SmashMouth

Don’t run it unless you need it if it’s something you want to surprise a team with. You can run it full speed in practice. Worst thing happens is you run it live in the game and it doesn’t work. Then don’t run it anymore. That’s my opinion. Especially a gadget play. Takes away the element of surprise. You can feature a play in a game, but in the next game, change up your formation or shift into it without spoiling the surprise.

I felt dirty clicking on that link...

I agree with your comment if the China Virus is in play, but I can promise you, my son would sign up to play if there were only 9 kids on his team for his senior year. Not saying it’s right or wrong, just saying...

Buddy, they’re all cheaters and liars. “Your” side...”My side”, it’s all the same. You know this.

Man, with all the partisanship and propaganda from each side, who the hell knows. Politicians are the biggest bunch of self-serving liars you will find. But I kind of agree with @CardinalBacker ‘s post. If you’re a realist, you would have to. We shall see.

Most important comment of the day!

Amen on that! Celebrate your right and your duty!

I sit around with my family (most the kids are grown and gone) and watch the results. I may stay up til the next day like last year. Usually the results are apparent by Wednesday and I take everyone out to eat to celebrate our right to vote and our democracy. If my candidate wins, it’s usually a better night than if not. But win or lose, we go out to celebrate the fortune we have in living in a free country with a right to vote. My Mom started this tradition when Reagan won the first time, so I also do it in her honor.

I’m not disagreeing with a single word, but easy on the State Championship history. More of an instance in the archives, wouldn’t you say? 😎 And no, Lumberton has never gotten close.

You’re a kind man.

Mine is too. That’s why I’m voting for Trump. Considering the economy, my 401k, payroll taxes, cost of goods, I stand to make considerably more. Plus the cost of ammo will go back down. Winning!

Agreed. Kinda sucks.

Maybe not, but it sure beats never playing another down again if you’re a senior.

Score sounds right. + or - a few.

Lumberton home games have been ok. Livingston was atrocious.

I’m gonna take it down a notch. They do miss crap at all levels, and you are right, it is a thankless job. That being said, how do we get better officials at least at the varsity level? Pay them more? Probably. Hold them to a standard? Definitely. My sole intention is not to just bash the referees, but I have seen some really horrible game changing officiating. Just saying well they don’t get paid enough and they’re tired isn’t good enough. Some kids count on football to get them through college.

But I don’t want to join. Just like I don’t want to work at Whataburger. But if they get my order wrong repeatedly, I feel like I have the right to complain.

Not being particularly funny, but maybe they should make all COVID forfeits be “19” to 0 as kind of a marker.

Got it.

I know you’ve probably stated it before (or someone has), but how do they arrive at 21 points?

I kinda already know. It was more of a rhetorical question. The coaching staff has to fill out a detailed complaint including quarter and time and supply video and if it’s egregious enough, something MIGHT be done. 999 out of 1000 times nothing happens (this coming from a retired head coach). But hey, these guys love the game. They give up their free time (to get paid) to just be around the sport. So it’s ok if they suck. We should embrace their half-hearted efforts and be ok with mediocrity. I feel another group hug coming on...

Yes, but whatever becomes of it?

That’s sounds pretty interesting. Gruesome, but interesting...

And now the violin... Lol!

I’ve never pretended that. When my son starts complaining that the refs “screwed” them, I’m tell him to shut that crap up and figure out how to get better so the refs can’t be a factor. You don’t know me or my son or our attitude. You, on the other hand, want to have a group hug and make excuses for a bunch of halfbutts cuz they love the game. Maybe we could all buy them lunch and hold hands and sing praises to them for their unheralded efforts. Or we could say what it really is which is what I have chosen to do. Many crews out their suck out loud and they have no accountability.