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You need to speak with @Tanka Jahari He is the Grid Expert when it comes to these things.

Offered by Ohio State yesterday. The 2022 Class in Indiana is DEEP.

I know this is a football forum - but just wanted to give a shout-out to the Southridge senior class on their 3rd straight (COVID knocked out what could have been a 4 for 4 peat for them) baseball sectional, this one in 3A after being bumped up. This senior class, in their time in the hallways, has brought an incredible 8 sectional championships in a possible 11 tries in the "big 3" sports. (Football, basketball, and baseball). Dating back to their freshman years, they have went 3 for 4 in football sectionals (2017, 2018, and 2020) 2 for 4 in basketball sectionals (2017 & 2021) 3 for 3 in baseball (2018, 2019, & 2021) Obviously an accomplishment like this doesn't come from just them, as they were surrounded by awesome classes in their own right - but still- a run like that I may never see again in my coaching career. Kuddos to them.

In 2005 South Side fell to the eventual state champions by 2 points at semi-state. I believe the archers can reach that level of success again. They were 11-3 that year with their other losses coming at the hands of Snider in a close game and Dwenger. The season before that they were a touchdown away from reaching semi-state. They clearly bought into Matt Land's system before he defected to Tri State to take on the head coaching position there (if my memory serves me correctly). Sensing an opportunity, Mike Cheviron left Carroll to pick up where Land left off, leading the Archers to 27 victories over the next 4 years.

That’s a pretty impactful story - if true. I wonder why it hasn’t been picked up by any news outlet? I need more than a vague bit of information about a Facebook post before I will speculate.

I purposely didn’t include any individuals in my post (obviously there has been OUTSTANDING athletes to make 8 of 11 happen- but also takes a lot more than that) - nor do I like “labeling” a school - just wanted to give public props for quite an accomplishment.

Got it NLCTigerFan07. I became friends with the Elvis impersonator who was also a father to a couple of great Warsaw football players. LOL. Good times.

Most of what affects officials between the start and end of the game are the rules and those are mostly dictated by the NFHS and not IHSAA. A couple areas where the IHSAA can differ is the mercy rule and OT rules. Those are largely left up to the states to implement. I like the mercy rule the IHSAA put in a couple years ago. It seems to be working fine. OT doesn't happen often and in general the version the IHSAA uses seems to be fine. They use the recommended NFHS procedures outlined in the rule book. Some states start at the 25 rather than the 10. One thing I would like to see are more standard philosophies stated by the IHSAA. There are many gray areas in the rules that can be standardized more by the IHSAA. For example, intentional grounding. The rule clearly states that if a passer is intentionally throwing the pass incomplete it's a foul. Throwing the ball at the feet of the running back is obviously done to save time or yardage or both. But most referees won't flag that. Same with throwing the ball well out of bounds 10 feet of the head of an eligible receiver. That is less consistent. Some pass on it because it was in the direction of a receiver. Some flag it because it landed on the track. What philosophy does the IHSAA want us to follow? They should provide that and then evaluate crews based on how they follow it (per bobref's comments above). That kind of inconsistency drives coaches nuts when it's easy to provide an interpretation or philosophy. The IHSAA just says "what does the rule book say?" I understand the IHSAA (through the observer program) is working on some standard mechanics and philosophies. I hope this helps. The IFOA has attempted to do this, but they have no authority over the crews and only 10-15% of the licensed officials attend their clinic every year. Many of the very good crews in the state through apply what they've learned from the IFOA. One thing I think the schools could provide is better security for the officials going to and from the locker room during the game. Many provide someone to walk with the crew so there is at least a presence. Often times though we are walking through crowds on our own. I love the schools where the locker room is under the bleachers or an end zone building where fans are not allowed. I've never been really threatened by a fan walking through the crowd, but you never know. It only takes one crazy fan.

https://nypost.com/2021/05/31/hunter-bidens-laptop-keeps-damning-joe-but-most-media-just-ignore-it/ Hunter Biden’s laptop continues to yield damning information that shows his dad, President Joe Biden, played a significant and knowing role in his son’s sleazy influence-peddling. And while the media efforts to pretend these revelations are nothing but “Russian disinformation” have ceased, The Post’s scoops still get ignored by outlets that would be all over them if they were about the Trump family. The latest, of course, is the photographic evidence that then-Veep Joe attended an April 16, 2015, dinner with shady Ukrainian, Russian and Kazakh “businessmen” and even posed for photos with the unseemly guests. To put some face-saving cover on the event in the private “Garden Room” at Café Milano, a posh Georgetown eatery (“Where the world’s most powerful people go,” run its promos), Hunter billed it as “ostensibly to discuss food security,” as he emailed one guest, and invited several officials from the World Food Program. But the beards were outnumbered by the likes of corrupt former Moscow mayor Yury Luzhkov (hubby of Russian billionaire Yelena Baturina, who’d paid one of Hunter’s firms $3.5 million the year before), Kazakh oligarch Kenes Rakishev, Karim Massimov, a former prime minister of Kazakhstan, and Vadym Pozharskyi, an executive of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma. The photo of the then-veep and Hunter smiling with the two Kazakhs, clearly shot at Café Milano, isn’t the only proof Joe actually attended the dinner: Pozharskyi emailed Hunter the next day, “Dear Hunter, thank you for inviting me to DC and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spent [sic] some time together. … It’s realty [sic] an honor and pleasure.” So much for any claim that Joe never met with Burisma officials even as he was Team Obama’s point man on Ukraine, a role he used to demand the ouster of a prosecutor who was looking into the firm. Burisma was then paying Hunter (who had zero energy expertise) $83,333 a month to sit on its board. Another email from the laptop reveals that Burisma cut Hunter’s pay in half in March 2017 — right after Joe became a private citizen, another clear sign of what actually qualified the Biden scion for such vast payouts. Face time with a vice president, and the ability to brag about what you talked about over dinner, is worth a lot to global sleazoids. So are smiling photos that imply a relationship and pull at the highest reaches of US government. Another sign of Joe’s collusion in Hunter’s unseemly work: The then-veep hired an aide away from one of his son’s firms in 2014, and she then proceeded to keep her old bosses informed on visiting dignitaries and official events that might interest them. Oh, and the Bidens have never themselves denied the laptop was Hunter’s before he abandoned it, nor denied the accuracy of its contents. The president and his camp have simply offered vague assurances that Joe Biden himself never did anything wrong. Without doubt, if Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner or so on had been caught playing such games, it’d get nonstop coverage on MSNBC, and the Washington Post and the New York Times would have full investigative teams following up for months. Hunter’s merchandizing of his last name wasn’t even anything new: The Biden family has been trading on Joe Biden’s high offices for decades, making millions off their presumed influence and access. Yet somehow news about it all is never “fit to print,” even though “democracy dies in darkness.” Yeahbut - There's nothing wrong here.......They aren't the Trumps.....