A big thanks to KWLM "The Train" for having a nice little game summary online on this early Sunday morning. Unfortunately there is no Morris-based service that provides this. We used to have Brett Miller at the radio station. Looks like he found greener pastures and left there. These days we might get the game score from our radio station website, very little else, in many cases nothing else. And if it's just the score we're interested in, we can find that on the "Minnesota Scores" site.
Let's feel good about the 70-58 winning outcome from our Tiger Center. The Tigers own the No. 4 seed. I'm surprised it's not higher based on our quite good won-lost record. But No. 4 it is, while the NL-Spicer Wildcats had the #5. A negligible difference, so we certainly could not have assumed any outcome.
New London-Spicer actually led much of the time in the first half. In fact they were up by two at the halfway mark, 25-23. But the Tigers came out for the second half quite focused and determined. "Once they did, they never looked back and continued to lead the 'Cats until the very end," "The Train's" coverage shared.
A special thanks to "The Train" for getting MACA individuals' names into this morning's coverage. I haven't been able to type these names nearly as much as I would have liked this season, sad. So we see Riley Asmus with 18 points scored. He was one of four double figures scorers for the orange and black. Alex Asmus put in 14 points while Owen Anderson and Jack Kehoe each contributed 11.
"The Train" now focuses on New London-Spicer girls basketball: Tuesday night game against Minnewaska. Alas, our MACA girls team got nowhere in the post-season. I am quite convinced that our girls team could have done better. People get mad at me for saying things like that - I've dealt with this all my adult life.
The kmrs-kkok site is "down" as of this morning, Sunday. "We'll be back soon," we read on the site. Brett Miller wouldn't do us any good this morning.
Teachers getting aggressive
Nothing subtle about the Morris teachers' grievances at the present time. I personally am offended because I don't think such internal demonstrations should be part of school board meetings. Such matters should be classified "personnel" and be handled on a different basis IMHO.
It is depressing and disturbing to have this matter "hung out to dry" so visibly. It drags down our community morale. It might even affect the enthusiasm of people who might want to make private gifts to the school. That circle includes me. I recently provided $2000 for the band activity fund, aiming to help these kids make an exciting spring trip.
But now we read how the teachers quite assertively say the board is a bunch of cheapskates. Look, I have been around the block a few times with such things, did not come into town on a turnip truck. It isn't just the teachers who are never satisfied, it's our whole public education system. Long-ago Governor Harold LeVander was stunned by this realization. A Republican, LeVander nevertheless felt the state had been quite satisfactory addressing education needs with $. He found that whatever satisfaction was felt, it was short-lived. That's the way it always goes in these matters.
(When I say long-ago governor, I mean from when I was a kid.) LeVander was a classy and temperate Republican, not like the bomb-throwing (in rhetoric and attitude) Republicans of the present time. LeVander found that the education establishment cries for more all the time. When we are amenable and do provide more, it seems, we just get the education people aroused more, thinking they can work us for more.
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| Kevin Pope |
We have seen a stream of newspaper articles that quote disgruntled Morris teachers. I thought we had seen enough after two such articles. But now it's getting worse. This Kevin Pope strikes me as a troublemaker. Is he such a good football coach that we couldn't get along without him? Football should probably be outlawed anyway.
- Brian Williams - morris mn minnesota - bwilly73@yahoo.com
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