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September 9, 2008 at 1:47 AM in reply to: When Mello Roos matters . . . your kids get first priority in schools over non-Mello Roos payers #268074
CardiffBaseball
ParticipantThere is a private school just outside 4S Ranch, Maranatha or something like that.
I don’t think they would have to budget nearly so much to build one because they won’t have the massive student population. That said Cathedral Catholic looks pretty damn nice. That was really smart for them to build up there where they can draw from up the coast and up the 15.
September 9, 2008 at 1:47 AM in reply to: When Mello Roos matters . . . your kids get first priority in schools over non-Mello Roos payers #268295CardiffBaseball
ParticipantThere is a private school just outside 4S Ranch, Maranatha or something like that.
I don’t think they would have to budget nearly so much to build one because they won’t have the massive student population. That said Cathedral Catholic looks pretty damn nice. That was really smart for them to build up there where they can draw from up the coast and up the 15.
September 9, 2008 at 1:47 AM in reply to: When Mello Roos matters . . . your kids get first priority in schools over non-Mello Roos payers #268312CardiffBaseball
ParticipantThere is a private school just outside 4S Ranch, Maranatha or something like that.
I don’t think they would have to budget nearly so much to build one because they won’t have the massive student population. That said Cathedral Catholic looks pretty damn nice. That was really smart for them to build up there where they can draw from up the coast and up the 15.
September 9, 2008 at 1:47 AM in reply to: When Mello Roos matters . . . your kids get first priority in schools over non-Mello Roos payers #268357CardiffBaseball
ParticipantThere is a private school just outside 4S Ranch, Maranatha or something like that.
I don’t think they would have to budget nearly so much to build one because they won’t have the massive student population. That said Cathedral Catholic looks pretty damn nice. That was really smart for them to build up there where they can draw from up the coast and up the 15.
September 9, 2008 at 1:47 AM in reply to: When Mello Roos matters . . . your kids get first priority in schools over non-Mello Roos payers #268387CardiffBaseball
ParticipantThere is a private school just outside 4S Ranch, Maranatha or something like that.
I don’t think they would have to budget nearly so much to build one because they won’t have the massive student population. That said Cathedral Catholic looks pretty damn nice. That was really smart for them to build up there where they can draw from up the coast and up the 15.
CardiffBaseball
ParticipantFrom everything I can gather (I’m a renter) my neighbors really like us a lot. We are always invited to the annual rib-cook off/drunken bash. They appreciate that we at least keep the front respectable (our backyard is a little bit of a kid jungle). Most seem to really dislike our landlords and basically consider them cheap-wads who won’t fix anything.
One even confronted the owner about his no-dog policy and chewed him out. “These are the best renters you’ve ever had and all the previous ones had a dog”. 3 years there now. In fact most try to get us to buy when one of the local homes goes into foreclosure, but I always decline.. Naah too soon.
Alcohol was definitely a big factor in getting to meet some of them as standing outside on a friday having some beers is a great conversation starter.
CardiffBaseball
ParticipantFrom everything I can gather (I’m a renter) my neighbors really like us a lot. We are always invited to the annual rib-cook off/drunken bash. They appreciate that we at least keep the front respectable (our backyard is a little bit of a kid jungle). Most seem to really dislike our landlords and basically consider them cheap-wads who won’t fix anything.
One even confronted the owner about his no-dog policy and chewed him out. “These are the best renters you’ve ever had and all the previous ones had a dog”. 3 years there now. In fact most try to get us to buy when one of the local homes goes into foreclosure, but I always decline.. Naah too soon.
Alcohol was definitely a big factor in getting to meet some of them as standing outside on a friday having some beers is a great conversation starter.
CardiffBaseball
ParticipantFrom everything I can gather (I’m a renter) my neighbors really like us a lot. We are always invited to the annual rib-cook off/drunken bash. They appreciate that we at least keep the front respectable (our backyard is a little bit of a kid jungle). Most seem to really dislike our landlords and basically consider them cheap-wads who won’t fix anything.
One even confronted the owner about his no-dog policy and chewed him out. “These are the best renters you’ve ever had and all the previous ones had a dog”. 3 years there now. In fact most try to get us to buy when one of the local homes goes into foreclosure, but I always decline.. Naah too soon.
Alcohol was definitely a big factor in getting to meet some of them as standing outside on a friday having some beers is a great conversation starter.
CardiffBaseball
ParticipantFrom everything I can gather (I’m a renter) my neighbors really like us a lot. We are always invited to the annual rib-cook off/drunken bash. They appreciate that we at least keep the front respectable (our backyard is a little bit of a kid jungle). Most seem to really dislike our landlords and basically consider them cheap-wads who won’t fix anything.
