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  1. foxbat
    A non-direct consequence was seen a couple of times this season. My daughter is on the dance team for Jeff. For home games, she'd often stay after school and then we'd pick her up after the game. I told her to text us at the start of the 4th quarter and we'd come get her ... from that text, you've got 12 minutes to get to the school with the mercy rule. Used to be able to have time to grab a bite for dinner if you got there by the half and still have enough time to finish up and get over to the school for pickup. Depending on the opponent and the mercy rule, you may have to go fast food or skip the appetizers and get it to-go. 😉
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    Oh, my bad ... you're not as entertaining as @Impartial_Observer.
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    Oh, I find you quite entertaining IO. 😀 Others, not so much.
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    Still awaiting the entertainment. I love junior high debate ... practiced by junior high students
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    I like this answer from the standpoint that, until society/business has moved to a point where it won't have an impact, it has an impact. I wholeheartedly agree with the idea that a person's ability is not tied to whether they have a tattoo or an earring or long hair, etc., but I'm also quite realistic. As a university professor, I constantly get students complaining that, "If a company can't see past my *fill in the blank hairstyle*, my *fill in the blank number of piercings* on my *fill in the blank appendages*, and my *fill in the blank special piece of clothing* then that's their problem." Note that this complaint often comes after the student has not made the next round of interviews or not gotten a job offer. I'm in that same age group as you, just a little older, and maybe it's just a generational item, but I like the idea of making sure that I, or my students, remove any elements, both substantial and superficial, that may have a potential impact on letting their abilities shine unhindered by perception. I know it's not necessarily considered fair, but if it's not their rai·son d'ê·tre, then I typically tell my students to weigh what ends up being most important and then going with that. It's often amazing to me how many of them don't mind not wearing their nose rings from 8-to-5 if it means getting a nice consulting gig after sitting empty-handed for a bit.
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    The "quite old" referred to your junior high debate shtick ... not my age.
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    Yeah, that "exactly" what I said. Getting quite old.
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    Except that I'm not a white liberal. Your move.
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    Kids that are in Catholic elementary schools might eventually show up in public high school classrooms, but I don't think the term feeder school applies. Kids in Catholic elementary schools are in feeder schools early on for the Catholic high schools. Similarly, those are kids that probably have never been factored into the equation to begin with. It's definitely likely that there are more kids leaving the Catholic elementary school system for public school systems as time moves along, especially compared to the number that would leave the public school system for the Catholic school system. But I don't think that either of those qualify as feeder designation for the other.
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    Interesting take about an older student at Yale that plays across so many different storylines. https://medium.com/@james.hatch/my-semester-with-the-snowflakes-888285f0e662
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    Set a 2A record too on those runs, right?
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    I understand what you are saying. I was just pointing out where things often seem to go. Kind of like what I see with baseball some of the time ... kids are less and less about learning how to hit behind runners or learning the art of a well-placed bunt or how to take a pitcher 8 deep into a pitch count. There's just a few of them that can really clear a fence, but they all think they are going to have that Natural moment everytime they get up to bat. BTW, our DC always taught "hard hits" as a function of sound tackling ... i.e., he didn't see them as opposing items, but instead as part of a fundamental philosophy. The idea was that the more you punished the back for every yard he gained the less chance he was likely to be able to get away from you later on in the game. It was "old school analytics" in his eyes.
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    It's starting to be more of an analytics type approach to the game ... somewhat akin to homerun hitting in baseball. Swing for the fences everytime and, in the end, it all evens out with the mass of strikeouts and you only have to bat one particular way. In football, the strip mentality looks at possessions and figures that anytime you take a ball away, it's one less possession opportunity for the other team. If it takes a team an overage of X plays to score, you have X-1 plays worth of opportunities to take the ball away from him before he scores ... as opposed to stopping him from getting a first down and taking the ball on downs. Basically playing the odds ... but also changing the game. With that said, I'm from the old school where you didn't strip ball ... you just hit the guy so hard that he had to make a decision whether to hold on to his head or the ball.
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    As @BendNotBreak always says, "intangibles."
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    Or to Doctor Who fans ... TARDIS.
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    Either that kid is standing next to two of Santa's elves or that is one big kid!
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    More like pushing a rope covered with honey and fire ants. I recall many, many years ago talking with a coach who coached girls' soccer about the difference between coaching young boys and young girls. For the most part, many of the challenges were very similar although the glaring point seemed to be the grudges. He said that, when boys got crossways with each other during practice it was usually over with by the end of the the next water break during practice. He said that, with his girls, it was probably going to still be there next season. 😃
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    Is that like "foosball?"
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    48 Hours!
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    LCC tends to use their grass field a lot more often. Seems like there's always something on that field throughout the week. They do boys' and girls' soccer, JV and varsity football games, both 7th and 8th grade junior high games, and four youth games just about every 2nd or 3rd weekend depending on the season. Field took a beating this year, but held up fairly well right up until the got to roughly the sectionals.
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    Bite your tongue.
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    Ludicrous speed!
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    Perhaps, but then again, not always. Depends on the kid and the situation. Dru Anthrop was a basketball walk-on at Purdue. Played as a member of the team for three years as a walk-on and was offered a scholarship in his fourth year. Got to play in his backyard on the same team that his dad played on ... his dad was also a Purdue walk-on that eventually got a scholarship in the last year of his college career. I'd heard, but haven't confirmed, that at the time that Dru was graduating, the he and his dad were the only father-son tandem to have won a Big 10 championship. I've got to imagine that's something quite special that they share that may make up for some of the other perks that might have been missed.
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