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Old Uncle Mark, Whatever our disagreement, I actually think you would be a fan of Chatard if you ever watched them. I'm not a Catholic but my wife and kids are and I adore the school.. I've often regretted not having attended there and felt some jealousy of my kids (even after writing the tuition check). These kids are quite often undersized but are fearless and will never back down. They will claw and scrape to the end...win or lose....most often winning. That ethos served my oldest well in college ball and, now, as an executive. I was fortunate enough to stumble into an athletic scholarship during college but my oldest son in 8th grade was a better football player than I ever was in HS because of CYO. In HS, he became even better.. Again, I think you would be a fan of our kids if you ever watched them Thank you. Bryan Miller

Sadly and somewhat remarkably, this is not the first time this has been done by the same cast of characters. https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/highschool/2021/09/02/bishop-sycamore-football-another-suspicious-high-school-christians-of-faith/5670371001/ The craziest part of the Bishop Sycamore story isn't that a possibly fictitious school sprouted up in Columbus, Ohio, and started scheduling football games against a string of powerhouse programs around the country. It's that this had already been done before – and by many of the same people. Just three years ago, a school called Christians of Faith (COF) Academy was created in Columbus under dubious circumstances, with a football team serving as its lone public face. The school did not appear to have a legitimate physical address. It's unclear what schooling actually took place. And it was run by a similar cast of characters who have been involved with Bishop Sycamore – including Roy Johnson, who went on to become the head football coach at the current school before he was fired earlier this week. "It is using the exact same methods, the exact same schemes with the exact same people," said Ben Ferree, who investigated COF Academy during his previous job as the assistant director of officiating and sport management at the Ohio High School Athletic Association. "In some of Bishop Sycamore's early games in 2019, the first season that they played, they wore COF Academy's uniforms. So yeah, it is the exact same scam. They simply changed the name." Bishop Sycamore is facing scrutiny this week after its nationally televised football game against IMG Academy on Sunday. Bishop Sycamore's 58-0 loss, which was later revealed to be its second game in three days, left ESPN's commentators questioning if they'd been deceived by the school and expressing concern for the safety of its players. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has since pledged an investigation into Bishop Sycamore, to ensure it is meeting minimum educational requirements and complying with state law. Yet as Bishop Sycamore has started to unravel on a national stage, its ties to COF Academy have been somewhat overlooked. Years before Bishop Sycamore had the spotlight, the Ohio Department of Education shut down COF Academy after making an unannounced visit to its listed address and finding that it "was not open for instruction and had no pupils in attendance." Of the eight listed members of Bishop Sycamore's "staff and advisory board," five were also listed as staff members at COF Academy, according to annual reports filed with the Ohio Department of Education. 'AS FAR AS I KNOW, NONE OF THE KIDS DID ANY SCHOOL:' Questions mount over legitimacy of Bishop Sycamore BISHOP SYCAMORE DIRECTOR ON ESPN GAME: Football program is not a 'scam' Andre Peterson, who is Bishop Sycamore's founder and director, was not involved in running COF Academy, but his son played football for the school. He denies that Bishop Sycamore is anything other than a legitimate school. Meanwhile, COF Academy's leaders – Johnson and business partner Jay Richardson – have since faced a string of lawsuits alleging hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid loans and bills, according to court records obtained by USA TODAY Sports. Richardson, who does not appear to be involved with Bishop Sycamore, did not respond to multiple messages from USA TODAY Sports on Wednesday. Johnson replied to an emailed list of questions by claiming, "I spoke to USA TODAY already." He did not respond to a follow-up email. Lawsuit leads to money owed Johnson initially described COF Academy to local media outlets as an online Christian school that was being bankrolled by the Richard Allen Group, which he said was the financial arm of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. In a 2018 article published by ThisWeek Community News, which is part of the USA TODAY Network, Johnson said COF Academy had hired about 50 teachers and would enroll about 500 students that fall. The school did not have a functioning website, clear academic infrastructure or school building at the time. And it listed its address as the headquarters of the AME Church Third District, though Johnson talked repeatedly of plans to build a large campus in Columbus, with construction funded by the church. "This is a passion project," he told ThisWeek in August 2018. "For the AME church, this wasn’t