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Post by larrymoe on Apr 26, 2015 12:14:53 GMT -6
I don't disagree that kids aren't any dumber than they were 20 years ago when I was in school. Human beings have always been stupid.
What I react to is people's attitudes that EVERYONE does it and that somehow makes it alright. Not everyone is an idiot at that age. And it certainly doesn't make really stupid stuff OK. Like someone said earlier, it's not a bad thing to expect your kids to hold to a higher standard.
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Post by larrymoe on Apr 26, 2015 12:20:42 GMT -6
One of the best players I ever coached would always tell the team after games, "be smart about your stupid decisions." After every game, especially our homecomings (yes, we have two) I give the same speech- You only get the opportunity to play this game for four years. You have the rest of your life to do the stupid crap your friends want you to do.
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Post by fantom on Apr 26, 2015 12:50:52 GMT -6
One of the best players I ever coached would always tell the team after games, "be smart about your stupid decisions." After every game, especially our homecomings (yes, we have two) I give the same speech- You only get the opportunity to play this game for four years. You have the rest of your life to do the stupid crap your friends want you to do. You knew somebody was going to ask: Why do you have two Homecomings?
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Post by silkyice on Apr 26, 2015 19:56:55 GMT -6
After every game, especially our homecomings (yes, we have two) I give the same speech- You only get the opportunity to play this game for four years. You have the rest of your life to do the stupid crap your friends want you to do. You knew somebody was going to ask: Why do you have two Homecomings? Can't wait to hear this explanation. And why the heck is the first time we are hearing about it? LOL
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Post by mariner42 on Apr 26, 2015 22:01:41 GMT -6
There used to be a blog called "Stuff White People Like"... I'd read "Stuff larrymoe Hates".
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Post by wolverine55 on Apr 27, 2015 6:47:47 GMT -6
At the risk of totally hijacking the thread, my brother's team once had "Homecoming Week" on a week where they played a road game...
I don't remember exact details now as it's been at least 7 years ago, but it had something to do with the volleyball team having a tournament the same weekend as the original homecoming and the girls not having time to get their hair done.
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Post by coachphillip on Apr 27, 2015 7:54:53 GMT -6
"Eff the 4.0 kids. I love me a 2.5 kid. Smart enough to know who to hit. Not smart enough to know how much it's going to hurt." Old OL coach of mine probably stole that quote. But sounds good.
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Post by funkfriss on Apr 27, 2015 8:05:49 GMT -6
Jesus you crachety old phukers need to loosen up. You are looking at the baseball situation differently than he was. To him it was a challenge to try to hit a moving bird with a baseball which is interesting and difficult. Don't you want your kids to challenge themselves? Apparently not. So you're wanting complacency. Awesome. Listen boys - ain't no one trying to win a choir competition on Friday night and you sure as heck don't want to walk out there with a bunch of choir boys and try to win a football game. At the first clinic I ever attended, we were all at a bar drawing chit up on napkins, talking defense, etc. Some old guy says "boys, put that chit away. Give me 11 whiskey drinkers and pu$$y lickers and we will play great defense." That's kind of funny, but at the same time it's kind of true. Over the years I've noticed the kind of guys I want playing defense for me are not the kinds of guys I would want my daughter to bring home...but if she had to walk through downtown after midnight, they are exactly the types of guys I'd want with her. They are great dudes, they work hard, they play hard, good kids, polite, etc. - but you just know they are going to do some stupid chit sometimes. (and for those of you who are married, I'm betting your wife thinks YOU do some stupid chit now. (My mom bawled my dad out the other day for doing something stupid...he's 68) Football guys are just different. I mean you are asking someone to run full speed into someone else running at full speed and collision him in an effort to make him fall down so that he doesn't move a piece of leather past a particular imaginary line. Yea...like that's a natural act. How logical is that? You don't want too many guys out there who think things through too far before hand. Preach Reverend!
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Post by ksmitty79 on Apr 27, 2015 8:27:25 GMT -6
At the first clinic I ever attended, we were all at a bar drawing chit up on napkins, talking defense, etc. Some old guy says "boys, put that chit away. Give me 11 whiskey drinkers and pu$$y lickers and we will play great defense." That's kind of funny, but at the same time it's kind of true. Classic! Could quite possibly be the post of the year!
