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First of all, congratulations to Coach Meeks on his new position as AD/HFC of the Center Roughriders. I know that he will do a tremendous job as their new leader. A little more than 3 years ago our district had approximately 125 applicants for this position, and Coach Meeks’ name rose to the top. In looking back through the historical data of previous Alto head coaches, most have either come to us with head coaching experience OR have earned the position by being a great Alto assistant and promoted. Coach Meeks was an OC at Tatum with no HC experience. BUT HE WAS ABSOLUTELY READY. His organization, work ethic, practice & game planning, high energy, love for kids & community, and ALL-IN attitude was evident from the very beginning. I tip my hat to the committee who did the work and recognized that he was a good fit for Alto. Fast forward to now. The open position will be posted on Friday and we will be looking for our next leader. THE GUY will come into a good situation with plenty of support from the administration, board, community, and booster club. We were very young last season playing 9 sophomores much of the time. All starters from last season return with the exception of 2 graduating seniors. The JV team was the district champion. These boys are used to hard work and will be very motivated. From morning and afternoon workouts to strength & conditioning in the summer, they are accustomed to working and pushing each other...many as 7th graders since that first spring with Coach Meeks. The coaches have been phenomenal in their development. We want the next man to come in and build on this. We have great tradition and a community that has persevered through a lot over the years. From the loss of one of our beloved players on the football field to the devastating tornadoes that ripped our town and school apart, we have remained together.....a family. Friday night football in Alto is special. The community always rallies around our kids and it is 100% the place to be on Friday nights, whether we are home or away. The crowds are there. It will be a pretty quick process. The job will be posted for 10 days and then interviews will begin. I believe the committee plans to hire the second or third week of March. There is no time to waste! Time is of the essence. I am hopeful we get a great applicant pool and that THE GUY will rise to the top....that he will come in here with his hair on fire ready to lead our Mean Sting to the next level. Some of us who have players with one or two years left know we have to get it right. Our kids only get one shot at the high school experience. We have a great foundation and we are ready to build on it!

Congratulations to Coach Meeks! He has great things ahead of him, and he and his family will definitely be missed here in Alto! I am praying for our committee that will be going through the process of finding us a new coach! I am very hopeful that we will have lots of applicants and will find the perfect fit. Can’t wait for football season!!

JV went undefeated last year. Then they had to grow up real fast and play varsity this year since 15 seniors graduated I believe. a huge blow for a small school. So mostly sophomores this year playing on varsity.

I believe their varsity was very young last year. Seems like I remember their junior high and JV teams getting several wins. I would not expect last year’s record to become the norm.

He's already in bed...Kammy calling the shots...

I could live with this. One feature I want added is realigment but on a invitation basis. I don't want to manually put Texas St in the sec and be winning titles in year 2 just because I realigned myself with custom leagues. I want to have to make stadium upgrades and be successful enough over a number of years then be invited to conferences. In other words... I think we can all agree we want dynasty mode to be as realistic and difficult as possible. Take your time. Make it in depth. While madden focuses on children and online play, make this a extremely difficult and in depth dynasty for adults.

Sorry i didn't have a link before and I just thought my phone glitches after it was posted and was taken off. So per Matt stepp.

Remove his finger from the nuke’s trigger? Heck I’d settle for removing his fingers from senator’s wives and kids.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/idiot-grim-reaper-lawyer-plans-next-stunt-this-time-targeting-cpac/ar-BB1e1zlH?ocid=msedgdhp This has to be old49er60...hello Danny boy

Crockett is up on Mallakoff, 27-16 at half

I was thinking it might be our very own Barry (Eunice) Laughingstock....

Coach Meeks is a tremendous coach and has a great family. He should do a good job there in Center.

https://www.wnd.com/2021/02/democrats-want-remove-bidens-trigger-finger-nukes/

It’s hard for me to believe there were 5 Tight Ends in 4A last year who were better than Montrell “Big Cat” Smith.

Two no hitters as well.

Thomas Sowell on the Current Black Culture - YouTube

This is way too long of a response for me to read.

