LABred08

Don't know why y'all so upset. He thinks he's Trump but of Louisiana. Control to do whatever he wants. Same shxt. Can't complain about him and praise the other and you probably voted for both.

From everything I saw, it wasn't even people from Rapides Parish. There was a shooting at a club south of Alexandria on 71 at like 4 am Saturday, 2 dead. There was some sort of retaliation planned for that, that was aimed at the parade and other events. The folks doing the threatening seemed to be from Avoyelles Parish.

The last thing I saw, don't know how true it is, a rapper was invited to the homecoming by a student(s) because it's a MAJOR event, thousands come out for the events which is why we do it on Saturday every year. Apparently, the shooting was over or directed at this rapper in support of another rapper and our events got caught up in that simply over him being invited. Both rappers are from BR.

Whoever this group from Avoyelles was, didn't just threatened our events but we're attempting to cause chaos at the hospital and with EMS around town.

High ceiling but doesn't have the motor. Pouts when he doesn't get the ball. We played them last year and had nobody his size. We won and he sat on the 3 pt line all game long. He could be a very good collegiate 4 since he will get to stretch the floor but has to shoot better. He's not a center though, at all

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Charles Smith won't allow it.

Nothing is allowed to take any spotlight from basketball. Lord forbid a basketball player want to play football, he'd have to miss fall workouts with the basketball team. There have been a number of extremely skilled athletes that were strongly encouraged to not play football. There have also been a number of extremely skilled basketball players zoned for Rapides that somehow end up on campus at Jones Avenue... well before open enrollment was a thing. It's funny how that seemed to happen.

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1. Yes, he is the reason football can't get where they need to go and as long as the principal is positioning his son to succeed him (he's now asst. athletic director), nothing will change.

2. It's less about who's playing and not and much more about the money. Football used to hold its own on the budget, even when we were bad but Smith was always the AD. The neglect to one program over the other was obvious.

3. He's always let kids play more than one sport. There are plenty that played football and baseball too throughout his tenure. What he does do...is not start them or cut minutes, because they aren't there for everything in the summer and fall. Not always, but most of the time.

4. Been a thing said for years that we got kids we shouldn't have, yet, I think we never got sanctioned by LHSAA until 2021 or 22 and that's with the LHSAA having gone through the entire athletic dept previously on multiple occasions. But tell the truth, all the while, it was kids that should have been at Peabody for football, that were at ASH and Tioga before open enrollment. It happened all over Rapides. If the RPSB and LHSAA overlooked it for some, why not others?

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coaching is not the issue

using her bench is the main criticism you can have

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But the bench, is on the coach if you haven't developed it or don't trust it and when you literally don't play kids against good comp, they won't know what that is when they see it. Richard, Del Rosario, Sheppard and Gilbert should have been getting 8-12+ piece against the lower level SEC teams, then in games like this, in the SEC and NCAA tourney they have a better chance if they step in. At this point, they are unprepared to help so you are trying to steal minutes. That is risky and its on coaching.

The only problem I have with the rotation is the insistence on Poa. She brings nothing offensively, is turnover prone on offense and really isn't as good on defense as she looks, the charges just make her look good. I've thought Richard has looked better just about every time I've seen her and Miracle is a better defender, honestly, she is our best defensive guard. If she get her offense going, she'd be the starter at the 1.

They need the posts to step up, they need serious work on off ball defense (too much ball watching and digging down to help for too long) and due to that they have trouble with Princeton style and flex cut offenses. Won't see much of it in SEC play but they need to be ready for it in the tourney. Offensively they can score with anybody. Less fouls and turnovers, they can beat anybody.

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Peabody and from what I understand they were good with it.

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Wouldn't say good with it but we definitely didn't earn it either.

Louisiana K-12 so far behind in education they couldn't get to this on the High School Senior level, let alone before that. Stuff like this is why Louisiana will stay at the bottom of the barrel nationally.

Already said he wouldn't pardon him.

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