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What a great experience this was to be part of. I can tell you it was very intense earlier today watching it. We (South Dearborn) came in 2nd and we were on the edge of our seats as it came down to the end. At 5 schools left we were like "Ok, this is cool" and then 3 it was "Well, we are in this" and then 2 and it was like "Holy cow, this is exciting"...lol...Congratulations to Prairie Heights as I am sure this will really bolster their program. Thanks again to the United Health Care and the Colts for this great program. And like Coach Nowlin said, $1000 donation is really nice.

E Learning is not sustainable for elementary kids. I have friends that have to elementary kids, but they are both still working. Babysitters are hard to come by, let alone ones that will do elearning. It'd be better to hold everyone back a year than to do elearning again.

Class 1A-3A would not be able to field those numbers....

Congrats to the 18 schools who made the finals in the 5th annual Indianapolis Colts in partner with United Health Care 25,000 dollar Helmet raffle. 2nd year in the row the Bombers made it and come away with 1000 dollar donation to the program. Congrats to Prairie Heights who was the 25k GRAND PRIZE winner this year!! As many of you know, I am a season ticket holder to my beloved Chicago Bears, however, I constantly applaud the wonderful job the Colts do with our state High School football, it is truly the BEST IN THE NATION !!! Much Love for that.

Poison Ivy is very threatening

And for the love of God, if you're not passing, stay out of the F@#$@* left lane!

https://outsidethehuddle.net/2020/04/28/oth-football-field-countdown-10-luersfield/ Enjoy this comment (rings a bell): Northrop coach/former player Jason Doerffler: The playing surface has improved greatly the past few years. When I played, it always seemed to be wet and the grass was real long. But when we visited last year it was in great shape.

Yes. The uni-party is nothing but a bunch of sheeple.

Gotta love the Pinkerton mentality on this website.

And just like that, now all of a sudden people were citing CNN.

Congrats! My son got to walk the stage last year for the winners Alexandria! Said it was a great experience!

So.. Someone who agrees with Joe Biden on a few things is a sheeple cause she endorsed him? I mean. Who else is she gonna support? Trump? Lol.

I would be curious as to what percentage of schools in the state actually have a roster of 80+

I'm hearing "strong" rumors that school will start with remote learning in August. Maybe play the football season in spring?? China really messed up the whole world with this one.

Kevin O’Shea is, indeed, the coach at North Central. Ryan O’Shea is the new coach at Lakeland.

If i had 40+ hours to waste on non sense. I could find a video every time Fox News or Trump made a stupid error on stuff or CNN/MSNBC burning him or someone in his cabinet.

Is that breed resistant to lightning strikes?

It's April. Football is a Fall sport. It should be the farthest things from these kinds minds right now. Over-competitive adults once again complicating a simple game played by children.

All of the items you point out may have been ISSUES, but they were not FACTORS. There is a huge difference. Add yourself to the list of those of you who need dictionaries.

There are more personal ways to honor the class of 2020. Up here in St. Joe County...the principals handed out yards signs for each member of the class of 2020. To me that would be more personal than lighting a football field.

No. Not unless that situation is involving a prominent member in the IFCA community. We lower the flag to half mast only for the most important (and that term is not the right one) dignitaries in our country. We have holidays only for the most important people in history. And, in my opinion, leaving the lights on should be reserved for a very select few situations/individuals.

The Bowsman Strong movement was to honor a man who made a who difference on and off the field. It should remain reserved for men of honor on the gridiron. It should not be used as a movement every time someone in the state of Indiana wants to honor someone or something. It should be reserved for an elite level of situations.

Teachers need to be honored and appreciated. I just don’t like the lights thing—@MarkCalaway summed it up perfectly.

I hope the lighting of the football stadiums is not true. If it is true, we have quickly diluted the power and reverence for the unique symbolism of such an event.

