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  1. Just a slap on the wrist in my opinion .....
    8 points
  2. you gotta be really bad at recruiting to get caught recruiting.
    7 points
  3. Johnson should rip up his copy on live TV......I'll be watching Trump with his live rebuttal and Tucker with his live response......
    5 points
  4. 5 points
  5. Your tax money will go to the wealthy that already attend private schools and the wealthy that own the private schools. That's it. As it works right now your money goes to the state, the state pays the schools based on attendance. Somehow the state is magically finding more money per student to go to vouchers than the state will give a school for each student. Private schools maintain the ability to reject students, they do not have to take state mandatory testing, or follow any state rules. They are still private. They can and will reject students with learning disabilities and place the cost at a price point that keeps unwanted kids from attending on a coupon. As far as athletics go I doubt there will be any changes.
    5 points
  6. I think blaming demographics for the downfall of s school's football program is pedestrian at best and lazy at the worst. If the hispanic population isn't coming out for football ......that's on the coaching staff and the community for not nurturing the sport across all demographics. There are plenty of schools in East Texas that have incorporated the hispanic community into football with success..... Longview, Tyler, Marshall, Lufkin, Texas High, Mount Pleasant, Nacogdoches.... every one of those schools have hispanic populations well over 30%....some closer to 40 (or higher). 8 year old hispanic boys will be just as excited about playing little league football as a white kid or a black kid if the community, the leagues, and the coaching staffs are doing their jobs. I don't live in Jacksonville.....I don't know much about the state of things in the city nor the school district.... but when I see a school with such a high population with such a low participation.... I have to wonder...... is the coaching staff actively recruiting said demographic? Have the "powers that be" (boosters, businesses, fans, etc) strangled out said demographic? Something isn't adding up when you look at other schools with similar numbers but very different results.... And we've all seen the assumptions on statewide forums that hispanic kids simply "can't" play football. Too small. No interest. They point to the fact that El Paso and the Rio Grand Valley has been shut out of the state title talk for decades...... it's a bad assumption IMHO. But it's out there.... There are lots of poor kids in ETX. Lots of hispanic kids in ETX. And there's plenty of both playing at successful football programs IN EAST TEXAS. Sounds like Jacksonville needs to step up their game to appeal to the demographic that's growing the quickest in their city. JMHO.
    5 points
  7. @KirtFalcon @BarryLaverty @PepeSilvia @Monte1076 @BlahBlah @ctown81 @Youngcoach123 @gamewatcher63 @Sportsfanatic1 @MrBuddyGarrity @Coach Rab @Crawford @Wild74 @Stoney @trueblue82 @Mr. P @Baron @Lion7000 @PelvisPresley @EnjoyLife @Valhalla @WETSU @JohnnyFootball @Mavchamp @Red90fly @StingEmALTO @WildBear @CreateMyAccount @grinder @SilkyJohnson @FNL007 @ramsn03 @DannyZuco @JBizzle @corrigancamden09 @Doomer @EastTxFinest @Cajun Shakespeare @FearTheSpear78 @WyattEarp @bossman1 @Bear9T1 @Smoaky @CraigSmoak @RandyJohnson @DaveTV1 @Lobo97 @ETXfan16 and anyone ELSE who wants to sign up......let's get those brackets filled out as soon as they go up.......
    4 points
  8. When it’s offseason, they be talking but when season starts, they be quite again.
    4 points
  9. I'm sure this explains why she's gotten absolutely crushed everywhere she goes, except for 95% democrat DC and socialist vermont. Screech baby screech!
    4 points
  10. Go cry to someone who cares......the cleansing will do HISD great in the long run.......
    4 points
  11. Wow!! The Huntington announcer really got excited!!!! Congratulations to the girls and town, they have very few chances to celebrate their athletic accomplishments there!!
