Admiral4Life

You're less likely to see the same problems here in MS as you would in the sanctuary cities and more liberal areas. MS law enforcement cooperates with ICE where if an illegal immigrant is arrested he's immediately handed over. In some of the areas ICE is in you're seeing local law enforcement and state law enforcement are not cooperating which is forcing ICE to deploy in larger and more public ways. Granted, they're also being far more public about it than usual because it was a campaign promise from Trump and the resistance is largely fueled by TDS and general protest against Trump's policies regardless of their reasoning (It's all fascist and everyone is Hitler).

Actually it started in 1953 when the US instigated a coup to overthrow a popularly elected prime minister to install a US friendly but wildly unpopular Shah who proceeded to brutalize the people of Iran in an effort to kowtow to the US and act as their puppet/lackey until the Iranian people were fed up enough and the popular revolt overthrew the Shah and installed the Ayatollah in 1979. There is a very legitimate reason why the moderate people of Iran are pissed at the US when they've been forced to live under a religious zealot extremist government instead of the moderate secular government the US overthrew because they were going to nationalize their oil industry to prevent the British (BP) from stealing their oil wealth. The hostages taken in 1979 were a direct result of the US meddling with Iran. The war today is more of a proxy war with China (like Venezuela). Iran and Venezuela provided China with the majority of its oil. By meddling there we cripple the Chinese economy and gaining in other ways that are far less visible to us regular folks. China is trying to position itself as the next economic superpower to take the spot the US has held for the last 60+ years. They can't quite back things up militarily across the globe but economically, diplomatically, and technologically? They're getting there.

The head coach at most schools is an administrator and I agree but the same should apply to all head coaches, especially of the major sports. The last part was aimed at the crowd that wants to sacrifice discipline, behavior standards, and academic success on the altar of a winning football team. As far as the assistant coaches, they should absolutely be teaching classes. It's disgraceful and hypocritical to the Nth degree for coaches to not have classes or some type of legitimate duties. They should have classes to teach, an off/planning period, and their athletic duties. This is especially true if they are being paid as teachers. If they're only receiving a coaching supplement then I have less of an issue with it.

No coach in any sport can be judged off of 1 season based on record alone. It takes at least 3 years to build a solid base and culture, especially if the previous culture was not a winning one. Now, if he's 0-30 after 3 years then judgement can be passed. That said, Bay is a tough place to win in football. Most of the athletes in that area are either at Pass or Hancock.

Coaches are paid as teachers too. You can't justify paying a full teaching salary to someone who only works 1-2 periods a day. Teaching is part of the job as well. Not taking academics seriously hurts the children more than a losing season does. Athletics and academics can go hand in hand. Neither needs to suffer. They both have to be taken care of. There is absolutely NOTHING gained by a football team that wins a few more games but the athletes are allowed to get away with murder in the classroom because our lord and savior Holy Football has to win some games. It's a TERRIBLE lesson to teach these young men.

School spirit like that is a wonderful thing. Unfortunately, there are a lot of places where the spirit dies once the team starts to lose or struggle. I'd love to see more support for their fellow students even when there isn't bandwagon success to hop on... But then again, our society isn't like that too often.

Fair point about needing the right person, but those teams being successful may have been in spite of him as well. Did he put the same amount of time and energy into fund raising and sponsorships for the other teams as he did for football? Did he actively work to encourage school spirit and support of all those other teams like he did football? Did he actively encourage his football players to show up and support all the other sports like he expected the other sports to support football? [Edit: I'm not saying that he did or did not do any of those things, I was actually trying to be rhetorical with those questions. Can't say I've ever heard any really negative things attributed to Coach Vance at all.] Don't get me wrong, I'm against an active baseball or basketball coach being AD as well for the same reasons. However, given the levels of hero/God tier worship of football in some areas of this state, the power disparity is real. Plus, it's only human nature to favor your sport (and your favorites) more than the others but adding the direct involvement and responsibility for another singular sport on top of AD duties is just too much. However, having said all that, I can see why smaller schools do it because it's about the only way to justify the salaries they pay football coaches. They have to make them an administrator in some capacity. Works better if they can make their wives admins as well... LOL!

Aside from being a gross conflict of interests it makes no sense for an active head coach to be AD. One job will always suffer because of the other. And other sports will suffer due to different accountability and priorities. An athletic director should always be outside of every sports program because they are responsible for all of them.

West Harrison is also getting more of the athletes that previously would have attended Harrison Central. It's not all about those who want to attend a better all around school at Gulfport. West Harrison football has gotten so much better. Why can they suddenly start winning but HC can't? Same neighborhoods and kids.

Think of the money they'd make with that! Maybe they could ask the MAIS about some creative mental gymnastics to create more state champions and playoff games they can skim from the gates?

Gulfport is a basketball town, traditionally, so that makes sense. Football can be successful though if the new coach can fight through the negative culture and inspire the upcoming classes to buy in. The problem is no one has stayed long enough to do that.

What head football coach anywhere teaches 2-3 blocks a day?

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Yes. Or, and hear me out, join the MHSAA and then they can be in districts of similar size and compete for legitimate championships instead of these daddy ball hatchet jobs they piece together every few years.

The "big 4" just need to bite the bullet and join the MHSAA.