Culling the herd

#78
#78
Right now we need all the warm bodies we can get on our Team.

Need them all for teaching sessions and better practices.

The weeding out process will come naturally as kids graduate and we recruit new kids every year.

4 years from now most all of this roster will be gone and we can only hope and pray that Pruitt and staff can recruit top notch, smart, hard working kids that wants to WIN as badly as we want them to.

Only time will tell for now.

VFL...GBO!!!
 
#80
#80
marcusluvsvols said:
Agreed. We need to cull the herd with some teachers in Tennessee as well. Far too many people on this board as adults cannot distinguish between the words lose and loose, there their and they're, to too two...do I need to continue? Why is it that either of my kids in 2nd grade had better grammar than half of the adults that post here? From what i have seen, it is much worse on the UK, UGA, and Alabubba sites.

No, I am not the grammar police. Don't even have a college degree. Also not an individual that would allow my children to get through elementary school without a solid command of the English language. The educational system and parents must be failing. I refuse to believe there are that many people which aren't intelligent enough to write and speak clearly.

FWIW, I type so fast and with 2 thumbs that my posts are riddled with typos. Often punctuation errors as well. That is not an ignorance issue. It is being sloppy and very hurried. For adults to consistently be unable to tell homonyms apart is inexcusable in 2018. Those aren't typos. That's not auto correct. That's not grasping the concept of homonyms.

I can hear it now..."Boo this man!"

No problem. Just do it in English.
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Some people do homonyms, some do partial differential equations. Communications is about sending and receiving a thought. If the reader gets the thought the method of transmission doesn’t matter.
 
#81
#81
81Orange said:
Some people do homonyms, some do partial differential equations. Communications is about sending and receiving a thought. If the reader gets the thought the method of transmission doesn’t matter.
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The end justifies the means. Or "Don't matter how we get there, long as we make it before supper."

I work construction, have for 26 years. There is nearly always more than 1 way to build a structure, but there is only 1 best way. How you go about building what is on the blueprints matters, always. I could pass inspection, and the owners walk, and never have a single complaint about form or finish. If I didn't use galvanized nails and pressure treated lumber on all the decks, they would rust and rot away within a year or 2. If I allowed the drywall guys to use nails instead of screws, you couldn't tell beneath the mud and paint...but as the building settled, nails would pop everywhere and look terrible in a year or 2. Means and methods matter

I tell my kids to speak intelligently, because regardless of their perfect report cards, people they meet will judge their intelligence based on the way they speak. The way they present themselves. The written word is no different. My pappaw doesnt speak in a well educated manner, despite being very smart. He came from a different time, though. In 2018 there is no excuse for an adult to not understand and use basic concepts of English taught in public school in grade 2 and reinforced for 10 consecutive years thereafter. There really isn't . Society may slide backwards towards complete ignorance. My family will not. Nor will we make excuses for it

Best wishes to you and yours.
 
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#82
pimo1 said:
speaking of according to projected depth charts.. he is not even in the 2 deep after spring practice. Have had trouble finding any news on him though I did find out they signed a player without femurs.

The comment Hurd's mom made about AK is gonna haunt him forever.
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Pissed off them Alaskans, huh?
 
#83
#83
marcusluvsvols said:
The end justifies the means. Or "Don't matter how we get there, long as we make it before supper."

I work construction, have for 26 years. There is nearly always more than 1 way to build a structure, but there is only 1 best way. How you go about building what is on the blueprints matters, always. I could pass inspection, and the owners walk, and never have a single complaint about form or finish. If I didn't use galvanized nails and pressure treated lumber on all the decks, they would rust and rot away within a year or 2. If I allowed the drywall guys to use nails instead of screws, you couldn't tell beneath the mud and paint...but as the building settled, nails would pop everywhere and look terrible in a year or 2. Means and methods matter

I tell my kids to speak intelligently, because regardless of their perfect report cards, people they meet will judge their intelligence based on the way they speak. The way they present themselves. The written word is no different. My pappaw doesnt speak in a well educated manner, despite being very smart. He came from a different time, though. In 2018 there is no excuse for an adult to not understand and use basic concepts of English taught in public school in grade 2 and reinforced for 10 consecutive years thereafter. There really isn't . Society may slide backwards towards complete ignorance. My family will not. Nor will we make excuses for it

Best wishes to you and yours.
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Huh. Maybe that's my problem... shouldn't of skipped that 2nd grade. But I guess the nuns in Norfolk were teaching some a them basic concepts in the 1st grade becuz when we arrived in Knoxville the following Fall and someone shoved a book of Shakespeare in front of me and then the Holy Bible and said "Read"... well they up and stuck me right into the 3rd grade... bunch a hicks I reckon.
 
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81Orange said:
Some people do homonyms, some do partial differential equations. Communications is about sending and receiving a thought. If the reader gets the thought the method of transmission doesn’t matter.
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Not really true. If the person writing or speaking comes off as completely uneducated by his/her language, then he/she loses the audience before ever getting to the differential equation, fluid dynamics, or quantum physics. People still judge the book by the cover regardless of all the warnings and experiences.

All the subjects you master are tools in your toolbox, and grammar is every bit as important as the math and science tools. I can promise you the older professors in UT Engineering would beat you over the head until that fact got through to you. The rest of the liberal arts stuff might be "optional"; English isn't.
 
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