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  1. that members of this forum have been calling out, and according to one report, attacking a site moderator, not for his views on a topic down here, but for his enforcement of forum rules. Now, before I hear it, that report did not come from the moderator himself or even someone who holds the same views as him. Yes, we do have rules. They were written by me and approved by our board owner. Admittedly, most of these rules the staff is flexible on. There is one that I am absolutely not flexible on: 17) The admins and moderators here are volunteers. They dedicate a portion of their time to helping us with the forums. No abuse or disrespect of any of the admins or moderators will be tolerated. This is viewed as a zero tolerance violation. I don't care what your views are: conservative, liberal, libertarian, communist, etc. I don't care how long you have been on the site. None of those earn you the right to attack a moderator for enforcing forum rules. If you feel differently, you may leave. If you do it, you will leave. Let me be clear, you are free to debate a staff member who expresses his views in a topic down here. His word on a topic is not viewed as the final word and he is subject to have to defend his views and should be treated like any other board member. However, when I hear of a staff member being called "Hitler" or "dictator" for enforcing plainly worded and posted forum rules, that is unacceptable and it will not be tolerated. I understand that this will probably draw some response. To those that do so, choose your words carefully.
    5 points
  2. He sounds like a really good kid... you should be proud. Seriously, though... how does that feel when somebody insinuates that he just got that opportunity because of his skin color? Because that's exactly what you do every time you accuse somebody of benefitting from so-called "white privilege."
    4 points
  3. Here's the problem as I see it. You don't seem to have a problem with the fact that most NFL players are are black. You have a problem that most qbs aren't black, too. That is a problem in an of itself. Why does it matter what color a player is? It seems like you'd want the best man on the field for your team. If Colin Kapernick had spent more time honing his craft and less time protesting, he might have had a longer career in the NFL. I might hurt your feelings here, but I think you need to understand. Black athletes tend to be more explosive. They excel in positions that require those abilities. There are outliers.... you end up with an occassional McCaffree or whoever. You could further ask how black athletes came about those genetics, and you'd probably get your feelings hurt because it was the result of some fine husbandry work that wrapped up in the US around 1865 or so. Since then it's just continued in areas where those genetics are still strong.... like out around places like Belgrade, Biloxi, Sandjack, etc.... if you know, you know. It's also not hard to recognize that most successful black qbs today aren't field generals... they're relying heavily on their athleticism. Deshaun Watson, Rodney Peete, Jameis Winston, Cam Newton, Lamar Jackson, etc.... they are guys that have tremendous athleticism, with a decent amount of critical thinking. On the other hand you have guys like Rogers, Brady, Steve Young, the Mannings, Aikman, etc who had good arms but nowhere near the athletic abilities of the first group that I mentioned... they got it done with brain power. The difference? The second group are world champions and future hall of famers, while the jury is still out on the first group. You can dig in and really do some analysis, or you could just complain that there aren't enough qbs "that look like me." Back to businesses.... there used to be a lot of businesses that wouldn't hire based on prejudices. The history is what the history is. The problem is that now people actually believe that they are OWED a position based on their skin color. That's literally doing the same thing. There's no difference between not giving somebody a chance for a job because they're black in 1957 and not giving somebody a chance for a job because they're white in 2021. No difference. It doesn't matter what you're trying to correct or rectify, wrong is wrong. Here's a scenario... sometimes we have a position to fill at my place of employment and we do our best to keep those positions under wraps because clients like to push us towards hiring people as a "favor." Daughters, sons, nieces, whatever... the problem is that once you hire this person, you can't run them off if you need to because all you'll do is anger the person who sent the sorry employee your way. We like to quietly find somebody who's a decent fit and go from there. Likewise, if you have to pick between two candidates (one being white and one being black), which one is more likely to sue you if you have to let them go? Do you owe it to the company to protect the bottom line? It's a situation where trying to fix obvious problems has just created more problems. It always amazes me.... somebody will sue a "racist" employer for firing them because they're black.... but I guess that they weren't too racist to hire you in the first place, huh? I really felt like we'd made a lot of progress up until 15 or so years ago, but now it seems like the animosity has gotten worse. It's nowhere near what it was in the 1960s, but definitely worse than I've seen in my lifetime and it's very unfortunate.
    3 points
  4. PN-G Coach Carter's daughter Candyce Carter, as the head coach of Barb High School 5a softball team, won the 5a SC in Louisiana on May 1st making her and Coach Carter the first father daughter duo to win State Championships in Louisiana's 101 year history that records have been kept. Coach Carter has two SC's in Louisiana as well as the one at PN-G. Coach Carter won his first SC in his 5th year of coaching his daughter won her first SC in her 4th year of coaching. Congrats to both on such a rare and huge accomplishment.
    3 points
  5. I'm tired of waiting until July 1. I figure y'all are, too. So, we are gonna push the start date up a month. Previews start June 1st! I just posted the preview schedule. Here is the link to that:
    3 points
  6. baddog