a make-money project." It didn't take long for it to fall apart. In September 2018, ThisWeek reported that the AME Church Third District had posted a statement on its website denying any affiliation with COF Academy or the Richard Allen Group. It turns out the Richard Allen Group, which Johnson had described as the church's financial arm, is actually an LLC formed in 2014 by Johnson and Richardson, a former NFL linebacker who played collegiately at Ohio State. Several months later, in November 2018, First Merchants Bank filed a lawsuit against both the Richard Allen Group and its co-founders after they took out a $100,000 loan on behalf of the AME Church to fund the COF Academy, then failed to repay it. According to records filed as part of the lawsuit, Johnson and Richardson represented themselves on loan application forms as the secretary and president of the AME Church, respectively. Johnson later admitted in a deposition that proceeds from the loan were distributed to a bank account held by Mjolnir Development, a fictitious trade name registered by the Richard Allen Group. He also acknowledged that there is no legal document that identifies the group as the financial arm of the church, though he and Richardson both claimed that the two entities had a relationship, according to filings in the civil case. Rev. Taylor Thompson, who is identified in the filings as the AME Church's treasurer, said in a deposition that the church never saw any of the money. "We have no affiliation with (the Richard Allen Group) on a legal, contractual or even an agreement basis," Arthur Harmon, an attorney for the church, added Wednesday. "All the things they did should have no reflection on the AME Church Third District." A judge granted the bank's motion for summary judgment in the case last week, ruling that Johnson and Richardson had engaged in "fraudulent misrepresentation," in part because they did not have attorneys and failed to respond to the bank's claims. A hearing has been scheduled for Nov. 18 to determine how much money Johnson and Richardson will now owe, including interest and legal fees. A Range Rover and unpaid hotel rooms That lawsuit is one of at least three involving Johnson, Richardson and/or the Richard Allen Group that alleges an unpaid loan or bill during the COF Academy's brief existence. In a second lawsuit, filed in August 2018, Heartland Bank sued the Richard Allen Group after it took out a loan of roughly $92,000 to purchase a 2017 Range Rover and failed to pay back the money. The group admitted to the allegation, and the car was seized and resold a few months later. It is unclear how much money Johnson and Richardson still owe the bank, if any. The third lawsuit, filed in May 2019, alleged that Johnson and COF Academy had an outstanding balance of $110,685 at a Baymont Inn & Suites, where they rented rooms for three months. The lawsuit was dropped after the hotel's lawyer struggled to serve Johnson with the complaint and failed to apprise the court of his efforts to do so. The hotel's lawyer did not respond to an email from USA TODAY Sports inquiring whether the balance was ever repaid. Records in all three lawsuits show the plaintiffs repeatedly struggled to locate or contact Johnson to notify him of the litigation, prolonging the various proceedings. Separately, Johnson told ThisWeek in 2019 that he was the subject of a U.S. Secret Service investigation pertaining to COF Academy. He said he had been informed that the investigation was closed. "Because we didn't do anything wrong," Johnson said at the time. "Specifically, myself, I didn't fraud the church. I didn't fraud these kids. I didn't fraud anybody like that. That's what the federal investigators were looking at, and that's what they found." When asked about Johnson's claims, a spokesperson for the Secret Service – which is tasked with investigating potential financial crimes in addition to protecting the president – told USA TODAY Sports in an email Wednesday that it "does not confirm the existence or absence of a potentially ongoing investigation." 'Didn't pass the smell test' Peterson told USA TODAY Sports this week that his school is a new entity, separate from the COF Academy. "COF closed down, and then I started Bishop Sycamore in 2019," he said. Corporate records in Ohio confirm that the "Bishop Sycamore Foundation" was registered as a nonprofit in August 2019. But Peterson had also started talking publicly about the new school before the proverbial dust had even settled on the old one. "I liked the concept of what Roy was trying to do," Peterson told ThisWeek in early 2019. "Me and some of the other parents and some of the people that were involved decided to continue that." Johnson told the outlet at the time that he helped Bishop Sycamore set up its website but "his attorneys have told him he 'can't really be involved' " with the new school. In its early days, Bishop Sycamore tried to associate itself with a legitimate school in Columbus called YouthBuild. But YouthBuild backed out of a potential partnership before it was finalized, according to The Washington Post, and later sent a cease-and-desist letter to Bishop Sycamore when the school continued to publicly tout a relationship with YouthBuild. The website for YouthBuild Columbus now features a prominent