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AND... wrestle this year! Incredible.

Least shocking thing I've seen today

I did not say that it was a correct call or not, I am not a Referee and never could even imagine doing that job. I really did not want to start a debate about one call. I guest I just don't like the term awful used towards officials making split second judgment calls.

Coaches, if you're going to try this, please bring it up with the officials in the pregame conference so that there are no surprises out there, and everyone can have a calm discussion about what constitutes illegal forward handing, and what does not.

That's cute....we just had a kid (football player) that lost half his leg farming. He is continuing to farm and planning to be on the football team next year.

Hold my fermented barley: Hamilton County, Indiana: Ave Acrevalue: $9,774/ac

1-0 2-14 3-0 4-13 27

The fans that tailgate the hardest always win....

Random observation after watching some of the Scecina/ Central Catholic game: Scenina has the blandest uniform / helmet combo I've ever seen. Reminds me of a generic combo from a 1995 Eastbay magazine.

Lafayette Jeff currently has two varsity assistant openings for the 2022 season, preferably on the defensive side of the ball. If interested, please send your resume and reference list to Pat Shanley at pshanley@lsc.k12.in.us Teaching openings: Physical Education (Tecumseh 7th/8th grade) - immediate opening SPED (JHS) - immediate opening Math (JHS) - immediate opening English (Tecusmeh 7th/8th grade) - open for the 2022/23 school year Also highly likely that we will have an opening at JHS in Engineering & Technology. Lafayette Jeff is coming off of a 7-4 season. We return 7 full-time starters on offense and 7 on defense. Our JV posted an 8-1 record in 2021.

Pet peeve... Hand the ball to the official!!

LOL @ Cathedral at 100%…never seen that before.

I reached out to Massey a week ago to let them know but nothing has changed. Guess everyone is busy. The real question could be that if Memorial wins state, will "Reitz" try to claim yet another mythical title? 🦄

I’m thinking you’re going to see a very well officiated game. This crew is working their first semistate as a crew. But several of their officials have worked multiple state finals on other crews. The Head Linesman is particularly talented.

We are in the process of identifying and explaining the flaws in the current coaches' vote system, the primary differentiator in the playoff officials selection and advancement process. Here's is #2 on the list: 2. Coaches are not unbiased: outcomes influence perceptions. There is little doubt that coaches are heavily invested in the outcome of their games. Coaches’ passion for their teams is one of the things that makes high school football great. But that passion is the very antithesis of objective evaluation when it comes to officiating performance. It should surprise no one to learn that coaches’ evaluations of officiating performance are affected by the outcome of the game. Studies in other fields have shown that an adverse outcome significantly affects one’s perception of the events leading up to that outcome. Simply put, the coach of the losing team consistently rates officiating performances lower than the coach of the winning team in the same game. I’m not aware of any scientific studies specific to the field of evaluating officiating performance. But anecdotally, I can tell you that I was a Referee and crew chief of a very successful crew for 25+ years. For much of that time we provided each coach at every game with a comment form with a prepaid mailing envelope, asking for an evaluation of our performance. It asked for a numeric grade in a number of categories, as well as having a space for comments. I kept track of those things and shared them with the crew each week. Over the course of at least a couple hundred games, our scores averaged about 20%-25% lower by the losing coach than the winning coach in the same game. It is hardly breaking news that a negative outcome adversely affects the perception of officiating performance. Compare the number of complaints about officiating you hear from the losing fans as opposed to those on the winning side. This is not a knock on coaches. Rather, it is a recognition of basic human nature that our perception is affected by the disappointment of an unfavorable outcome. But that reality undermines the suitability of coaches as objective evaluators of officiating performance.

The best of luck to the young man.

Southwest Indiana is the pinnacle place for farmland!!!!!!

Looking forward to this matchup as Marshall gives Merrillville a dynamic that they didn't have last year even with a Notre Dame recruit like Johnson. Westfield manhandled Merrillville last year and I like that Merrillville has ramped up how physical they play this year, starting with Grant, talk about throwing your weight around.

