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I don't have time to go back through the mess, but @Muda69 is an excellent GID member. Like @temptation and a handful of others, he often takes the opposing opinion or challenges conventions and keeps the convo going, and we need that around here.

Yes and no. I apologize ahead of time for the lengthy response but this is a hill I am willing to die on. That thought process is contributing to the mass exodus in our profession right now. I don't speak for every coach but I can tell you the job of a high school coach isn't an easy one. I love football and truly believe it is the greatest game there is. It saved my life and I have seen it save many more. That is what drew me to this vocation; the opportunity to have an impact on young people and make the world a better place. Coaches give a lot and will continue to give of themselves but I think the public at large is failing to reciprocate. Rather, we continue to add more and more to the plate of our coaches. Coaches wear many hats: teacher, coach, advocate, counselor, administrator, nutritionist, recruiting coordinator, social media promoter, and etc. AND we answer to everyone...our assistant coaches, administration, school board, teachers, players, parents, media, personal trainers, college coaches, and etc. Many people demand our time and that comes with the territory. If our players are going to be successful and get where they want to be then we have to find that time to give. I have answered those emails for DT before and for many other social media sites because I appreciate anyone that is taking the time to promote our kids. To be honest I don't respond enough to them and I need to be better. I have met with over 30 college coaches this off season promoting our players. This includes driving players on 3 visits and attending a recruiting clinic. I will be driving players to college spring ball practices in the coming months and hosting a college day on our campus in May. I have prepared a recruitment sheet for all 18 players that expressed interest in playing ball in college. I will do everything in my power to get a player to the next level. To give you a view of a typical week for a coach here are the duties I performed in the last 7 days. This does not include any family or grad school duties. ran weights before and after school. At the school building from 6am-6pm. taught school - my day job that pays the bills and has it's own set of standards and expectations offensive staff meeting Tuesday - If you have coached before you know those meetings are never short attended 2 athletic events to support our athletes visited 3 elementary schools for our reading program visited a middle school to pass out spring and summer schedules during their lunch periods promoted accomplishments by our football and weight programs on multiple social media sites attended a football clinic in Cincy on last Friday - was only able to stay for 4 hours due to an obligation at home but wanted to meet the new Valpo coach in person and see the Pitt DL coach who was incredible! 2 media interviews concerning new transfer rule and another media interview concerning concussions I tell you all of that to tell you that I am consistently told via social media that I am not doing enough to promote my players. Some of my players are being told, outside forces and handlers who stand to make a profit off of them, that I am also not doing enough to promote them. Maintaining a "we" over "me" culture is beginning to feel insurmountable at times which I believe is due to landscape of college football and now the landscape of Indiana high school football where we just opened the floodgates to allow more bad actors into the recruiting arena. We face constant scrutiny and negativity, even when we are winning. In the end you are what you put your time to. At some point every coach has to decide what that will be. I am a husband and a father of 4 boys. I am in grad school to prepare for a life after football to ensure my family can be provided for. My wife is a teacher and a coach. My kids play youth sports and I coach them when I can be there. My 8 year old is going through 1st communion preparation right now. My 5 year old is pumped to learn to ride his bike when it gets warm. My 4 year old starts baseball this spring. I still have one in diapers who will be diving into potty training soon. A lot of positive things. Things I hope each one of my players and students get to experience some day because a life full of love is the greatest gift we can receive. Please do not read this as a complaint as I wake up every day with gratitude for the blessing of being an educator and coach; I am truly blessed. I have always felt personal stories have power and I thought sharing mine here could create some empathy for my peers. I will keep fighting the good fight for as long as I can...but some day I will get tired and will have to make that decision on whether fighting the negativity is still worth my time as well. In the end I guess my point is...where would you put responding to an email for social media gratification on your list if you were me? I appreciate you all and everything you give to the game of football, even if it only opinions. There are some great people on this site and this site does matter. You are a part of the Indiana Football Community and our community is better for having you in it. God Bless

The rest of you can bash on the guy, but gotta give him props. For him to view that HC job 30k times on his own to generate these numbers is impressive work. Gotta respect a man that works at his craft and puts in the time. Skys the limit for this guy and what he's trying to accomplish. Hats off to him lol.

His messages are marked as spam in my email, which will likely result in me being called out for "not promoting my players" for his 300k followers. Not a fan of someone who wants to simultaneously present himself as impartial media, but can't keep his own opinion out of his content. Nor does he sign his name to anything. Appreciative of the GID for these same reasons! -Clay Mannering

attack an idea not a person not that hard

Happily married for 30+ years now. We just had a fantastic long weekend away from the house, staying at an Inn.

