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Miles Barnstable 6'2" SG Senior to be ....First team All-Conference Summit League

Good hire, strong all around contributor, could be a good anchor for the team as a 3rd option and glue guy. Plus we get to say Sheboygan for the next year.

BTW, St. Thomas is the High Point of the north.
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The first 100 days

The idea that tarrifs alone will achieve much is silly. Trump only thinks about money and interest rates but successful industrial policy is far more complex. For example destroying our federally sponsored research capability cripples one of the US’s unique and critical strengths. Ignoring that there are key computer components that we cannot make and that China does is also missing. Simple answers have political appeal but the world is more complex. And as we are finding out, even just the money and interest elements are far more complex than Trump pretended.
I’ll bite…given time, why are there key computer components that the US cannot make? Solely relying on China for key components is a very dangerous game to play

The first 100 days

China calls Trump's bluff because he knows it will hurt the US at least as much as it hurts China. Leavitt said Trump, has a 'spine of steel'. What he has is the attitude that it doesn't matter what the every day citizen goes through with these tariffs. He's playing Russian roulette with the American citizen.
The idea that tarrifs alone will achieve much is silly. Trump only thinks about money and interest rates but successful industrial policy is far more complex. For example destroying our federally sponsored research capability cripples one of the US’s unique and critical strengths. Ignoring that there are key components that we cannot make and that China does is also missing. Simple answers have political appeal but the world is more complex. And as we are finding out, even just the money and interest elements are far more complex than Trump pretended.
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Youth soccer club

WSA NL Townhall was last night.

Looks like trainings will be at Case 2 nights a week and at an "off site" location in south tulsa area 1 night a week. Rumor is Holland Hall.

They basically said "Come to the open trainings if your kid wants to play NL, RL Tx, or RL Frontier. Tell the coaches if there's a team you don't want to be on / won't play on, ex. RL Frontier. The coaches will give you feedback about their ideas for your players. Players will know their placements by May 12."

RL Tx and NL travel together. Some RL players may be called up for more exposure. The costs for NL are pretty similar to TSC's costs, the structure is just different (IMO worse).

No mention of where games will be played just yet, but I'd guess Holland Hall as well.

Apparently there were about 8-12 TSC 2012 parents there.
Have you heard anything from TSC? My friends on the 2010 team haven’t heard a word. Maybe they’re concentrating on keeping the lower level teams together ?

Youth soccer club

Yes as it becomes bigger. It is a much bigger prospect. It isn't an attractive feature to be raging on about missed calls for five minutes in games in a u10 game and get booked. It doesn't help your team. Even if the call was terrible (likely it was), your behaviour was decidedly terrible in response.

Did people get trotted out of facilities in Norman?

I am not sure people give enough credit for how hard it is to maintain and run a big organization with so many egos and personalities involved. Parents, children, coaches, Assignors, referees and other clubs. That is not easy. Yes referees have egos.

In the minimal coaching, I have done I have learned certain coaches are hilarious and freakin awesome. Others are super inflexible, Dbags.
Coaches don’t act a fool in MLS Next or they aren’t coaches on that platform for long. MLS Next don’t play because they don’t have to.

I did learn that MLS Next likes its member clubs to enter into partnerships with rec or rec plus clubs as an outreach program in the community. Assume this played part of the BA partnership….and the fields :)

bored so i'll ask a question

Then 81 may have been the last time we played them as D-1A opponents. There were a few years around that time when half the Valley was classified as D-1A and the other half dropped to D-1AA (now called FCS).
In 1975, we beat Drake, 70-7. The next week we beat Indiana St., 62-7. How they got on the schedule, who knows. Oh, that's right, we were all in the MVC.

Youth soccer club

WSA NL Townhall was last night.

Looks like trainings will be at Case 2 nights a week and at an "off site" location in south tulsa area 1 night a week. Rumor is Holland Hall.

They basically said "Come to the open trainings if your kid wants to play NL, RL Tx, or RL Frontier. Tell the coaches if there's a team you don't want to be on / won't play on, ex. RL Frontier. The coaches will give you feedback about their ideas for your players. Players will know their placements by May 12."

RL Tx and NL travel together. Some RL players may be called up for more exposure. The costs for NL are pretty similar to TSC's costs, the structure is just different (IMO worse).

No mention of where games will be played just yet, but I'd guess Holland Hall as well.

Apparently there were about 8-12 TSC 2012 parents there.
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where did we go wrong?

That has nothing to do with anything. We haven’t scheduled huge opponents in a while but when OSU or OU are in town it sells out. Pretty sure the A &M and Miami games were sold out. We need to schedule these games and since we can only schedule 4 OOC games while the larger conferences can only schedule 3 with one being an FCS beat down day, then we are limited to who we can schedule. OU and osu are cheap to go to and have many upsides.
OSU was the only sellout that year. 30k for A&M then 35k for Miami the following week.

bored so i'll ask a question

Your memory is a little off. They left two years before they quit sponsoring football. They joined the Pacific Coast conference in '84.
I had to look this one up as I did recall that there were 3 D-1A Valley members at one time.

Through 1983:
  • The conference was a hybrid of NCAA Division I-A and I-AA programs. New Mexico State, Tulsa, and Wichita State were I-A and the other teams were I-AA.
I thought they had lasted a bit longer than that.
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