disclaimer at the top of its home page: "YBCCS IS IN NO WAY AFFILIATED WITH BISHOP SYCAMORE." Like COF Academy before it, Bishop Sycamore has been accused of fielding players who are older than 18 or have used up their allotted four years of eligibility. At least twoschools cited these reasons when canceling games against Bishop Sycamore in 2019. Others declined to play them at all. "When they were Christians of Faith, they wanted to play us, but we didn’t schedule them because of all the nuances and all the mystery behind the place," said Tom Lombardo, the football coach at St. Edward (Lakewood, Ohio) High School. "We always knew that there was something that didn’t quite pass the eye and smell test, but none of what they said has turned out to be true." Peterson denied claims that players on the current team are over age. He said some of them are juniors and seniors who have reclassified, the practice of staying back or jumping up a school year for the purpose of athletics. "It’s always been done, but just not on the scale to where people really cared or noticed," he said. 'Doing the same thing' On multiple occasions in the course of a 45-minute interview this week, Peterson told USA TODAY Sports that Bishop Sycamore has existed for four years, only to later say it was actually founded in 2019. He said he has poured "thousands of dollars" of his own money into the school, and denies that it is a scam. "If this is a fraud, then I’m the dumbest fraudster ever," he said. "I put money in this. I don’t get money out of it and it was never designed to do that for me. It was always designed to be able to try to help these kids." Few details exist about Bishop Sycamore, either in the most recent annual report it filed with the state of Ohio or its website, in which the "About Us" and "Staff" sections were blank before the entire site was taken down. Peterson said tuition at the school costs $2,000 and that the plan prior to the COVID-19 pandemic was to use a "blended learning" environment, where schooling predominantly takes place online as "one of the ways to streamline the cost of what we do." He said there are no full-time teachers, but coaches and other adults hang around the students to make sure work gets done. He also said the student body consists of between 75 and 80 students, about 95% of whom play sports. In its most recent annual report filed with the state, for the 2020-21 academic year, Bishop Sycamore reported a total enrollment of three. It has until Sept. 30 to file its annual report for 2021-22. "They are doing the same thing that they did (at) COF," former COF Academy player Ar'mon Mackey wrote in a Twitter direct message to USA TODAY Sports on Tuesday. "They lied to me and screwed me over. When I (saw) the Bishop Sycamore stuff, I was telling players that it’s not legit, but they didn’t listen to me." What's next? The future of Bishop Sycamore – and its one-time head coach – is now unclear. Johnson has an active warrant out for his arrest stemming from a 2020 domestic violence incident, Delaware County (Ohio) Sherriff's Office director of public relations Tracy Whited confirmed to USA TODAY Sports on Wednesday. According to court records, Johnson's girlfriend told police that he pushed her and hit her in the lip. Johnson denied touching her but spent three days in jail. USA TODAY Sports does not name victims of domestic assault without their permission. Johnson later pleaded guilty to a lesser charge, criminal mischief, and was placed on probation. A warrant was issued for his arrest on July 2 after he failed to meet some of the conditions of his probation, according to court records. As for Bishop Sycamore, at least four schools had pulled out of their scheduled games against the school as of Tuesday evening, some citing concerns over liability or safety. And the department of education investigation that Gov. DeWine announced Tuesday is likely to uncover more details about the nature of Bishop Sycamore's educational offerings. The Canton Police Department also said Wednesday it had received a report of two invalid checks totaling $3,596 at a hotel where the team rented 25 rooms last week. It has identified two suspects in the case, according to The Canton Repository. "You hear their story, you go, ‘OK, all right, it sounds like you want to do good,' " said Ray Holtzclaw, whose son, Judah, briefly played for Bishop Sycamore. "Then the example they set for the kids is, ‘OK, we’re not going to pay our bill. We’re just going to walk away and get somewhere else.’ You can’t keep doing that with kids that are watching you." Holtzclaw said he was left on the hook for a four-figure hotel bill earlier this year, which Bishop Sycamore promised to reimburse and never did. Meanwhile, in March, a new lawsuit hit the docket in Franklin County, filed against Johnson and Peterson. A transportation company alleges the two men hired buses from the past year on behalf of a charity called "ISE Foundation," which does not exist as a legal entity in Ohio. The company, Cardinal Transportation, claims Johnson and Peterson now owe it roughly $13,000. The bill, at least according to court records, has yet to be paid. Contact Tom Schad at tschad@usatoday.com or on Twitter @Tom_Schad. Follow Chris Bumbaca and Lorenzo Reyes at @BOOMbaca and @LorenzoGReyes.

