LakelandGator

True Nulli It will be scorching hot Monday-Thursday the next 3 weeks, but come Friday you can bet the farm on rain, thunder, lightning.

Nulli as a Lakeland grad why are you in such a hurry to start the 2023 season? P-cock and crew has already said the 4S trophy is theirs. You and the Naughts might as well start preparing for 2024.

Anywhere would be better than SFla, but all jokes aside a central location along the 1-4 corridor makes sense for all schools and fans around the state. St. Pete Tampa Orlando Daytona

They have a bigtime RB from St Louis, Missouri. He has to live somewhere, unless it was a complete family move.

Distinction for whom? They get what 2 kids max from the local area? They get don't get money from your local school board to my knowledge? Let us know when they get 25 transfers from the Pinellas area. Then we talked "cheating", "steroids" or any other label you can come up with.

It's not often(like never) that you say something worth liking, but I give you a thumbs up for this post. However Lakeland winning by 35 was a minor fluke, the Naughts were good but not 35+ better. CAI is easily a Top 10 program in Fla and getting better each year. Lakeland caught fire scoring 3 TDs in the first 5 minutes of the game on various unexpected events and it snowballed on CAI.

In other words they are doing what 99% of the other bigtime programs are doing, sans the room and board.

I'm curious, how are they cheating?

I was talking to one of the OL coaches over here recently and he says it's getting harder to find big bodies in the trenches. At least that's the case in Polk. Hank Brown has a few to work with.... and only one(1) of them is a senior. Not bad a bad group to work with, especially if he can add another one or two. Emmanuel Flor(6'4" 350) Cody Rubio(6'3" 270) Sam Alsahili(6'7" 295) Gavin Sunday(6'1" 345)

He has a real nice addition to go along with Clark. SoHo has a reason to be excited again after that 9-win season last year.

I really like that new RB you just got. But you already have a 4-star junior and now you bring in a 3-star soph? Man what's poppin in SoHo these days? I haven't spent time in that area in a minute. Maybe it's time to get back over that way. We got NIL over here. Ft Meade is ready for a deep run this season and Lake Wales can certainly get back to FT Lauderdale, either school just need one of those stud backs. Can we borrow one for 2023 and then return him for 2024? #LetsMakeADeal

Summer class is in session, or lack thereof.

Newspapers nor local TV has nothing to do with it. I don't need anyone to tell me what we all live and see everyday. It's actually called getting out of my bed each day, leaving my home at some point, and encountering the world we live in. Real life media will exist as long as people like you and your type exist no matter how much you try to pretend it doesn't. Thanks for that rant by the way, it just reinforces what I already knew about you.

Yet all we hear everyday is that right-winged BS, "We want our freedom"

They are slowly funding their side while slowly eroding and destroying the other side. This won't end well for the masses. History doesn't not lie.

Check with Uncle Luke for details.

Public education is on the decline for the same reason the gap between the rich and poor has widen. It's not hard to figure out for anyone who is honest enough to admit it.

Change is goals that have backfired. John Livingston was building a good program to challenge the small school powers in Polk, but a new principal and AD came in with other ideas. Their own. Livingston moved on and the football program has become a dumpster fire.

As someone who has worked/coached in both the public and private arena let me tell you the real deal. There is VERY little difference between public/private school educators overall. The kids that are "rocket scientist" and/or great students at public schools would still be "rocket scientist" and/or great students in private schools, and visa versa. Now granted the environment would be different as many publics are overcrowded, lack discipline and are losing funding every day, but the quality teaching isn't much different. Some private/charter systems maybe more "selective" in who they hire, but those educators are not somehow smarter than their colleagues in the public domain. If anyone tells you they are, trust me you are being taken to the wood shed. I've seen it with my own 2 very good eyes. Private/charter schools were started and continue today with an "agenda", and it's wasn't because they magically provide a superior education. MANY other factors go into it and society is being lied to at the expense of the public school environment getting worse. That's the real problem as more and more charter/privates being born and letting those LEFT BEHIND to basically choke to death. Just be careful not to say that too loud, they might label you as "woke".

I have hatred for no one person, but I do have a strong dislike for a particular agenda or ideology. Now if those poll numbers really show that many African-American woman voted for him, for that particular reason, I agree with you it's a significant number. Not a majority as you stated in your original post, but surely enough to put him in office.

My question was regarding the bold statement you made that "School Choice" is embraced by the vast majority of parents, particularly in minority families with only a single Mom raising her kids. And I intentionally highlighted the part that says " particularly in minority families with only a single Mom raising her kids". You cite some poll B.S about single minority mothers voting him for but gave no concrete reason nor concrete proof why they voted for him, if indeed that truly happened. Were those poll numbers broken down by the various demographics? White, Latino, Black, Asian, rich, poor, middle, straight, gay, etc? Did it show that school choice was the reason single minority mothers voted for him? It could have been any reason, but you choose to draw a strong correlation between school choice/single minority voters as the reason that demographic group voted for him. Of course someone with your abilities you know exactly what they are doing by throwing that out there.

Show me the proof to back that claim up.

Powerful testimony Nulli, it brought tears to my eyes. I'm guessing you and I are close in age. I remember me and a good friend, who died too young in 2015, were able to sneak into that old place you mentioned on Hwy 92 and Combee RD many, many years ago. Thank GOD it's a house of worship today. Life happens.