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Posted on 7/13/22 at 11:41 pm to LAsports
That Ruston West Monroe game ought to be a good one to go watch this year. Ruston was young last year and shite the bed when they saw how packed their stadium was. WM kicked their arse. I think this year Kyle Williams will have that defense playing well. All those Monroe teams are pretty salty. I went to Ruston High but after graduation as a young adult my buddies and I would load up and go watch the best matchup on Friday. Often no dog in the fight just a spectator.
Seems like posters familiar with the Shreveport area got you lined out over on that side of the state. I played a lot against those teams but never really went over there to watch a game unless Ruston was playing someone over there.
Back when I was in high school Shreveport teams weren’t consistently good. The talent never seemed to land on one team. Evangel fixed that problem.
Seems like posters familiar with the Shreveport area got you lined out over on that side of the state. I played a lot against those teams but never really went over there to watch a game unless Ruston was playing someone over there.
Back when I was in high school Shreveport teams weren’t consistently good. The talent never seemed to land on one team. Evangel fixed that problem.
Posted on 7/13/22 at 11:45 pm to Earthquake 88
It’s crazy how bad evangels been lately. They barely even make the playoffs anymore. I don’t think they’ve made it recently
Posted on 7/14/22 at 12:13 am to AP83
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Central Louisiana area Ash for a large school will have some talent. Jonesboro hodge, winnfield and Many will all be very good this year in 2a district.
Jena in 3-3A will be good again this year.
Posted on 7/14/22 at 1:03 am to Tigerpride18
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It’s crazy how bad evangels been lately. They barely even make the playoffs anymore. I don’t think they’ve made it recently
I haven’t lived up there since 2007. I’m so out of touch with what’s going on over in Shreveport. If my memory serves me right didn’t they have a division or split in the church and another school even evolved from all that drama. Shreveport has some pretty good players but you have to get them all on one team. Seems like those Monroe schools all have pretty good players. They may not be all college prospects but they play hard and well as a team. When I was in high school there was no 5-A. It was District 2-4A which comprised of Ruston, Neville, Ouachita, West Monroe, and Bastrop. Generally all roads to the state championship led through that district. Ruston won it in 82, 84, 86, 88, and 90. Then the rise of West Monroe occurred. Neville has historically always been pretty good. I loved playing them. There were some other schools over there that were smaller like Wossman, Carroll, Oak Grove, Jonesboro Hodge, Winfield, Minden, and that other school over by Homer. I can’t remember their name. Small school but always had good football teams. That I-10 corridor is just filthy with SEC talent but north Louisiana plays some good football too.
Posted on 7/14/22 at 6:08 am to LAsports
Neville, West Monroe, and Ruston dominate the 318. Ouachita is gaining. Shreveport football is terrible. Last year Huntington was ranked 4 and Neville beat them by 40. Ruston will be the best team in the 318 this year.
Posted on 7/14/22 at 8:01 am to Earthquake 88
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Back when I was in high school Shreveport teams weren’t consistently good. The talent never seemed to land on one team. Evangel fixed that problem.
What I was told back then was the advantage schools like Ruston, West Monroe, and Neville had. Their feeder schools played the same systems as the highschool did. I played at Huntington back in the day. We would have over a hundred kids try out. But would have kids coming from four different middle schools. And this was just before Evangel started.
Had great talent, size and speed but no discipline. Evangel came along being k through 12 with the kids being together for years. Really good coaching. Kids being held back a grade. And kids being recruited to go there. They tried to get my cousin to play there. He was a running back at southwood. Dad said yep but momma was like nope. But that aside , I really enjoyed watching those Evangel teams back then. Saw them beat a very good Andrew whitworth led west Monroe team for state.
Brock Berlin was just a great highschool quarterback. He took a beating against that rebel defense and still found a way to win. I went to that game as a fan of football just to enjoy two great teams battling it out. The most thing I remember was the way west Monroe handled the loss with class.
Posted on 7/14/22 at 8:15 am to thumperpait
Fair park is a middle school now.
Shreve has a WR, Marquez Stevenson, that is all world at the 400m and has an offer from LSU.
Northwood has a few athletes that will play D1.
Huntington has a really good QB, Cam Evans, and a fun offense to watch. Some young WRs that are verrrrrry good.
North DeSoto has a qb that will start as a freshman that is very special.
Shreve has a WR, Marquez Stevenson, that is all world at the 400m and has an offer from LSU.
Northwood has a few athletes that will play D1.
Huntington has a really good QB, Cam Evans, and a fun offense to watch. Some young WRs that are verrrrrry good.
North DeSoto has a qb that will start as a freshman that is very special.
Posted on 7/14/22 at 10:13 am to SteveLSU35
Go watch West Monroe and then head over to Johnny's Pizza for some grub after the game. Tough to have a better Friday night in the 318. :)
Posted on 7/14/22 at 10:18 am to charminultra
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f you want a really good laugh, go watch a Loyola College Prep game. a bunch of tiny nerdy white dudes
Who are all smarter than you!
