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2 hours ago, Dbeasy said:

I laughed my ass off to this. When I played Pop Warner football growing up in East Austin we thought we were badasses, and to some extent some of us, not me, were. 

However every year we’d go down and play the lower East Austin perrenial champions, the Hornets. These guys were insane. The size and speed was just scary as shit.

I remember one year looking over to our sideline when we were getting pummeled, and the coach was trying to get some of our players to go in to the game, and these kids were having none of it. Black, white, Hispanic, didn’t matter. These guys were glued to the sideline for half the game. The rest of us had to play both ways and got lit up at least a dozen times. The Hornets were Austin legends. 

i played baseball for the Greater East Austin Youth League back in 1990 0r 1991.. we were undefeated, thinking we were hot shit.. then we went to the city playoffs out in oakhill.. double elimination.. we got run ruled both freaking games..

 

talk about being humbled :( 

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Is this the thread where the suburban white boys among us discuss our first encounter with dudes at another level athletically?

5th grade summer basketball camp was going great. I must have been absolutely crushing my free throws and bounce passes in the drills,  because I was rewarded with the 1-seed in a one-on-one tournament. I guess Tyreke Williams was expertly playing the bracket, because he somehow was the lowest seed. I might as well have been playing a Rodman/Jordan hybrid. Mercifully, the 5-0 rout ended quickly and I pivoted to a barely mediocre athletic career in tennis.

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3 minutes ago, hookem2010 said:

Is this the thread where the suburban white boys among us discuss our first encounter with dudes at another level athletically?

5th grade summer basketball camp was going great. I must have been absolutely crushing my free throws and bounce passes in the drills,  because I was rewarded with the 1-seed in a one-on-one tournament. I guess Tyreke Williams was expertly playing the bracket, because he somehow was the lowest seed. I might as well have been playing a Rodman/Jordan hybrid. Mercifully, the 5-0 rout ended quickly and I pivoted to a barely mediocre athletic career in tennis.

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You probably.

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37 minutes ago, hookem2010 said:

Is this the thread where the suburban white boys among us discuss our first encounter with dudes at another level athletically?

5th grade summer basketball camp was going great. I must have been absolutely crushing my free throws and bounce passes in the drills,  because I was rewarded with the 1-seed in a one-on-one tournament. I guess Tyreke Williams was expertly playing the bracket, because he somehow was the lowest seed. I might as well have been playing a Rodman/Jordan hybrid. Mercifully, the 5-0 rout ended quickly and I pivoted to a barely mediocre athletic career in tennis.

Seems like it is.

My oldest played Pop Warner in the Cedar Park / Leander league around 2006.  Coaches were the prototypes for Pop Warner - guy who thought he knew football and wanted his kid to play QB, guy who played DL in college at some point, guy who worked out a lot and did not have kids on the team (was friends or business partners with the HC - I * think* he played college ball).  The level of instruction was abysmal.  Well, it is dad coach Pop Warner.

Anyhow, we "travel" to play a team from Pflugerville.  Every kid on the team is bigger and more athletic that the kids on our team.  Their only coach was around 30 and had no kids on the team.  They were running a scaled-back version of the Pflugerville HS playbook.  Anyhow, it's clear they are going to destroy us.  They are up 14-0 after the first 2 series.  One of our better players gets injured and the HC just ignores it - tries to put him back out there - and the guy's mom is beside herself.  "He's fine," says the dad.  Injury to the coach's son was treated in a similar fashion by coach.  Anyhow, we go down 28-0.  Pretty quickly.  Each score by Pflugerville is treated - by fans - like it's the first time they've ever seen a TD before in their life (they had not - they are crushing everyone). 

At a 28 point lead, a running clock begins and all plays must be runs between the tackles.  The Pflugerville team changes its offense - splitting the tackles out to the hashes.  Nice.  Not sure I recall the final score, but it was a blowout.  The 3 things that stand out: splitting the tackles to the hashes, Pf not using 2nd or 3rd team guys until mid-way through the 4th, dads not caring about the health of their own kids - even when it was clear they needed to be removed.

