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For best results, I say run drills while the lacrosse team is practicing/playing on the field. No better way to work on elusiveness than dodging a lacrosse ball. You can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a tackle. HEAD ON A SWIVEL!

It got me thinking after reading an article about college basketball Blue Bloods. Thought it would be fun. That list could change in several directions depending on the criteria used. I weighed back and forth as to whether one state championship was enough. Having at least 10 sectional titles and and 5 regional titles were the stats I started with.

This topic intrigued me after seeing that IU basketball was still considered a Blue Blood. A Final Four appearance in the last 20 years kept their status in tact...........until now. They've officially dropped off the charts. Who are the high school football Blue Bloods? What qualifies a team as a Blue Blood? What does a team have to do the maintain that status? The following is my perspective: Qualifications: One state title. Two semi-state titles. Five regional titles. Ten sectional titles. Maintenance: Last 15 years One state finals appearance. Two semi-state appearances. Four sectional titles. 1A: Adams Central, Sheridan, and South Putnam. 2A: Mater Dei, Memorial, Luers, Scecina, LLC, Linton-Stockton, and Pioneer 3A: Heritage Hills, Ritter, Southridge, West Lafayette, and Western Boone. 4A: Chatard, Roncalli, Reitz, Lowell, and St. Joe 5A: Columbus East, Dwenger, Snider, Cathedral, New Pal, Valpo, and Zionsville 6A: Ben Davis, Carmel, Center Grove, Penn, Warren Central, and Westfield Teams left out that surprised me: Avon, Hobart, Jasper, and Merrillville. Hobart gets back in with a sectional title any time over the next few years. Merrillville gets in with a state finals appearance, which will be more achievable at the 5A level.

Ev. Memorial has never played in 2A. We were in 3A from 1985 through 2018. In 2019 we became the only 3A to win state in 4A after being bumped because of the SF. And we've always bled blue blood. . . IU hasn't been a blue blood since Calbert Cheaney graduated.

We know the rules and want to make sure this in no way meant to be negative toward football or track just kind off wondered what other people were doing There is plenty of room for all to work out

My rule of thumb is if the current players who are a part of your program (or if you are recruiting them at the college level) were not born or were too young to remember when you were elite, it’s expired. Indiana/Georgetown basketball come to mind. Nebraska/Tennessee football do also.

Great off-season topic. Following. FWIW: I don’t think blue blood status is eternal. Your criteria is solid but I think any such status expires after a certain amount of time without success. (We can debate the specifics of that time period all day.)

https://www.route66news.com/2022/04/01/c-w-mccall-the-voice-behind-the-hit-single-convoy-dies-at-93/?fbclid=IwAR0r-8xSAqfwEDD5g8fdaoNsNT2NH5YUDJBjfTmGzC-NKWT94C1Sfe3doEE C.W. McCall, the voice behind the hit single “Convoy,” dies at 93

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I think it would be interesting to expand the search to the last 25 years, 30 years, 35 years, and 40 years. This would give an indication of trends, regions, and conferences, and sectionals. Of course all of these variables change.

When you replace Bobref with a robot please call me. I don't think his personality could be engineered into a robot.

Evansville Memorial is currently in 2A. Regardless of class, they are a Blue Blood. Some still consider IU a Blue Blood since they have 5 national championships.

FYI - "Goliath" is busy purchasing and developing more robots......Robots don't unionize...... https://nypost.com/2021/06/14/amazon-tests-warehouse-robots-it-claims-will-reduce-worker-injuries/ Amazon, meanwhile, insists that the robots are not aimed at replacing workers. Yeah, right......

SF has as much disdain towards the Oscars as the Grammys or any other awards show where the Hollywooders and Elite heap praise and more praise on themselves and each other so I didn't watch it. After the week of digesting the aftermath, I came to the conclusion that Mr. Smith acted irresponsibly and childish perhaps brought on by the past year of brutal news relative to his and Jada's "open" marriage that could have brought him to this point. Mr. Rock is a comedian - A COMEDIAN and a pretty good one. It has been reported he wasn't even aware that she had a medical condition and the joke was even a sideways comment almost that the Smiths seemed to enjoy (for a second anyway). So while Will Smith is a great actor, has played many insane roles and done an awesome job on just about all of them over the years, he should have been the adult in the room and ignored a comment that maybe he didn't like, instead he acted like a spoiled big kid foul-mouthed bully and I for one lost a great deal of respect for him as a person (not as an actor). Also, it won't make me want to watch next year either, if that was the intention.

Limited contact starts today and runs through May 14.

Go right after school! Small colleges (ones with a track around the field) practice spring ball while track is going on. We will do this as well. They only time we won't is if the baseball and softball fields are too wet, we would alter our plans to allow baseball and softball to use our football field to get a quality practice in since they are in season. You will not get in the way of track practice.

