Tillman did N-O-T-H-I-N-G vs us as we were prepared to stop the strong-armed one. Prognosticate as you may. But, put Frzr @ GSU and Broadway @ PVU and you get the same exact results. The playing field is NEVER EVER the same between both schools. PVAMU is a non-open enrollment school that does NOT accept props. GSU is an open enrollment school that does INDEED accept PROPS. "Excuses are tools of the incompetent, they build monuments to nothingness and those who excel in them seldom excel in anything else."
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Post by wart on Dec 28, 2008 22:06:54 GMT -5
Being realsistic, I can't see Frazier coming unless he's in trouble. So from what I hear it's Rags Or Lee. Of the two, Rags bleeds Aggie blue and deserves an oppotunity to show what he can do as the true leader of the football team. He knows the returning players, obviously he loves our school, and he would make his staff appreciate what A&T has to offer. I feel a decision is near and then it will up to each one of us to get behind the choice and turn this nightmare into a memory.
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Post by panther88 on Jan 2, 2009 14:38:13 GMT -5
"Excuses are tools of the incompetent, they build monuments to nothingness and those who excel in them seldom excel in anything else." I totally agree. That's why I'm so thankful I stated facts. I appreciate the vote of support on your behalf since you've witnessed all I've stated first-hand live and in color. Good job! Not.
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Post by The Professor on Jan 9, 2009 19:00:42 GMT -5
U said yourself your kids were not mentally or physically prepared to play GSU. Sounds like u need to work more in the offseason and in the classroom. Maybe a good psyc class.
Not going thru your checkdowns and throwing pics by forcing passes is a mental mistake. His coaches are to blame. 1 I can understand but 5
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Post by Bornthrilla on Nov 24, 2009 15:38:29 GMT -5
www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfoot2/news/news.aspx?id=4268969Philadelphia, PA (Sports Network) - Twenty candidates, including three former winners, were named Monday to The Sports Network's Eddie Robinson Award ballot. That listing, along with ballots for the Walter Payton and Buck Buchanan awards, were released and distributed to voters on Monday. Voting will be conducted this week and winners will be announced on Thursday, Dec. 17 during the 23nd annual Sports Network awards dinner at the Marriott Hotel in Chattanooga, TN, the night before the NCAA Division I Football Championship game. Andy Talley, the 1997 Robinson Award winner, led Villanova to a 10-1 record, the automatic bid to the playoffs from the Colonial Athletic Association and the No. 2 seed in the NCAA Division I Football Championships and is one of three former winners up for this year's award. Jerry Moore, the coach of the 2005-07 national champion Appalachian State Mountaineers and the 2006 Robinson Award winner, guided ASU (9-2) to its fifth consecutive Southern Conference championship and fifth consecutive playoff berth. Pete Lembo of Elon, who won the 2001 Robinson Award when he was a first-year coach at Lehigh, led the Phoenix (8-3) to the playoffs for the first time in their FCS history and is looking to become the first coach to win the award at two different schools. Mike London, the coach of the defending national champion Richmond Spiders, is among the seven first-time candidates on the ballot, along with Beau Baldwin of Eastern Washington, Bob Biggs of UC-Davis, Tom Gilmore of Holy Cross, J.C. Harper of Stephen F. Austin, Jeff McInerney of Central Connecticut State and Jeff Vorris of Butler. Other candidates include Al Bagnoli of Penn, Henry Frazier III of Prairie View, Bobby Hauck of Montana, Jimmye Laycock of William & Mary, Dale Lennon of Southern Illinois, Buddy Pough of South Carolina State, Danny Rocco of Liberty, Bob Spoo of Eastern Illinois, John Stiegelmeier of South Dakota State and Matt Viator of McNeese State.
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Post by Bornthrilla on Dec 11, 2009 16:04:20 GMT -5
A splendid view Once a rock-bottom program, PV has made one of college football’s all-time-great climbs By DAVID BARRON Copyright 2009 Houston Chronicle Dec. 11, 2009, 12:34AM
PRAIRIE VIEW — While his assistants prepare the Prairie View A&M Panthers for their next football game, head coach Henry Frazier III swaps stories during practice with John “Doc” Mayes, the school's longtime director of athletic training.
Most of Mayes' tales have a similar theme — the time one of the team's buses caught fire en route to a game, the road trip on which each player's daily meal allowance was $12.50, the overnight stays when the Panthers had to sleep three to a hotel room, with the odd man out relegated to a rollaway bed.
They all end the same way: At the final gun, Prairie View always lost.
“He (Frazier) keeps saying, ‘That's unbelievable,'” Mayes said. “I tell him, ‘Believe it. It happened.'”
But no more. The 2009 Panthers (8-1) play Alabama A&M on Saturday in Birmingham, Ala., for the Southwestern Athletic Conference championship. A win would give Prairie View its first SWAC title since 1964, when then coach Billy Nicks won his fifth mythical black college football national championship.
With one more win, players like Prairie View running back Donald Babers will improve their three-year record to 25-5, which would equal the number of victories the Panthers recorded from 1988 through 2006.
“They're starting to expect us to do things like this,” Babers said. “People are starting to get the spirit.”
It's a spirit that has been revived by players like Babers, who has rushed for 835 yards and eight touchdowns this season, and quarterback K.J. Black, a transfer from Western Kentucky who has completed 71.3 percent of his passes and thrown for 19 scores, and by coaches like Frazier, who in six seasons has slowly, surely ensured that it once again is a good day to be a Panther.
