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  1. So then my question is, as an administrator, is coaching not a major "plus" for a potential teaching candidate? I would think that what you can glean from an interview and a resume is pretty limited. The commitment to kids and community that someone who takes a lot of time out of their day to coach, not to mention the connection with kids that you know will develop from coaching, in my mind has to at least factor a little bit into the equation. Can you really gain a significant amount of insight into someone's teaching ability vs someone else's teaching ability from a resume, some letters of recommendation, and an interview? I'm a teacher/coach that has been frustrated in the past by watching admin pass over someone that you know would coach for someone who is "better with their use of technology in the classroom" or "more innovative with their teaching strategies" (in actuality probably just better at throwing out buzz words in their interview). Only to see that person struggle to connect with kids and therefore struggle as a teacher.
    3 points
  2. Oldest was the smallest. But intimidated the middle brother. Middle brother is the biggest, but also the biggest pu....He ended up being the smart one and going to college. After a while they figured out, they may be able to beat me, but at some point I would catch them off guard and they would pay dearly. Middle brother needs to thank his lucky stars I wasn't physically strong enough to throw that pitch fork at him, because my intent was literally to kill him. I ended up being the one with the long memory and the bad temper. Both of my brothers were considerably older than me, one is eight years older, middle brother is six years older.
    2 points
  3. My wife helps coach the Robotics team at the elementary school where she teaches. My five year old cannot wait to participate and free builds at home to make things that look like the robots that they use in the competition. He is far smarter than me and he loves that stuff almost as much as throwing balls around and wrestling his brother. Time will tell what he want to do when he gets older. I will following whatever he decides to choose and and be his biggest and quietest fan in the stands!
    2 points
  4. I wouldn't be surprised. Be ready for an updated definition of PI similar to the catch/no catch rule. Careful what you ask for. I'm also guessing the calamity rule the NFL has is more for something intentional and outlandish. Like they discovered an entire team got sick during the game because someone gave them rotten food. An incorrect judgement call (regardless of how incorrect) is not a reason to enact this rule. No matter what they do with replay or technology there will still be people involved and there will still be errors. Even when calls are correct fans will complain. There is no way to avoid that.
    2 points
  5. Pretty close; being a guy from a family of 5 boys (2 girls as well). I was the 5th boy. I give the others a hard time because with all of us loving football, only one of gots rings 🤣 and the first coming from the first one in the family to attend a public school too. We were not spread out like some other families though. The oldest was born in March of 60; me being number 6, was born in September of 66. We have tried putting mom up for Sainthood, Now word back yet from the Vatican though.
    1 point
  6. This is the sort of things that is not funny,. To any official, the photo is an obvious fake. The uniform is clearly wrong, and the NFL has prohibited this sort of fraternization since 1995. Even though retractions have been printed, there are thousands upon thousands of people out there who are now convinced that Bill Vinovich did something shady. As an official who has been accused in print of unethical behavior relating to a game — based on misinformation, resulting in a public retraction — I speak from personal experience in saying there’s no humor in this. Gurley should get at least a game suspension. I’ve seen the retractions from national publications like USA Today that printed this as fact. Not good enough. And i’ve not seeing anything from Gurley. https://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/sports/saints/article_2ed73e78-1d1d-11e9-b1d9-ef902aa926fa.html
    1 point
  7. How many sectional title games has Coach McWhorter coached in since he left Zionsville in his last one 10 years ago? A lot of that success of Zionsville was when they were playing 3a/4a schedule. Last sectional title under Coach McWhorter was 2008. Coach Ech coached Zionsville to 3 sectional titles in class 5a Want to still be skeptical, sure, but have some context or research in your analysis and skittish based on random counting stat as career W-L record
    1 point
  8. A drop kick can be used for a free kick, and yes, it can be fair caught. While the ball has touched the ground, the “kick” has not. It doesn’t become a kick until it is actually kicked.
