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Post by 19delta on Nov 23, 2019 20:52:51 GMT -6
What is the pay like at these districts? Generally speaking, it has been my experience that the higher payng the district is, the more onerous the application process.
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Post by 19delta on Nov 21, 2019 16:54:20 GMT -6
amp.usatoday.com/amp/4255930002?__twitter_impression=trueThis made me laugh. Kids in such a hurry to post their "offer" don't even take the time to do a simple Google search that would tell them the "team" isn't school affiliated. Of course, they don't even care whether or not it is legit.
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Post by 19delta on Nov 15, 2019 18:13:30 GMT -6
Okay...I'm taking both my sons to see Tool again. One saw them with me earlier. Here is the clincher. It's 3+ hours away on a school night!!! But even more clutch...it's on the first night of FINALS!!! It's going to be epic. You are a genuine hero!
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Post by 19delta on Nov 9, 2019 2:55:59 GMT -6
You're my spirit match Delta. My kid is a senior. We both listen to metal. I saw Tool play that song live a few weeks ago. My son's playoff game is this Friday. I'm not optimistic about how the result will go. My son is a lyric listener as well. With my son and I have seen these bands live this year. Tool, Gojira (twice), Volbeat, Slipknot, Korn (twice), Alice in Chains, Fever 333, Behemoth, Babymetal, etc. I'm seeing Slayer 3 days before their last show ever. I was going to take my kid to see Iron Maiden in Chicago back in August. But the concert was on a Thursday night. What kind of crap is that? Who the hell goes to a heavy metal concert on a Thursday night?
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Post by 19delta on Nov 9, 2019 2:45:33 GMT -6
Our high school team endured a staggering amount of nonsense this year. Just some truly ridiculous stuff that I have NEVER seen before on a high school football team. It started this summer with a couple senior "leaders" and their parents. And, because it was not dealt with this summer, these kids and their parents were enabled and empowered and it continued to fester.
We ended up 4-5. We lost 4 of those 5 games by a total of 18 points.
In one of those games, we were down 34-27 and drove down to the 5 yard line with about 30 seconds left in the game. Threw an INT in the endzone. Kid who made the interception runs out of the endzone and slides. Whistle blows, game over. One of our senior "leaders" (kid was a captain) comes flying out of nowhere and puts his shoulder into the kid on the ground. Flag gets thrown for a dead ball foul. On that play, there was DPI in the endzone. So, we should have had the ball on about the 3 yard line. But, because it was a dead ball personal foul, we got half the distance marked off from the original spot but then the dead ball personal foul gets marked off. So, instead of going for the score from the 3 yard line, we go from the 18. Completed the pass to the 1-yard line. Game over. We lose.
We were 4-4 going into the last game of the year. About 7 minutes left in the game. We are down 22-20 after scoring. We are starting to take over the game. We are running the ball well. Other team is tired. All we need to do is get a stop and get the ball back and we have a good chance to win, end up 5-4, and get in the playoffs. So, we have them at a 4th and 6 with about 4 minutes left. They bring their punt team out but then they take a timeout. After the timeout, they put their offense back on the field. Everyone in the stadium knows they are going to try and draw us offsides. That is, everyone except one of our "leaders" (same kid in story above). Of course, he encroaches, they get 5 free yards and convert a 4th and 1. On the very next play, another captain, who got his butt kicked most of the night, starts jawing with an official. Official throws a flag on him. 15 more yards. Another first down. We are out of timeouts. They take a knee and run the clock out.
Now, in both of the above situations, we still had to score to win. There's no guarantee we would have. But, the point is, because we were not disciplined and smart, we didn't even give ouselves a chance. We removed any possibility of taking the lead because we had selfish, undisciplined players.
We had the talent to be 6-3 or 7-2 this year. But, our lack of discipline and self-control cost us dearly. It was the most frustrating football season I ever had to sit through. Pains me to say it, but I was glad when it was over. Was not fun to watch.
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Post by 19delta on Oct 26, 2019 4:22:19 GMT -6
Tough loss. 22-20. Boys fought hard. Hard to see it end but no regrets!
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Post by 19delta on Oct 25, 2019 8:25:48 GMT -6
Not corny--think its tremendous that you had that opportunity with him........ Thanks, man. It has been pretty awesome!
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Post by 19delta on Oct 25, 2019 4:49:36 GMT -6
My kid is a senior. Team is 4-4. Need a win tonight against a good team to go 5-4 and make the playoffs. It's possible but we will have to play our best.
