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You bitch about the officials every week in the HHC thread. You just wake up recently?

They are scheduled to play one another in Week 8. They must be pretty good program, 35-14 was it?

You can probably find a good one at Goodwill, a thrift store, or even area garage sales.

This is more of a indictment of the System of Courts if they can judge shop to find the "perfect" one to drop the ole Injunction, knowing full well that in Texas the rules automatically make it go to an appeal court.... .and here is the fun one, those are always 8-10 months out from the Injuction, just in time for the season to conclude........ Fun

A win/win for everyone.

There are definitely some similarities between several of the NCC schools, FW North Side, South Side, and Wayne. I think you can also include New Haven. It’s too bad the geography and travel are prohibitive because a conference of these 8 schools could be pretty balanced in most sports. Anderson 1693 Fort Wayne South Side 1419 Fort Wayne Wayne 1367 Fort Wayne North Side 1320 Richmond 1261 Muncie Central 1254 New Haven 1117 Marion 993 Another combination that could be a competitive mix is the larger SAC schools and the schools that formerly made up the western part of the NCC. Kokomo has experienced a decline in their enrollment but they still compete pretty well. Carroll (Fort Wayne) 2581 Homestead 2345 Harrison (West Lafayette) 2109 Fort Wayne Northrop 2069 Lafayette Jefferson 2008 Fort Wayne Snider 1854 McCutcheon 1823 Kokomo 1385 Neither of those conferences will ever happen. I think some kind of scheduling alliance needs to happen between the SAC and NIC. Homestead/Carroll should play Penn/Elkhart in every sport, and Dwenger/Luers should play St. Joseph/Marian in every sport.

Wow…conference foe….

It's just a game, played by children. Why are we continuing to try and take the human element out of a game? What are the current betting lines for Travel ball?

The Tenderloins of Riverton Parkes are the heavy 1A South favorites. I swear to God they are

Agree with everything you’ve said. For me, the bolded statement is very important. The coaches’ vote is the single greatest factor in playoff advancement. As you know, I spend my football seasons these days trying to show crews that by improving their mechanics, their rules knowledge, and their understanding of the philosophies that underlie good officiating, they will become better officials. The problem is there is virtually no connection between those things and the coaches’ vote. Speaking in general - there are always exceptions - coaches have no interest in officiating mechanics, don’t know the rules nearly as well as they think they do, and have never been educated in the philosophies that underlie good officiating. Don’t get me wrong. Coaches are major stakeholders, and should have some voice in the process. But frankly, they are ill-suited to evaluate officiating proficiency, and it is unfair to them to ask coaches to evaluate something they’ve never been trained in, and when they are nowhere near objective. So, when a crew asks me whether their tournament status will improve if they do the work the way our Manual says they should, I have to be honest and answer “I don’t know.” And that’s because the annual process of ranking crews for tournament assignment and advancement purposes is fatally flawed, and is a cause of much disaffection in the officiating community. We all know crews that are so disgusted by the process that they don’t even apply for the tournament. We also know officials who have given up officiating, with frustration at the tournament process being a significant factor in their decision.