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I CANNOT LIKE THIS STATEMENT ENOUGH I believe our tackling the last few years has also improved greatly and we also do not live to ground at all. We use wheels, non contact drills to emphasis technique, lots of reps on angles both as team and within position groups.

Team Sessions are just that, FIT UP or THUD UP and quick whistle: We also have to be wary of issues of Scout team vs 1st Team Defense, some days so real poor matchups for Scout, we try to get some Varsity OL to play Scout OL to give the best look possible. When we go team sessions we 100% are looking for perfect alignment, technique and auto adjustments, pad levels off snap and 11 hats to the ball every rep. No focus on getting the guy to the ground. I am big with our LBs making sure their hips are down and like you said, running feet and not taking shortcuts, its something you have to harp on from day 1 of summer. Our typical week: Monday, Film, lift, condition, light walk thru sometimes. Tuesday: Install, O and Def fundamentals in your groups, this is where we do most of our Wheel tackles, pursuit drills, 7 on 7, rally drills, DL work on their drills such as splitting doubles,, wrong arm, work against traps, et. al. Modified short Team sessions as well. Wed: ALL TEAM Sessions as we only have usually about 1 hour and 40 minutes to practice, we have to be off the field by 5:45 for "church night" We do not get out to the field and taped up and stretched until about 4 daily. Thursday: Full team script: Special teams to O and D, light walk thru, some sessions just on air for us offensively Friday: Game on Saturday: 7 a,m. Stretch, weight room, conditioning. .

Agree to disagree there. When you're playing against Avon, Brownsburg, Fishers, Westfield, etc, you're not going to be able to out-athlete any of these teams with just a base spread offense. Noblesville, in 2016, ran a Shotgun version of the Single-Wing and they ended up 4-6 with close losses to Carmel, Avon, LN, and HSE. They were unique, ran a power offense behind physical offensive linemen, and played keep-away from opposing offense's.

Hogwash! Coach Wally Riggendorf will have none of that and will send Eric "Samurai" Hansen after you!!

This dude uses his words way better than I ever could, but he's pretty spot on.

drives me crazy when defender goes for the strip instead of wrapping up resulting in extra yrds ...I think its gotten a little out of control

Brett Cooper from Indian Creek was just hired as the new football coach at Perry

Make a solid form tackle or try to strip the ball? Which one of these is rewarded with a turnover chain, championship belt, or wearing savage spiked shoulder pads? I personally wish all sideline gimmicks would get thrown away in Butch Jones’ Tennessee trash can, but that’s just me

I'd rather have Kirk Cousins healthy and Dalvin Cook injured than the other way around.

true statement

Nothing like an amicable divorce.

There are exceptions to every rule. Agree to disagree.

I understand what you are saying. I was just pointing out where things often seem to go. Kind of like what I see with baseball some of the time ... kids are less and less about learning how to hit behind runners or learning the art of a well-placed bunt or how to take a pitcher 8 deep into a pitch count. There's just a few of them that can really clear a fence, but they all think they are going to have that Natural moment everytime they get up to bat. BTW, our DC always taught "hard hits" as a function of sound tackling ... i.e., he didn't see them as opposing items, but instead as part of a fundamental philosophy. The idea was that the more you punished the back for every yard he gained the less chance he was likely to be able to get away from you later on in the game. It was "old school analytics" in his eyes.

I politely declined an opportunity in 1998 to Minnesota State, It was so hard to tell Coach Dobber no, but did what I had to do, just could not find it within my heart to be a Screaming Eagle

we ran the ball 63 times inside Lucas Oil Stadium in 2014 on our way to state title against a team that was supposed to out athlete us as well. Outsized us significantly as well. Hey, I like that style of offense !!!

I watched the entire De La Salle vs Clayton valley from 2017 on Hudl since I was sent it from Coach Murphy. That was 2 years ago, I hope that was still within the same time frame of relevancy for you.

Oddly enough, what is explained in the article is people creating wealth playing by the rules set forth by the government. The market gets bastardized by government intervention, not the lack of it.