Anyway...my kid has been a 4-year varsity starter. Of the 42 varsity games our program will have played since 2016, he will have played in 41 of those games and has started 37 of them. It's been a great ride and we have thoroughly enjoyed being a part of it.
I'm also an unapologetic metalhead and the song "Invincible" by TOOL makes me think alot about my son's high school football career. He's a warrior in every sense of the word and this might be his last battle on the football field. We hope it isn't...
TOOL - Invincible Long in tooth and soul
Longing for another win
Lurch into the fray
Weapon out and belly in
Warrior struggling
To remain consequential
Bellow aloud
Bold and proud
Of where I've been
But here I am
Beating chest and drums
Beating tired bones again
Age-old battle, mine
Weapon out and belly in
Tales told of battles won
Of things we've done
Caligula would grin
Beating tired bones
Tripping through remember when
Once invincible
Now the armor's wearing thin
Heavy shield down
Warrior struggling
To remain relevant
Warrior struggling
To remain consequential
Cry aloud
Bold and proud
Of where I've been
But here I am
Where I end
Warrior struggling
To remain relevant
Warrior struggling
To remain consequential
Tears in my eyes
Chasing Ponce de Leon's phantom
So filled with hope
I can taste mythical fountains
False hope, perhaps
But the truth never got in my way
Before now, feel the sting
Feeling time bearing down
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Post by 19delta on Oct 11, 2019 16:04:40 GMT -6
It's D3 football. With all the BS going on in D1, why is the NCAA wasting resources on this crap? And, again, it's D3. Who gives a {censored}? Yeah. Good to know the NCAA is out there curing cancer...
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Post by 19delta on Oct 11, 2019 16:02:32 GMT -6
The most unintentionally hilarious line from the article: "The head coach provided his car for a second student-athlete to use, but the car broke down shortly after the student-athlete took possession."That is about as D3 as it gets!
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Post by 19delta on Sept 24, 2019 18:50:19 GMT -6
I get the dynamic of it being a community with a demographic who is in power vs those who have been traditionally disenfranchised; but would kicking the offending player off the team be sufficient in this case? Or is it assumed that the single player who made the statement represents the team as a whole, and as such the team as a whole (and by extension all team members) are guilty of making the comments? Not trying to get into an argument or be facetious but it wasn’t a single player, the article says “A racist video that featured a few Buckeye High School football players went viral Tuesday night.” So it wasn’t just one kid. We will chew a kid out or kick a kid off a team for way less, when several players do that and create an unsafe situation via a social media message we gotta send a message. We live in a day and era where kids threats and racial slurs have to be taken seriously. Remember schools only integrated nationally 62 years ago. When you call people racial epithets it’s a threat to their existence. In a state like Louisiana it makes complete sense what the school board did. Often, when these things happen, there are always prominent community members who will issue public statements like "we condemn these actions. What these kids said doesn't reflect who our community is." Whenever I hear those statements, one of my first thoughts is, "Ehhhh...I kind of think what these kids said DOES reflect who your community is, at least a little."
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Post by 19delta on Sept 24, 2019 18:44:21 GMT -6
Oof...that was hard to watch. Bad deal for everyone involved.
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Post by 19delta on Sept 21, 2019 19:35:59 GMT -6
Technically this wasn’t a youth football practice but a women’s rugby practice but since it was all players who’d never played before and they were all super-excited to be there despite having no clue what was going on. We had a wet and gross practice today and we were going to practice tackling. Usually it’s a pain because nobody wants to get wet so they try to avoid going down and it’s a waste of time until they finally get wet enough not to care. Instead, this time I said “before we start tackling we’re all going to roll around on the grass and get good and wet so there’s nothing to gain from not tackling properly.” Problem solved, we did fifteen minutes of great tackling. Around 1993, I rented a video with a somewhat similar plot. It didn't end with tackling drills, though.
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Post by 19delta on Sept 21, 2019 17:42:52 GMT -6
Jesus. Christ.
Cell phone video has been around for like 479 years now. How these dumbasses don't realize that these clips are going to come back to haunt them is beyond me.
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Post by 19delta on Sept 21, 2019 17:37:54 GMT -6
I love those videos that show a youth football team running through a banner but the lead guys don't have enough a$$ to break the Velcro and the whole team gets jammed up behind it like it's rush hour on the Dan Ryan.
