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On 4/10/2024 at 4:06 PM, mr. b said:

Is there anyone on Kings staff we would want to take over for Quick when he retires?

We all know Superintendent and Coaches tend to have close relationships. Not always, but for the most part.

Hockenberry was only the assistant Sup in Longview for about 3 years, so he doesn't really have a real connection to Longview IMO. For that reason, I don't think getting a Longview coach or Longview connected coach is a reality for Lufkin. If it was though, Berry (DC) is proven as a HC. One of the best coaches in ETX. Another option could be Jerrod Baugh, former OC under King. Current HC at 5A Ruston, LA....just won a state title last year and was in the title game the year before that.

But like I said, I don't think Hockenberry has Longview connections like that. Seemed to be sort of a pit stop for him. However, he was Superintendent at Center for 12 years before going to Longview. 

Ralph Thomas is obviously a choice with the turnaround he's had at Yates. And he'd more than likely be bringing an excellent OC with him in Longview alum Jon Writt, who worked at Lufkin (2014) before and helped Longview hit some high milestones including the title in 2018. Want to know the artist behind the likes of Kamden Perry and Jalen Hale? Coach Writt was WRs coach for Longview from 2015-2022 and was responsible for signaling in our plays. Hated it when Writt left but was happy to see him go up the ranks.

I'd keep an eye on Center HC Ricky Meeks. He won at Alto, he's winning at Center....won a championship as an assistant under his legendary father Dickie Meeks. I bet he'd get a call. ETX guy so you'll get stability.

Hockenberry also has a connection with Barry Bowman, who won multiple state titles at Daingerfield. Think he's coaching down in Florida now.

13 hours ago, PurpleNation said:

That will definitely help to get Longview out the gate at home. Makes sense if you guys already have Ruston and SOC at Lobo.

I'm not sure why we haven't released a schedule yet. We have to be having a difficult time finding a week 3. I just figured the district schedule has to be out somewhere 

Man it's been tons of teams inquiring about Week 3 games. No reason why Lufkin shouldn't have one.

But if you wait too long, you're stuck with a team from Mexico again.

30 minutes ago, PurpleNation said:

Still no word on Lufkin's Week 3 game. Has the district schedule even been released yet? And does anyone have the spring football dates?

 

Yeah, I'm trying to see if we're headed to Abe Week 1. We know the rest of our schedule, but the Lufkin side is being extremely secretive and quiet for no reason.

I have a feeling we're headed to Lufkin though, since we have SOC and Ruston at home.

Looks like both Pflugerville and Pflugerville Connally are looking for Week 3.

17 hours ago, PackAttack said:

So it won't be Legacy or AMC. Interesting to see who it may be, I can't begin to guess.

Legacy has Marshall Week 3, I'm not sure who A&M has Week 3 but their coach made it seem like it was already filled with this tweet: 

Forney ended up filling that Week 2 spot for them.

Lufkin's Week 3 appears to be a really random Texas opponent, or maybe even someone out of state.

God I'm so glad we moved up.

The travel in 5AD1 is awful but, this is what you get when you pre split divisions. Should've stayed with post split. 

Tasty non district schedule for Longview. Lufkin, Marshall, SOC and Ruston, LA (won state). 

2 hours ago, Pack13 said:

Good for him. I have a feeling this kid is going to take big strides in his play making ability this year. 

Lufkin's question won't be about what they have in between the lines. 

It'll be about the sidelines as usual.

1 hour ago, Jackedup said:

Just a tidbit #18 Finley for Aledo is Jorvorskie’s nephew , Jermichael Finleys son.. has multiple D1 offers as a sophomore 

To add, #6 CB Chris Johnson is a Longview native. His mom is a Lobo alum.

Aledo don't have very many kids that are natives there. Ton of kids that moved in sometime in between their 6th grade years to now.

Heck, the player of the game Hawk Patrick-Daniels came from Ft.Worth Brewer.

