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MLB has a pretty comprehensive plan and they are not going to make this season work. The UIL and TEA are throwing stuff at the wall and hoping something sticks. 
Our criminal attorney general is trying to score political points with a small audience. 
We should listen to the scientists and doctors. if our local health officials say it's not safe for school to open, that should be what we do.

Exactly my point. I think @ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING gets a little handy with reality vs. emotion. Several mayors have asked for a mask mandate, but not a “forced lockdown” like he’s preaching. Needs to change his name to EMOTIONAL REACTION IS EVERYTHING. Lol. 

1. Aubury’s case was clearly a murder. Nothing was stolen from that house. The 2 killers were not officers at the time of the killing. They had no real reason to try and arrest him because they had no proof of their suspicions. They chased him all around the neighborhood before the portion of the video that was leaked. He changed directions several times trying to escape them. If not before then I’m pretty sure by that time he has a right to “stand his ground”. That “attack” perceived by people like you who want to see it that way was last minute survival instincts after being chased around the block and not being able to escape. The guy who recorded later stated that the shooter uttered “f*****g n****r” after shooting the victim. That proves the killing was racially motivated although they don’t have a hate crime law in Georgia. But that’s not what makes it “systemic racism”. Systemic racism is the fact that they would have never even been arrested and tried if the video had not been leaked 2 months later. This is the one time this type of thing came to the light. It has happened on other occasions and was never uncovered,
2. You just stated all lies about HBCUs. They have the same standards of other schools. They hire teachers of all races. Students are well equipped for whatever field they want to go into. Their considered second class institutions because blacks are considered second class human beings. It’s always been that way in America. At one point we were considered 2/3 of a human. Not sure that way of thinking is completely gone

It’s 100% BS So blacks are the racist in this country? Whites are not racist?
Complain blacks use a few bad white apples to push a agenda But type a whole paragraph grouping all blacks as violent destructive murder loving people looking for hand outs . (Which is far from the truth) I’m black myself so I know this is BS setx logic.

Well a high school in Massachusetts sees in differently they already canceled the season and largely decided be the parents I understand that people care about their kids more than sports. And fake or not the deaths are real. So like I is no unnecessary games. Start late mabe the numbers will die  number dowm and play the district games. 

Texas Cases
87k confirmed cases
2000 deaths
ignorant response!
 

THIS!  This is what I told my college kids they want to go hang with their friends and go to the beach and such.  But you go to work.  I HAVE to go to work.  You don’t have to go party and hang out with other irresponsible college kids...

Guys, this is a real sensitive matter.  People have their own opinions.  People will do what’s best for them and their families.  But let’s not belittle or be insensitive to someone that don’t show your thoughts.  
 
Also for whatever it’s worth, I think there are bigger things at play here besides football.  Put the safeguards in place.  If it’s PROVEN to keep ALL the kids healthy, then press forward. If not, don’t start football yet. And ummmmm.... its call the COVID-19 or Coronavirus, not China Virus (IMO, very insensitive and disrespectful to Chinese Americans and Chinese people in general)

