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Morals of the story: Don't smoke cigars after winning a regular season game (Seahawks). Don't call out the GOAT unless you are going to show up and back it up (Chase Young/WFT). Don't stomp on our logo before a regular season contest (Titans). Don't dance on the logos of other teams and pretend that the Browns are "just another team" (Juju/Steelers).

Cougar conference...sounds like a group onlyfans account.

I’m just here for the spin from the ND faithful. ”We played them tougher than Ohio State did.”

You can add Yorktown in ... Tod was an assistant coach there in-between his stints at Highland and Delta. And his son attended Pendleton Heights as a freshman, so you could add them in, too.

Virtual students are still students at your school. They still count in terms of enrollment and receive funding.

https://nypost.com/2021/01/10/what-the-left-wants-to-ignore-about-slain-capitol-police-officer/ On Thursday, Brian Sicknick, an officer with the US Capitol Police, died from injuries sustained during the storming of the Capitol building. Democratic leaders have presented Sicknick as a martyr of the #Resistance against President Trump and his dangerous supporters. Reality is more complicated. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi described Sicknick’s death as a reminder of the need to “protect our country from all threats, foreign and domestic.” President-elect Joe Biden suggested that whoever backed Trump supports “an all-out assault on our institutions of our democracy.” The day’s violence, it seems, has become an all-purpose excuse to denounce and ­silence anyone not sufficiently anti-Trump. Yet neither Biden nor Pelosi reckoned with an uncomfortable fact: Sicknick was a Trump supporter himself, as his friend Caroline Behringer announced shortly after his death. Far from sharing the views of the #Resistance, he had written letters to his congressman opposing Trump’s impeachment. Like many Trump supporters who are now being censored, he ­believed that the system is fundamentally rigged in favor of a narrow elite. He had used fiery rhetoric, even called for regime change in America. The people who claim to honor Sicknick have elided these facts. Acknowledging them would undermine their ­effort to label the 75 million Americans who supported Trump as a domestic threat. Already, unelected Silicon Valley billionaires are using Sicknick’s death to justify censorship of views he expressed. Liberals are cheering the limitation of free speech. Leftists are applauding the exercise of corporate power. What could lead a man like Sicknick to support Trump? Must it be white supremacy, conspiracy theories or one of the other reasons usually cited by the media? What we know of Sicknick’s views tells a different story. Six months after graduating from high school in 1997, he joined the Air National Guard. He was deployed to Saudi Arabia and Kyrgyzstan. A series of letters he later wrote to the editor of his hometown paper give a portrait of his disillusionment with the leaders of the country he served. In 2001, he described his ­attempt to gain help from his representatives in a dispute with his employer: “I have written a staggering number of letters to elected officials in both the state and federal governments. Only one state senator responded. This is one of the main reasons I will not be enlisting for a second term in the National Guard. I am no longer going to risk my life in hostile environments for a government that does not care about the troops.” In 2003, Sicknick expressed his growing doubts about the War on Terror: “Our troops are stretched very thin, and morale is dangerously low among them. I’m starting to see an increasing trend of US soldiers asking, ‘Why are we still here?’ ” Brian Sicknick’s father hopes Capitol cop’s death amid DC protests ‘stops all the lunacy’ He had come to believe that the United States was engaged in an “unnecessary war.” He ­denounced the “arrogant oil hacks that occupy the White House” and complained that the Bush administration had “its hands grasped firmly on the puppet strings of conservative senators.” His conclusion was stark: “I believe we should have regime change right here in America.” In 2004, he poured scorn on Team Bush’s proposal to ­revive space exploration. Why go to space, he wondered, when “the health-care system is in shambles, and many Americans have simply given up looking for jobs”? His rage deepened after the ­release of the 9/11 Commission Report: “Proven ­intelligence failures regarding the war in Iraq and Sept. 11 are troublesome. Why is it that I doubt any jobs will be lost over this? Why is it that I doubt an impeachment would happen? Why do I think the issue will soon be forgotten?” After serving his country and observing the workings of its government, Sicknick had come to believe that America is governed by a self-interested, unresponsive and unaccountable oligarchy. There is ample evidence to support his beliefs. Biden and Sen. Chuck Schumer, both of whom voted to authorize the invasion, have suffered no consequences for their folly. Nor have the countless other supporters of the invasion who populate Congress, K Street and the think tanks. The same people who launched a costly and failed war in Iraq now hope to humiliate and silence Trump’s supporters. But the concerns that led to the rise of Trump won’t disappear until our failed elites pay for their mistakes. When they smear Trump voters, they dishonor Officer Sicknick’s memory.