“For us to bring Prairie View back to this level, it's the greatest story in all of college sports,” Frazier said. “People thought it was crazy to come here. All they knew about was losing.” 80 consecutive losses
After its glory days of the 1950s and '60s, with seven SWAC titles from 1951 through 1964, Prairie View lost 80 consecutive games from 1989 through 1998. Even after the streak ended, PV football languished until Charles McClelland, then the school's athletic director, began a building and marketing campaign in 2001 that included plans for a new stadium and, in 2004, hiring Frazier as head coach.
Frazier, to be kind, inherited something less than a juggernaut.
“Back when we used to play Prairie View, it was funny to watch them warm up,” said Alabama A&M coach Anthony Jones. “They couldn't complete a pass in warm-ups, so you knew they weren't going to have a chance in the ballgame. But you can see every year the team getting better and better to where they're the class of the conference.”
Season highlights thus far include a 35-32 win over Grambling, the Panthers' first win over the Tigers since 1986; a 16-14 win over Southern University of New Orleans; and, in early November, a 33-27 squeaker over Alabama A&M in which the Panthers came close to blowing a 33-7 lead.
“After the Grambling game,” Black said, “I went into the stands to hug my mother, and somebody else's mom came up and grabbed me and started crying and talking about how long it has been since they had beaten Grambling. That shocked me. I had never seen anything like that.”
Every win has special significance, not only to longtime fans but to more recent alumni like Michael Porter, who holds a singular position in the history of Texas football — perhaps even in the organized history of the game.
Porter played high school football at Houston's Jefferson Davis High School, which lost 80 consecutive games from the 1980s through 1993, the year after he graduated. After a year away from football, he matriculated at Prairie View and played on teams that went 0-33 from 1994 through 1996. His career record: 0-63.
After he graduated from Prairie View, Porter returned to Davis as an assistant to his high school coach, Chuck Arnold, and was on hand when the 2008 Panthers qualified for the Class 4A playoffs. Saturday, he will be in Brownsville to help coach the Davis girls basketball team, but his heart will be in Alabama with Prairie View.
“There isn't a better story in football right now than Prairie View,” Porter said. “The guys at Prairie View are like the guys we have here at Davis. They don't know about the losing streak until we bring it up, and I'm glad they don't know. They're used to winning and used to being competitive, and it's a great feeling for anyone who attended school on The Hill.”
With its program on sound footing — Prairie View will return 17 starters next season, including Babers and Black — the school can look to the future. Fred Washington, who succeeded McClelland as athletic director when McClelland left for a similar job at Texas Southern University, said officials are wrapping up a facilities study for a proposed $30 million football stadium and athletics complex that initially will seat 15,000 and can be expanded to 30,000.
“It's very doable,” Washington said. “We've had success across the spectrum in our program the last few years. Winning is infectious, and we're seeing success everywhere.” No. 18 in the country
The Panthers are ranked 18th in the nation among Football Championship Subdivision schools but were not eligible for the NCAA playoffs because of the SWAC's two-division playoff system. Next year, however, the SWAC will move to a round-robin schedule that will clear the way for the Panthers, if all goes well, to dream of their first national title since the 1960s.
“The biggest challenge when I got here was to tell everyone to be quiet,” said Frazier, whose particular brand of discipline involves maximum effort and minimum dialogue. “People who do a lot of talking are usually sorry. I told them, ‘Be quiet, and maybe they won't score 70 points on you.' We stopped talking and started working hard, and the scores came down, and things started changing in our favor.”
On occasion, the Panthers' current success has been almost too much for Doc Mayes. In the middle of games like a 38-0 rout of Mississippi Valley or a 49-17 win over Arkansas-Pine Bluff, he's raced along the sidelines urging Frazier to run up the score.
“No one ever had mercy on us back when we were losing,” Mayes said. “It was like we were the laughingstock of football. We would lose 92-0 and 77-0. I mean, nobody has lost more football games than I have. I mean, nobody.”
But now, after more than 40 years, a championship is within reach.
“When you have a dream, you have to tell people it's true, and people will buy into it,” he said. As for Frazier, Mayes said, “He took some lumps early on, but he kept telling people he was going to turn it around.
“Now, when we win, we're not asleep anymore. We're not dreaming. It's reality.”
david.barron@chron.com
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Dec 11, 2009 16:06:55 GMT -5
i'm happy with coach lee, but frazier was my pick to be our head coach last year. and dude is not disappointing anyone...
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Post by thefriscotxaggie on Dec 11, 2009 16:21:26 GMT -5
The Panthers are ranked 18th in the nation among Football Championship Subdivision schools but were not eligible for the NCAA playoffs because of the SWAC's two-division playoff system. Next year, however, the SWAC will move to a round-robin schedule that will clear the way for the Panthers, if all goes well, to dream of their first national title since the 1960s.
I thought the SWAC only wanted to play a SWAC championship and forgo the NCAA playoffs; this read totaly different
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Post by Bornthrilla on Dec 11, 2009 16:27:18 GMT -5
I believe that article in incorrect.
The reason the SWAC is not eligible for the NCAA playoffs is because they SWAC Championship Game takes place in the middle of the NCAA playoffs.
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