SDS

Another thought.... Everyone is suggesting Brian screwed Tim in this deal. Maybe they made a trade where they each agreed in his value and no one screwed anyone? Given what they both know about the kid - maybe they talked and came up with a reasonable price they both could live with and pulled the trigger. They both know the inside scoop. I don't think Brian was looking to fleece his nephew and hide anything.

No video there... Did you see it?

Interesting...

Is he officially back?

Oh my.

I think Bowie's lyrics are incredible in this song. Love Nirvana's cover.

Ha... Searching for an answer to my own question....

I wonder if that show is responsible for the semi-normalization of the flag to those who don't know the history and therefore assume it has been a long standing symbol of southern heritage?

Unless these references are wrong, the key to this whole mess is the fact that no one gave a flying about the Southern Cross until southerners used it as a pro-segregation symbol. Hard to claim it is a beloved symbol of your heritage when that's the only reason it was raised from the ashes.

Eh. Looks like the only people who cared about that symbol of heritage were the racists in the first place: http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/24/us/confederate-flag-myths-facts/

The Buffalo Sabres select Dylan Struhhh... no wait - that's Arizona's pick. We select Jack Eichel.

Wait - did you just guess at a bunch of stuff and then go off on Nike based upon those guesses? :rolleyes:

Yep. Adding more junk ice does the opposite of what most people expect. That's exactly where you want the other team - skating around the perimeter.

Well the fact that you're referencing two former Buffalo Sabres who played for them in the 1980s - 25 to 30 years ago - to support your point, serves as your own rebuttal.

this is wrong. No mod has ever been asked nor will ever be asked to stop participating in a community in the ways that they previously interacted. Mods/Admins are still fans of the team and are still welcomed to interact with everyone as they so choose.

Parents do the filming on their own. Sometimes we will SoccerMeter a game to get statistical feel of how it went. However, he is all in on soccer. His goal is to be a full-time professional coach training kids, so soccer is all he thinks about.

yes. At U9 - this is how they were taught to play tactically. I had never seen it before in my life and it was pure genius. The head coach literally laid out a 7v7 formation - assigned girls their positions and told them to get out on the field. Once he had a coaching point to make, he pulled them off, showed them what he wanted to see on the sideline with the cones and sent them back out. Much of the game was spent with back to the field. My job was to keep the trains running on the field and reinforce what he was saying on the sideline.

This has all the tell-tale signs of Stockholm Syndrome.

Think of it as an NFL analogy. Your base offense and how you move the ball down the field is not the same as your red zone offense. There is more congestion in the attacking third and finishing becomes objective - vastly different than playing in the middle of the field. If you look at the Coerver developmental pyramid - you will see ball mastery and receiving/passing as the base. Finishing is at the very top. There is no good reason to teach finishing techniques if your players are not proficient in receiving the ball with the proper foot or making crisp change of direction moves. Tactically, the girls were taught team tactics during the games - never at practice. Girls were spoken to on the sideline with disc cones as visual aides throughout the games. Never wasted valuable practice time at this young age having a dozen girls stand around and listen to a coach stammer on about tactics. They could be honing technique, not daydreaming.

We didn't start really teaching any finishing until this spring. That means 18 months (all of U9 and fall of U10) of technical training and possession games. Sure we had trouble scoring during that time, but we don't care. That game ended 5-0 with something like 80% possession. Now that we possess, we move forward with purpose and we will start scoring more and more now that we are focusing on it.

we haven't used "square". We call "1 - 2" for a give and go. If you think it is complicated - here are some 9 and 10 year old girls playing. Watch the Blue team play. In the first few minutes they will string 10/9/9 passes together. Notice how they rarely go forward unless they can keep possession and they "play the way they face". The Red team does it all wrong.

First touch is exactly what it it implies - the first time you touch the ball when you receive it. The first touch is the most important one because it sets up your second touch, if needed. If your first touch forces the ball straight into the marking defender - you have lost possession. If the ball is touched away from pressure and into open space, then you have time and space to get your head up, find a teammate and deliver a pass with the second touch.

I was just about to bring the hammer down on the original title.

Sit on it X.

Playoff beards have jumped the shark for me. As well as the phrase jumped the shark.