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GID Friends and Foes (Im sure there still lingering out there) 😁 I am letting you all know like I did the others on the leadership team a few weeks back, that come August, I will be beginning a new position within Rensselaer School Corp, going into El Ed PE which was my original degree 18 years ago, so will finally enjoy getting myself back into that, but leaving behind 13 years of running our Alternative School and Credit Recovery program which allowed me to be in front of computer 8 hours a day running our lab for all of that, so being a primary member of the leadership team made sense for me at that time, but not so much anymore as I just will not have the time that this site takes during the season to moderate, et. al that goes into the day to day, week to week, etc. s I want to thank @DK_Barons and @77Jimmie for allowing me onto their team back in 2010, its been a nice little run for myself around these parts and I will be still a member and retain my moderation tools, but will only be able to get on in a very limited basis moving forward and do not want to have folks wondering why I am not getting back to them in the typical ways that you have been accustomed to. Thanks to @Irishman all these years together running the day to day it seems, appreciate your support and accessibility brotha. Like I said, I will be on here and there throughout the rest of the summer and will help when I can until August but the slow phase out of my position within the leadership team. Thanks to the many members and supporters all these years, appreciate all of you. Hope many of you continue to provide your content and commentary within the confides of what Coach TA always wanted, a positive promotion of Indiana HS Football in your schools, communities throughout the entire state of Indiana. Cheers Coach Eric Nowlin

My mom Phyllis was out of work when Xanadus shut down for the covids. I applied for free or reduced funions, nachos and wings but got denied. They said our trailer was too upscale because it’s a double wide. I gotta go

Need to post the DOC to the thread @DT Coach Adams shut down STATELINESPORTS back in the day for pimping his site on our site, LOVE the content, but just posting your Facebook without providing the content on our site will not be well received.

What is your choice for the best MIC teams of all time? Remember, the MIC started in 1996, so it has to be within the last 25 years, and the teams had to be in the MIC in the year of greatness. That means 2012 LC is out. My top 5 1) 2006 Warren Central 2) 2017 Ben Davis 3) 2018 Warren Central 4) 2001 Ben Davis 5) 2020 Center Grove

Unless you were on the IN HS FB Facebook page, you probably missed the constant reminder of the "17 D1" athletes on Merrillville's team, or how they were best in state. The real maturity came out when they were embarrassed by Westfield. I've never in my years seen a more classless fan base or a fan base that is as delusional as Merrillville's. You'd have thought they were the 10-time defending champs with the way they talked.

I'm still here, but no longer have a job that I can spend hours online debating high school sports for hours on end. I'll probably be more active as travel baseball comes to an end down in Warsaw here in a few weeks and football starts ramping back up. Our freshman class this year, Coach Epp taking over the reins, and our new facilities all give reason for excitement in Middlebury for the future of our program. I see a similar varsity year as last year but we have some good pieces that could make things interesting this year. As for the less traffic, much of it has to do with social media being the primary method of online communication and the message board model being a dieing breed. Also seeing every thread become hijacked is a turn off for many, including myself.

I’m glad to see they hired someone within the program. That’s probably best for the players.

I guess this is where I make you feel like you walk away a winner. Congrats. My point still stands. If you are over 50 percent disadvantaged, you sure as hell better be near the top of your class in terms of enrollment. Comparing teams that average 2 wins per season to make some sort of argument is not illustrating your point as well as you seem to think it is. I really should start charging for these summer school classes.

The 4th would have been the kid from Morton that transferred in. He signed with Bowling Green. Lavarion Logan would possibly give them 5. He seems like a fringe non P5 recruit this year. Maybe someone like Ball State, Northern Illinois, or Western Michigan would take a flyer on him. The Duneland should be interesting this year. We'll see if Seiss and Marshall can rebuild or take a step back now that generational talent/transfers are out the door. What can Buzea do with Crown Point in year 1? Michigan City could be in a prime spot for a 5A run. Can Good make an immediate impact at Lake Central? The DAC doesn't have a legit State Title contender, but the story lines will be really good this year.

