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  1. Every announcer doing WVU games the next 4 years will be black.
  2. When you think you know something you create a whole argument on the basis of something you know but in reality is complete bullshit. For example, your description of the route AD ran. The route stem should be driven into the DB to get him to react, and then you break to the outside giving you the space you need to operate. That is receiver 101. Instead AD is drifting toward the sideline LEADING the DB to him. The DB had no guess work because AD's lazy route running told him where the throw was going to go. You see, you come on here and blame that on the QB when that is entirely on AD for picking the game winning/losing play not to put forth effort. He was playing like he didn't expect the ball to come to him. It's lazy, and its what he has been doing on and off all season so no surprise that it showed up here. Everyone has a job to do on this play. Quinn needs to throw the ball high and to the outside. AD is supposed to create separation with proper route running, and then go get the ball thrown where he has the advantage. The DB is supposed to protect against inside breaking routes by sitting with inside leverage and break on anything going outside. Guess which two did their jobs and who didn't? Now go find me any expert that says the way AD ran his route there from 13 yards out was correct. I will hang up and wait.
  3. You get to the spot and jump vertically. He got to the spot and went for the lean and pose. Look at his feet. He jumps vertically and he has plenty of room to come down in bounds. Anyone who doesn't think that has never had any decent athletic ability. AD is a player who plays hard exactly 3 or 4 plays a game and soft the rest. Lazy route running, allowing himself to physically get overwhelmed vs smaller DBs. Par for the fucking course for him and Worthy. There was nothing wrong with that throw. He simply lost the physical battle with a DB 6 inches shorter than him. Want to.
  4. You guys are some clowns clinging on to the one player who played pretty well. Nevermind the fumbling of the football. Nevermind Worthy, once again, not being able to track a ball in the air. Look at J-Whitt for an example of how to attack a 50/50 ball. Nevermind all the got-damned penalties in the trenches on both sides of the ball. Nevermind anybody on that defense being able to make a play on the damn ball in the air. Nevermind no pass rush all damn game and one of the best QBs in the game getting 4 fucking seconds to scan the field. The call was a fucking fade. You drop back and put the ball where you are supposed to and your receiver is supposed to jump up, shield out the DB, and catch the damn ball. AD didn't jump for the ball at all. Instead he tried to be cute and high point the ball while keeping a toe on the ground for the look at how ready I am for the NFL pose. Go get the damn ball bro. He is 6'4. Play like it.
  5. See you kept your mouth shut until you felt like he played bad to come on here with your bullshit. The difference between Penix and QE is we gave Penix all day to throw. Washington actually brought pressure and got home. We didn't sack Penix all day. If you want to shit on QE do it about his sidearm delivery that got batted down. Outside of that the loss is on two RBs not holding onto the football and the defense not doing a damn thing correctly on passing downs. The last throw was high and outside away from the DB. Had AD gone up for it instead of keeping his feet on the ground we are all here chest bumping. AD and Worthy have struggled all year fighting for 50/50 balls. It figures that it would be the way we went down.
  6. Or you know, your receiver can elevate and catch the ball. Like he did on the last TD, and like Ewers probably expected him to.
  7. The problem with sports nowadays is that once they get to the high school level if they want to keep playing they are likely to be forced into playing travel club sports. The other kids at the school are also playing that level so they will need that experience just to make the team. At my daughter's school freshman, JV, and Varsity kids all play club. If you don't play club you won't even make the team. Not all sports are like that but most of them are so you have a decision to make.
  8. I know a lot of the guys who are on here frown on this but considering the snail's pace this thread has moved over the years maybe we should be more open here. We have only 60 pages here despite most guys here being fathers. Some of the younger dads could learn a thing or two as well as the dads that went through it being a helpful ear. I am lucky to have had a guy who is a couple years older than me who just had his kid recruited and signed to help me along my journey. I would say speak up.
  9. I swear I am not trying to play the one up game but I have to say this. My daughter and this other kid played the same position. My kid is a big enough threat that if she is given the same opportunities she could possibly supplant this kid as a kid to watch for the MVP race. However, she did the aforementioned crap to make sure that wasn't the case. Some days the stats would go in 15 minutes after the game was over and sometimes they wouldn't get updated until the next day. Took me awhile, but I eventually realized that the days they got updated the next day were days that the other girl didn't have a good game and she didn't want the press writing about another kid leading the team to victory. My kid had 40 kills vs a pretty solid team while also hitting .400. She came home excited to see what the papers said and nothing. The papers get their info from MaxPreps/the coaches, and none of it had been updated. The game was at home so no excuses. The issue was the other girl hit under .100. Anyway, I appreciate the offer for beach. I wish my kid would play beach but she doesn't like it. It would help her game tremendously. She could use the finesse.
