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Thought DT was back for a minute with that title. 🤣

From the data I’ve seen, the real utility of Guardian caps may well lie, not in preventing concussions, but in the repeated microtraumas to the head which many believe can, later in life, lead to chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

East Noble is not beating Snider. If they do, you can forget any type of post season title for the Panthers. Don’t care what type of crowd East Noble has, I fully expect Snider to roll the Knights

Forget about Dwenger, they will start 0-5

I'm glad you're here. I'll say it straight to your face.

City speed. State law

As we enter football season, this our yearly reminder that phising and scams are prevelent on social media with fake posts of live streaming games. We can only guarantee that games airing on IHSAAtv are legit and free from spam. http://IHSAAtv.org

I see this a lot on Facebook. We post our links to the official Indiana SRN link for our weekly live-streams, but still get phishing links in comments. I delete them every Friday afternoon to hopefully save our folks from scams..

Durant was exactly who I thought about when I saw this. If it’s really just a calf strain, he’s extremely lucky, because he dodged a bullet.

Welcome to the new America.

Beat me to it. 50% would be more accurate in 6A. Ninety percent would be accurate in 5A.

LCC in 2009? Graduated 18 seniors and went 15-0 the next season. Also, 2010 they graduated 13 seniors and went 15-0 the following season.

Man, FC getting some big time mileage out of that moral victory against CG in the sectional huh? No Carmel and Brownsburg is laughable.

Higher concentrate of kids, more leagues, more opportunities, etc.......just spitballing. But seriously, at the end of the day there's good football all across the state and the ones committed to it start them young. CYO, CG bantam league, etc all have phenomenal programs the same way that IPS and Washington Twp have little to no structure. It reflects at the high school level.

In think that ties in to @Impartial_Observer's statement above about better technique. I would hope that programs that use them just don't hand them out as "magic dust" and drive home the importance of technique as well as other safety tools.

DONE!

Do not agree at all with Brownsburg not being here. Swap Cathedral and Carroll forsure. Fishers and Westfield, Jeff and Crown Point deserve to be flipped as well. Penn maybe a little high too. Brownsburg is 60-17 the past 7 seasons. They deserve a spot over 9-12 without question

Think you’d have to put Decatur Central & Plainfield somewhere in there, but looks pretty solid overall. This class has a lot of parity again so it should be another fun year.

Barker was an assistant under Weber. Prior to that, he played for Steve at Linton as well.

I have long been an opponent of term limits. I’m a firm believer in Rousseau’s maxim “You get the government you deserve.” Unfortunately, the incumbents have so rigged the system that they have a huge electoral advantage over anyone trying to unseat them. So, reluctantly, I have come around in favor of term limits for Congress, fully realizing some good people may be thrown out with the bath water.

Possible. Admin changes.

Yep, One I can easily think of was the '96 State Title could have easily ended in Portage in Regionals. Portage had the ball on the goal line with enough time left to run 1 play. Buzea passed up a gimme FG attempt that would have sent the game into OT and instead went for the win. It wasn't even close. Penn's D-Line stopped the Portage RB in the backfield.

And this is a great example of why an independent judiciary, not politically beholden to anyone, is absolutely essential for our checks and balances government to work correctly.

I hate to beat a dead horse here, but all of those citations represent retrospective studies analyzing data generated under uncontrolled conditions, i.e., practices and games. And they all make the leap: “We use Guardian caps and we have fewer concussions. Therefore, Guardian caps are effective in reducing concussions.” This is called a post hoc, propter hac logical fallacy. It’s very common. Since the result is all you’re after, it’s not that important to you what the reason is that you’re experiencing fewer concussions. But if you were a science teacher, and one of your students offered such a conclusion, you’d have to flunk him or her. Let me be clear. I’m not saying Guardian caps don’t work. All I’m saying is the only truly scientific evidence shows they are of little to no benefit.

