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Practice is great July 1st What I would hate to see is all sports all teams do a mad rush and start trying to schedule 7 on 7s, 11 on 11s, 1 day shootouts, insert countless other competition days Be happy to work with your kids in house and prepare what you need to do in house during those times. For 1 summer, I am sure the schools can get by with elimination of competition days Just one guys thoughts

8 man football...not a real game..I am sure that is what they think in traditional pwerhouse football states like Texas, Oklahoma, Alabama, and Florida. All of whom field 8 man football teams. To me, it seems these states who truely love the game of football, will find a way to play not matter what! Heck, even this past season 8 schools from northwest Ohio decided to create an 8 man league just so thier schools could continue to play..https://spectrumnews1.com/oh/columbus/news/2019/09/19/smaller-high-schools-resort-to-8-man-football

That is my fear as well. Once July 1st hits, all heck breaks loose with everyone trying to pull every kid in every direction. Go back to the old days, for this summer, and make it about conditioning and getting back with your team. NO competition days, NO padded "football" days..keep July an equal playing field for ALL SCHOOLS as we all work to get our lives back to some normalcy. That way when the first day of practice starts (safely of course)...WE ALL ARE ON THE SAME PAGE

I think the IHSAA should only allow July to be open to fall sports, the winter sports will get a limited contact period before their seasons start and spring will get 2 limited contact periods. Don’t force kids and coaches to fight for practice times.

Travel baseball practices have already begun here in Evansville. Which highlights the illogical nature of the July 1 date set by the IHSAA/InDOE Option A - Athletes can practice with their HS fall sports teams, supervised by their HS coaches at their local HS facilities Option B - No more than 2-3 athletes from each school, resulting in a mixture of 5-6 schools, form a team. Then this team from Evansville goes to Westfield to play teams from Ft Wayne, Lafayette, Jeffersonville, and Carmel. If I had to choose which would be ‘safer’ from a public health perspective, I am choosing A. It’s not just a baseball/foootball thing. I can’t wait to see those travel soccer tournament photos in June as well.

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I feel like I lose brain cells when I read this crap.

Yep, all the Reagan Worshipers. They've wanted it since the 80's and strived to achieve it.

We do enjoy our Football Friday's down here in Jasper County!! Looking forward to many more Fridays !!!

It may not be the best but the white helmets with the Bremen b is unique.

Travel SB is starting June 13-14.

Another great region of our great state is the Southwest. My wife is a Barr-Reeve grad, the Vikings are traditionally a baseball, basketball, and every other sport except football (because they don’t have a team) power. Real friendly folks down there, and the same can be said for folks from places like Linton, Paoli, and Vincennes.

My criteria are somewhat different than most. They include locker rooms, playing surface, atmosphere, and the other things that are important to someone who doesn’t spend time sitting in the stands. Limited to NW Indiana, and in no particular order, my favorites are: Lowell - It’s a bit a of a hike from the locker room to the field, but the Inferno is awesome. Always an enthusiastic crowd, and the hospitality is first rate. It’s not like the old days when KK was there, but it’s still pretty good. Valparaiso - A top notch program with a fine facility. Very classy. Great crowd support and great hospitality. Hobart - The most knowledgeable fans in the Region. Best playing surface in the Region. Their great tradition makes every game there an event. And their facility is such a vast improvement over the miserable Brickie Bowl ... Crown Point - Nicest overall facility. Great hospitality. Every game is Pop Warner night, or midget cheerleader night, or something like that. Always a festive atmosphere. Tied with Hobart for the best PA system, and whoever picks out their music has great taste: AC/DC, Guns ‘N Roses, Led Zeppelin, Queen. Rensselaer - Had to give props to @Coach Nowlin’s crew. Nobody treats you better than the Bombers. Great small-town high school football feel, like the whole town turns out. Pound for pound, the most supportive study body around.

Trump’s mismanagement allowed the pandemic to get as bad as it did.