One even confronted the owner about his no-dog policy and chewed him out. “These are the best renters you’ve ever had and all the previous ones had a dog”. 3 years there now. In fact most try to get us to buy when one of the local homes goes into foreclosure, but I always decline.. Naah too soon.
Alcohol was definitely a big factor in getting to meet some of them as standing outside on a friday having some beers is a great conversation starter.
CardiffBaseball
ParticipantFrom everything I can gather (I’m a renter) my neighbors really like us a lot. We are always invited to the annual rib-cook off/drunken bash. They appreciate that we at least keep the front respectable (our backyard is a little bit of a kid jungle). Most seem to really dislike our landlords and basically consider them cheap-wads who won’t fix anything.
One even confronted the owner about his no-dog policy and chewed him out. “These are the best renters you’ve ever had and all the previous ones had a dog”. 3 years there now. In fact most try to get us to buy when one of the local homes goes into foreclosure, but I always decline.. Naah too soon.
Alcohol was definitely a big factor in getting to meet some of them as standing outside on a friday having some beers is a great conversation starter.
CardiffBaseball
ParticipantI hate to change subjects but TG brought up football. I spent about 8 years in Texas before returning to Ohio and in both states HS football is king.
Certainly in Texas you almost always have to have a mixed type school to win the state championship. We lived in a town that was in the same district as Odessa Permian, and since my wife was a coach (track/volleyball and later swimming) we went to most of the football games. If you watched Friday Night Lights you’ll see that Odessa lost to Dallas Carter, a completely inner city school seemingly 100% minority if you look at the team. Now as I recall after moving to DFW it was a magnet school and thus for that inner city area, was a good school. Nevertheless they beat Permian that year as the movie shows, and that was a highly unusual. Typically the best teams in Texas are the more upper class schools in a given community, which happens to have just enough minority kids to make them great.
I recall watching our hometown Abilene Cooper in the state championship against Drew Brees’ and Austin Westlake. At that time Cooper was the “nicer” school in town, and Westlake HS was considered the school to be at in Austin.
I don’t have enough date points to see if that’s the case here in SD. LCC in my area seems to be less diverse than the schools we were around in Texas, yet they seem to have pretty good teams. (No CIF titles though). Oceanside has a rough reputation and backs it up on the field. Torrey Pines though has some good football teams with a good API.
It’s different out here…. Maybe the API is more indicative.
Colin Cowherd likes to joke about colleges who start bragging about graduation rates are schools getting their asses kicked on the field. i.e. Stanford, Duke, etc.
Oh I didn’t mention specific minority types but I see that the high school where my wife worked in DFW is ranked number one in the ESPN HS poll. (Euless Trinity). That HS was chock full of Tongans. (Oceanside – Samoans). These Tongans are some big people with broad shoulders and compact powerful torsos. I don’t know if the demographics have changed much at Trinity (10 years ago when I was there) but at that time the football team generally had more Tongans across the O-Line and D-Line than any other race. Trinity was not considered high class, but it was also not inner city Ft. Worth where the teams tended to stink though there were great individual talents. I’ve noticed that nearby town Southlake which is very high class has killer football teams too.
CardiffBaseball
ParticipantI hate to change subjects but TG brought up football. I spent about 8 years in Texas before returning to Ohio and in both states HS football is king.
Certainly in Texas you almost always have to have a mixed type school to win the state championship. We lived in a town that was in the same district as Odessa Permian, and since my wife was a coach (track/volleyball and later swimming) we went to most of the football games. If you watched Friday Night Lights you’ll see that Odessa lost to Dallas Carter, a completely inner city school seemingly 100% minority if you look at the team. Now as I recall after moving to DFW it was a magnet school and thus for that inner city area, was a good school. Nevertheless they beat Permian that year as the movie shows, and that was a highly unusual. Typically the best teams in Texas are the more upper class schools in a given community, which happens to have just enough minority kids to make them great.
I recall watching our hometown Abilene Cooper in the state championship against Drew Brees’ and Austin Westlake. At that time Cooper was the “nicer” school in town, and Westlake HS was considered the school to be at in Austin.
I don’t have enough date points to see if that’s the case here in SD. LCC in my area seems to be less diverse than the schools we were around in Texas, yet they seem to have pretty good teams. (No CIF titles though). Oceanside has a rough reputation and backs it up on the field. Torrey Pines though has some good football teams with a good API.
It’s different out here…. Maybe the API is more indicative.
Colin Cowherd likes to joke about colleges who start bragging about graduation rates are schools getting their asses kicked on the field. i.e. Stanford, Duke, etc.
