John David Smith retweeted
In nearly 12 years as a sports agent, I've been to nearly every college football venue in the country and mostly for big games. Last night in Oxford was the best atmosphere, best fan experience, and best in-game operations I have witnessed. It was first-class and everything fans want. Congratulations to @KeithCarterOM and everyone who is part of the Ole Miss in-game fan experience team. If you were there, you won't forget it. And if you think that atmosphere happens elsewhere, I haven't seen it yet.
John David Smith retweeted
It’s ok to not be ok. Let them, amirite @Lane_Kiffin? #Day2
John David Smith retweeted
Replying to @LAGovJeffLandry
Are you a governor or Athletic Director? An absolute embarrassment to the people of Louisiana who you continue to fail every single day
John David Smith retweeted
The hypocrisy is staggering.
Just LAST SEASON LSU had gun incidents on multiple football Saturdays.
During the Florida game, police responded to shots fired near the LSU Law Center.
On Homecoming vs. South Carolina, a man accidentally shot himself near Tiger Stadium before kickoff. That night, gunfire near near the stadium injured two people. The shooter was later convicted of two counts of attempted second-degree murder.
LSU’s own Board chairman said there was an “overall sense of disorder that we have to tamp down.”
And everyone already knows the rest of the history...
• Tennessee’s buses were hit with thrown objects. Reporting said four windows were cracked.
• Urban Meyer says a fan dumped what he believed was urine on him while two cops walked him into the stadium.
• AJ McCarron described LSU fans rocking Alabama’s bus and throwing eggs and beer bottles at it.
• When Nick Saban returned in 2008, LSU fans burned him in effigy. He had heavy security and roughly a dozen troopers around him by the end of the game.
• In 2024 LSU fans threw bottles and debris onto the field against Alabama. SEC fine: $250,000.
LSU has spent generations bragging that Death Valley is the “worst place in the world for a visiting team.”
Fine. That’s SEC football.
But after your governor ordered enhanced gameday security and your school deployed surveillance drones, restricted roads, fenced off tailgating areas and added police because of ACTUAL GUNFIRE on football Saturdays LAST YEAR…
spare me the lectures about Oxford adding officers like they do every other weekend.
"The hope from the LSU side is that security is not an issue and that the focus can be between the white lines."
—@PeteThamel on Lane Kiffin's return to Ole Miss
John David Smith retweeted
This is absolutely DISGUSTING.
James Talarico said parents who don’t transition their kids are “abusive” and thinks they should have their kids taken from them.
John David Smith retweeted
Lane Kiffin tried to cast himself as the victim on Monday, right around the same time Pete Golding was calling for peace. The irony is Kiffin could've prevented this just by telling the truth.
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John David Smith retweeted
🚨 THE MISSISSIPPI MIRACLE THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO SEE
American 15-year-olds just posted near-WORST scores ever on a key global reading and math test.
Meanwhile Mississippi, once ranked 47th in 4th grade reading… is now 9th.
Adjust for demographics?
NUMBER ONE in the nation in 4th grade reading and math.
NUMBER ONE in 8th grade math.
A Black child in Mississippi is 2.5X more likely to be proficient in reading by 4th grade than a child in California.
They spend about $11,000 LESS per student than Massachusetts and they’re beating them.
How?
Science of reading.
3rd grade retention if you can’t read.
Charters in failing districts.
School choice for special needs.
RAISED standards, not lowered them.
Governor Tate Reeves: conservative reforms + accountability work for EVERY kid.
Blue states keep dumbing it down.
Mississippi raised the bar, and the kids met it.
This is the model. Copy it.
John David Smith retweeted
Every year on 9/11 I take the kids to ground zero to write down names engraved in the memorial. Then we go home and look them up to talk about their stories. Today, my youngest was writing a name when a woman walked up and asked her what she was doing. When she explained, the woman gently asked “will you write down my son’s name too?” We spent the next few minutes talking to Morton Frank’s mother about his life. He was 31. When I asked her how she was holding up on the 25th anniversary she teared up and said, “same as every other day.” #neverforget
John David Smith retweeted
There’s so much to say about September 11th, but I think this video speaks louder than I ever will.
John David Smith retweeted
While normal Americans cry, commie Mamdani and AOC laugh it up at the 9/11 memorial in New York.
They hate you. They hate your country. They enjoy your misery. We cannot allow these people to have power.
John David Smith retweeted
🚨 UPDATE: Absolutely jarring split screen as Zohran Mamdani LAUGHS IT UP at 9/11 Ground Zero with AOC — as someone is literally crying while the names of the fallen are read
Freaking insanity.
This is EXACTLY why the families didn’t want Mamdani there
I don’t think he actually takes it seriously.
New York forgot.
John David Smith retweeted
I'm sorry for taking so much joy in this, but I can't help it. This is AMAZING. I love it. Thank you, Jesus.