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Ok, literally just saw all of this, never clicked this thread over my Xmas break where I didn't turn on my laptop for about 10 days (glorious btw to unplug). Now it makes more sense from the NFL/College tone that I did see way before this, now it makes sense on how and why some of those tones were being taken in there based on these back and forth. Gotcha. Believe it or not, the "Leadership Team" does not poke around every thread, now back in my hey day of being on here like many of you known, workin the computer lab, yes, I literally read EVERYTHING on EVERY FORUM we had, you know long 8 hours in credit recovery, but I digress. I will take blame on DONATIONS here, this was something that again, when I was in the lab, was really good at doing what @BTF mentioned on a a post in this thread, making a general Topic post/thread, and keeping that alive vs posting links in other threads that are "hot". for donations. Though I have done that previously, but in different manner. I did create what @foxbat referred to back in the day on bets being taken but for donations to GID. I can speak on this, I joined day 1, 1998/99, computer lab, Purdue, when the threads would just fall off and disappear, not many of us left who remember the 1st tech of GID under the leadership of Coach Tim Adams and his vision of what he wanted this site to be: #1 place in Indiana to come together to talk and PROMOTE (that was huge for TA) Indiana High School Teams, Players, Coaches. His pet project he started when he was coaching quickly turned to full time passion, gave up coaching, led this into the mid 00's and its boom if you will. There was some real real knock down drag out discussion that TA led with many many great posters, some still here today, like @Muda69 and REBEL DAD, now @Rodney, that was POPCORN stuff right there. Temp, you have no idea what it was like for Muda and others vs THE HORDE, you talk about the gain mentality here now, my goodness, that was something quite wild compared to these days, but here was the major differences, folks attacked policies, opinions of the member, not the member, TA was VERY much a non negotiable on that. TA was as deep man of Faith as well, him and his wife @Mrs Gridirondigest were very much a proponent of the simple rule of thumb of language that gets you a 15 yard penalty shouldn't be used here, now that has been loosened up quite a bit around these parts these, days, but on this main forum, the main HS led forum, we try to keep it to that original manta by TA. Message boards when this place was born was all the rave, this was before MYSPACE even, then social media which this website is a form of communication, but not sure its considered a social media site per se, but now Social Media in 2025 rules the day, Facebook, X, Tok Tik (I do it on purpose, it bothers my teenage daughter and I think its funny) Instagram, these sites are now ingrained into the every day lives of humans WORLD WIDE. Message boards are not, so having a football Facebook page with 19k, followers isn't not quite the flex I think you think it is, 2 completely separate modes of media information sharing and as stated Facebook for MANY is daily routine (I have not own one of those pages however but do however choose other like X for instance, give me a follow @Eric Nowlin if you want all the OUTRUNNERS and TURBO FLOYD smoke you can handle) @temptation you probably are not aware, this site was so big and popular, Coach Adams turned out a real nice chunk of change to sell out the site and its membership to Rivals who wanted to take it and put it under their umbrella, he resisted the urge to get paid for his work to keep his Mission alive, a common place for fans of Indiana high school football to come and discuss, banter, about the greatest sport there is Football. Instead, TA ended up working for Rivals as a correspondent. Coach Adams used to have meet up at the State finals with his community members willing to stop by and say hello to him, with his GID hat on !!! Famous picture out there of @DK_Barons @77Jimmie (the 1st 2 Moderators under the Adams Days) all discussing the big plans for this place with Wings and Beverages flowing. @Bobref and Coach Adams would meet many times because Bob was pretty brave at the time to step out, be open about his role within the sport of football with the hope to educate, promote the game from the Officials lens, you got to understand what this was like in 2004-2008 ish, that was not normal, that made many coaches uneasy as Bob took unnecessary heat from coaches who somehow were parnoid on this internet machine thing back 20 plus years ago, and all that. BINGO, Thanks my Friend, hope to meet up at Walts again one day........ See above, and the Reasoning behind that standard. See above, exactly and I will take blame here, I will be better in the future on this role Now what is REAL REAL FUNNY, a blast from the WAY past machine, maybe about 5 or 6 years ago, maybe longer, we had a very interesting member here, coach, went about attempting to earn HC jobs in a unqiue way, anyways, he wasn't a booster and he was complaining about ADS pulling on on this site and I believe Porn and other type of sedacious ADs, well what he didn't understand was @DK_Barons area of expertise and whatver does to set this palce up, when you don't donate, cool, here some ads, right, the ADS are through your persona algo that the interent tracks you with, so if you spend all your time lets say searching and reading about bicycles, the AD you would see would be BIKE RELATED topics, etc. you know I think most now in 2025 understand the ALGO and your internet history and what it does, but man was that FUNNY as all get out when DK publiclly told him how it went and why he was getting those type of ads. I know that was VERY LONG messages but just felt like wanted to shed light on things, I enjoy this place, I enjoy its mission, I have tried to be fair and just in situations that come our way with decisions made on "report button" or our own moderations we see. It saddens me to see this community is 2k short still on the year, like I said, I will take blame, I will be better on that moving forward into next year, I appreciate everyone who chooses to participate in our community, do I wish some of you would just know when to stop the drama, sure, is it annoying babystting adults at times,, you bet it is, but I just hope we all understand the WHY you should be here and live up to some of what Coach Tim Adams wanted this place to be. @gonzoron I appolgize for what I woud assume is multitude of grammer and spellin errers.