    4 points
  12. Most successful coach in school history by both wins AND the character/ relationship building Ghost was talking about. There are few people that are more respected in the coaching profession than Russel. Considered a high character guy. Had almost every kid in high school athletics, was considered a great boss and had low turnover. Everyone knows he got forced out because of some selfish parents. Hey they got what they wanted Jenkins did well with that group and now they are gone and so is he. I will never blame a coach for doing what he thinks is best for his family and career. High school coaches are always considered outsiders, and parents will always put their kids over a coach's family, or other kids in the program. Jenkins has gone 1 year, 2 years, 2 years at schools, but has gotten to leave on his own accord and done well at all. Russel invested 15 years at Harmony, called a place home and got mobbed out anyway.
    4 points
  13. Sounds very Clarksville of them
    4 points
  14. You do realize peanut allergies can technically kill somebody. I wouldn’t charge attempted murder because you lack intent. However, manslaughter could be considered in a death. They knew better . Also I bet if your kid had the allergies you would be singing a different tune.
    4 points
  15. Probably 99% of the people who read your first statement understood what you were saying.
    3 points
  16. It HAS become MAGA and unlike the opinions of others on here, that's seen as a sad thing. (NY Times) If There’s One Thing Trump Is Right About, It’s Republicans By Peter Wehner Mr. Wehner, a senior fellow at the Trinity Forum, is a contributing Opinion writer. March 10, 2024 For the thousandth time, the Republican Party refused an off-ramp that would free itself from Donald Trump. As long as he’s around, it never will. In this year’s presidential primary campaign, the party had the chance to nominate Nikki Haley, a successful, conservative former two-term governor of South Carolina. Unlike Mr. Trump’s, her public career hasn’t been characterized by a lifetime of moral squalor. And many polls show she would be a more formidable candidate against President Biden than Mr. Trump. No matter. Mr. Trump decimated Ms. Haley, most recently on Super Tuesday. She suspended her campaign the next day. But she never had a chance. The Republican Party has grown more radical, unhinged and cultlike every year since Mr. Trump took control of it. In 2016, there was outrage among Republicans after the release of the “Access Hollywood” tape. On the tape, in words that shocked the nation, Mr. Trump said that when you’re a star, “You can do anything. Grab ’em by the ######. You can do anything.” In 2023, Mr. Trump was found liable for sexual abuse. His “locker room talk” turned out to be more than just talk. Yet no Republican of significance said a critical word about it. The same was true earlier this year when Mr. Trump was found liable for civil fraud. The judge in the case, Arthur F. Engoron, said that the former president’s “complete lack of contrition” bordered on “pathological.” Yet Republicans were united in their outrage, not in response to Mr. Trump’s actions but at the judge for the size of the penalty. Today, many Republicans not only profess to believe that the election was stolen; prominent members of Congress like Representative Elise Stefanik and Senator J.D. Vance say they would not have certified the 2020 election results, as Vice President Mike Pence, to his credit, did. Mike Johnson, who played a leading role in trying to overturn the election, is speaker of the House. Republicans not only excuse the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6. Mr. Trump and his party also now glorify the insurrectionists. At his kickoff campaign rally for 2024, a song called “Justice for All” played, featuring Mr. Trump and the J6 Prison Choir, made up of prisoners charged with crimes related to the riot. Republicans are not only convinced that Mr. Trump was unfairly impeached and unfairly indicted; they are also completely untroubled by his threats against (and slander of) judges, law clerks and prosecutors, not to mention his attempts to influence and intimidate witnesses. They are fine with the former president referring to “the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country” and insinuating that the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Milley, deserved to be executed for committing treason. They are fine with Mr. Trump encouraging Russia to attack our NATO allies and comparing himself with Alexei Navalny, the Kremlin’s fiercest and bravest critic, who died while serving time in a remote Russian prison for his political beliefs. They are fine with him suggesting “termination” of the Constitution and with one of Mr. Trump’s lawyers arguing that if as president, Mr. Trump ordered SEAL Team Six to assassinate an opponent, he could be immune from criminal prosecution. And this is