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Many folks up in NWI where I reside know Coach Hudak from his playing days at Lowell. He worked up the ranks assistant coaching before taking over Lake Station and now Wheeler, but many probably didn't know he has always been a Registered Nurse, in E.R. It wasn't until 2019 when he left Nursing full time and became a middle school science teacher and would still work ER shifts on the weekends and in the offseason. Enter Covid-19 Great read from Mike Hutton up at Post Tribuine on Coach Hudak https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/post-tribune/sports/ct-ptb-spt-mike-hutton-column-st-040520-20200403-nm2ka353zbbjvck2ppnnzw63ze-story.html

The comparison is inapposite. The “flu” is actually several different viruses. The annual flu shot actually addresses only 3-4 of those — the ones epidemiologists believe will be most prevalent. So, getting the flu after having a flu shot is not only possible, it’s relatively common. That would not happen with a COVID-19 vaccine, which would be targeted to that specific virus. There is another reason the comparison is apples to oranges. COVID-19 is much more contagious than the flu. The degree of “contagiousness” of a virus is measured by its basic reproduction rate or RO (“R naught”): the average number of people who catch the disease from a single infected individual. The RO for most strains of influenza is about 1.3 i.e., flu victims infect 1.3 other people. They haven’t arrived at a final RO for COVID-19 yet, but it’s going to be somewhere between 2 and 3, meaning this virus is likely to be at least twice as contagious as the flu. The third reason the comparison is unhelpful is that this disease is much more severe than the flu, potentially. The US death rate from influenza is about 0.1%. We don’t have a firm handle on the death rate from COVID-19 yet, but the published studies so far place it somewhere between 1.4% and 2.3%, meaning it’s 14 to 23 times more lethal than the flu. Looking at COVID-19 the same way you look at the flu is of very limited use, and potentially, very dangerous.

As always, Coach Ralph and his staff completely open book, great stuff there!! Loved the early part of the game and question about repeater plays.

I REALLY hope you are right. BUT, with not to get too far off topic; if there is no viable vaccine, the fact is the virus will always be around, just like many other viruses and strains of them. With no vaccine, we could easily see another outbreak of this as people start going back to work, school and practice, as well as gathering in large crowds. Not to create fear, but the fact is we will wake up to a different world once this outbreak has eased up or even passed.

There’s a lot of misinformation out there about treatments and vaccines. The fact is there won’t be drug treatment specifically designed to treat the disease, as opposed to the symptoms, in 2020, and a vaccine won’t happen for 12-18 mos. as a best case scenario. This article is a week old. https://www.healthline.com/health-news/heres-exactly-where-were-at-with-vaccines-and-treatments-for-covid-19 However, Dr. Anthony FauciTrusted Source, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told reporters last week that a vaccine won’t be available for widespread use for at least another 12 to 18 months. This is the timeline to complete the phase III clinical studies. There’s no guarantee that the vaccine candidates will work. “There’s a lot of uncertainty with vaccine development,” Lee said. “Naturally, you have to make sure the vaccine is safe. But you also have to make sure the vaccine will elicit enough of an immune response.” Like drugs, potential vaccines have to pass through the same clinical trial stagesTrusted Source. This is especially important when it comes to safety, even during a pandemic. “The public’s willingness to back quarantines and other public-health measures to slow spread tends to correlate with how much people trust the government’s health advice,” Shibo Jiang, a virologist at Fudan University in China, wrote in the journal NatureTrusted Source. “A rush into potentially risky vaccines and therapies will betray that trust and discourage work to develop better assessments,” he said.

Amen. When my oldest was a freshman IIRC, our varsity had probably the best offense in the school's 11-man history. To me, the textbook definition of a perfectly balanced offense or close as you can get with a small school team. We would force the ground n' pound teams to commit to the run then burn them in the air. They found out long, clock-eating drives got them nowhere when suddenly down by 3-4 TD's mid-2nd quarter. In fact, the ball control worked against them as it took them so long to score, they didn't have time to pull even with us. Some of these teams only had a handful of passing plays that they worked on sparingly. By halftime, the game was basically over.

WHAT? In the last 3 years: Center Grove 23-16 Ben Davis 25-12 Warren Central 29-8 Do you just say the first thing that comes to your mind? I fully believe, that without Carson Steele, Ben Davis wins the semi-state and beats Carmel in the title game (better matchup), so how can you say they’re slipping? They lost 52 seniors from 2017 and had a new coach. Historically great teams and great coaches will do that. Warren, historically great in 2018, loses a loaded lineup and still gets into the regional. They were one year removed from losing over 40 seniors. You didn’t ask why CG was slipping when they lost a loaded senior class from 2016 and had a lousy 2017 season, so why stir the pot with Warren and BD? They aren’t going anywhere though I know you’re desperate for them to fall back so you can make your point about the MIC and HCC. It’s the MIC, it’s unforgiving that you’re in rebuilding mode when everyone should be in reloading mode. Happened to Center Grove in their 6-6 2017 season and to Carmel in their 8-5 2017 season. I think BD and Warren are allowed the same kind of grace. BD was driving and simply fell short in a 1 TD loss to CG in the semi-state this past year. Finally, I believe the Sagarin tells all: 2017 Sagarin Ben Davis 1 Warren Central 2 Center Grove 4 Carmel 13 2018 Sagarin Warren Central 1 Center Grove 2 Carmel 5 Ben Davis 9 2019 Sagarin Carmel 1 Center Grove 4 Ben Davis 5 Warren Central 6 Didn’t hear you when the 2017 Greyhounds were 13. Funny enough, the average for these 3 years: WC 3, CG 3.3, BD 5, Carmel 6.3 Carmel I guess should look toward playing in another conference, they seem to be slipping.