I was correct on my info for GRCC they went 6-4, and lost first round. That Andrean team was the year after the state championship team, but still went 14-1 and was runner up.

Lions and Tigers and Bears (Oh my!): Crothersville Tigers Evansville Central Bears Evansville Reitz Memorial Tigers Fort Wayne Northrop Bruins Franklin Grizzly Cubs Greencastle Tiger Cubs Hagerstown Tigers LaCrosse Tigers Lawrence Central Bears Lawrenceburg Tigers Lebanon Tigers Leo Lions Liberty Christian Lions Loogootee Lions Madison Cubs Lakeview Christian Lions Monroe Central Golden Bears Morton Memorial Tigers Northwestern Tigers Peru Tigers Princeton Tigers Salem Lions Shelbyville Golden Bears Rushville Lions Tindley Tigers Triton Central Tigers Tri-West Bruins Warsaw Tigers Yorktown Tigers

Good for Clarksville, the MSC has outgrown them in my opinion. Keep up the good work coach, you’re making an impact.

Cool. If you go to Google Street level view (215 Mulberry St, Greenfield, IL, 62044) you can see the team on the field. https://www.google.com/maps/@39.34239,-90.2060685,3a,15y,352.94h,86.63t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sIS4ygqQ9tJ6jdlwczA657A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

I thought about that, but they were closed so long ago, I thought that was well before football.

I can speak a little to this topic having coached a decade in both Indiana and Michigan. I like many of you may have played a game or two against teams from other states and watched film as well. Here are a few quick observations. Ohio: I believe is above the rest of the group by a sizeable margin. The difference in Ohio is the depth in my opinion, there are more teams of high caliber at each level, it's not top heavy or bottom heavy. Kentucky: I believe is the bottom of this list. Population, and lack of a mega city anywhere play into this. Still many very good programs in Kentucky, but depth is lacking in all classes. Illinois: the largest state by population, but also the most unique with the only true mega city among these states. Illinois boasts very few second tier sized cities lumping most of the larger schools, and most smaller private schools in one geographical region. Illinois has quality teams in each class, and posses a few Mega schools, but many of the mega schools (for whatever reason) are actually sub par compared to those a step down in size. The sheer size of the state gives it quite a bit of depth, but also quite a few poor programs. Michigan: Michigan is unique because it posses no mega schools in the whole state, and only a handful in the 2,000's. For a state nearly twice the population of Indiana, Indiana's top 10 schools would all be top 2 or 3 in Michigan in size. What Michigan does have however are about twice as many football playing schools as Indiana. Michigan has 2 eight man divisions, and 3 11 man divisions all within the size range of Indiana's 1A. That's a lot of small school football. Michigan has a lot of depth in programs but the top really lacks "big programs" the way Illinois, Ohio, Indiana do. There are a lot of "kinda big schools" the smallest school in Michgan's biggest class is only roughly 500 kids bigger than the biggest school in the 3rd biggest class. Or another way of saying Michigan has about 200 schools that would be really big 4A, or 5A schools in Indiana.....that and in the small classes is where Michigan's strength lies. Indiana: Indiana's real weakness is depth in classes, being a state with half the population of Michigan, Illinois, and Ohio that makes sense. Where Indiana's strength is at the top division with quite a good number of Mega schools, and the top end schools in each class tend to be quite comparable to other states. As we've seen the Indiana mega schools (and private school powers) can play with any midwestern states, it's after you get out of the top 5-10 in each class does the gap to the neighboring states start to win out. It's more a population thing than anything. If I was ranking I'd say 1. Ohio 2. Illinois/Michigan 2a. Indiana 5. Kentucky I know that's cheating but it really depends if you value depth over top end results.