only a tiny representation of what he’s been saying and doing for years. Call them Fifth Avenue Republicans. Fifth Avenue Republicans support Mr. Trump regardless of what he does — even if, as he said in 2016, he stood in the middle of Fifth Avenue in New York and shot someone. This wasn’t an exaggeration; it was prophecy. The radicalization of the Republican Party isn’t going to abate anytime soon. Another band of traditional Republicans, who could serve as a counterweight to MAGA Republicans, is fleeing Congress. Republicans who have recently left or who are about to leave include Mitt Romney and Ben Sasse in the Senate and Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Patrick McHenry, Kay Granger, Will Hurd, Ken Buck and Mike Gallagher in the House. Some of these people have said privately that they knew that continuing to serve in Congress as representatives of a party saying good things about Mr. Trump that they knew weren’t true was not good for their souls. Twenty-six Republican senators voted against the recent aid package for Ukraine, which a pre-Trump Republican Party would have overwhelmingly supported. And of the 17 Republican senators who were elected beginning in 2018 and who are age 55 or younger, 15 voted no. In other words, the MAGA takeover of the Republican Party is complete. Mitch McConnell, one of the most influential majority leaders in the history of the Senate, who excoriated Mr. Trump for his role in the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6 from the floor of the Senate, recently announced he was stepping down from the Republican leadership, and soon after that, he announced he was endorsing Mr. Trump. It was a surrender to Mr. Trump, an acknowledgment of his dominance. Mr. Trump will be the Republican nominee for the third time. His imprint on the Republican Party is now comparable with — and in some ways exceeds — Ronald Reagan’s. And that imprint is likely to last for at least a generation. It is a staggering achievement. It also presents a profound threat to the country. Whatever one thought of the Republican Party pre-Trump, it was not fundamentally illiberal or nihilistic; its leaders were not sociopathic, merciless con men, wantonly cruel and lawless. No area of Mr. Trump’s life appears to have been untouched by moral corruption. As a young man, I was influenced by conservative intellectuals like George Will, Irving Kristol and James Q. Wilson. I served in three Republican administrations, including as a senior adviser in the White House under President George W. Bush, and voted Republican in nine consecutive presidential elections, beginning with Mr. Reagan in 1980. My political “tribe” was Republican; so were most of my friends. To see what the Republican Party has become is mortifying. As someone who loves America, I find it terrifying. To get a better sense of this moment, I reached out to the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jon Meacham. “Historically speaking, the forces now in control of the Republican Party represent the most significant threat to basic constitutionalism we’ve experienced since the Civil War,” Mr. Meacham, who has helped devise some of President Biden’s speeches, told me. “That’s not a partisan point; it’s just the fact of the matter. And I’m not talking about particular policies, about which we can and should disagree. I’m talking about the self-evident willingness of a once-noble party to embrace lies and the will to power over essential democratic norms. Since 2015, I have repeatedly warned Republicans about Mr. Trump, describing him as the kind of demagogue the founders feared, malignant and malicious, a man with a disordered personality. At this point eight years ago, I said that while the struggle for the Republican nomination was over, the struggle for the soul of the party was not. Once Mr. Trump won the presidency, I knew it was. He and the Republican Party fused ideologically; it’s now a populist rather than a conservative party. Its instincts are nativist, protectionist and isolationist. But the most significant fusion is ethical and moral. The Republican Party keeps getting darker. It has become anti-intellectual, conspiracy-minded and authoritarian, intemperate and brutish, transgressive and anarchistic. And there’s no end in sight. Mr. Trump is a human blowtorch, prepared to burn down democracy. So is his party. When there’s no bottom, there’s no bottom. The next 34 weeks are among the more consequential in the life of this nation. Mr. Trump was a clear danger in 2016; he’s much more of a danger now. The former president is more vengeful, more bitter and more unstable than he was, which is saying something. There would be fewer guardrails and more true believers in a second Trump term. He’s already shown he’ll overturn an election, support a violent insurrection and even allow his vice president to be hanged. There’s nothing he won’t do. It’s up to the rest of us to keep him from doing it.
