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Being a coach I see things different as opposed to a politician. We as coaches are always held accountable (fairly or unfairly) for what happens inside our programs both on and off the field. The decisions we make (both controllable and uncontrollable) based on 40 second increments often determine if we remain employed or not. You always see a coach or general manager who loses too many games, or makes the wrong draft picks are fired. The community, the media, etc.... all vilify the guy, and portray him as somebody nobody should ever hire again. The coach or GM just lost games, and rarely do their decisions result in death. Yet we have allowed politicians on the state and national levels, to make careless decisions that in the end have cost thousands of lives and prolonged suffering. Yet they are never held accountable. If some of those very same politicians were coaches and made the decisions that wrecked the season, they would have been fired. Somehow I think if we had accountable leaders in charge by the name of Nick, Dabo and or Bill........the pandemic would be behind us by now.

Preposterous. If small school football is that far beneath you, disregard it and move on. No one is forcing you to watch/comment on us small town folks who support kids in an attempt to give them an opportunity to compete and become better, more well rounded young men (and women, I've seen a few girls play here in recent years). If a community wants to and is able to support a program, let them, if not, that is fine, but we "neanderthals" do not appreciate or need you descending from on high telling us how to best support our kids and our communities. High school football is not about producing "more talent" than our neighboring states or for "the next level." As a coach, that is the furthest thing from my mind. If a student-athlete has the capacity to compete at the next level, I/we support that pursuit, but my focus is typically on the student-athlete who needs football because he doesn't have much else to motivate him. But sure, go ahead and let's tell a community that our state's overall "product" trumps their willingness and desire to provide opportunity for their student-athletes that they see fit. Rant over.

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So maybe in April and May we should've listened to the science and stopped mass gatherings, made masks mandatory, and not allowed bars to open. The American people as a whole are spoiled and when they are asked to do make a sacrifice (I use this term loosely because this really isn't a sacrifice) they pout and say it is their right. This isn't the "cancel" culture but it is a "selfish" culture that we have. Now as we go down this path in the South how long before it causes those of us who listened to science and tried to do what was right have to tell our kids they will miss another sports season or another school year because of the "selfishness" of people. This amazes me bu doesn't surprise me.

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I think what the IVY league does has zero effect on anything Indiana HS football will do. It's mind boggling to me that factories in this state with 7,000 plus employees can pull this off with every age range from 18-65 in the building but we don't think we can manage the least effected demographic in much much smaller populations. What is driving fear right now is "case" counts (the media is doing a fabulous job). 80% of "cases" are asymptomatic and it still isn't known if that group even sheds the virus. Testing continues to ramp up which continues to drive up cases and folks still find a way to get worked up about percentage positives when the folks getting tested are ones who think they have it or think they have been exposed. You can't extrapolate "percentage positives" across the general population. School should go in Indiana and so should fall sports. That said, can all 50 states keep their cool and manage the inevitable event of when "cases" pop up in the building without quarantining every child who was within 20 feet of the known positives? I seriously doubt it. Fear usually wins over logic in the world we live in today.

Last check says that 91% of the cases were patients who either recovered or were discharged. 9% died. If the population of the US is 331 million then that would account for a little under 31 million deaths. Now is your 99.9 % rate is correct that would mean 331,000 deaths. I would assume that the number is somewhere between the 331,000 and 31 million. We have lost about 135,000 people so far. Irregardless of the number you use that is a lot of people who die from something that could've been less if we wore masks, practiced social distancing, and listened to science. I worry that your belief system will be followed by your students and this lack of empathy is what you are teaching them. I wonder if your local school board has heard your thoughts on this or are you just a keyboard warrior.

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The place is awesome! Heading to Wisconsin in a few weeks--can't hardly wait!

Every time you read the phrase "out of an abundance of caution" just replace it with "in order to cover our a$$."

