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  1. It was 12 years ago today that the GID suffered a devastating blow from which many thought it would never recover. The founder and guiding spirit of the forum, Tim Adams, passed away suddenly. Tim was a long time coach, and a tireless promoter of Indiana high school football. I consider myself very fortunate to have gotten to know him and call him a good friend. I know many of the people on the forum now joined after Tim passed, and they know him only by the occasional references on here. Perhaps others who knew him might share some of their recollections of this very good man.
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  2. Yeah and I bet that lasts as long as your bi-monthly retreat from here.
    3 points
  3. All of the schools I've listed are within twenty minutes of each other. I'm an East Central graduate, lived almost in Ohio, drove 25 minutes everyday to get to school, some of my teammates had further drives. Not asking anyone to make hour long commutes. That and most of the schools I mention consolidating are in the same county. How do kids in Rush County all make it to Rushville High School? How do all the kids in Franklin County make it to Franklin County High School? How do all of the kids in Jennings County make it to Jennings County High School?
    3 points
  4. Unfortunately, this is a good advertisement for living a healthy lifestyle.
    2 points
  5. I think you misspelled "tragedy"? But I dunno for sure, my aotocorekt is curenntly distabled.
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  6. It's about providing students an opportunity to learn through participating in athletics, win, lose, or draw. At many small schools, cross country is the only option for fall sport athletes, as many smaller schools don't field a soccer team. It's arguable that more soccer programs will pop up if football is contracted at many schools, although many small schools might decide not to go in that direction.
    2 points
  7. No one is talking about consolidating football teams for competitive reasons. The OP is talking about consolidating school districts that would in turn be able to offer more competitive athletic programs. Combing two or three rural high schools with 300-400 students isn't a novel idea and in fact has been happening for 50-60 years. It's more than practical.
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  8. He's being pedantic. He wants schools to shut down their programs. That should have been your first sign. I'd imagine the same way they currently get home from practice...
    2 points
  9. WELP, In true YG fashion... I can tell it's getting close to Football season. The posts are getting serious (some ridiculous). But anywho ......
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  10. Retiring after 57 years being the voice of High School Sports in the Kankakee Valley.
    1 point
  11. I bet you never stayed indoors; but the pandemic was a blessing for me, so I guess I should thank you for in part for my good times.
    1 point
  12. Can confirm the sentiment from all sides, it's all a bit of your state of mind at any given point. When I was a kid growing up in rural Illinois 95% of my commutes were five minutes or less and 4% were under ten minutes. Going on a 30 minute drive was finally a reason to put your seatbelt on since it was so far away and you had to get on the "highway" (I know at least some of you had to have lived through that ridiculous mindset back in the day). When I lived in Charlotte I had a 12 mile commute to work that took, on a good day, 50 minutes through no less than 25 stop signs/lights. It was a game to see what my daily red light/green light ratio was. The 50 minutes were peak conditions, which which happened maybe 1 day in 3. It was frequently an hour and not uncommon to see 75-90 minutes in the evening once every other week or so. I didn't think much about it because that was just what it took to put food on the table. Now that I'm down here (that's down in God's country, for those who don't know) I travel 25 miles on rural highways in 30 minutes on the dot 95% of the time. The other 5% is during some days in the spring/fall if I get behind a tractor, and then it takes me 31 minutes. There is no way in Hades I'd take a job that made me travel much further, or with any less consistency, than that now.
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  13. You make the “assumptions” as you call them, pretty easy to pinpoint with the way you carry yourself and name call. Don’t attempt to victimize yourself. It’s very unattractive.
    1 point
  14. I hate to say it, but that’s probably right. If he enrolled at North - which is the district he’s in - I bet that would go through without a hitch. I loathe the IHSAA. It’s so transparent.
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  16. Your statements in this thread tell the story, not I.
    1 point
  17. More like dogwalked. DT has flopped his narrative so much that not even Muda can keep up. Not as if it shouldn't have expected anyway.
    1 point
  18. One of the major reasons I ended up at private junior high and subsequently Cathedral was due to the consolidation and subsequent merging of athletic programs in my district. But yes go off and tell me what I do and don't know. Puts you in the exact same category as that clown Temptation for assuming you know a single thing about me, simply based off the high school I attended years ago.
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  19. And maybe constantly reading in-between the lines, trying to insinuate something that really isn't there in a desperate attempt to pull a "gotcha!" on DT and others, is your forte. I take a written medium like an internet forum at face value. Yeah, DT may have complained about the practice travel times but he quickly followed that up with that as a "city guy" he would not like to do it, but understood that a "country guy" could find such travel acceptable. He did not discredit the entire idea, not by a longshot. You still seem to have a problem with separating and understanding school consolidation from football team/program consolidation. They can be two different things, at least in other states. And as I have previously stated the IHSAA would be wise to also bless such football team/program consolidations. Of course in the Ivory Tower that is Cathedral football, ideas such as football program consolidation would seem very strange and foreign.
