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Go Knights! Thank god Tom Allen didn't get involved.

Shooter1-----You need to get your facts right. Not one player on the Linton roster transferred to Linton during High School. They transferred to Linton during Middle School or before. Everyone knows the stories about Dugger closing. Those kids could choose any school they wanted when it closed and because some of them chose Linton instead of your school that's not fair?. There is nothing wrong for an athlete to transfer to another school during middle school for ANY reason. There are plenty of Linton kids that are on WRV rosters in several sports, (Softball, Baseball, Volleyball, and basketball). I guess that is okay? When Schools are competing for kids on an academic level because of the money that goes with them, you really didn't expect that to not trickle over to the athletic side did you? The State of Indiana created this mess. When any kid can transfer for a better opportunity academically and the money goes with them, then why shouldn't a student be able to transfer for a better athletic opportunity? The IHSAA governs High School and that is the only reason they can't transfer at the HS level. WRV(your school), Dugger and now Eastern are sending mailers out, putting billboards up, and sending buses into other schools district to pick up kids. Apparently, the academic transfers don't bother you? Of course not. The kids that transfer because they think another school offers a better academic opportunity isn't your concern. Only the ones that might affect your athletic W-L Column. Are some of the Linton faithful upset because someone moved in and took their kids spot? Yeah, but that is life and it happens when athletes begin competing with 4 classes of kids for a handful of starting spots.

Marian has picked up several good players from down here recently. It's a shame UE can't look past the current dumpster fires that its D1 men's and women's basketball programs have become and start up a D3 football program again. It would be fun to see these kids play locally on Saturdays.

Attendance Officer/Head Football Coach may be the best title I have ever seen. Where do I sign up for that?

Brock signed with Marian last week. This is a great fit as he will be a GREAT player for the Knights. His older brother Branson is likely a three/four year starter at WR for Southern Illinois. He saw considerable time this season over the last four weeks on special teams.

Now we will see if the culture at Portage is ready for a change that will restore this once great program. Because whether they know it or not, Hell is coming to breakfast.

I seem to recall a joke, something about the shit house door on a tuna boat....

Big changes to the MLB playoff process are being proposed now. What does that have to do with Indiana high school football? It just confirms something that some of us have been saying for years. If you want to make the regular season games more exciting, ignite fan interest, keep people and teams engaged to the greatest extent possible, you take steps to make those regular season games more meaningful with respect to post-season opportunity. MLB has obviously realized that changing the playoff protocol is a legitimate and effective way to do that. In order to make regular season games more meaningful, they are proposing changes that would keep more teams fighting for more playoff spots. It would increase playoff participation from 10 to 14 teams. The stated purpose is to make the stakes for regular season games higher, to make for more competitive games, greater "buzz" and, of course, the increased revenue that flows from that. This teaches us that the most sophisticated minds in sports see using the playoff structure as a way to improve the regular season … just what we should be doing in Indiana with at least playoff seeding, and better still, a playoff qualification format.

https://madisoncourier.com/Content/News/News/Article/The-Madison-School-Board-votes-5-0-to-withdraw-Madison-from-the-Hoosier-Hills-Conference-/178/961/118498

Pops: I looked past their backhanded comment and tried to make it about the game itself with my reply. Some people get their jollies by stirring the pot just to see what kind of reaction they get from other people. 99% of the time I don't play their games. If they are insinuating that Linton is recruiting, they need to be reminded that Indiana now has open enrollment. Kids can play wherever they want these days. Accusing someone of recruiting is pointless. "Next caller!"

Always thought USI could offer a great opportunity for some of the kids who struggle a little more in the classroom, want to continue to play football and couldn't get into UE

We saw this kid over the summer and he is a monster. I am sure it is tough to have the coach you love leave right in the middle of your high school career.

He will become the 2020s version of Maurice Tolbert/Les Klein.

Will he ride in from the East with the sun at his back?

I like that thought about them joining the EIAC. Great conference.

My wife watches that polygamy show on TLC, occasionally when I go to bed she'll have it on, I just scratch my head. Who in their right mind would want multiple spouses? And when constant drama ensues, this idiot is standing there scratching his head like he doesn't understand.

It would force the nation on one of these hip and trendy no wheat/bread diets, we'd all lose weight, better health, a win win! Which would be a good thing, since who knows what happens to our healthcare industry.

Already been eating "borrowed bread" for a long time. https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a30852534/trump-deficit-national-debt-monica-crowley-fox-business/

Read on Sunday that the biggest change over the last two weeks for the Purdue offense is that they have gone back to a previous staple, the MOTION offense. I went back and watched Saturday's game again and it is extremely noticeable. Far less standing around and great spacing, leads to smoother basketball, even late in the shot clock! Hope this continues, as they have been really enjoyable to watch lately! BOILER UP

The biggest word in that statement.....IF.......

