Not a lot of underperforming students are signing up to take the APP coursework in my experience.
I don't think anyone is arguing that the kids in the program were harmed by it. But they would have done just as well receiving advanced instruction in their neighborhood school.
It was stupid because we can have decent honors courses at our neighborhood schools, just like back in “the olden days”. This is an attempt at returning to the neighborhood school model. And Garfield and Washington lost any monopoly on APP coursework years ago.
Trying to pretend somehow the Central Area was getting an educational lift from importing a bunch of “gifted” kids to those schools was pure pandering by the white liberals you gals supposedly can’t stand. Having toured Washington as a parent, it was made very clear to us that we needn’t “worry about” our child having too much to do with the “regular attendees”. These little “academies” became an extravagance which catered to the enormous egos of limousine liberals.
Doing the right thing for the wrong reason is still doing the right thing, and somehow trying to create little academies at Washington Middle School and Garfield was always stupid.
Looking at the Official Visit scheduled list on 247 feels like an entirely ball game from the past five years. Obviously only gonna sign a small portion of these guys but feels like they're actually trying and assume there must be some NIL money offered.
Right after the game, I couldn't decide whether to be surprised that UW played so poorly in the natty or not surprised at all. Either way, it was clear that UW shit the bed. It wasn't so much a Michigan win as a, "Hey, the Huskies finally played like shit against a team with an actual pulse, and that doesn't work out as well as miracle-beating ASU."
A doog might look at last season as a coaching staff doing an amazing job with a cast of plucky underdawgs and making it all the way to the natty, falling short to a superior team.
Fuck. That.
There was not an offense in the country with as much top level talent as UW. At the positions that matter in the modern era, it was an embarrassment of riches. Michigan's defense is really good and stocked with late-rounders, but I think the upcoming draft would suggest that UW's offense should have put up points against that group. Not doing so was a preparation and coaching failure, full stop. It wasn't UW's offense facing a superior defense. It was UW's superior offense shitting the bed.
UW was not an underdog this season. Their offense should have led the nation in stats that matter—especially being in the PAC-12. And if you can't build a defense around Trice, Tuli, Mohammed, and Ulofoshio (studs at the most important positions) that's at least top-25, you're fucking up. So where that leaves me is that I credit the staff for adding the missing pieces to the roster and retaining the talent necessary to make this run, but the actual coaching performance wasn't all that. They took a team full of NFL guys, tried their hardest to lose 10 straight games with them, typically got bailed out by NFL first-rounders making NFL first-rounder plays in the clutch, and then shit the bed in the biggest game of the year. A week after Penix was threading the needle from 50 yards at will.
With the benefit of hindsight, UW's roster was built to beat Michigan, very few players played up to their talent level in the game (Penix most notably), and that should surprise exactly nobody after watching it happen over and over and over again all season long. Which, to me, is a coaching issue. This team blasted MSU, played six great quarters against Oregon, three great quarters against Texas, and every other minute made my eyes bleed. With how shitty CFB was last year, not winning it all with that group (particularly with such a beatable opponent standing in the way at the end) was a failure.
@GrundleStiltzkin fucking doxxed himself
In the old days when Woodinville would play at Mount Si, you could see Mount Si from the field. It was awesome. Then they went and built a building and blocked the view from the field.
In HH's circle of friends this is normal behavior. The fact that the man thinks his look is what women look like is enough to send up signal flares.
He may be a 30 year public defender but there is clearly something wrong mentally and it is definitely offensive to women. Not to mention the nipple display is way inappropriate.
If a white man who was a public defender for 30 years came in to work in black face would it still be ok? I mean, since you think people can dress up however they want…….