Blue & Castille Testaments to Texas Football
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i have mixed feelings about Texas' high school football. It produces some very good athletes, but often does so at the detriment of other things like education imo.
if you look at all the hours these kids put in, so that some of them can go play college... it sort of makes you wonder. if they hit the books that hard almost ALL of them could go on to college and lead succesfull professional careers.
if you look at all the hours these kids put in, so that some of them can go play college... it sort of makes you wonder. if they hit the books that hard almost ALL of them could go on to college and lead succesfull professional careers.
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Texas has HB 72, AKA No Pass, No Play, so many of the top tier kids all have good grades. That is why UT mostly recruits Texas, because they know the burb kids have good grades. Castille and Blue are from burb schools. The urban areas in Texas are only good for track and basketball now days, and an occassional Vince Young or Derick Strait.
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Axl_sued_me
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georgia and florida are dumber than texas.
General Blackshirt
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Just because you have to pass to play doens't mean your getting your education..
it must be really hard to pull off a D- in Pre-Algebra as a senior <_<
it must be really hard to pull off a D- in Pre-Algebra as a senior <_<
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No i'm just thinking out loud.
We like to talk about about kids in Purify's situation, how football is him out of a terrible enviornment and giving him a chance for a better life.
That's an individual case, at the micro level. But we generalize this to be the norm. However, when you take a step back and look at the macro, i wonder if this generalization is really true. When i see things like texas high school football reality shows; where kids are worked incredibly long hours, kicked off or not allowed on the team becasue their mothers keep them home sick, movies like Friday night lights (which may not be 100% factual but is inspired by reality)... it gives me pause. Is football making these kids lives better, or are these kids giving their lives to make football better. There's a line between helping and hurting and i wonder if the culture in Texas doesn't cross that line.
Football wouldn't be alone in this. I remember the documentary Hoop Dreams. It alluded to the culture in the inner cities, about how bball seemed the only way out for some of those kids. Often times they ignored everythign but bball, and in so doing put themselves in a tough spot. You could be really good, but if someone is better than you and the school only has one ship left, it doesn't matter that you are really good. An inner city coach commented that bball has destroyed a thousand times more lives than it has saved (or something along those lines).
No i'm just thinking out loud.
We like to talk about about kids in Purify's situation, how football is him out of a terrible enviornment and giving him a chance for a better life.
That's an individual case, at the micro level. But we generalize this to be the norm. However, when you take a step back and look at the macro, i wonder if this generalization is really true. When i see things like texas high school football reality shows; where kids are worked incredibly long hours, kicked off or not allowed on the team becasue their mothers keep them home sick, movies like Friday night lights (which may not be 100% factual but is inspired by reality)... it gives me pause. Is football making these kids lives better, or are these kids giving their lives to make football better. There's a line between helping and hurting and i wonder if the culture in Texas doesn't cross that line.
Football wouldn't be alone in this. I remember the documentary Hoop Dreams. It alluded to the culture in the inner cities, about how bball seemed the only way out for some of those kids. Often times they ignored everythign but bball, and in so doing put themselves in a tough spot. You could be really good, but if someone is better than you and the school only has one ship left, it doesn't matter that you are really good. An inner city coach commented that bball has destroyed a thousand times more lives than it has saved (or something along those lines).
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husker rob
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"D" isn't passing in Texas. Everything below a "C" is considered failing.
I can't believe that no one mentioned Gilleylen. He had a 3.9 GPA.
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Blue played at Cedar Hill. They were absolutely dominant. If Curenski's team would've won their last play off game against Garland, they would've ended up playing Blue's team. That would've been interesting.
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They do have an edge when it comes to High school football. We are starting to get some of the better players. I also like the fact that we are starting to tap the ever increasing Arizona market.