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With the meeting's minute notes stating "Point totals from 2020-21 and the current school year will be used to determine Tournament Success Factor movement." I believe this is what that file would/will look like for at least 5A and 4A: Where it's going to get tricky is for Chatard, Western Boone, and Lafayette Central Catholic. All three of those schools were bumped up THIS season for their Success Factor Points from the 2019-20 and 2020-2021 seasons. But if the IHSAA is going to use 2020-21 and 2021-22 Success Factor Points to determine what schools get bumped up this time... will those 3 schools points be from two different classes? Neither Chatard (4A) or Western Boone (3A) won their sectional this past season, and LCC (2A) won a sectional worth 1 point. I am thinking all three of those teams will get sent down to their previous class, unless they stay due to enrollment (which could be close for Western Boone). Here is what I think the rest of the classes will look like:

It only takes a few minutes. Hahaa. There are number and geography experts on here who have it finished already! It just has to be gerrymandered and snafued.

Somebody woke up even grouchier than usual. 🤣

This guy thinks so. I think it’s “an” answer, but not “the” answer. https://www.carolinacoastonline.com/news_times/sports/article_99b0d308-9173-11ec-b038-77c3f1609b35.html Only way to rectify shortage of officials is pay up ZACK NALLY "Keep Pounding" column Feb 19, 2022 There was already an officials shortage before the coronavirus pandemic, but the last two years haven’t appeared to help the cause. The National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) reported this week that a survey of state high school associations revealed that approximately 50,000 officials are no longer in the workforce since the 2018-2019 season, the last full season unaffected by the pandemic. An editorial released by NFHS CEO Dr. Karissa L. Niehoff via HighSchoolOT.com detailed a situation wherein officials nearing retirement age were pushed into it by the challenges of the pandemic. To address the issue, the NFHS is planning a first-ever National Officials Consortium Summit in April to address the vacancies and how new officials can be recruited. The summit will also be attended by the NCAA and more than 30 national-level sports organizations including governing bodies for Olympic sports. The issue persists nationally, but we may see a significant impact locally as spring sports prepares for the new season in March. At the conference tournament basketball games at West Carteret on Thursday, baseball coach Brooks Jernigan was on a Zoom call discussing options this spring concerning the umpire shortage. The potential challenges are so great that doubleheaders with four teams at one site was floated as a possible solution. Just before the pandemic started, the N.C. High School Athletic Association reported an 11-percent drop in officials. A 17,000-person survey held by the National Association of Sports Officials (NASO) in 2017 reported that there were “more officials over the age of 60 than under 30.” Low pay, long training with little compensation and poor attitudes toward officials from coaches, players and fans are all primary reasons for the growing shortage. There is also the growth of fledgling sports, such as girls lacrosse and girls wrestling. Like the officials shortage of the 1980s due to a boom in soccer growth, the addition of more matches and games only compounds the already difficult situation. The NFHS has created the #BecomeAnOfficial Program, but the recruitment efforts are falling short. The organization, among others, is calling for improved behavior toward officials to help encourage would be applicants. In this reporter’s opinion, though, the shortage comes down to the almighty dollar. Officials are responsible for their own equipment, their gas and time spent in travel, and pay only ranges from $50 for a volleyball game to $100 for a basketball doubleheader. Like many employers are learning right now, raising the pay is the only sure way to attract new talent. In the same way, winning makes problems go away in sports, money makes all the other challenges of being an official go away. If you want more officials, pay up. That’s the only real solution and one that’s needed right now to avoid a debilitating problem that is only going to grow worse.

https://deadspin.com/boot-this-reboot-1848609325 I pretty much agree with this Deadspin hot take. Any professional football fans out there really looking forward to this?

You took as long to respond to me as I did to you lol. And without even a witty comment or a good comeback. Dumb and without basic self-awareness is no way to go through life son. And like I said, I wasn’t involved in those teams in any way nor do I care. I mean jeez man I know you peaked in high school but get over it already, it was 30 years ago. And you guys weren’t even good lol. But I hope that makes you feel better, because the teams you coached and were actually involved with were our whipping boys. And since you coached them, you were kinda our whipping boy too. How did it feel to be my whipping boy DE? Clearly you’re still a little salty about it. Lastly, I’d say I wish KK more success than you at KV, but it’s not like that’s saying anything.

