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Floyd Centrals goal is to be good at everything. And they are. They just aren't "great" at any one thing. When all of your sports teams are Conference and Sectional champions the kids are so spread out you never get a team that can win a State Championship. Same with performing arts. Very good. Not great.

Little rainy at practice this morning at U Indy but the players from both the North Squad and the South Squad were enjoying the environment. Always a great experience for these young men and selected coaching staffs. Great presentation by the Indiana Shriners today at lunch and all the players were tuned into the message and what it means to be an IFCA Indiana All Star. Now let's do our part by supporting this cause by attending! IFCA North/South All Star Game: Friday July 11 7pm (Decatur Central HS Southwest Indy SR 67 just south of 465)

Two out of the past three. Sixty six percent chance the 6A representative comes out of the north.

nobody wants to admit that there wasn't a team in Indiana keeping ec out of the endzone in 2023 feelsbad but its ok! the fort wayne guys would argue that snider could make a game vs Notre Dame as well any given year (before someone starts, no i think BD would have handily beat them, but ec was absolutely going to score some points)

Agreed. IHSAA screwed up splitting up 5A into two classes. Top 32 enrollment schools should have formed 6A and the bottom 32 enrollment schools should have formed 1A. A 64 team class comprised of the 32 5A schools and the top 32 enrollment schools in 4A would form a pretty darn competitive class.

Most years a 5a school won the 5a tournament as of recent they would've been clobbered by the 4a team

Cathedral "departed" 4a before running roughshod through 5a. Snider did have some down years, tbh, some thought after 6a was formed that Snider would reel off a few titles before being bumped to 6a...those who watched Snider clash with traditional powers in 5a had good reason to believe so, although that was early 2000-12. Mishawaka is another school that was bumped from 4a not too long ago. You give me EC, Snider, New Pal, Cathedral, Valpo/Merrillville all lurking in 5a I'd say it was an "up" year. When you remove a couple or a few of the traditional powers, it does make the road to LOS slightly more amicable is all I am saying. IHSAA was tired of hearing us complain that the same teams won titles and wanted new blood down in Indy. I get it, it infuses life into youth programs which will keep the sport churning.

I'd sneak Decatur Central in on that list. They bring back everyone from a 5A State Championship team. Multiple D1 kids. I would take them over 21-25 and probably a few others listed.

I don't see an NHL team in Indianapolis ever, either. Four franchises are in close proximity and two of those cover the Indianapolis tv market already, plus the NHL's expansion strategy has been to go to the west and south to more populous markets. If Houston wants a team and Atlanta wants to try again, I'd be shocked if they didn't get teams. The NHL wants to be in Phoenix, but can't go back until the arena situation gets sorted out there. Houston, Atlanta, and Phoenix are all top ten in metropolitan population, while Indianapolis is outside the top 30. Indianapolis would probably be behind Quebec City all things considered. Indianapolis would probably make for a good American Hockey League affiliate if the Fuel weren't already in the picture.

