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The best part of Pence running for VP, we didn't have him for governor anymore. Lesson learned, be careful what you wish for.

A little biased.... It's not a huge stadium, but it's ours.. And on Friday Nights it's packed & it's loud.

I've worked once at Reitz but it was a cold night and lowly attended. It was a neat stadium but would be much better with a full crowd. I like Carmel and Merrillville as they are similar. The lack of a track at Merrillville makes it unique. My overall favorite is Tech HS in Indy. It's a neat setting, and I would to work there with a full crowd some night. It's also hard to beat the environment at some of the smaller schools too. The stadiums aren't as "impressive" but it's still a cool place to be. Here are just a few where I've worked. Union City: always seems to have everyone in town at the game regardless of record Mississinewa: the cannon across the street scared the crap out of me. It's been a few years so I don't know if they still do that Corydon: beautiful setting with grilling shelter just off the field Western Boone: especially when they are good it's a packed and loud house

The GID needs a "wow" emoji

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/2020-02-26-high-school-student-gives-bonus-points-test-winston-lee-23934983.html FTA: “If you could, could you give my bonus points to whoever scores the lowest?” the student’s note asked. Lee told Good Morning America he was “surprised” by the message, which had zero specifications about who it would be helping. “He didn’t care if he considered them a friend, didn’t care if they were cool, didn’t matter to him what situation had caused them to score lower, he just wanted to help, be kind, commit a loving act,” Lee wrote of his student. The teacher said that the student’s final score would have been a 99 out of 100, if not for his five-point donation. He told Good Morning America that he decided to go through with the offer, giving the points to a student who wouldn’t have passed the test without them.

I agree with this 100%....with some further specifics. Demographics/Economics changes in the last few decades across most all of Northern, IN. (Ft Wayne to a lesser degree). With a significant amount of population movement from the Region and SB/Elk area to Northern Burbs of Indy. I live in Hamilton County and can hardly keep count the number of Duneland/NIC/NLC folks that are down here now. A LOT of Legacy families from all of those programs are now in the Indy Metro area....specifically Northern/Western Burbs. At my kids' ball games, I know people from Penn, Hobart, Jimtown, Valpo, LaPorte, Goshen, Plymouth, etc, etc, etc. These are guys who were GREAT players in all the blue blood programs (I don't count myself one of them😋). That is a lot of football "culture" being exported from Northern, IN to the Indy Burbs. More specifically, Penn is NOT a "Mega" school anymore and has not been able to keep pace with the growth of the MIC/HCC schools. They would fit nicely in the middle of both of those conferences across most all sports. Being at the top some years in some. Maybe most importantly.....some of the legends of Indiana Football have been retired for a long time.....Gees, Howell, Sharpe, etc. Their contemporaries are drawn to the FtW, Indy Metro areas. Hopefully this ebb will flow in time....in my football soul, I want to see the NLC, NIC, & Region football get back to par with the Indy Metro

I’ve found that with Hudl, phones, texts, weekend meetings don’t necessarily have to happen anymore with a few exceptions. It can also be easy to confuse being busy with being productive. Just from my experience, I’m a better coach when I’m rested and I take time to recharge.

My point exactly!!! Conference affiliations are much more than football...

I've see it also, looks pretty good. TC's from I-65 is not near as good in my humble opinion.

Fun fact, I once had a cat that liked to play with shoe strings and of course decided to eat one at some point. You guessed it a day later, about 6" of shoe string hanging out, and the cat shot out of the liter box like a rocket. Finally got a hold of the cat and pulled the rest of the shoe string out. It's funny now, but at the time, not so much.

Demographics change, interests dropped, coaches retired, other regions have stepped up.

All of these Indiana football palaces pale in comparison to what IMHO is the best high school football venue in the country: Fleur De Lis field in Greenfield, Illinois.

Best venues in the Indy area Ben Davis (massive) 9,500 seats Carmel Warren Central Lawrence North Lawrence Central (both Lawrence renovations are very nice) Center Grove Westfield Brownsburg Decatur Central Many nice venues in the Indy area, but these places are awesome. I personally like Ben Davis facility.

I agree. Venue and atmosphere-wise in the Indy area, I would say Westfield and CG take the cake. Maybe Tech too. Beautiful venue. Atmosphere wise- Roncalli and the woods with fog, CG, Bburg, and Westfield. Any other significantly strong venues in the Indy area?

