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They're less talented than PNG. 0-10 last year, two other seasons of 1-9 since 2016. He'll do well to keep them around .500. Which will be a major success to everyone but Reagan.

PNG doesn't have the talent level comparable to Carthage, period. The fact that they're up a Division and have to play against much steeper competition makes it that much worse.

Yes, he could, with that level of talent and against that level of competition. that being said, Surratt wouldn't have sniffed a state title if he'd coached at PNG for the last 13 years. A great coach can only do so much, and there's a ceiling to what they can build. the ceiling in carthage is higher than in png, and the quality of opponents in their division is notably lower. There's also another big difference: Surratt has and has had for a long time the total support of the community. That makes a big difference as well (although total support still isn't going to help any coach make png any type of contender for state). I just read through this whole thread, and the guy who called you delusional hit the nail on the head. Post after post about not going to state. there are close to 3000 high school football teams in texas, and 24 go to state a year. For various reasons, some schools go multiple times in a row, or multiple times in the space of a few years. If you multiply 24 x 13 you get 312 teams that have appeared in a state championship since faircloth took over at PNG. 156 state champs, total (actually a few less, because there was no 6A when he took them over). And there are several, several teams and coaches that have taken up multiple opportunities to go to state. I'm absolutely not doing the research on this one, but I'm willing to bet less than 100 total coaches have won state championships since he was hired at PNG. In that time coaches in Texas have coached approximately 39000 football seasons, and less than 100 of them have a state title. Those titles happen for different reasons, whether it be talent, coaching, cheating, recruiting, or a combination of all of these things, but one thing is absolutely certain: there is no coach in the state, country, or world, that can take a school with a fraction of the talent of most of the teams they'll meet in the playoffs and lead them to state. There comes a point where the gulf in talent is too much for any team or coach to overcome. Scott Surratt could take over WOS tomorrow and lead them to frequent state championships from now until he decides to retire. The talent is there, the community support is there. He could take over PNG tomorrow and he'd never consistently lead them to a state anything, at least until reallignments drastically change the path that PNG has to take. For many teams their only shot at a deep run is a fluke situation, and that's certainly where PNG is. In the classes 4A and below a team can have a special class and make a deep run or a couple of deep runs, and a coach or team can overachieve and maybe make a magical run. but in 5A and above there are too many schools that field college teams every season. PNG isn't going to have a coach come in and magically make them capable of making deep runs against teams with 10+ D1 players, with several more D2 and D3 quality players, when PNG is fielding a D1 player or two every few years. As a matter of fact, PNG could combine their talent pool with Nederland and they're STILL not going to state. The idea that any coach that doesn't take his team to state hasn't succeeded is laughable. There are about 3 dozen schools in Texas out of 3000 that can use that as a realistic measuring stick for the success of their coaches.

there isn't any coach in the state that was or is going to take them to state. this is laughable. there are very few programs in any classification that can judge success and failure on trips to state, and PNG isn't one of them.

After watching the epic battle last night between Allen and Mahomes I find it pretty disheartening that Dak is somehow making nearly the same money they are. I don't think he's a bad qb, and he's great against bad teams, but the fact that he's the 3rd highest paid qb behind them (and just barely behind them) shows how bad the cowboys got scalped.

We all knew it was over early once the schedule came out.

He asked you how Biden has been better than Trump, and this was your response. Does this answer mean you don’t have any actual answer?

I just hope the local kids stick around for next season and come back healthy. This has the makings of a decent squad, but it’s been an abysmal season

Ugly, ugly game. I missed the first 2 minutes of the game, and the first 3 minutes of the 3rd. The hawks went to the line a lot, and didn’t make both free throws in any trip that I saw. If I had to guess I’d say shot about 40% from the line, and took close to 30 attempts. They were also about 2/15 from deep while I watched. That said, a win is a win. Livingston isn’t a bad team this year, but the hawks should’ve won this by 20+

Livingston on a run to cut it to 10 with 4:48 left

49-35 going to the 4th

Hawks up 39-26 at the half

HJ up 32-24 with 2:12 left in the half. They aren’t playing very well. They can’t buy a 3 and are about 2/10 from the ft line since I tuned in.

I don't know if it's a lot, but even a couple % skipping the vote because it's not trump would likely sink the right. the same way that a couple % getting out only to vote against him last election sank the right.

It would be interesting. I don't know if I want to end up on the news for something the others do to each other, though

This is a very realistic possibility that people don't want to acknowledge. Biden's presidency has gone so poorly that all the right needs to do is put out a capable candidate and they should have an easy victory in the next election. The only way that doesn't happen is exactly how you spell it out... people still vote against trump, or just pick the new dem nominee and hope he/she's better than biden. There's also the possibility that trump says or does something that reignites the hatred for him before the election. He really can't help himself. Crapping on other republicans who might challenge him in the primaries isn't going to do him any favors, either.

Is Adams hurt again? What about Catt? This has been a brutal season for the cards, but injuries and covid haven't helped, especially when combined with moving to the WAC.

If that’s a viable option, for sure.

If my kids are in the car with me i'm erring on the side of their safety when it comes to my decision making in a situation like this.

Kinda weird to me as well how many of the good conservatives on here (and everywhere) talk about how much of a whore Kamala Harris is, and how much of a man Michelle Obama is, but have never really taken any exception to anything that First Lady Trump had going on in her past. I see pictures of her posted with talk about how classy she looks, and this and that. It's a funny dynamic. And for the record, I thought Obama was a lousy president, and I don't like Kamala Harris at all. But there's a level of hypocrisy there that's pretty hilarious.

I don't disagree, but he literally asked "who believes trump is the best president ever." And i'm saying most of his fanbase does.

Where do you think he lands on the scale of great presidents? There's not been a president in the history of our country who's generated such a rabid fanbase. There are plenty of folks out there who believe that, will say that, and will argue with you if you don't agree. Your picture on here is a trump hat. There are flags and signs everywhere, a year later. It's weird, man. It's even weirder because he's a moderate democrat, and his strongest fans are the ultraconservative right.

get it or not, I don't care, but this statement is nonsense. It's reasonable to have concerns about possible unknown side effects, but don't diminish the vast disparity in hospitalizations and deaths between the vaxxed and unvaxxed by claiming the vaccine doesn't work.

It's really entirely impossible to say from the article, which gives basically no context as to what happened. I can imagine scenarios where i'd shoot someone who jumped on my truck and scenarios where I would not. This article leaves it all to those imaginary scenarios. I do see that there are protests, which is not surprising, considering they have the same lack of information as I do at this point, so he "definitely did nothing wrong."

Reading the article, the swing is amongst the independents and which direction they lean. Which also backs up the fact that they leaned left away from trump during the last election. now they're leaning right away from Biden's disaster of a presidency.