Meat plant workers to Trump: Employees aren't going to show up https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/29/business/meat-processing-plant-workers-reaction-executive-order/index.html Perhaps employers in these industries should offer some form of hazard pay if they have not already. Money talks.

A Kentucky Family of 7 Didn't Practice Social Distancing. Now Child Services Is Investigating the Parents for Abuse. https://reason.com/2020/04/28/child-services-kentucky-social-distancing-covid-19-family-parents/ Back at home, the authorities confronted Bill and Kristy, who discovered that someone had called in an anonymous tip claiming that a mother of five had taken her children out with a man who wasn't their dad, and they had bruises on their arms that indicated rough grabbing. The investigator proceeded to question the kids away from the parents, and he made at least one of the boys take off his shirt to look for bruises. Kristy told Mason that the investigator wanted to do the same with the girls, but she objected, so he only pulled up the girls' sleeves and took photos. Already, there's a problem: If the kids were wearing long sleeves (it was a cold day), how had anyone spotted bruises? Of course, the caller got other information wrong, too: Bill was very much the kids' father. The parents presume the call came from someone inside the bank, since it specified five kids rather than seven. Whoever the caller was, they provided the exact kind of information—bruising, suspicion persons, etc.—that prompts a CPS investigation. When Bill handed over his license, the investigator could see from his last name he was not an "unrelated male." And when the kids showed him their arms, he could see the bruises didn't exist. Case closed? If only. When I spoke with Mason by phone, he explained the idea of an "off ramp." In theory, he said, once an investigator gets to a home, checks for the supposed crime and comes up empty handed, he or she should turn around and leave—i.e., take the off ramp. Anything else "is such a terrible thing and a waste of time." But all too often, investigators insist that they must robotically keep probing: opening cabinets, looking in the fridge, questioning kids. This Kentucky investigator even questioned the family about which homeschool curriculum they were using, as if that had some bearing on the case. That's why the Home School Legal Defense Association, as well as its allies who make up United Family Advocates, have been trying to get "Off Ramp" legislation passed. Once an investigation comes up empty-handed, the investigator should simply leave rather than get started checking off a giant list of possible problems. The groups are also hoping that some day the states will outlaw anonymous reporting. That way it would be harder for people to weaponize the system against families that got on their nerves. Currently, it's just far too easy to bring a case into existence. What's more, parents in Kentucky—and the rest of the country—also deserve a law like Utah's Free-Range Parenting Bill, which says that simply taking your eyes off your kids is not neglect. Neglect is blatant disregard for their safety. Especially in these times, parents who want their kids to wait in the car or even at home, rather than dragging them into stores, should be able to make that sensible decision without fearing an investigation—or worse. The HSLDA's lawyers are working with the family. But the state gets 45 days to close an investigation, and Mason said it can easily get an extension, turning a time already tense with pandemic fears into a protracted period of torment. Never let a good crisis go to waste, in this case letting the state interfere with the lives of law-abiding citizens. Shameful.

Agreed. It's all about feelings, all of the time.

The meat-market talent grading systems out there have been doing this for decades, yet somehow it is verboten for such a discussion on a high school football forum. Incredible.

Go crawl back under your rock, troll. Let the adults who want to have real conversations talk.

https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/conferences/big-ten/2019-team-defense.html Purdue defense ranked 12th in the Big 10 for the 2019 season. Average yards given up per rushing attempt: 4.7. Sounds kind of weak and anemic to me...........................

It's good to have friends and allies, isn't it?

And can be taught by activities other than tackle football.

By relying on their own work ethic, intelligence, and personal morality to earn a living, raise a family, weather challenges, etc. Unlike others who choose to primarily rely on the state to provide for them and make decisions. Just easier that way I guess...............