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Post by larrymoe on Apr 27, 2015 9:18:34 GMT -6
After every game, especially our homecomings (yes, we have two) I give the same speech- You only get the opportunity to play this game for four years. You have the rest of your life to do the stupid crap your friends want you to do. You knew somebody was going to ask: Why do you have two Homecomings? We're a coop of 3 different schools and play our home games at two different fields in in two different communities. In years we have 4 home games we play 3 at our host school (the field I take care of and is by far nicer) and 1 at our other coop school for their "Homecoming". Years we play 5 we have 3 at our nice field and 2 at the bad one (they mow it about the time it needs baled, I think I saw some grass once in between the crab grass). One game here is one Homecoming for this school and one there is theirs. I made a quote to the paper last year that I HATE Homecoming. And we play two of them.
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Post by larrymoe on Apr 27, 2015 9:20:32 GMT -6
There used to be a blog called "Stuff White People Like"... I'd read "Stuff larrymoe Hates". Hate may be a strong word for some of it. Annoyed may be a better term. Someone once labeled me a frustrated realist. I like that. I just really recoil at this notion that everyone that plays this game has to be some knuckle dragging neanderthal or that every male thinks with their dick or that every teenager is going to do something stupid. It's not too much to ask of people to behave as non idiot human beings.
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Post by fantom on Apr 27, 2015 9:26:58 GMT -6
You knew somebody was going to ask: Why do you have two Homecomings? We're a coop of 3 different schools and play our home games at two different fields in in two different communities. In years we have 4 home games we play 3 at our host school (the field I take care of and is by far nicer) and 1 at our other coop school for their "Homecoming". Years we play 5 we have 3 at our nice field and 2 at the bad one (they mow it about the time it needs baled, I think I saw some grass once in between the crab grass). One game here is one Homecoming for this school and one there is theirs. I made a quote to the paper last year that I HATE Homecoming. And we play two of them. Ah, now that you mention it I remember that you'ere at a coop. Keep in mind that most of us have zero experience with coops.
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Post by larrymoe on Apr 27, 2015 10:58:20 GMT -6
We're a coop of 3 different schools and play our home games at two different fields in in two different communities. In years we have 4 home games we play 3 at our host school (the field I take care of and is by far nicer) and 1 at our other coop school for their "Homecoming". Years we play 5 we have 3 at our nice field and 2 at the bad one (they mow it about the time it needs baled, I think I saw some grass once in between the crab grass). One game here is one Homecoming for this school and one there is theirs. I made a quote to the paper last year that I HATE Homecoming. And we play two of them. Ah, now that you mention it I remember that you'ere at a coop. Keep in mind that most of us have zero experience with coops. There are many days I wish I didn't.
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Post by souza12 on May 9, 2015 15:42:22 GMT -6
Am I the only one that notices this? Coaches seem to forget that, at one point in time, they were stupid freaking teenagers too. I don't get it. I am constantly reminded of this whenever I talk to guys I've known from when we were kids and they ask me, "What's up with these kids nowadays?!" We were equally, if not more, dumb than they were. The other day, my DL coach is talking to me about how our kids are always getting caught doing stupid stuff and that we never did anything that dumb as kids. One of our boys "thought it would be funny" to throw a baseball at a seagull. This dummy through the ball while tracking the bird and didn't realize he was throwing the ball at a bird in front of a window. Lo and behold, he did not have the accuracy of the little girl from Full Metal Jacket and therefore threw the ball through the window, breaking it. He was suspended for damaging school property. He tried to explain the bird situation to the principal, but the bird wasn't available to corroborate his story. School policy mandates he won't play Week 1. We didn't do anything like that? Really? Because I remember my DL coach getting high and drunk with several of our teammates when we were Juniors and driving a car INTO a Jack In The Box. Not THROUGH it. INTO it. They were trying to "gas, break, dip" in the parking lot when his seat flew forward and got stuck with his foot on the gas pedal. They smashed through the window and the wall and when they got out of the car, they were standing IN THE DINING ROOM. They had to open the restaurant doors to get out. Oh yeah. At which point they ran from the cops by foot. Only the driver was arrested since he turned himself in the next day. Yeah. What's up with these kids nowadays? Same thing that was up with me and you back in those days. /rant over Teachers do it too.. we did dumb stuff also.. the new generation is just doing different dumb stuff. I didnt know you guys had someone drive INTO jack in the box lol
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