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Kill this thread now. 10 team conferences do NOT add scheduling flexibility, as you maintain. Both the HCC and the MIC are happy the way they are. It actually allows each to play one another in the regular season. And Columbus North is not a good fit for either conference. They and CE need to join the Mid State, or both get in CI.

Right, wrong, or indifferent it’s a free country, you can choose to do whatever you want, but you can never escape the consequences of those decisions. I would also say it’s not just purple hair, gages in the ears, a hog ring in the nose, etc., poor grammar, poor social skills, and other non-appearance factors will also cause people to dismiss individuals. I will admit I’ve said more times than I care to remember made it known, I don’t trust people with a week handshake. After teaching my kids to be polite and say please and thank you, it was one of the first social skills I taught them, how to shake hands, and to never trust anyone that gives you a limp fish. Other tools like looking people in the eye when you’re talking to them, speaking up, being clear and concise, many of these skills are being lost as our society moves to less personal forms of interaction.

1.They are one of the best teams in the state. The MIC would be lucky to have them. Would raise the profile of the conference 2.Sarcasim 3. Their Baseball program is in fact a very good one. 4.they have beaten CG the last 2 seasons 5. The Red uniform comment is my opinion 6.the Fan base is great. Everyone says so and I have come to belive it. 7. The Conference they play in gives them no real competition 8. All they have to do is win a reginal and they will be in 6A in 2021 9. They did beat Cathedral this past season in the playoffs. 10. Charlie Speigle did win Mr. Football honors this year. 11. Dragons are cool.

Here's the deal: one doesn't always need to build a better mousetrap. There would be flaws if these proposed mergers, acquisitions, mergers, jamborees, hootnannies, ad honkytonks were to be implemented anyway.

A debate about Cowpies and other feces in "A little interesting" topic......... Glad I was on vacation last week.......

I posted a cowpie! We debated feces.....but I will admit, it's junior high level entertainment.

The issue, everyone hates congress, but loves their representative and keeps sending him back. I watched it play out for years with Lee Hamilton. He was a less than stellar rep in my opinion, however he would hold town hall meetings all over the district, old people would show up with a problem with their SS or Medicare, he'd have some lackey take care of it, and he was the best congressman EVER. Unfortunately all of those old people eventually died, the district became a lot less gerrymandered, and ol' Lee was out of a job, but his career of sucking at the public teet, continued.

Excellent point Mr. Bob! Especially in this case it was such a tight call the same number of people would scream a team was screwed by the call. You could easily argue catch/fumble or incomplete. There is nothing in the rule about number of steps which those arguing for catch are using to justify their position. The key elements of the rule here are time and football act. Because of that you have to watch this replay at full speed. My gut feel the time I saw this live was incomplete. The ball was out very quickly. In slow motion a lot of incomplete passes look complete. I would put this play very much in the "when in doubt" category which the rule clearly states you rule incomplete. The area of the rule book that covers forward/backward also states when in doubt it's forward and incomplete when not caught. It goes on to say though if replay is involved to rule it forward to let it play out. The catch/no catch rule doesn't state that, but the same often applies by philosophy. It's not always easy to overturn an incomplete pass ruling if replay shows it was backward or complete. In this case that can have a huge impact on the role of replay. The covering official is going to do the same thing on the field regardless if he actually rules catch/fumble or let's it play out for replay. They would communicate that decision to the replay official. If it's the former then he's looking at it with the assumption it was a catch and he needs to see something that proves that not to be true. If it's the latter then he's looking at it to make the actual decision of catch/no catch. Those are different thresholds. You could legitimately argue this as a catch or incomplete. It was that close. Based on that neither choice is patently wrong or a team is getting screwed. You could have 100 top officials watch this play and you are probably going to get a 55-45 split and I'm not sure which way they would go. I lean toward incomplete because it was bang bang and it was my initial gut reaction when I saw it live. But I wouldn't tell someone who feels it was a catch they were wrong either. But nobody got screwed by either decision. Ohio State still had a chance to add on to their lead and had an opportunity to stop LSU on that long drive at the end. Even after that they were in striking distance with a chance to win. This call was far from the only reason they lost the game.

This level of dysfunction in Washington is exactly why I can now support term limit legislation for both houses of congress......

This is true but a side impact also is some hires are made not based on ability and experience but on physical appearance. The people working at those levels are still very good officials, but some are moving up much faster because they look the part. They would have benefited from another couple years each of high school and small college football. I think it has had at least a minor impact on the quality of officiating at the NFL and D1 levels.

As long as conferences are based primarily on scheduling convenience and geographic proximity, rather than competitive reasons, I think conferences in general - and especially 10 school conferences — are bad for football. The inability to schedule out of conference games that might be more competitive detracts from the quality of football generally, a cause that I thought you were championing.