Lots of great answers and there are many great places for Friday Night Lights. But no place will ever surpass the greatest of them all IMO: The Brickie Bowl

Still do not understand why everyone continues to talk about this topic! 1. I promise IU (12)and Purdue (9) ranked big 10 recruiting did not talk these PWO'S into leaving scolarships. These young men made these choices for their future! 2. It is not affecting the fcs,d2 and naia schools. These big ten schools are barley pulling in talent that is netter than those of the smaller schools.i know of one naia school this year alone that has kids coming in from 7 states including florida and California. Again let these young men enjoy their time in college. Some may continue to follow their dream and some may not. They also may decide to pursue only their education. Also some may decide to transfer to one of the smaller schools. Hope all these student athletes nothing but the best!

Whiting has the best view: Lake Michigan and the Chicago skyline.

Sounds like you might pick up a case of the Negra Modelo virus by the time that's over.

I want to see a new Elkhart Push Penn, I want to see New Prairie, St. Joe and Marian push them as well. I want Mishawaka to push the new NLC to improve. I want to see the Michiana area to get back to being a hotbed of football in all classes.

Troll? Really? So an individual who has contrary opinions to the status quo is automatically labeled by you as a "message board troll". Got it. I'm glad I don't live in your world of group-think.

Never been to a game there, but Lawrenceburg has always been my favorite to see in passing

No it wasn't. You're making that up to fit your narrative.

The fallout at Tri-West continues: https://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2020/02/28/tri-west-high-school-officials-suspended-amid-sex-abuse-investigation/4904855002/ I assume Mr. And Ms. Begle are married?

Funny how your tune has changed from CG and Carmel because of attendance. Now LC and LN, who don’t travel well (LN had less than 150 fans at the GBB semi state last week compared to Bedfords 1500) should join the HCC. My IQ goes down every time I read one of your posts.

