Soccer, Sports and Politics - Part Deux

Didn't throw his way much but when they ran his way he bitched out. If you played any ball at all & not Left Trombone you'd know those "primetime" like players weren't much admired in the locker room or by opposing RBs. But they could fool the numpties like you watching Sportscenter in your Fruit of the Looms with a bowl of Lucky Charms every time

 

They didn't throw his way hardly at all. Stop.
A Black coach who now has 13x the wins that the program earned the year before he arrived two seasons ago. You're just emotional because your DNA won't allow for any sort of beauty in any kind of sport. I've read you taking about 3 pointers. Typical Whiteboy pseudocoach speak for "I hate players who can make my playbook irrelevant, because they keep me from being seen as the star of the sport". Too damn bad, Kyle

I do want to say that this is where you and the peckerwood Trumpers join hands in prayer that the Black coach will fail. You're better than that.

I'm from Alabama.
My 100lb. Y team featured more talent than your entire town

Your school really did suck if that's all your band had. Most HS bands suck, yours was one. Most HSs in general are the sort of places certain demos of people can't wait to graduate from. We called them vocational students.

Buncha Seminoles went to the NFL with Coach Sanders. Not many stayed there as long as he did and even fewer (zero) were the best ever at their positions.

Admiration is not why you join a team. You do it for the greater good of winning for your community. One day, when you are older, you will get out of the Northeast and drive thru some towns where the highway sign tells you how many state titles the school has. No, you don't know anything about that level of support for one's children, but Deion Sanders does.

They feel left out because the game changed and they're no longer the stars. See also, Coach, White

 

Either way, there's too much danger in the world right now for me to continue this course on How To Treat ALL Black People When You're Talking To Any One Of Us In The Wake Of A Deadly Election 101, so let's wrap this up.

Black coaches who don't grin and shuffle trigger you. Or seasoned food does.
That's not my problem, but yours.

 

Bergen County has 1 or 2 Catholic football teams on the top 25 nationally each year. Blair Academy has the top ranked wrestling program in the US. But maybe the most impressive team is Christian Brothers Academy having a 50-year dual meet unbeaten streak in cross country. So there are a lot of jocks here.

“I didn’t know anything at all,” he said. “I went to the library and started reading things. It took me a while to figure it out. The first thing I worried about was, ‘Let’s try to win some dual meets.’ That’s how it started.”

The ‘it’ is a national-record winning streak of dual meets, which began in the fall of 1974, turns 50 years old this week and reached victory No. 400 on Wednesday as the Colts defeated Southern and Point Pleasant Borough in a tri-meet. Heath retired in 2016 but his legacy continues with “the streak,” and on Wednesday the school honored him by naming its home cross country course after him – complete with a newly constructed 25-foot archway at the finish line.

https://sports.yahoo.com/cba-cross-country-wins-400th-091201724.html

 

Don't you play cool jazz at the Huntsville Holiday Inn? I think you'll get a pass regardless of Trump being in office. But I appreciate your tutelage.

 

Ask @stanger what happens when teams acknowledged as good in Alabama teams play allegedly world-beating Ohio teams. Ask him about the legendary Archbishop Moeller, who turned out to be a state champion in Ohio but wouldn't have gotten out of a decent region down here where it means more.

And you listed private schools. I give Catholics a bit of a pass because most of them aren't running from Black children the way Protestant Christian White schools do, but still. Your public schools have to be good for it to matter.

I admit that I expect y'all to be great in basketball and such.

Damn, two more private schools. Where are your big, well-supported public schools- your Hoovers? Your Valdostas? Your Eastlake Carrolls? Your Fyffes (You'll have to Google that one. Small school, lost a QF last week, but were on track for their seventh statie in a row until then)? Your Permians?

Where do the lights shine on Friday night?

There's no Holiday Inn here that I know of. If there were and they had a piano, they'd be just as great a place as any, yes.

 

The Catholics can draw from several counties and even upstate NY so they have a built-in advantage. Plus they mostly play a regular season & playoff schedule against other parochial schools. You'll see them in county basketball, baseball & wrestling tournaments.