Our math teachers and geography teachers are pretty dog gone good. Maybe I'm just thinking of past years. The IHSAA will have their influencers much like the old AD at Bremen, DeSantis, pull their magic. He used to make sure Bremen and Jimtown were not in the same football sectional. Our people here are very good at mapping and guessing.

Are you sore that you didn't get the scoop ?

Great post. Goes without saying how much Penn has fallen that beating Duneland schools again is a step in the right direction. Penn is in the same boat as Lake Central to me. The enrollment and socioeconomic advantages are there. Just need something to spark a turnaround and create systemic change.

Yeah, it just mentions reclassification. Who knows when sectional assignments will be posted.

I have no intentions to watch it. i just don’t understand why they keep trying these sub-NFL leagues. The interest is minimum. They all struggle financially….and I have to think most people know it’s going to fail….yet hey somehow raise money for it part of what makes football great imo is that we have limited access to it. For 6 months we get football as entertainment basically 2 days a week….and then it’s over and we have to wait 6 months for it again. It both creates a scarcity and let’s you get a break from the sport. By the time summer is coming to an end, people are just itching to watch some football. it’s a really good system to retain fans without burning them out and it becomes an annual routine in peoples minds. All these sub-nfl leagues just don’t understand that apparently. People want a break from things and they like exclusivity.

Boy...They are really dragging this one out.

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At the North Putnam School Board meeting last night, the board approved unanimously of hiring former Seeger Asst Coach Scott Moore as it's new head football coach and math teacher. The Cougars get a bit of good news after dealing with so much loss and tragedy the last few months. https://www.facebook.com/597050887293091/posts/1686828441648658/

Bill has passed the Indiana legislature, on it's way to Mr. Holcomb's desk: https://www.indystar.com/story/news/education/2022/03/01/eric-holcomb-transgender-girls-sports-ban-indiana-senate-bill-1041/6927994001/