I’m thinking.

Thank you….and bless you. I can now stop searching for my vision of “Muda in the Wilderness”. You nailed my “high end” vision. That said, I was more inclined to “Naked and Afraid” Senior version but I couldn’t find a picture that I could post without getting me banned.

"What if I told you a team made up of 19 and 20 year olds didn't come to play school..."

This would be a fantastic story for one of those ESPN '30 for 30' documentaries.

But they would be the poorer for it.

Gotta be honest, despite the fact that I am damn proud that my kids had the opportunity to represent the Bishop Chatard Trojans on the field some years back, I have nothing but INCREDIBLE admiration for the Center Grove Trojans after watching this video. WOW.....just WOW!!!!

True American 🇺🇸 hero! Thank you for your service young man!

They need to drug test the person who gave Merrillville a first place vote instead of Center Grove.

Forgive me if there is a thread for this year already , doubt it though. Long gone are the days when this conference was a yearly top 5 conference. Unsure of other teams , only know that if bhss didn't have the Mccullough brothers and maybe one of the transfers from bhsn I think they would have played martinsville pretty even last Friday night.. bhss coach Johnson said in his radio pregame interview he is unsure why the boys transferred from bhsn but what is he supposed to do omit them from the team? Nah I think he just said he will gladly accept them but truly doesn't know why they keep transferring. From what I hear some folks are unhappy with coach bless at North. 'Some' I said and I've seen it myself on social media .... man I'm telling you former OSU commit flipped to IU Dasan McCullough(BHSS) may work himself into the Mr Football discussion by seasons end if he keeps doing what he does. Dude is a tornado out there touch 'ing' down 😆 at least oncee a game so far this season..

This is a topic often not considered when schools are looking for potential opponents. It's probably THE most important thing that should be considered. If a school still has paper coke/Pepsi cups for soft drinks with real carbonation happening behind the counter. That school gets a +5 on the concessions list. You can usually tell a lot about the quality of opponents by how good food is at the concessions. If they have burnt popcorn or cold hot dogs and no greasy hamburgers or brauts like a college campus don't consider them. US parents like to eat a lot so quit making me stop at fast food on my way to the games and let me support the FFA club by buying a 1/2lbs heart attack burger they made on a grill donated by the local bar. Allow me to buy the 1gal slushy from the drama department. My point is concessions have gotten worse and I'm tired of cold popcorn terrible tasting better for your health hot dogs, and soft drinks that taste like they sat in an athletic department cooler since last year. I want greasy unhealthy foods with softdrinks in a paper cup and real carbonation. So what schools have the best concession stands?

Lavarian Logan was a freshman at Merrillvile. That's the key sentence. I know you know that Joliet is not Chicago and,even if it was, Logan is from Merrillville. Bishop Chatard was the 3A state champ last year, right? Their 15th title. You dont mean to suggest they have no talent. I know. In a rare situation. Coaching change and Covid cancelling Morton's season temporarily. Merrillville got 5 transfers from Morton, none from Chicago I hear you about some parts of the state but for the record, Andrean, a school of 450, has far more talent up and down the roster than most 2000-student DAC schools. I dont begrudge them I like it when they win, most of the time. I like it when Chatard wins. All I did was celebrate ONE lonely first place vote in Class 6A for Merrillville and a torrid of bashing was unleashed. I sincerely apologize. I know Merrillville isnt the equal of Center Grove . I was just happy they got one vote. Again, please accept my deepest apology 😢

I'm just glad to see a CIC thread get to two pages. Awesome work, keep the talk going.

Just one conversation prior to last years’ Merrillville/Chatard game on the GID. “Anyone know if Jr. Merrillville RB Lavarion Logan was at at Joliet Catholic last year? Name sounds familiar." Response: "Logan was at Merrillville as a freshman and Joliet Catholic as a sophomore...yes..you are right” A conversation from last year. I also recall hearing folks from Merrillville beating their chest about Morton kids playing for them last year. Not a single D1 kid last year played for Chatard in that Merrillville multi D1 kid curb stomp. Seriously, my sense was that NE Indiana kids moved between schools for Football pretty much on a daily basis…and often as not openly bragged about it....yet Catholic schools have some unfair advantage when the same kids play for them from 3rd to 12th grade and never leave the system. Also, for the record, there is a WORLD of difference between Cathedral and the Archdiocese schools like Chatard, Roncalli, Ritter and Scecina.

Ah, now I get it. When that Cody clown was claiming 17 D1 players he was talking about in the HISTORY of Merrillville football. Makes total sense now.

