Teacher and sports nut (especially baseball).
Sauk Rapids, MN
Joined March 2013
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Dad’s when their wife gets home and they had to watch the kids solo for over one hour.
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Me after sleeping on the uncomfortable couch in the hospital after my wife gives birth
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Not only is this dumb and immature—and not what Mizzou should be about, rivalry or not—but the Transfer Portal has made this kind of manufactured allegiance even more ridiculous.
Players transfer for playing time. Money. Opportunity. Coaches leave for better jobs. Players leave for better situations.
So let’s be honest: how many players actually give a damn about your rivalry?
Same goes for the NFL. A lot of these rivalries are for the fans and the cameras. Unless a player is from that area or has some real personal connection, I’m not convinced they care nearly as much as we pretend they do.
The fans care.
The business cares.
The players? More often than not, they’re trying to win and get paid.
That’s the reality.
#BDPRecruiting
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This is NOT a political issue & shouldn't be made into one. It's physics & human anatomy. Sophie Cunningham is correct.
A thread/example 🧵:
The fastest woman in history is Florence Griffith-Joyner, fabulously known as Flo-Jo 🏃🏾♀️ 💅
Her world record in the 100 meter dash is an astonishing 10.49 seconds. This record has stood completely untouched for decades & still stands today 🥇
When compared to professional men, Flo-Jo's all-time historic speed is heavily outmatched by the biological & physiological realities of male sprinting mechanics.
At the professional Men's Level, Flo Jo would be UNRANKED. According to World Athletics data, over 1,900 men have run faster than Flo-Jo’s 10.49 second women's world record. Her time would fail to qualify for any standard professional or NCAA men’s track meet.
Her 10.49-second mark aligns perfectly with the elite U.S. high school boys' level.
76 high school boys ran faster than Flo-Jo's record in 2019 alone.
It's nowhere near fair to amazing women athletes that work hard their whole lives to compete against biological men.
David Novak retweeted
Luke Falk shared a Mike Leach story that stopped me cold:
Two kids. One rich. One poor.
Every training camp, Coach Leach told his team about these 2 kids.
The rich kid has two choices.
Get soft. Get entitled. Expect everything handed to him because he was handed more.
Or take the resources, the coaching, the opportunities, and compound them into something greater.
The poor kid has two choices too.
Say nobody gave him anything. Blame the world. Make his circumstances the reason he never became what he could have been.
Or outwork everyone in the room.
Luke said the locker room had both. Kids from wealth. Kids from nothing. Kids with every advantage. Kids who scraped for every inch.
Same choice for all of them.
Ownership or victimhood.
Fuel or excuse.
The rich kid can waste the head start or build on it.
The poor kid can drown in the deficit or weaponize it.
Greatness doesn't come from where you start.
It comes from which kid you choose to feed.
Credit to @coachlukefalk for continuing to share golden nuggets about Coach’s legacy
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The biggest game of the first round is on Friday, when Long Island battles Arizona for iced tea supremacy
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So many things wrong with this:
1) Multi-sport athletes develop and transfer over unique skills that specialists will not have
2) Multi-sport athletes experience less burnout
3) “we support you, but…” isnt honesty or support, its leveraging fear to get guys to quit other sports
I could keep going, but if you’re a young student-athlete reading this, ignore bad coaching like this.
You get to be in high school ONCE. Play all the sports you want, work hard in those sports and any offseasons, and you’ll be the best you can be.
You will ABSOLUTELY not fall behind less talented specialists. IF you are truly a college-bound athlete, playing multiple sports is PROVEN to maximize your abilities long-term!
And if you are an average player in two sports, quitting one doesnt make you better in the other. Have FUN.
Dont shortchange your HS experience bc some coach wants to try and fear-bait you into specializing when we all know the best athletes play anyway.
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BREAKING: The Tanque Verde boys won the D-III state swim championship. More later #azpreps365live
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TANQUE VERDE WINS FIRST REGION TITLE
Hawks, in their 19th season, capture the 2A South championship with a 42-14 win over Willcox. Tanque Verde (8-2) earns the region’s automatic bid to the state playoffs.