Yoots in Bammy have to play ball to get out since you're consistently ranked like 49th in public education (thank Jaysis for Mississippi). Good for them!

 

I mean, I know how it works- we have Catholic schools here, I went to one in third grade.. but I an not a fan of private schools playing in public athletic associations. The excuse is always that the parent pays taxes anyway, but the state really needs to see White private schools as inherently "flight"-y and remove them from the public association. Let them compete against the same people they want to date, ********, and marry.

I'm the only person you know from Alabama. I am likely as smart as or smarter (and more ethical) than all your local friends, and I could live as easily anywhere as here (perhaps not financially). How does that square with your viewpoint?

 

And you are one too many!

I counted 9 privates in the USA Today Top 25 poll. Up north, midwest & California it's Catholic schools. Down South it's more publics. Both play shenanigans with snagging desriable players. So even those with defined geographic borders are scoping out kids in 8th grade to live with a distant uncle in the footbaw powerhouse school's district.

https://www.usatodayhss.com/story/s...h-school-football-scores-week-15/76661077007/

 

Dutch protestant christian elementary class:

 

Boooooo

I agree that all regions recruit. But most of the powerhouse grid programs are not in cocaine White zones to begin with. The schools you saw on FNL are a standard 25-30% Black. I know Hoover is and I think that's what Permian was then (not sure about now). Flight schools that are public generally win only minor sports (soccer, golf, tennis, field hockey, hockey, LAX, all girls' sports except basketball and softball. LAX and hockey are still club sports here- only the wealthiest of the Whitest schools play it).

And truth told, if you're a nationally scoped player, you need to be at a powerhouse where you can get the best coaching and the most exposure. My only issue with the system is that it hurts Black (and/or poor) school athletics.

 

They will lose to Buffalo. Another snake bit franchise

 

Geert must get a nosebleed every time he sees a Black child in a white classroom

 

Actually he has a large following under black Dutch people, who don't like muslims.

 

Like St. Benedict's in Newark!

https://unitedsoccercoaches.org/rankings/high-school-rankings/boys-fall/

 

Okay, let me know when they get their comeuppance for that opinion.

Actually, I was thinking about a HS junior who left the state to attend Grayson HS in Loganville, GA, bball powerhouse. He'd won two staties at Buckhorn HS here in the county, but he probably needs to go up against some talent from a larger metro area. 5-star.

Reigning Mr. Basketball Caleb Holt leaving Buckhorn to play in Georgia

 

NYC now has a Business of Sports HS in Hell's Kitchen which I think might be a first in this area

https://www.schools.nyc.gov/schools/M393

 

They were coming or going? I've heard of Loganville, but I don't think I ever visited there. When I was an undergrad in the early 80s it was fairly well known that you did not stop in Marietta alone, and you did not visit Cumming or Dahlonega at all.

 

Stone Mountain is surrounded by Black neighborhoods by now, I'm sure. I was last there with my soon-to-be GF for a Spring Formal (Agnes Scott) boat cruise. The Scarlett O'Hara. I was pretty disgusted, but I kept my mouth shut.

Cross Keys was almost 100% Latino the last time I saw them play, but that was 2001

 

My Catholic Alma mater just won a state title in football today, knocking of another Catholic school from Toledo. They played in the final last year, too, with the Toledo squad winning.

It does help when a bunch of former Buckeyes have kids that go to school there.

 

Yes, the Bergen Co. Catholics have Giants & Jets kids on them. Phil Simms kid played QB at Don Bosco IIRC. You build a name over decades and the kids who wanna go D-1 flock there. Rashan Gary on the Packers lived like an hour away from Paramus and went to Paramus Catholic. And they're #4 in the Catholic school pecking order. Bergen Catholic, Don Bosco & St. Joe's all ahead of PC. Most are good at soccer and the other sports.

 

CBA a top boys pick at Nike XC Nationals today

https://www.milesplit.com/articles/353824/preview-boys-nike-cross-nationals-2024?page=3