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I am not as tech savvy as most on here, but there is a great youtube video by coach Frank Martin (then of South Carolina) about referees and coaches. It is worth a listen.

https://www.maxpreps.com/in/fort-branch/gibson-southern-titans/football/21-22/stats/ Seniors get more action. Defense #3 in tackles All conference returns (missed last 2 games). (40 solo, 13 assist, 21 TFL) #4 (39 solo,8 assist,2 TFL)in tackles returns LB with significant varsity experience. Another DL/LB with significant varsity experience other than clean up. Another DE with significant varsity experience other than clean up. We will have secondary questions to figure out....but we could go with a couple 2-way guys (blasphemy at GS!) Offense #2 in total yards All conference returns 1324 (AP) from scrimmage returns. #4, #5 and #6 receivers return for totals of 461, 362, (missed 4 last games), 256, return. #1, #2 and #4 rushers return for totals of 863, 362, 357 2 Offensive linemen that started full or part-time return. Thoughts Expect total yardage to be near 50% from runs and 50% from passes this season. Expect a very physical and aggressive front 7...we will match up nicely against the guys in our conference who might want to ground and pound. Losing QB1 was huge after one of the best senior performances by an Indiana QB I have ever seen, but he won one sectional for us. In 2015 we lost all 11 Defensive starters and was good enough to win sectional the following year had our QB not broken his collar bone. Look at what Lawrenceburg lost this season and they are ranked #3...come on man. Also, a very successful JV team with upper classmen waiting their turn who made some varsity squads look really bad in the 3rd and 4th quarters: JV rushing 1675 for 12.8 yards per carry very talented group. JV receiving 687 for 14.9 yards per reception. Junior QB hasn't lost to a PAC opponent from 3rd through 10th grade. Junior QB 44/87 641 yards 51% 12 TD 4 INT Freshman year he got contact traced out for 2 games. He will probably be just about anywhere on the field this season....plenty of RB though.

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Still trying to figure out what Hart vs Wilkerson head to head records have anything to do with thread? GS pride hurt by being ranked below HH in a meaningless preseason poll? 😃

I gotchu

One of the drivers behind the officiating shortage is the unreasonable behavior of fans toward sports officials. Many of those “fans” are actually parents or other relatives of players. If they act that way, in public, toward officials, I can only imagine how they act toward coaches when Little Johnny is riding the pines, or Little Suzy is batting 8th instead of cleanup. I’m sure @Impartial_Observercan share on that subject, as can many others.

I would also like to add that GS’s leading rusher is so much more than a runner. He made varsity as a freshman and played WR. Think he got banged up at some point that year but still showed plenty of flashes as a freshman. switched to RB last year but still was used a lot in the passing game. he might not play RB this year for all we know and could go back to WR. He’s just flat out a weapon you get the ball to

Down in SW IN we love getting our news, medical advice, research, recipes, etc. from Facebook. It's really a one-stop shop, like Wal-Mart or Rural King. Rory needs to be working on an NIL deal with "Mane & Tail" to keep that flow flowing.

Apples vs. Oranges.

He still has a FB page? I thought it was going defunct due to a lack of cash flow from sponsors that I heard through some click bait post, I mean, self-imposed rumor, I mean, click bait post, I mean the grapevine. (Ok, I'm done.) FWIW, I hope HH has a great year (games vs GS notwithstanding).

Tri-West just hired Center Grove AD

“17 D1 players.”

Tbh….QB is probably the least of the concerns? Hart is a phenomenal QB mentor and during his tenure so far over 10 years….every QB who was the starting QB, made All State 3A at least once. 4 different QBs…all 4 were all state caliber QBs and great in their own ways. GS will surely rush more this year than last year…but idk if it looks that much different for the opposing teams. It’s still going to line up as 4 receivers shotgun RPO I bet.….only change is that the guy we presume is going to be the starter can take it 70 yards for the touchdown with his legs

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A rushing team that can throw. Also, it's slightly frowned upon to give the backup Q a bunch of passing attempts during mop up time. Don't worry, he had his reps in JV... where the average margin of victory was 37 points and the team averaged 12.8 yards per carry. BUT. We know JV isn't a one-for-one translation to varsity. That said, Next Titan Up.

It's right on the money!

Biden: Inflation Is Everybody’s Fault but Mine https://mises.org/wire/biden-inflation-everybodys-fault-mine Without all this new money creation, the inflation we’re witnessing today would be impossible. This isn’t to say that we wouldn’t see some rising prices considering wars and China’s ongoing lockdowns. Those events certainly do drive up some prices. But in an environment without constant monetary inflation perpetrated by central banks, inflation would not be general in the way it is now. Some prices would increase, but other prices would decline, as would make sense when the money supply is limited. There would only be so much money to go around so price inflation in some areas would be balanced by price deflation in others. But with monetary inflation running rampant, price inflation can do the same throughout the entire economy: more money is chasing goods and services. Biden Is Making Price Inflation Worse by Hobbling Production But even in time periods when monetary inflation is rampant, the effect on price inflation can be tempered by increased production and increased worker productivity. Specifically, improved technology, innovation, and international trade are all disinflationary forces that can make price inflation less bad. The Biden administration, however, is currently waging war on innovation, productivity, and trade, and thus making price inflation even worse. In his Tuesday speech, Biden called for even more regulation on businesses and higher taxes. He wants more power to coerce businesses into higher fuel economy, and to mandate more electric vehicles. He wants to increase fees on oil and gas producers. He wants higher taxes on employers. This will all only serve to cripple production and thus will put further upward pressure on price inflation. As far as foreign production goes, the Biden administration has largely preserved the Trump administration’s antitrade innovations. Biden’s anti-Russia policies have also only served to further cripple international trade by imposing economic sanctions on nations—including those that have friendly relations with the US—who consume critical Russian goods. This will be most disastrous for the poorest countries of the world, but American consumers will be impacted as well. (Gas prices in the US on Tuesday hit a new high.) As a result, the US has done much to raise energy and food prices worldwide while taking no steps at all to seek a diplomatic solution to the end of the war in Ukraine. Americans now have the misfortune of living under a regime that relentlessly inflates the money supply while working to cripple production. This is a recipe for ongoing inflation in both assets and consumer goods. But you won’t hear anything about this from the White House. Last year, the inflation culprit was “greed,” which supposedly prompted corporations to raise prices. (Why inflation-casing greed suddenly became far worse in 2021 is never explained.) Now, Putin provides a convenient scapegoat. For the past six months, the regime has repeatedly groped around for whatever bogeyman could be blamed—so long as the central bank remains blameless. Yep, Mr. Biden is naming pretty much everybody else as scapegoats in the failing U.S. economy and rising inflation. Everybody else but the true culprits; the central banking system and it's full embrace of MMT practices.

