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Preach...
Oct 25, 2018, 8:37 AM
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I heard a game was moved up due to weather and immediately checked to see if there was some kind of tornado threat coming. Nope, just a cold rain.
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Oculus Spirit [97665]
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So this is just more pussification then?
Oct 25, 2018, 8:39 AM
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That's sad.
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In fairness, playing in a cold rain is pretty
Oct 25, 2018, 8:46 AM
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effing miserable. But it will teach you to overcome pain.
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Maybe they are trying to preserve field conditions?
Oct 25, 2018, 8:59 AM
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Chew up a grass field in the rain this time of year and it won't recover until summer. Same field may be being used for soccer, LAX, etc. in the spring. Possible, but who knows.
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Possible all were grass fields except Irmo, Dutch Fork
Oct 25, 2018, 9:02 AM
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and Brookland-Cayce
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Well, look, we're calling it "pussification" in direct
Oct 25, 2018, 9:14 AM
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reference to the players, who are obviously softer than the kids from OUR generation. But, the kids aren't making that decision. It's likely being made because probably 75% of the people who would have gone to the game on Friday would probably stay home if it's cold and rainy, because who wants to sit in that? The gate from $3 tickets (or whatever it costs to go to a HS football game these days) and concessions is pretty close to the only source of revenue those programs have.
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Heisman Winner [105441]
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SIX FREAKING DOLLARS A TICKET INCLUDING KIDS
Oct 25, 2018, 9:38 AM
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COST ME $18 A COUPLE WEEKS AGO
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Yeah, but that's York.
Oct 25, 2018, 9:40 AM
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Where the Friday night entertainment options are high school football, or wandering around Walmart for three hours, I mean.
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True. I did go wander around Walmart after the game and
Oct 25, 2018, 9:42 AM
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then nothing cause York
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Lotta time to kill before all the good parties get started
Oct 25, 2018, 9:45 AM
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down in The Valley.
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I always rolled with the Calis. The Valley aint sh
Oct 25, 2018, 10:01 AM
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it.
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I always pegged you as more of a Straight Out of Sharon type***
Oct 25, 2018, 10:45 AM
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My truck was an S-10, not a full sized Chevy with Mickey
Oct 25, 2018, 11:12 AM
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Thompsons and a glass pack
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Then maybe it's the "pussification" of the younger adults...
Oct 25, 2018, 10:10 AM
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I remember playing games in horrendous conditions in HS and the crowd was still there. Maybe not quite as big as usual, but still pretty big. Band still played, etc...
No game was ever moved or cancelled for rain or snow.
As a player, playing in the rain and snow were the most fun.
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Never played in the snow. Plenty of 50-degree rain storms
Oct 25, 2018, 10:21 AM
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though. ONLY football games cancelled in HS was due to Hugo. And that had everything to do with driving to Charlotte in 100mph winds and rain, and nothing to do with the field, or the crowd that might show or not.
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We had 4 a days during camp.
Oct 25, 2018, 10:42 AM
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up at 5 am, practice.
Come in at 7. Eat breakfast go to sleep.
Up at 11, practice till 12. Eat lunch, go to sleep.
Up at 3, weights, light practice till 4. Eat a snack, go to sleep.
Up at 6, eat supper, go practice till 9. Come back eat a snack, go to bed.
####### sucked.
If you did that these days you would have 3 kids left.
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He's a kicker.
Oct 25, 2018, 10:43 AM
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definitely a kicker
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LOL, Just LOL.
Oct 25, 2018, 11:10 AM
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Defensive End & Tight End as well as longsnapper. Played Varsity in Sophomore year as well*
I was second string behind a guy who was 4 inches taller, faster, and played college football at Wingate. He was my backup in Centerfield in baseball though, at least for a while, until he learned to smash it out of the park.
*Didn't play Junior year, thought I hated it, ended up regretting that decision.
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Its the remnants of the hurricane that hit Mexico this week.
