u/JMars491

Sorry this is gonna be part rant, part vent and part kinda looking for advice.

Started coaching youth sports about 5 years ago. Started with a bunch of dads coaching our sons in youth football.

We were part of the youth program that fed into a high school that annually competed for championships. The team has a few dudes on D1 rosters and 3 current starters in the NFL.

Now what made this made program so good was the total buy in by everyone from the 8u all the way up to the high school.

The high school provided the playbook (scaled down accordingly for younger teams) and provided oversight and quality control for the youth program. We took that same playbook, and that same system and built on it every year so that when “the dads” handed off players to the high school coaches it was a seamless transition and a culture had already been established.

Players got 4,5,6 years of development. Positional training, EDDs, etc and actually understood the game.

Last year we moved across the country and now live in a town where the football team is absolutely horrendous. I’m talking HS football team having a parade down main street for winning one game a season.

We played youth ball last year, and it was just the Wild West of dudes screaming at kids and making them run into each other as hard as they could… zero fundamentals just backyard ball. I wrote it off as just a bad experience with the youth league.

We wrapped up spring practice earlier this year for the middle school level and now we’re into our regular season practices and it’s basically the exact same thing. They brought in new coaches at the HS and he hand picked the MS coach so they could be on the same page. Both who were supposed to have had great success at their previous roles in another state.

So far there has been ZERO development. Handful of returners getting 100% of the reps for everything, no EDDs, half the kids have never played a down of football and can’t get in a stance, but let’s jump right to coverages, blocking assignments, etc.

I’ve been sitting back quietly observing (volunteer assistant coach atm) but all I ever hear is “I’ve been doing this 30 years” blah blah blah.

I feel like anyone can field 11 athletes with some skill and win a game or two… but that’s not coaching imo. It’s no wonder this town is perennially bad at football.

Gotta go do other things now, so end of rant.

Anyone else get kinda frustrated when you write a paper using a template they tell you to use and then run it through grammarly that they tell you to use and it comes back telling you it resembles AI?

Like I haven’t had an issue with anything yet but at the same time if I have to go through all this and then get hassled I’m gonna be kinda upset.

For me it’s secondhand lions. I was already like 16 or 17 when it came out but even in adulthood it’s one of my favorite movies. Sitting here right now watching it with my son. Robert Duvall’s character in this reminds me so much of my own deceased uncle. Seems like it’s a hit or miss movie for so many people but it’s one of those that I just have a real soft spot for.

Duvall’s “who am I?” speech in the diner and then Osmemt telling him he’s gotta stick around to give him the being a man speech…yeah...

Edit: fuck it, gonna wing it. Tickets bought and flight/hotel booked. See ya there anyone who’s going.

Auto mod got my last post deleted for posting a picture of where I was staying. But I’ll try again.

Trying to fly in day of for the matches show in Chicago in September.

Two options are fly in that morning, train to the venue. Then back to the airport for a red eye back to Atlanta OR get a hotel and fly back the next morning.

Found this Hampton close to the venue (about 7 minutes according to maps), only been to Chicago once and stayed out near ohare and took the train into the city.

Anyone local got opinions on this hotel? Seems close to the venue and just off the blue line. Any flaws with my plan?

Just wrapped up taxation 1 OA and feel like I just ran into every issue that I’ve seen people complain about but have been yet to experience myself.

Started with the proctor. Just all around pain to work with. Needing to see everything 5 times… move this, turn this etc. tried getting me to move my second monitor off my desk which I told him I wasn’t doing. (It was turned off, disconnected and covered with a towel.)

Then trying to get the exam started it didn’t want to load right away, the proctor took over my computer (because I apparently was hitting the refresh button wrong) and finally got it to load. It got to the screen where it asks if you want to continue to the Home Screen or add an additional authenticator. He clicked on add additional authenticator like 5 times and started getting hostile with me despite me telling him I already have one and that’s ADDITIONAL, and for him to just click continue to Home Screen. All of this would have at least been less annoying if he wasn’t coming off as an asshole the entire time. Everything in caps, three !!! After every sentence, etc.