John Edge leaving South Spencer to return to Kentucky at Apollo High School in Owensboro. Prior to South Spencer, he was the head coach at Owensboro Catholic. https://www.owensbororadio.com/2020/02/10/john-edge-is-the-new-apollo-football-coach/

I saw a Linton Miner team... period. Dugger Union closed... it was no more... I'm not sure DUCS qualifies. Linton opened their arms to those kids and hold a geographic advantage over everyone outside of Sullivan. Ask some Dugger folks about the Sullivan mess... They will tell you about some Good people... but some felt like 2nd class citizens to others in Sullivan. Shouldn't be shocking... Talk to some Carlisle or Graysville folks about feeling like they are on the outside looking in at Sullivan. The Shakamak, Northview, and Sullivan kids all live in Linton. The families moved... Even before the State of Indiana turned schools into the current mess... that would qualify. We have 3 boys that live in Bloomfield's school district... they are using their school choice. I'm not sure I necessarily agree with State, but it is nature of the game these days. You do realize WRV has bulletin boards all over the county encouraging students/parents to move their kids there. You also have 4 players and a manager on your JV/Varsity that went and still live in Linton. As I remember... WRV got a few Linton kids to bolster their ranks back when they were dominant in the early 90's. If you'd like to put an asterisk next to your Semi State runs... go ahead. Success and an opportunity to win has always appealed to some people. Now it is easier to do that. Now for actually basketball... I think the 1st and 2nd halves against WRV are the Jekyll and Hyde that has become Miner basketball. Too much "ME' ball in the 1st half... 2nd half saw better ball movement. This led to better looks and more made shots. As awful as it sounds, foul trouble helped the Miners at the end of the 1st half. The ball got moving... shooters made shots. Otherwise, I think WRV is up at least 4 going into the half. Defensively, We are nowhere close to as good as last year. Sometimes Linton looks disinterested and lazy. D-Rob has had moments where his hustle has made the Miners look good, but he is inconsistent. Pyne occasionally has stretches of big defensive plays, but foul trouble or the fear of foul trouble limits his time on the court. A couple guys look like they are playing the whole game with 4 fouls. Drew Smith provides some good defense off the bench, but he is sort of a spot guy at this point. I thought WRV looked really good in spots. They have no depth, which kills them. Rogers played really well... MVP of the 1st half. Ellett was better than I had seen early this year. Denham made some plays. Although Records got into some foul trouble... he had Lincoln Hale frustrated. Crites played like a sophomore... they will need him to be more sure of himself. He was a great energy guy this summer, but he looked like the game was a little too big for him. Hostetter off the bench was more steady, but he is more limited athletically. After that... the bottom drops out. The rest of the guys are average JV players. A freshman and a couple sophomores had moments in the JV game, but none of them look varsity ready. Spot players at best... for now. I'll be rooting for them to win that sectional. I think they are capable, but they also have some Jekyll and Hyde moments.

The grow them big up there. All those big bovine's that are up on all the restaurants have to be put up and taken down everyday. The treat replica's of Babe the Blue Ox the same way we treat the flag. Hence why they are so big.

Well to be clear definately wasn’t “all Linton”. I saw Sullivan, Bloomfield, Shakamak, Northview, and Union. Seems many of the faithful are starting to see the same.

