Football & Flooding in Muscle Shoals

 

Once again, Friday night football playoffs remind us of many broken promises. Muscle Shoals Coach Basden has lost yet another chance at a state championship losing to A.H. Parker by more than 3 touchdowns!!!! He placed his bets on his recruits as good student athletes left because of his underhanded and illegal recruiting.

Thinking back each year as Muscle Shoals High School football recruits always fall short of the illusion of winning a state championship we can't help but remember the promise Coach Basden made every time he opened his mouth the first few years at Muscle Shoals. 

Basden came to Muscle Shoals from a little 3A school having won 3 state championships. In that little pond he came from, it must have been easier for his recruits to knock off the schools they were recruited from. Basden learned the art of poaching the best players from his competition in the little 3A classification

However, when coming to a little larger pond (aka swamp) called Muscle Shoals, he found his smaller pond recruiting was more lucrative than in the 5A & 6A classifications he came into. But, he still promised for the first few years that he would have a state championship in 5 years or he would leave - wrong.

Now, we're gonna give him the free pass on the first 5 years - but reasonable people (superintendent and board) should consider the millions and millions of dollars thrown at a failing football coach for the last 16 years and invite him to leave. Perhaps the hundreds of millions could be used in a better way -  a novel idea of raising the achievement in the classroom and ACT testing may seem like a silly thing to these "smart" people managing the failing school system, but surely they are embarrassed at the 36% proficiency in math, not to mention the failing grades in science and other core subjects.

So, let's do some real brainstorming here. Since the City Clerk, Ms. Brittaney Walters has told the city council they would (and did) approve her robbing the earmarked flood control taxes you and I pay and has put 2.7 MILLION DOLLARS in her new "capital projects" account. God help our good friends in Nathan Estates, Cornelius Landing and Beacon Point when the next floods come, and they will.

Maybe Ms. Walters will save the day for the schools and hire her good buddy Scott Basden. He is absolutely a "project" and work in progress and will fit right in with her and the office sitters she has surrounded herself with.

Another idea would be - Instead of paying a friend to decorate city buildings, she could bring the rec manager Wooddall to city hall to oversee Ms. Walters weekly remodeling jobs and Basden can run the recreation department. After all, he is used to sitting in his office at the Muscle Shoals Football Taj Mahal all day with assistant coaches - it's obvious they aren't writing new game plans.

So, my fellow citizens of Muscle Shoals Swamp, when you pay those taxes, remember that 2.7 million dollars was taken out of the flood control special tax account for the whims of an incompetent mayor and city clerk. The city council owns this debacle from the top down. 

OH YEAH - there is an election next year - REPLACE EVERYONE OF THEM!!! Vote in Muscle Shoals. Take our city back - MMSCGA.

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The above writer has indicated a flood account steal of 2.7, while our first informant had indicated only 2.5. Oh, well, what's a fifth of a million more?