Posted on 7/14/22 at 11:10 am to thumperpait
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What I was told back then was the advantage schools like Ruston, West Monroe, and Neville had.
West Monroe was not good in the 1980’s. What separated Ruston High and Neville was Coach Chick Childress and Coach Charlie Brown. Often they didn’t have the best talent year after year. But those two head coaches were just outstanding coaches and motivators of teenage boys. They not only were iconic coaches but mentors of developing young men. West Monroe started their upward trajectory when Coach Don Shows took over as HC in the 90’s. The feeder system at Ruston was just one junior high or middle school as they call it today but yes they ran the same offense. Times were simpler. We ran the wing t. If we had a QB that could pass we threw some and if not we chopped blocked and ran every down. I think West Monroe did more recruiting to get some players in there to get rolling like Brady James but it reaches a point once you have an established winning coach parents move and buy houses in that school district and you don’t have to recruit. Ruston and Neville were two of the smallest schools in the largest classification back then.
It’s coaching that made those teams good. Ruston went dormant for many years to just decent. Those same players never went anywhere. It took hiring a coach to get the better players out of the hallways and out on the field. Appears to me Ruston has a little momentum building back up which pleases me. It’s good football in that area. There are some solid college prospects up there this year I’d have to go take me in some games. Honestly I don’t recall Farmersville ever having a good team. But I’d like to see the LSU commitment RB play. You just never know when you are watching a future NFL hall of famer.
Posted on 7/14/22 at 11:10 am to thumperpait
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Posted on 7/14/22 at 11:35 am to BigSlick
Dont forget many also has some very talented DBs. One of them is tylen singleton
Posted on 7/14/22 at 11:37 am to Dlab2013
quote:AKA God's Country
Avoyelles Parish
Posted on 7/14/22 at 11:43 am to Earthquake 88
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West Monroe started their upward trajectory when Coach Don Shows took over as HC in the 90’s.
Mike Vallery leaving after the 94 season to take the Kilgore HC job destroyed Ouachita. This move combined with Richwood High opening allowed Shows to win a few 2-5A titles.
Posted on 7/14/22 at 2:50 pm to 4LSU2
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Mike Vallery leaving after the 94 season to take the Kilgore HC job destroyed Ouachita. This move combined with Richwood High opening allowed Shows to win a few 2-5A titles.
I remember that. We use to whip up on Ouachita. My senior year around October or November 1987 Ouachita come over to our home field and just kicked the ever living hell out of us. It was ugly. Like 35-7. We made it to the final 4 teams left in the 4-A playoffs and lost on the last play of the game. We were the smallest and sorriest team Ruston had in the 80’s. That was one of Coach Childress best coaching jobs ever getting that team so deep in the playoffs. I can’t remember if Ouachita won state that year but they had an outstanding team. I moved out of state for my job in a transfer around 1995. I kind of lost track of what happened. The internet wasn’t really a thing then.
One time Ouachita had this RB duo. One was big and signed with Notre Dame. The other kid was small but fast. They were playing John Ehret. Reggie Wayne and Johnny Mitchell played for J. E. That smaller quick back got in the open field and Johnny Mitchell chased him down all the way from across the field and caught that RB. I’ve never seen anyone that big in that era run that fast. Ouachita won that game.
Posted on 7/14/22 at 3:13 pm to Earthquake 88
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One time Ouachita had this RB duo. One was big and signed with Notre Dame. The other kid was small but fast.
Jamieon Spencer and Jermaine Brown. They were Ouachita legends. They lost to Hahnville in the dome in 94'. The 89' team won state that year. Glenn Ellis at QB and Connie Ray Wilson at WR were unstoppable
Posted on 7/14/22 at 3:35 pm to ChuckUFarley
quote:Spencer was a fricking load. I was so pissed when he went to ND.
Jamieon Spencer and Jermaine Brown. They were Ouachita legends.
It always astonished me how well ND did on Interstate 20.
I also remember a kid from Delta... Jamie Mays maybe... lost track of him but the first time I saw CEH it was he I thought of.
Posted on 7/14/22 at 3:48 pm to ChuckUFarley
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They lost to Hahnville in the dome in 94'.
That 94 team had unreal talent. I still don't know how we lost to Hahnville in the Dome that season. This was Vallery's last season on Millhaven.
The 2-5A district in the late 80's and most of the 90's was amazing. Bastrop always played district teams tough also.
Posted on 7/14/22 at 3:59 pm to 4LSU2
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The 2-5A district in the late 80's and most of the 90's was amazing. Bastrop always played district teams tough also.
Bastrop was always tough and played hard. When the papermill closed down a lot of that talent left with it.
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That 94 team had unreal talent. I still don't know how we lost to Hahnville in the Dome that season. This was Vallery's last season on Millhaven.
Glad to see my boy Garvin taking over and doing good things out there. We graduated together and played at OPHS.
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