Socialism Always Fails: https://mises.org/wire/socialism-always-fails However, as I pointed out three years ago, the collapse of the USSR and the eastern European socialist states did not “convert” Heilbroner to becoming an advocate for capitalism, nor did China’s transformation from Mao’s giant commune to a quasi-capitalist economy (and subsequent economic growth) change his mind. Indeed, socialists seem almost impervious to factual arguments, and despite a gaggle of “what would a socialist economy look like” articles in publications such as Jacobin, socialists have never refuted the Austrian arguments. For that matter, socialists really cannot appeal to economics at all despite their claim that their goal is to provide a better economic society for those ubiquitous workers. Jacobin declares: (Note that the Jacobins are famous for unleashing the infamous Reign of Terror during the French Revolution, in which thousands of so-called enemies of the state were murdered. That American socialists today willingly associate themselves with genocide speaks volumes of what these people will do if they ever gain real power here.) In other words, the implementation of a socialist order is not so much dependent upon a plausible model of a socialist economy, but rather is an exercise that depends upon convincing people that somewhere over the rainbow we can make the whole thing work, despite the failures of the past. And that is where the recent articles in The Nation and the Daily Mail reveal much about the socialist mentality. In The Nation, Ross Barkan argues that the barriers to implementing a socialist system are political, not economic. Indeed, in “Why American Socialism Failed” he writes that there was just too much political resistance to reorganizing the United States into something like what at that time was being done in the Soviet Union. (It should be noted that he seems to view the Russian Revolution with much sympathy—and fails to note that perhaps Americans at that time were not interested in implementing a regime that would mirror the atrocities being committed by the Red Army and the new Soviet government.) Instead of following the old political strategy of having people run as members of a socialist party, Barkan says that the better plan is for socialists simply to take over the modern Democratic Party by electing socialists from the presidency on down. He writes: In other words, the entire question of socialism is political; socialists can speak about their utopian visions, be elected on those platforms, but really don’t have to explain how they actually will make a socialist economy perform in a way that will even begin to match the output of a private enterprise–based economy. Yet, when confronted with the reality of the actual performance of a socialist economy, all the writer can do is to appeal to the election of socialists, which should not be surprising, since the end of socialism is political power and nothing else. The death of a Canadian teenager of leukemia while waiting for the government’s permission to have a bone marrow transplant speaks volumes both of the performance of socialist systems and the way that people under socialism submit to the system. Laura Hillier, 18, of Ontario died before she could receive a transplant, which is not particularly unusual in the Canadian system, as “standing in line” for care is the typical experience, even when a life is at stake. From the Daily Mail: Although Hillier’s obituary “slammed” the wait times in Canada, nonetheless, nothing will be done because Canada’s “single payer” system is both politically sacrosanct and a socialist politician’s dream. It is sacrosanct because it provides the “free healthcare” that socialists promise and a politician’s dream because it provides unending opportunities for “reform.” In reality, the economic calculation problem is front and center, making it impossible to “fix” the Canadian single-payer system, something no Canadian politician will admit. One doubts that Hillier would have died in the same way in the United States. For all of the criticism American medical care receives from the left (and the current system hardly fits the claim by socialists that it is “free market”), one can be reasonably assured that a young woman here would not die because of a lack of hospital beds. In Canada, however, such deaths are a matter of course, and for all of the “this shouldn’t happen” statements from both politicians and victims’ families, it will continue to happen. (Canada, perhaps not surprisingly, has relatively poor cancer survival rates.) Under socialism, one stands in line and does not challenge the system, since the system is based not upon the successful delivery of services, but rather on the prospect of such services being made available “to the people” for no fee, the product of a “compassionate” socialist state. Note that at no point in his article does Barkan write of any way that socialism would improve the lives of Americans. Socialism is not about providing needed services to those who cannot receive them otherwise, nor is it about raising the living standards of the poor, despite socialist claims to the contrary. Socialists do not create goods and services; they commandeer them for political purposes, and such things are useful only as a means of putting and keeping socialist politicians in power. No politician in Canada will be voted out of office for the premature death of Laura Hillier, nor will any hospital administrators be sacked. Had medical officials given in to sentiment and bumped Hillier up the transplant list, someone else would have died for lack of space. The enemy here is scarcity, and under socialism, scarcity is multiplied. Canadians have come to accept this situation, all the while convincing themselves that theirs not only is a morally-superior system to anything that exists in their neighbor to the south, but also enables them to receive medical services that they believe would be denied them if their government were not paying. They have become like the cave dwellers in Plato’s allegory, believing that the medical shadows they see on the wall represent the best care possible. Socialists might well take over the Democratic Party; indeed, American voters are capable of putting someone like Bernie Sanders in the White House. They well could make the electoral gains that the writers at The Nation have coveted for decades. What they cannot do, however, is tell the truth about socialism. Another article in Jacobin, written by Sam Gindin, demonstrates this last point: Gindin then goes on to “refute” Hayek’s “knowledge problem” critique of socialism (while ignoring the Austrian “economic calculation” issue). The rest of the piece essentially can be shortened into this one sentence: forget the past failures of socialism; this time we will make it work. We have been hearing this kind of thing for more than a century. Socialists tell us that if the rest of us will give them total power over our lives, this time they will provide prosperity, and unlike previous socialist regimes, they won’t strip us of our liberties. We should have as much confidence in their words as the loved ones of Laura Hillier had in the empty promises of Canadian medical officials. Spot on analysis by Mr. Anderson. And I personally I will take a system based on the successful delivery of goods/services (Capitalism) rather a system based on making those goods/services available "to the people" for "free" (socialism). The latter is doomed to failure, as history has repeatedly proved.

I work in a manufacturing facility represented by the United Steel Workers. One of the group leaders in my department told me last week " I have voted Democrat my whole life but the Democrat party no longer represents the working family. I will never vote Democrat again".

I hereby propose: 1. Columbus North and Silver Creek be admitted to the HHC 2. Martinsville, Northview, and BNL be admitted to Conference Indiana 3. Southport be admitted to the Mid-State Conference These groupings of schools would have a more compact geographic footprint than the current arrangement of conferences, in addition to having similar enrollment figures and growth numbers.