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I think in this particular situation, with how wrong the article was and how sensitive the situation in our state and nation/world is he was extra adamant to protect his players from unwarranted "keyboard warriors" that were all over facebook/twitter I am sure. Listen folks, New Pal excellence has made them a target for anyone and everyone to nitpick anything and everything and I am sure Coach Ralph gets stuff sent his way online quite a bit and I do not blame him one bit for taking that stance with his program under attack

I know this is probably blasphemy, but let's get through baseball first. 😀 A couple of the parents on my younger son's travel squad posted the following pics concerning baseball season:

There were a lot of comments outside of this forum that crossed many lines. It went as far as someone publicly saying the boys were brain damaged. I believe that is why you saw such a strong and somewhat emotional response from Coach Ralph. I certainly do not want to speak for him, but you will be hard pressed to find a man who cares for and loves his players more than him. He would never put them in harms way and will do anything he can to protect them and have their back.

Article was written and pictures taken concerning the week after school closed. For NP that was March 13. Stay at home order issued March 23. Players have since adjusted and are doing what they and their families deem is safe. Some more strict than others. As I’m sure is going on in every football community across the state.

you are going to need 4-6 hours when you guys decide to break down that State game with Snider!!!

There were a lot more things being accused and said on other platforms than the GID. I’ve seen a lot of criticism of Ralph by keyboard warriors over the years. He never responds. In this case, I thought the response was justified.

Is it football season yet?

Thanks for the additional facts, I will be happy to check them out. Yet it wasn't needed to jump down throats BEFORE the facts were presented. As I said we went by the article. If the article was not correct then clearly it should be edited and the truth told. Til then responses based on what we saw on the article were just that. No one was trying to make themselves feel better. Grow up

No Sir Temptation no Coach Ralph. I’m sure his gridiron handle would be Coach Ralph.

Trust Chuck

CBS is one of the sources you cited above in your anecdotal defense of Trump’s “cure”.

worked: What you can do easily here on GID with Youtube or Twitter links: Just copy the URL: then paste it in the reply box and hit space bar. Wait a few seconds and GID software will automatically change it to look embedded like you have above.

Then it appears the bigger issue is spin given by the Daily Reporter, evidence it gives to support the spin, and the date it was published. Evidence it gives to show how this particular football program is moving forward despite a stay at home order can do nothing but raise questions/issues. Looking solely at this article, I don't feel anything but concern/worry/anger can happen. I am sure that those that applauded and/or attended the specific large group workouts before March 23rd wish that they now didn't happen. I hope going forward all high school athletes in Indiana are able to work out solely from their own home and that the upcoming season is able to happen. Stay safe everyone...

I agree with you in why it was written in the first place, with tone/spin the article takes, and evidence it presents. But it was written and it does raise certain questions and leaves a lot of truths unanswered. It presents a lot of ways in which this team is working around social distancing, not despite social distancing.

Thank you. I heard interviews were pushed back not sure If this week or the following week. I know of a couple that have applied, not gonna say names though.

Several have already shared facts. Maybe if everyone was more interested in truth, than attacking a program, a coach, kids and families to make themselves feel better things would be different.

dmizers3 quit jumping on everyone's case we are just going by the article. Chill out. Give us the facts please.

This was posted by @CoachWes on another website: We’ve asked for a correction to be made to this story. Some of the details regarding the timeline of this are not present in the story. I can see why folks think this is currently happening based on how the story is written. It is not. The photos are from before the stay at home order and before the restriction of groups to be 10 or less. Our district has encouraged all students, staff, coaches, and players to adhere to the guidelines as presented by the governor.

Lots of love Panther Nation way

Read it again. The players are in constant contact with the head coach. IMO, he should be encouraging them to stop. Remember this is my opinion, so with that a quarter you can buy a piece of gum.

The article reads as if the kids are doing it all on their own and not on school property. What is wrong with that? I understand the sympathy to the pandemic and the social distancing, but how could a coach be fired for his players working out on their own with no guidance from him?

I wonder if the Governor has seen this article. Doesn't look like social distancing to me. If we allowed this to happen, we'd be fired within a day. I don't get it.

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.

Color me naïve. Skin pigmentation matters more to some but not as much to others. When you're on the 3 yard line with a few seconds left and one last chance to win a game, talent matters more than color of the player's skin.

Lance Harbor, a five-star recruit for the West Canaan Coyotes committed to Florida State before blowing out his knee. Jonathan Moxon ultimately went to Brown which is in Rhode Island and Wendell Brown went to Grambling (Louisiana for you folks playing at home).