Anyways, we get into the test… and I will tell you of everything I’ve experienced so far this test threw me off my game the most. It seems like every course is designed differently and this is one of those where they just give you the McGraw hill book and go ok read it.

I attended all the cohorts, did all the practice coursework, took the practice exam and I feel like 75% of it didn’t accurately reflect what was on the exam. Now I understand that none of those things are designed to cover every possible thing they can ask, and it’s possible I missed some stuff spending the last month reading 400+ pages or whatever it is of tax material. There were some questions on that exam that were worded in ways that it was like the first time I was seeing the material.

End of the day, I passed the course but damn that threw me off compared to how I’ve performed in every other assessment I’ve taken so far. Anyone else in the accounting program care to chime in, does it get worse? Haha

End of rant and thanks for your time.

Of panic at the disco obviously.

Man, just going through my now all too often routine of sitting at my computer playing video games and rocking various early 2000’s band live performances and music videos. Vocally, I’d like to hear people’s opinions on anyone that can top Brendon Urie in just raw fucking talent.

Also as a huge queen fan, just their live rendition of bohemian rhapsody…🤌🤌🤌

Just wow. I’m of the opinion that Denis Villenueva does not make bad movies, however for some reason this one took me a while to get around to watching.

Now that I finally did I’m ashamed it took me so long and honestly I’m going to probably watch it again tomorrow with my wife if I can get her to sit down with me. I haven’t seen a twist like that in a while that wasn’t just some cheap gotcha. >!Given the nature of the reveal it really reminded me of Oldboy. However, it served a completely different purpose in this, and was way better done imo. The man reading both letters at the end of the movie was an amazing contrast between the letters to the father and son.!<

100% if you haven’t watched this movie, check it out.

Question to anyone that speaks French, or Arabic… were there hints or breadcrumbs that hinted towards the ending that were maybe lost not being a native speaker or was it equally as jarring?

Seen them a few times around early 2003. Opened for Sum 41, great band and a very enjoyable album from a band I feel a lot of people don’t know or at least talk about.

For whatever reason I posted this prior and it got deleted by automod…so trying again.

I see several posts a day of people struggling in the job market. One thing I will say, is that I retired a year ago and I’m currently pursing a degree in accounting. To supplement my income I have taken up substitute teaching. At this point I’m considering getting my teaching cert when I earn my degree and will probably do that over accounting. Couple observations as I get ready to wrap up the school year.

1. ⁠I get it’s not for everyone, but anecdotally most places I’ve been at are already hurting for teachers and would welcome the help. If you have the ability and the temperament it’s actually a lot easier to get into than you’d think.

2. ⁠It can be really rewarding, and the pay (while you’re not making six figures off the bat) is not bad, especially if this is to supplement other income you may have. Pension, va comp, MGIB, etc.

3. ⁠More and more states are offering veterans quicker pathways to full certification getting them in the classroom with provisional certificates in a lot of cases.

4. ⁠A lot of the positions are salaried and include the summers off with pay. Most come with benefits as well.

5. ⁠If you go the substitute route, the freedom to create your own schedule is awesome for anyone balancing another job, school, appointments, whatever.

If you have any questions, shoot.

Had a mortgage refi, payoff was quoted and signed refi paperwork on 30 March. Think to myself ok cool, should be paid off, I won’t have a payment on the new loan until 1 May.

April 1st bank auto-drafts my monthly payment. Now on my statement I received it says that the refi closed 3 April.

I called the loan servicer to explain, hey this was paid off via the new loan, I expect my payment for April back. They can’t find anything so I’m having to take it higher but I’m suspecting that they timed it where I paid my monthly payment and then paid the loan off… so that way I’ll get refunded the $500 bucks or so that my principle was paid down, while they keep the interest instead of refunding me the entire payment for that month.

Am I fundamentally misunderstanding something here or should I push back on this harder. I’m still waiting to hear back from their “research department”

So currently pursuing a degree, but have the opportunity to take a job somewhere while I continue. One of the requirements is to have 60 college credits. Now I know WGU is different with their competency units versus traditional credit hours. Has anyone had experience with it?