    Supreme Court Rules...

    ....warrantless gun confiscation unconstitutional......9-0 [Hidden Content]
    2 points
  7. This is the absolute definition of hating. It's interesting to me, there once was a poster who frequented the basketball board by the name of DickieV. DickieV was a well known basketball coach from the SETX area who was quite vocal about his opinions on many things, but announced his identity and intention to leave the board after being hired as an assistant at a West Texas college. DickieV hasn't really been heard from since, except for the one time he popped in to criticize Dave Bliss receiving another job in college basketball after the Baylor debacle. DickieV argued that others deserved that second change rather than Bliss, and even pointed out that DickieV had been chosen as coach of the year over Bliss when they both coached in TCAL. After those comments, he vanished again. Fast forward to now. JayBilas arrives on the board, seemingly out of the blue, with a major interest in the HF coaching position. JayBilas' sentence structure and overall disposition of his posts is almost identical to DickieV. JayBilas even displays his passion toward subject matter that DickieV was passionate about. After reading the list of finalists for the HF job that was posted here, my interest is piqued regarding these two contributors. Who knows, what's really going on. I'd hate to think that one of the other finalists for the job was on a public message board disparaging the finalist that was awarded the position, especially since all of the criticism is an assumption and has been proven wrong. That would be a tragedy.
    2 points
  8. Reagan

    Israel Under Attack

    Netanyahu slaps down CBS terrorist sympathizer John Dickerson. From the article: "Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu — “We, unlike Hamas, take special precaution to tell people to leave the premise, and we make sure everyone is gone before we take down those buildings. What would you do if it happened to Washington and to New York? You know damn well what you’d do. You do, at the very least, what we’re doing.” “One of the AP journalists said we were lucky to get out. No, you weren’t lucky to get out. It wasn’t luck. It’s because we took special pains to call people in those buildings, to make sure that the premises were vacated”" Netanyahu showing the difference between good and evil. Even the evil press still doesn't get it! EVEN when THEIR lives were saved!! [Hidden Content]
    2 points
  9. I wonder how expensive it is to go to Texas A&M or Oklahoma? Lol
    1 point
  10. Look, I don’t disagree with some of the things you’re saying. But you have to at least acknowledge both sides for a healthy debate. I even question my own decision to get the vaccines. I’d be an idiot not to. That being said, I’m still alive for now.
    1 point
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  12. I find that research just as hard to believe as the pro vaccine research. Like I said, I think it’s ALL a bunch of political propaganda on BOTH sides. Take the shot(s) or don’t. It’s as simple as that.
    1 point
  13. Why? Because, qualified black people were not being included. If there wasn't a criteria, some businesses wouldn't hire any blacks. Black owned businesses hire white people, and I dont think that black people get bonus points on civil service exams. How many people got jobs merely because they are white? Black only clubs are not legal. At one point, he general consensus amongst publishers was the notion that black people dont read. Growing up, I dont remember reading any fiction novels written by a black author, and there are books where every character is white. "Waiting to Exhale" was the first book that I read that had a black author. I was 24, at the time. I didnt learn about Medgar Evers, the Tuskegee Airman, Malcolm X, etc in traditional history classes. My youngest son, who graduated from High School, 2 years ago, didn't know who any of these people were until I told him. I didnt know about the women depicted in the movie "Hidden Figures". They were called human calculators, until last year. How many family friendly shows are on network tv, now? Blackish is the only one I can think of at this time. At one time, some thought that black men weren't smart enough to play quarterback in the NFL. That was only about 30 years ago.
    1 point
  14. Not this guy or the rest of my family! NOBODY knows the long term effects.... Yes To each their own, but to many people jumped the gun on this due to fear........ when one constantly is hearing death number, underlying health factors, age factors.....so on and so forth from radio, tv, internet, social media, friends, family, employers .... that’s pressure pressure pressure......manipulation manipulation manipulation......even if you don’t think so...... if a person hears the same thing over and over and over it changes your thought process hence the reason this country has gone the way it has gone....less and less people are in church hearing the good news
    1 point
  15. baddog