Once again, I never claimed WeBo was “upscale”. You’re aiming for the wrong target on that one my man. When the state average is over 50 percent, I stated that any corporation that is under 25 percent would fall into my definition of the term “upscale.” Nothing has been debunked. You are playing checkers dude. I’m using data from the DOE while you are throwing blind darts. Homework was due 7 minutes ago. ZERO cases have been provided. Checkmate.

For @temptation, it's anything east of 9th St. in Pennington Gap North.

This is not the place to ask these questions. Ask a great-nephew or their children @oldunclemark

There has been a lot talk on here about what it takes to build a great program. I know ever one has their opinion this subject but one fact that most i believe will agree on is that you need a good youth program, from coaching to parents and even the high school coach and his players being around builds the future. I know most but not all that CG and Coach Moore does for and at the youth level. Here is a few things. Run the Basic Off/Def the high school does. Coach Moore has a camp he buts on with the 2 threw 6 grades, u might have seen a picture of said game on here from a different topic. Players and Coach Moore will out at the Bantam fields during the week and on Saturday when they can. The helmets look just the the varsity do white with a stipe in the middle and number on one side. One thing my kids thought was cool was there number they had where paired up with a player on varsity, like last year you had a 2 for Jackson a 91 for Curry and 30 for Steele and so on.

Thanks, everybody. Next up. I'll need to know 'What is Tik Tok?"

Zuck will lock you down anytime he wants too.

Based on what is coming back and if all stay healthy, I believe: - Ben Davis goes 6-3 or 7-2 in the regular season and wins their Sectional, possibly the Regional. Semi-State is the ceiling as CG has one more loaded team to walk the halls in Greenwood. I like them at 8-4. - Carmel I believe finishes 7-2 and wins their Sectional and Regional before bowing out to CG in the Semi-State. I believe they'll finish 10-3. - Center Grove I believe runs the table and finishes 14-0 as repeat 6A Champions. - Lawrence Central finishes at 1-9. - Lawrence North finishes at 3-6 in the regular season. - North Central finishes at 5-4 in the regular season and is a legit threat to win their Sectional. - Pike finishes 3-6 in the regular season. - Warren Central finishes 6-3 or 5-4 in the regular season. I think they get the win against BD (barely) to put them at 6-3 and I see them winning their Sectional, though NC will be a serious challenger. WC bows out in the Regional.

Yeah, if your a liberal, it's a significant development. Conservative opinions not welcome. I've read several of Ben Mezrich's books, and the movie that follows doesn't always follow script. But I will say, 'Accidental Billionaires' and 'The Social Network' are two in the same. Transformed our society for better or worse? Let's sit down for 8 hours when we both have time. I'd be more than happy to debate on behalf of the latter.

I'm old. What exactly is Facebook, everybody?

I don't know about this topic?? Just looking at our recent history: In 2017 - won the State Championship in 2A (not bad for a public school) In 2018 - were knocked out in Semi-State by PUBLIC 2A Western Boone In 2019 - thanks to success factor, moved up to 3A and were knocked out in Sectionals by PUBLIC 3A Heritage Hills ( eventual State Runner Up) In 2020 - made the 3A Southern Semi-State, and again, were knocked out by PUBLIC Danville Point being - there seems to be more public schools than Pioneer making noise in the tourney??

Simple. It doesn't fit a narrative.

Webo is so upscale that students drive tractors to school.

You're kind of all over the place here and don't make a ton of sense. Pioneer is blue collar but Western Boone is upscale?? Center Grove is affluent but Penn is not? I certainly would agree that the money in some communities provide an advantage but Western Boone is much closer to Sheridan and Pioneer in culture than they are to Chatard. Penn does not lack for resources whatsoever and nobody that lives in the South Bend area thinks of them as blue collar.

How do you explain randomness? There are endless explanations, none of which can be “proved” with any degree of certainty.

Agreed @swordfish - I definitely remember the days when you were more active! As well - yes a number of Plymouth supporters used to be on the thread and they seem to have disappeared. Same for Wawasee (ol Houndstooth Hat used to rile me up reading his posts). They usually had at least a handful of supporters that would post on a regular basis. Could also be a sign of the times that @DT likes to reference in regards to the NLC teams not being all that of a "threat" in the postseason recently. Concord hasn't been quite the threat since Coach Dawson left. I know they've won 2 sectionals under Coach Koehler... but those sectionals were argueably the weakest sectionals in the state, or at least in 5A. Plymouth has been down as well and outside of the great 2016 and 2018 seasons, NorthWood has been good, but far from the postseasons of the Dodson era. Warsaw has obviously seen some improvement with Coach Curtis, and Mishawaka definitely can help elevate the conference, but even last year with their slow start I think it kind of watered down things initially until they got rolling.

