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Lets try this again. I noticed that Howe had not been in the digest in a few months, i also know he hasn't been on John harrells message board either. One of my close friends on JH used to pm him decent amount and they never traded names or any outside contact but Howe had said he had been going through health issues. Does anyone actually personally know him? I know he and I have our disagreements but I don't wish anything bad on him and with me losing my mom just this winter, i hope hes ok. Coach Nowlin. Next time just ask for my reason behind the post instead of assuming things.

Per Chuck Freeby's twitter account - the Warsaw Tigers are opening next season against Dublin (OH) Coffman. Talk about a SIGNIFICANT schedule booster. I have not seen where this game will take place yet. The Shamrocks are one of the best Columbus area football programs. They regularly make the Division I playoffs and have a 46-12 record over the last 5 years, with a number of former NFLers as alumni this millienium. As a Warsaw Tiger who has transplanted himself to the Columbus Ohio area, I am excited to see how Warsaw holds up to this level of play. Wow!

Urban Meyer is the new Jacksonville head coach. I have heard him speak at clinic talks. He is an outstanding speaker, and it was easy to see why he did so well on the collegiate level. But, in the NFL, the playing field is more balanced, in talent and in pay. :) It will be interesting to see how this plays out. This is a move for the Jags front office to say we want to win right NOW. They should have a great draft. But he is not a long term solution. He may stay for 3 years. Each year beyond that, regardless of his contract length, is icing on the cake.

1973 maybe ? A guess , but along time from 1987 to the 2000 team. KY has been kicking butt.

Hey. Me too. 😂

Lawrence or Fields? I think it’s a no brainer. It’s Lawrence. But. That. O. $. U. Connection. Tho.

The law school closed because, years ago, they decided to accept every applicant with a pulse in a grab for tuition $. The result was a lot of people who had no business in law school. They got put on probation by the accrediting agency, and that caused their admissions to plummet. If you’re not a graduate of an accredited law school, you can’t take the bar exam in most places. Once their enrollment plummeted, they couldn’t pay professors, and they circled the drain.

Thank you. I always appreciate the truth. I know you will always provide it my friend.

Hsitorically, ND has done it just for bowl games. I am not sure about other programs. One issue colleges have is having a number used by two players on the roster. That may factor into why some teams put the names on now. We had name plates on ours at Warren Central. We were able to buy our jerseys after our senior season....$10 I think is what we paid. It's funny how they shrink though, just sitting in storage.

ND and Penn St. don't usually have their names on the back of their jerseys, but Alabama does. As an ND fan, I should know. All I saw in the CFP Semifinals was the back of Davonte Smith's jersey.

Atta boy BR - Your tin-foil hat is in the mail!! 🤣

Rushville has hired a new head coach. Isaac Sliger who was their offensive coordinator from last year. Here is the article from Greensburg Paper https://www.greensburgdailynews.com/news/local_news/rush-county-news-briefs/article_91e9d920-55c0-11eb-947a-2f851354eb35.html#:~:text=New football coach,the newest head football coach.