Not as interesting as CTJ's story about Hampton rag-dolling his friend, but a small glimpse into Central Texas Pop Warner.

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2 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

I ran down Brock Fitzhenry and Jeremy Kerley while playing defense. I also caught a touchdown pass over Emmanuel Sanders. Got completely dumpstered by a Marlin team with Danario Alexander(MIzzou), Matteral Richardson(Arkansas), and DeNarian Wrighter(Arkansas)

Those are some All-Pro level first names.

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1 hour ago, boilerhorn said:

Seems like it is.

My oldest played Pop Warner in the Cedar Park / Leander league around 2006.  Coaches were the prototypes for Pop Warner - guy who thought he knew football and wanted his kid to play QB, guy who played DL in college at some point, guy who worked out a lot and did not have kids on the team (was friends or business partners with the HC - I * think* he played college ball).  The level of instruction was abysmal.  Well, it is dad coach Pop Warner.

Anyhow, we "travel" to play a team from Pflugerville.  Every kid on the team is bigger and more athletic that the kids on our team.  Their only coach was around 30 and had no kids on the team.  They were running a scaled-back version of the Pflugerville HS playbook.  Anyhow, it's clear they are going to destroy us.  They are up 14-0 after the first 2 series.  One of our better players gets injured and the HC just ignores it - tries to put him back out there - and the guy's mom is beside herself.  "He's fine," says the dad.  Injury to the coach's son was treated in a similar fashion by coach.  Anyhow, we go down 28-0.  Pretty quickly.  Each score by Pflugerville is treated - by fans - like it's the first time they've ever seen a TD before in their life (they had not - they are crushing everyone). 

At a 28 point lead, a running clock begins and all plays must be runs between the tackles.  The Pflugerville team changes its offense - splitting the tackles out to the hashes.  Nice.  Not sure I recall the final score, but it was a blowout.  The 3 things that stand out: splitting the tackles to the hashes, Pf not using 2nd or 3rd team guys until mid-way through the 4th, dads not caring about the health of their own kids - even when it was clear they needed to be removed.

Not as interesting as CTJ's story about Hampton rag-dolling his friend, but a small glimpse into Central Texas Pop Warner.

anyhow, I thought it was really well told

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15 hours ago, closetojumping said:

I've told it before, numerous times, but fuck it, it's been awhile. 

My sophomore and junior years, we played G-Ball in Galveston. The police escort would pick us up at the Causeway and bring us to the barbed-wire protected stadium. Each year, we were GBall's homecoming. You walk off the bus and angry fans are throwing food and drink at us, 2 hours before the game, and they're taunting us with "little ass whiteboys!!" and "dirty ass mexicans!" as we scrambled for the locker room. 

Just before kickoff, regrouped in the shitty locker room underneath the north end zone bleachers, we're getting the pep talk from the HC when the ceiling starts dropping paint and dust as the whole building shakes. "Oooo, Ahhh, G-Ball High! ... Ussay Aussay, the G-Ball Posse!! <boom boom bah, boom boom bah> G-Balllllllllllll, Hey Hey, G-Ball Hiiiiiiiiiiigh!!!>" I'm 15 and these guys have had 7 points scored on them in 6 games and they're ranked #4 in the fucking state. It was somewhat intimidating.

We come running out of the tunnel, then get blocked by the band. Immediately nachos and cokes are raining down on us. They didn't chalk the field. They painted it. You get tackled on the lines or a hash and skin is getting torn off. Like landing on concrete. I caught a pass in the flats and some All State dumbass who couldn't score 700 on the SAT named Rodney Artmore hit me like a fucking bus. 

We scored 3 points in two seasons against them on their turf. 

My senior year, our coach brilliantly decides that they'll be our homecoming game. While I was having a good game individually and likely getting concussed by Cephus Scott (KSU) on passes over the middle, we as a team are getting absolutely pummeled. Their defensive line is mowing through our OL like a hot knife through butter. 

At some point in the second half, a commotion is going on in the sugar huddle. I walk over from the outside and think "what in the fuck is going on?"