https://mises.org/wire/why-wall-street-bankers-and-federal-lawyers-hate-michael-milken In fact, what makes this pardon worse, according to Carroll, is that wealthy people—and even Rudy Giuliani himself, the man who led Milken’s prosecution—asked Trump to pardon him. In other words, some of those who have stood up for Milken are wealthy beyond a reasonable doubt, and if their names aren’t George Soros or Kennedy, they should just shut up and count their money. Indeed, I, too, am outraged by Trump’s pardoning Michael Milken, but the cause of my outrage is that Milken should have needed a pardon at all. That he was coerced into a guilty plea—for “crimes” that federal judges later would say were not criminal actions—and that he spent two years in a federal prison is the real outrage, and the fact that even after thirty years American political and legal elites still are holding to the same false narrative should raise the blood pressure of any person who believes in liberty, fairness, and the rule of law. For those readers who do not remember the infamous Wall Street prosecutions of more than three decades ago, the story does not have a happy ending. In his brief article celebrating the Milken pardon, David Gordon cites Murray Rothbard’s commentary on that era. Rothbard correctly identified it as a struggle between Michael Milken—a true financial genius who had a positive macroeconomic effect on the US economy—and the power elite. The story of Michael Milken does not begin with his guilty plea or even the start of the Wall Street predations led by Rudy Giuliani, who then was the US attorney for the Southern District of New York and used his success to launch his political career. Instead, it begins during the Great Depression, when the Franklin Roosevelt administration decided that America’s economic salvation lay in reorganizing the US economy into a series of cartels. Because of the huge rate of bank failures in the early 1930s, the New Dealers especially sought to cartelize the nation’s financial system, and although the system held together in the first two decades after World War II, by the 1970s it was clear that the heavily regulated and noncompetitive system was not up to enterprises tied in with the new technologies making their way into the economy. That is where Michael Milken and his high-yield bonds underwritten through the upstart investment bank Drexel Burnham stepped in. When CNN ran its story on the pardon with a snarky headline derisively calling Milken the “Junk Bond King” (and falsely intimating that he was convicted of insider trading and calling him the “face of greed,” another misnomer), the story failed to point out that CNN’s very existence is due to the fact that Milken underwrote its financing through those “junk bonds” that CNN’s talking heads now are deriding. The cartelized banking system was not about to finance a 24-hour news channel, something the “experts” were panning, and especially not one founded by the iconoclastic Ted Turner and to be headquartered in Atlanta and not New York. Milken also led the financing for McCaw Cellular and MCI, both of which helped to revolutionize telecommunications and upset the status quo. However, as Rothbard points out, Milken’s real “sin” was to be a major force in financing the wave of mergers and hostile takeovers that challenged the progressive status quo in corporate America and the mainstream media. Rothbard wrote: He continued: The Wall Street establishment had its own weapon in Giuliani, who saw an opportunity to permanently ingratiate himself with New York’s political and financial ruling classes, which would prove to be valuable to him when he later became the city’s mayor. Both Daniel Fischel and Harvey Silverglate have written definitive books in which they detail the abusive way that federal prosecutors went after the financial upstarts using the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act. I also detailed Giuliani’s predations in Regulation a decade ago: Giuliani made it clear that he had targeted Milken for prosecution no matter what, and given the malleability of federal criminal law, Giuliani was able to channel the infamous Lavrentiy Beria, Stalin’s state security head who once declared, “Find me the man, and I will find you the crime.” Giuliani’s strategy was simple: denounce Milken to a hungry press and feed journalists what for all purposes was disinformation. Select reporters such as James Stewart and Laurie P. Cohen of the Wall Street Journal and journalists at the New York Times received illegally leaked material from the grand jury. Although such leaks are felonies, federal prosecutors are not in the habit of indicting themselves, and the lawless behavior of Giuliani and the elite financial press sent a signal to Milken and everyone else in the federal crosshairs that the rule of law did not apply when the feds were engaged in a popular “war on greed.” Using the RICO statute enabled Giuliani and his staff to take regulatory violations that normally were handled in the civil arena by the Securities and Exchange Commission and bundle them into “racketeering” charges. At the same time, federal prosecutors constantly threw out the accusations of insider trading, even though they never charged Milken with such “crimes” (and had they had real evidence, there is no doubt that they would have levied that charge, too). However, the progressive American media picked up the “insider trading” narrative and ran with it, just as they did with Martha Stewart (who also did not engage in that act). While prosecutors levied the usual “fraud” charges against Milken that one sees in federal prosecutions, the actual charges were weak, something that really would come to light when federal judges later deep-sixed identical charges against other Wall Street defendants in future trials. Milken, however, pleaded guilty, something that Carroll writes is proof of his guilt: Actually, Carroll seems to be quoting himself regarding the “technical” and “regulatory” aspect of Milken’s so-called crimes, since it was Carroll who bragged to Rutgers University law students in 1992 that the government had broken new ground in this case. Federal prosecutors, he said, In other words, Milken and Carroll made the same claims, but now Carroll somehow wants to say that only Milken was saying such a thing. This speaks volumes about Carroll’s integrity. So why did Milken plead guilty? Even had a Manhattan jury convicted him, the appellate courts almost certainly would have overturned the convictions as they did for the Princeton-Newport defendants. Milken pleaded because federal prosecutors essentially took hostages. First, they aimed their guns at Milken’s 92-year-old grandfather, threatening to prosecute him. Then they indicted Milken’s brother, Lowell. However, they promised Michael that if he pleaded guilty, they would drop the charges against his brother and not prosecute his grandfather. As Giuliani would quip, “A brother for a brother.” More than three decades have passed since Milken pleaded guilty, his case still brings out the long knives. It doesn’t matter that federal prosecutors committed felony after felony and lied about Milken’s activities. It doesn’t matter that Milken probably broke no criminal statutes and that the advances in finance that he helped create were immeasurable. Nor does it matter that Milken has been a major player in researching prostate cancer—and he even reached out to Giuliani when the latter was stricken with prostate cancer. No, Michael Milken was responsible for the nonexistent “Decade of Greed.” The New York Times says so. Barron’s says so. The Washington Post says so. Even CNN says so, and Fox News also got into the “greed” act. The narratives, however, are built on something other than the truth. Rothbard puts the whole thing into perspective: As one of comments to this story says "Never a day goes by that I don't have to lower my opinion of government." Despicable abuse of power by the government.

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Political Opportunists Are Using Coronavirus Fears To Push Whatever Policies They Already Wanted: https://reason.com/2020/02/27/the-one-thing-we-know-for-sure-about-the-coronavirus-outbreak-is-that-pols-will-use-it-to-push-their-agendas/

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https://mises.org/wire/how-we-spend-our-money-reveals-more-about-us-our-votes Completely agree with Mr. Galles and the late Mr. Cleveland. Forced "charity" via taxation is immoral.

But it's the money making sports like Basketball and Football keeping the minor sports alive.

But....but....but...Politifact says it's true. All seventeen U.S Intelligence Agencies agreed the Russians hacked the DNC. Ignore the fact that the FBI, CIA and NSA have never even seen the DNC servers, let alone conduct any type of forensic analysis and present the evidence to the American public for review. The Mueller Dossier and CrowdStrike have debunked right wing tin foil hat conspiracy theories. 🤣🙄