The NFL my take a page out of MLB's playbook: Rozelle League--Baltimore Ravens, Buffalo Bills, New England Patriots, New York Giants, New York Jets, Philadelphia Eagles, Pittsburgh Steelers, Washington First Nations Cosell League--Atlanta Falcons, Dallas Cowboys, Houston Texans, Jacksonville Jaguars, Miami Dolphins, New Orleans Saints, Tennessee Titans Frozen Tundra League--Chicago Bears, Cincinnati Bengals, Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions, GREEN BAY PACKERS, Indianapolis Colts, Kansas City Chiefs, Minnesota Vikings Walsh League--Arizona Cardinals, Denver Broncos, Las Vegas Raiders, Los Angeles Chargers, Los Angeles Rams, San Francisco 49ers, Seattle Seahawks

2:51, sorry, I couldn't help it... Plus this thread needs something positive...😉

I'm afraid after the last 24 hours that it will be made so difficult to make a football season happen, that it won't happen. Hope it's not the case, and will prepare as if it's not... Then again, it is July 9, 2020 and it's 3:52pm... may look completely different in an hour, day, week, or month... And @Gipper and the rest of you Boiler fans; you bite your tongue, Tom Allen is the man... but that's for the college forum...

You run Fauci through the woodchipper then use him to try to support your argument....hilarious ! Glad for your factory but it isnt Fla., Texas, etc.....

If the Bears were playing there, then you're in luck as I'm not sure they actually play football. 😀 Lord, I apologize for that.

@gahoosierfan, THAT is a great chart. I had never even heard of 9 man football. By my count, Indiana is one of only 10 states that does not have ANY alternative form of football (not included in that number are the few places that list 1 alternative team, which I would assume means that they compete across their state lines).

State 8-man 6-man 9-man Alabama 19 8 0 Alaska 4 8 0 Arizona 31 0 0 Arkansas 1 0 0 California 108 0 0 Colorado 40 30 0 Connecticut 1 0 0 Delaware 15 0 0 Florida 15 32 0 Georgia 21 0 0 Hawaii 8 0 0 Idaho 45 2 0 Illinois 24 1 0 Indiana 0 0 0 Iowa 61 0 0 Kansas 110 13 0 Kentucky 0 0 0 Louisiana 9 0 0 Maine 10 0 0 Maryland 0 0 0 Massachusetts 0 0 0 Michigan 64 0 0 Minnesota 0 0 70 Mississippi 21 0 0 Missouri 26 0 0 Montana 41 37 0 Nebraska 113 25 0 Nevada 77 0 0 New Hampshire 1 0 0 New Jersey 2 0 0 New Mexico 18 11 0 New York 29 0 0 North Carolina 15 0 0 North Dakota 0 0 46 Ohio 0 0 0 Oklahoma 88 0 0 Oregon 41 0 0 Pennsylvania 21 0 0 Rhode Island 0 0 0 South Carolina 19 0 0 South Dakota 0 0 79 Tennessee 14 0 0 Texas 0 234 0 Utah 0 0 0 Vermont 0 0 0 Virginia 0 0 0 Washington 34 0 0 Washington, D.C. 1 0 0 West Virginia 0 0 0 Wisconsin 47 0 0 Wyoming 0 13 0

I'm sorry... 😉 Seriously though, you are right about Turkey Run's waning years. Those kids always played hard and I always admired them for that. It would have been a loss for the Conference, but certainly understandable.

John Harrell has Tony Bowman (formerly Covenant Christian HC) as new Anderson Prep HC. I saw an article a week ago or so from Evansville paper confirming Tell City HC as Mac Webb (Owensboro HS in KY) and this is also reported on John Harrell. Benton Central promoted Tyler Marsh, again coming from Harrell but I could have sworn I saw an article on here about it as well.

more context needed

Probably about as good of staff as a program could have

I've always looked up to WLHS and actually went to kindergarten at Cumberland Elementary. Then, for some inexplicable reason, my parents moved to Kentland. I actually know why, but if you don't think I think about the "what ifs" you're sorely mistaken.

Every school has the right to field a team. Winning can be a very hard thing, especially with low numbers (happens with most every small school) and if injuries take its toll. But the thing is to not give up--the wins will come over time.

I agree. If you take away football you take away the revenue it generates. I have no idea if high schools operate in the black for football, but the revenue definitely helps the overall budget at a minimum. Take away that revenue and you have to find some other reason to get people to pay you money. My kids have played non-revenue sports and been involved in many other activities that are funded either by parents or underwritten by the school. You aren't going to charge parents to attend a quiz bowl event and fans don't attend Key Club events.