I think Dwenger will only get better. Right off the top of my head, they have Garrett, Watts, and Kolkman, who have all been head coaches. They are only going to get better.

Yep, both sides of the uni-party are now fighting over whether or not certain witnesses should be called to testify in the Senate trial. That may take weeks of political wrangling to work out.

It was Batesville. Coach Heppner used to run the Wing T / Single Wing. They would shift pre snap from one to the other. We called it the James Brown Turn Around when we played against it. Absolute nightmare to play & coach against.

Democrat super hero and House impeachment Constitution scholar Noah Feldman: If the House does not communicate its impeachment to the Senate, it hasn’t actually impeached the president. If the articles are not transmitted, Trump could legitimately say that he wasn’t truly impeached at all. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-12-19/trump-impeachment-delay-could-be-serious-problem-for-democrats

Congrats to Charlie! His numbers may never be touched (or even get closed to being touched).

Yes the game has changed the last 15 years. Yes athletes have evolved in the size, strength, and speed department. I have watched more football games than you could fathom at all levels. I personally have watched my sons teams run 4 different offensive schemes: I Formation (with some sprinkled in shot-gun), belly offense, up tempo shotgun spread, and power spread. I have also watched him personally play in different defensive formations: 4-4, 4-2-5, 4-3, and 3-4. He currently plays OLB in college just finishing up his Junior year. I also have been to a lot of H.S. games prior to my son hitting High School and after. I have been to every State Championship for the last 22 years with the exception of this year I had to watch from my phone as I was out of town in another State. I have seen several different Coach Bob Springers (you may not know who that is HOF Coach from Indianapolis Washington)T formation, Coach Moore's Wing T, Coach Colby's Wing T in a phone booth, Coach Wrights Flex Bone triple option, Coach Ralph's Power Spread, Coach Fishers Fly Offense, Heck I think it was either Greensburg or Batesville one year I watched run the single wing (my memory fades on that one). I have seen 1 personnel groupings, 10 personnel, 20 personnel, 23 personnel you name it. One thing remains the same if a team runs an offensive concept they can be successful in it if they hit the weight room for strength, and repitition their offensive scheme are disciplined and execute. The spread offense was not created because of freakish athletes. It actually was created to spread the defense out creating natural holes in the line and seams in the secondary. Spreading out defenses reduced the need to power block by undersized lineman. The Shotgun Spread has been around since 1956 and Coach Neumeier started the modern spread offense (or basketball on grass like Coach Tiller ran) in 1970.

I get the sentiment, but I’m not sure it matters DT. I know a program that hasn’t “live tackled” more than 5 times in the last 8 years. They’ve won 85% of their games over that period, put rings on fingers, and they haven’t lost a kid to injury during that time due to contact at practice.

Like I keep saying: All hail the tournament. 😂

This is why we need an 8 team playoff 😉😉😉

Yes they do. I believe Coach L although retired and no longer HC is an assistant coach on the team. It is fun to watch their O-line. They are all perfectly syncronized and run like a well oiled machine.

Nancy is thinking two steps ahead of McConnell and a half marathon ahead of El Blubbery

It also overshadowed a pork riddled spending bill. Even Woodward and Bernstein have moved on to the cable news clown show. https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/12/five-bad-things-in-the-new-spending-deal/

Thanks for pointing that out Mr. Muda.....

Point, IF YOUR TEAM AND COMMUNITY BELIEVE IN THE SYSTEM IN PLACE, YOU CAN HAVE SUCCESS in 2019 just as well as in 2009, 1999, 1989 Why is it that Russ Radke has success? Why is it that Bart Curtis took Warsaw to their 1st sectional championship in school history in year 2? Why cannot that be duplicated at Noblesville? Time of possession is your best defense

The pain of the 2nd sentence is just too much.

There are no good reasons to remove opportunities from student-athletes for the sake of a dumb talking point. Only 12 can be on a basketball team. Football has 11 on the field at any given time.

He just doesn’t get it. I’ve spelled out many times how contraction is a bad idea, but he just won’t listen. It’s not part of his narrative apparently.

