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Someone big mad they got called out

Must have been living in a 3rd world country 🤷🏼‍♂️

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What does that even mean? “We the people” are given the chance to fix it every two years and we abdicate our authority to corporate money-financed propaganda on both sides. If you’re talking some sort of armed populist uprising, you’ve gotten a hold of some bad acid or something.

Without a doubt both parties try to discredit each other. But never in the history of American politics has a politician indulged in the insane, delusional ranting and raving that he's been up to for the last couple of years. You can throw all of the frivolous lawsuits in as well. Never has a politician on either side tried to install hundreds of handpicked politicians throughout the country in every race imaginable, while working to discredit their opponents of the same party. And then when that didn't work out, cue more insane speeches, online posts, etc. You're right that I don't like the guy, but I've voted for him twice. That doesn't mean that his behavior isn't extremely alarming, especially since there's a good possibility that he'll be the republican nominee for president in 2024.

players > coaching. Way more often than not. players + coaching + level of competition = wins. Missing any of the 3 is likely detrimental. Let's stay on Lumberton. A couple years ago they won the district championship in basketball. Their coach was unanimous COY for the district. Not so much as a sniff the next year... or since. What happened? Same exact coach. Still Lumberton kids. Oooohh.. that's right. They had a 6'6 D1 signee on the team. Funny how kids make coaches successful. Disclaimer: I know Coach Mitchell personally and think he does a fantastic job. But... it takes players to have success. I'm positive you'll ignore the example I just gave and the endless others.. but it doesn't change anything.

So what would voting look like if we removed names and parties from people? They spoke on their beliefs and their agenda's but we couldn't see their faces. Their history of what they have and haven't supported was shown next to their candidacy (we know a great majority of people aren't going to try and research this). I bet we would find different people in offices all over the country. Too many people vote on parties, or for a name, or against a name, etc. A lot of people vote for a certain party because that's what their parents voted for. I would be willing to be it people really took a neutral approach from the beginning...we would see different results in a lot of elections.

It's not JUST about wins and losses. I know it's the nature of the business but sometimes it shouldn't be. Sometimes it truly is an unfavorable district/classification, in which the season would be completely different if not the case. Sometimes strong senior classes graduate. Sometimes good athletes decide not to play for whatever reason. Sometimes rival teams get a transfer or more. Or... sometimes you just don't have the horses. The best trainer in the world won't win a horse race with a donkey. None of that is the fault of the coach, yet that's who gets the blame every time. I agree it's on their shoulders but all factors should be considered.

I'm sure it's closer to never. I'd bet that they don't even meet with any of these coaches that they so openly ridicule behind a computer screen.

Last time Vidor was in 5A (6A now) was 1995...they were in the same district as the Baytown Lee and Sterling, North Shore, Beaumont Central and West Brook, TJ, and PN-G

Trump knows exactly how the dims are stacking the deck against the American people with their liberal/woke/communist ideology. I applaud anyone who fights that tooth and nail. People have died fighting communism for all of us and we reward that (in their memory) by electing them into our government……. Shameful!

I've said this very thing before.

It’s unbelievable how miserable people are and unwilling to congratulate a man on job well done. Coach Mathews did a phenomenal job as AD/HC for Vidor but a few select individuals always want to talk about wins and loses… and before those people say it’s a sports and someone has to win and lose, you are right but sports is so much more than being about winning and losing. Sports are about teaching someone to be accountable, a team player, leadership, and so on. So before you chime in and focus solely on wins and loses…. Let’s see your win, loss record (and little league doesn’t count) or if y’all know so much about being a AD/HC let’s see those applications and credentials.

Went back and read the response, did I say no business was affected by covid? I'd be a fool to say there weren't any affected Keep working those 2 jobs Twitter dude, I'll keep building mine... if you'd stay off here and Twitter you may be more successful!

orangefield and Buna will be battleing for 1&2. anahuac will be a distant 3rd anahuac lost their coach and will not be as good as they were last year.

Been needing that for a while. Not sure about his contract situation. Did he get a fat new contract a couple of years ago? Elliott got his and look what happened to him. Dak following close behind!

You would have included PNG on your list before this year.

This is true. While OF and Anahuac have an Ace at the top of their staff, Buna does as well in Kale Knox. (Supergold MVP and District POTY last season.) Buna will also have Jr. Carson Burks returning from an elbow injury. He was a huge part of the playoff run in 2021 as a freshman, and did not pitch or play last season. Same goes for Denton Peveto who played but was unable to pitch last season. Sophomore Daniel Midkiff was the number 2 starter last season. He notched shutouts of Central Heights and Anderson-Shiro in the playoffs. I'd argue that collectively, Buna has more pitching than anyone in this district. Knox is more than capable of going toe to toe with Bodin or Edmonds.