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/02/28/democrat-charlie-crist-suddenly-decides-time-move-past-coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR28nrKx0WH1e-iowCQ_kIyTAixd3Eq9ExQCEG0WuYFVU3QP4zOZhhLiyxM Rep. Charlie Crist (D-FL), who is vying to challenge Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) in this year’s gubernatorial race in the Sunshine State, has suddenly decided that it is time to “move past” the Chinese coronavirus, over one year after DeSantis has already done so. “It’s time to responsibly move past COVID,” the Democrat and former Florida governor said, noting that omicron is “fading” and vaccines are “plentiful.” With that, Crist said, “we should be able to turn the page on this crisis for good. We may never eliminate COVID, but like the flu, we can live with it without a major disruption to our lives.” “We got here because while some of our leaders played partisan politics, others got to work — and together, we all did our part. We need to keep promoting vaccines and boosters to the millions of Floridians who still haven’t gotten the shot,” he continued, overtly ignoring the work DeSantis has done in the state over the past two years, prioritizing liberty and promoting economic freedom while blue states continued to enforce mass masking and promote vaccine mandates. “But there’s still a lot of work to do to strengthen our economy and our state. We have to help our children make up for the learning loss,” he said, failing to mention that DeSantis was among the first to reopen schools while adamantly fighting against forced masking of children in those settings. “We have to fix the supply chain issues. We have to help workers get off the sidelines, by getting them reliable child care and sick leave,” he continued, again refusing to acknowledge that DeSantis led Florida in helping alleviate the supply chain crisis in the country by increasing the capacity of Florida’s ports. Ignoring all of these facts, Crist inexplicably concluded that DeSantis “isn’t up to the job,” calling him a “disaster” and complaining that the Republican governor opposed Biden’s America Rescue Plan, which drastically worsened inflation. “Instead of championing life-saving vaccines, he catered to anti-vaccine and anti-mask conspiracy theorists,” Crist claimed, touting the false narrative — a favorite of the leftists, who routinely ignore that DeSantis prioritized vaccines for the most vulnerable but made it clear that he would respect the personal freedom of Floridians, recognizing their right to make the choice if they want the jab nor not. His lie is stunningly similar to the false narrative promoted by White House press secretary Jen Psaki, who in January attacked the governor for prioritizing personal freedom throughout the pandemic. “Governor DeSantis turned our schools into yet another political battleground, picking fights with school boards and teachers who are just trying to keep our kids safe. His presidential ambitions have resulted in school closures and disruptions all across our beautiful state,” Crist continued, essentially complaining about DeSantis championing parental rights and asserting that they should make decisions about their children’s education and health — not a faceless bureaucrat. “I’m running so you’ll be in charge again, so you will have a governor who will work for the people… to rebuild this economy… to rebuild our schools… and to unite us again. It’s time to put political division behind us, and unify our state around our shared values,” Crist added: Crist’s sudden shift in tone, calling to move past the coronavirus, coincides with other blue state leaders making similar calls, likely due to consistent polling showing souring opinions on the left’s handling of the pandemic. Adding to this theory is the fact that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), days before President Biden’s State of the Union address, also experienced a sudden change of heart, concluding that indoor masking should not be required in most parts of the country. What is more, the U.S. House of Representatives suddenly opted to drop its mask requirement, which has been in place for months, prior to Biden’s SOTU address. DeSantis, who consistently crushes Crist in the polls, recently warned Americans about the left’s sudden “epiphany” regarding restrictions and mandates. “So when you start to see them kind of reevaluate or say all this, just understand this. The science didn’t change. The medical science didn’t change. The political science changed. They feel the heat,” he said: “They know that voters have been tired of perpetual lockdown policies. They know that they have basically offered no off ramp and they know that they’re fixing to be whooped at the polls, so that’s causing the epiphany,” DeSantis added. DeSantis, who consistently crushes Crist in the polls, recently warned Americans about the left’s sudden “epiphany” regarding restrictions and mandates. “So when you start to see them kind of reevaluate or say all this, just understand this. The science didn’t change. The medical science didn’t change. The political science changed. They feel the heat,” he said Very True...... March 1, 2022 - So as we are entering year # 3 of "2 weeks to flatten the curve" (Which is also an election year) SF's previous (and long-running) prediction that March 1, 2022 would mark the end of Covid as we know and fear it today is reality. The previous 2 weeks of news cycles have documented the decrease in case numbers, the various blue states that are dropping restrictions, AND we have a war popping up in Europe. Border restrictions are becoming less and SF hasn't seen Dr. Fauci around the news channels anywhere in the last 7 days. All setting the stage for POTUS this evening to talk about Covid in the past tense. We are now learning to live with Covid. It has been reduced a butt-kicking flu bug, so we can just forget the past 2 years and get on with our lives today....... Something that gained traction by a few Governors who aided in the expansion of the deaths early on..... Don't forget some of the stories of the past 2 years of the Hype and Horror......NY's former Governor demanding 30,000 respirators and using less than 400, opening the convention center to create a hospital that was barely used, https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/amid-ongoing-covid-19-pandemic-governor-cuomo-announces-statewide-public-private-hospital-plan Convincing the President (Trump) to send the ship Comfort to NY, where only a few patients (20) were actually treated https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/nyregion/ny-coronavirus-usns-comfort.html Creating an environment of fear to the point of some Governors actually using executive orders in place of legislatures to change voting laws prior to a presidential election that somehow (even during an overblown pandemic and crisis) was able to garner the most votes in the history of this country. (go figure) So as we enter year 3 of "2 weeks to flatten the curve" we can all breath easier that Covid is now gonna be over. Or as the former President Trump once said and was immediately blasted for it ‘One day — it’s like a miracle — it will disappear’........ Well the "miracle" is finally here...... SF just thought it would be good to remind everyone about the past 2 years as they bleed into history. My bout with Covid lasted a day and a half, Mrs. SF however is still feeling the effects of the pneumonia that put her in the hospital for a week, but is back to feeling almost normal. But the miracle has arrived as evidenced by the SOTU tonight where masks will not be required anymore. Yay!!!