In Union There Is Strength
I have watched this week’s unfolding events, angry and appalled. The words “Equal Justice Under Law” are carved in the pediment of the United States Supreme Court. This is precisely what protesters are rightly de- manding. It is a wholesome and unifying demand—one that all of us should be able to get behind. We must not be distracted by a small number of lawbreakers. The protests are defined by tens of thousands of people of conscience who are insisting that we live up to our val- ues—our values as people and our values as a nation.
When I joined the military, some 50 years ago, I swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution. Never did I dream that troops taking that same oath would be ordered under any circumstance to violate the Constitu- tional rights of their fellow citizens—much less to pro- vide a bizarre photo op for the elected commander-in- chief, with military leadership standing alongside.
We must reject any thinking of our cities as a “bat- tlespace” that our uniformed military is called upon to “dominate.” At home, we should use our military only when requested to do so, on very rare occasions, by state governors. Militarizing our response, as we wit- nessed in Washington, D.C., sets up a conflict—a false conflict—between the military and civilian society. It erodes the moral ground that ensures a trusted bond between men and women in uniform and the society they are sworn to protect, and of which they them- selves are a part. Keeping public order rests with civil- ian state and local leaders who best understand their communities and are answerable to them.
James Madison wrote in Federalist 14 that “America united with a handful of troops, or without a single sol- dier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign am- bition than America disunited, with a hundred thou- sand veterans ready for combat.” We do not need to mil- itarize our response to protests. We need to unite around a common purpose. And it starts by guarantee-
ing that all of us are equal before the law.
Instructions given by the military departments to our troops before the Normandy invasion reminded soldiers that “The Nazi slogan for destroying us . . . was ‘Divide and Conquer.’ Our American answer is ‘In Union there is Strength.’” We must summon that unity to surmount this crisis—confident that we are better than our politics.
Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people—does not even pretend to try. Instead he tries to divide us. We are wit- nessing the consequences of three years of this deliberate effort. We are witnessing the consequences of three years without mature leadership. We can unite without him, drawing on the strengths inherent in our civil society. This will not be easy, as the past few days have shown, but we owe it to our fellow citizens; to past generations that bled to defend our promise; and to our children.
We can come through this trying time stronger, and with a renewed sense of purpose and respect for one an- other. The pandemic has shown us that it is not only our troops who are willing to offer the ultimate sacrifice for the safety of the community. Americans in hospitals, grocery stores, post offices, and elsewhere have put their lives on the line in order to serve their fellow citizens and their country. We know that we are better than the abuse of executive authority that we witnessed in Lafay- ette Square. We must reject and hold accountable those in office who would make a mockery of our Constitu- tion. At the same time, we must remember Lincoln’s “better angels,” and listen to them, as we work to unite.
Only by adopting a new path—which means, in truth, returning to the original path of our founding ideals— will we again be a country admired and respected at home and abroad.
— Jim Mattis, former defense secretary under President Trump who resigned in protest in 2018
 
 Jump on it, acolytes of mayhem

Jim Bob Aven  C WOS 85-87
 

Kinda some of like some idiot making up unproven drug remedies for corona virus. And also telling his sheeple to use disinfectant and calling it sarcasm.

The USPS loses money because they are not a profit making enterprise. They aren’t intended to be. They are a taxpayer based and constitutionally guaranteed means of communication. It is silly to compare them to FedEx of UPS. Right now a first class stamp to anywhere in this country is 55 cents. For that price you can send a letter to Guam which is part of the USA. 
 
FedEx will send the same letter from Houston to Detroit..   for $15. 
 The USPS could raise their rates. Grandma who pays all of her bills by mail on fixed income can hardly afford $150 a month just for postage off 10 bills. So it is a taxpayer funded delivery system. Trump says to raise their rates. Yes that would work. Wait for the outcry from those that spend on the mail to live. They wouldn’t have to raise it to UPS prices. Maybe just $4 to mail a letter. If that is what the people want to mail a letter....
 Last year the USPS lost 8.8 billion. That comes out to 1/5 of 1%. If a person paid $20,000 in income tax last year, he/she put $40 of that into the USPS. So if they raised their rates to make a profit, that person saves $40 in income tax. If you didn’t pay $20,000 in income taxes, you paid in less. 
i don’t mail anything anymore. I think I paid not quite $20k in taxes. I am not worried about getting another $35 or so back on my taxes. If it was fun more efficiently maybe I could only post in $20 more in taxes instead of $35. 
 Either way, it doesn’t make sense to compare the USPS to a billion dollar for profit industry. 
 No, I don’t work for the postal service, none of my family ever has and to my knowledge, none of my friends. 

Just a STUPID comment 

This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up I don't know, man... any time that they start loading the bodies in semi-trailers I get a little concerned.
 
