PackPublius

Buddy you sound nuttier than an outhouse during the peanut festival.

3 hours ago, PackAttack said:

Going to wait until after the National Championship game to change the topic over to 2024.  Want to see if we can close out the college football year with a former Lufkin Panther winning a National Championship.  Best of luck to Ja'Lynn, hope he and his teammates have a great game.

When we get past next Monday, we will set up the 2024 Panther Football topic.  In February we will know the new district alignment, or possibly the same district with two or three new schools added.

Going to need to ask you for your tolerance moving forward, because for the first time since I've been either operating or moderating this site, my enthusiasm for covering Panther football is kind of on the low side.

There are other informational placrs out there now too to get Panther information like https://www.lufkingametime.com/  They do their work FOR Lufkin ISD under contract, while We/I still do this all on a voluntary basis, and have done so for all the 22 years I've been a part of Lufkin Panther Sports.  Maybe this LPS site is still one of the only places you can freely speak about Lufkin sports. I don't know, and there are many times lately I've wondered if the time has come to pass the baton. A couple folks have mentioned that very thing.  

Lee Miller, msgpr.com/ and AmerigyEnergy.com/ and https://mcfsolar.com/ , totally sponsor and fund the operation of this site, also the  https://www.facebook.com/lufkinpanthersports  and https://twitter.com/lufkin_sports?lang=en.  It would be nice to have some help, either a knowledgeable extra input person or even some financial incentive to continue.  Just living on the enthusiasm and energy of Lufkin Panther football to drive the site dynamics for free has dried up big time since 2017.  Today, things just look like a dust bowl of fallen trophies from the past, a football program depleted of most signs of success. Their successful past is so long ago now, it's getting harder to remember those times. We now have a whole generation of people, young folks and high school students that don't know the first thing about how great and dominate the Lufkin Panther football program use to be. It sicken me to think of how far things have slid into the mire of 6th place finishes three years in a row.

Of course, I'm not going to be here forever either, not a young guy anymore, had cancer treatment in 2022, things just are not quite the same any longer. Life just looks different from where I stand today.  Physically I'm feeling great, very active. even still play some basketball. 

LP Sports was once voted long ago as one of the best HS Sports websites in the Nation, featured in the October 2nd, 2006 edition of Sports Illustrated, Page # 66.  That was a long time ago. My son and I spoke with the SI guy personally. Son is home now for about 5 months, before he returns to Lviv, Ukraine, were he has worked and lived about 5 years as a Creative Director/ AI Design for https://cieden.com/. Sure wish he could find work closer to home. He is now 40, we were speaking the other day about the site and everything, all the years past. How he started the it all on a lark in 2002, after he had graduated in 2001. 

"Well, AGE and TIME have a way of flattening a Man".  We'll see how things go.  I hear folks talk all the time about their 5 year and 10 year plans, mine are one year plans now. LOL Don't laugh, It' eventually happens to everyone.

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