Oct 25, 2018, 8:39 AM
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But yes, just a cold rain.
We must protect our snowflake children!!!
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Which generation do we blame for the snowflaking?***
Oct 25, 2018, 8:51 AM
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Brynes and Boiling Springs moved their game to tonight
Oct 25, 2018, 9:15 AM
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as well.
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What are the Maine Black Bears going to do?***
Oct 25, 2018, 9:31 AM
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I know nothing of football, but if I was playing a facebook
Oct 25, 2018, 9:15 AM
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game, there would be several variables I would have to look at.
1. What TRDJ said: current and future field conditions. At this point most fields are tore up from a season's worth of varsity, JV, middle school, and rec games being played on it. That makes the slightest bit of rain puddle on the field instead of running off. This can pose hazardous field conditions to players. You don't want your star running back slipping in the mud and rolling an ankle this close to playoffs. Also, with LAX or soccer, if the field gets too chewed up, it may still be chewed up for those games. Nobody wants those soccer moms mad.
2. If it's a home game, the gate. Nobody is going to show up to a 50 degree down pour. You have a better chance of at least breaking even on a dry, cold Thursday night than a wet cold Friday night.
3. Football isn't the football of yore. Not in this day and age with mandatory trainers, and all of the concussion stuff. A kid can't just break a wrist, get it taped, and get sent back in. If so, you're asking for a lawsuit. Also, going back to #1, if a kid gets hurt in sloppy conditions, the first thing the lawyer is going to ask is "could this have been prevented?" If the answer is "well we could have played on Thursday like everybody else but I shot that down," Guess who's getting a settlement?
4. AD's go off of what all other AD's do. They call each other and see what each other is doing in certain situations. Once the first couple of games moved, go ahead and expect almost all to move. The old saying goes "They can't fire all of us"
Once again, I know nothing of football, just applying it to if I was playing a facebook game in the rain.
Edit to expand on #2: If it is the away team, it's not your call to start with. You have to do what the home team says.
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LOL look at this pansy
Oct 25, 2018, 9:20 AM
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can't even play facebook in a little rain.
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30 years ago we weren't in the age of suing
Oct 25, 2018, 10:20 AM
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because somebody put out sand before a game that scratched a kid's arm.
Yes that happened.
At a facebook game.
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There's a reason I've been pulled three times for jury duty
Oct 25, 2018, 10:24 AM
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For a week each time. And I NEVER made even the FIRST cut to get placed on a jury.
I'm also never contacted by pollsters, fwiw. Never been a peer on a jury, and never been asked to participate in a poll.
Go figure.
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Gas bill would break you***
Oct 25, 2018, 9:36 AM
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luh u bby***
Oct 25, 2018, 9:42 AM
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I will say, coaching a non-revenue sport that plays
Oct 25, 2018, 10:19 AM
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outdoors, the only time our games are cancelled is lightning or a monsoon. It's a spring sport, so mostly my AD would say, it will grow out over the summer. We have played in some crazy conditions (wind chill at 33 degrees, almost a monsoon in 40 degree weather, etc.) but the district I used to coach at, passed rules about limits on activities below 45 degrees and the new wet bulb thing for it too hot.
FBCoachSC® should know more than I on that, Facebooking is mainly in the hotter months
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Sheeet, Facebook games will soon be moved indoors
Oct 25, 2018, 10:21 AM
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with flags and bubble wrap
edit to add: non revenue and especially mauldawng's sport, AD's don't care if people show. What they won't do is let that piece of sheet season be extended.
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Most dangerous thing I ever saw during spring soccer
Oct 25, 2018, 10:34 AM
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was when the freaking field sprinklers came on in the middle of a game. Several kids were "taken out" by the massive sprinkler heads that shoot like a fire hose.
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You can file a lawsuit with or without justification.
Oct 25, 2018, 11:08 AM
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All you need is someone with deep pockets and a Aventti's phone number.
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