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https://mises.org/wire/progressive-governance-needs-social-credit-state Human Rights Watch, hardly a right-wing entity, is even more scathing in its criticism of China’s system: Other progressive entities, including the New York Times, also have been critical of China’s social credit system but apparently have no problem with the establishment of a similar de facto system here. The Washington Post went even further, openly taking part in a social credit scheme by publicly identifying people who recently contributed to the Canadian truck protesters and demanding to know why they gave money. Understand that the Washington Post accessed an illegally hacked document and then used it as a weapon against people who dared contribute to something with which the newspaper’s staff disagreed, and the purpose was not to be informative but rather to endanger contributors and make them vulnerable to job loss, public shaming, and other kinds of attacks. This is not a rendition of “Democracy Dies in Darkness” but rather an attempt to impose a greater darkness on all of us. Not that long ago, political liberals universally would have agreed that using massive electronic surveillance to monitor speech and political contributions was unthinkable. Today, not one mainstream journalistic entity has raised a question about the actions taken by Canada’s government against dissenters or even questioned the Post’s doxing of those contributors. One surmises that the editors of the Post agree with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, since many protesters do not share the political views of the Post’s staff. The Washington Post is hardly the only entity that has taken the view that supporting the truckers is tantamount to supporting the Nazi Party. The New York Times has denounced the truckers as violent terrorists, in contrast to the demonstrators in 2020 that “peacefully” destroyed huge portions of American cities, killing and looting as they went. Writes Paul Krugman: It is not that Krugman believes that governments always should curtail violent protests. While his attacks on the truckers present them as violent thugs, Krugman changes directions regarding the riots in American cities in 2020, claiming that they were “remarkably nonviolent”: Krugman hardly is alone at the New York Times. Fellow columnist Michelle Goldberg described the demonstrations as “terrifying” and roundly condemned the truckers as nothing more than “right-wing” protesters, which is NYT speak for people who should have no rights. As for the 2020 demonstrations being peaceful, former NYT writer Nellie Bowles wrote about how the NYT withheld her account of the aftermath of the Kenosha riots until after the 2020 election. She had this to say about the mentality behind the NYT’s decision to withhold the truth: But what does this have to do with the American and Canadian views of social credit? First, as noted earlier, there has been no condemnation of the Canadian government’s heavy-handed crackdown on the truckers, just as no one in the mainstream press even has questioned the Washington Post’s attempt to shame and dox the truckers’ donors. When given the opportunity to condemn what clearly are social credit measures, elite American and Canadian politicians, academics, and journalists have been silent. Second, by invoking emergency powers, Trudeau has assumed near-dictatorial powers, which would be antidemocratic in anyone’s book, yet again, the “Democracy Dies in Darkness” crowd has remained silent. I link no articles because there are none to link. Beyond the issue of its classifying people who simply are demonstrating nonviolently as “terrorists,” there is no way that such an order can be limited to one instance. Now that Canada’s progressive government has criminalized even peaceful dissent—with approval by the progressive elites in both Canada and the US—it will be easier for governments to cross those lines when people express dissent against progressive measures in the future. All of this goes well beyond the usual accusations of political hypocrisy. One accuses people of being hypocrites in order to shame them, but the “Democracy Dies in Darkness” crowd is well beyond any capability of being shamed. To them, whatever Trudeau and other progressive regimes do to those that dare dissent against progressive governance is legitimate because there can be no other permissible way of thinking, even while those same people give lip service to constitutional protections such as the First Amendment. Such protections do not and will not apply to people in groups that do not support progressive ideals and, as we have seen in Canada, officials will increasingly resort to a social credit system undergirded by the “woke capitalists” of the technology sectors, who apparently have no problems being primary agents of state-sponsored surveillance. For example, Twitter gladly permitted the doxing of people who contributed money to the truckers via a supposedly secure platform. We can expect more of this. Writes Michael Rectenwald: Likewise, we can expect the same pressures to be placed upon nonbusiness entities like nonprofit advocacy groups and especially conservative churches. As progressives continue breaking down the historical barriers between the state and private life, a social credit system will fill the void. Individuals, business firms, and organizations that promote progressive viewpoints will see minimal disruption in their lives. However, those individuals and entities that hold viewpoints that are “unacceptable” can expect to see daily disruptions, from their finances to simple communications by email. Given the support that American political and economic elites have shown for Trudeau and his crackdowns on “terrorist” truckers, there is little protection left for those that are not in the good graces of progressives. Because progressive governance ultimately clashes with reality, progressives must develop ways to enforce their measures, especially when the inevitable pushback occurs. As we have learned from China, a social credit system is one way to curb dissent and to force some people to the margins. American and Canadian progressives are finding social credit also can figuratively beat people into submission. A truly frightening future for America. I fear for our children and grandchildren.

I can’t imagine the pain it caused the man, but why does he continue to bring his son up every time KIA’s are brought up? He son did not die in combat.

I'm sure he'll have his pearls on when he signs it so he'll be able to clutch them.

Maybe there was a reason all along (since 1991) in not allowing Ukraine into NATO......Hint - everyone KNEW Russia was going to take it back over during their re-construction.......SF believes Putin is going to stay out of any former Russian countries that are NATO members bordering Ukraine. He just has to posture himself as the evil face of the Russian military - and he wants Ukraine back......