A side story to the South Bend education discussion: https://www.jconline.com/story/news/2019/12/19/purdue-makes-case-its-third-high-school-despite-local-opposition-south-bend/2697321001/ Many of the school choice haters on this forum have to be seething about Purdue jumping into the mix.

One can hope. It appears the Republican side of the uni-party in the Senate is going to stonewall their Democratic brethren over the witness issue during the Senate trial. Who knows when the actual articles of impeachment will officially be delivered to the Senate, triggering the trial phase.

https://reason.com/2019/12/19/the-rise-of-skywalker-shows-its-time-for-j-j-abrams-to-be-impeached-from-star-wars/ I been reading enough reviews along these lines that I'm not sure I want to pay $ at a movie theater to see this anymore. What is really disappointing is the pretty much complete retconning of the events from The Last Jedi. But who am I to kid, I'll schlep over to the theater sometime between Christmas and the New Year to see it. Although I think one of the comments from the above review rings true:

And you and others can't seem to get through your thick skulls the money and resources that could be better allocated to different opportunities, athletic or not. Money doesn't grow on trees.

https://mises.org/wire/bernie-sanders-and-robert-reich-dont-just-want-tax-rich-they-want-abolish-billionaires Likewise, Bernie Sanders recently declared on Twitter: Again, note the change in rhetoric here. This isn’t simply about adjusting the tax code to make sure the rich pay their fair share — this is declaring an entire group of people to be off-limits. (Note: after some critics accused Bernie of advocating pogroms, his defenders — and perhaps Bernie himself, though I can’t find it now — clarified that he meant people shouldn’t be allowed to have that much wealth. He didn’t mean "Let’s murder all of today’s billionaires.") This is the context in which I am placing Robert Reich’s blog post. Reich is pushing back against the notion that billionaires are simply productive people who generated a lot of wealth in the market. Reich’s commentary is designed to bolster the calls from some quarters to get rid of billionaires altogether. Robert Reich: Five Ways to Become a Billionaire In the remainder of this post, I’ll quickly go through Reich’s putative “five ways” to become a billionaire. Way No. 1: Exploit a Monopoly Here’s Reich: In the above, Reich has conflated two very different things. If a retailer (such as Amazon) has nearly 50 percent of the sales in an industry, that isn’t a monopoly by any definition. But even if Amazon had 100 percent of the sales, that in itself wouldn’t necessarily be a bad thing. As Rothbard argued in Man, Economy, and State, just about every seller has a “monopoly” in the sense of “single seller” if we define the product or service narrowly enough. For example, I have a monopoly on economics lectures provided by the Austrian school economist Robert P. Murphy. Yet that’s not what people have in mind when they wring their hands over “monopoly power” in big business. So long as the transactions are all voluntary, then a seller can only “capture” an entire industry by providing a superior product and/or a lower price. For readers who’ve never heard the story, I strongly recommend you check out Burt Folsom’s Myth of the Robber Barons to see how genuine entrepreneurs cut costs and gained market share through serving consumers. (Here’s a short clip of Tom DiLorenzo on C-SPAN correcting the historical record.) So, returning to Reich’s passage above, he is right to complain about government privileges given to the big banks that were bailed out, and — since I have been persuaded by the work of Stephan Kinsella on “intellectual property” (IP) — I also agree that government patents and other forms of IP enforcement are also illegitimate. Yet the solution of course isn’t to enact large taxes on the wealthy. The solution, instead, is to get rid of the illegitimate privileges given to some of the wealthy. Way No. 2: Exploit a Monopoly Reich goes on to the second method: I always love it when progressives point to how awfully the government currently enforces existing laws in order to prove that we just need more government to achieve a just society. Even if we stipulate Reich’s narrative for the sake of argument, the feds let criminal masterminds walk even when they’re caught red-handed. So maybe the system is corrupt and we should try something other than trusting political officials to ensure honesty and integrity on Wall Street? But the deeper flaw here is that “insider trading,” generally speaking, should not be a crime at all. If individual firms have confidentiality agreements that key employees sign, then of course violation of such clauses would be a breach of contract and subject to penalty. But in general, we want people to trade on “inside” information, because it helps reduce the volatility in stock market prices. The average