A very well written observation.... https://nypost.com/2021/01/13/the-lefts-bare-faced-hypocrisy-devine/ What a difference a week makes. On Wednesday, we discovered that House Democrats actually support police. They are against mob violence. They believe in law and order. They believe in harsh punishment for rule breakers. They believe in accountability. They care deeply about civility. They believe words matter. They abhor intemperate rhetoric. They are against coarse language. Fancy that. They believe in a peaceful transition of power, at least this time, as opposed to 2016. They believe in the Electoral College. They believe in the legitimacy of the people’s vote. They believe in walls, at least when it comes to protecting their own place of work. They even believe in bringing in the National Guard to quell civil unrest, at least when it comes to preserving their own peace. They believe in guns, at least when their own safety is at risk. They revere American history and institutional norms. They honor the Founding Fathers. Hah! This is what we learned while watching the Democrats in the House impeach President Trump for the second pointless time in 13 months. We learned that they, almost to a man and a woman, suffer from an acute case of hypocrite-itis. Where have they been the past four years with these noble ideas that conservatives have been begging them to defend? Perhaps if Democrats had not normalized and encouraged violence when organized BLM-Antifa mobs began rampaging through our cities, the tragic events of Jan. 6 at the Capitol would not have occurred. As Republican Rep. Pat Fallon of Texas said Wednesday: “Last summer the Antifa and BLM riots swept across our country. Businesses were destroyed, cities burned. It was not like the horrible hours we had on January 6. But rather, they went on for weeks and in some cases months. “So if there’s any silver lining in this dark cloud, it’s that our friends across the aisle have come to realize that riots are bad. We conservatives have known this all along.” Perhaps if Democrats had not weaponized the intelligence agencies to spy on Trump’s campaign, perhaps if they had not used the Steele dossier to undermine the legitimacy of his presidency and accuse him of colluding with Russia to rig the 2016 election, perhaps if they had not hobbled his administration with the three-year Mueller investigation, perhaps more Trump voters would have been willing to accept the legitimacy of a Biden presidency. Perhaps if Dems had not already launched a spiteful partisan impeachment last year, their efforts to highlight the president’s shortcomings would have fallen on fewer deaf ears this time. As Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio said, it took just 19 minutes into Trump’s presidency for the Washington Post to trumpet: “Campaign to impeach President Trump has begun.” “And now with just one week left,” Jordan said Wednesday, “they’re still trying.” Perhaps if Dems had reflected on their own culpability in the attempted assassination of Republican Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana by a Bernie Sanders supporter, their sanctimonious lectures Wednesday would be more credible. “I’ve seen the evil of political violence firsthand and it needs to stop,” Scalise said Wednesday. “But all of us need to be unequivocal calling it out when we see it, not just when it comes from the other side of the aisle.” Perhaps if Joe Biden had not spent two years muscling up to Trump, with threats like “I’d smack him in the mouth” and “I’d take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him,” Biden’s pitch for civility might be more palatable. Perhaps if Democrats had not spent the last four years calling Trump a dictator, authoritarian, Nazi, Hitler, white supremacist, anti-Semite, bigot, racist, hater, dangerous, demented and insane, then the hyperbole they used against him Wednesday might have been more effective. The Aesop’s fable of “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” comes to mind. Democrats and their media handmaidens have spent four years demonizing Trump, using the most outlandish hyperbole their fevered imaginations could dream up. So when finally, at the bitter end, when he behaves in a way that angers even his most loyal supporters, there is nowhere left to go in the demonization department. Hence the absurdity of Wednesday’s rhetoric in the House, as Democrats overreached yet again, traducing the president as a “white supremacist” — or “racist in chief,” as Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan called him. Instead of impeaching the president, the House could have censured him and gathered a lot more Republican votes. His refrain since November about having won in a “landslide” was reckless and deluded but it had nothing to do with racism, and his speech at the Ellipse in DC on Jan. 6 explicitly called for the crowd to “peacefully” protest. How was he to know that the Capitol would not be adequately guarded, and the mob would so easily smash their way inside? Capitol Police had been left like lambs to the slaughter in part because the cop-hating mayor of DC, Muriel Bowser, wrote to the Department of Justice the day before the protests specifically to reject federal reinforcements. The flexible morality and selective outrage of the Democrats and their media boosters is so dishonest, it makes your head spin. Why wasn’t BLM probed like this? At a thunderous press conference Tuesday, acting US Attorney for DC Michael Sherwin said law enforcement officials are treating last week’s Capitol riot “like an international counterterrorism investigation. We’re looking at everything — money, travel records. No resource will be unchecked.” It is reportedly one of the “most expansive criminal investigations in the history of the Justice Department,” with all 56 FBI field offices involved. Great, but where was that kind of gravitas when BLM-Antifa rioters locked Seattle police in a building and tried to burn them alive? Or when police were attacked with bricks and Molotov cocktails, whole blocks were looted and set ablaze at a cost of billions of dollars, and parts of some US cities were turned into lawless autonomous zones inside which people were murdered? For months. There now are at least twice as many troops guarding the nation’s capital than the total number of troops in Afghanistan and Iraq combined. Maybe it’s not overkill, but the optics also serve the purpose of further demonizing President Trump and his supporters to a worldwide audience. That’s why Nancy Pelosi posed merrily for photos outside the Capitol in front of rows of uniforms yesterday. All class, and subtle as a sledgehammer.

