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TreatyOak

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  1. One of my friend's son plays for USC. She's going to the game so I'll report her experiences from the mean streets of Boulder.
  2. Was watching Brennan HS's broadcast of last year's Westlake vs Brennan playoff game last night. @Helobious, you might enjoy this. We traditionally face a lot of home cooking each year in playoff games in San Antonio, but apparently, Brennan offense was given 51 plays to get 10 yards! That rarely happens: Then, in the 4th quarter, we faced an almost insurmountable 3rd down and 151 yards needed for a 1st down! Later, the broadcast crew gave up trying to keep up with the score and decided 41 points was enough for us and didn't add our last two TD's to the point total, haha.
  3. Huge congratulations to @immamac on the brand-new Surly Horns offices!!! You did an amazing job with the decor! They are a must-see on West 6th Street!
  4. Oh, crap. Sounds like your browser may be accidentally taking you away from the many other football threads and bringing you to the Deion Sanders "Coach Prime" is now at Colorado thread. If you are on Google Chrome, go to the History tab and Clear your browsing history and cookies. If the problem persists, go ahead and Clear Cached images and files. If the problem still persists, bring your computer to Surly IT on floor 3 for repair and we will issue you a Surly loaner. Unfortunately, @immamac just spent a fortune on tailgating food & beverages, so all we have left are some shitty 2011 Dell Netbooks.
  5. This CNN editorial writer seems to disagree with you. Excerpts below: "After his team’s first victory earlier this month, University of Colorado football coach Deion Sanders said something remarkable. He talked bluntly about racism and football in a way that few Black coaches at an elite level are willing to do. “We’re doing things that have never been done, and that makes people uncomfortable,” Sanders said. “When you see a confident Black man sitting up here talking his talk, walking his walk, coaching 75% African Americans in the locker room, that’s kind of threatening. Oh, they don’t like that.” We know what Sanders’ critics say. He’s got a big mouth. He plays the race card when he should just coach football. His “hype train is about to derail.” His success cannot be separated from the political and cultural climate in Black America. Sanders may be an athlete, but he’s taking on some of the same foes many Black Americans face in their daily lives today. Sanders represent one of those rare moments of contemporary racial progress. He has entered one of the Whitest and most conservative institutions in America — college football — and excelled. While many college football players are Black, most of the top teams are coached by White men, and many of the best teams are in red states like Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana. It’s not unusual to see Black and brown players competing on stadium turf surrounded by cheering White spectators.
  6. I agree with the first part of what you wrote. My family is Hispanic from San Antonio. And in regards to @MAUFRAIS's comment about Westlake being a blanket racist community, come spend some time with mi familia in SA. You might be surprised what you hear. Regarding your comment about Deion not being a positive role model, he may not be one to a large segment of the population, but to many people, he surely is.
  7. I don't live in Dallas, and had never heard about this scandal until this thread. It sounded pretty bad, but after reading the articles about it shared here, it sounded like a VERY convoluted situation where Deion hired some pretty incompetent, corrupted types who had a big hand in the failure of the program. Deion may not be actively fighting for social change, but in my view, the way Deion is providing leadership is very threatening to the status quo and social change is baked into it. Nobody hates Norvell or Strong because they don't do anything that is remotely threatening to the powers that be. Norvell's comment was pretty sad, actually.
  8. Thanks for sharing this. It isn't something we hear about much. Some creators have made some really powerful videos about this on TikTok.
  9. He is similar in that he is using his his public persona, which brazenly celebrates a type of African American culture, to shake up the conventional wisdom about how to create success in the world of sports. And like Ali, he seems to threaten a lot of people.
  10. Yes, you shared that view before. My experience is that people with less means are often the most racist people you will ever meet.
  11. Actually, I think it’s deeper than what I wrote and much uglier.
  12. This is a great thread because it is relevant to our society today in a way that transcends college football. Change-agents, like Deion, are rarely loved in their time. The college sports system, with its coaches, & ADs don't like change, and he is a threat to the status-quo in college football. Frauds, like Jimbo, rightly understand that change exposes them to be evaluated by a brand-new standard. Deion was even correctly perceived to be a threat by other Black coaches in the SWAC. Heck, he even called out his last school, as he accused them for not living up to their promises to him, and they didn't like being exposed. He is a polarizing figure, and your allegiance or dislike of him goes beyond his coaching acumen and is more tied to how you believe he "should" carry himself. The sunglasses comment (interestingly made by a Black coach) and the "clicks vs wins" comment both send a loaded message. Muhammad Ali may be loved now, but when he was speaking his mind to confront social change in the 1970's , he was vilified. Most adults I knew wouldn't even use his Islamic name. It was too scary to them. Now everyone acts like they always loved him. I predict Deion will be viewed the same years from now
  13. So happy we beat Lake Travis. Now at my client's yearly XMAS party, I get to talk crap with all the LT dads there. THey're kind of the Agiies of HS football, as they Ed Small is the real deal. He torched our Westlake secondary for two home-run balls TWICE last year. Dude can ball.
  14. Thank heavens. LT, with over a 1,300 more students and plenty of ex pro-sports dads should beat Westlake. I am hearing that the dads are getting restless.
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