SF still swims in the depths of the GID. Mainly hanging with the other fish from the past in the OOB bantering about politics and such. The NLC thread isn't what it used to be. SF, KF, WarsawDad, Rockie, and a whole host of others whose kids have grown up had the loud mouths back in 2006 - about 2015. I still stick my head in now and then every season just to see who's around. Not the same raucous bunch though.. I even had to become friends with Coach Dawson who became one of our suppliers after coaching.....He still calls me SF and I still call him Coach.

https://thefederalist.com/2021/06/11/what-happens-when-hedge-funds-buy-up-neighborhoods/ Congress’s Profligacy Endangers Americans’ Futures This is a direct consequence of the Fed printing so much money and long encouraging debt by keeping interest rates so low for so long that investors are looking for better assets. Our government has long privileged debt over savings in large part because that makes it easier for the government to deficit spend, making debt less costly to Congress. So normal people essentially get punished for saving because Congress won’t stop spending. Since the government quietly taxes away your savings through inflation, people and institutions who want to put money away for future use, or just grow their assets, are forced into riskier and more distortive behavior. Thus mega-dollar money asset managers and private equity firms are snapping up millions of homes at inflated prices because government profligacy has made it harder for them to secure a yield. “Limited housing supply, low rates, a global reach for yield, and what we’re calling the institutionalization of real-estate investors has set the stage for another speculative investor-driven home price bubble,” the Journal quotes from a market analysis. The paper later notes the similarities to the 2008 housing market crash caused by government-forced subprime lending that “wiped out $11 trillion in U.S. household wealth and brought the global financial system to the brink of collapse.” More Renters Mean Worse Neighborhoods This government-caused financial disaster waiting to happen won’t only have financial effects. It will have social effects. One is causing fewer people to be homeowners and effectively taking away wealth from those who do manage to buy a home but at a government-bubbled price. Giant asset management firms driving up home prices forces more people to rent who would own if the prices weren’t so inflated. It also increases the ratio of renters to owners. In addition, government rules require those who own numerous properties to reserve a percentage for federally subsidized low-income renters, thereby forcibly injecting into communities people whose behavior generally is far worse than those of their neighbors, since nowadays poverty and antisocial behavior is correlated in the United States. When we moved into our first house, a new neighbor asked whether we were renters or owners. At the time, I thought it was an odd question. A decade later, it makes perfect sense. The neighbors who rent are on average worse neighbors. They tend their yards and homes much less. They make more noise. They get the police called to their homes more often, for everything from domestic violence to raucous parties to drug busts to leaving their car parked in the street in the way of everyone else. In places with higher costs of living, renters may have higher average incomes than in my city, mitigating some of these effects. But not most or even all. Even middle-class and college-educated neighbors who rent, who aren’t usually getting the police called in the middle of the night, do a poorer job with things like yard upkeep. It’s only natural. One good friend used to boast of preferring renting to owning in Chicago, in large part because every repair or upkeep issue at his place was “not my problem.” That kind of attitude may make sense to an individual, but it is selfish to neighbors, who have to look at poorly tended yards and face depreciating home values because owning cultivates qualitatively different — and far preferable — behaviors than renting. Owning makes people take responsibility and feel more investment in their community. Renters are less-invested and more easily detached. When more money and commitment are on the line, in the aggregate people will behave better. So this entire financial dynamic also ruins more people’s quality of life and degrades social standards for more people. Destroying People’s Peace Is a Legit Problem As every real estate agent knows, quality of life is crucial to the health of community life. When one guy on your street honks his horn every morning at 6 a.m. to get his carpool to come outside, it may not be criminal but it sure is a problem. When a neighbor blows up firecrackers until midnight every night for the two weeks surrounding the Fourth of July, it’s the same. The rent-subsidized house on my street is a merry-go-round of drunks, meth heads, unmarried couples who fight, and people who strew trash around the yard that blows all over the neighborhood. Because they tend to be lower-income people, or people