Oh I didn’t mention specific minority types but I see that the high school where my wife worked in DFW is ranked number one in the ESPN HS poll. (Euless Trinity). That HS was chock full of Tongans. (Oceanside – Samoans). These Tongans are some big people with broad shoulders and compact powerful torsos. I don’t know if the demographics have changed much at Trinity (10 years ago when I was there) but at that time the football team generally had more Tongans across the O-Line and D-Line than any other race. Trinity was not considered high class, but it was also not inner city Ft. Worth where the teams tended to stink though there were great individual talents. I’ve noticed that nearby town Southlake which is very high class has killer football teams too.
CardiffBaseball
ParticipantI hate to change subjects but TG brought up football. I spent about 8 years in Texas before returning to Ohio and in both states HS football is king.
Certainly in Texas you almost always have to have a mixed type school to win the state championship. We lived in a town that was in the same district as Odessa Permian, and since my wife was a coach (track/volleyball and later swimming) we went to most of the football games. If you watched Friday Night Lights you’ll see that Odessa lost to Dallas Carter, a completely inner city school seemingly 100% minority if you look at the team. Now as I recall after moving to DFW it was a magnet school and thus for that inner city area, was a good school. Nevertheless they beat Permian that year as the movie shows, and that was a highly unusual. Typically the best teams in Texas are the more upper class schools in a given community, which happens to have just enough minority kids to make them great.
I recall watching our hometown Abilene Cooper in the state championship against Drew Brees’ and Austin Westlake. At that time Cooper was the “nicer” school in town, and Westlake HS was considered the school to be at in Austin.
I don’t have enough date points to see if that’s the case here in SD. LCC in my area seems to be less diverse than the schools we were around in Texas, yet they seem to have pretty good teams. (No CIF titles though). Oceanside has a rough reputation and backs it up on the field. Torrey Pines though has some good football teams with a good API.
It’s different out here…. Maybe the API is more indicative.
Colin Cowherd likes to joke about colleges who start bragging about graduation rates are schools getting their asses kicked on the field. i.e. Stanford, Duke, etc.
Oh I didn’t mention specific minority types but I see that the high school where my wife worked in DFW is ranked number one in the ESPN HS poll. (Euless Trinity). That HS was chock full of Tongans. (Oceanside – Samoans). These Tongans are some big people with broad shoulders and compact powerful torsos. I don’t know if the demographics have changed much at Trinity (10 years ago when I was there) but at that time the football team generally had more Tongans across the O-Line and D-Line than any other race. Trinity was not considered high class, but it was also not inner city Ft. Worth where the teams tended to stink though there were great individual talents. I’ve noticed that nearby town Southlake which is very high class has killer football teams too.
CardiffBaseball
ParticipantI hate to change subjects but TG brought up football. I spent about 8 years in Texas before returning to Ohio and in both states HS football is king.
Certainly in Texas you almost always have to have a mixed type school to win the state championship. We lived in a town that was in the same district as Odessa Permian, and since my wife was a coach (track/volleyball and later swimming) we went to most of the football games. If you watched Friday Night Lights you’ll see that Odessa lost to Dallas Carter, a completely inner city school seemingly 100% minority if you look at the team. Now as I recall after moving to DFW it was a magnet school and thus for that inner city area, was a good school. Nevertheless they beat Permian that year as the movie shows, and that was a highly unusual. Typically the best teams in Texas are the more upper class schools in a given community, which happens to have just enough minority kids to make them great.
I recall watching our hometown Abilene Cooper in the state championship against Drew Brees’ and Austin Westlake. At that time Cooper was the “nicer” school in town, and Westlake HS was considered the school to be at in Austin.
I don’t have enough date points to see if that’s the case here in SD. LCC in my area seems to be less diverse than the schools we were around in Texas, yet they seem to have pretty good teams. (No CIF titles though). Oceanside has a rough reputation and backs it up on the field. Torrey Pines though has some good football teams with a good API.
It’s different out here…. Maybe the API is more indicative.
Colin Cowherd likes to joke about colleges who start bragging about graduation rates are schools getting their asses kicked on the field. i.e. Stanford, Duke, etc.
Oh I didn’t mention specific minority types but I see that the high school where my wife worked in DFW is ranked number one in the ESPN HS poll. (Euless Trinity). That HS was chock full of Tongans. (Oceanside – Samoans). These Tongans are some big people with broad shoulders and compact powerful torsos. I don’t know if the demographics have changed much at Trinity (10 years ago when I was there) but at that time the football team generally had more Tongans across the O-Line and D-Line than any other race. Trinity was not considered high class, but it was also not inner city Ft. Worth where the teams tended to stink though there were great individual talents. I’ve noticed that nearby town Southlake which is very high class has killer football teams too.
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