  10. You are damn nails on about indoor volleyball being pretty ugly, especially at schools. I know I said it upstream but we were ranked like between 6 and 10 in the state at various points of the season. As such we molly-whop just about every team we play, losing zero district games. We have 4 Outside Hitters, 2 Middle Blockers, two Right Sides, and so on. We are good enough that we can beat anyone in our district save one team with backups. So coach pulls the starters when we play them, which is good to get your loyal backups some pt. However, since she had an agenda to get one of our OH's the MVP she let her play against those softer teams to pad her stats while everyone else had to sit. The end result was her getting a ton more swings than the next kid. My daughter and her were the two rotating at OH. They played the same minutes otherwise but this kid had 485 more swings than my daughter did, all to win her an award. Meanwhile, when you funnel a ball through a single player that much when she has an off game you are out, which is what happened. We are already seeing a therapist. We were seeing one over the summer but then the schedule got weird but we are back on track now, and we couldn't agree more. Hopefully as time goes on she gets to be more like your daughter and things smooth out.
  11. You try to do the right thing as a parent. It's impossible to see the future. You can only make the best call and hope it works out. What an area was like for us and what its like now is hard to predict. These are different times with different issues. Though my daughter is seen as Black, she is actually Chinese, Black, and White. She would like to be accepted in all those communities and not just pushed into one because society says so. One of her grandpas looks like me. Her other grandpa looks almost exactly like Mr Miyagi(Pat Morita). We wish people would just accept her for who she is, and not cause her so much mental anguish because she is different.On the WC people thought she was an islander until they met her parents. Its been mainly Texas where the issues came into the picture. I know you probably won't have the same experiences, and that's a good thing. Growing up is hard enough on its own. Hope he has a wide road to navigate.
  12. 2016 is when it became acceptable again to be outwardly racist, misogynistic, and homophobic. It's an interesting conundrum that you find yourself in as a black person in Texas. You work hard to get to a place in life where you can afford to put your children everywhere that a White American can. Then the question remains should you? On one hand you want them to get the highest level of education they can as well as live in an environment that is relatively safe. On the other you are made to feel unwelcome and your child is missing out on some of the cultural foundation that they would get in a relatively black community. What we've seen is that a lot of black people start out trying the area we live in out only to move somewhere else around the age they are heading into high school. Well, we've decided we weren't running which has been rough on the kid. Here is a conversation I had with another volleyball dad friend of mine who's kid plays at the same club, but also for the school that we played at our gym. Apparently someone in the student section was calling players on the other team the N-word. Pretty embarrassing for me to have my friends being treated like that when they come to play us. We were also in the news this year for a middle school kid getting bullied through text messages by being called racial slurs. NAACP ended up getting involved. It was ugly.
  13. I used to live in Cary when I worked in the research triangle but that was before kids. You are correct that it is more mixed out there. I remember that standing out when I was there.
  14. It is what it is Brisket. Me and you grew up here so we know what's up, but for outsiders it can be a bitter pill to swallow. My daughter is being recruited now and she swears she won't entertain any scholarships from Texas. I am doing my best to support but I am struggling finding the line.
  15. Currently in this loop bigtime Brisket. Moved from LA to Houston to slow life down. Wife picks a lilly white suburb because the schools were great. Can't say as I blame because HISD. Anyway, kid is a super athletic, skinny little thing who never met anyone who wasn't a friend. We start the new school in 6th grade. A month in she is in the hospital diagnosed with Type1. She gets out then Covid. Depression sets in. 7th grade starts and she isn't the same. Scared to assert herself. Not making friends. Kids calling her the N word. Lucky for us volleyball creates a balance. She excels at that. Making elite teams at club, starting varsity, 1st team all district, but at school she is being ostracized. At first we think its because early teenager, and the usual struggles of girls that age, but then, through volleyball, we start to see that its simply "how things are" in areas like this. The light bulb kinda came on last year. The first tournament of the volleyball season we took the girls to eat and all the black girls meandered over to a table by themselves. In fact, of the 13 girls they all segregated. We lived in Woodland Hills in LA and it wasn't like this. Wife is from the West Coast(chinese and white) and doesn't get it. I remember this from my time growing up. Daughter is growing increasingly frustrated. Boys ask her out to a dance but then come back and say they aren't allowed to go. Wife and Daughter are both complaining. Daughter is fighting some hardcore depression. My wife's reaction isn't making things better. Solution is pretty simple to me. Move or accept the fact that you aren't making friends here and build relationships with the girls on your club team from other schools. My "fixit" isn't appreciated. So I will just hang out over here until y'all figure it out.