Again… yes you can and will. 10 flat DQ’s out of the blocks, missteps on a hurdle, runs out of their lane, pulls up cause of an injury, etc..

I think png home grown football stud head coach Matt Burnett got an extra 10 years before the excitement of his '99 state title finals appearance wore off before he got the boot.

12, 24, 36… doesn’t matter, right?!?! PNG should be at AT&T stadium every year

Nope they sure have not. Also, Vidor has not had multiple D1 players in the past 24 years, and yes you are 110% Jeff Mathews is a great man and a good HC! He got the most out the players he had to work with, but with you leading the ship, I’m POSITIVE you’ll bring many, many, many championships to Vidor.

Since it's a home game, I'd imagine Silsbee ISD's YouTube channel will have it. [Hidden Content]

Well, you were wrong. I have a damn thing to say, and I said it.

Really? Cry me a river. A business owner can refuse service to anyone for any reason excepting racial discrimination. Bakery refusing to bake cake for same sex couple ring any bells? You all are a bunch of crybabies. Moral outrage when your peeps are dissed, high fiving when peeps you don’t like are dissed for the same freakin’ reason. The principle is the same, but I keep forgetting that in here principles are as fluid as mercury.

Trump encouraged people to overthrow the government

It looks like your accurate portrayal of the present philosophy of Vidor football on this forum has got a quite of few people here confused!

Are you saying the democrats don't try and actually ruin anyone that opposes them? Remember Kavanaugh, Thomas, I could go on and on. I'm not talking about simply calling them bad names and making mean tweets (which I won't defend) but I'm talking about LITERALLY trying to destroy lives with KNOWINGLY false information. Also, don't forget the Russia Collusion crap was also KNOWINGLY made up lies that Hillary Clinton herself was very aware of, actually hired folks to create it. Your dislike of Trump is skewing you ability to see this is nothing new.

Nope… just on message boards, social media, or in the stands.

Again you’re wrong… Vidor was in 20-4A ‘96, ‘97 football years. ‘96 football season Vidor was 5-5 under HC Pat Murphy ’97 football season Vidor was 2-8 under HC Johnson. and I believe Vidor was still 20-4A the ‘98 football season.

Well… if you want to look at all 24 years let’s look at the 24 years before he took over… 69-157-3 … they were 15-86 the ten years prior to him becoming HC/ AD…I’d say he’s made a difference it takes time to implement an offense and change a mindset in a program… especially one with a history of very little success… I think he implement the slot-t around 2006… after a couple years it caught on and more success followed than the program has ever seen.

Good thing he was 68-56 last twelve years

Same type of athlete??? Did you see them line up against each other??? Not even close

Not a single player ran 4.5… now their dad may have brought them to the field and clocked them on the daddy watch… but no one on Vidor’s roster touched a legit 4.5

How many times…. ….. and how many stories? After the Rodney King incident and everybody wanting the video the police, we faced it also. This was in days before body cams and certainly there were no cell phone cameras. It either had to be a VHS or the VHS-C. I pulled a guy over on a traffic stop and unfortunately it was right next where his buddies were on a porch about 30 feet away. It was probably around 1995-ish. The driver’s friends came off of the porch and got too close for me to safely conduct my traffic stop. So I had to split my time watching the driver and his friends who were then a threat to me. That simply wasn’t going to happen. I could have called all available units and would have probably had a substantial response in short order. But… I told them that they needed to back away and let me conduct my business (their actions by law could have resulted in up to 6 months in jail). The response was, we have the right to video, make sure you don’t do something wrong blah blah blah….. My answer was, I was going to conduct my traffic stop no matter what else happened. It was likely going to end up in a citation or maybe a warning. I was not going to do it with them standing over my shoulder and interfering. So they had two options. I calmly told them that I saw they were on the porch about 30 feet away. They could stand on the porch and video everything they wished and in fact, it would be in a better position to be elevated. Then if I did anything wrong, they would have the video and they could also be witnesses. The other option was that I could call over the entire shift and we could handle it that way. Not only did they choose to get back on the porch, they were actually agreeable to it. One of them made some kind of comment like, that makes sense. So they all got on the porch, got their video and I finished my traffic stop in drove away. I think the fact that I was not confrontational with them by pointing my finger and yelling to “get back!”, etc. and explained the issue, they were very agreeable. I have seen plenty of police videos where the officer(s) was legally correct but a different tactic “might” have (it doesn’t always work) yielded a different result. In fairness, I didn’t start out with that wisdom. It took about 3 years before I started figuring out when to change tactics. Now, they teach a required class in “de-escalation”. About 35 years ago we called that “experience”.

It’s getting built back day by day week by week. By the end of this year I should be back to normal and completely debt free. But thank you so much for your words of wisdom…they’re meaningless.

