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Longview safety Buddha Garrett has 6 D1 offers the past 3 weeks.

Been waiting to use that word.

Colonized it....haha.

I will start with average of 4 years. At some schools a shorter time and at other school longer time. Also the situation at a school dictates how long an assistant may stay at a particular school. Have heard of coaches never unpacking their suitcase.

The left can't meme.

He doesn't read this forum. But what's the REAL unemployment rate? You know...once you factor in those who don't have a job but have fallen off the rolls. How about giving us those numbers? Look at the "growth of payroll employment" chart here: https://www.cbo.gov/publication/58957 And then take a look at the "Labor Force Participation Rate" chart, as well. That's the Congressional Budget Office. You can also look here: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf For data from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics. Pay special attention to chart 2, which is "Chart 2. Nonfarm payroll employment over-the-month change, seasonally adjusted, February 2021 – February 2023" And notice that it's trending downward.

Now add in all the people who aren't even looking for a job.

If he does suit up for Carthage next fall, my guess is he gets more snaps on defense than offense but will play a lot of both.

And so many of you wear being intolerant or using people as wedge political issues as a noble thing. (NY TIMES) The Right’s Obsession With Wokeness Is a Sign of Weakness March 10, 2023, 5:00 a.m. ET By Michelle Goldberg Opinion Columnist Leonard Leo, a leader of the right-wing Federalist Society, an extraordinarily effective legal organization, is broadening his ambitions. Leo is hoping to transform American culture the way he transformed the judiciary. In the words of an investigative report produced by ProPublica and Documented, he aims to build a sort of “Federalist Society for everything,” devoted to helping reactionaries consolidate power in realms like Wall Street, Silicon Valley, journalism, Hollywood and academia. “I spent close to 30 years, if not more, helping to build the conservative legal movement,” Leo said in a video for the organization at the heart of his strategy, the Teneo Network. “And at some point or another, I just said to myself, ‘If this can work for law, why can’t it work for lots of other areas of American culture and American life where things are really messed up right now?’” That includes “wokeism in the corporate environment, in the educational environment,” biased media and “entertainment that is really corrupting our youth.” Given Leo’s past success, he should be taken seriously. As Donald Trump’s adviser on judicial nominations, he helped put Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett, all of whom have close Federalist Society ties, on the Supreme Court, making him central to the demise of Roe v. Wade. Leo has access to enormous resources; last year a conservative financier donated around $1.6 billion to a dark-money group that he controls. And since many elites resent the congeries of behavioral norms and linguistic innovations denigrated as wokeness, the Teneo Network will start from a place of strength, pushing on an open door. But while Leo’s grandiose project could pose a danger to liberalism, it can also be seen as a sign of existential crisis on the right. It demonstrates how conservatives are relying on fantastical ideas about wokeness to tie together a movement that has otherwise lost much of its raison d’être. Last week at the Conservative Political Action Conference, the Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley said, “Wokeness is a virus more dangerous than any pandemic.” Given that the Covid pandemic has already killed over a million Americans, this is transparently insane, even if you find much of what falls under the rubric of wokeness annoying. After all, the nearly 50-year project of ending Roe is complete. Stirring crusades against Communism and then against radical Islam have subsided. The cult of personality around Trump has splintered. Many on the right would still like to obliterate the welfare state, but they’re deeply defensive about it. Hatred of wokeness is a brittle foundation for political identity, but it’s almost all that’s left.Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, a favorite for the Republican presidential nomination, declared during his January inaugural address that “Florida is where woke goes to die.” Mike Pompeo, a former secretary of state and a possible presidential candidate, recently tweeted, “Our internal threats — especially those trying to corrupt our kids with toxic wokeness — are more serious than our external threats.”. Such threat inflation is best explained by the right’s desperation for a unifying enemy. But to support the weight they’re putting on wokeness, conservatives have had to create a hallucinatory conspiracy theory about how progressive social change works. Take, for example, a 2020 video that ProPublica and Documented surfaced, in which the Teneo Network’s co-founder Evan Baehr described how he believed the left operates. He asked his audience to imagine a luncheon at the Harvard Club featuring a billionaire hedge funder, a movie producer, a Harvard professor and a writer for The New York Times. “The billionaire says, ‘Wouldn’t it be cool if middle school kids had free access to sex-change therapy paid for by the federal government?’” Baehr said. “Well, the filmmaker says, ‘I’d love to do a documentary on that; it will be a major motion film.’ The Harvard professor says, ‘We can do studies on that to say that’s absolutely biologically sound and safe.’ And the New York Times person says, ‘I’ll profile people who feel trapped in the wrong gender.’” This may be how the organs of the right-wing counterestablishment function, but it’s not how mainstream institutions work. (I was once seated next to a hedge fund billionaire at a dinner; he wanted to talk about how the Democratic Party had moved too far left.) Baehr seems to believe that cultural edicts can be handed down as imperiously as judicial opinions, so a handful of well-placed apparatchiks can redirect the zeitgeist. The Federalist Society project was fairly straightforward: Replace one set of judges with another. Trying to turn back social change across American life is a far trickier thing, especially when you don’t understand where that change is coming from. None of this is to say that the war on wokeness can’t do enormous damage. Laws are being passed all over the country targeting trans people, particularly trans kids, and the right’s language has turned openly eliminationist. (One speaker at CPAC said, “Transgenderism must be eradicated.”) America is enduring a wave of hysterical censorship. In Oklahoma the State Senate just passed a bill banning material with “a predominant tendency to appeal to prurient interest in sex” from all public libraries, not just those in schools. But I’m skeptical that anti-wokeness can be the basis for a durable mass movement. That’s not just because a recent USA Today poll found that a majority of Americans see the term “woke” positively but because wokeness is too niche a concern. The Federalist Society trained many young meritocrats who were willing to devote their lives to fighting legalized abortion. It’s hard to imagine the battle against neopronouns and the 1619 Project inspiring the same sort of single-minded intensity. Ronald Reagan used to describe conservatism as a three-legged stool, comprising social conservatives, fiscal conservatives and defense hawks. These days it looks a lot more like a pogo stick.

