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Mr. P

Overton at James Bowie  

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Newspapers cover the schools who have parents and grandparents that buy the papers. They have a job to appeal to their customers. If they aren't covering your school it's probably because they don't sell any or very many papers in that community. Someone should contact them and see if they would accept a freelance article and then have a local do the game. Just aneed idea. Good luck to these two teams.

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Newspapers cover the schools who have parents and grandparents that buy the papers. They have a job to appeal to their customers. If they aren't covering your school it's probably because they don't sell any or very many papers in that community. Someone should contact them and see if they would accept a freelance article and then have a local do the game. Just aneed idea. Good luck to these two teams.

Smh. Economics. Who knew?

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This is his third year as AD and I think he's been at JB for 17 +/- years.

Thats good maybe he is instilling a better attitude and sportsmanship. The former head coach does not rank very high with me on teaching young men. Maybe we caught him on bad nights. He was trying to end my oldest boys career at 15 yrs old. It did not work very well once he was ready for it. The third time they did it TC3 tried to take his head off.
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Newspapers cover the schools who have parents and grandparents that buy the papers. They have a job to appeal to their customers. If they aren't covering your school it's probably because they don't sell any or very many papers in that community. Someone should contact them and see if they would accept a freelance article and then have a local do the game.

 

Gazette only cares about T high and PG

Not much love for LE who produces D1 talent consistently.

The other schools like Hooks, NB, Redwater, Maud, JB mean nothing to them.

 

That is a terrible business model. Covering small town East Texas football is like printing your own money. Granted, not $20s and $50s, but certainly $1s and $5s. And they add up.
All you gotta do is spend a couple days placing phone calls to coaches, get some team photos, pilfer Dave Campbell and Friday Night Football magazines, and then put it all together in a special "football preview." You sell ads for the package with the pitch, "Every momma and daddy in the county's gonna look at this to see their baby boy!" The entire project could be done in a single weekend, depending on the number of teams.
Sammy is correct, but it's a two-way street. It's hard to sell papers in a community where you don't even cover each town's biggest draw: high school football. Cultivating local freelance writers is a good way to go, but you can also get the coach to email you stats/summary and run the game story a day or two late. There are ways around it, if you're willing to put in a little work.
If you do it right, it doesn't have to take away your focus from your "prestige" programs, but if you posture yourself as the regional source for local high school football, that's a damn reliable revenue stream.
Buncha dadgum amateurs.
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Overton folks be careful on your trip up to Canada. 😉

You telling somebody be careful....but fool ain't yall going to Mob Black Hole Friday?

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Just a heads up to the Overton faithful. Bring your lawn chair or a good cushion those old cement bleachers are rough on the backside not to mention hot this time of year.

 

Tryin' to outdo Tennyhaw on the home field advantage, eh? :lol:

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Yes sir WPA all the way. School built in 1935. Football stadium was built in 1939. Our last remodel (2009) of the school restored it back to as close to it's original design as possible. The rock bleachers used to be the home side until about 5 years ago. It is the focal point of our small community.

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Bowie's stadium is actually quite quaint, in an austere sorta way. Was that a WPA project back in the day?

 

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I really dig the stone wall along the front of the property.

WPA projects. Oh Lordy, cue the socialist comments

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Just a heads up to the Overton faithful. Bring your lawn chair or a good cushion those old cement bleachers are rough on the backside not to mention hot this time of year.

 

And some good sun shades till the sun goes down!!!! Really love the look of the rock stadium but I never could understand why the home side was subjected to the brutal sun in your eyes AND the hot, hard rocks...great move to add the nice bleachers and press box on the old visitors side and change that side to the home side.

 

Man, that place brings back some great memories of our old rivalry!! Good luck to the Pirates and Coach Hudgeons, hope you guys get a "W" !!!

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