North Dakota State 35, Montana State 32. NDSU led 21-3 at halftime, but Montana State cut it to three but the NDSU held on. It was a fun game to watch. Montana State had too many errant passes and too many drops.

Reading the tea leaves dude. If I’m wrong, I’m wrong. If I’m correct, I’m correct.

Why would you turn down a chance to hear his opinions on how to build culture? Definitely not a waste of time to gather intel from someone who most consider to be a leader of men.

One thing I would LOVE to see is some of these highest earners and their academic course load they are taking on. Agree on the idea of if you make more money in a year than the value of the scholarship you have been granted, that there should be some sort of recalibration Isn't there a hard 85 rule now?

You just pick fights. Have a good day.

it was a very good game to watch. I was pulling for the Montana State Bobcats, as NDSU has won the title many times. But the Bison deserved it, and made the big plays when they needed. Another title for the Missouri Valley Conference FCS football, the conference for Indiana State University.

Why would anyone refuse to donate because they were asked to do so by a certain person, or asked in a certain way? The only real question is “Are you willing to help financially support the mission of the GID, or not?”

Let's try it again. How about we agree any posts not tied to the topic get deleted? That said......one step closer, but it appears the NCAA is one step closer to contracts, but likely knows they cannot call them contracts because they want to avoid many of the rights a contracted employee is entitled to under the law.

Those were some very intellectually stimulating times on the GID. Anybody who remembers the Hurricane Scirfes debacle can surely relate. Wish I could find the picture which was uploaded to the GID that started that argument. Oh, and 96-0. Never forget.

That's why I feel confident that I've been around enough that I don't need to read and watch anything on mainstream Sports television to form an opinion like this as well It's all noise and I agree wholeheartedly on your statement there

Funny how all these talking heads are saying teams need to be patient with certain coaches. GMAFB. Common sense folks have said this for years while you “experts” are making money off clicks and likes bashing these coaches left, right, and center during the season.

And Raiders whack Pierce. Hiring these guys with little to no coaching experience is not the way to go. Earn your stripes Hire the best, proven, coach. Time to get rid of the Rooney Rule?

Or anyone for that matter. Going through it now.

No. You'll just go around and round no matter what I say, so... Call it a New Year's Resolution.

@temptation Didn't know you were WRASSLIN fan BTW. Love that sign made it to LA of all places

Absolutely. This is especially true at smaller schools where staffs get smaller and teaching loads get heavier. As to hiring lay coaches: that's also not as straightforward as it seems, but again, this is by school district. There are some districts that will hire lay coaches as head coaches, but there are some places that place restrictions on what head coaching jobs can be filled by coaches with teaching contracts.

Well, the Colts finally canned Gus Bradley. He should be one of many but it's a start. It's also being reported that Colt receiver Michael Pittman Jr. played this season with a fractured back. How about that Anthony Richardson?

Just an intermediate step in the evolution to college players as salaried employees of the institution.

Money to be made. NFL goes to 18 games. There are too many days off where these leech’s aren’t making money.

Dan Campbell is the template for this.

If you think your having a bad day - Remember - VP Kamala Harris just had to certify the electoral votes in the Senate today. (She lost bigly)

You also don’t strike me as the kind of guy who gives a damn what others think, though I may be wrong. If you do, you’re doing a pretty poor job of maintaining any sort of “rep”, whatever that means.

How do you get clowning out of a factual statement? He always looked at GID as a monetized business, but that's not really its business model. Anyone who was around back when Tim Adams was running it realized that very quickly. It's still being run by volunteers in the same vein. It's a different business model.

I think that's the issue that the guy with the Facebook site didn't quite grasp.

Don't need your reminder. You have a way of making posters not want to donate. I get it, you're trying to do the right thing, but there's something off about your approach. When someone donates, they don't want to think it's because gonzoron pressured them to do so. So again, change your approach before you start having a negative impact on the financial health of the Gridiron Digest. Enjoy your Sunday, God Bless.

I haven't been offended too much since I divorced my first wife back in 1967. And I giggle quite frequently, it helps me stay sane.

Need to get back to the old days where guys would bet booster memberships on the state championships. Everyone wins even if their team didn't.

I was born July 3rd, 1943, so yes I'm 81 years old, not that it really matters except I've seen a lot in those years, some I can still remember.

If you were going to hire a coordinator to lead your program, what would you look for? Coaches he's worked for? Success in his role? Experience at the level you play at? He checks all those boxes. He's worked under the last 3 Warren coaches too at one point or another. It also isn't unheard for a coordinator to immediately jump into a head role and have early success in the highest class. He's also hiring a defensive coordinator with head coaching experience so the staff will shape up to be a good one too.

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD ENOUGH congratulations Done Locked see if the next one that gets started can actually stay on course