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Yay for cancel culture! I sure hope that everyone can recover from the suffering/traumatic experience of their former nickname.

I was thinking Cardinals woulda been cool, since Roncalli was a Cardinal.

Ughh

If you’ve read articles about this, you’d know there’s been people who’ve called for the name to be changed since the 80s, when the associations with the Confederacy really started. The name was originally supposed to honor Roncalli, who was a ‘rebel’ in the church. No one would care if that’s what the name still represented. But over the years, it seems the nickname became more and more associated with the other rebels, with confederate flags in the yearbook and a confederate soldier mascot (which were rightfully banned in the 90s). The problem is, right or not, people still associate “rebels” with the confederacy. I know you’ve said before you work with kids, go ask any black kid you work with how the confederacy and confederate paraphernalia make them feel (even though in your first comment you seemed to make fun of this).

Quit saying intelligent things, it will make the dummies heads explode.

The Chicago Cubs disagree. One of the cleanest looks in sports.

in all seriousness, I think if that was the way Roncalli wanted to move, so be it, to each their own, but I really do like the nickname Royals, so the students did well there

I could have seen Rams because that was Chartrand's nickname I do believe prior to the merger with Sacred Heart to form Roncalli. The only reason I was leaning towards Ravens was because HSE is already Royals. I like this one better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBmCJEehYtU

new school song??/

A lot of jerseys the Ducks wear look like they were washed in anti-freeze.

This. Is. Awesome. I’m gonna look it up and see if Shemp was there too.

The Three Stooges with The University Of Arizona and Grambling State marching bands.

wellllllll, that was fun reading. I think this topic has run its course....If anyone wants to start one without all the back and forth stuff, go ahead. Enjoy your weekend gentlemen.

BWAHAHAHAAH.

You’re the one throwing the fit over a name change that a school did voluntarily.

LOL @ freely. Simply staying ahead of the storm. Control the story before you BECOME the story. Like many of other happenings today, simply giving the impression you are “taking a stance” by doing something like this keeps the mob off of your back.

How is it cancel culture if the school freely chose to change the nickname?

Redbirds?

Well done Irish. LET'S GO BULLDOGS!

I have got to think in the NFL (any pro teams w the amount of divas that are involved in all of them), huge success comes w/ how they manage people. Like Phil Jackson. His assistants were awesome and loyal, and he knew exactly how to push everyone's buttons.

Oh. My. Goodness. I was joking. I thought you meant Coach Khaki. Completely forgot about Coach Walsh.

The fact is, coaches who go straight from college to head coach in the NFL fail at about the same rate as NFL assistants who are promoted to head coach. The reality is that there are a lot more Rich Kotites than there are Don Shulas.

Agreed! X's 100

Read In the Chicago tribune one of the top candidates for bears d coordinator is James Bettcher from laville high school started coaching at at Francis in fw.

"They might pursue him, but I can't imagine Mike coming back into the MIC. Not at this stage of his career. Been there, done that, has the t-shirt." You also couldn't "imagine" Kirschner going to Warren a few weeks back and that happened in your own backyard. Maybe you aren't as plugged in to "the rumblings" as you think?

201 February 15, 2014 West Lafayette, IN Purdue 82–64 202 January 28, 2015 West Lafayette, IN Purdue 83–67 203 February 19, 2015 Bloomington, IN Purdue 67–63 204 February 20, 2016 Bloomington, IN #22 Indiana 77–73 205 February 9, 2017 Bloomington, IN #16 Purdue 69–64 206 February 28, 2017 West Lafayette, IN #16 Purdue 86–75 207 January 28, 2018 Bloomington, IN #3 Purdue 74–67 208 January 19, 2019 West Lafayette, IN Purdue 70–55 209 February 19, 2019 Bloomington, IN #15 Purdue 48–46 210 February 8, 2020 Bloomington, IN Purdue 74–62 211 February 27, 2020 West Lafayette, IN Purdue 57–49 212 January 14, 2021 Bloomington, IN Purdue 81–69

Chances the teams get a normal summer AND the crowd limits are gone for games? If I had to guess, summer will be close to normal. Possibly no more practice limitations, some scrimmages and 7 on 7s will be allowed, but some of the bigger events like team camps and 7 on 7 tourneys may not happen. As far as crowds? I would guess in the SIAC there will still be a crowd limit. If so, hopefully it's at least 750-1000 per school. But man, I really want to see packed stadiums again on Friday nights.

From what I hear it won the student vote by a large margin.

Snowflakes....

The man has had not one but two brain surgeries in his lifetime. Long term complications/issues from these procedures could easily be used an excuse for Mr. Biden to resign.

That’s besides the point. The East and North game is already on the schedule. Moving it will affect other teams. They’re happy with it being a week 2 game. East will have to find someone. If not then I guess they’ll just have to take a bye. Wouldn’t be cool but it won’t be the end of the world. Looks like South Bend Clay has week 7 open. Not ideal by any means but East might have to take it if nothing else becomes available. If Pickerington Central and Elkhart travelled 3+ hours to our place the last two years then we probably need to do something similar for someone else if need be.

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

With 100% certainty, it was NOT age discrimination. It is sad to see that it was implied.

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.

The mascot is a bit much but I “rebel” every time I break the speed limit. You’re overthinking this one dude. Really.

Can all the Snowflakes sleep well tonight now??

So hearing the stories (on the news and coming from the FBI) of all of the protests "planned" at State capitals and DC this weekend, SF is thinking he must not be "far right" or "extreme" enough to have gotten one of the alleged notifications calling for the feared uprising. SF is wondering if this is a trap not actually organized by conservatives. https://indyweek.com/news/wake/armed-march-raleigh-state-capitol-january-17/ When it permanently suspended the president from its platform on Friday, Twitter cited a threat for potential violence this weekend: a call for armed marches on state capitols nationwide. But it's unclear if any such rally—called for at noon on January 17 on online messaging boards popular with extremists—will materialize in Raleigh. https://6abc.com/fbi-armed-protest-president-donald-trump-capitol-raid/9624912/ TRENTON, New Jersey (WPVI) -- New Jersey is asking for the public's help to report suspicious activity ahead of Inauguration Day, this as the FBI is expanding on the threats to Washington DC and state capitals in the coming days. https://www.capradio.org/articles/2021/01/12/fbi-warns-of-armed-protests-at-all-50-state-capitols-in-coming-days/ Simon Clark, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress said that unless strong legal action is taken against the people involved in last week’s insurrection — such as arrests and jail time — protests will continue that mirror the actions taken at the nation’s Capitol last Wednesday. “Unless there are severe criminal consequences for everybody involved, this will become a pattern, and we’ll see this again and again,” he said. “It’s all part of a single anti-democratic movement which is becoming increasingly violent and increasingly radicalized.” https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/fbi-warns-armed-protests-being-planned-at-all-50-state-capitols-washington-dc-101610434109081.html Posts on pro-Trump and far-right online networks have called for protest action on a number of dates.