Lockdown enforcement is becoming more authoritarian. https://reason.com/2020/04/27/undercover-cops-arrest-2-women-for-operating-home-beauty-businesses-in-violation-of-coronavirus-lockdown-order/

COVID-19 Is Teaching Us Decentralization Is Needed More Now Than Ever https://mises.org/wire/covid-19-teaching-us-decentralization-needed-more-now-ever We are indeed living in the strangest of times when LA Times columnists are expressing sentiments that better belong in a passage of Human Action. The jury is still out on whether this is merely oppositional posturing from the Left, but any kind of conversation entailing the restoration of federalism is a welcome surprise. The “authorized” right can generally be counted on to disappoint its constituents who genuinely believe in small government principles. To their credit, there have been some bright spots on their side in the present pandemic. States like Texas have gone out of their way to declare gun stores essential businesses and to deregulate several parts of its economy at a time where bureaucracy is impeding various vital economic functions. Elected officials like State Representative Matt Gurtler in Georgia have raised the stakes by floating a proposal that would allow law-abiding Georgians to concealed carry anywhere. South Dakota governor Kristi Noem projected a stark contrast in her relatively lax approach to handling the pandemic. Jeff Deist used her example as the basis for several pragmatic measures that state governments can take to reopen their economies without throwing civil liberties into the wood chipper. No doubt there is much work to be done, but we can find glimmering signs of promise every now and then. We need to move beyond the stale platitudes of trying to fix politics in DC. The chattering class’s lamentation about the divisiveness of politics is frankly silly. In some ways, polarization is our friend. The all-too-familiar ratchet effect has been largely put on hold thanks to the fact there’s no way to fast track certain power grabs such as gun control, thanks to the political division present in the current Congress. This is one case where partisanship can be used against itself in a way that keeps everyday people safe from DC’s antiliberty ruses. Gridlock is usually the next best option when no form of government reduction can be attained. Nevertheless, partisanship does have its limits in DC, as evidenced by the ease with which the monstrosity of a stimulus bill was able to reach Trump’s desk. Hence why decentralization is the x factor that Americans must tap into to break out of its managerial trance. If Californians want to give up their rights during a quarantine, they can go ahead and knock themselves out. Other states will shine as beacons of reason as they turn to more practical alternatives that balance public health and basic freedoms. Thanks to decentralization (and the Tenth Amendment), America has multiple laboratories of policy experimentation across the nation. Competing jurisdictions allow us to see what works and what doesn’t. Not all states will have the same policies. Others will enjoy certain liberties, while others will have fewer freedoms. That’s how the cookie will have to crumble. We must understand that the biggest threat we face in America isn’t the disparity in gun laws or tax policy between states like Texas and California, but rather the massive managerial state that has consolidated in Washington, DC, which engages in large-scale behavioral modification and usurpation of local governance. Extricating ourselves from this parasitic entity will be the greatest challenge of the twenty-first century, but it’s a battle worth taking. Agreed.

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Thank you for the update Bobref.

The democrat mainstream media strategy: If you tell a big enough lie and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The broad masses are more easily corrupted and fall victim to the big lie than a small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large scale falsehoods. When one lies, one should lie big and stick to it even at the risk of looking ridiculous. Adolph Hitler - Mein Keimpf

Russia, Ukraine, Coronavirus. The Hitler strategy is consistent. Orange Man Bad

Please elaborate. If the implication was that the reason these youth may be in an unsafe situation was the environment in which they were currently living/residing (neighborhood violence, gang activity, domestic violence, etc.) it is almost certain getting out into the woods and hollows of Indiana for an amount of time would be a safer environment. Unless one is deathly scared of ticks, raccoons, and squirrels, all of which have simple ways to reduce their "threat level".

Who? https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/04/hillary-clinton-endorsement-joe-biden-irrelevant/

Perhaps. However, no one is forcing anyone to work at a meat processing facility. Based on the statements from the President of the United Food & Commercial Workers Union, 99.98% of employees working the meat processing facilities have not died of the coronavirus.

Potentially the US can always import more meat than we already do. Kinda think that's what the President is trying to avoid......But if the union doesn't want to work, Oh well.

Heard a new topic today from Joe Biden......Economy Intercourse.......