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You hitting the early bird drink specials at Caesar's Palace already? 😉

Quite the scientific study there..... License Plates in parking lot

I'm not much of a basketball fan, but I have noticed our basketball team is a lot better when it is full of football players....

I thought progress was electricity, school consolidation, church remodeling, second farm tractors....

I think it could lead to a lot of problems in women's sports. To me this takes Title IX and just spits in the face of all those who worked hard to get equal footing for women's sports. In a hypothetical what stops Danny from becoming Danielle if they don't make the boys teams? Also would it be discrimination to cut a transgender athlete? It is a really slippery slope.

That was no “punt.” The problem is with your question, not his answer. Because your questions: “Wouldn’t you want the best ....” starts from a false premise: that it is possible to determine with confidence who is the “best” at anything, when the evaluation process includes significant subjective elements. Yes, we all want the best doctor, teacher, mechanic, etc. But it is not possible to say with confidence who is the “best” at any of those things. So it it with officiating. The process @JustRulesdescribed is more in the nature of “stratiification” of crews, as opposed to ranking them. Visualize it this way. Crews are placed in 1 of 5 groups, based on the evaluation process (whatever that is): Level 1 — Not qualified to work in the tournament Level 2 — Qualified to work in the Sectional Level 3 — Qualified to work to the Regional Level 4 — Qualified to work to the Semistate Level 5 — Qualified to work the the State Finals Once crews are evaluated and placed at their appropriate level, other factors can be used to determine assignments at that level. But this sort of process does away with the nonsensical notion that a crew with a 4.87 rating score is somehow “better” than a crew with a 4.85 score. This is, in essence, the process @JustRuleswas describing.

That’s not entirely true. He led the league in interceptions ... three times.

Our society is standing Darwinism on its head. This person should not have survived long enough to pass along any of those traits.

I agree with you that Lafayette/West Lafayette isn’t big enough to have different types of athletes across different parts of the cities. Though i do find it interesting that West Side has had great success and undoubtedly fielded the best team out of any of the schools during certain years despite the population discrepancy and not ideal demographics for a football team. But I truly believe Jeff has had/will continue to have better athletes due to a combination of the demographics and the fact that Harrison has a really good soccer program that steals some athletes away. Soccer and Wrestling are right up there with football as far as how big a deal they are to the school. And dating back at least a decade, Jeff has dominated the area in sprint events in track and field within the area. Harrison, West Side and Mcc all have have found more success in distance events.

I call 'em like I see 'em Danny boy. The best is yet to come.

Center Grove, Westfield, Arsenal Tech, and Crispus Attucks, for starters, say that those numbers don't matter as much as you are implying that they do. I think it's way too simplistic to state that a team has "better athletes" just because of the racial make-up of their team. Is there a higher representation of Blacks in football in Indiana compared to the general population? Sure. Does that mean that they are better athletes than Whites? I wouldn't make that conjecture as a sweeping statement. The numbers don't always tell the context and correlation, even though I'm not seeing it in this case for the general case, doesn't equate to causation.

I think you are attributing 1) way too much success due to racial make-up and 2) way too much reliance on 15% of a team to "make-up" for the "watering down" of rest of the team.

Hey. Leave me out of it. 😉 #TrustTheScienceRemember #ButOnlyWhenItFitsYourNarrative

Cancel culture hasn't gotten ahold of that I see.

The new requirement (2-17-2c) is that the block must be an immediate, initial action following the snap. Under the current rule, an offensive lineman can delay and then block below the waist if the ball is still in the zone. So, the short answer to question #1 is yes. As to #2, we have not yet received any official guidance as to the interpretation of the rule. If I had to guess, the answer would be that stance is not going to be a factor that is considered. Focus is on the immediacy of the block. I say that because the reason for the “immediate” exception to the general rule prohibiting low blocking is that the rules committee feels that if the block is immediately at the snap, the forces generated by the players at that point are sufficiently low that the risk of serious injury is minimized. If that’s the case, I see no reason why stance would be considered.

I think you are confusing CG running backs wearing the #30. Titus McCoy is in the transfer portal and has yet to select a new school. Steele signed with Ball State. I didn't think we were going to get that picky. I thought "committed" was sufficient for discussion here.