North Posey

I tend to agree, Coach. We use them in our program and while I can't point to any specific data, we seem to be experiencing less issues too. Anything that can be done to reduce impact is a good thing for the kids and the game overall.

not that he needs anyone to "vouch" for him, but @scarab527 has been around boards, for a long time always backing the 59ers, I kind of know things in the central time zone 🙂

One of the poster children for term limits........

https://reason.com/2023/07/26/rfk-jr-libertarians-covid-vaccine-free-speech-democrats/ These are not, in fact, thorny questions. Of course misinformation is protected by the First Amendment—unless it veers into defamation or fraud, both narrowly defined legal categories. The modern Supreme Court has never validated the idea that speech expressing incorrect ideas is unprotected by the Constitution; if it had, the Times' own speech rights would be in jeopardy. Indeed, Times' own story about Kennedy's controversial remarks itself contained misinformation. Its opening paragraph described the comments in question as "a conspiracy-filled rant by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that the Covid-19 virus was engineered to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people." The candidate did not, in fact, straightforwardly declare that COVID-19 was "engineered to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people." He said: "There is an argument that it is ethnically targeted. COVID-19 attacks certain races disproportionately." He also said: "COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese." And he said: "We don't know whether it was deliberately targeted or not but there are papers out there that show the racial or ethnic differential and impact." You can see why someone would raise an eyebrow at the suggestion that the virus even might have been "deliberately targeted," but a reporter should report what the candidate actually said. Kennedy, for what it's worth, seems to have been referring to a study by the Cleveland Clinic that found some evidence the virus's genetic makeup could theoretically make certain populations—including the Amish and Ashkenazi Jews—less receptive to it. Some scientists have disagreed with the underlying findings of the Cleveland Clinic study; moreover, the disproportionate impacts of COVID-19 are likely best explained by certain populations' overall health, age, and access to medical resources. Kennedy's larger point was that government funding of research that creates such viruses is dangerous. In an interview on Rising, the YouTube show I co-host for The Hill, the candidate claimed that "it never entered my mind that it was engineered directly to protect Jews and injure other people." Unfortunately, the Democrats' behavior at the hearing is part of a pattern. Far too many political leaders have urged greater censorship of contrarian COVID-19 speech, especially online. The vast federal bureaucracy—first under Donald Trump, and then in a greatly expanded fashion under Joe Biden—pushed private tech companies to censor speech that was critical of the government's approach to the pandemic. Both the Twitter Files and Reason's own Facebook Files show that the White House, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, and other arms of the government frequently contacted content moderators for the purpose of jawboning. These pushes for greater content moderation were not just philosophically wrong—that is, at odds with principles of free speech—but they were often wrong about the underlying facts as well. One need not cosign everything RFK Jr. has ever said about the virus or vaccines to admit that the mainstream purveyors of pandemic-related information made grave errors of scientific judgment. For instance, The New York Times' lead coronavirus reporter, Apoorva Mandavilli, said the lab leak theory of COVID-19's origins was a "racist" falsehood, and she was in good company. The establishment media's persistent crusade to demonize lab-leak dissenters—other than a tiny number of cautiously dissenting voices—did not end until earlier this year, after multiple federal agencies finally concluded that a lab leak was more likely than natural spillover. If leading Democratic politicians, government health experts, and mainstream media reporters engaged in some self-reflection about their own role in pandemic-era authoritarianism, they might better understand the appeal of a candidate who is running on an explicit platform of never repeating such mistakes. RFK Jr. is an interesting character. Hopefully he'll make the upcoming election more interesting, if the Uni-Party doesn't censor most everything he says.

The device was called a Q-Collar. The theory was that the collar, by compressing the internal jugular veins in the neck, increased the volume of blood in the brain’s vessels, leaving less room for the brain to slosh around inside the skull. Theoretically, less sloshing = fewer and/or less severe concussions. I don’t recall any scientific data showing it actually worked.

Gotta love Carroll's "go big or go home" approach. It's gaining them state-wide attention.

It must. Such a clown show.

In fairness to Carroll, Penn had plenty of escapes in its heyday. One man's escape is another's good win.

Those more in the know with football in the Fort, fill in the blank. ”If Snider can stay within ___ points of Warren in week 1, it proves they are a 5A state title contender.”

Go Kokomo Wildkats.