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CardinalBacker last won the day on September 26 2024
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Big girl reacted to a post in a topic: Get Ready -- The Adults Are Arriving!
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You misspelled “chief.”
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What happened? All I saw was that he didn’t put his hand on the Word.
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Trump didn’t swear on the Bible for fear of being smote down.
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Yeah… two thoughts from today. The grownups we at the inauguration today… Biden and Harris were front row, acting like true leaders… not pouting on a plane out of town like Trump did four years ago. As I’m watching Trump right now insulting Cheney, etc in his first presidential address. I hope y’all are ready for four years of complete insanity and retribution, not progress. For all of our sakes, I hope that Trump doesn’t screw things up as badly as he did last time.
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Rhythmeen reacted to a post in a topic: Jimmy Carter passed away….
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thetragichippy reacted to a post in a topic: Jimmy Carter passed away….
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A true public servant. Even if he’d never been elected, he’d have spent his life helping others. The last decent man who became president, in my opinion.
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CS. reacted to a post in a topic: Open/closed enrollment, transfers, recruiting….Help me UNDERSTAND?
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CS. reacted to a post in a topic: Open/closed enrollment, transfers, recruiting….Help me UNDERSTAND?
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You should go back and look at your history regarding TXHSFB. Back to the days when teams would suit up roughnecks in places like Overton and HD… and it got brought under control. When all of the schools in a district fall under one ISD (say, Dallas ISD) it changes things. Do you remember way back to last year when DISD filed an appeal after SOC lost to PNG? Imagine the employment prospects of a DISD coach that protests about another DISD coach’s potential transfer when the ISD is obviously vested in winning at any costs, rules be darned. There are plenty of schools to play against if you want to field a super team of transfers. Bishop Gorman, IMG Academy, etc… Unfortunately for schools like SOC, the UIL isn’t going to let Texas High School Football be turned into an 18U showcase for a handful of wannabe coach/agents.
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outanup reacted to a post in a topic: Open/closed enrollment, transfers, recruiting….Help me UNDERSTAND?
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Nvm! Demond Demas was his name. Quite a story. Crashed out at A&M, landed at Juco in Kansas, and per his X Account at 6:05pm last night, he’s “FULLY academically eligible and in the portal!!” Some would argue that telling kids that “the rules don’t apply to you” leads them to believe that the rules don’t apply to them.
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bullets13 reacted to a post in a topic: Open/closed enrollment, transfers, recruiting….Help me UNDERSTAND?
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I like what happened to that WR from N Houston that tried to transfer into Tomball with his AAU best friend the QB, “because his old school was unsafe,” except all of his siblings were left back in the unsafe school. He ended up forgoing this senior season on the field, then played at TAMU. That’s what happens when the system works like it should. What ever happened to that kid?
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bullets13 reacted to a post in a topic: Open/closed enrollment, transfers, recruiting….Help me UNDERSTAND?
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Wait… that’s what they say about transgenders getting to compete against girls, too, lol. I’m sure SOC would have just as many transfers of top tier athletes if they were 1-9 and missed the playoffs. The whole thing comes down to thjs. If you ask MOST communities “would you accept 40 out-of-the area transfers if it guaranteed a deep playoff run, even if all of the kids who grew up here lost their “right” to play?” they would say “nah… we want our own.” Some communities would be like “yes… we’ll take that. We want to win if that means suiting up ALL transfers… even those up to 24 years old, academically ineligible, etc… we want to win.” This second type of teams should be facing each other, not the ones who play by the rules.
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Here’s the thing… Izzy is right-we don’t understand these communities. You can have a league like the stjfl where a city like BC has just enough kids to field a team… you just have to play the hand that’s dealt to you. You have a city like Ned also playing in the STJFL, but they’ve got two or three teams. And thanks to dad coaches getting together, you end up with somewhat unbalanced team. PNG white is better than png purple this year because they kind of stacked the talent through loopholes or whatever. Then you have a squad from PA having tryouts, cutting kids, etc, and fielding a single super team filled with the cream of the crop across their entire city which is much, much larger than any of their fellow cities in the league. While most civilized communities would see this as a perversion, the simple-minded, loud-mouthed Izzys of the world see this as a good thing, because this is the only chance most often these young will ever have to make out of the hood. And if you disagree with him, you’re a racist. Nobody should be stacking teams in the UIL. It’s easier in metro areas than in the rest of the state.
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Son, let me help you out. We know all about the communities that fail these kids. The problem is that those communities don’t understand how the world actually works. If I’d been failing at life for generations, I might start trying to emulate what successful communities do to raise productive young people instead of continuing to bet it all on lottery tickets. Your wounds are self-inflicted.