pistol":2qvbh9m8 said:
TebowTime15":2qvbh9m8 said:
pistol":2qvbh9m8 said:
its a 5 team district.. RL and Veribest didn't vote at the meeting.. I think it was a 2-1 decision.. not sure who voted which way (you should do some looking up before you go on your anti-uil rants)
Sorry, the newspaper article only mentioned four teams. I will not apologize for being anti-bureaucrats, especially when they should have overturned the decision.
Im not sure why they should have overturned the decision.. a rule was broken that obviously benefitted veribest in their game with RL that night
I will tell you why they should have overturned, and when I say overturn I mean give Veribest back their win (putting them on prohibition is fine) the decision:
1. Common Sense: Using your logic, someone that took a cell phone from a stranger to call for help because they or someone else was dying committed theft or a woman who shot a large man that was trying to rape her committed murder? Heck, there was a Supreme Court Case that came up during Neil Gorsuch's confirmation hearing up about an ice trucker who got fired because he left his truck, which was against company policy, because he broke down and he might have died out in -20 degree cold. Although I am not the biggest Al Franken fan, I thought he made a good point that Gorsuch should not have voted to allow the company to fire the guy.
I would put Veribest's situation on par with the situations illustrated in this paragraph. Therefore, you are saying the guy that "stole" the phone should get life in prison? The woman that "murdered" the man that tried to rape her should get the death penalty? The truck driver should get fired for "abandoning his truck" in order to save his life? Sorry, I simply disagree with that conclusion.
2. What they actually did: I don't care what the UIL calls it, it was NOT an off-season workout. Rather, they got out of class for less than hour to walk through plays. I would be more liking to agree if they put on pads on.
Have you ever taught before? Kids get out of class for the dumbest reasons. At a school like Veribest, the county stock show would shut the school down. At little schools, many times the teacher takes the students outside for class. What if one of the teachers, who wasn't a coach, walked through plays with the students? What if walking through the plays, in the opinion of an expert in their field, helped the students remember historical dates, analyze literary texts, solve math problems, and/or balance equations? Not worrying about what they are going to do during a football game probably would help the students learn. It gets a bit more dicey if any of the teachers had a problem with it and then administrators forced them to do it.
3. The source of the complaint: Taking away Veribest's win rewards a Soviet-like mentality, IE: ratting on a former employer, because it will embolden future behavior. I just can't imagine doing that to students that you spent a lot of time with, even if the firing was not justified. As complicated as the rules are, I am sure everyone violates rules unintentionally at some point in time. Are we going to let the actions of adults decide the results on the field? Maybe instead of playing sports, the students could get a rule book out and figure out if the other team has violated any of the rules.
Heck, I got another situation for you: a team wore silver jerseys at home in basketball for years until another team got the rule book and pointed out that it says you have to wear white jerseys at home. Should the team wearing silver jerseys have to forfeit all their games because they violated a rule? What if a kid on the other team had a phobia of silver? It gave them an "unfair" advantage!
Hmm...I wonder if all the Robert Lee kids had their mouth pieces in every play? Maybe they were too close to the field? I think even you, Mr. Pistol, catch my drift.
4. What do you want the Veribest kids to do? What if the Veribest kids did not want to practice and the adults made them? Why would you punish a kid for the mistake of an adult? Did the Veribest kids fire the first coach? The Veribest kids, the ones who beat Robert Lee, did not have the power to stop the practice even if they wanted to.
I guess the real question is how you could support a decision like this.