Yes, the FB page still exists.. I find it somewhat comical that he copies and pastes quite a bit of stuff from here and is asking for sponsors/$. The best thing he does is the coach interviews.

Only returning starter on defense is 4 Star DT Kendrick Gilbert. Kyuss Garrett played some key snaps, but he prob couldn't be called a starter at cornerback. That said, the incoming batch of linebackers is pretty nasty. Weingart, Kirsch, Bragg, McCormick. And fhe DL w Gilbert and Patrick Kendall will be a sick front 7. Look for some talented sophomores from the undefeated team last year to push for playing time (I.e. Aidan Hughes). My biggest question is the replacing the entire O-line. I think this year's line will be bigger than last years with WNeale, BBeasley, and Eli Albers. However, they'll need to get battled tested in a hurry. A 1 loss JV campaign last year to Cincy St. X is a good start, but some early season Ws will help them gel. The thunder and lightning attack of Carson Johnson and Hosia Smith will be fun to watch with our aerial game weapons (Tibbs, Wooten, Ayres, Bridges, etc). Need to find a good slot to replace the virtually irreplaceable Michael Page as well. Our schedule lightens up quite a bit with Cincy GCL playoff requirements shifting and vacating our schedule.

It’s the off-season.

Experience matters.

Agree. GS will be top five and HH won't be far behind and could prove to go higher, I can tell you this is the only preseason ranking out of the 10 or so that will come out that will have GS this low and that will be missing Tri-West. And I won't dignify arguing with him on facebook.

Bingo. This is precisely why I am leaving my current position at Whiting HS. I teach 3 middle school computer science classes (6th, 7th, and 8th). Then in the high school I teach an AP Computer Science class, a dual credit PLTW engineering class, and 2 robotics classes. I do not have a prep. With this work load I cannot be visible in the building. I tried to get my schedule to be more "coach friendly" but it wasn't feasible. So I finally had to make a change. Whiting is my alma mater and I've been coaching here for 20 years but something had to give. Tough decision but it's the correct one.

I would put GS as an early favorite to come out of the South in 3A. Lost a some great players but have a lot of very good players returning.

I stepped away from coaching in 1985 because of greater job demands.... I had coached as a lay coach from 1978 to 1985. When I retired in 2017, I decided to get back into coaching full time because I was bored with retirement. I had coached various youth league teams on a part time basis between 1985 and 2017; however, I digress. I thought it would be better if I was an in the building coach so I went back to school at the ripe old age of 65 to obtain my Professional Educators License. This marks my fifth season at the secondary level as a coach of two sports. With all the ups and downs it has been a journey.... it keeps me young!

The Generation That Hates George Washington: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/generation-that-hates-george-washington-culture-wars/ Yes, young Caleb, that would fix everything. But wait, what’s this about renaming the university? This privileged twerp — where do you even start? Remember how we were all told that it was just the Confederate statues they were after, not the Founding Fathers, for heaven’s sake? It will never happen, and when it does, you bigots will deserve it. Wakanda forever! My challenge to you is to find a single prominent liberal commentator who forthrightly denounces this repugnant crap. They can’t do it, even if they think it, because they are terrified of the radicals in their midst. Meanwhile, elsewhere in the Washington Post today, a reporter observes Republicans preparing to pounce. Excerpts: I mean … how dare they?! Liberals love to blame conservatives for fighting the culture war, which usually means resisting whatever radical aggression the liberals have tried next. More from the story: Damn straight. J.D. Vance understands that often, culture war is class war. Tim Ryan is not going to fight the culture wars because he knows his party holds contemptible, losing positions. One more quote: Read it all. I remind you that the political scientist Eric Kaufmann earlier this year warned that conservatives had better make fighting the culture war their most important priority. He says that most people over age 30 favor what he idiosyncratically describes as “cultural liberalism” — meaning tolerance for liberty and diversity. But those under 30 favor what he calls “cultural socialism” — no tolerance at all for anything opposed to wokeness. Caleb Francois is our future, unless we fight back. No Democrat at the national level has the guts to say a word of criticism of him and his ideological confreres. In all of our normative institutions, the leaders grovel in front of the Caleb Francoises. Find politicians prepared to push back hard against these radicals, and not just rhetorically, and they will win power. When they win power, they’d better use it, too.