Not a real fan of Piers Morgan - but he makes a good point here. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9134413/PIERS-MORGAN-Trump-Terrible-deserves-dumped-Twitter.html It's been eerily quiet on Twitter since Donald Trump was kicked off the platform last Friday evening, silencing the world's biggest social media foghorn. There was an immediate and urgent imperative to temporarily shut Trump down given the horrendous rampage at the US Capitol on Wednesday that he had so outrageously and recklessly fuelled, which was the very genuine fear there will be more violence from his frenzied mob of supporters - a threat that remains extremely high given just how dangerously brain-washed they have become thanks to Trump's incessant false claims to have had the election 'stolen' from him. But this wasn't just a suspension. Twitter announced it was banning Trump for life. (I refuse to call him 'President' anymore because he shouldn't be, and very soon won't be.) It said: 'After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence. In the context of horrific events this week, we made it clear on Wednesday that additional violations of the Twitter Rules would potentially result in this very course of action.' It's hard not to argue with the logic of this statement if you believe, as I do, that Trump was directly responsible for his supporters attacking the Capitol and therefore attacking the very heart of American democracy to try to overturn a fair and democratic election result. He screamed at them to 'STOP THE STEAL!' and Trump's thuggish goons like Rudy Giuliani urged them to use 'combat'. The message was crystal clear: go to the Capitol and stop democracy happening. So, they went there and tried, and thankfully failed – but six people died as a result of events that day including a police officer brutally murdered in the line of duty, and the mob being seen on camera chanting 'HANG MIKE PENCE!' It was one of the darkest days in American history and the buck starts and stops with Donald Trump who didn't just lose the election but has lost his mind too. As I wrote in the aftermath, he should be removed from office immediately and barred from ever running again. But that doesn't necessarily justify Twitter's permanent ban on him, at least not if the tech giant wants to even pretend to be fair and consistent about their censorship policies. In its statement, it explained: 'Our public interest framework exists to enable the public to hear from elected officials and world leaders directly. It is built on a principle that the people have a right to hold power to account in the open. However, we made it clear going back years that these accounts are not above our rules and cannot use Twitter to incite violence. We will continue to be transparent around our policies and their enforcement.' Fine words, but how does Twitter square this with the fact that Ayatollah Khamenei of Iran still has an account? The man who tweeted this in June 2018: 'Our stance against Israel is the same stance we have always taken. Israel is a malignant cancerous tumour in the West Asian region that has to be removed and eradicated: it is possible and it will happen.' Khamenei is self-evidently a world leader using Twitter not just to incite violence against a whole country and its 8.8 million people, but to have it and them 'eradicated'. He also made a direct threat against Americans for the killing of Iran's military supremo General Soleimani a year ago, tweeting on December 16, 2020: 'Those who ordered the murder of General Soleimani as well as those who carried this out shall be punished. This revenge will certainly happen at the right time.' That threat has not been deleted, presumably meaning Twitter doesn't consider that it contravenes its policies. And Khamenei's Twitter account remains active, which is truly ironic given that he has banned 83 million Iranians from using it. Indeed, he's been gleefully using it to taunt America since the Capitol Hill atrocity, sneering: 'Have you seen the situation in the U.S.? This is their democracy and this is their election fiasco. Today, the U.S. & 'American values' are ridiculed even by their friends.' On that last point, he's sadly not wrong. But how can Twitter justify letting Khamenei continue tweeting such threats if banned Trump? And here lies the problem for Twitter and all the other social media firms like Facebook who've belatedly