47 minutes ago, PurpleNation said:

I'm always on the fence about small town players like that. Remember Rashad Paul from Bremond was a similar 2A player that went to A&M that went 47-0 in HS with 3 state championships and eventually transferred to Arkansas St. They're always the best player on the field in HS and when they get to college you ask them to play a position that they've never played. He's going to have to learn to run routes properly. He's obviously a good football player but we really don't know how good of a WR he will be in college. I know this is going to be an unpopular take. 

Yep.

7 hours ago, PackAttack said:

As most of you have probably read.  Aledo smoked Forney tonight 43-7 bringing an end to a really fantastic run for the Jackrabbits, and a very good run for District 7-5A DI.  A district where their own teams knocked each other out of the playoffs. I really believed this would be a great game between these two teams.  A little scary how good a youthful Aledo is this year.  They certainly know how to build a winning football program.

Good to see Timpson win 35-21 over Ganado Thursday night to make to State after making the semi finals 4 years in a row.

Chapel Hill punched their ticket to State winning 56-33 over San Antonio Davenport.

Another East Texas school headed to State was Gilmer defeating Glen Rose 79-42 in a high scoring game. 

Aledo was even younger last year when they won it lol

Had sophomores and juniors all over the field and basically returned their entire team this year. 

That's the thing...if you didn't get by Aledo last year...you weren't going to do it afterwards. We had them down 14-3 at half last year before we decided to go ultra conservative in the 2nd half. Just like the Lancaster game this year. 

Aledo HC is in his 1st year as HC this year. Just goes to show that it doesn't matter how many years of coaching you have under your belt....you either got it or you don't.

Quick and yes, even Coach King at Longview can learn a lot from Aledo's HC on how to manage a roster. 

47 minutes ago, Packfan49 said:

Well good luck with the like's of Duncanville's, Westlake's, Northshore's, Southlake's  etc's. You found out just how hard it is to win it all this. And had Longview winning it all this year

Won't have to worry about any of the teams you mentioned, except maybe SLC.

42 minutes ago, Packfan49 said:

Looks like Longview road to another title gets a lot tougher

Not really.

We tend to do better in the highest classification, for whatever reason. 

5AD1 are the ones that'll have to deal with Aledo, HP, Desoto....good luck.

3 minutes ago, LufkinPack said:

You sure? I think he graduated in 2020 which makes the 17 football season his sophomore year. I thought I remember him playing that season 

He was.

Matter of fact, he caught a TD pass against Longview in the playoffs that year and was an important offensive player for ya that year even as a sophomore.

2017 Lufkin had:

Bug Thompson, Jalynn Polk, Tre Odum, Isaiah Phillips, Malik Jackson, Jacourtney Calvin, Jeremiah Davis, Savon Fields, Hunter Hollis, Carl Williams, Braylon Garcia and Javasia Brunson.

That's alot of college players.

6 hours ago, PurpleNation said:

He's back at school now. He will play on varsity basketball and be on the football team next year. But yeah it's wild what he went through. I would have sued somebody 

Would've sued (this absolutely  has to happen) and transferred schools personally. 

54 minutes ago, LTown said:

Y'all know why Longview O Line is so tough while being undersized right Coach King still uses the Coach Outlaw and Coach Early treatment during the season I was told that by one of my buddies from Longview and I said that's why they tough as nails 

They're tough as nails because of John King.

He was a state championship winning OL in HS and an All American in college.

He even coached OL at the 2020 Under Armour All American game in Florida.

JK always makes sure to have a very solid front 7 on defense too. Iron sharpens iron.

Longview also has 3-4 coaches that coach the OL. King himself, Coach Borens (former Longview great that played in 2 state championships and a semifinal. No one has started more games in Lobo history than Borens), Coach Hancock (former coordinator at another ETX program) and Coach Lott (coached some solid ETX OL over the years including Marshall's state finalist OL in 2005 and Longview's 2018 state OL). 

If you've ever been to a Longview practice, it's extremely intense physically and mentally especially for the OL. They constantly have coaches on their a%#

9 hours ago, PurpleNation said:

Yates can keep Dixon. He is a tool bag. He also sucked when he was coaching the secondary here.