Castle over Bosse by 17, the Castle defense is just too good. Memorial over Central by 13, Memorial continues to win by knocking off Central. Rough start to the year for the Bears Jasper beats Reitz by 20. I don't see Reitz being able to stay with Jasper. Jasper will control the ball, the clock and the scoreboard. MD handles Vincennes. The MD defense is strong and this might be the game the offense rises to their level. North beats Harrison by 24. Tough start to the year for North but they rebound here with a nice win.

“Yep”. I swear to God as well (still out of “thank you’s”) Merrillville could knock down Tampa Bay per Cody. Sadly, he and his ilk seem to dominate there. ……an even better reason to steer folks of reason to the GID.

“Ouch!”, to some prior posters above. I’m all out of “Thank You’s” for the day….but I owe you. With that, the DAC folks on Facebook are, quite literally, out of their minds.

Have you done the Adventure Hiking Trial loop in Harrison Crawford SF?

Seriously. No on up here thinks the DAC is the strongest conference in the state. No one has said that this year. No one has ever said that. Just like no one ever said that Merrillville had 17 D-1 prospects last year. But its funny.

Seriously, go check out the “Indiana HS Football Fans” Facebook page. Seems like 1/2 of those folks seem to think the DAC is the strongest football conference in the state. Never been a drug guy (Hell, I’ve never tried the whole “pot” thing) but do people still do LSD? Apparently they still do there.

Kiser named the starter against FSU. You have got to love everything about this story and this kid. He embodies everything that’s good about our game. https://www.si.com/college/notredame/football/notre-dame-football-jack-kiser-ready-to-shine For some reason I’m unable to post the text of the story. But there’s a video clip worth watching.

Both egregious but Merrillville more so.

Ive seen all of the Top 4 (Mish/Warsaw/Concord and Northridge IMO) of the NLC in the past 5-6 weeks so I thought id post some NLC thoughts here. Mishawaka: I think they are the best team in the area (NLC/NIC). They have the areas best player at a key position in Justin Fisher. When you look at that system and how well they execute with him at the helm you are simply not going to hold them and they are going to put up points. What shocked me was their defense. They are not Concord, but they have a group that plays and fits very well together. Best Mishawaka defense Ive seen in the past 3 years and I didnt expect that. They hide their weaknesses with their system and fly to the ball. I don't see them losing in the regular season. It's possibly Bart could get them, but I doubt it. I cant see Concord or Northridge scoring enough to be in it. I could see them getting to Semi-State this year. I see Warsaw/Concord and Northridge as a battle for #2. All are very good but have some holes. Warsaw: Id call Warsaw 2a. They are good as always on offense. They, like Mishawaka are going to score. Key for them is going to be how the defense holds up. Im not sure Concord or Northridge have enough on offense to hurt them to win. It is very possible however that they do. Going to be some great battles coming for them. Concord: Concord likely has the areas best defense. The D1 OLB they have is more than advertised. He dominated Elkhart. That said the rest of their front 7 is stout and they have some experienced and talented DBs that allow them to play so aggressively. Their experience allows them to do things most HS defenses simply don't do. Other than Mishawaka Im not sure anyone gets over 20 on them. Very impressed. Their issue is offense. They have the skill players, but struggle upfront. Going to have trouble vs Mish and Northridge scoring for sure. If they get some better OL play, watch out cause their skill guys are explosive. I think flexbone may neutralize some of their defensive strengths so I cant see them beating Mishawaka, the Northridge and Warsaw games will be awesome contests. Northridge. I wasnt expecting much from them due to losses, but they are tough. Their defense is very solid and they have some weapons on offense. Adams and St Joe are not very good, but they took care of business. They hung with Elkhart for a while in the scrimmage but Elkhart had their WR then. I dont see them losing to anyone not mentioned here and feel they can find a way to get a win vs either Warsaw or Concord. Great year for NLC football. I could see getting 3 sectional championships as a possibility out of the NLC. Have fun guys!

Never would have guessed that was Monroe from the picture.

lol, no bears. More a place like this:

Kid already has the UnderArmour endorsement. Cool beans.

I was told back in the mid-80's this was going to happen. In the early 90's I began taking it seriously that I wouldn't be able to rely on Social Security like my parents did once I retire. Now in my mid 50's I feel fortunate that I trusted that advice as retirement becomes a closer reality for me. Privatization is the best option. (IMHO)

My vision of Muda this weekend.....enjoy the weekend and stay dry Saturday!!