Not sure about the communism part of the comment, but he's right that allowing up to 3 yards for lineman to be legal does make it more difficult for defenses. The reason is the defense (and officials) read run/pass based on what the linemen do. If they drive block it's generally a run read. If their first step is back it's generally a pass read. The defenders will then cover the play accordingly. With RPO, the linemen will block initially as if it's a run and the defenders will adjust their coverage/movement as if it's a run play. RPO is designed to take advantage of that. NFL allows no downfield (or maybe 1 yard) so it's a different situation there. The QB is still reading a defender to determine which option he'll use, but the linemen are much more limited in what they can do. I've never thought of RPO as high scoring. That's more of the spread, hurry up offenses. Some may run RPO but they aren't the same thing. From an officiating standpoint, I'll make two points. First, this is very difficult to officiate because someone has to be able to watch two different things (the location of the lineman and the status of the ball) at the same time and they usually don't occur near each other. If one official knows where the linemen are and another one knows the pass was thrown, that information can't be combined to determine if a foul occurred. There are techniques that can help the umpire and/or wing officials try to cover both, but it takes a lot of practice and could happen at the expense of missing something else (i.e. holding). Second, it's not missed as often as people think. They see the receiver catching a pass 6 yards downfield with a lineman next to him or beyond him and think, "how could they miss that." It's important to understand the rule. It's a foul based on the location of the lineman at the time the pass is RELEASED. Earlier in my career I would make the incorrect assumption this lineman I see downfield has to be illegal. Then I would watch the video to confirm my call and realize the lineman was only a yard to two downfield when the pass was released! I've changed my approach to only call it if I know the lineman was downfield too far before the pass was thrown (HS is 2 yards, NCAA is 3 yards). Based on video review I've almost always been correct, but it has taken many years of practice. Officials at the B1G level are pretty good at it so it's not wrong nearly as often as Fitz thinks it is. At the HS level with varying levels of skills of officials it's probably much more inconsistent.

Ill listen to experts... https://www.pbs.org/video/97-of-climate-scientists-really-do-agree-vl3snl/ you can listen to Forbes. Tol is debunked https://skepticalscience.com/climate-contrarians-accidentally-confirm-97-percent-consensus.html Idso is a geologist, not a climate scientist, who is paid nearly 12K a month by the Heartland institute to deny human caused climate change. As Im sure you know, the Heartland Institute also thinks there is no connection from smoking tobacco and lung cancer. Lots of credibility. Heartland, as Im sure you know, has historically been funded my big oil, big tobacco, big polluters. Shaviv and Scafetta both think cosmic rays and other planets are the reason it is getting warmer. They are the outliers with wacky research who are also paid by Heartland. I'll stick with the 97%

Muda's current cult like fascination with AOC does not allow him to discern a decent source from trash. The blinders are on.

The Bible tells us to kill the gays. If this group follows the Bible with regards to homosexuality as they say they do....they are pretty hateful. Thanks for sharing this article that shows the SPLC is looking out for those who have been terrorized by folks that try to hide their hatred behind the Bible.

Amassing at our southern border no doubt

swordfish must protect the honor of ivanka

He gave up on shutting down the government until he got his wall. Ann Coulter called him a wussie because of how weak he looked.

Kentucky Kavanaughs

NPR - slightly left of center. To trumpian conservatives anything to the left of Paul Ryan is "fake news"

What goes around comes around.

This Coronavirus Patient Dodged A Bullet With Hydroxychloroquine. Is She A Harbinger Or Outlier? Novins, who shared her lab tests and medication list, got her diagnosis March 19. Next to the entry for SARS-CoV-2 were the words “Detected Critical.” She had the coronavirus, or COVID-19. To that point, Novins had been a pneumonia patient for three days, treated mainly with antibiotics. But within an hour, a new drug was added to her med list: hydroxychloroquine, a decades-old malaria-turned-autoimmune drug, also called by its brand name Plaquenil. President Trump is touting the drug, some say overselling it, as the possible answer to the COVID-19 crisis. “The fever,” which was still spiking when she was on other meds, “is now gone, which is fantastic,” she said on Saturday March 21, coughing at times but able to speak. A 53-year-old nurse who described herself as a nonsmoker with no medical issues, Novins spoke to me from the hospital that had cared for some of the seven members of a family ravaged by COVID; two adult brothers, a sister and their mother died from the infection. “The doctor insisted the pharmacy get it to me the minute we got the positive,” she said of hydroxychloroquine. “It seemed like their go-to right away.” “Despite the limitations of this study, in the absence of any effective treatment, in this urgent situation, this Plaquenil and Azithromycin combination therapy should be given to patients with COVID-19 as a treatment option,” Ying Zhang, a professor of microbiology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, wrote in an email. “For now, there is no time to wait.” https://www.forbes.com/sites/marybethpfeiffer/2020/03/22/one-patient-dodges-a-covid-bullet-is-she-a-harbinger-or-outlier/#57b6ec155b84

I'm a bit surprised CBS actually reported one of the many successful patients receiving hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19. All of you democrats just keep on cheering for death and disaster.

I have a son that was a white DB. Heard several times from coaches from different programs that that hurt his recruiting. Has nothing to do with the history of New Pal, which is unfounded. If you don't think that's a factor, you are naive.