  16. My personal experience is my Tesla had seemingly little sound deadening material and had a lot of road noise compared to my wife's A6. It tried to kill me twice on the highway by slamming on the brakes because the car read that the barrier wall through the chicane was in front of it. After about 25k the window would leak at the carwash in the rinse cycle when the sprayer hit it. Didn't leak when it rained though. Hot as shit this last summer with the glass roof. Got rid of it. Ultimately it was a fun car for a bit but a shit product once you got some miles on it, and the programming in it seemed dangerous. I turned everything I could off. Probably won't buy another.
  17. Same place same time frame and same sentiment.
  18. Thatguy

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    I have a friend who is the Trump voting type. Largely a good guy. When his son was an 8th/9th grader he would say "all his friends are girls" and "he is really popular will the girls in his school". It was clear to everyone else the kid was gay. Kid gets older and moves to New York to attend NYU, and suddenly they are concerned. He was already gay. How the hell did you not know that.
  19. You call the police for help. You know, the protect and serve guys. You are there, scared out of your mind, trying to fend off your crazy ex-boyfriend with a knife. Officers, thank god you are here............. Next week there is a crime in the area. Police are going door to door trying to find someone who saw what happened. All doors and windows are shut and no one is answering. Police go on tv telling reporters that they aren't getting a lot of community cooperation.
  20. This post is going to be tough to keep out of CR but I will try. When I say the police built this here is what I mean. Policing was always bad. Policing, at least the way we know it, was created to keep immigrants and slaves "in their place". Then it was used to help fuel the second wave of slavery(peonage) as well as Jim Crowe. In the late 60's they used it for "the war on drugs", or in other words to attack blacks and hippies. That ideology was the focus all the way up until recent years. Now that EVERYONE has a camera you are seeing what the police are. This isn't a "few bad apples", this is what they have always been. If anything they've lifted their foot off the gas pedal in recent years. This is the teachings you get as a black person by anyone older than you. Its in the SOP handbook you get as a child. Now as far as the POS criminals I want you to think about this. Around 1940 we had roughly 264k people in prisons across the US. Thirty years later, when we started the "War on Drugs", we hadn't even increased that number 100k, as it was at 328k in 1970. Over the next 30-32 years the prison population ballooned to 2 million, six times what it was 30 years prior. I said that to say this. You put people in prison in subhuman conditions where they have to act like animals to survive, what do you think happens when they return home? So what you see in the poor communities after mass incarceration is a direct result of these policies. People who went away as non violent drug offenders come back cold hearted and violent. Think about it. When did the LA street gangs start? Late 60's early 70's. They weren't quite violent yet. They reached their peak around 1990, following to the letter the timeline of The War on Drugs and Mass Incarceration. As more of them got arrested and came home the gangs became more and more violent. Poor communities weren't like this in the past. This is a direct result of how we are policing them. Heavily criminalizing drugs. Putting people behind bars. Stigmatizing people who have made mistakes in the past. Thus no hope=repeat offenders. Think about what society was like pre mass incarceration and think about it now. Policing policies built this. The chickens have come home to roost.
  21. There is no shortage of bootlickers. I remember before I was a parent inherently thinking that all parents were trying their best and had their child's best interest at heart. It wasn't until I started parenting that I realized that is untrue. All the awful humans have kids too, and while you are trying to teach yours they are also teaching theirs. A large portion of America doesn't seem to understand a lot of awful human beings see policing as a great place to be. It attracts a certain type in my opinion, and there seems to be more of those than there are good ones. Police are being given the benefit of the doubt and they don't deserve it.
  22. The police have built their own issues. The response to their presence is because of the way they conduct business in communities, especially disenfranchised ones. My daughter's club volleyball teammate got beaten up by a girl outside of her house. There was video of it. A couple days later the same girl came after her in school. The police came and ended up slamming my daughter's teammate on the ground, causing her to hit her head and have a couple seizures shortly thereafter. This happened just the last week. She is 15 years old. Criminalizing everything to attack particular communities and now those communities are struggling because their leaders and fathers are behind bars for what would of been small offenses. Instead of using funding to help you made things worse and now you are reaping the fruits of your labor. The police are what they are because the system is what it is. Until there is a complete change of ideology, and what exactly their job is nothing will be different. They are here to do the bidding of the ruling class, and they fulfill their job responsibilities just as they are supposed to.
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