From a newsletter I read occasionally: Wait … what happened? This: Even as someone accustomed to Trump’s edge-pushing, this was … a lot. This is, in fact, outrageous. It is intolerable. It is wicked. It cannot stand. Here’s the White House line: But the evidence that he is a gang member is not at all solid, and there is no evidence that he is a terrorist. He was here legally, though that’s not how he came. He should have been deported using normal channels years ago, but he wasn’t, and now he has the legal right to stay here. The man was sent away without any chance to prove his case. Andy McCarthy, the former federal prosecutor, explains. Excerpt: What if those desires are — what’s the word? — illegal? That’s what is at issue. Abrego Garcia should have been deported much earlier, as he came here illegally. But he obtained legal status allowing him to remain in the US. Maybe that was a mistaken ruling, but nevertheless, that is the law. Even Trump’s government admits that Abrego Garcia was deported because of an “administrative error”. Trump is now saying that the US Government has no authority to compel El Salvador to send one of its citizens back to America. This is absurd: all Trump has to say to Bukele is, “Send him back,” and it will be done. McCarthy: The Trump team keeps repeating the line that Abrego Garcia is a “terrorist,” and that justifies what they’re doing. But that has not been proven! He denies it, and his denial in court hearings in the past were persuasive to the courts. What gives Trump special knowledge, such that he knows better than judges who have heard the evidence? What we know is that in 2019, the Trump administration alleged that Abrego Garcia is in MS-13 — based primarily on the claim of a confidential informant, and the fact that he wore a Chicago Bulls hat and a hoodie. The informant said Abrego Garcia was part of MS-13 in New York — a place in which he has never lived. Abrego Garcia strongly denies he has anything to do with MS-13. He could be lying. How are we to know without due process? In any case, there has never been any substantiation of the claim that this man was or is in MS-13. Besides which, the Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that Abrego Garcia has the right to be in America. Maybe the Court is completely wrong, but that is how the system works. Trump is only defying the Court now based on a technicality. As far as I’m concerned, Abrego Garcia, who entered the US illegally, should be deported. There is a way to do that legally: bring him back, lift the court stay preventing him from being deported, and send him back legally. After all, SCOTUS said that Abrego Garcia had been wrongfully deported because of an “administrative error.” This was the position of the Trump administration … until suddenly, it wasn’t. Stephen Miller went on Fox News and claimed otherwise: They fired an excellent Justice Department lawyer for advancing the same view as ICE and the Trump-appointed Solicitor General? I guess Team Trump needed a scapegoat rather than admit that they are in error here. It seems that the White House is using a technicality in the SCOTUS ruling to avoid doing what common sense and common decency requires: bringing Abrego Garcia back and sending him home the legal way. (And “home” means to El Salvador, not necessarily to that brutal maximum security prison there.) This is a bright red line, I think, because the administration is not only transparently concocting a narrative to justify its mistaken, illegal deportation of this guy, but it is also flagrantly defying the Supreme Court. Again, it’s not exactly a direct defiance, because the Court left just enough space for Team Trump to pretend that it has no power to compel El Salvador to send Abrego Garcia back. But think about it: what if you were illegally deported to a Supermax prison in El Salvador, and the Supreme Court ordered that you be returned to the US. How would you feel if the administration threw up its hands and said, “Sorry, but we can’t tell the government of El Salvador what to do”? Keep in mind that even though Abrego Garcia is not a US citizen, and was, in fact, in the US illegally, he still had the protection of the law. This is a bright red line, having to do with the rule of law. I am generally supportive of the aggressive stance Trump has taken on deportations of illegals. This problem has grown nearly uncontrollable because of previous administrations, both Democratic and Republican, not taking it seriously. I anticipate that there will be bureaucratic errors in this process, and don’t consider them to invalidate the mission. But when those mistakes come to light, then the administration must backtrack, and do things legally. This eagerness to defy the courts is destabilizing of the legal and constitutional order. The only way, it seems, that the administration can tamp down public anger is to keep repeating the line that Abrego Garcia is an MS-13 member — an allegation based on a single information, that has never been substantiated. The administration’s willingness to leave a possibly innocent man languishing in that El Salvador prison shocks the conscience. So do stories like this, about Merwil Guitierrez, a 19-year-old Venezuelan illegal taken off the streets of New York and sent to that same prison. The kid was swept up in an ICE raid and shipped off to the prison in El Salvador, despite the fact that there is no evidence that he had anything to do with a gang, and the absence of any criminal charges against him. Again, the fact that he was in America illegally is sufficient evidence to deport him. But to dispatch this teenager to live as a captive among some of the hardest criminals in the world? In what moral universe does that make sense? As one Fourth Circuit federal appeals court judge wrote in the three-judge panel’s April 7 ruling denying the government’s claim: This is a fundamental rule of law question. So I ask you again: if the Trump administration erroneously and illegally put your husband, son, or brother — an American citizen — on a deportation flight to El Salvador, and when called on by the Supreme Court to bring you back, said, “Hey, we can’t make the Salvadorans let him go” — how would you feel about it? From that Fourth Circuit ruling: I see today that members of the administration are on message about Abrego Garcia being a “terrorist” and “MS-13 member”. What is preventing them from the showing the evidence they have that stand up that claim? You can’t make the disturbing aspects of this case go away by simply asserting over and over that the guy is in MS-13, and hoping that people will believe you just because you say it often enough. Here is a link to detailed information about Abrego Garcia’s detention, and the hearsay evidence that got him tagged as a gang member. Who is the law here — the Supreme Court, or Donald Trump? This is indeed “a slippery — and dangerous — constitutional slope.” Do we want to be rid of illegal immigrants so badly that we are prepared to accept something like this? Where then would you and I hide if the US Government decided that the country would be better off if we were stuffed away in some Salvadoran hellhole prison, despite our legal right to be in the United States? This is indeed a very, very slippery slope. Trump is 100% wrong on this. His actions are illegal. One would hope that Congress would have the fortitude to impeach him over it.

You may be right. You may be wrong. But one thing is indisputable: Mr. Garcia has not had the due process the Constitution mandates. That’s the more important point, and the one the Trump administration keeps trying to avoid. The goal is a worthwhile one. But it has to be done according to the law. That’s what makes us the “good guys.”

Do you have objective proof of Mr. Garcia's MS-13 membership? From what I have read it is basically hearsay from a paid informant. And the Trump administration has admitted his expelling to El Salvador was "“an administrative error”. Why don't have the cajones and decency to correct their mistake? Oh, I forgot, everything Trump and his cronies say is automatically correct and righteous. Trump is the law, right?

I looked up the line of succession. You could easily make the case that the 18 in line are all complicit. Hell, most of those 18 were in the Oval Office when Trump and Bukele met with the press.

Folks, this is a real constitutional crisis in the making. The contempt power is the only tool judges have to enforce their rulings. Ultimately, a federal judge can order a contemnor arrested by US Marshals, and jailed. And this is criminal, not civil, contempt. Question: does a conviction for criminal contempt satisfy the requirement of “high crimes and misdemeanors” the Constitution requires for impeachment? This is going to get worse before it gets better.

Federal Judge in Deportation Case Finds Probable Cause To Hold the Trump Administration in Contempt: https://reason.com/2025/04/16/federal-judge-in-deportation-case-finds-probable-cause-to-hold-the-trump-administration-in-contempt/ So, does the Rule of Law really matter to the Trump administration? What about his MAGA supporters in general?

Peace through Strength. Let all your TDS shine bright. Ole buddy was sent back to USA to be tried for trafficking.

Dude is right where he belongs. Out of this country. Thankfully.

Thank the Lord for POTUS 47! Let him and his administration cook!!!!!

Buddy was here illegally and a member of MS-13. Nobody is above the law. Judges getting arrested too. More folks to come too, I’d imagine.