raced to silence Trump after allowing him to spew his bellicose propaganda for five years. It's not just the Ayatollah of Iran who gets a pass. Several days ago, the Chinese Embassy in the U.S. tweeted an outrageous defence of China's appalling genocidal abuse of Uighur Muslims. It read: 'Study shows that in the process of eradicating extremism, the minds of Uygur [sic] women in Xinjiang were emancipated and gender equality and reproductive health were promoted, making them no longer baby-making machines. They are more confident and independent.' The truth is that over a million Uighur Muslims have been incarcerated in concentration camps over the past few years and the women inmates have been subjected to a vile programme of forced sterilisation. Initially, and shockingly, Twitter said the tweet didn't violate its policies. Then, under pressure, it decided it did and replaced it with a message saying: 'This Tweet violated the Twitter Rules.' (This is not the first time Twitter's policy violation bar has twisted in the moral wind. In the run-up to the election, it was rightly condemned for blocking The New York Post's account after the newspaper published revelations about Hunter Biden's foreign business interests, only unblocking it after it came under huge criticism). But the Chinese Embassy's account has not been permanently banned for endorsing genocide. Neither have accounts belonging to Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro or Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud – both of whose many human rights abuses make Trump look like a choirboy. And nor has the account of former Prime Minister of Malaysia, Dr Mahathir Mohamad, who after a teacher in France was murdered last October by an 18-year-old terrorist angered by him showing his class a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad, tweeted: 'Muslims have a right to be angry and to kill millions of French people for the massacres of the past.' So, it would seem you can threaten to 'eradicate' whole countries, promote genocide, or tell 1.8 billion Muslims they have a right to kill 'millions of French people', and keep your Twitter account. But if you're Donald Trump - and let me stress that I have no desire to defend the man ever again for anything - you can never tweet again. I don't like the idea of banning people from expressing their opinions. It goes against everything I believe about freedom of speech, especially in this dreadful cancel culture era. But even the First Amendment has restrictions, categories of speech that are given lesser or no protection under the Constitution including speech integral to illegal conduct and speech that incites imminent lawless action. It can be legitimately argued that Trump's constant lies about a 'stolen election' and his demands that the result be forcefully resisted, incited the mob to commit 'illegal conduct' and 'imminent lawless action' at the US Capitol. And that his tweeting after the attack made it clear he was going to carry on inciting the mob. But it has been quite sinister to witness the speed in which the tech world has conspired to use the Capitol riot to silence not just Trump but entire right-wing social media platforms like Parler which has been effectively driven offline by Google, Apple and Amazon. Again, there are perfectly legitimate concerns surrounding Parler's failure to properly censor extremist material. But its users are already screaming that this is all a liberal conspiracy to shut down conservative voices. And this will only serve to inflame rather than dial down the terribly toxic partisan atmosphere in America right now. On balance, I think Donald Trump deserves to be kicked off Twitter following the terrible events of last week. His stunningly reckless rhetoric prompted an incident that shamed America, attacked democracy, and ensured his presidency will now go down as the most ignominious in US history. He can't be trusted not to continue inflaming a mob prepared to murder police officers and if they got the chance, and we heard this from their own mouths, elected officials. But if Trump has to go then Twitter and other social media firms have to be consistent and kick out everyone else whose rhetoric incites such violence or worse - starting with Iran's Supreme Leader. Otherwise, the censorship looks the way its targets claim it is: hypocritical and politically motivated. Sinister indeed....