    How Safe is the Vaccine ?

    Yes, get that total way down and we get to flu levels, which somehow makes no one panic. We have become a population of Howie Mandels.
    1 point
  16. CNN should fire him, but they won’t!!!
    1 point
  17. Uncle Pig

    ???

    There’s one man and one man only for this job: the great Dave Westfall
    1 point
  18. i heard his daughter is a pretty good football coach also.
    1 point
  19. Ty Cobb

    Sam Houston

    The BEARKATS are National Champions!!! Eat Em Up KATS!!!
    1 point
  20. PN-G Coach Carter's daughter Candyce Carter, as the head coach of Barb High School 5a softball team, won the 5a SC in Louisiana on May 1st making her and Coach Carter the first father daughter duo to win State Championships in Louisiana's 101 year history that records have been kept. Coach Carter has two SC's in Louisiana as well as the one at PN-G. Coach Carter won his first SC in his 5th year of coaching his daughter won her first SC in her 4th year of coaching. Congrats to both on such a rare and huge accomplishment.
    1 point
  21. On his coaches bio, it says he played basketball at the college level at ETBU, I believe. Why wouldn’t he want to coach at what got him to where he’s at? HF is a small school and generally any coach hired does multiple sports. They don’t have the financial support of the plants in the area to be able to afford just a sport specific coach like many of the other schools in the area so having a background in multiple sports is a must. We have had ADs in the past that only cared about football and it was one of the reasons our other programs such as basketball suffered. Wagner isn’t like that or Rideaux wouldn’t have been hired in the first place. He wants all the programs to succeed. It shows because multiple teams at HF have made the playoffs since he has been AD so to say this is a football hire isn’t true.
    1 point
  22. Some people need to be infertile
    1 point
  23. If they beat Friendswood. Next round would be winner of college station vs porter
    1 point
  24. Hate to say it. I dont think png will move on. Anything can happen though. Friendswood #1 for a reason. Think they finished the regular season like 26-0. So far in playoffs, 3 games blowouts in all 3. 2 against Nederland, 1 vs fulshear. I think best chance is a 1 game go home or move on and send the ace to the mound
    1 point
  25. No, need to get past next two rounds. They would have get to Regional finals
    1 point
  26. Realville

    Israel Under Attack

    Netanyahu: 'We will inflict blows that Hamas has not dreamed of'. You don’t Jack with Israel.
    1 point
  27. Reagan

    Israel Under Attack

    Joebama gave them 235 million and now they are bombing Israel. [Hidden Content] Joebama fails to condemn radical muslim terrorist for bombing Israel. What is it with the left for their love of terrorist??!! [Hidden Content]
    1 point
  28. Realville

    Israel Under Attack

    😁 Don’t Jack With Israel!
    1 point
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