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Topic:  RE: 2018 6'5" SG/SF Caleb McConnell (Dayton Dunbar HS, OH) - Ohio Offer

Topic:  RE: 2018 6'5" SG/SF Caleb McConnell (Dayton Dunbar HS, OH) - Ohio Offer
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BillyTheCat
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  Message Not Read  RE: 2018 6'5" SG/SF Caleb McConnell (Dayton Dunbar HS, OH) - Ohio Offer
   Posted: 3/5/2018 8:43:00 PM 
OhioCatFan wrote:
Paul Lawrence Dunbar is rolling in his grave (which is next to that of the Wright Brothers) over this. The Wright Brothers might be rolling over in sympathy for the way the name of their dear friend is being besmirched by the clowns that now run the school named after the famed Ohio author and poet.
For your reading pleasure, here is one of Dunbar's more famous poems, written to eulogize his father, who fought in the Union Army and help put down the Rebellion: The Colored Soldiers If the muse were mine to tempt it
And my feeble voice were strong,
If my tongue were trained to measures,
I would sing a stirring song.
I would sing a song heroic
Of those noble sons of Ham,
Of the gallant colored soldiers
Who fought for Uncle Sam! In the early days you scorned them,
And with many a flip and flout
Said “These battles are the white man’s,
And the whites will fight them out.”
Up the hills you fought and faltered,
In the vales you strove and bled,
While your ears still heard the thunder
Of the foes’ advancing tread. Then distress fell on the nation,
And the flag was drooping low;
Should the dust pollute your banner?
No! the nation shouted, No!
So when War, in savage triumph,
Spread abroad his funeral pall–
Then you called the colored soldiers,
And they answered to your call. And like hounds unleashed and eager
For the life blood of the prey,
Sprung they forth and bore them bravely
In the thickest of the fray.
And where’er the fight was hottest,
Where the bullets fastest fell,
There they pressed unblanched and fearless
At the very mouth of hell. Ah, they rallied to the standard
To uphold it by their might;
None were stronger in the labors,
None were braver in the fight.
From the blazing breach of Wagner
To the plains of Olustee,
They were foremost in the fight
Of the battles of the free. And at Pillow! God have mercy
On the deeds committed there,
And the souls of those poor victims
Sent to Thee without a prayer.
Let the fulness of Thy pity
O’er the hot wrought spirits sway
Of the gallant colored soldiers
Who fell fighting on that day! Yes, the Blacks enjoy their freedom,
And they won it dearly, too;
For the life blood of their thousands
Did the southern fields bedew.
In the darkness of their bondage,
In the depths of slavery’s night,
Their muskets flashed the dawning,
And they fought their way to light. They were comrades then and brothers,
Are they more or less to-day?
They were good to stop a bullet
And to front the fearful fray.
They were citizens and soldiers,
When rebellion raised its head;
And the traits that made them worthy,–
Ah! those virtues are not dead. They have shared your nightly vigils,
They have shared your daily toil;
And their blood with yours commingling
Has enriched the Southern soil. They have slept and marched and suffered
‘Neath the same dark skies as you,
They have met as fierce a foeman,
And have been as brave and true. And their deeds shall find a record
In the registry of Fame;
For their blood has cleansed completely
Every blot of Slavery’s shame.
So all honor and all glory
To those noble sons of Ham–
The gallant colored soldiers
Who fought for Uncle Sam!


Well, look at that, we got our regular non-relevant history lesson. Tune in tomorrow to learn that NCR stands for National Cash Register and was invented in Dayton, and a bio of Colonel EA Deeds. 😎😳🙄😂
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  Message Not Read  RE: 2018 6'5" SG/SF Caleb McConnell (Dayton Dunbar HS, OH) - Ohio Offer
   Posted: 3/5/2018 11:06:02 PM 

BTC, I should have posted it in the basketball forum rather than the recruiting forum.  There's a more appreciative audience over there! smiley cool enlightened


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  Message Not Read  RE: 2018 6'5" SG/SF Caleb McConnell (Dayton Dunbar HS, OH) - Ohio Offer
   Posted: 3/5/2018 11:19:15 PM 
Dunbar also screwed up in football awfully in 2016. They played an ineligible player in a handful of games that they won. Really screwed over some playoff implications. I know this because my team Princeton, got the business end of that screw up. I was there when Princeton beat Dunbar by 30 early in the season, then later, we barely qualify for the final spot in our region, only to learn the very next day that we no longer got credit for Dunbar's wins with the ineligible player. Oh man, there were some livid Twitter pages.

Anyway, I though McConnell was at SPIRE Institute now.
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  Message Not Read  RE: 2018 6'5" SG/SF Caleb McConnell (Dayton Dunbar HS, OH) - Ohio Offer
   Posted: 3/6/2018 2:44:09 PM 

shabamon wrote:
Dunbar also screwed up in football awfully in 2016. They played an ineligible player in a handful of games that they won. Really screwed over some playoff implications. I know this because my team Princeton, got the business end of that screw up. I was there when Princeton beat Dunbar by 30 early in the season, then later, we barely qualify for the final spot in our region, only to learn the very next day that we no longer got credit for Dunbar's wins with the ineligible player. Oh man, there were some livid Twitter pages.

Anyway, I though McConnell was at SPIRE Institute now. 

He is at Spire (mentioned previously in this thread). Mark Baker also moved his son DeVon from Dunbar to Spire as well. So this guy moves his son FROM the school system for which he is the AD. You can't make this stuff up.

Dunbar basketball standouts Baker, McConnell transferring to prep school


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  Message Not Read  RE: 2018 6'5" SG/SF Caleb McConnell (Dayton Dunbar HS, OH) - Ohio Offer
   Posted: 3/6/2018 6:29:47 PM 

And Dunbar is back in: Judge rules in favor of Dunbar in Dayton’s fight with OHSAA


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  Message Not Read  RE: 2018 6'5" SG/SF Caleb McConnell (Dayton Dunbar HS, OH) - Ohio Offer
   Posted: 4/15/2018 8:34:55 PM 
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