Looks like there were some extra curricular activities at a recent Hartfield basketball game.
A Most Scholarly Debate
A Most Scholarly Debate
OT - A Scholarly Debate at Hartfield
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I haven’t been in many HS gyms lately, but are students normally close to the end line?
I don't know....but that would appear to be a mistake waiting to happen. I know I have been at MRA and they park a coach (or dean of students) in front of the student section at end of court, and they allow them to be students **up to a point**
All I can say is that there are alot of folk on the wrong side of wrong best I can tell.
Hartfield parents should have stayed composed b/c if you have been in private school sports long enough around here, on would know that Oak Forest parents are going to do Oak Forest Louisiana kinda things (**such as throw stuff @ buses, cause referees to need police escorts to get away, etc.....)
Lol. Not Oak Forest, but not too far away. Our football team had to be escorted by the local Sheriff’s Dept from their field to our locker room/bus at Silliman once. We just went in the locker room, got our stuff, and got out of town, all with full pads/helmet still on. The coaches let us take our helmet and pads off once we got off campus.
Ive officiated at Sill8man and Oak Forest many times. I personally have never had issues, but I know several officials who have.
This was a while ago, 2002 IIRC. Maybe they’ve gotten better since then, maybe they haven’t. Pretty funny looking back on it, though.
how can you be a grown *** adult with kids and act that way??
I tell my boys all the time…..testosterone makes you stupid.
How embarrassing. Those poor kids that tried to intervene and make GROWN MEN stop acting like toddlers.
How embarrassing. Those poor kids that tried to intervene and make GROWN MEN stop acting like toddlers.
I don’t know….natural T calms you down. It’s the surge that makes you do dumb stuff. Remember it’s the dads that are fighting.
Obviously uncontrolled T in teenagers (without dads) also isn’t good. But that’s not the case in MS academy ball 90% of the time.
It’s been decades since I’ve been there but I always got weird vibes at Silliman.
Silliman had the worst visitors facilities for football out of all the places I ever played
My vanity won't let me say how long ago this was(I was in high school on the basketball team), but walking into Oak Forrest for a basketball game I remarked how crappy the gym was and the ticket lady in an angry tirade tried to kick me out before I got into the gym. They had those terrible 60s clay tile floors.
Would it have been early 90's? I only played there once and it was a tile floor. Our locker room amounted to what could be considered a janitors closet. I also remember we were advised to put our wallets and valuables in a zip lock bag so our assistant coach could keep them on the bench.
I went down there last year to watch my son play and was expecting to have to fight my way out. Definitely a different vibe down there (add Silliman to that feeling well).
one of the comments mentioned "new money" in regards to Hartfield. It reminds me of a saying a former co-worker had, "the first generation out of the trailer park is the worst."
Man, that rings true, except I would say it's bimodal. Lots of them are the best, and you can understand exactly how they made it out. But yeah, lots of them are the worst.
I know people showed their *** about youth sports when I was younger, but I cannot believe it was as bad as it is now. Somehow youth sports is where people decide to be the worst version of themselves.
Terrible situation. People are too invested in sports sometimes.
From the JJ comments:
The Oak Forest player's mother had recently died, and the Hartfield students were heckling about it. Yes - his dead mother. This is yet another example of Hartfield being a low class place with poor leadership.
From the JJ comments:
The Oak Forest player's mother had recently died, and the Hartfield students were heckling about it. Yes - his dead mother. This is yet another example of Hartfield being a low class place with poor leadership.
You have to ask yourself, where are the white fathers?
What does any of this have to do with that OM player that liked to stick his finger in other players' bums?
Referee facilities were not better. Broom closet with one small bench. Literally.
They were crossing the court to fight each other. Didn't you watch the video?**
always the usual suspects of this thug gang mentality, we need metal detectors and mental detectors now, this is why flowood is no longer safe to visit
Got the story for anyone interested.
1. There was no "making fun of kid's dead mother"
2. Student section was ribbing Oak Forest players pretty good. Nothing out of line but giving them hell. One particular player for OFA was mouthing back at them when Hartfield had a significant lead at the end of the game.
3. A parent from OFA (may have been that player's parent - my source did not know for sure) took offense and found someone willing to engage in a debate.
Both the OFA and Hartfield parent will likely not see their kids play the rest of the year.
1. There was no "making fun of kid's dead mother"
2. Student section was ribbing Oak Forest players pretty good. Nothing out of line but giving them hell. One particular player for OFA was mouthing back at them when Hartfield had a significant lead at the end of the game.
3. A parent from OFA (may have been that player's parent - my source did not know for sure) took offense and found someone willing to engage in a debate.
Both the OFA and Hartfield parent will likely not see their kids play the rest of the year.
One issue, of many, is that today's refs don't shut stuff like that down early. It seems like 30/40 years ago, refs didn't put with this type of tomfoolery.
I still find it incredibly incompetent (even by Clarion Ledger standards) that not one reporter in the mainstream Mississippi print media acknowledged this incident while this fine young man was playing football at Ole Miss.
Myles (stinky finger) Hartsfield
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Sillliman is way worse than anything 95% other schools could ever imagine.
I grew up about 35 minutes north of clinton. They aren't exactly what i'd call "rough" but they dang sure a little crazy.
They haven't! I graduated at Amite School Center in 2001.
About 3 or 4 years ago there was a fight between Brookhaven Academy (i think) and silliman at a basketball game.
You are still a moron.
Oak Forest beat Hartfield last year. Probably did in 2023 as well.