No pic of the big "IB" as you cross the railroad tracks? I had a chuckle when I saw it during Sectional. BTW, IB the Titans are IB. 🙂

I happen to agree that a 17 year old kid shouldn't have been there in these circumstances, but he was. I disagree with the statement He is a callow boy who didn't understand how to handle a gun He clearly knew HOW to safely carry that weapon and he also knew WHEN and HOW to use it most effectively. Perhaps those (mostly peaceful according to the media) rioters and protesters burning and looting the town, terrorizing the citizens should have heeded these words from the op-ed as well: Don’t you ever do something so stupid. You stay home and stay out of trouble. But they didn't either....and a couple of them paid the price. Correct - Mr. Rittenhouse is not a hero, I agree, but he legally (see item 4 below) and effectively defended himself in this situation. Now the ever-trusted media of today is constantly reporting (propaganda) labeling this guy as a racist militia member: https://nypost.com/2021/11/17/10-debunked-heinous-lies-about-kyle-rittenhouse-devine/ Of all the willful lies and omissions in the media’s coverage of the Steele dossier, Brian Sicknick, the Covington kids, Jussie Smollett, the Wuhan lab, Hunter Biden’s laptop and so on, nothing beats the evil propaganda peddled about Kyle Rittenhouse. They try to make the Rittenhouse case about race, but it’s about class, punching down at the white working-class son of a single mother because they don’t see him as fully human, and it makes them feel good. They lie about him because they can. The central media narrative is that Kyle Rittenhouse is a white supremacist whose mother drove him across state lines with an AR-15 to shoot Black Lives Matter protesters. All lies. “A white, Trump-supporting, MAGA-loving Blue Lives Matter social media partisan, 17 years old, picks up a gun, drives from one state to another with the intent to shoot people,” was typical from John Heilemann, MSNBC’s national affairs analyst. So, let’s go through 10 lies about Rittenhouse, debunked in court: 1. He killed two black BLM protesters. All three of the men he shot in self-defense during violent riots in Kenosha on Aug. 25 last year were white. 2. He crossed state lines. He lived 20 miles from Kenosha in Antioch, Ill., with his mother and sisters. But his father, grandmother, aunt, uncle, cousins and best friend live in Kenosha. He had a job as a lifeguard in Kenosha and worked a shift on Aug. 25 before helping clean graffiti left by rioters at a local school. There, he and his friend were invited to join other adults who had been asked by the owners of a used car lot in Kenosha to guard the property after 100 cars had been torched the previous night, when police abandoned the town to rioters. Kyle took his gun to protect himself, since the rioters were violent and armed, including, for instance, Antifa medic Gaige Grosskreutz, who lunged at him with a loaded Glock pointed at his head before he was shot in the arm. 3. Rittenhouse took an AR-15 across state lines. Esquire accused him of “terrorist tourism.” False. His rifle was kept in a safe at his best friend’s stepfather’s house in Kenosha. 4. The gun was illegal. Wrong. Under Wisconsin law, he was entitled to possess the AR-15 as a 17-year-old. The judge dismissed the gun charge, which the prosecution never should have brought. 5. Rittenhouse’s mother drove him across state lines to the riot. Wendy Rittenhouse, 46, never went to Kenosha. She slept late the morning of Aug. 25 after working a 16-hour shift at a nursing home near her home in Antioch, she told the Chicago Tribune. Kyle had already gone to his job in Kenosha when she woke up. 6. He was an “active shooter” who took his gun to a riot looking for trouble. “A 17-year-old kid just running around shooting and killing protesters,” said MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, “who drove across state lines with an AR-15 and started shooting people up.” On Friday, after evidence in court already had debunked his talking points, Scarborough called Rittenhouse a “self-appointed militia member … unloading 60 rounds.” When the defense called out the lie in closing arguments, Scarborough had the gall to tweet that he was “embarrassed” for the lawyer. 7. Rittenhouse is a “white supremacist,” as then-candidate Joe Biden labeled him in a tweet showing the teenager’s photograph. When White House press secretary Jen Psaki was asked to explain why recently, she slyly slimed Rittenhouse again, without naming him, as a “vigilante.” In one story, the Intercept used the term “white supremacist” 16 times. The accusation has become holy writ, but there is zero evidence. The FBI scoured Kyle’s phone and found nothing about white supremacy or militias, the court heard. All they saw were pro-police, “Blue Lives Matter” posts from a kid who had been a police and fire department cadet, wanted to be a police officer or paramedic and once sat near the front of a Trump rally. That was enough for the media to brand him a white supremacist. 8. He “flashed white power signs” with Proud Boys. After spending three months in jail, Kyle was freed on $2 million bail two days after his 18th birthday last year, and went to a bar for a beer, with his mother and other adults, which is legal in Wisconsin. He posed for selfies with strangers at the bar, who the media say are Proud Boys, and was pictured making the OK sign with his thumb and forefinger. The false claim that this is a white supremacist sign comes from a 2017 hoax on the website 4chan, to punk liberals, who keep falling for it. Biden uses the gesture frequently. It was unwise to pose for the photo, but it does not mean Kyle is associated with white supremacists. 9. He wore surgical gloves “to cover his fingerprints.” This pearl was spread by Matthew Modine, another celebrity bigmouth. Kyle wore gloves because he was giving first aid to protesters. His face was bare, so he was hardly hiding. Wendy Rittenhouse, Kyle’s mother, was not present with her son when he traveled to Kenosha, Wisconsin. Sean Krajacic/The Kenosha News via AP, Pool 10. Judge Bruce Schroeder is a “Trumpy” racist biased toward the defense. This slur is based on the fact he would not let the prosecution use the term “victim” — common practice when the jury has not ruled on a case. He told a lame joke about Asian food for lunch being held up by the supply-chain crisis, and his phone’s ring tone sounds like a 1980s ditty played at Trump rallies. Ridiculous. In fact, Schroeder is a Democrat, has run as a Democrat for the Wisconsin Senate and was first appointed by a Democratic governor. Bias was also perceived in what the Chicago Tribune said was his “highly unusual” decision to allow Kyle to draw names randomly out of a container at the end of the trial to determine which 12 of the 18 jurors would decide his fate. It’s something this judge always does, he told the court. On the second day of jury deliberations Wednesday, the judge railed against media distortions, although he seemed most aggrieved about attacks on his reputation, rather than Kyle’s. He threatened to stop trials from being televised, but that’s exactly the wrong solution. Only because the public was able to hear the evidence for themselves did they become aware of the malevolent dishonesty of the media coverage, which has threatened a fair trial and ensured riots if Kyle is justly acquitted.