In Louisiana there is a Snoopy helmet that is really cool. This matchup against a very LSU-inspired helmet was my favorite in their state. https://twitter.com/LouisianaPreps/status/1258533310097010688?s=20

Well played CVS, well played.

The Jimtown all gold helmets.

Listen , this is all going to be new to everyone. What I like about it is the proactive approach led by the tier system the governor is putting out there, which of course is a moving target date. I see it as when gyms and other places allow flow of people again in a couple of weeks, that should give state of Indiana a good 5 weeks of data to see how COVID is reacting, if there is a large spike of cases as Indiana eases back into "normalcy" then you can expect the July 1st date to change. Just my opinion AND PLEASE: do not make this thread political, we have an entire sub forum full of people who will love to have you share opinions in there. have at it

I have to admit, this doesn't make sense to me. Kids can pay and go to a gym on 5/24 and that is OK, but cannot step foot in the free weight room at their high school for another five weeks after that. If you have a little league field at your school kids can't step foot on the field until 7/1, but if the field is located in a city park it should be safe by 6/14. It seems like the complete lockdown of school campuses isn't consistent with other parts of the reopening plan.

President Trump was spot on: Covid-19 is the invisible enemy. The weather can be beautiful, the field is perfectly manicured, the new uniforms are sharp, but the virus is still there. It doesn’t see gender, race, home team, away team—it just lays in wait. We all want to get out there, whether it’s to go to the store, play a round of golf, or any other activity. There’s so much we don’t know. But is fear paralyzing us?

What relevance does any of this have to Coronavirus?

Some See Plot To Create 'World Government' In Coronavirus Restrictions https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/05/08/853110793/some-see-plot-to-create-world-government-in-coronavirus-restrictions There are a few here on the GID who I think would welcome a World Government............

Actor and comedian Jerry Stiller has died of natural causes, Ben Stiller says https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/11/us/jerry-stiller-death-natural-causes/index.html Truly an American Icon. He will be missed, especially by you fans of festivus.