After looking at the picture again, maybe @Bash Riprock was talking about the car. That car has been sitting there a couple of years. It belonged to the last out-of-towner who entered the bar. He was never heard from again. The regulars all insist he "entered the transfer portal". Yeah, that's the ticket.

You are not wrong, but this group is pretty special. If they continue to progress at their current rate, there are multiple guys with extremely high ceilings!

She was GREAT as George's mother on Seinfeld as well as Mrs. Potato Head in the Toy Story movies. RIP https://www.wane.com/entertainment-news/estelle-harris-seinfeld-and-toy-story-actor-dies-at-93/?fbclid=IwAR1XLIMk9q5d6DOrhUoFGE52Y2ZfO-i7skQi4ADkrM8drJTFd2IOzNCsiJ4

Congrats to Tagg and the others that made the cover for Primetime 25.

Don't really care.

As others have stated there are rules that must be followed and I assume it varies sport to sport. Swimming appears to be more liberal than others. The coaches for club and HS cross over significantly and there is a club season that happens during the HS season. Swimmers are limited to only 2 club events though during the HS season. Coaches are also banned from coaching during the normal summer moratorium seasons. But they are allowed to coach their swimmers during regular club season. The clubs are technically more community focused than school focused. For example, you'll find swimmer from Chatard and Cathedral at clubs in Carmel, Lawrence, Fishers, and Warren Central. Probably some Washington Township as well.

Shhh. The sheep don't like facts.

So, two more years? Can’t wait to watch either Warren or Ben Davis claim some sort of mythical conference championship despite losing to both Carmel and Center Grove in the regular season.

Ben Davis in the same calendar year - basketball March 2017 and football November 2017

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/transgender-youth-democrats-party-of-child-mutilators-kidnappers/ Here is a link to the fuller HHS document stating the administration’s position. Excerpts: That ought to send a chill down everyone’s spine. The Biden Administration is laying the policy groundwork for the seizing of minor children from parents, for the sake of jacking those children up with hormones, and mutilating their bodies with surgery! Got that? It is US Government policy that you must affirm, always affirm. There is no controversy here. None. Along those lines: I remind you that this very US government policy document actually states that there are “no scientifically sound” reasons to doubt whether hormones and surgery for minors is harmful, and to say, therefore, that children may be removed from their families so that their bodies can be altered by the state. This is the Democratic Party at work. This is what it means to have a Democratic government. Does having a Republican government mean reversing all of this? One hopes so. Folks, they really are coming for our children. It’s right there on the government website. They are propagandizing doctors to act as agents of the state in the seizure of kids. Read the document yourself! UPDATE: This is one issue on which I don’t believe it is possible to be too radical in pushing back. This stuff is absolutely intolerable. I remind you: they are talking about seizing children from families to put them through sex reassignment. Could that possibly be more dystopian?! Sure, they say that they are going to be careful about it, but the fact is they plan to do it at all. This is outrageous. People should be in the streets protesting this. The fact of the matter is our ruling class have decided that there is no reason anyone could possibly object to this without being the moral equivalent of a Klansman. They will continue to push and push for this with the full support of the Cathedral (= media, academia, law, medicine, government, NGOs, et alia). No, these positions aren’t popular with voters, but if you want to gain access to professional circles, including accreditation required to gain access to our non-hereditary aristocracy, you had better affirm this malicious garbage. Wake up, folks: institutional capture by the radical Left has gone so far that businesses, educational institutions, and others are appointing the contemporary equivalent of commissars (Soviet political officers) under the guise of diversity, inclusion, and equity. Meanwhile, we on the Right can’t run a bakery or a floral shop without being hunted down. Until these institutional advantages are negated, the Left will keep pushing the boundaries, and keep winning. This is why it should become the most important priority of a new GOP Congress, should it come into being after this fall’s election, to roll back Disney’s copyright extensions. That would be an atomic bomb dropped on the heads of Woke Capitalism, and cause these corporate titans to think long and hard before involving themselves in the culture war. Conservatives have to understand that we are not in the 1980s. Big Business is the enemy of families, and of anything traditional. They want our kids. If the Republicans in power cannot pull off a rollback of Disney’s extended copyright protection (which it bought by having standard US copyright laws changed for its benefit), then all the posturing about being a pro-family party is just that: grift. The Walt Disney Company’s executives bragged on video about inserting messages about queerness surreptitiously into children’s programming, and about their plans to increase trans visibility and the like in its programming going forward. One of them bragged that they have a blank slate in the minds of children. The Democratic Party is 100 percent behind this, at the leadership level. None of this is right-wing propaganda. We have the evidence, in those Disney videos, and in black and white, in this HHS memorandum. If we on the Right cannot fight this, and win, we might as well head for the hills and plant cabbages, because we are done as a meaningful political force. Scary, scary times.