OSHA Halts Enforcement of Biden Vaccine Mandate, Pending Litigation https://reason.com/2021/11/17/osha-biden-vaccine-mandate-halt-litigation/ Good to hear. A lot of businesses are breathing a sigh of relief right now.

When I was playing football at Uindy, I got to watch quite a bit of Secina football. Always really good athletes and well coached players. Undersized in a lot of games, but doesn't have an affect on them in the slightest, low man always wins! On the flip side of this, Mater Dei seems to find themselves playing on Thanksgiving weekend quite a bit. The players look like they live in the weightroom, and it shows on the field as well. I'm more of a North guy when it comes to 2A, but it doesn't take a genius to know this is gonna be a DAWG fight! I'm not taking a winner, but the spread isn't going to be more than a touchdown for whichever team that wins in my opinion. Goodluck to both teams, safe travels for the fans, and hopefully its a great, injury free game!

Is this a pu pu platter joke?

Yep I saw that today. Can't believe it's been in place that long. Either way, I'm not a fan of it.

WHAT??? So no longer the BIGGEST "Crown" in NE Indiana? I am gonna miss looking across the field and only seeing my Wings' from the waist up....😄

Now that's original. Ive never heard that before. Makes sense though. LOL

that rule has been there at least since 2017 and i can go back further. and even further back to 2014 so far and back to 2009 which is as far as Im willing to go. so not just a new rule this year.

Curry needs to be Mr. Football. Nobody is as dominant and as talented.

Gibson Southern is the pinnacle of high school football. For anyone to even consider the notion that they could lose is absurd. There. Is that a little better for your ego?

I always considered any part of NW Indiana on Central Time to be Region, but saying such words has started fights before🤪

I'm wondering about that guy named IB everyone used to talk about on GS threads. Did Ib graduate? Go back to being the farmhand on Green Acres? Inquiring minds want to know.

I’ve seen a couple of PPV ones

They're all supposed to be free on that ihsaatv platform, I believe.

Timing in that it’s unusual for an administrator to abruptly resign 3 months into a school year. I don’t mean that it had anything whatsoever to do with their game, or any bearing on it. When I say “distraction”, I’m hoping there isn’t some kind of scandal behind this.

...and I'm sure that series is relevant today!