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Post by 19delta on Sept 21, 2019 15:09:15 GMT -6
i got curious so I looked up both schools. They're not THAT small. WB has an enrollment of 600 7-12. SS has 600 9-12. I've seen much smaller schools that play 12 minute quarters. In fact, I played at one. This isn't about safety at all. This is about schools resisting change. That school would be the second-largest high school in our tri-county area. And EVERYONE here plays 12-minute quarters.
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Post by 19delta on Sept 21, 2019 13:43:50 GMT -6
Was looking on the local news website this morning at scores from last night, and with each game they often have several photos. I saw one photo with a team’s jack wagon of a coach leading his team through the banner before the game. Da fuq?! Is this common in any area? It certainly isn’t around here. It may speak volumes that this team is a perennial bottom feeder that almost always gets a mercy clock after halftime. The only reason they lose is cause they aren’t fired up enough. They don’t want it bad it enough. And they don’t run through the banner hard enough. That is a master coach leading by example. Without seeing the clip, I would be willing to wager that 1) the coach was wearing a visor Or 2) the coach posts videos of himself lifting weights with kids on Twitter.
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Post by 19delta on Sept 20, 2019 11:04:46 GMT -6
Is there a set pace? Can't the kids just walk slow? I have a hard time thinking that walking six miles is going to be too exhausting for a high school kid who will have a game several hours later.
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Post by 19delta on Sept 20, 2019 4:52:02 GMT -6
So an extra 8 minutes of clock time once a week is dangerous?
If these schools are so concerned about that extra 8 minutes, how about just adjusting the practice schedule during the week? I mean, Monday-Thursday, they can just finish up 2 minutes early... 😆
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Post by 19delta on Sept 18, 2019 13:53:41 GMT -6
For all the people saying he should get fired, especially for breaking the policies that coaches are trying to instill in their players / programs. Would you give one of your players a lifetime ban from your program for a DUI? And also I've been to alot of coaches clinics where I've witnessed ALOT of coaches doing things they preach to their teams are not acceptable. I wouldn't hold a minor and an adult to the same standard.
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Post by 19delta on Sept 16, 2019 18:48:26 GMT -6
Why did the whole team have to run gassers for what one kid did?
Have you tried talking with his parents? What's the deal there?
My suggestion is that you just don't play him. If you have 10 kids on the team, play the 9 kids who aren't dickbags. It doesn't sound like you guys are winning much anyway even with this kid. If that's the case, then play the good kids.
In my experience, the only thing that affects change on kids like this is taking away playing time.
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A warning
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Post by 19delta on Sept 15, 2019 13:53:46 GMT -6
The video is 9 seconds long and it is almost undecipherable. And it is pretty clear that the kid doing the talking is not a member of Mensa. They cancelled a football game over this? Is the team that Poquoson was supposed to play (York) predominantly African-American? It looks like Poquoson has quite a few African-American players. There must be more to the story. Again...I see one dumb-ass kid who can barely form coherent sentences. This resulted in a football game bing cancelled? Poquoson is about 97% white. York isn't. Poquoson has a reputation as a "sundown" community going back years. It looks like the school leadership is trying to clean up their reputation but the old school Bubbas aren't interested. I'm not sure that we saw the same video. The one that I saw was longer than 9 seconds and when the kid kept repeating "Phuk n-----s" it came through pretty clearly. There's two videos in the link provided above. The first is a 2-minute news segment. The other is a 9-second video of some white kid dropping the "N"-bomb but I can't really tell what he is yelling about. Again...I'm not trying to minimize what the kid did, but it just seems excessive to cancel an entire game over a couple dumbasses. How about just kicking those kids off the team?
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Post by 19delta on Sept 15, 2019 12:15:34 GMT -6
The video is 9 seconds long and it is almost undecipherable. And it is pretty clear that the kid doing the talking is not a member of Mensa. They cancelled a football game over this?
Is the team that Poquoson was supposed to play (York) predominantly African-American? It looks like Poquoson has quite a few African-American players.
There must be more to the story. Again...I see one dumb-ass kid who can barely form coherent sentences. This resulted in a football game bing cancelled?
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Post by 19delta on Sept 13, 2019 14:12:54 GMT -6
If he blew a .19 an hour after the stop, that dude was HAMMERED when he got behind the wheel. Hard to believe he even got the car out of the parking lot. Also, if he was that drunk and still able to drive, then my guess is that he is a pro and this was just the first time he got caught.
