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Eric Washington excited about former Center Grove star Austin Booker draft selection. https://www.sportsmockery.com/chicago-bears/eric-washington-failed-to-hide-his-excitement-getting-austin-booker/ Another good article in Yahoo Sports May 11 “Eric Washington reveals what he likes most about Austin Booker”

It is accurate enough for government work.

I'm confused. Is it November already? I thought it was May with practices still a month away. But this sounds like November belly-aching. I guess there really is no offseason anymore.

1000% AGREED!

I’m not missing it. I just don’t agree with it. The analysis leading to that point of view is, superficial, as the ridiculous analogies that appear earlier in the thread demonstrate.

So the government should reward private businesses for not using their services? Perhaps the government should subsidize your health insurance company for you not participating in Obamacare. Is that where we are headed? When you choose to pay for a customized enhanced service, you forfeit your rights. That’s the point I think you’re missing.

In this analogy, your dad isn’t paying for it. You are, your siblings are, everybody else at the table, etc. Your dad just collects your money, uses it to buy groceries and pay a cook. Governments (dad) literally have no money except that which they take from their people (those of you needing dinner).

That is not exactly accurate. The IHSAA has been found to be a “state actor” in a number of legal decisions. It depends on the issue as to whether the IHSAA is considered an arm of the state, or a private association.

Maybe the worst analogy ever … since education is a fundamental right under the Indiana Constitution and, to my knowledge, golf isn’t.

The money in question doesn’t come from public schools. It comes from taxpayers who are taxed to fund K12 educations for the state’s kids. Does it really matter where somebody chooses to get that education and have those dollars applied? To me, it’s kind of like comparing Medicare to the VA. With Medicare, you can use the public subsidy at the provider of your choice…whereas with the VA, you have to go to a VA provider. They’re both tax-funded. But it seems to me that the former model is preferable to the latter.

He was a pretty good player at Northern Illinois on any surface. Set several school records and was a multi-year starter. Had a cup of coffee in the NFL, as I recall.

As his good friend Herm Edwards would say, "You play to win the game!"

Not in the last decade, and I don’t know about the “best QB,” but I saw Warren’s Desmond Tardy put a 300 yd. rushing game on Penn in the 2003 5A championship game. Thought I’d never see a QB performance like that again. And I didn’t … for almost 3 yrs. Then came the 2006 Regional at New Prairie. The absolute worst field conditions I’ve ever seen — and I once lost a shoe in the mud at a college game. Torrents of freezing rain, and then the temperature dropped 20 degrees, creating a bog with frozen ruts. Could barely stand upright on the field, except for one guy. The Norwell QB — a guy named Chandler Harnish — dominated the field that night. I have no idea how many yards rushing he had, or how many TDs, but Norwell won 49-20. How he did it on that field, I’ll never know. We checked his cleats — twice. Never saw anything like it before or since.

All Time Jeff George was an amazing passer with a big arm but the 2 that most impressed me were James Banks and Rick Mirer. Those 2 did everything. Throw, Run, Play Defense, Punt, and Kick. The 2 most dominate players I ever saw. Summer of 89 I went down to see my nephew play in the All Star game back when the Div. 1 kids still played in it. Game was played in the old Hoosier Dome. All the reporters were saying how dominate the South team would be especially with their defense and that it would be a big blow out for the South. Well it was a big blow out as Mirer and the North team put up 41 first half points. I saw James Banks in punt formation chase down a bad snap over his head that went in to his own end zone. He picked up and ran through the whole Warren Central defense for a touchdown. Most amazing play I ever saw in high school football.

We're getting dangerously close to abandoning "education-based athletics".

Dinner was fundamentally guaranteed at my Dad's house. You either ate what was provided, starved, or paid for your own somewhere else. If they don't like the educational fundamental right the State provides, same rules should apply.