Just ahead of Manti Teo's girlfriend's team? 😄

Imagine being affiliated with the Bishop Sycamore "program", agreeing to a game on ESPN, thinking it was going to somehow BENEFIT the scam you were running!?!?! Of course, maybe that was the plan all along. Somehow keep things together until a pay day of some sorts and get out of dodge before you're found out. Don't see how that is likely though when you put the spotlight on your "program" for a nationwide audience. These guys can't even successfully run a scam! *side note - at Trivia last night, we selected our team name as "Bishop Sycamore Quiz Bowl Team" ... we promptly placed 7th out of 8 teams 🤣

Needed to pick an upset. Pretty predictable week in the PAC outside of this matchup. Good luck to NP

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/5684336001 Appears that Bishop Sycamore wrote bad checks at the hotel in Canton in which they were staying the night of the IMG game. This might make for a better ending than Catch Me If You Can.

One first place vote for the Pirates! Merrillville quarterback Angel Nelson (12)

It's the italics I think is bush league. Alluding to Frankton administration having a first year head coach and another person to take control soon, or that a former head coach in the area is possibly expecting to "take over soon" is not needed on the GID. Whatever gossip is going on in Frankton should stay in Frankton. Your original post would have been fine without those three words. That being said, if either of the two scenarios I painted have even a hint of truth, then this job should be appealing to no potential candidate.

I might be the only one willing to dive in here. I do have some thoughts. Consistent, strong competition has been absent for too long, while the biggest guns in the state have only gotten more competitive with each other, all the way through their programs. I'm not sure that Penn's offensive transition to a more modern style truly fits the program's demographics, and I think that affects their ability to play the complementary style of football that defined the program for so many years. Even Penn's best quarterbacks, did not, for the most part, light it up through the air except for playing off of the run game, and they were often a significant, effective, component of the run game, even if in a undesigned way. I agree that other schools have caught up, although I disagree somewhat with the characterization of the Penn teams of yore and their size relative to the peer competition. While I played on teams that had a couple of monsters - perhaps three division 1 big guys over my four years - Penn has been a program that has gotten by with more from less in terms of physical development and impressiveness. Penn did often have average to slightly above average sized backs, and that has seemed to change over the years. That said, the team is much less impressive off the hoof relative to the top competition than they already often were in years past. The high school has employed a strength and conditioning coach for at least four years now, if records are accurate, which I imagine is a significantly shorter term than many of the other large programs competing with each other in the Indy metro area. We all know Ben Davis had a dedicated strength coach for decades. Been setting in for many years I'm afraid, and is a logical outcome of much of the success and preordained outcomes of many contests against local competition for decades. Even when the program was humming along there was apathy with regard to much of the schedule. This has been my argument for years, and I maintain that it's especially important at the freshman and junior varsity levels. Penn's freshman and JVs almost never play against the best in their age group because of the size of the local teams requires those players to take varsity reps on Friday nights. Additionally, I think that level of competition in the MIC and HCC encourages innovation and has far reaching effects within those programs. The weekly grind of competition has been a huge de facto advantage for the MIC programs, and I think that became obvious relatively early in the 2000s. Now the HCC is in a similar position. No way around it, the administration blundered in 2002, and if the invitation is still standing - truly - they have continued to blunder to this day. Plenty of evidence exists out there that Penn is comfortable with teams traveling for much of their competition in all sports. I don't know if the source is too reliable or not, but public school review has data going back into the 90s that you could comb through to get an idea. It's not aggregated but it exists. These are just some thoughts, of course.

What a great league the Mid-State has become!

Teams ranked/receiving votes in polls after Week 2: 6A: Warsaw (RV - 13th AP only) 5A: Mishawaka (Ranked - 7th AP / Ranked - 7th Coaches) 4A: Northridge (Ranked - 9th AP / RV - 14th Coaches) NorthWood (RV - 18th AP only)

Best senior banner photo ever?

Saw that game listed and honestly couldn’t figure out why IMG was playing an Ohio HS that I had never heard of. Still, as big of an embarrassment as it was (or should be) for ESPN (which I’m fine with), just what does it say about IMG’s difficulty in scheduling opponents that they have to stoop to this?

Yes, those “at risk” kids were just crapped on again. All because of adults who put them in a bad spot.

Greetings to the both of you. Nice to see your both doing well been a stressful couple of years for me. Glad I got that out of the way. When you.make it through the hard years it should be smooth sailing from here on out ..... let's hope 🙏

Social Security Will Be Insolvent in 12 Years https://reason.com/2021/09/01/social-security-will-be-insolvent-in-12-years/ Agreed. And no @DanteEstonia, just throwing more taxpayer money at SS won't fix it. It's design is deeply flawed.