While sitting in the basement with a tin-foil hat on.

No list posted, but it matters not. I've never coached at an urban school, large or small, but I have plenty of friends that do. I can tell you from conversations that I have had with those coaches that while we in "rugged rural outpost communities" need sports like football for our student-athletes, those urban areas need them equally as bad. Of course, that doesn't matter to you; all you care about is the "product." By the way, those large school colleagues I referenced are often some of the biggest admirers of small school football in general. Not all of them, but many. They recognize the mental gymnastics small school coaching staffs have to go through in order to solve personnel issues and, more importantly, the physical, mental, and emotional toughness of the student-athletes who play both sides of the ball and special teams. But, again, that doesn't matter to you, all you care about is the "product." I'm going to do something that I am pretty sure you are incapable of; I apologize. I try to ignore your contraction talk as much as I can, but when you weasel your way into EVERY thread with this nonsense, you make it impossible. "Clicks, clicks, clicks, they'll do anything to get a few, Tick, tick, tick, that's the sound before my head explodes, Quit, quit, quit, look at you up on your pedestal, Quick, quick, quick, hear the critics come, it's time to go..." ("Paid My Dues, NF) Go ahead, stay on your ignorant pedestal, but I make it a point to stay in my lane, it's time you learned to stay in yours.

Rensselaer had 3 HOF coaches on the same staff in the mid to late 1960s. Bill Siderewicz, Head Coach, Chris Geesman of Penn fame as an assistant and Dale Hummer of Fountain Central and Dekalb fame as an assistant. Then there was Joe Burvan who is in Wrestling HOF as an assistant and was head coach at one point with an undefeated team at Rensselaer. That was a staff.

Harvard already announced they are doing online classes for 2020-21. This was expected.

Ask, and ye shall receive!!

Umm.... no. Dr. Fauci is the Director of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases, one of the institutes operating under the umbrella of the National Institutes of Health. He is easily one of the most accomplished scientists in the history of his field, having contributed groundbreaking research for over 30 years. You and the other folks who constantly paint him as a buffoon because, as a spokesperson for an entire research discipline, there are times when new research findings conflict with others, are only displaying your own ignorance about the scientific process in general, and the massive effort ongoing with respect to SARS-CoV-2 in particular. Or, perhaps, you are letting your political desires get the better of logical judgment. https://www.niaid.nih.gov/about/anthony-s-fauci-md-bio

Oddly.....glad I read this. A little humor is need on this board. Haha.

There it is! It’s officially the start of the high school football season.

Unfortunately, the response will be “knee-jerk” just as every response has been to literally EVERYTHING these last few months. It will take only one school to have those “”25” positive cases” and it will begin the cascade and ultimately the avalanche of school shutdowns. I think we have societally lost the ability to accept (or understand) the measured risk of everyday life in general.....and that isn’t to say that COVID doesn’t constitute an unacceptable risk....just that societally, we tend not to accept any risk from something new to our experience anymore. If, in fact, we do have football with fans in the stands, it’s likely I will be there but I will be damned uncomfortable about it (but my wife will be going regardless so I might as well get sick “with her” rather than “from her”). All that said, I’m not sure there will be fans in the stands but rather there will be video feeds. To be honest, I’d be down with paying the HS for an in-house broadcast to offset ticket and concession sales losses....although I’d prefer a free webcast. Just as a note, unlike many high schools, Chatard does not have an internal webcast of their games....or traditional radio coverage like Cathedral and Roncalli in Indy. This might push every HS in the direction of live internet broadcasts....which I would find appealing.

I actually think they are real and helpful but to those intensely political on both sides, “yes” - just part of a pissing contest.

Wow....a TW sighting. Feel like I’ve just seen Bigfoot......

There is significant corruption wherever taxpayer dollars are spent. Nobody ever said private charter schools were immune. Try googling "Frank Tassone".

Sounds like a good plan, regardless of whether one belongs to a labor union or not.

DST isn't the issue...the issue is the SW and NW corners of the state being on CST. I think it is nuts that any of Indiana is on EST...just my opinion.