But that's just me. 
 

three Super Bowls   Including 1998, Smith led the Cowboys in passes defensed every year he was in the league, except 1992 (rookie season) and 1995 (missed due to injury). He ended up winning three Super Bowls in his first four seasons.   This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up
 

Has nothing to do with which team he played. Earl will be in HOF. Nuff said

I would rate Kevin Smith even or slightly ahead of Earl Thomas. Both were very good in high school, college and the pros.

Abortion is legal. A lot about it I don’t like, but it’s legal. I support a party that cares about healthcare, childcare, and education for those who are born. Sometimes it seems the Republican Party cares more for the unborn than the born. Show me some legislative compassion for the living and I might consider things differently. I’ve seen nothing on here but scorn for the homeless, blame for the poor placed on the poor, and strong dislike bordering on hatred for the immigrant. I think all of these were addressed in the New Testament. Scorn, blame, and hatred were not the answers.

I object, sir. Your Republican Party is lead by a lying, cheating, “what can my country do for me” narcissist.

Best post ITT.   You have to have athletes for sure.  But coaching is way underplayed by a lot of you.  IMO, Newton and WOS do what they do because of the CULTURES created there.  Talk to people in Palestine about Cornel Thompson’s time there.  Trying to implement a program there like WOS’s went over like a lead balloon.  Especially in this day and age, it isn’t the easiest thing in the world to have a community buy in to the type of culture (discipline, conditioning, etc.) that is needed to create a powerhouse.  In West Orange and Newton, the folks are by and large all in.  

To all the SETX members,
It's time to take the board back and make it into the place we all enjoy. For quite some time this place has gone downhill for a variety of reasons. If you want a prime example read the BC vs Silsbee baseball game 2 thread starting on page 2, it's just over the top nonsense by both folks just trolling and moderators doing the same thing. There have been some really cool people who posted great information that just quit contributing due to all the trash that gets stirred up. Some of those folks completely left and that's a shame because they made this board a great place for people to get caught up on local high school athletics as well as college sports to some degree. I would like to humbly offer up a suggestion and that's to create a totally separate forum for those folks who just want to antagonize each other and let the trash talk flow. Let all those folks who constantly derail topics have at one another to their hearts content and stay out of topics where they disrupt everybody else. Hopefully this alternate forum can be created and the sports forums can go back to being about sports, the real reason most of us got here in the first place.
To the Moderators,
I personally appreciate the time you guys put in to keep this place going, I know that's a huge undertaking and thankless job. Hopefully you can "police" the site in the future and discourage all the "foolishness" by sending those unwanted comments to that "alternate forum". One more public appeal to "AAW" , you are an ultra knowledgeable guy who has done a fantastic job promoting local high school sports and I thank you for that. You were always super nice to my son while he was playing and you have been a stand up guy on other issues as well. I would encourage you to promote a little more positive responses to topics by yourself and others going forward because this board is the lifeline to local sports for people all over our area and beyond.
With respect to all,
Rake1
 
 
 

People complained he violated privacy (of players that weren't around when the video was rolling) and it was proven he in fact didn't violate anyone's privacy. 
You're right, everyone did the right thing this time. It was for the best he was on leave so the situation could be investigated. Everyone did their jobs. 
Now, what to do about the real problem in this story. What happens with the thief and why hasn't it been announced they are in trouble?
The criminal isn't getting special treatment because of a family member are they? Man if so now that is a controversy worth worrying about and not the coach who coat them. 

If you radical repubs don't like how AMERICA is ran, then get out. AMERICA LOVE IT or LEAVE IT!!!!!!  Hmmmm?

And maybe she saved up the money from her earnings or maybe she took out a loan, or maybe a relative loaned her the money, oor maybe she is from a well-to-do-family, or maybe ...

alright alright..i'll stop poking
I am sorry, in trying to be light-hearted it appears I gave offense. I meant no disrespect to small college athletics. I do think that my comments on BISD football in general are correct though. These teams are never going to start having the success they want until kids and parents stop looking for outside forces to blame and start focusing on being the best teammates, players, and supporters that they can be.