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I've had jobs with less, that is for sure.

When you are a popular professional player making millions of dollars a year, I don't think you have much room to whine about anything.

Gee, the Golden Triangle media didn't put a lot of time in on a high school team that is not from the Golden Triangle. Go figure. They also did not spend any time on LaMarque so I guess we slighted them also. I wonder how much time the media around Dayton and Liberty spent on Nederland and WO-S? Dayton won the district so I guess you believe that they should be the talk of the town around Beaumont. Well it isn't going to happen, sorry. If Nederland wins district next year, I am not going to be shocked if the Bulldogs are not the talk of the town in Dayton. If Dayton has a bulletin board, I doubt they will be flapping ;their gums (or keyboards) about the GT next year.

Is Dayton in a Golden Triangle district now? I haven't heard anything about them in a couple of years. Get real JS. Dayton has been covered very well, especially considering the limited number of Dayton people on these boards.

This is the yearly debate of the meaning of MVP and it is from high schools to the pros. What does MVP mean? Does it really mean the most "valuable" player or does it mean the player that performed the best? If you stick by the actual title Most "Valuable" Player, then I think the player should be on a playoff team. If you are the best player in the league but your team ends up in last place, how valuable were you? Your team could not have gotten last place without you? That is where awards such as offensive or defensive player of the year should be given. It doesn't matter where your team ended, you were still the most effective player at your skill. What has happened is that the MVP has become synonymous with best player not the most valuable player. If they really want the award to be the best player, why don't they title it as such?

It's a good thing this is a down year for LaMarque..............

SLC started slow but sure made a joke out of it once the game got rolling.

I have a 3 day hunt planned in January in Sabinal, TX on a bow only ranch. I have a friend that has gone there for the last 4 years and has scored each time with at least a 135+ point buck. I have my fingers crossed.

And I was worried about PN-G's returning letterman and starters. I guess I can stop sweating it!

Ouch! Well, it was a good game.

I was a coach on a minor (Texas) league team for Nederland South a few (many?) years ago and we drafted a 9 year old little runt of a kid. We saw him throw some pitches in tryouts and said this kid is awesome for a 9 year old. You could see that he was not just fast for his age but accurate. When we moved on to Little League the next year and got lucky and drafted him again. We kept him on the team for three more years until he moved on to Babe Ruth. This kid that we thought was special at 9 years old went on to become the all time strikeout leader at Lamar University from the early 90's until it was broken this year by another Nederland player. Obviously he could have injured his arm before high school, he could have quit or various other problems. There is certainly no guarantee in life on anything. If you don't think that we saw that kind of talent in this kid at 9 years old then you are wrong. Would he continue to develop it and not have something stop his career? There was no way to know but we could see that he had the potential when he was playing minor league ball about 13 years before he became the record holder at Lamar. So yes, there is obviously a lot of difference from a little leaguer and a high school player. Duhhh!! If you don't think that talent can be recognized at an early age, you are wrong. Anyone remember the tapes of Tiger Woods hitting golf balls on the Tonight Show when he was about 4 years old? I wonder if he ever went on to do anything.....

Might be a good one brewing!!

The title of this thread is Good at sports or good sportsmanship !!! Diehardaggie asks the question as if they are mutually exclusive of one another. I think that for most student athletes, they go hand in hand. Everyone would like to succeed in sports but if given the option of being a failure in life but good in sports or vice versa, where do you think they would choose? No one is going to say that they would like to be a high school star for a couple of years and then fail the rest of their life. I have read thousands of posts in this forum and have never seen anyone make a statement that life is not important, sports mean everything or anything else of that nature. I have never seen anyone mention their own illustrious high school career as if someone should be in awe. If you started a poll on is it more important to succeed in life or high school athletics, where do you think it would be. I am sure that it will be at 100% that life is more important although you will always have some clowns vote the opposite just to play devil's advocate. It seems like diehard is trying to make an argument that does not exist. If all he wants to do is make a comment that sports are fun but life is more important, I do not think that anyone would disagree.

That is a riot.

There are some pretty good coaching staffs in the area and it is certainly based on opinion which is best. I don't see how some of the top rated ones are better "by far" over the others. There are just too many good coaching staffs in the area with proven track records that have lasted for years to proclaim one the best by far. IMO.

We missed it because you didn't say it. Let's see' date=' a high school forum is beat to death talking about high school sports.. yeah, now I understand. Thanks for clearing that up. I must have missed that post. Please refresh our memory on when someone in here (at anytime) has equated high school athletics with excelling in life. Since you never mentioned that in your first post, how is anyone going to get it? Maybe you mistook this for the clairvoyant forum. Sorry, we are not mind readers. While it is true that being a high school football (or any other sport) player generally doesn't equate to success in life, I have never seen anyone on this forum say that it did. I have not seen any of your "geeks" come in here and spend any time talking about his high school accomplishments. I don't recall anyone talking about what they did in high school. Sorry, maybe I have missed those posts. True, you are free to post. When you start off by creating a thread in a high school football forum so that you can call people geeks for talking high school football and then finish by saying that playing high school football doesn't mean squat, what kind of response did you think you would receive?

I can't believe an Aggie could spell stereotypical. Way to go!! (Must have had help from a UT grad)

Let that be your chastising lesson for the day. All you geeks get off of that computer and get to making a better life for us all.... while I sit here and talk about high school football like Al Bundy.