Its really as simple as population in most cases. Nothing more, nothing less. Not saying the top teams in Indiana CAN'T compete with those from other states, but the depth in those states probably wears Indiana out. Just look at the number of next player levels on the recruiting sites. Now, if you want to talk PER CAPITA? Indiana holds its own.

Fishers

I think what Brady has done this season should put to rest any lingering criticism that he would be unsuccessful without Belichek and McDaniels. He’s become the de facto offensive coordinator of the Bucs, and has been among the elite in the league the second half of the season. He’s got a tall task against New Orleans. But if they get past the Saints, I really like his chances of going into Lambeau and wiping that smarmy smirk off A-Rog’s face.

What Should Happen to the Capitol Invaders? https://reason.com/2021/01/08/what-should-happen-to-the-capitol-invaders/ He's referring to the rule of felony murder, a legal doctrine that allows prosecutors to charge a person with murder if somebody dies during the commission of a felony, even if the offender played no role in the person's death and did not intend for anybody to die. The felony murder rule is terrible. It's not justice. It should be eliminated. We should not be convicting people of murder when they did not, in fact, commit murder. I bring up Lieu's tweet here because California, the state he represents, mostly eliminated its own version of the felony murder rule in 2018 (though it is worth noting that killing a police officer remains its most significant exception, and so it would still apply here if this all took place in California). There are many, many penalties we can throw at these people, and federal prosecutors habitually charge defendants with any possible violation they can unearth in order to intimidate them into plea bargains. The only people we should consider charging with murder are those who are actually responsible for Sicknick's injuries. We have enough laws to address this invasion and don't need more. There have been dozens of arrests related to the assault on the Capitol. Everything any of these people did that harmed a person or property at the Capitol is a violation of an existing law. It feels important to point this out because, in the wake of any outrage-inducing criminal event, politicians will quickly come forth to try to take advantage of the situation to introduce laws to make the government more powerful and increase the punishment and incarceration of citizens. President-elect Joe Biden says he is open to passing more laws to address domestic terrorism, possibly including "red flag laws" that allow the government to forbid citizens from possessing guns even if they haven't been convicted of crimes out of fear of what they might do. If Trump's presidency has taught us anything at all, it should be that the federal government is extremely powerful. What happened on Wednesday is a result of poor planning and police control, not a result of the government not being powerful enough to stop it. Fox News pointed out that these trespassers could face long federal prison sentences thanks to Trump's call to prosecute anybody damaging federal monuments, an executive order he put in place to go after antifa members. Nobody should face 10 years in federal prison for breaking windows, or stealing a bust, or destroying chairs. That's not a proportionate response. That's anger and disgust channeled through the halls of authority, not justice. It will not create peace. It will create martyrs. It won't prevent future violence—it will foment it. Make sure these people are aware of the mercies extended to them. There is an irony, of course, that many of these same people believe in the same extremely harsh forms of justice that Trump does. They see antifa everywhere. Some cynically attempted to blame the invasion on antifa. They refuse to accept the harshness of the criminal justice system because they aren't typically the targets. Resist the instinct to "teach them a lesson" by making them the targets. But do make sure they know exactly what could have happened. Make sure they know that it's only because of the activism of the very criminal justice reformers they dismiss that they're not being treated the way the federal government treated criminals in the 1990s. In a country that values liberty, what does "justice" look like for the men and women who trespassed in the U.S. Capitol? We should consider what's appropriate on the basis of the reforms some Americans have been pushing for years. Limit pretrial detention to those who may be planning more crimes. America has a pretrial detention problem. We have half a million people who are behind bars who have not yet been convicted of a crime. This is, fortunately, much less common on the federal level, where there are fewer than 50,000 people being detained prior to trial (this isn't counting immigration holds). Pretrial detention is intended to be used when there's no other option to make sure defendants show up for court dates or prevent them from committing other crimes while awaiting trial. But the reality is that our justice system has been throwing people in jail because they couldn't afford bail requirements or because prosecutors exaggerate dangers, and then apply pressure on defendants to accept plea deals so that they hopefully stop languishing in jail. Pretrial detention has turned justice on its head by punishing citizens before they've been convicted. We are also in the midst of a pandemic that has hit jails and prisons hard. We do not need to be filling up jail cells with people who, emotional responses aside, were acting out a deluded fantasy and are likely not an imminent threat. Throughout 2020, Reason covered prisons' mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic and the deaths that followed. Twenty percent of the prison population across the country has been infected with the virus.

Exactly. Play like a champion.

Then again, you do have the Teutopolis Wooden Shoes...

I doubt he was referring to historic numbers. CG is still new money in the IHSAA.

