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Let me just say this…if Raceland was going to go poach kids and risk “the hammer being dropped” as you said, Lewis County isn’t likely the place they would go looking. Nothing against these 3 kids, but I don’t see them being huge impact players that will turn heads. They are all solid football players, but imo, are typical 1A football players. And like I said it’s not a knock on the kids, 1A schools across the state have rosters full of these types of kids. Salmons calls the “program guys”, they are blue collar and work hard. . Rister has good speed, the lineman has huge size, and Cooper has experience as a starting QB. But Rister is the only one I see having a big impact and it’s likely in the return game. I think Cooper will be used as a DB or WR. I welcome them with open arms though, if a kid wants to come to Raceland and have the character these boys seem to have….they don’t have to be superstars to be welcomed. Just gotta want to be here.

That’s another thing that gets under my skin. If a kid leaves Raceland to go learn and play somewhere else, more power to them. If a kid isn’t happy somewhere or their parents feel like there’s a better situation somewhere, why is it always the new school that’s done something wrong? Raceland lost two middle school starters from the basketball team to Russell. Guess what? It’s what the families felt like was best for the kids. So be it. People who get on here and gripe about transfers in the portal world we live in are blind to reality in this day and age. It wasn’t like it was back in the day where we all played for one school for 12 years.

And comparing what went on at Fairview….the Eagles didn’t get in trouble for “plucking kids”. They got in trouble for a player being ineligible and the AD didn’t report it and let the kid keep playing. I am a lifelong Ram and it’s amazing to me how this “little school with all it’s problems” and “the school that plucks kids from all the area schools” and most importantly, “the school that has never won a state title” lives rent free in peoples head.