Pearls before swine.😂

Just listen. LOL 🙂 I have no idea why the video is edited. I know of at least 1 other The Office fan here...... @Coach Nowlin

At Times, Don McNeil Scandal Deepens: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/at-times-don-mcneil-scandal-deepens/ So these were rich liberal white kids. An older white man questioned their woke assumptions about “cultural appropriation,” and that hurt their feelings. The older white man supposedly said that high incarceration rates among black Americans might be a result of high black crime rates, and not racism. Hey maybe he’s wrong about that, but that’s a debatable proposition — though not to these rich white progressive snowflakes, who were “triggered.” I would very much doubt that a New York Times reporter would deny that white supremacy exists, but I would imagine such a figure saying that it is not as ubiquitous as these teenagers think it is. Over nit-picky crap like this, the Times cashiered an irreplaceable resource of science reporting expertise. That newspaper doesn’t want to be a newspaper anymore; it wants to be a day-care center to coddle woke crybabies. Aaron Sibarium of the Washington Free Beacon peeked in on a private Times employee Facebook group, and reports on infighting there: “Harmed.” When Sibarium reached out to Nikole Hannah-Jones for comment, she doxxed him by releasing his phone number onto Twitter, in violation of Twitter’s policy. But we know that nobody will ever hold Hannah-Jones responsible for her actions. She’s untouchable. After all, she runs The New York Times, and tells Dean Baquet and A.G. Sulzberger what to do — including, it appears, to fire an old white man after 45 years of service to the Times, and who happens to be one of the most valuable science reporters in the nation, for spurious ideological reasons. What does this say about the Times‘s commitment to serious journalism? To providing its readers with the best possible coverage on urgently important news (McNeil was the lead Covid-19 reporter)? It is clearly more important to the Times leadership mollify the zealously woke screaming meemies in the newsroom than it is to serve the readers who pay the salaries of the whole lot. What is it going to take for sane, serious people to regain control of The New York Times?

Yet, can you say it is better than Lurie or Comer in Chicago?

It's been like that for a long time, Bob. Tbh, I keep my hair the same length as my beard anymore.

I will admit (as a man who uses various hair products daily to keep his hair in place) that having a product that keeps your hair in place for A MONTH or more may have it's upside.......🤣

Ah, you punted. We are talking about the best officials in the STATE yet now you wanna talk about national/worldwide. Simply put, as a parent you want your child to attend the best school in your area, with the best teachers. You want the best doctor, mechanic, financial advisor, (insert any other profession here) in your area or availability. Could you imagine this one: "Sir, we have the most qualified doctor in the area in our hospital, but he/she will be in the operating room next door. I hope you understand, but this doctor will do just fine."

The name and 2 rings.

If I remember correctly, I think so. Or atleast New Castle felt that way. I'm pretty sure it was split and a couple of the schools really fought to keep New Castle, but weren't able to. As a Marion fan, I definitely miss New Castle more basketball wise than football wise(although they've had some decent teams down there lately). As for football and the conference, ugh. It needs something for sure. Its clearly Jeff, a decent sized gap, then Harrison. The Giants have been good, but they aren't as good as Jeff and beating up on everyone else doesn't help when you play teams like Hobart in the tournament.

Not until the day that Mr. Trump leaves this world, I'm afraid. There is too much money to be made by the MSM, and too much time and money for the U.S Congress to waste on such a boondoggle.

I think if Jeff, Harrison and Mcc are not able to join a more premier, already structured conference, which is already pretty unlikely, the ideal conference setup would be: Jeff, Harrison, Mccutcheon, West Lafayette, Kokomo, Lebanon, Western and Logansport. I would bet Kokomo becomes a solid team within a couple of years, they are only a few years removed from a 5a state title game appearance. Western has been fairly solid for a while now and Lebanon has been at least somewhat decent recently. Not exactly a power conference, but it would give each schools 2 out of conference games and the Lafayette trio gets to dump cupcake games against Anderson, Muncie Central and Richmond. Travel would also be slightly better. Heck Logansport even won their sectional this year, they seem to be trending upwards as well

I admit to being a “die hard old timer” but the days when Bobby Knight might show up at an Indiana HS gym and the surrounding communities talk about it for generations are long, long gone......and never coming back. The magic is gone. I hate to break the, now decades old, news but HS basketball and IU basketball are empty husks of what they were. The last time I went to a HS game those in attendance were parents, a handful of students and a bunch of football players who had earlier been lifting down in the weight room.

Indeed, a challenge. But that’s not a reason to shy away. How about in a slightly different context? You’re an official. Would you support a policy that dictated every year the 6 best crews in the state worked the finals, without taking into account any other factors?

Then why post it like that? How about assuming the good in people and giving them a shot to answer your question instead of assuming they are bad and will derail the topic? Man, some people in 2020/21...

Beech Grove is getting some major updates to their facility. That made that job more attractive, I'm sure. Not meaning disrespect here, but there's not much of a path forward at Southport in 6A, IMO.

I'm wondering is there are any female high school coaching or any female high school officials in Indiana. I don't know of any so please let's give them some recognition