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  20. No, the commentary in this thread is not "clear". And the thread post by Old Man High Pants you linked to was discussing school consolidation, not football program consolidation/co-op. These are two very different things, would you agreed? No, chief, DT has been very consistent regarding his opinions regarding school consolidation and football program consolidation. So very far from a "checkmate". But again, nice try. As for being productive, I've been very much so. Been configuring web server software datasources to use a updated version of a database driver and testing those against a new DB server our DBA recently stood up. Unlike you I can walk and chew gum at the same time.
    1 point
  21. Don't have time, it's payday. Need to get to WalMart for my monthly supplies.
    1 point
  22. Safety crossed my mind, although I can't advocate taking away a sport, especially one that a "husky" kid can specialize in.
    1 point
  23. @Muda69Putting this out here again. If you can't recognize DT as anything but a walking contradiction than I can't help you, although I'm not sure you were worth saving to begin with.
    1 point
  24. Spoiler alert: I was never hinged to begin with.
    1 point
  25. The way you constantly poo poo the plight of schools less fortunate is as transparent as a pane of glass.
    1 point
  26. “If it doesn’t concern Cathedral or is not an issue that directly affects Cathedral, it’s either a non-issue or a terrible idea.” - FBK
    1 point
  27. A farm kid in Ripley County wouldn't have to drive 30 minutes a week to practice if his school district consolidated. He'd be practicing 500 feet from the building he attended school all day in. Don't make this harder than it needs to be.
    1 point
  28. Right. So if two or three schools consolidated into one, they'd all be practicing at the same location. Problem solved.
    1 point
  29. As a left-handed individual I support this initiative. After all we lefties are the only ones in our right minds..............
    1 point
  30. 66 Massages??? I haven't had that many hands on me since "The insurrection".... I KEED, I KEED....😁
    1 point
  31. Then why hasn't Noll had a winning season since 2006? And again, I pointed out Faith Christian. Why aren't they dominating IHSAA in the sports in the ones that they play? As I pointed out, there was an Orwellian situation where we had a thread here on GID talking about this very issue of blanket multipliers in one thread and, in another thread, at the same time, someone calling for Noll to be put out of their misery and contract/just stop trying football. A 2.0 multiplier system would take a 2A school with roughly 500 students, which incidentally hasn't won more than one game per season in the last seven years, and thrust them into 4A. Can you honestly state that is what you are looking for? Or are you looking for, as you mentioned, schools like Mater Dei or Chatard or LCC or Cathedral to have to play up? If it's the former, then it's a more punitive system; if it's the latter, then it's more based on outcome. If we are really looking at that idea of fairness/balance/etc., then again, a performance-based/outcome-based system tends to be better at addressing the REALIZED advantage. And it also, very quickly does away with the p/p vs. public threads and also does away with subjectivity or having to convince folks of anything. Right now, we keep rehashing this topic like the blind men describing the elephant and trying to determine whether we should keep it in the garage. The guy who feels the trunk says, "It's just like a snake, so sure, let it in." The guy who feels the ears says, "Well, it's probably not going to like it in a garage because it can't fly around, but what the heck." The guy who feels the tail says, "It's just like rope and there's already rope in the garage, so sure let it in." On the other hand, if we all agree, without even seeing what it is, that if it crushes a car when it sits on it it shouldn't be in the garage, then frankly I don't care if it's an elephant or a bird or a snake or rope. It doesn't go in the garage. Similarly, I don't care if it's p/p, a rich public school, a really big consolidated school, a rich school that only cares about the arts, or a really poor school that only cars about sports, inner-city/country, urban/suburban, or an average school that really only cares about academics, but likes to have some EC activities. If it crushes the brackets, so to say, then it moves up. If it has no impact on brackets, then why make the school dedicated to the arts potentially have to play up a couple classes if it's interested on football on the same level that some sports-crazed schools are interested in the chess teams?
    1 point
  32. “Expectation for success that develops within the community” leads to commitment by families in the community which is directly tied to affluence in the community. Took the long route but it still comes full circle. It IS more than money and enrollment but those are still 1-2.
    1 point
  33. https://www.wane.com/news/local-news/caleb-swanigan-former-nbaer-dead-at-25
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  34. Man, this was a punch in the gut reading this. What a great player and personality he was too. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/34131855/ex-nfl-dt-tony-siragusa-goose-dies-age-55
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  35. Can't imagine an undrafted free agent would get much of a signing bonus, but in any case, that was 30 years ago. Latest video I can find is a 2013 commercial and he doesn't seem overly obese or unhealthy in it. No real stories of carousing in a Google search.
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