investor is actually helped when experts are maintaining vigilant watch on asset prices and minimizing the impact that a sudden announcement has on the markets. I go into more detail at this link, but suffice it to say that, if you actually think through a typical example of “insider trading,” you’ll see that the “victims” aren’t the general public — instead they are a small group of investors who otherwise would have benefited from dumb luck, but instead are having that “unearned” windfall accrue to someone else with superior knowledge of the asset. Way No. 3: Bribe Politicians to Change the Tax Code The next method is special because it is the goofiest of Reich’s five: Everyone get that? Here Reich is telling us that the way to get a billion dollars is to first, get $50 billion. Then, pay politicians to reduce your tax bill by a billion. Boom! You just made a billion dollars. It’s just that simple. Reich's approach here reminds me of the old Steve Martin routine, where he says (I’m condensing), “You wanna become a millionaire and never pay taxes? First, get a million dollars. Then, when the IRS says you owe them money, just say, ‘I forgot!’” According to Reich, the problem is politicians taking bribes to reform the tax code, and so you’d think the solution would be to punish those politicians for taking bribes. But that’s never what guys like Reich advocate. Instead, the private citizens offering the bribes are the ones who need to be punished, not the politicians for accepting those bribes. Way No. 4: Defraud Investors On this one, I have to be honest. I don’t even get how this works: On Reich’s telling, investors put “hundreds of millions” into a company that never produced a nickel of profit, and then were still willing to pay an additional billion dollars to get Neumann to walk away from the wreckage. If Reich’s narrative was the only relevant factor, these big investors are incredibly stupid, paying a billion dollars for something only worth a fraction of that, at most. Or, we can surmise that there’s more to the story than Reich is letting on. In any event, notice that one of the big investors was JP Morgan — which was the subject of Reich’s “first way” to become a billionaire — so at least these illegitimate billionaires seem to be canceling each other out. Way No. 5: Inheritance Finally we come to the last method: The fifth way to be a billionaire is to get the money from rich parents or relatives. I understand the fun in denigrating the idle rich born with silver spoons in their mouths, but if we’re trying to base government policy decisions on intuitive notions of fairness, then how in the world do we justify taking a huge chunk out of someone’s wealth just to make sure he can’t give it to his kids? To paraphrase a line I heard once from Arthur Laffer (referring to the estate or “death tax” in the late 2000s), “If you’re rich, once you’ve paid your taxes on your income, you’re free to spend it on booze and gambling in Vegas. But if you have the audacity to give it to your kids, that’s a threat to society and we’re going to tax the hell out of it.” The Billionaires No One Talks About What’s funny is that when Bernie Sanders or Robert Reich complain about billionaires per se, they never seem to list these ones: Oprah Winfrey ($2.7 billion), Michael Jordan ($1.9 billion), and J.K. Rowling ($1 billion by this estimate, though she had earlier been on and off the billionaire list because of Britain’s taxes and her large donations). Whatever you think of the merits of these individuals, it would be harder for Bernie to vilify the self-made Oprah, or to criticize the market for paying a boatload of money to the greatest basketball player of all time, and to the author of some of the most beloved books in a generation. More generally, as the global market continues to grow, we are going to see more billionaires. Quick: how many billionaires does the reader think there are, right now? The answer, according to Forbes, is 2,057. Conclusion There are plenty of billionaires who have benefited from special government privileges, or who have engaged in other forms of nefarious behavior. To the extent that we want the government to “do something” about this, the obvious answer is for government to stop giving such privileges to the super rich. However, to the extent that people accumulate wealth through voluntary means, then they should be able to retain it. Whipping up the public to hate billionaires is a very destructive turn in US politics. Progressive leftists always warn about the “harmful rhetoric” on the Right, and of course point to Nazi Germany to end all arguments. Well, we can look at the Reign of Terror in Revolutionary France to see what happens when the masses get fired up against the rich. Agreed. The jealous indignation from Mr. Reich and Mr. Sanders and their desire to use the state to punish the successful is insidious, and ultimately un-American.

Nice to know you support group think so much. Lemmings....................