Congratulation to the Linton Miners on their 7th consecutive GCI Championship. They defeated Bloomfield 67-58. It was a hard fought game. I'm not sure Bloomfield ever held more than a 2-3 point lead, while the Miners kept the lead for big portions of the game. In typical fashion... They will both go head to head next weekend. It was a good week for some teams, while other teams seemed to spin their wheels. White River Valley- Tough week for the Wolverines. First there was quarantine. Coach Floyd was out as was Wade Hall. WRV doesn't have much depth, so Hall's absence forced some young kids to step up. Game one was a tough match up with Bloomfield, but Andrew Ellett had a dominant performance to keep it respectable. Game two should have been a chance for the Wolverines to get a win against Pike Central. Oddly, Ellett never played. I'm assuming it was a coaching decision since he dressed, but didn't look injured. Jaden Rogers and Jared Franklin kept them in it. Some untimely turnovers late negated Rogers late 3 point barrage. They lost by 3. Game 3 was another winnable game, yet they lost by double digits to Riverton Parke. Rough week... I'm not sure there are many games left on the schedule that are legitimate opportunities to win. Shakamak- They played North Central close followed by 2 wins. I didn't see much of the Lakers, but it seems like they had a solid week. Eastern- They went 1-2... A win against Pike Central and a strong showing against Bloomfield was a nice start. I'm not sure what happened this evening, but North Central is a solid team. North Central- They went 2-1 with another strong showing against the Miners. Close wins against Shakamak and Eastern have to be nice building experiences for the T-Birds. Bloomfield- I think most people expected the Cardinals and Miners to meet up in the Championship. They don't have a lot of depth and they struggle stopping post players, but they play hard and Graf is a very good player offensive player. Combs needs to live in a weight room... he is too skilled and too big to be a liability on the defensive end. After that it is a host of mostly guards who are solid players. Schulte, Dean, and Royal started, while Skomp and Sherrard were also in the rotation. 2-1 for the week with a solid performance against the Miners should help the Cardinals moving forward. Linton- 7 in a row is quite an accomplishment. Although they went 3-0, they had their own ups and downs. The down is Josh Pyne messed up his ankle enough to be in a walking boot. I've not heard how long he might be out. That concerned me going into the Championship game since Hale and Hart have been streaky and a reliable 3rd scorer has been bouncing back and forth between Pyne and Logan Webb. In comes Drew Smith... He looked like the kid who scored 20 ppg in JH. He was aggressive taking the ball to the basket. His shot is still not what it was a few years ago, but the Cardinals had no answer for him. Logan Webb also stepped up as a big time scorer. I'm guessing those two guys combined for about 25-30 points. Walters was also a little more assertive on offense, but he still seems uninterested in scoring. Although Pyne's injury hurts them... it might be nice to force some other guys to step in and replace his production.

They’d be in with Wildkats and Bronchos.

I've followed the Fountain Central program since 1983 (yes, I was only 9) when they beat Sheridan in the Semi-State 19-14. My dad went to Seeger (my aunt and uncle are also Stephanie White's aunt and uncle), the family farm ended up outside of Veedersburg and my cousins were Fountain Central grads. I've often thought of the changes that might have happened in our family if we also would have stayed in that area. While my oldest brother won a state championship in 1980 at Sheridan, and my middle brother in 1984, and me in 1992, along with a few sectional and regional titles to go with Nick winning in 2005-2007, how would the football landscape have changed (if at all)? Would we have no state titles as a family, would Sheridan have more, would FC have more? Sorry to usurp the thread, but I still consider moving back to the area because of our family's history there and wonder what it's like now?!? I have coached for 25 years and still yearn for that small school atmosphere...nothing like it in my opinion!

Top Dog Conference New Haven Bulldogs Columbus North Bulldogs Clinton Central Bulldogs Frankfort Hot Dogs Crawford County Wolfpack New Albany Bulldogs Carmel Greyhounds Brownsburg Bulldogs Crown Point Bulldogs Michigan City Wolves Lapel Bulldogs Monrovia Bulldogs Orleans Bulldogs Parke Heritage Wolves Canellton Bulldogs Boone Grove Wolves Batesville Bulldogs Bosse Bulldogs

Coversely, I give you the Satanic Legion: Lowell Red Devils Richmond Red Devils Tipton Blue Devils West Lafayette Red Devils Mt. Vernon Mauraders New Palestine Dragons

I’m going to enjoy this one. Aviary League Decatur Central Hawks Frontier Falcons Zionsville Eagles Winchester Golden Falcons Seymour Owls East Chicago Cardinals, lest I never forget the 219...

If you are missing HS football you are in luck, Michigan which has had it's tourney started and shut down multiple times, is back on (for now) and will be playing regional round games this saturday. If you need a football fix you can stream games. All state finals games will be televised for those that have the correct cable package. Even if you don't know the schools....it's high school football in january, can't complain.

Dutra Conference Whiteland Center Grove Brownsburg Tri-West Danville

How about the “Windlan Conference?” (Basketball only...) Hamilton Heights Carmel Warren Central Frankton Greencastle Connersville Sheridan Kokomo Delta Anderson Highland