who don’t have the self-discipline to save up a down payment, renters are far more likely to do things like this. Their open rudeness also gives people permission to indulge in more, creating a vicious social cycle. Rude neighbors shouldn’t be allowed to endlessly impose their aggravated selfishness on everyone else. Where individual landlords and local real estate companies own most rental units, there are more ways to address such situations. You can look up their name in the local property records and call to complain. You and your neighbors can quietly organize to enforce every city ordinance on a problem neighbor that ultimately results in the renter or his slumlord moving on. You can lobby your city council to apply higher standards to landlords and neighborhood nuisances so problem people are more restrained. But if a giant transnational corporation owns a house, they won’t give two hoots about their negative effects on the places they live. For them, it’s just a numbers game, and like the renters they rent to they have close to zero stakes in the communities where they’re hoovering up homes. Reinforcing Poverty Behaviors Hurts the Poor Most All this drives people rich enough to buy their way out of rented-up neighborhoods more reason to do so, further stratifying society. That’s bad for everyone. For example, it’s because I live in a neighborhood with a greater variety of incomes instead of an upper-middle-class McMansion park that I saw and then mentioned to my city councilman that some of my neighbors can’t afford to keep their sidewalks in good shape. It came up because I’m the kind of person who might go to a city council meeting — an educated white-collar professional, the demographically most likely to be civically engaged. The councilman explained to me how to help them get that fixed at a low cost, and offered to refer all sidewalk cliffs I emailed him the addresses of to our city’s maintenance department for faster fixing. Win-win: My poor neighbors get nicer sidewalks, and so do I. But if my neighborhood increases in even low-level chaos beyond what I’m willing to take, I can afford to move, and that will be one more neighborhood with fewer socially conscientious middle-class people available to address the needs of their poor neighbors. The saturation of poverty behaviors is key. People who can afford to leave will put up with an occasional rude thing going on. They will not put up with constant or increased aggravation. Therefore policy makers at all levels should be pulling every prudent and responsible lever possible to help more people invest in their neighborhoods and improve them. One such lever is responsible home ownership people can achieve on fair terms, because that requires discipline that will benefit one’s life in multiple other areas. But if it’s unachievable even with consistent hard work and the ability to delay gratification for a reasonable time, why would people put forth that effort in the first place? And when they don’t, it matters to everyone. You Will Never Own Anything, and That’s Depressing Stratification creates downward spirals both economically and culturally. Instead, our society should seek to encourage upward cycles. That’s to the benefit of everyone, instead of harming most people while benefitting a few short-term. Here’s more of that Twitter thread suggesting other potential financial effects to Americans as a whole of hedge fund-owned neighborhoods. Blackrock is well known for its use of its massive financial power to elevate leftist social causes, including, as the tweeter noted, the World Economic Forum’s “Great Reset” strategy. WEF also predicted in an infamous 2016 video, based on “input” from their Davos crowd, that by 2030 “You’ll own nothing, and you’ll be happy.” But when people “own nothing,” they are not happy. Refusing to take ownership is a refusal to take responsibility. In the beginning, that may seem carefree and glamorous, but in the long run, a refusal to take responsibility — whether that be refusing to commit to marriage, children, faith, a community, or to all of the above — actually makes people deeply unhappy. In responsibility is where people find happiness. Our government should stop making financial decisions that steal from all of us the ability to take responsibility for our own families, homes, and happiness. And, regardless of what our corrupt and feckless governments do, each of us must continue to pursue ownership of our own lives through every avenue possible. So if you can’t buy a home in one city, move to a cheaper one. If you can’t buy it now or want to pay as little of that inflation tax as possible, stuff your cash somewhere for now, wait for the market collapse, and buy then. Yet another housing bubble causing by government policies. Will it ever end? A young couple I know has taken the exact same stance as the last sentence in the article. They have given up on purchasing their first home for now and will patiently wait for the bubble to burst.

Please elaborate. That is one way to look at it, but without all the complications from traditional government and private insurance companies.