Bravos323

autozone is still going to be used, just not in the state championship game.

I know this is somewhat off the present subject that the past few posts have been, but I wanna say somethin anyway. As continuing from my last post to bush league.... I know he hasn't said anything since then, but it still frustrates me.... As I said in my earlier post, ccs hasn't had enough players to actually hold tryouts in the past 8 or so years I think. So saying we recruit is just an ignorant assumption that someone makes because they're mad we made it farther than their team. The main reason I wanted to post this message is the fact that the ccs baseball team hasn't gone anywhere (other than this year) since 1986. We won our second district championship in school history this year, we also won our first region game/championship too, and so forth. Therefore, if we recruited, you might think we'd have gone this far more than just once in school history. It just bothers me, that because bushleague was mad about us going this far, he resorted to making a long ignorant post about how we should have to play in DII. Therefore, I just felt like further explaining my feelings on the subject. And I'll say again, sometimes you should give credit where credit is due. Instead of just downplaying a teams success to the fact that they basically cheat to win. [Edited by Bravos323 on 5/30/02 11:40P]

I've agreed with some of the things you've said so far. But, you say whose kids are generally smarter? Whose to say that because parents have more money to send their kids to private schools, their kids are smarter? You're implying that money creates knowledge, which isn't true. Whose kids are generally more motivated? One would think that kids who don't have "all the advantages" that money can offer would be motivated to work harder and get better, so their chances to go farther would increase. I agree that money does help out players a lot, and it's definitely to ones advantage to have money to provide for things like lessons, teams, etc. You say private coaches don't know what it's like to field a team from scratch, or just "use what they've got." Well, I'm a junior, and I've played on ccs' baseball team for the past 3 years. In those 3 years, we haven't even had enough players to come out and have tryouts. Therefore, my coach has created a team with what he has, he hasn't gotten to "pick and choose" players, because there aren't even enough to pick and choose from. There are points at which being at a private school are obviously advantageous to the student, or player. But I know in our case (ccs' baseball team) it was simply a matter of work ethic. We worked hard because we wanted to go as far as we possibly could. We made due with what we had, and that's it. You saying we- our coach and ourselves- simply had to show up in february, produce a lineup, practice a little, and start playing, is ignorant. Maybe you should give credit, in certain cases, where credit is due. We worked hard, and we got what we deserved. Maybe if we started recruiting "private school talent" and started paying for guys to come play on our team, or just had enough guys come out to where we could choose a team, you would have a place to say we belonged with mccallie or baylor. But since we don't, we play where we belong, and we got where we did because of how bad we wanted it. [Edited by Bravos323 on 5/27/02 3:53P]

ccs doesn't recruit, and from what I know neither does boyd. You don't know what you're talking about, therefore you shouldn't say we belong in dII. It's getting old, we don't recruit.