    3 points
  17. Yeah, but can he top how many times our very own Barry mentions Trump?
    3 points
  18. This is just too much "Empire Speak" for my liking. It's time to come home, and get our own house in order.
    3 points
  19. Your tax $$ following your kids to the school you CHOOSE to send them to ain't a government handout.....
    3 points
  20. I've heard women say before they'd never vote for woman POTUS. I'm sure I could find one on video if I wished to waste time on that, but I don't. This is just
    3 points
  21. How can they start 3 freshmen o linemen when they only had 3 freshman on the team. An o lineman, reciever, and qb. Now you are saying they were rotating them. Apparently you didn't follow Lee. You definitely have no clue about what is going on.
    3 points
  22. Pewitt is what I heard. Historical baseball powerhouse.
    3 points
  23. I believe he meant Brian Mauk. I don’t know much about Brian as a coach but can tell you that having grown up around him that he is a stand up God fearing man. If his Xs and Os match his character then Harmony is in good hands.
    3 points
  24. Where's Barry to tell us how fair all this is??
    3 points
  25. Per CNN exit poll: 95% of TRUMP voters in VA say 2020 was stolen.
    3 points
  26. Is this dude a nut or what? He was a nut when he was on ESPN.
    3 points
  27. If a kids parents physically move and the PAPF is filled out and the DEC determines the move was NOT for athletic purposes or the previous school does not contest the move then the kid is eligible to play. People move for a variety of reasons and as long as there is no "recruiting" involved or there was not a discipline issue at the previous school, then I don't see what the problem is.
    3 points
  28. This isn't looking to good about now!!!! LOL!!!
    3 points
  29. Gilmer used to be the best.
    3 points
  30. DA's don't like to take anything to court they think will be hard to win....
    3 points
  31. I know we dig chicks here. You know the real chicks not the billieboys or trannies.
    3 points
  32. 3 points
  33. No……. I don’t talk slang. Because I’m an adult… not a 12 year old.
    3 points
  34. Y'all don't have to feed the trolls (coach c and pine). Anyone with a logical brain knows the severity of what happened, and it's a shame nothing really is being done criminally wise.
    3 points
  35. 7A will literally be a few dallas, houston, san antonio, and austin schools. It will not be an interesting classification in the regular season but would make for the most fun playoffs. Just my opinion on that.
    3 points
  36. in my honest opinion they should have been kicked off the team. no excuses there is nothing you can say to justify what they did. they knew it could harm and possibly kill the kid and they still played with his life anyway.
    3 points
  37. 2024 Jasper Football Schedule Aug 30th - Chapel Hill at Jasper Sep 6th - Jasper at Palestine Sep 13th - Lumberton at Jasper Sep 20th - Jasper at Beaumont United Sep 27th - Jasper at Carthage Oct 4th - Bye Week Oct 11th - West Orange-Stark at Jasper (district) Oct 18th - Hamshire-Fannett at Jasper (district) Oct 25th - Jasper at Shepherd (district) Nov 1st - Silsbee at Jasper (district) Nov 8th - Jasper at Cleveland-Tarkington (district) Jasper will be tested throughout the season
    3 points
  38. Hoping to get rid of RINO Travis Clardy ....
    3 points
  39. Yeah….. and he should be absolutely ashamed of himself. Coaches that back door each other should be afraid to show their faces in public…. Just absolutely shunned. We all have families! I promise that job ain’t worth that much!
    3 points
  40. How is the incoming recruiting class?
    2 points
  41. Sounds like the peanut prank exposed the privileged attitude that is prevalent in lake Travis football program. Win at all costs.
    2 points
  42. @KirtFalcon in his air force days......
    2 points
  43. What accent you trying out there, Klunk???
    2 points
  44. Sounds like attempted murder to me .....
    2 points
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