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re: Birmingham prep star DE switches schools in Week 10
Posted on 10/24/23 at 7:10 am to Bham Bammer
Posted on 10/24/23 at 7:10 am to Bham Bammer
And y’all think the LHSAA is a cluster
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Posted on 10/24/23 at 7:23 am to SingleMalt1973
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a bigger slimeball than Propst
That's quite the bar to reach
Posted on 10/24/23 at 7:25 am to Bham Bammer
fricking mercenary right there.
Posted on 10/24/23 at 7:34 am to chalmetteowl
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I mean if he was good enough a mercenary wouldn’t have to come in clearly they think they have to upgrade somewhere
Maybe I am just biased because I work a lot with high school kids. But imagine a kid putting four years of hard work and dedication into a program. He’s not going to play in college, he’s just laying it all out on the line for his teammates, his coaches, and his school. he’s a senior and he’s making an impact on a state title contending team. All of a sudden, the coaches that he’s been working for every day for the last four years decide that he’s not good enough, and they basically go buy a mercenary to take his spot.
Quite the lesson in loyalty that kid just learned, but then again for coaches like this, I guess it isn’t about the kids really, and teaching them how to be men.
Posted on 10/24/23 at 7:38 am to SingleMalt1973
quote:same for clark and dubose at Prattville
This was how Porpst did it at Hoover
Posted on 10/24/23 at 7:40 am to StringedInstruments
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I mean, out of all of the nice areas in the Birmingham area, the Tagovailoas picked the armpit of Alabaster to live?
10 or 15 years ago I would have agreed with you about the alabaster area. Today, that is no longer the case. The area is experiencing huge amounts of growth and the number of half million dollar homes and up has drastically increased. Alabaster most definitely has deep pockets and resources to draw from.
Posted on 10/24/23 at 7:42 am to choupiquesushi
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And y’all think the LHSAA is a cluster
I know of a player years ago in the LHSAA that went 0-10 in the regular season and played in the playoffs. Pre-split.
Went to a Baton Rouge private school and was 0-7, in week 8, transferred to a Baton Rouge public school who was 7-0 at the time. The team he went to lost their last 3 games of the regular season. But they did win their first round playoff game.
Posted on 10/24/23 at 8:06 am to Blizzard of Chizz
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10 or 15 years ago I would have agreed with you about the alabaster area. Today, that is no longer the case. The area is experiencing huge amounts of growth and the number of half million dollar homes and up has drastically increased. Alabaster most definitely has deep pockets and resources to draw from.
Strip malls, Jack’s, and four lane highways only masks the butt crack smell of Alabaster. It’s a plantar’s wart on the Birmingham metro area, and the overemphasis on cheating at grade school sports only solidifies its place a trash heap. Those “half million dollar” homes are exactly the types to be purchased by stupid people unqualified to take on such mortgages. They’ll pair their mortgages with 84 month leases on trucks they don’t need and be upside down on their finances before Jaxon and Kamdin get to 6th grade.
This post was edited on 10/24/23 at 8:54 am
Posted on 10/24/23 at 8:06 am to Blizzard of Chizz
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10 or 15 years ago I would have agreed with you about the alabaster area. Today, that is no longer the case. The area is experiencing huge amounts of growth
that's the chicken that sprang from the egg. 20 years ago alabaster was a fricking dump. Once the football team decided they were basically going to copy hoover and just go recruit people to move into their district to play football, and then they started winning bigly and other people not from there started moving in, you get what you see now. Yes there's lots of growth but it certainly wasn't organic.
Posted on 10/24/23 at 8:14 am to Tiger1242
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Quite the lesson in loyalty that kid just learned, but then again for coaches like this, I guess it isn’t about the kids really, and teaching them how to be men.
I guess you would have loved Myles Brennan at QB
Posted on 10/24/23 at 8:23 am to chalmetteowl
quote:You can be a very good high school player, and if a 4 or 5 star comes in you are getting benched
mean if he was good enough a mercenary wouldn’t have to come in clearly they think they have to upgrade somewhere
Posted on 10/24/23 at 8:46 am to Bham Bammer
I'd love to know what is going on over at Thompson. My daughter was in the band at Vestavia Hills from '07-'10 and we'd go to Alabaster for the Thompson game. As late as 2010 they had the lamest, outdated facilites. Football stadium was the football version of Hickory HS from Hoosiers basketball gym. Oh, and they went 1-9 every year.
Now their stadium looks like a G5 stadium and they've won the 7A title 4 years in a rown. Who is financing all of this?
Now their stadium looks like a G5 stadium and they've won the 7A title 4 years in a rown. Who is financing all of this?
Posted on 10/24/23 at 8:49 am to I-59 Tiger
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Who is financing all of this?
Real answer: they built the colonnade right off the interstate around 20 years ago. They’re making a shitload of money from it and the city dedicated a lot of the revenue to their schools.
Their 7A head football coach is obviously great, but I’m not joking when I say it’s an open secret that they’re recruiting talent from around the state. They’ve had a number of high profile guys move into the area even before their success started.
They’re also pilfering coaches from around town. And they’ve hired coaches who aren’t certified teachers but pushed the rules on getting them temporary but renewable certifications to keep them on staff full time. I personally know a soccer coach in the BHam metro area who was offered a $20k raise to move to Thompson. For soccer.
This post was edited on 10/24/23 at 8:54 am
Posted on 10/24/23 at 9:52 am to StringedInstruments
Its just weird seeing Thompson so successful. Hoover,prior to Propst and back when it was "Berry" always had good teams, won titles,etc.They were nothing like Probst reign of terror but had a solid program.
Thompson never did.
Thompson never did.
Posted on 10/24/23 at 11:43 am to chalmetteowl
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I guess you would have loved Myles Brennan at QB
No see we are taking about high school not D1 college. There is a huge difference
Posted on 10/24/23 at 11:44 am to Bham Bammer
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His family moved from an apartment zoned for SP to one zoned for Thompson.
..paid for by???
Posted on 10/24/23 at 11:56 am to Tiger1242
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No see we are taking about high school not D1 college. There is a huge difference
Right but we’re not talking about average high schools either
Posted on 10/24/23 at 12:09 pm to StringedInstruments
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armpit of Alabaster to live?
I take offense to that.
Having lived in Alabaster, it’s nowhere near an armpit. Much closer to an ear clogged with earwax.
In all seriousness, like all towns, Alabaster has its nice areas and it’s crappy ones - but it’s not even recognizable to the place I grew up in. They added that mall and the place exploded.
Posted on 10/24/23 at 12:57 pm to I-59 Tiger
Back then the small private school that played 8-man football could probably give Thompson a run for their money or even beat them. They were that bad.
Posted on 10/25/23 at 10:07 am to Tiger1242
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He’s not going to play in college, he’s just laying it all out on the line for his teammates, his coaches, and his school. he’s a senior and he’s making an impact on a state title contending team.
I don't think Thompson has many (if any) of those guys. Maybe on special teams. But the guys playing in crunch time on Fridays are probably all going somewhere to play at the next level.
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