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TreatyOak

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  1. I agree with the first part of what you wrote. My family is Hispanic from San Antonio. And in regards to @MAUFRAIS's comment about Westlake being a blanket racist community, come spend some time with mi familia in SA. You might be surprised what you hear. Regarding your comment about Deion not being a positive role model, he may not be one to a large segment of the population, but to many people, he surely is.
  2. I don't live in Dallas, and had never heard about this scandal until this thread. It sounded pretty bad, but after reading the articles about it shared here, it sounded like a VERY convoluted situation where Deion hired some pretty incompetent, corrupted types who had a big hand in the failure of the program. Deion may not be actively fighting for social change, but in my view, the way Deion is providing leadership is very threatening to the status quo and social change is baked into it. Nobody hates Norvell or Strong because they don't do anything that is remotely threatening to the powers that be. Norvell's comment was pretty sad, actually.
  3. Thanks for sharing this. It isn't something we hear about much. Some creators have made some really powerful videos about this on TikTok.
  4. He is similar in that he is using his his public persona, which brazenly celebrates a type of African American culture, to shake up the conventional wisdom about how to create success in the world of sports. And like Ali, he seems to threaten a lot of people.
  5. Yes, you shared that view before. My experience is that people with less means are often the most racist people you will ever meet.
  6. Actually, I think it’s deeper than what I wrote and much uglier.
  7. This is a great thread because it is relevant to our society today in a way that transcends college football. Change-agents, like Deion, are rarely loved in their time. The college sports system, with its coaches, & ADs don't like change, and he is a threat to the status-quo in college football. Frauds, like Jimbo, rightly understand that change exposes them to be evaluated by a brand-new standard. Deion was even correctly perceived to be a threat by other Black coaches in the SWAC. Heck, he even called out his last school, as he accused them for not living up to their promises to him, and they didn't like being exposed. He is a polarizing figure, and your allegiance or dislike of him goes beyond his coaching acumen and is more tied to how you believe he "should" carry himself. The sunglasses comment (interestingly made by a Black coach) and the "clicks vs wins" comment both send a loaded message. Muhammad Ali may be loved now, but when he was speaking his mind to confront social change in the 1970's , he was vilified. Most adults I knew wouldn't even use his Islamic name. It was too scary to them. Now everyone acts like they always loved him. I predict Deion will be viewed the same years from now
  8. So happy we beat Lake Travis. Now at my client's yearly XMAS party, I get to talk crap with all the LT dads there. THey're kind of the Agiies of HS football, as they Ed Small is the real deal. He torched our Westlake secondary for two home-run balls TWICE last year. Dude can ball.
  9. Thank heavens. LT, with over a 1,300 more students and plenty of ex pro-sports dads should beat Westlake. I am hearing that the dads are getting restless.
  10. Good. I feel bad for Paxton Land and his dad, but a Westlake QB should never get benched after the first possession in the state quarterfinals, which happened last season. Good for the Westlake coaches. It really is a meritocracy. The Weiss kid looks like the real deal in the limited time I have seen him play We should connect at the next home game. I have season sideline pass, haha.
  11. I hear the Weiss QB era has officially begun. Has Paxton Land been benched?
  12. Not at the game. There is a pestilence upon Lake Travis. Plus, the parking sucks, and you often end up parked on the side of HWY 620 as drunken Lake Travis cougars speed past you as they head to their usual pickup sites.
  13. I want to take a moment to make a short PSA about this popular misconception. Today's consumer software is designed to be intuitive to the point where a person of ANY age can master it. It isn't here to be used exclusively by those "crazy kids." In fact, mastering technology and coupling that with vast life experience can actually be a very potent mix. Now, it is a coincidence that the skills I apply here are the ones that I use for work, but at our business, we are very open-minded about learning any new platforms, cause we are a small company and we don't have Ted from IT to bail us out. As a very wise person once told me, "embrace technology and you'll always be young." Thanks for your time!
  14. Fun fact: I created the Surly Horns logo partially from the Oregon Ducks logo, which is actually Daffy Duck and was given for FREE by Walt Disney to the school in the 1930's. Disney eventually regretted giving it away and tried to get compensation for it, but alas, a deal is a deal.
  15. I went to my first Cowboys game two seasons ago. It was a freak show. The ratio of fat, middle-aged-man-dressed-like-a-chump-and-wearing-gold-chains to attractive women was 100 to 1.
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