FB: American Southwest Conference

[Kelly Boggs]

Hawks88,

What's your pleasure? There's some decent BBQ places in Alexandria/Pineville and, of course, sea food and catfish places. If your into crawfish, they are out of season. Let me know what your interests are and I will try and steer you in the right direction.

[Hawks88]

Hawks88,

What's your pleasure? There's some decent BBQ places in Alexandria/Pineville and, of course, sea food and catfish places. If your into crawfish, they are out of season. Let me know what your interests are and I will try and steer you in the right direction.

I would most likely do seafood but could go BBQ depending on the mood, though the seafood place would need to have decent chicken or burgers for my wife who doesn't like seafood.

[question]

I see TLU has got some good coaches this year.

I was wandering if the former OU RB with McMurry is hurt, he was not in last weeks game.

The coaching has really improved throughout the entire conference.  All the schools have got good assistants also.

UMHB will be hard to beat with running the ball and good d.  THat can shut down the passing teams with that formula.  Like they always do. 

[Kelly Boggs]

Hawks88,

Below are some restaurants fairly close to the field - 5 to 10 minutes away. If you have a GPS, the address should be all you need. If you don't have a GPS let me know and I will give you directions. The first one on the list, Fant's, might be a little tricky, but I think I can get you there.

Fants Seafood Restaurant
6300 Highway 71 N
Pineville, LA 71360
318-640-6699
Offers a full menu and will have something for your wife. It is little hole-in-the-wall place, but nice and clean. Great food.

Smackin' Mack's
3800-P Monroe Hwy
Pineville, LA 71360
(318) 640-0003
Besides catfish, etc... also offers burgers and chicken strips. Great seafood.  

Paradise Catfish Kitchen
4820 Monroe Hwy, Pineville, LA
Tel: (318) 640-5032
I think Paradise has other than fish. They have an all-you-can-eat catfish dinner and that is all I have ever ordered. Like Fant's, it is not fancy, but great catfish.

Outlaws BBQ
359 Kings Country Rd
Pineville, LA 71360
(318) 640-4757
Decent BBQ. Of course I am originally from Central Texas and, in my mind, nothing beats the BBQ I get when I am in the Austin area - and to my UMHB friends, that includes Schoepf's in Belton.

You can't go wrong with any of these. Fant's is further away from the field than the other three and a little more difficult to get to. The other three are actually near one another and are either on, or right off, the Monroe Hwy which La. Hwy 165.

If you need directions, let me know and I will see what I can do.

[Toby Taff]

Kelly,
The TS Hermine really did a number on Belton and Salado.  Central Avenue was under water.  The cover story for the telegram has a man on a jet ski riding down Central toward I35.  Schoepf's was flooded.  In Salado the creek flooded 4-5 ft above the 100 year flood mark.

[Kelly Boggs]

Toby,

I heard that the flooding was bad. I saw a picture of the AOG church in Belton, just off I35 (west side), and it looked like it had about 4 feet of water in it. Amazing.

[Kelly Boggs]

Hawks88,

Here is one more option:

Cajun Landing Restaurant
2728 MacArthur Dr.
Alexandria, LA 71303
Phone: (318) 487-4912
Very nice restaurant -full menu. About 5 minutes from the field.
http://www.cajunlanding.com/

[Hawks88]

Thanks for the suggestions, Kelly! Sounds like some good choices. I should be able to find the ones near the stadium without much problem.

[question]

The HSU qb Feaster was in USA Today Newspaper.  It had his picture and talked about the gam,e this week.

[cowboyfan]

anyone have the link to the USA Today Justin Feaster story?

thanks

[umhb2001]

anyone have the link to the USA Today Justin Feaster story?

thanks

Is the quaint BBQ place there in Abilene still open? I heard it was closed.

[hsuASChamps]

Here it is. You may have to double click on the article to enhace resolution.

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[hsuASChamps]

I will be more than happy to e-mail the scanned document to those who are interested. I was notified the jpeg file is not able to be viewed on my last post. Sorry.

[Toby Taff]

I will be more than happy to e-mail the scanned document to those who are interested. I was notified the jpeg file is not able to be viewed on my last post. Sorry.

it worked fine for me.  nice little blurb.

UMHB2001:  It is open.  They had a fire that closed it for a few weeks, but harold's is back and as good as ever.

[crufootball]

Beautiful here in La Crosse and the best part is its 66 degrees. Looking forward to a great game.