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Northshore parents that send their kids to the Catholic League.

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true story!

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Here's a more likely scenario: small school develops talent and is putting together a good run for a year or two. Sally Striker and Suzy goalkeeper have turned into strong candidates that could get playing time at the 5A school across town and leave their teammates high and dry senior year. So you really punish the kids ego are left behind who didn't do anything wrong the coaches that developed the talent don't get to enjoy the fruits of their labor, and now a whole team is worse off.

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I agree that this is not good, but my point is more about the underclass students who can play varsity. Let them transfer out of district if they want before their Junior season. A kid who bails on his or her team for their senior year is probably pretty rare and typically not one you'd want on your team anyway.

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You obviously never have invested in a program before to understand, but sometimes something is bigger than you.

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I have, but most high school athletes wouldn't leave a good program that is fully invested in proper development. If the program is not fully invested or at least invested enough in the athlete's development, I think the teammates and all involved would understand a transfer.

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When you commit to a team and leave your teammates just because you can, it says a lot about you.

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What if the team/program isn't committed to you? What does the athlete do then?

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There's probably just as many athletic careers derailed from transfers as improved.

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At least they had the option and made their own choices.

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This is purely for sports. It's a typical American argument to point out the 1% who might benefit realistically from this type of arrangement, and ignore the 99% which are abusing the system for sports reasons.

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In what way is it abuse if the family/student-athlete decide to invest in athletic talent that could potentially get an athletic scholarship if the athlete is in the right program? Why should school choice only be about academics? A lot of Olympic athletes are home schooled to invest heavily in their athletic talent. Why can't a football player or any other sport that needs a school team to compete choose to invest in the best possible program for their future? There are hundreds of schools from FBS and FCS to D2 looking for athletes to give scholarships which means free or heavily subsidized tuition. Even D3 offers "leadership" scholarships to athletes that meet the academic standards for their schools.

Athletics is an avenue for a better future for MANY kids! If you demand they stay in a bad program for their development because they may make a bad choice of schools offering a potentially better situation, what are their other options?

Sit out a year of development? Bad choice and no help to anyone.

Bummer to see him struggle, but he definitely didn't look very good. Of course he's a rook, and will get better.

He doesn't seem to anchor well against NFL guys. I think he got away with it in college, but will need to improve his base and footwork to overcome his arm length issue. He gets his upper body outside of his base too often and gets knocked off balance or pushed back seemingly pretty easily for NFL pass rushers.

His top 2 priorities during the off season will be

1. More strength built in the weight room and not relying on his natural size and strength which all NFL players possess. I have no idea if he's a big workout/weight room guy or not, but he definitely will need to be this off season.
2. Better footwork to improve his ability to be stable over his base. He needs to anchor better against bull rushes and club and rip techniques.

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You racist piece of shite!!!!!

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:lol:

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So when are we going to stop paying for people on food stamps to eat processed junk foods and sodas? We pay for this crap and then pay for the medical costs of obesity.

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This new food pyramid is likely paving the way for food stamp reform and possibly school lunch reform.

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Lately when I do a good job, my stomach drops and I feel like I'd be better suited doing the same good job for myself.

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I own a business and employ/contract people like you. Grass is always greener, or "I'm not doing that task for what I'm being paid (or not being paid)," and, worst of all, "that's not my job" type person. people think that small to mid-sized business owners are all making multiple millions or even a million/year... I thought my boss was before I became her competition. You get paid last after all the expenses that you didn't foresee as an employee. And you do things for clients that have NO real ROI other than keeping the clients happy.

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I get fed up easily. Even when I do a good job, there's a sense of meaningless that creeps in.

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Your perspective in this isn't a good one. If you're sick of doing remedial tasks that feel like they're a waste of time or meaningless, get ready for being a business owner when you deal in bull shite ALL DAY LONG! You can't just turn your back on clients and business because they're a pain in the arse.

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It seems I can't manage to work for others.

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This is all you do when you own a business!

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I want autonomy to set up my own systems and do things my way.

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This is a real thing and a good perspective. Depending on your industry and size of your business, you will absorb so much pressure from payroll to clients wanting to feel like their time is more important than your time, that you need a truly solid "why" for your endeavor. If you don't have a rock solid reason beyond I feel like wasting time at work for myself is better than someone else, you will hate owning a business because all you do is waste time on satisfying client's ridiculousness. People in remedial jobs at your client's business want to feel important, so they invent ways to complicate your work so they have a way to look down on you and tell your what to do so they feel a sense of control over you, but you just have to deal with it.

If you view your business as one that makes a real difference in people's lives and the community, and you feel that you will do a better job of it than the competition, then go for it, but word of warning - It's more work than you can imagine because you're virtually never off the clock, and the level of bull shite rises to epic proportions.

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The need BK! Get the contracts going ASAP!

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If Penn State hires BK, this may be the greatest coaching changes season in the history of LSU!

It's the most wonderful time of the year gentlemen!

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Well this simply isn't true. I swear our fans have a delusional, self inflated view of our school. It's a great opportunity, but it's not even close to the best opportunity.

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Why do you consider LSU NOT on par as a football program as any other school in the country?

They've won as many titles as Ohio State this century (the modern age of CFB)!
LSU has won more titles than Clemson, UGA, UT, OU, USC, Notre Dame, Michigan, Miami, FSU, UF, UTenn, UW... in the last 25 years. The only team with more is Bama with Nick Saban, but that opportunity isn't available currently. You could easily argue that if Saban had stayed at LSU, the Tigers may have been the MOST elite program in the modern age of college football, but I don't like IFs.

There is no meaningful metric to NOT include LSU as one of the most elite jobs on par with all but maybe Bama, but that job nor Ohio State are open or likely open any time soon.

Not only the on-field football success with wins, respect, relevance and championships, but LSU athletics off-field relevance in social media and sports personalities and the nationally and internationally recognized athletes in football and other sports that elevate the brand of LSU athletics.

I will never understand the self-loathing, low T perspective that a large portion of our fans have. LSU IS ELITE, and the support, standards and results are as high as any other football program.

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Cougardroppings

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