    1 point
  9. They won't vote you in either! Funny thing about conferences....members are only looking out for their own interest.
    1 point
  10. I have no hard data to support this... But I had conversations w/ 3 different head coaches this past week at Glazier and all 3 "feel" that live streams have hurt attendance, ESPECIALLY when weather id bad.
    1 point
  11. Easy to look at his record and say he has had an average career, but numbers only tell half the story. He took over a 4-6 team that played a 6a schedule and turned them into a sectional contender every year. Plus, he's finished with three straight .500 or better seasons at Zionsville. Not enough? This was basically an exact clone of what he did at Eastern Hancock. When he took over at EH that program was one of the worst in the entire state, with only 6 wins in 4 years. Went 3-7, 6-6 and then 14-1 with a state championship appearance. It's clear he won't take this Pike program and make them competitive overnight, but if history is any indication by 2021 Pike will be back.
    1 point
  12. C'mon man, you guys are missing the big picture. No bus trips rides in homeschooling, where the real education happens.
    1 point
  13. The only thing that will end this never-ending debate is to let go of the expectation of perfection. Doesn’t mean officials should stop trying to get every call right. It means coaches, players, fans, media, etc., should stop expecting them to get every call right ... and expressing outrage when they don’t. Officiating has been a huge part of my life for 40+ years, and I can tell you the mechanics, clinics, instructional materials, and other aids to improvement are far, far better now than they were even 20 yrs. ago. The officiating product is correspondingly much better than it was. Yet dissatisfaction with officiating is greater than ever. The reason: technology has changed expectations. Seeing all those camera angles, slo-mo and stop action replays have changed expectations. After all, it looks so easy, the calls so obvious ... even though it iisn’t and they aren’t. The more we expect perfection from human beings, the less likely we are to be satisfied, even when the officiating product approaches the limits of human performance, which is where I believe the NFL is now. You are not going to find better officials than we have in the NFL. You can keep trying to improve the selection process and the training. But that will result in marginal improvement at best, because it is already just about as good as you’re going to get from the human performance standpoint.
    1 point
  14. It’s been announced that Younis, if approved by the school board, will become head coach again. I am very happy about this fir the reasons stated by Fine Print above.
    1 point
  15. My son grew up hating football. He was involved in other more academic type groups through most of elementary. He was avid in the Pokémon cards 😂. But I made him go to a 3 day after school football skills type camp in 3rd grade. I told him that I was making him go but after this if he he didn’t like it I wouldn’t make him try football anymore. I resigned myself to my only son not playing football and I was ok with that. Sorta. Lol. Fast forward 3 yrs and a friend of his talked him into trying it. When he told me that he was going to play in 7th grade, I almost fainted. He learned quickly and played well. Finishing up his sophomore year, He’s done well and loves the game. That being said, I would have lived and supported anything that he would’ve chosen had he not chose to play.
    1 point
  16. Air Force at New Pal today
    1 point
  17. They were contracted. 😈 Lord, I apologize for that.
    1 point
  18. As part of the CFWM activities, I'm posting a pic of the latest Caddy that was conferred. Thanks to @Coach Nowlin for taking time out of his schedule to travel across time zones to deliver it. Also thanks to Coach Meeks for taking time out to create the Caddy and for his support of the Hoosier Conference GID Pick 'em activities. Hoping for another good year in the CFWM so I can try to catch up with Coach Durham and his legendary four Caddies.
    1 point
  19. We are not even touching any of that nonsense: Dumb Dumb Dumb in my opinion. We get everything we need to accomplish in the summer 12 practice session and 5 competition days.
    1 point
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  21. I believe that. I once shared the story in the old OOB of a single parent I knew who pulled her 10-12 year son out the government school, primarily so he could help her in the mornings at the diner she owned. Any homeschooling was then done in the afternoon or evening. Wouldn't this help to teach the young man the value of physical labor?
    -1 points
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