I know there have been quite a few posts on BS High; however, this is more about The Cost of Winning than a re-has of BS High.
This past weekend, the wife and I watched both documentaries on HBO Max. If you haven't seen The Cost of Winning, you owe it to yourself to watch the 4 part episode. The Cost of Winning is about St. Frances Academy in Baltimore, MD; a school founded in the 1800's that's literally next to a state penitentiary. What makes watching these two documentaries in the same weekend most interesting, is how they are the antithesis of each other in both substance and form. The Cost of Winning is a feel good story about a local businessman who self funds a school and football program, with the sole intent of making generational improvements in a community that is riddled with death, crime and fractured families. Biff, the head coach, his staff and the whole school have made it their mission to not only have a successful football program, but ensuring the student athletes have a future based on academic success. The coaches at St. Frances are the kind of coaches and leaders that anyone would hope their kids have an opportunity to play for. . It's amazing to see a bunch of white guys come into a predominantly black community and have the whole community buy into their program. In short, they take a group of young men, from varying backgrounds and help them elevate themselves beyond their crappy circumstances. Every kid on their team, in the 3 years they have been in existence, at the time of filming, either had a football or academic scholarship. That's crazy, most of the kids when they begin at St. Frances are at the bottom of the academic totem pole. A cool side story line of the documentary is Demon Clowney and how he ended up at Ole Miss. LSU straight up screwed Demon, with zero remorse. You should look up the graduating class from that team, ton of talented kids playing football. In their 3rd year, they stopped the breaks off IMG Academy.
BS High is a documentary about a selfish POS that lies, deceives and leaves teenage kids in his wake of destruction. He financially ruins peoples lives, deceives a whole community-- a borderline sociopathic narcist. It astonishes me how cavalier he was about his financial fraud. Anyways, like I mentioned, this isn't a re-hash of BS High. Take the time to check out The Cost of Winning and St. Frances Academy; it gives me hope for the academic system in America as a whole. People are waking up to the fact that government run public education is quickly becoming the lowest common denominator; I hope people continue to be more involved in their children's academics and what the school system should be teaching.
BTW, them REBS bout to start something special this weekend. It might not be realized this season, but we're on our way to unprecedented heights in all of Ole Miss athletics. HYDR!
This past weekend, the wife and I watched both documentaries on HBO Max. If you haven't seen The Cost of Winning, you owe it to yourself to watch the 4 part episode. The Cost of Winning is about St. Frances Academy in Baltimore, MD; a school founded in the 1800's that's literally next to a state penitentiary. What makes watching these two documentaries in the same weekend most interesting, is how they are the antithesis of each other in both substance and form. The Cost of Winning is a feel good story about a local businessman who self funds a school and football program, with the sole intent of making generational improvements in a community that is riddled with death, crime and fractured families. Biff, the head coach, his staff and the whole school have made it their mission to not only have a successful football program, but ensuring the student athletes have a future based on academic success. The coaches at St. Frances are the kind of coaches and leaders that anyone would hope their kids have an opportunity to play for. . It's amazing to see a bunch of white guys come into a predominantly black community and have the whole community buy into their program. In short, they take a group of young men, from varying backgrounds and help them elevate themselves beyond their crappy circumstances. Every kid on their team, in the 3 years they have been in existence, at the time of filming, either had a football or academic scholarship. That's crazy, most of the kids when they begin at St. Frances are at the bottom of the academic totem pole. A cool side story line of the documentary is Demon Clowney and how he ended up at Ole Miss. LSU straight up screwed Demon, with zero remorse. You should look up the graduating class from that team, ton of talented kids playing football. In their 3rd year, they stopped the breaks off IMG Academy.
BS High is a documentary about a selfish POS that lies, deceives and leaves teenage kids in his wake of destruction. He financially ruins peoples lives, deceives a whole community-- a borderline sociopathic narcist. It astonishes me how cavalier he was about his financial fraud. Anyways, like I mentioned, this isn't a re-hash of BS High. Take the time to check out The Cost of Winning and St. Frances Academy; it gives me hope for the academic system in America as a whole. People are waking up to the fact that government run public education is quickly becoming the lowest common denominator; I hope people continue to be more involved in their children's academics and what the school system should be teaching.
BTW, them REBS bout to start something special this weekend. It might not be realized this season, but we're on our way to unprecedented heights in all of Ole Miss athletics. HYDR!