I’m excited about this hire- look, I see the track record of him not staying places long (MV has a history of coaches not sticking around long anyway - 6 since 2010) as far as a losing UNT staff, that doesn’t bother me, look what that staff did and is doing in the HS ranks - I’m guessing most of the MV staff from the last few years will be gone- but I doubt MV goes back to the Slot T now- He certainly comes from a fantastic coaching tree- The MV community is supportive of their students and student athletes . Just my read. MV will be in good shape - The Defense will be stout - Offense has great weapons returning as well- We are a QB away from being right in the mix again- “something” tells me that QB will not be an issue . Looking forward to another good season in Tiger Country

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There was once upon a time that one would mind their pints and quarts, but woke has gone beyond being civil in discussion. Woke is a different beast. What does being woke mean to me ? Agreeing with someone regardless if it is wrong. They may feel that it is the right thing to do, but it isn't always the best or right way to do things. Wokeism is in itself destructive to society, because it cancels/ostracizes those that don't agree with them. Thus, they have created their own subculture of mores and values.

https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/dear-conservatives-i-am-sorry now I will wait for Barry’s apology……

Wasn’t it SLJ in Pulp Fiction?

It was just a phrase we used in the black community for conspiracy theorist. Truth be told, all of you who were opposed to the vaccine and talked about the conspiracy behind are considered woke by the true definition before it was hijacked. They will say a conspiracy and always end it with "stay woke my brutha".

Definitely a different environment. And who knows, another school might of been looking at that coach for their school but when he shows up dressed like that, do you ignore it?

https://babylonbee.com/news/man-fails-dmv-job-interview-by-saying-he-is-a-motivated-go-getter

But we have 5000 times more guns, so we should be murdering people at a rate much higher because without guns we'd have no murder.

I cringe everytime I hear the word woke. Used to be a word used in the black community and the far right just took it and colonized it. Smh

https://babylonbee.com/news/teacher-in-need-of-vacation-tells-class-there-are-only-two-genders

https://babylonbee.com/news/senate-to-now-be-controlled-by-whichever-party-has-fewer-senators-in-hospital

Barry, and the author of that article, doesn't understand that the "woke" would have no qualms about coming after him, either. All it would take is one small misstep.

Definitely a lunch lady, not a teacher. A teacher shouldn’t have that much time.

This was my favorite little passage.

Exactly, they won't take those jobs because they have a more lucrative position as a parasite on the country.

State championship though? I'm all for casual dress, but the state championship is different circumstances.

I looked at that. The only policies that were cheaper really don't cover much, and can be a death rap if you got cancer or some other big illness.

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf

I guess you like the death-panels that Aetna, Bluecross Blue SHield has. You don't get the best treatment in America. You get the cheapest. Profit over your health and life. The American Way.

I’m sure there is a degree in memeology at all of the prestigious universities…but I don’t think PePe went to one of them….

Please get help….and go back to the “institution” that you graduated from and ask for your money back….unless you qualified for free tuition….then you can just burn your diploma…

They don't care. They will give up everything to be "taken care of". There is a fundamental difference between freedom-loving Americans who are willing to accept the sacrifices that come with Liberty and the idiots who would give up everything for cradle-to-grave government care.

Spring ball starts April 17th.

The last thing I want is for politicians to get involved in high school sport. The UIL is far from perfect but they are a hell of alot better than a politician in Austin.

Willy Wonka was like Doomer on crack!! The guy was hilarious!!

Bluto: What? Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no! Otter: Germans? Boon: Forget it. He's rolling. Bluto: And it ain't over now. 'Cause when the goin' gets tough . . . the tough get goin'! Who's with me? Let's go! C'mon! [He runs out of the room screaming but then returns.] What the ### happened to the Delta I used to know? Where's the spirit? Where's the guts, huh?! This could be the greatest night of our lives, but you're gonna let it be the worst! "Ooh, we're afraid to go with you Bluto, we might get in trouble." Well, JUST KISS MY TobinFrost FROM NOW ON!!! Not me! I'm not gonna take this! Wormer, he's a dead man! Marmalard, DEAD! Niedermeyer— Otter: Dead! Bluto's right. Psychotic, but absolutely right. [Otter stands up.] We gotta take these ####. Now, we could fight 'em with conventional weapons. That could take years and cost millions of lives. Oh no. No, in this case, I think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part. Bluto: And we're just the guys to do it. [Boon and D-Day stand.] Boon: Let's do it. Bluto: Let's do it! [Everybody cheers and starts running out of the room, with Bluto still standing there.] Bluto: Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! [Bluto runs out with them.]

Are you allowed to use the term "japanese"?

I disagree. I don’t think they’re as bad as people are acting. They lost A LOT! That includes from last years team, as well as their recruiting class (to the draft). Even still, 4 of their 6 losses are by a combined 5 runs. 3 of the 6 were to Top 10 teams. One of those was to the #1 team, and they were tied at 0 in the 9th. So you’re talking about a young team, with a lot of new players, starting the season with a pretty tough schedule, and they’ve been right there in most of them. I don’t expect them to be a series contender by any means this year, but I do expect them to get better as the season progresses.

How convenient to “move” right after your basketball season ends lol.