2024/2025 Blue Bombers Off-Season Thread

[wbbfan]

1 hour ago, Pete Catan's Ghost said:

Ended up with Wesmen. 
In hindsight, it was the right move. 

Nice that’s awesome. 
 

1 hour ago, Booch said:

even parts of Missouri....danger at every corner....make a wrong turn is ST Lois or K.City and you will get a dose of reality...scary

We would recruit guys and train from Cali power houses like Longbeach Poly...Centenial...Inglewood so would get kids from some real bad neighborhoods...good kids but wise beyond their yr's just to survive

and in and around Oakland....Eastmont...P-Laney..Freemont....places the Police avoid if they can for most part

People up here complain about a lot of stuff...conditions of this and that...bad neighborhoods....They havn't seen the half of it...sad part there is so much athletic talent there that just cant get a chance due to circumstance it's crazy...and sad

Placed a lot of young men in JUCO schools there and then onto places like Diablo Valley college...Fresno...Shasta in what is now the Big 8 conference in Cali...working with the  NCSA (Next College Student Athlete) if wondering what that is where help is given creating recruiting profiles...finding right fit...access to the resources that they may not have gotten in the recruiting process from no fault of their own...just their circumstance and actually allows them to access what schools and coaches have actually accessed their profiles...pretty good stuff....something sorley needed up here but lobbying for it and trying to get something started up here basically falls on deaf ears

Yeah it’s no joke down there. I’ve seen a bunch of kids teen to 20 ish and the knowledge gap is heart breaking. Even young teens and single digit aged kids knowing and doing some crazy stuff just to live. Up in the middle of the night to walk to soup kitchen the safe way to be in line for when it opens then walk back to bring food home for family. But then don’t have basic understandings of soo many things even up out of the teens. Reading, normal life and family relation stuff. Just gutting. 
 Malcolm gladwell has a couple books that goes into various factors in poor areas. ( tipping point/outliers/ why I hate the Ivy League) Even for the athletic stars and brilliant minds it’s soo hard for those kids to break free. 
 

Juco, the fledgling leagues down south and the cfl have done soo much to change soo many guys lives. If any thing we need a better vacuum to pull those kids up.
I appreciate every one who works to lift those kids up get them into juco, college, Europe etc. 

 

People like to poop on football programs, and how much money their programs draw. But those programs have all saved countless kids lives and provided them escape from various hellscapes. 

[SpeedFlex27]

2 hours ago, wbbfan said:

Nice that’s awesome. 
 

Yeah it’s no joke down there. I’ve seen a bunch of kids teen to 20 ish and the knowledge gap is heart breaking. Even young teens and single digit aged kids knowing and doing some crazy stuff just to live. Up in the middle of the night to walk to soup kitchen the safe way to be in line for when it opens then walk back to bring food home for family. But then don’t have basic understandings of soo many things even up out of the teens. Reading, normal life and family relation stuff. Just gutting. 
 Malcolm gladwell has a couple books that goes into various factors in poor areas. ( tipping point/outliers/ why I hate the Ivy League) Even for the athletic stars and brilliant minds it’s soo hard for those kids to break free. 
 

Juco, the fledgling leagues down south and the cfl have done soo much to change soo many guys lives. If any thing we need a better vacuum to pull those kids up.
I appreciate every one who works to lift those kids up get them into juco, college, Europe etc. 

 

People like to poop on football programs, and how much money their programs draw. But those programs have all saved countless kids lives and provided them escape from various hellscapes. 

My son played JUCO in Northern California. He quarterbacked his school to a California State Championship in 2012. He was working out with his private qb coach at a rival school in Oakland called Laney College. It was in a rough part of downtown Oakland. They didn't have on campus housing. Attending students had to find an apartment themselves to live. It was a dangerous area. Drug dealing, gangs, etc. The HC at Laney came on the field to talk to Tyler. I remember him saying that students there see a lot of bad things everyday in the neighbourhood around the college. There are areas of Oakland that look like a war zone.

[Booch]

8 minutes ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

My son played JUCO in Northern California. He quarterbacked his school to a California State Championship in 2012. He was working out with his private qb coach at a rival school in Oakland called Laney College. It was in a rough part of downtown Oakland. They didn't have on campus housing. Attending students had to find an apartment themselves to live. It was a dangerous area. Drug dealing, gangs, etc. The HC at Laney came on the field to talk to Tyler. I remember him saying that students there see a lot of bad things everyday in the neighbourhood around the college. There are areas of Oakland that look like a war zone.

Peralta-Laney...notorious area in Oakland...know that well...one of the worse ones

[do or die]

Was at a Oakland/Broncos game in Mile High, some years ago.   Far more violence in the stands, than on the field.......

[SpeedFlex27]

2 hours ago, Booch said:

Peralta-Laney...notorious area in Oakland...know that well...one of the worse ones

Yeah, Tyler's private qb coach was former Cal Head Coach Roger Theder. He wanted both him & us out of there as the sun was beginning to set. While we were there, the cops were arresting folks on the street around the stadium everyday for 4 days. I watched 3 or 4 arrests go down. A couple were violent take downs. I was glad when that camp was over with. I kept worrying my car would be stolen or vandalized. From what I've read & seen on the news that area is even worse than it was back then. Hard to imagine it could be any worse around that campus but I guess it is. Very sad. 

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[Booch]

6 hours ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

Yeah, Tyler's private qb coach was former Cal Head Coach Roger Theder. He wanted both him & us out of there as the sun was beginning to set. While we were there, the cops were arresting folks on the street around the stadium everyday for 4 days. I watched 3 or 4 arrests go down. A couple were violent take downs. I was glad when that camp was over with. I kept worrying my car would be stolen or vandalized. From what I've read & seen on the news that area is even worse than it was back then. Hard to imagine it could be any worse around that campus but I guess it is. Very sad. 

yeah that school basically encompasses that neighborhood...and its just crime riddled...even the scholl housing in the area is sketchy as heck....Its almost like a war zone....

[Tracker]

FYI: literacy rates and sales of written materials (books, magazines and newspapers) have all gone down each year in the US for the past 6 years, paralleling the rise of intolerance and extremism.

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[bearpants]

16 hours ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

I thought fans singing, "O'Shea, O'Shea, O'Shea" was pretty cool, actually. From what I saw, he seemed to enjoy that.

I don't know how much the coach enjoyed it... but it was a fun chant in Nov 2019 at portage and main

[Noeller]

20 minutes ago, bearpants said:

I don't know how much the coach enjoyed it... but it was a fun chant in Nov 2019 at portage and main

You could tell he despised it at the airport arrival thing they did that Ace Burpee hosted. I have never seen a coach who abhors the spotlight as much as him... Basically anything that takes attention away from the players, he is seemingly disgusted by it. 

[Noeller]

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