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Nope…. The punishment is the same. Season is over for both. It just stings a little worse for HD. They played a stupid game and both went all in… HD just shoved more to the center of the table. It’s too late to cry about the stakes when cards are all face up.

They got the same punishment that HD did. No playoffs. It’s like this… two guys go to jail for a month. One of them was homeless and the other one a working man. The homeless guy gets a roof over his head, three meals, a day, and a mattress to sleep on. Net win. The working man loses his job and his truck gets repossessed while he’s in the can…. But the punishment was the same. Fair is where you go to eat a corn dog and kiss a pig. HD had more to lose and fought anyways-that just dumb.

Good call by the UIL… HD’s players, students, and fans don’t deserve a trip to the playoffs. “But they started it” doesn’t get you a pass for your own terrible behavior.

What an ugly incident. My opinion is that the SEC should ban HD from postseason play based on the behavior of the team and the fans. I think Burkeville deserves the same punishment, but it’s irrelevant since they weren’t playoff bound anyways. It doesn’t matter who started it when the entire gym is fighting.

There are graphs included for the ones of y’all that need pitchas. [Hidden Content] No spin, just facts, displayed as total borrowing, then broken down by COVID and non-COVID. Biden’s borrowing was bad, but Trump’s borrowing was horrible.

Well… with a basic education you’d realize that the inflation was caused by Trump‘s deficit spending before and during COVID, and that Biden helped to calm inflation down-it makes sense. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see if history repeats itself.

This nothing to worry about. [Hidden Content] What could possibly go wrong with a “sovereign wealth fund,” where we print money to “invest.” Man, Wall Street is salivating. The rich just gonna get richer and the rest of us are gonna die a slow, painful death.

Don’t you remember? Trump is going to cut the taxes we pay and make up the shortage by placing tariffs on goods coming into the US. Except (surprise!) the tariffs won’t be a factor and all we’re going to do is explode our debt with more deficit spending caused by ignorant cuts in tax revenue exchanged for votes. I know y’all won’t do it, but you should brush up on your history. In the 1920s our nation was burdened down by bad fiscal policies, our debt had exploded, and our leaders decided that the easiest path out of the mess we’d created was to implement tariffs on other nations. The Smoot-Hawkey Tariff act of 1930 was signed into law and the Great Depression was worsened and prolonged by all accounts. [Hidden Content] The tariffs were never Trump’s plan, tax cuts for the rich and corporations were. He’s not stupid… he knows that the tariffs would greatly damage our economy. But he promised them as a means to offset the cost of his tax cutting plan. The beauty of his scheme is that his followers see this all as a victory. “See?!! All he had to do was threaten tariffs and those other countries all caved! America!!!” When in fact it was all a shell game designed to implement more tax cuts that will undoubtedly result in an explosion in our debt.

You know her noods are out there, right? Check it out… you can thank me later.

She had The Hamburglar’s hat on, too.

I noticed that in real time. The talking heads suggested that it was a timing issue- it was already 12:01 and it was supposed to happen at 12. I don’t know if that’s true.

You misspelled “chief.”

What happened? All I saw was that he didn’t put his hand on the Word.

Trump didn’t swear on the Bible for fear of being smote down.

Yeah… two thoughts from today. The grownups we at the inauguration today… Biden and Harris were front row, acting like true leaders… not pouting on a plane out of town like Trump did four years ago. As I’m watching Trump right now insulting Cheney, etc in his first presidential address. I hope y’all are ready for four years of complete insanity and retribution, not progress. For all of our sakes, I hope that Trump doesn’t screw things up as badly as he did last time.

A true public servant. Even if he’d never been elected, he’d have spent his life helping others. The last decent man who became president, in my opinion.

“I believe that all of these billionaires who pay no taxes will really have my best interests at heart.” Said all of the fools together.

Trump hasn't run out of Billionaires to give appointments yet? #oligarchy

You should go back and look at your history regarding TXHSFB. Back to the days when teams would suit up roughnecks in places like Overton and HD… and it got brought under control. When all of the schools in a district fall under one ISD (say, Dallas ISD) it changes things. Do you remember way back to last year when DISD filed an appeal after SOC lost to PNG? Imagine the employment prospects of a DISD coach that protests about another DISD coach’s potential transfer when the ISD is obviously vested in winning at any costs, rules be darned. There are plenty of schools to play against if you want to field a super team of transfers. Bishop Gorman, IMG Academy, etc… Unfortunately for schools like SOC, the UIL isn’t going to let Texas High School Football be turned into an 18U showcase for a handful of wannabe coach/agents.

Oh, it will happen. The UIL won’t turn a blind eye just because certain DECS do. Where did you go to law school, my man?

Nvm! Demond Demas was his name. Quite a story. Crashed out at A&M, landed at Juco in Kansas, and per his X Account at 6:05pm last night, he’s “FULLY academically eligible and in the portal!!” Some would argue that telling kids that “the rules don’t apply to you” leads them to believe that the rules don’t apply to them.

I like what happened to that WR from N Houston that tried to transfer into Tomball with his AAU best friend the QB, “because his old school was unsafe,” except all of his siblings were left back in the unsafe school. He ended up forgoing this senior season on the field, then played at TAMU. That’s what happens when the system works like it should. What ever happened to that kid?

Wait… that’s what they say about transgenders getting to compete against girls, too, lol. I’m sure SOC would have just as many transfers of top tier athletes if they were 1-9 and missed the playoffs. The whole thing comes down to thjs. If you ask MOST communities “would you accept 40 out-of-the area transfers if it guaranteed a deep playoff run, even if all of the kids who grew up here lost their “right” to play?” they would say “nah… we want our own.” Some communities would be like “yes… we’ll take that. We want to win if that means suiting up ALL transfers… even those up to 24 years old, academically ineligible, etc… we want to win.” This second type of teams should be facing each other, not the ones who play by the rules.

Here’s the thing… Izzy is right-we don’t understand these communities. You can have a league like the stjfl where a city like BC has just enough kids to field a team… you just have to play the hand that’s dealt to you. You have a city like Ned also playing in the STJFL, but they’ve got two or three teams. And thanks to dad coaches getting together, you end up with somewhat unbalanced team. PNG white is better than png purple this year because they kind of stacked the talent through loopholes or whatever. Then you have a squad from PA having tryouts, cutting kids, etc, and fielding a single super team filled with the cream of the crop across their entire city which is much, much larger than any of their fellow cities in the league. While most civilized communities would see this as a perversion, the simple-minded, loud-mouthed Izzys of the world see this as a good thing, because this is the only chance most often these young will ever have to make out of the hood. And if you disagree with him, you’re a racist. Nobody should be stacking teams in the UIL. It’s easier in metro areas than in the rest of the state.

Isn’t it funny… people who have a proven record of success are racist and don’t understand… but the guys who fail at everything are the ones who have it all figured out. In your mind, anyways.