Trey Thompson was a guard on CG's 2008 team. In a game against Ben Davis he had more pancakes than anybody I've ever seen. His kick-out blocks when he pulled on sweeps were spectacular.

I hope so. All of the all experts can suck it!

What makes you think they’re not?

The problem you may run into is with smaller schools. There are some programs where the school does well enough in fielding teams for fall/spring, but if you had football competing with baseball ... two sports that require lots of kids and tends to have pretty decent cross-over at smaller schools ... you may be in a position where you can't field enough kids to do both of those in the same season. As an example, it appears that about a third of North Decatur's baseball team also plays football ... and the football team won a sectional last season. I'm not sure of the specific crossovers, but if you took 6-7 kids off of a 20-man baseball squad. With that said, I do like the idea of some flexibility/creative thinking to see about getting the kids some experience/activity in their sport. Would something like a 7-on-7 "rec-type" opportunity be available? There are plenty of 7-on-7 clinics out there, so there's definitely some experience in this area. It wouldn't be official, in the sense that you'd have a full-blown IHSAA season and full-sanctioned tourney, but I wonder if schools might be interested in looking at something like that if it came down to an all-on-none situation.

I agree they need to have some sort of contingency, but do not like this for a number of reasons. First, I do not like the idea of a player ever having to make a choice like this, even under extreme circumstances. Second, you're stretching a lot of coaches thin here too. Finally, I think the long term effects for the following season are too great. Kids need the year to properly recover, so doing this would land us on a shortened season the following fall as well. I think we're potentially looking at no organized work in the summer, which I know for a lot of programs seems unthinkable. In reality however you do not NEED the summer months, many of us just think we do. Football has been played before with no summer workouts; it may have been since the 70s and under different circumstances (no global pandemic, kids were different, etc.) but it has happened.

Tom Allen is a good recruiter. Usually the kids he lands are pretty bought in.

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RPO's aren't a new concept. I've seen them in playbooks as far back as the 70's. Heck, even Bud Wright utilized an RPO 2 years ago against us in the sectional. Why would you not take advantage of an effective scheme? Your lack of football knowledge is very evident. The Bart Curtis and Russ Radtke's of the world still co-exist peacefully among the new wave coaching concepts, and the sky is not falling.

More Fake News from mainstream media. Dr. Anthony Fauci: Of course I would prescribe chloroquine to coronavirus patients. https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/03/25/dr-anthony-fauci-of-course-i-would-prescribe-chloroquine-to-coronavirus-patients/

Fox News was very accurate in their reporting on the Russia hoax, Mueller Dossier and the Impeachment hoax. The liberal mainstream media was dead wrong and proved to be Fake News.

After 17 years there is no vaccine or cure for SARS-CoV. After 8 years there is no vaccine or cure for MERS-CoV. I wonder when the vaccine and cure for COVID-19 will be available?

CBS New York Coronavirus Update: NYC COVID-19 Survivor Says Drug Hydroxychoroquine Helped Save His Life. He tested positive for coronavirus, but says the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine helped save his life. “When your lungs are filled with fluid, you can’t breathe. It’s like you’re drowning, you’re suffocating,” Cannizzaro said. “It was just a horrible situation. I’m on a floor and everybody had the virus and people were passing away and I thought I was going to pass away,” Cannizzaro said. On a Thursday, his doctor told him they were administering hydroxychloroquine. “Friday, I got better. Saturday, I got better. Sunday, I almost felt like my old self. So that drug is really what saved my life, to be honest with you,” Cannizzaro said. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/coronavirus-update-nyc-covid-19-survivor-says-drug-hydroxychloroquine-helped-save-his-life/ar-BB12eRwL

Detroit Rep says hydroxychloroquine, Trump helped save her life amid COVID-19 fight. LANSING — A Democratic state representative from Detroit is crediting hydroxychloroquine — and Republican President Donald Trump who touted the drug — for saving her in her battle with the coronavirus. State Rep. Karen Whitsett, who learned Monday she has tested positive for COVID-19, said she started taking hydroxychloroquine on March 31, prescribed by her doctor, after both she and her husband sought treatment for a range of symptoms on March 18. Whitsett said she was familiar with "the wonders" of hydroxychloroquine from an earlier bout with Lyme disease, but does not believe she would have thought to ask for it, or her doctor would have prescribed it, had Trump not been touting it as a possible treatment for COVID-19. But Whitsett said Trump's comments helped in her case. "It has a lot to do with the president ... bringing it up," Whitsett said. "He is the only person who has the power to make it a priority." https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/04/06/democrat-karen-whitsett-coronavirus-hydroxychloroquine-trump/2957897001/