Don't let yourself be muzzled, Mr. Fauci says so himself: http://nomasks.org

The canard about U.S. Presidents somehow having power over the U.S. economy just won't die: https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/11/presidents-do-not-control-economies-or-gdp/ If you have a little basic mathematical literacy, you’ll see some problems. A little political literacy will lead to your detecting several more. But let’s consider it. Ten recessions back gets us to 1953. Since then, we have had 30 years of Democratic presidents and 35 years of Republican presidents; if recessions were randomly distributed, we’d still expect to see more of them coinciding with Republican presidencies simply because there have been more of them. In fact, most presidencies have coincided with one or more recessions. On the specifics, the argument is weak. But how much should we make of that coincidence in general? Democrats plead on behalf of Barack Obama that he came into office during a terrible economic crisis, and that he and his policies should not be blamed for the weak growth and disappointing labor-market performance that marked his time in office. That’s not unfair. But the same could be said of, e.g., Gerald Ford, who had to deal with an OPEC-inflicted quadrupling of oil prices in 1973. Does anybody think Gerald Ford’s policies caused that? John Kennedy came into office at the tail end of a recession, which officially ended in February of his first year in office. Does any serious person believe that in the course of less than a month President Kennedy implemented policies that ended the recession? That would be a deeply silly contention. Even more juvenile is assuming that business cycles are inextricably linked to election cycles — without offering a lick of evidence or even a plausible mechanism for that being the case. Recession-counting also ignores the fact that some recessions are the result of excellent public policy. The Reagan administration came into office with the country suffering from a serious inflation problem, and the tight monetary policy that the administration undertook to rein in that inflation produced a recession, as it was expected to. The recession was the price we paid for getting inflation under control. Inflation rose again toward the end of the Reagan-era boom, and once again, monetary tightening was used to control inflation at the cost of inflicting the mild recession that Bill Clinton rode to power. Oddly, Jere Glover ignores inflation. I wonder why. Besides the most obvious economic stupidity, there is some pretty deep political stupidity at work here, too. For one thing, presidents have to deal with Congress, which actually does things like set tax rates and appropriate money. People talk about “Reagan deficits” and the “Clinton surplus,” but it would be much more sensible to talk about the Tip O’Neill deficits and the Gingrich surplus: Reagan wanted substantial spending cuts that were never implemented, and Clinton resisted even modest fiscal reform until he couldn’t. These things get a little more complicated than the R-vs.-D, black-hats/white-hats mode of analysis would suggest. And, of course, there’s the hard-to-quantify fact that Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, and Donald J. Trump (“One of these things is not like the others / one of these things does not belong!”) pursued radically different economic policies. As, indeed, did Democratic presidents: There’s a great deal of daylight between Jack Kennedy’s economic thinking and Barack Obama’s. On the GOP side, Ike was a Republican throwback who pursued a policy agenda that he himself described as “progressive” while keeping an eye on the nickels and dimes, and he presided over a federal government that, in 1957, saw slightly lower taxes than we have today, three times the military spending, and a modest budget surplus. (Modern conservatives could live with a progressive like that, I think.) Nixon was a Wilsonian statist who imposed price controls on the economy. Reagan was a libertarian optimist who put growth over balanced budgets. Trump is an economic illiterate with no substantive policy agenda at all. But he will crow about that 3.3 percent GDP growth last quarter, and will insist that it is the result of his policies. Which of those policies, I wonder? He may get his tax cut, but, for the moment, Trump has done almost nothing of substance on the economy, and what his administration has done — a bit of excellent regulatory reform — is unlikely to affect growth dramatically in the short term. Regulatory reform is a good investment, but one with a long timeline for payoff. When you hear someone crediting a president with an economic boom or strong wage growth, ask them in some detail about the actual mechanism they believe to be at work, some plausible chain of causality. You’ll rarely get a satisfying answer. Regulatory reform is a good investment, but one with a long timeline for payoff. Presidents are one small piece of the public-policy picture — and public policy as a whole is only a small part of what shapes and moves a complex modern economy. We tend toward a destructively immature and ahistorical view: The regulatory reforms that made the Internet boom of the Clinton years began decades before; the confluence of terrible policies that created the subprime meltdown and financial crisis of 2008–09 began in the 1930s, with housing and banking reforms and regulatory development occurring under presidents and Congresses of both parties in ways that would frustrate any intellectually rigorous attempt at laying blame on a partisan basis. The Asian currency crisis of the Clinton years, Communist aggression and Mideast conflict in Eisenhower’s time, the terrorist attacks during George W. Bush’s first year in office: None of these was the result of some decision taken in the White House. George W. Bush wanted to be a school reformer and economic booster, not a president overseeing a long and thankless campaign against distant desert savages. But history doesn’t wait for anybody to vote on it. That affects everything, including the economy. The belief that GDP growth or this month’s jobs report provides a meaningful judgment on the performance of the president isn’t economics — it’s superstition. It is the modern version of the ancient belief that a crop failure means that the king has displeased the rain god or the wheat goddess. It is a primitive disposition from which we should liberate ourselves — and could, if we were willing to do the hard work of citizenship rather than take our ease in lazy partisanship.

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Filmmaker Eugene Jarecki Creates A “Trump Death Clock,” Targeting White House Over Pandemic Response https://deadline.com/2020/05/coronavirus-donald-trump-death-clock-eugene-jarecki-1202927456/ What is that about hindsight? Total TDS.

Does Questioning Official COVID-19 Statistics Make This Doctor a 'Denialist'? https://reason.com/2020/05/11/does-questioning-official-covid-19-statistics-make-this-doctor-a-denialist/

But it's NPR, one of your liberal champions. And why do you hate the Catholic church?

Whichever you prefer.