That is correct, with the proper storage of NG even when it freezes off above ground production storage is built to replace lost production. You have to spend some money if you don't want to freeze off and don't expect the stinking engineers who build the stations to cover that kind of stuff I found out the hard way. It only took one time losing a mainline compressor station to install and winterize every fuel gas regular with chemical heaters. Next time we Cadillaced right on through with very few problems

That's what happens when these libtard socialist/marxist/communist get in control...they don't care about the country as a whole. Instead of treating people as equals they want pain and suffering inflicted on a certain group...history repeating it's self...straight white males...enemies of the people...I am a kulak!!!!

Because it hasn't been officially announced yet plus whoever posts in here claiming to know could always be wrong. There's no reason to put someone's name out there until it's official. Kids and communities read this site and majority of them don't pick up on the hints posted on here.

If you read it they want ALL presidents, not just SlowJoe to give up the command and control for nuclear launches. Why am I not surprised to see our gal Omar on the list....the greatest threat to this country is in congress.

So I am guessing that everyone is okay with the fact that the federal government is going to hand out more money to the unemployed, because well they deserve it--because a pandemic supposedly hit the world. It's sad that we are more worried about making sure that everyone is calling BS--when the government is ramming poopoo down our throats. Even if you have a democratic representative, you can contact them and tell them that giving any federal money to the unemployed is wrong--these people need to be working--paying taxes.

But that was OK because Orange Man Bad...

I haven't had a Pepsi, Coke, Dr Pepper, etc. in I can't recall how long. Gave them up years ago. I also don't use any razor blades from Schick, Bic, or Gillette. I use a safety razor, and double-edged blades. Does the job and a heck of a lot cheaper than Schick or Gillette. I can get a 50 pack of double-edged razor blades for less than a 5 pack of Gillette cartridges, and they last 5 shaves or so, meaning I can get 250 shaves (or more) out of a 50 pack.

Many doctors have watched him and concluded he’s in the 60-70% mental capacity range. speculate all you want. We know it about you

That’s why the president should be mentally competent and not have dementia. this shouldn’t even be a discussion. It wouldn’t had they picked somebody else

PedoJoe gotta take care of his constituency.........

As a company we paid almost $50k in last year, this year we will hit more loopholes and more write offs... do like everyone else

Sorry, I felt left out.

They didn't say it was legitimate ... They were just too to hear the cases ....

How long before Plugs starts handing out billions or cash to these terrorists and dictators on pallets under the cover of darkness ....

Derek Kerstetter announced that he will return for his 5th season.

And just when i thought they couldn’t get more irrelevant. Hey recruits, come play for the one school in the country where you cannot play the college video game as your school!!! “It’s a bold strategy Cotton, let’s see if it pays off “