RIGHT!?! Allen Robinson told Carmen & Jurko a few days ago he didn't even know who was calling the plays against New Orleans. Are you kidding me? And I did hear the clip of them giving praise for winning 3 of the last 4. Getting excited about beating 3 crap teams and getting clobbered by your rival is cause for joy in New Jersey and Jacksonville. I loved hearing a reporter drill George about having a knowledgeable football presence at the President level. The only answer George had was that he trusts Ryan and Matt to make football decisions. I'm not expecting him to throw Ted under the bus, but I hope he wasn't missing the point of the reporter that Ted's position SHOULD be making football decisions regarding Pace and Nagy.

OK, so they showed up at their jobs every day. That’s supposed to be noteworthy? Maybe they should give out perfect attendance pins like we used to get in grade school. Get back to me when you not only show up, but also actually do something noteworthy.

I'll be honest with you guys, since this Covid nonsense broke I've gone from 248 to 201 and riding a peloton 40 miles a day. Eating better and I've got more energy than when I was roaming the sidelines at Fort Wayne Wayne HS back in 97 and 98. I was told New Haven has the kids that would have gone to Harding back in the day, WOW! This job would certainly be a great job who could utilize all that speed and size in the New Haven/Harding area. Godspeed to the next Bulldog Nation leader...

I took 90 minutes of my night here and listened to these clowns today. I am trying not to be cynical and I have usually been a person on here talking about patience and taking time and so on and so forth. I have envied the Steelers organization over the many years of my fandom, because of their hard nose approach I loved in my teens from Coach Cowherd and then how they have stuck by Mike Tomlin all these years, so when McCasky today talked about how he reached out to other owners he trusted, such as Rooney, I think that is the message he got from them is to block the noise and grind through if you feel like the men in charge can still lead and have the outside some of the XOs qualities that organizations look for. I think that is where this decision came from, they got a pass, they get a pass on QB, they get a pass on Covid year, that is the message I got form the "Brass". They will either set themselves back more than years with this decision or perhaps, if they can get the QB right (which has not been done in my lifetime in land of Bears) perhaps, just maybe they can get closer to that 12-4 team than this 8-8 team. I will give it to Chicago Media, they DID NOT pull any punches today, they peppered McCasky and Phillips HARD today, some very legitimate inquires and follow ups and really put them in uncomfortable spots. I think you could tell Phillips was getting tired of the line of questions, but good, he is THE FIRST on my chopping block. I am not as bullish on PACE as I am with NAGY, however, he was given Tribuisky and he could not fix him, nor was he smart enough until he "relieved himself" from calling plays to adjust the offense to hide the amount of deficiencies #`10 has. I think Pace is batting about 500 overall in his 6 years. He was right on Leanard Floyd pick it seems, they didn't have the right scheme for him or under coached, him, but he looks every part of a top 10 pick he is, so he identified the talent by selecting him, coaching staff couldn't harvest it. He was dead on with Roquan, Mooney, Montgomery (finally it seems0 , Johnson (CB for UTAH) and some nice back up depth players as well like Villade. He was right on Cordell Patterson and Allen Robinson deals, but he is DEAD wrong on COHEN extension. List can go on IMO, but ultimately he will get judged for #10 if they cannot get that positions squared away ASAP. His job depends on it.

No rule saying yea or nay. I’m old school, the only name on the jersey is the team’s. Unless of course you’re ND, Penn State, or Alabama.

This year was tough sledding for them from the jump. Our ILB is a MAC level player, but there is so much uncertainty among so many programs about what they would have available for offers, he has not had many follow through with an offer.

Perhaps they thought they had no real representation in Washington, a sentiment I can completely see.

https://www.ihsaa.org/Portals/0/ihsaa/documents/schools/State Championship History.pdf Carmel leads the state in championships and more than doubles 2nd place North Central. Center Grove is tied for 22nd with a handful of other schools.

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!

If a spot opened up fine. But I don't want to drop Cathedral to add an out of state opponent.

