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this whole conversation has been a true off season gem!! Classic GID

I just retired as HC at Lakeland in December, But thanks for the clarification.

Andy Griffith got Opie to dance

I am 100 percent alright with that. My job as an educator is to educate my students. I want the best teachers in my building. Football which is a a sport that I hold dearly,however, it is an extracurricular. If that means out sports programs are at a disadvantage, but they receive a great education, I can sleep just fine at night.

Hi All, Not looking for any rumors here...we all know the rules. That said...who do you think we have out there roaming the state that might be a good fit for these jobs?

Well the debates should be interesting. I told IO a couple days ago, this will be like watching two old men at a memory care facility who cannot hear each other arguing.

We never had an option when square dancing was covered in our PE classes.

Pardon me, but I might be a bit ignorant. @Muda69 makes a great point. Speaking purely from a former AD perspective, basketball and football keep other sports alive at many schools. Hence the reason many schools don’t want to cut football even if they aren’t Conference or Sectional contenders. Swimming, wrestling, tennis, golf, track, etc are not paying the bills, or coaches salaries. Football and basketball do that.

So, he’s doing exactly what he’s supposed to be doing. What’s the problem? Edit: for those just reading this post, the “your” in southend’s quoted post is not only grammatically incorrect, but also refers to @Coach Nowlin, not me.😂

His sole intent is to make sure Ball State, ISU and others remain unsuccessful!

Seems like someone has told them to put all their eggs into one basketcase

Both positions have some positives and negatives. I am interested to see the direction each school chooses to go. MTV- can the new coach (whoever it will be) build on what Coach Brunson was building.? Will the move to the PAC help or hurt them? I would guess help, but you never know. SS- can the new coach turn things around? Will the shakeup in the PAC help them? I am not sure it will. I know SS has had success in the past.

Hoping for a VP bid, you think? And was that just about the quickest waste of $500,000,000 in human history?

If you have been through the process, you would know that a Preferred Walk-On and and Recruited Walk-On are the same thing. An Unrecruited Walk-On is someone who participates in an open try-out sometime prior to the start of spring practice during the early part of the spring semester. That is a rough process and not many make it through, but all of the guys that make it through that process could have been valued contributors at smaller schools. Should the major program HC encourage them to leave and go elsewhere in the name of the health of small college football?

that is an amazing view! Is the school to the left of the football field?

I'm sure your coaches appreciate it. As long as they don't receive any community/school board pressure to produce on the field, I'm sure they are fine with it too....

Being the head coach, I was given last hour prep this year. Other than that, I teach a full load and split time between middle school and high school. In the middle school I teach business and computer science (6-8 grades). In the high school I teach AP Computer Science, PLTW Civil Engineering and Architecture, and PLTW Digital Electronics. It's a full day. I'd give my right arm for a lighter load, just for the sake of less classes to prep for. I've been asking for years but we're a small district and they cannot afford it.

I think it may depend on what your opponents do...It's going to be hard to make my HC a full-time teacher AND be successful as a football coach if none of the HC's I play against are full-time teachers.

It is very difficult to be a head football coach and be a normal classroom teacher. At least for the bigger sized schools that is. There are many obligations and responsibilities for the head football coach throughout the day during the season and in the offseason.

Was just curious as to what else was out there. I think every HEAD coach in my conference (PAC) has a PE/Strength position or an administrative role. What are some "creative" positions that have been formed in the schools to fit a coach in?? Those sometimes make me chuckle ...

I know that Coach Mosser at Adams Central teaches social studies, as well as being their head track coach. Coach Sehy at Blackford teaches English as well as their head track coach. Coach Hess at Wes-Del teaches Biology. Coach Moser at South Adams teaches business. Coach Wilhelm at Yorktown teaches science. That's just the guys I know, and they all do a fine job. My guess would be that more teach outside of the PE/Health realm than you would think. That being said PE/coaching complement each other well.

Here's a great view of Whiting's fantastic baseball stadium in the foreground, football stadium in the middle, and the Chicago skyline in the background.

Bishop Dwenger played at South Bend St Joe a few years ago. I felt they have an excellent stadium.

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

Rice Field is pretty nice.

Hate to say it but he seems to get butt hurt alot anytime someone says something here an on the football side. I'm from Linton an seems like every time he says something I just roll my eyes

You failed to answer the question: if giving someone PWO status isn’t designed to make the team better, then why is he doing it?

Yep. Keep those programs down and that means more walk-ons to use as tackle dummies and benchwarmers.

So, if it’s not to make the team better, why is Coach Allen doing it?

Our Higher Education Problem: Serious but Not Hopeless: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/our-higher-education-problem-serious-but-not-hopeless/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=homepage&utm_campaign=right-rail&utm_content=corner&utm_term=first Costs are way up, but learning is not. Many students coast through college with scant gains in useful knowledge. What can be done? Vedder favors changes that would make colleges have some “skin in the game” when they take government money and purport to educate students. Incentives would change greatly if colleges had to worry about repaying at least some of the student aid if the student later defaults. Another change he likes is the movement we’re seeing at a few schools towards financing through income-share agreements, whereby investors put up the money for a promising student. That also improves the incentives. And as a parting shot, Vedder suggests that we undo one of our great educational blunders by abolishing the federal Department of Education.

It’s easy to include kids in activities when you don’t sponsor any activities.

Who said I felt bad?

A middle school requires kids to dance with anyone who asks. One mom is fighting for her daughter’s right to say ‘no.’: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-middle-school-requires-kids-to-dance-with-anyone-who-asks-one-mom-is-fighting-for-her-daughters-right-to-say-no/ar-BB10sDxR Nothing like a little state-mandated forced association. I guess it’s good practice in case she grows up to own a cake shop.

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The Perennial Case for School Choice: https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/03/school-choice-perennial-case/

Reminds me of this story: https://jalopnik.com/two-years-and-180-cars-later-michigan-man-forced-to-se-1837072099