Man, I hated losing Writt (Yates 1st year OC) at Longview.

Every Longview receiving record known to man was shredded while Writt was WR coach. Not to mention numerous deep runs including the state championship. He was also responsible for signaling in our plays. 

Crazy thing is, he knows defense too. One of the best safeties to ever come through Longview and played the position in college.

He and Ralph are the perfect combo to call an offense. 

3 hours ago, Lp81 said:

it starts at the middle school level... and we have never been interested at that level to develop... that is on the Head coach at the high school... it should be a strong emphasis...

Longview starts way before that... one reason they are as strong as they are year after year...

See. There's a certain individual in here that cracks jokes at Lobo fans for paying attention and putting stock into the youth.

But that's the foundation. That's the future. That's where it starts. You want to know part of where consistency comes from? Engraving a winning mentality at an early age. Creating those expectations early. Waiting until HS to start taking players seriously is not what the winning programs are doing.

So whether we're talking about the Lobos...our 3 middle schools... or our youth city teams like the Mustangs...or some of our highly successful youth pop warner/select teams like East Texas Heat and Gregg County Cowboys...

We treat it all the same in Longview. The expectation is to win regardless of level.

57 minutes ago, Packfan49 said:

Nothing too see here 😂

Lol.

More so was looking at McNorth.

1 hour ago, PurpleNation said:

One positive from tonight I found out @wolfpack4lifeis a Lufkin fan 👀

Haha.

Just peepin' around a lil bit. 

2 hours ago, PurpleNation said:

I saw where our 7th grade beat Longview Foster. Not sure if it was our Purple or Gold team. Maybe that group is a little better then I thought. 

It was Lufkin Purple. Foster beat Lufkin Gold first game of the season.

Anyway, solid win for yall. Judson is better than Foster but that is a very solid Foster 7th team too. They wont lose much this year. Team has guys like Jacob Allen (Jordan Allen's little brother) at QB and Kaleb Brooks at LB (current Lobo LB Kason Brooks little brother) and Vinny Portley Jr in the trenches (son of former Lobo great). 

Foster 7th is apart of a special Longview 7th class that features Kaiman Flowers...a 6'4/6'5 190 pound TE whose the son of Marvin Byrdsong...Grayson Minshew at WR (kin to Gardner Minshew)...already around 6'0. AJ McGee at RB whose drawing comparisons to Fred Talley early....son of former Lobo great and current coach Addison McGee. And the cherry on top...one of the top '29 signal callers in Texas, Smiles Hill.

https://tdrecruits.com/texas-high-school-football-rising-stars-of-the-2027-and-2029-classes/

All of them are on that undefeated Judson squad that's averaging 34 PPG, and have only given up 6 points all year (against Forest Park). Judson won't play Lufkin Purple this year but they will play Lufkin Gold down in Lufkin on 10/17 at Abe.

6 hours ago, Jack Walker said:

I thought Young had 62 on like 25 carries

He had 64 yards on 22 carries. Lufkin ran for 83 as a team.

1 hour ago, PurpleNation said:

I'm a little surprised by that sophomore RB they got. He is really good. 

He may be the top '26 back in Texas lol

And is trending for the good guys early.

https://247sports.com/player/javian-osborne-46134406/

54 minutes ago, Hitman2 said:

Just wondering how our JV and freshmen teams did last night?

20 minutes ago, Pack13 said:

They have a 9th grader that ran a 10.3 100m last year and is getting all kinds of track attention. I know he is on the varsity football team but he isn’t football D1. Might be world class in track one day. 

Not sure where you're getting "he isn't football D1" from but RB McMiller literally already has 2 D1 offers from SMU and Nebraska. He's the son of former JT RB great Torrey McMiller.

'27 ATH Trey Harlason also has an offer from SMU.

JT has a pretty solid 9th group. Boulter 8th was probably the best MS team in ETX last year. They went undefeated, including blowing out a good Judson 8th team out of Longview. Folks in Longview and Tyler did want to see Boulter 8th play Foster 8th last season (both finished the year undefeated) but I suspect Boulter was a tad better.