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I feel like Nuss doesn’t have a grasp on the field spatially. The number of times he throws a very catchable pass to a receiver…that will be catchable 3 feet out of bounds. Last night throwing several passes into the stands behind the endzone.

I can handle dropped passes—that will happen sometimes and is not on him. I cannot handle him locking in so hard on a receiver and the receiver’s route that he is blinded as to where the sidelines are.

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Anti-trust is a really fascinating subject, but a short answer to your question: a lot of times it won't come into play when the player at hand gained market share through what is essentially organic growth. In other words, the Googles and Facebooks of the world were revolutionary enough that they brought such immense value to the customer that the "cost" side didn't really matter.

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Yep this exactly. (Whole post...it only copied the first paragraph for some reason.)

Yeah I went a few sections to the side and got basically the same thing for 150. They capitalize on people being frantic.

I just don't know why there was nothing available in the 100's or 200's already and why 300's are the highest bracketed price? Fishy.

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I won't disagree completely that golf is an expensive sport, however the 3 sports you list as you describe them are also very expensive. You don't play "competitive" soccer and baseball by staying in town and paying a league fee to a local recreation department. You travel, and you spend likely a lot more money than I do on my golf membership for my family. I would bet that applies with even only one child participating. I understand that you want and need to give your kids the opportunity to participate.

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I agree completely, and moreover that is my entire point. I spend a ton of money on other sports that my kids want to play. There is no way that golf would be a priority for us or for most families with younger children who are involved in multiple sports.

If you force people to make a choice based on finances, then golf is going to lose out much of the time and the sport will lose an entire generation of athletically-inclined kids because they will never learn to play. These are the types of kids who, as they age and their competitive sports days are over, will likely want to be outside "doing something" in their leisure time and are the "target audience" so to speak for golf. I know people can learn to play later in life, but commitment-wise, there is no substitute for developing a real love of something at an early age. That is what I am watching happen with my son as he has been playing at City Park this summer.

If the overall goal is better golf in Baton Rouge, then the sport needs to have a healthy supply of participants. Golf courses have been closing in huge numbers since I was a kid--the sport has been on the decline. Something has to happen to turn that around, and so in the long run it makes sense to have a slight over-supply (as opposed to an under-supply) of convenient and lower-end courses so that new and young players have an opportunity to learn and develop a love of the game.

And if the demand for golf in Baton Rouge is so low that the number of public courses we have simply cannot be supported, I think what many people are saying is that the sport overall would suffer if those closed were LSU or City Park because of the extreme accessibility of those particular courses, both in location and affordability. Those courses attract players that would not go elsewhere to play--as a poster said earlier, some guy who normally plays solo a few times a month and then a few times with friends would often end up quitting the game altogether. And it isn't a "good riddance" kind of situation because so many of those players are young. They are the players who, if they really become attached to playing, will eventually spend money at better courses and seek out and support better golf in the area.

I have never been to this particular board before, but noticed it today and was interested because my son has been getting into golf recently. He is 13 and a good athlete who plays a lot of sports throughout the year.

Those sports, games and practices, prevent not only him from playing much golf, but also his father and I. Although we were both taught how to play somewhat in our youth, neither of us play much and neither of us are very good.

There is absolutely zero chance that we would ever spend the money to join a private course. There is also zero chance that we would currently be playing any golf at all if each round were $50+ for each person.

The crappy BREC park courses are actually fricking awesome for us. In a rare lull from other sports this summer, my son has been playing at least 9 holes at least 3-4 times a week. He has played with me, with his dad, with my dad, etc. None of us would be playing otherwise.

The collateral effect of this on golf as a whole is really important:
1. If his father and I were not getting this practice in at this point in our lives, there is probably little chance that we would be picking golf up more seriously when the kids are older and we have more time. But with the golf exposure we are currently getting, our future support of better courses with higher price tags is actually a pretty good possibility.
2. More importantly, we are developing an interest in golf in a young person (who also happens to be a great athlete and will probably really develop a love of golf as he grows up). He will be far more likely to spend money on better golf as he grows up than he ever would have without these cheap courses.

So...yeah. Maybe these junk courses are taking budget dollars away from other courses that could be "good." But in reality the collateral effect of that would be to eradicate any new generation of golfers except for a few kids here and there who grow up on golf courses.

Oh yes we recently watched Waterboy. Theyve also seen a few other Adam Sandler ones. Loved Tommy Boy too.

My kids are now old enough to watch PG-13 movies with me and I've been enjoying watching things that aren't animated and actually entertaining.

I will post some that they've enjoyed and am hoping for more suggestions.

Went to Steamboat 5 years ago for Easter break in early April. Snow was still there but was poor. They were having to truck in snow to the base area for ski school. bottom half of the mountain was closed, but upper mountain was open. discounted lift tickets cause half of the mountain was closed.

Bother is not the right word for me.

Notice? Yes.
Judge? Absolutely.
Care? Unfortunately no...I've come to expect it most of the time.

But I then categorize people who make those mistakes and I never forget. They drop a notch in how I assess their intelligence unless they prove themselves otherwise.

I didn't feel strongly one way or another on this until fairly recently when I realized that all of my student interns had the following characteristics:

(a) lurking outside of my door in the hallway until I acknowledged them and initiated conversation; and
(b) not knowing how to end a conversation.

The will literally do (a), then get invited in and ask their question. I respond and they continue to sit there. Doesn't matter if it is work-oriented or social conversation, they do not know how to initiate or conclude it in person. I blame this entirely on texting.

Yes they interact in person with people, but rarely people who they don't know very well. It is noticeably bad.