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Speaking specifically on football.....It was either the spring of 2016 or 2017 (I can't remember) Coach Mike Johnson came down and did a mini clinic for our region. He had moved on to Logansport but he used clips from his athletes at Pioneer. It was excellent. He was very nice, and he answered every question with no hesitance to who might be listening. It was evident that the athletic culture at Pioneer was BOOMING. Fast forward to the fall of '17 we met Pioneer in the semi state game....One of the best teams we put on the field in our time at MC got handled. We had a definite size advantage and even took an early lead before the dam broke. To this day our staff frequently talks about HOW FREAKING HARD that team played, and still use it as a measuring stick. The WHOLE team played so dang hard and fast all night...it was overwhelming. And to top it all off, they were genuinely good kids. Kind between plays, sportsmanlike and tough between the whistles. SO, whats the point?.......Culture keeps you relevant even in years you may not be as talented. Athlete development is part of culture. Years and years of excellence and doing things the right way all ties back to culture. Add a cycle of a great athletic classes and you get what they have. Pioneer has 25 straight winning football seasons....and as long as they fight to maintain that culture, I don't think they'll really ever have a bad year.

Honestly, Dante, you ask the most unusual questions. I assume that by “corporations,” you’re talking about large business enterprises, and not simply why the legal entity, the corporation, a fictional “person,” was created. The answer is simple. The corporate form provides a convenient way to raise capital. The better you are at raising capital, the more business you can do. Sole proprietorships have inherent limitations in size and efficiency. If the corporation as an entity, or something like it, were not available, there’d be no IBM, Apple, Microsoft, GM, etc.

I’m getting tired of reading stories almost every day that make me involuntarily exclaim — in a voice that sounds remarkably like my father’s — “you have got to be kidding me!” I mean, I thought “quotas” were stupid and largely counterproductive when used in education admissions and employment. But in literature?

From your unabashed love of public sector teacher's unions and overall disdain for non-government education.

Colton Crum, a Notre Dame junior who claimed a gold medal at the 2021 ACC Indoor Championships with a pole vault of 16-9.5 feet: https://theacc.com/news/2021/2/25/indoor-track-field-virginia-tech.aspx#:~:text=Notre Dame junior Colton Crum,Virginia Tech junior Harrison Rice.

In NIC country we play freshman games on Thursday nights. I think most JV games have gone to Saturday, although I remember a time when there was a Saturday/Monday split.

https://nypost.com/2021/03/02/biden-removes-mention-of-dr-seuss-from-read-across-america-day/ President Biden apparently removed mentions of Dr. Seuss from “Read Across America Day” amid scrutiny about the alleged “racial undertones” in the whimsical tales for children. “Read Across America Day,” founded by the National Educational Association in 1998 as a way to promote children’s reading, is even celebrated on the author’s March 2 birthday. In his presidential proclamation, Biden noted that “for many Americans, the path to literacy begins with story time in their school classroom,” USA Today reported. But unlike his two predecessors, former Presidents Donald Trump and Barack Obama, Biden did not mention Dr. Seuss. The move comes as Dr. Seuss’ work has generated controversy following a study highlighting a lack of diversity among the author’s characters. “Of the 2,240 (identified) human characters, there are forty-five characters of color representing 2% of the total number of human characters,” according to a 2019 study from the Conscious Kid’s Library and the University of California that examined 50 of Dr. Seuss’ books. Last week, a Virginia school district ordered its teachers to avoid “connecting Read Across America Day with Dr. Seuss,” because of recent research that have “revealed strong racial undertones” in many of the author’s books. Really? Cancelling Dr. Suess because of diversity? I mean - the actual purpose of the day was to recognize the beloved children's author. Now he's a pariah? Gotta be Trump's fault.

And I despise people whose goal is to infringe on others’ freedom of speech and association for their own benefit... which is exactly the effect of a mandatory dues policy where some of those dues are used for lobbying, campaign contributions, etc. That’s why the SCOTUS has ruled unconstitutional state laws that require public employees to pay union dues. https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/supreme_court_rules_mandatory_union_dues_violate_free_speech_rights_of_publ

So how do you determine if a team gets bumped down due to being competitively challenged, who gets bumped up??

From the PDF: Hmm, nothing altruistic about "championing or caring about the actual education of the children they serve" in that primary mission statement. Tells me all I need to know about public sector teacher's unions, and why they should all be abolished.

Eastbrook is a county school and they have a huge following and great support!