POS Stephen Miller continues his white nationalist war against immigration by spreading lies about the Biden administration. (Washington Post) The Plum Line Opinion: Stephen Miller is running a shadow war against Biden. It’s based on deceptions. Opinion by Greg Sargent Columnist Feb. 25, 2021 at 9:53 a.m. CST Add to list When the administration reopened a warehouse-like facility for migrant children in Texas this week, it caused a huge controversy on all sides. It inspired claims, mostly from the right, that President Biden is reverting to former president Donald Trump’s policies, proving Trump right all along. But those claims are wrong. As such, this controversy reveals something else as well: the shadow war that former Trump adviser Stephen Miller is running against the new administration. Miller is publicly encouraging enforcement agents to defy Biden’s new policies. He is calling on officials to collect internal information for future lawsuits against them. And Miller is running a propaganda war to manufacture the impression that Biden’s agenda is already a catastrophe. The Post reports that Miller is encouraging GOP lawmakers to step up attacks along these lines. Central to this will be the public battle over migrant children. When the new Texas facility opened, conservatives (Miller included) scoffed that Biden is being forced to resume Trump policies, because efforts to reverse them have collided with reality, vindicating Trump. All this is nonsense. On migrant children, Biden has not restarted Trump’s policies. What Biden is doing has nothing in common with “kids in cages." And none of this proves Trump was right in any way. Here’s a quick corrective. Why did Biden reopen a migrant facility in Texas? It’s important to note that the Texas facility is run not by Border Patrol, but by the Office of Refugee Resettlement. Federal laws and legal settlements require Border Patrol to take in children and hold them for no more than 72 hours, then transfer them to ORR, which then tries to place them with relatives or guardians. Thus, the reopening of the Texas facility does not constitute holding children at the border. It constitutes using a warehouse-like facility to deal with overflow at ORR, the waystation before kids hopefully get moved to a better life. This isn’t “kids in cages” redux. That scandal arose when Trump separated families to hold parents (rather than releasing them), creating a new class of unaccompanied children that didn’t exist before. In this case, the overflow at ORR is being caused in part by the rise in migrant children arriving at the border alone, not after being separated from parents. Why are more children migrating? There is a rise in young migrants arriving at the border, and the Trumpists cite this, too, as vindication. It isn’t. The Trumpists claim this is due to Biden signaling changes to Trump policies — which is supposedly proving a draw to migrants who now think they can get in — again proving Trump right. Some of the increase is due to Biden allowing migrants to have due process, but after being trapped in Mexico due to Trump’s policies. That’s a good thing, since those victims of Trump’s policies … deserve due process and humane treatment. Trumpists will claim this supposed Biden permissiveness is drawing more migrants relative to last year to make the trek. But Wendy Young, the president of Kids in Need of Defense, told me it’s far more complex than this. Migration was suppressed last year during the pandemic, and arrivals are now rising due to many factors in Central America, Young said. “There continues to be a tremendous amount of violence, corruption and deprivation," Young told me. “Children leave because they’re forced out of their home countries.” Young added that children are often targeted by gangs trying to force them to join under threat, so “families will very often send children” to try to connect with relatives or friends in the United States, “literally to save their lives.” Thus, much of the spike is caused by “push” factors, just as previous spikes were. Biden is trying to address those factors with new policies sending aid to the region. Trumpists simply scoff at these push factors as irrelevant, and instead use cruelty and deterrence to keep migrants away. The fundamental difference here is whether or not to allow in more migrants who actually have legitimate grounds to apply for asylum. We should allow more in. It’s better policy, and it’s more humane. Can’t we just release children when they arrive? This is the rub of the issue, and it’s almost never discussed: For now, there is no alternative to holding migrant children, because releasing them would put them in more danger. The question then becomes how to do this. We want ORR to take in the migrant children very soon after their arrival, because ORR is run by the Department of Health and Human Services rather than an enforcement agency. “We can’t just release them,” Young told me, because they’re “incredibly vulnerable” in a “strange country.” Instead, Young said, “you have to provide them with appropriate care.” Indeed, Young noted, holding and processing children is necessary for their own long-term good, because it enables us to determine whether they’re eligible for asylum or other protections, and to place them on the correct legal path to get there. And so, while the Texas facility understandably has terrible connotations, it actually represents an unfortunate but better approach than the alternatives — either leaving them in enforcement detention or releasing them with nowhere to go. But the Texas facility is still bad, right? Yes. It is very problematic, but this part of the debate has gotten badly confused. The problem is not the existence of the facility per se: Again, ORR must hold migrant children before placing them, and that’s better than releasing them alone. This is an emergency measure to deal with overflow Rather, the real issue is the conditions under which children are held, and for how long. And this points to the way we can genuinely hold the Biden administration accountable. What’s the real way to hold Biden to account? In the short term, we need to scrutinize whether the administration makes good on its promise to make the conditions under which ORR holds children, including at such warehouse facilities, genuinely more humane. Also crucial is whether the administration undertakes reforms to speed up the process of moving kids from ORR to guardians. “We will be watching this closely to ensure that these children receive the services they need and are moved quickly to a place of stability,” Young told me. Comparing all this to “kids in cages” confuses the debate in a way that obscures what the Biden administration is genuinely trying to accomplish — and thus makes it harder to actually hold the administration accountable on it.