.. come on man. if your cost of debt is lower than your cap rate, or lower than what you can get a return on elsewhere, then it’s accretive to tack on leverage and absolutely the smart thing to do if you’re in a strong financial position You’re doubling down on making yourself look (even more) stupid. Stop while you can

What do Dallas Cowboys fans do after they win the SuperBowl? Turn off their PlayStation. 🤣😂

I spent many years managing big box stores. When I left we could confront shoplifters in store and ask them how they would like to pay for the item in their pants/purse. If they ignored us and walked out, we could not physically restrain them.,,,, I was having a bad day one evening and a guy ran from the electronics department of Service Merchandise with a bag full of radios and small things. It may have been about $500.00 worth of stuff. I decided to give chase (to this day I have o idea what I would have done had he stopped LOL)....I chased him to the end of the parking lot and he ran across the street toward some woods. As soon as I turned around a guy in a big truck asked if he was a shoplifter. I told him yes and he said I'll be right back. About 20 minutes later he showed back up with the bag......He gave me his card, he was a Company A Texas Ranger. He claimed he never got out of his truck......

He was the best thing that has ever happen to Vidor football in my memory. Always positive. Stands were always full. Personally, I didn't know the guy, but I know he was well respected all around SE Texas. You don't have to go deep in the playoffs to have an affect on these young men. God speed Coach Matthews.

chase is not tracy. the games anahuac will win this season will because of what bennett left them. anahuac will be a 3-4 place team and will be 1 and done in the playoffs.

I don’t suggest this but the public that witnesses a theft can stop it. I have seen videos lately of store employees not stopping a thief because their company will fire them but the videos show citizens jumping in and doing it. That only is this legal in Texas, it will more than likely will increase the criminal penalty significantly. Texas has a specific law that says anyone can arrest for a theft that is reasonably believed. If the thief who the citizen was trying to stop slapped him across the cheek, it then becomes robbery with a maximum of 20 years in prison. Here is an example. If a guy picks up a $90 drill and walks out of the store, it is a class C misdemeanor or the equivalent of a traffic citation. It carries no jail time and a fine only of $500 or less. If a citizen stepped in to try to stop the thief and the thief caused any pain to the citizen like a slap, it is robbery. If the thief threatens the citizen who is trying to stop him, even if he does not hit the citizen, it is still robbery because of the threat. Under that exact same scenario and if the citizen happens to be 65 years or older, the C misdemeanor theft becomes Aggravated Robbery and carries up to a 99 year prison sentence. So a fine of a couple of hundred dollars could now be life in prison under Texas law.

It sure does make the most sense out of the options I’ve heard

Turned into sabine pass over night

Lamar edges Texas A&M - Corpus Christi 68-66 at home. A&M - Corpus one of the better teams in the Southland..

I don’t think the Trumptards have yet realized that people didn’t voted for Biden, they voted against Trump. Literally the only reason Biden won. Democrats can run anyone, other than Hillary, against trump and win, even a pet rock Same reason why Trump won in 2016. People just really hated Hillary. Of course there is the hillbilly here and there that think Trump is a legitimate, successful businessman, which is why these people continue getting conned in donating their own money to a billionaire

If he wins the nomination, ANY Democrat beats him worse than they did last time. The fact that he's leading in polls this early is not a reason to celebrate... It's a terrible omen. We already know that the he will drive Dems to vote against him like no other candidate in our history, and if by some chance a different Republican wins the nomination, a huge number of Trump's crybaby election deniers will refuse to vote for the Republican nominee... Either way, Trump's presence in the race assures a Dem President will be elected in 2024. Nobody that voted against Trump has "learned their lesson." They still hate him and WILL vote against him again. The only question is who will get their vote-because Trump certainly won't.

Then Br. City has one more year.

Yes the teacher knows. Does that justify the penalty? How do groom an adult? Maybe I need to take notes Another stupid law as an example (which happened to a local police officer maybe 15 years ago. I think he was about 22 and had a 17 year old girlfriend. The ended up in an intimate relationship which is/was completely legal. At some point they took photos together in less than a fully clothed condition. He was then convicted of a felony. Why? Because at 17 she was an adult and could agree to any sexual act with consent but photographs are a felony until her 18th birthday. Make sense? And get this, both are adults and both could possess the exact same photo that they both agreed to take but only he is a felon. He is 18 or older so her possessing photos of him is no crime. There are some stupid laws on the books to make people feel good but don’t make sense.

HF should be as good or better than they were this year. Unlucky to be in this stacked district. I kind of expect a similar season to this past one, with a lot of close games between these four teams at the top. I tend to agree that HF finished fourth, but I think 2-4 could be interchangeable, depending on factors such as injuries, grades, and how well Jasper and WOS grow into their coaches systems during their second years.