Another “DT” style thread. MIC schools are satisfied. HCC schools are satisfied. CI is on their own. Nothing to see here.

https://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a35201387/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-capitol-riot-incident-instagram-video/ When pro-Trump supporters breached the Capitol a week ago, many noted that progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was unusually absent from Twitter and hadn't confirmed she was safe during the riot. She eventually would post that she was okay on social media that evening, but in a new Instagram video last night, AOC admitted the truth behind her initial absent: She wasn't safe the entire time. In fact, she was afraid she would be killed. AOC described the riots as "a pretty traumatizing event," going on to say, "I can tell you that I had a very close encounter where I thought I was going to die." Ocasio-Cortez added that she couldn't get into specifics due to security reasons. “I did not know if I was going to make it to the end of that day alive. Not just in a general sense, but in a very, very specific sense." The Congresswoman added that she did not feel safe staying with other lawmakers in the protected “extraction point" because "there were QAnon and white-supremacist sympathizers and, frankly, white-supremacist members of Congress in that extraction point who I know and who I have felt would disclose my location and would create opportunities to allow me to be hurt, kidnapped, et cetera. So I didn’t even feel safe around other members of Congress." My first thought is "Snowflake"........Now maybe she can empathize with the many people whose lives, businesses and personal properties were destroyed during the "mostly peaceful" protests that lasted all summer long.

https://mises.org/wire/there-no-such-thing-treason Nor would resistance to a regime constitute treason even if the allegedly treasonous person had voluntarily given his or her consent to the regime in the past. Only states insist they have the right to demand that one party of a contract (i.e., the taxpayer or citizen) be subject to a perpetual and unbreakable legal obligation forevermore. In the more reasonable world of peaceful, and voluntary relations (i.e., morally legitimate nonstate relations) contracts are breakable, and consent is negotiable and voidable. Moreover, Spooner notes, the regime has long since voided whatever contractual obligations might have existed due to its widespread violations of natural rights. The social contract, if it ever existed, has long since been voided by the regime's failure to keep up its end of the bargain. Thus, under these conditions, it's difficult to see how any person or group that refuses to comply with laws and edicts handed down by “constitutional” government violates any principle of patriotism, loyalty, or obligations to the state. Why the State Has Special Hatred for “Traitors” As one might expect, regimes take an especially dim view of “traitors.” This is largely because so-called traitors—whether through words or overt acts of violence—threaten the state’s monopoly powers. Murray Rothbard explains in "Anatomy of the State": What the State fears above all, of course, is any fundamental threat to its own power and its own existence. The death of a State can come about in two major ways: (a) through conquest by another State, or (b) through revolutionary overthrow by its own subjects—in short, by war or revolution. Note the inherent double standard: In the case of war, the state openly encourages its own citizens to take up arms and engage in open warfare against potential rights violations inflicted by a foreign state. "Fight for your freedom," we are told. But when it comes to rights violations committed by one's "own" state, Rothbard notes, "no 'defense' is permitted." Nor is it surprising, then, that states often pursue greater punishments against those who threaten the state than for those who threaten ordinary people: We may test the hypothesis that the State is largely interested in protecting itself rather than its subjects by asking: which category of crimes does the State pursue and punish most intensely—those against private citizens or those against itself? The gravest crimes in the State's lexicon are almost invariably not invasions of private person or property, but dangers to its own contentment, for example, treason, desertion of a soldier to the enemy, failure to register for the draft, subversion and subversive conspiracy, assassination of rulers and such economic crimes against the State as counterfeiting its money or evasion of its income tax. Or compare the degree of zeal devoted to pursuing the man who assaults a policeman, with the attention that the State pays to the assault of an ordinary citizen. So, we can conclude that the Capitol riot was not treason, and theoretically, at least, it was potentially an act of self-defense. Whether or not that is actually the case, however, is much less clear. As Spooner notes, those who take up arms against the regime under which they live are nonetheless engaging as "an open enemy," and are engaging in violent action. Just because the Capitol riot was not treason does not necessarily make it prudent, or moral, let alone legal. Perhaps the most unfortunate part of the Capitol riot is that many appeared to not intend to commit any acts that might even be interpreted as treasonous. Many rioters appeared content to simply register their dissatisfaction with the election. They roamed the building like tourists and waved flags. Many of these people will nonetheless face the full savagery of federal prosecutors for what the "perpetrators" likely thought amounted to a minor trespass. On the other hand, some rioters attacked Capitol personnel. Some others vandalized the building. Some of these people are guilty of real crimes, such as those who apparently engaged in violent confrontations with Capitol police. Their crimes may amount to assault, vandalism, and trespassing. Some may even be guilty of attempted murder. But none are guilty of the made-up, imaginary "crime" that is treason. Agreed. Treason in the American model is a myth.