UMHB VS McMurray University

[Rick]

Looks like the Cru will pull this one out. With 1:10 left, the Cru leads 77-3 in Abilene.

Playoffs start next week. Opponent will be announced tomorrow.

[sojourner truth]

And Baylor beats OU today as well... A great day for Texas football all around.

[Rick]

And it was fun watching the Longhorns get beat by Kansas.

[Ludwig]

I find it always reason to celebrate when a bastion of liberal thought gets roundly whipped. It seems that money cannot buy everything.

[Ludwig]

"Coaches" in Hight School are having a difficult time trying to put teams of competitive athletes together. It seems that the current generation in those schools is just not into sports. This dearth of talent will soon be felt at the college/university level and then at the professional levels. Good riddance to bad trash as far as I'm concerned. Perhaps the schools can get back to what they were established for, to train our youngsters to read, write, and do arithmetic and then give them an opportunity to develop their skills in the trades and arts.

[birdfriend]

Texas high school football is still going strong, especially in the small towns and schools that have a history of competing in the playoff games. I was just reading the playoff schedules for this week and there are a lot of names of familiar teams there. Locally, there are also a lot of elementary age kids involved in playing. Some of these kids get involved at a young age, but this is outside of the school day.

[gnatsum]

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"Coaches" in Hight School are having a difficult time trying to put teams of competitive athletes together. It seems that the current generation in those schools is just not into sports. This dearth of talent will soon be felt at the college/university level and then at the professional levels. Good riddance to bad trash as far as I'm concerned. Perhaps the schools can get back to what they were established for, to train our youngsters to read, write, and do arithmetic and then give them an opportunity to develop their skills in the trades and arts.

Two factos: 1. Some boys would rather play soccer (what the rest of the world considers "football", so they're not suiting up (story in Texas Monthly a few years ago), and 2. some kids AND parents are not doing football due to the bleief that at some point, there will be concussions, and CTE will soon take the player's life.

Then there's the issue of a winning team. Family friends who lived in Copperas Cove back in the '80s often said that most boys there did NOT want to play, partly due to Cove's losing record...the coaches would roam the halls looking for boys who were big enough to play!