Driver Ed teacher here...no sympathy for drunk drivers. Yes, he should be fired.
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Post by 19delta on Sept 10, 2019 4:51:46 GMT -6
Do you play under NFHS or NCAA rules?
While it may be hard to believe, NFHS doesn't have any rules relative to noise. I looked in both the rule book and case book and the closest thing I would find would be 9-9-1, which states "(a) player or nonplayer or person(s) not subject to the rules shall not hinder play by an unfair act which has no specific rule coverage". The case plays relative to that specific rule talk about things like refusing to unpile and "where's my tee" type of plays rather than artificial noise.
The NCAA rules do prohibit people subject to the rules, including bands, from creating any noise that prohibits a team from hearing its signals. That said, I know a D1 referee who was let go (after being lambasted in the national media) for trying to enforce it after members of the cheerleading squad where using artificial noisemakers to interfere with the visitor's signals.
Might be time to start practicing silent counts...
P.S. As an official, assuming that your team was not significantly more undisciplined than your opponents, I'm embarrassed by his actions. Sorry that you had to deal with that attitude and I hope that something is done about it. The shortage is no joke, though, and you likely wouldn't have had to deal with that angry octogenarian if a whole generation or two hadn't given up on officiating due to an increasingly toxic culture. Most assignors want to put their best on the field... Thanks, I really appreciate your perspective, I was operating under that assumption that the nfhs and NCAA rules were in agreement on artificial noise makers. Apparently they aren't (as an aside, I'm going to consider blasting our PA at every home game now). The specific issue we are having is that there are a large number of head officials in Iowa who are supplementing their retirement officiating. We generally have really good side judges,mostly in their 20's and 30's, but we get these decrepit guys in the middle of the field who should have long ago hung it up. I think the shortage would improve dramatically if they didn't keep marginalizing competent officials and supporting bad officials with seniority. We lost in OT Friday night. QB for the other team threw a long TD pass in the 4th QT when he was 4 yards past the LOS. The official did not call it because he had already started to waddle downfield before the QB threw the ball. Brutal on film. It didn't cost us the game as we had many opportunities to put it away, but man...I wish they wouldn't have missed that one!
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Post by 19delta on Aug 31, 2019 13:16:40 GMT -6
If most of your guys are playing both ways and most of their guys aren't, then you need to get more guys.
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Post by 19delta on Aug 8, 2019 20:32:53 GMT -6
Former "Last Chance U" featured player from EMCC Ronald Ollie was in the Raiders' training camp. He is featured in Episode 1 of the current season of "Hard Knocks" on HBO. Got cut before the end of the episode.
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Post by 19delta on Aug 1, 2019 13:55:36 GMT -6
Brown had a lot of critics last year but you get a lot more leeway when you're winning than when you're 2-8 after aspiring to a national championship. Besides Brown's temper and his hot dogging on TV it seems to me that a lot of the local criticism of Brown and ICC is valid. I looked at last year's roster. Independence COMMUNITY College had a total of two kids from Kansas. I understand that they were bringing in top talent but they couldn't find more than two in-state kids that can play football? Paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for a new PRACTICE field while they were cutting academic programs and laying off staff was a bad look. About 20 years ago, College of DuPage in DuPage County, Illinois (SW burbs outside of Chicago) was a national JUCO football power. Virtually every player was from out of state. It got so ridiculous that the board eventually voted to eliminate the football program.
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Post by 19delta on Jul 22, 2019 22:12:33 GMT -6
Completely anecdotal, but the kids I have seen with the most "overuse"-type injuries are the ones who play the same sport all year (or at least for an extended time) and don't do much strength training.
Many of our volleyball players are playing volleyball 8-12 months out of the year. Those girls are often beat to hell.
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Post by 19delta on Jul 22, 2019 19:42:54 GMT -6
Yeah...the QB coach seemed like a pretty major dousch. What was the deal with him telling the QBs that it was his last week and he was quitting because he couldn't take the chaos? And why say that with the cameras right in his face? I also didn't understand why Brown fired the QB coach and the strength coach before the final game. Something about how both guys had already found different jobs? Given the revolving door of college assistant coach positions, I found that to be an odd reason to fire coaches. Because they took the job and gave him no notice to speak of. I’m not against him on that. Pretty shady IMO Ok. That makes sense. I guess I missed where Brown said that was why he was upset with them.
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