The center, a good friend of mine but also a pussy, is crying/bawling inside his helmet. Truly red-faced and crying. The other guys are talking shit to him about getting it together. "You guys don't understand!! This guy is a fucking animal. He's beating the shit out of me!! It's like being in a goddamned street fight!"

I walk off. "Christ."

The literal next play, the DT grabs our center and hurls him into our QB while the QB is dropping back and is sacked by his center. 

I laughed inside as I was also embarrassed. 

The DT for G-Ball? A freshman or sophomore Casey Hampton.

This story needs to find it's way to Gerry H. I think he would enjoy it. 

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52 minutes ago, BurntOrange&amp;White said:

I ran down Brock Fitzhenry and Jeremy Kerley while playing defense. I also caught a touchdown pass over Emmanuel Sanders. Got completely dumpstered by a Marlin team with Danario Alexander(MIzzou), Matteral Richardson(Arkansas), and DeNarian Wrighter(Arkansas)

wait... you're black?

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7 minutes ago, Vertigo said:

This story needs to find it's way to Gerry H. I think he would enjoy it. 

 

2 minutes ago, kevwun said:

I imagine he has heard it many times.  It never gets old though.

kevwun is correct. 

Also, Brian Perroni illegitimately took the story and repurposed it for Clear Lake and him observing it from the stands. We were all in the same district at the time. I saw him post it, more blandly but basically the same. Called him on it and rather than own the plagiarism and apologize, he dug in and offered that maybe it happened in two different games. Uh, no dipshit, you’ve just been reading the boards long enough that you adopted it because you remember seeing your team get pummeled by G-Ball with Hampton doing work. 

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White boy story.  As my teams biggest guy in bball I had to guard and go up against Leonard Davis every fucking year and  football he just rag dolled us.   I used to laugh at parents asking for his birth certificate because they didn’t believe he was a kid 

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14 hours ago, BurntEyes said:

AND legitimately a friendly kind dude that was happy to chat with anyone.

Not to take anything away from Casey Hampton, but I’ve had personal or professional relationships with a bunch of those guys who played 2000-2010 or so and they’ve all been surprisingly kind, almost gentle (I would have expected them to be more like my USMC brethren and constantly acting like overgrown adolescents).  I figure at least some of that is playing ball at UT can be a good maximizer of social skills if you let it.  
 

14 hours ago, HenryJames said:

@closetojumping hates Parker Livingstone because @closetojumping was Parker Livingstone.

Too late, but would have been a perfect thread name for the 2023-2024 recruiting class.  

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25 minutes ago, Sgt Hulk said:

White boy story.  As my teams biggest guy in bball I had to guard and go up against Leonard Davis every fucking year and  football he just rag dolled us.   I used to laugh at parents asking for his birth certificate because they didn’t believe he was a kid 

I recall watching them at the drum thinking "why the hell don't you just throw it down in the paint to him every possession??". Then we watched him shoot FTs and thought "huh, yeah now I see why".

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1 hour ago, kevwun said:

It's called a soft landing.

 

55 minutes ago, texifornia said:

Dealing with state politics (especially in Texas) is a huge pain in the ass

 

43 minutes ago, Frank Drebin said:

And SMU is a cush job for a president.  Their outgoing president has been there 30 years

Also, much of the student and alumni-related backlash he has dealt with is much less likely to happen at SMU (Not trying to CR, but y'all know what I mean).

I'm sure there are plenty of advantages for a university president when the school they are at is a private, as well. More authority and less free information, too.

1 hour ago, BurntOrange&amp;White said:

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Yep, Eltife seems like the more important piece to CDC than Hartzell.

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57 minutes ago, texifornia said:

Dealing with state politics (especially in Texas) is a huge pain in the ass

I assume Hartzell already has gotten wind of how hostile this upcoming lege session will be against higher ed in Texas, and UT Austin especially. 

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10 minutes ago, Js1 said:

I assume Hartzell already has gotten wind of how hostile this upcoming lege session will be against higher ed in Texas, and UT Austin especially. 

Can you explain what is going on or at least point me in the direction? What do you me against higher ed and UT?

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