One, I was hired by the athletic director to do it. Two, 28 years in professional media covering high school, college and professional sports in Indiana, 9 at newspapers, 19 in broadcasting. Former Indiana Sportscaster of the Year, Indiana Media Relations Director of the year, multi-time AP & Hoosier State Press Association award winner, former president of the Indiana Sportswriters & Sportscasters Association ... need any more qualifications? I have a pretty good handle on the media landscape in our state.

OG GID will understand this: RACK IT !!!!

Apparently someone is still butt hurt about getting removed.

No need to continue, we're all Facebook famous already. Lol

Hey I've got no problem with Muda. I don't agree with probably 99% of what they guy thinks or says, but he donates to the GID and brings a lot of interesting topics to this place. If there's one thing I've learned in my short time being here, it's just let him have his say and walk away from the keyboard. No need to talk about anyone's wife. We're just here to argue and talk about the game we all love to play, coach, watch, or any combination of those things.

And you said it right to his face!

About the same level of dumb to think the best pool of HS Football Coach candidates are searching for jobs on Facebook. 🙂

Great to see all those views have resulted in a net profit adequate enough to buy a burrito and a Coke.

The new transfer policy is here, whether we like it or not. Please be mindful that these players are still kids. From day 1 when TA created the first iteration of the forum and through this day, attacking kids is unacceptable. People may not like that a particular player has transferred to a school, regardless of the reasoning. Some of these transfers are bound to get some people upset, or even angry. There might even be rumors of coaches recruiting a given player. That is the kind of thing that falls under the rumor policy (when talking about a particular player and/or a particular coach) in place here. Have evidence? Report it. There are avenues to dealing with those things. Bottom line is please keep things clean; stick to the facts. Have a link with a kid that is transferring and where? Fine; that can be posted. But the "I heard..." is still not appropriate or acceptable here.

this whole thread was pointless from Post 1 thru 8 pages from this guys seat just saying

DT has always been a captalist in his mindset when it comes to GID and now facebook, he wanted to make this a paid site, he has made offers, has been refuted and went the route of facebook, more power to him, no stress from this seat, his model is not the model we believe in here, thats okay too, The reason he is using the GID name is to attract noise to gues what, bring in more traffic, more traffic, more pennies he makes, its not that hard of a concept. Wish him the best, no ill will from me, just not our style of what he wanted from this site, so it goes. I have had many coaches also reach out to me with negative view points on his surveys and how he goes after coaches on facebook even on the "hot seat". you know guys who are getting paid $7k-$12k type stipends because in HS football that is something that should be bantered about. My biggest issue I have always had with him and his choice of content

Indiana: First in basketball, fifth in corn, forty-fifth in everything else. Glad our reps are working hard to improve the general welfare of their constituents.

I got that plus a 1988 Toyota Camry to sweeten the deal. Gibson Southern has already tried that with a girl. Still dating the GS girl, but still at HH....for now...

Here's a statistic to combat boredom. With their sectional victory Saturday night the Maconaquah Braves for the first time in school have sectional titles in the same year in: Football Girl's basketball Boy's basketball Girl's Cross Country

Wife’s are off limits unless they’re fire ass hot. STATE LAW! Can we get back to rippin on Dee Tees?

You spelled s**t stirrer wrong. 😀

Buddy is now copying and pasting comments and posting them to the page because he is mad. Mine was the first one.

The idea that this site and his Facebook page are “competition” is weird to me. How is talking about high school football “competition”? The way I see it, come here if you like it better. If you like his stuff better, go there. If you like both, then you’re free to go back and forth. But whatever you do, remember it’s about the kids and the game we love. That should be the focus.

Dude got way too much hate on here and the board was better with his content.

The assistants at NP have been the big difference makers for awhile. While Mckimm may have received the accolades for NPs success it’s been the constant dedication of the the longtime assistants there. The strength coach has done wonders for the program and not just for football. Gumm made it public knowledge he was stepping away as offensive coordinator mid season last year for health reasons. I have not the cougars will continue to be successful regardless of who the new coach is because of the outstanding staff he’d inherit

Nah, you're a lifetime coach! I think my time has run out. I hope to see everyone in August, the Good Lord willin'!

If you're interested, I highly recommend "A Fever in the Heartland" by Timothy Egan. One of the better books I've read in recent years.

As someone who grew up in the hard-core Religious Right subculture/church, there are a few reasons. 1. Prior to the 1960s, many public schools were very openly and explicitly Protestant. Daily Bible readings, prayers, they basically openly embraced religious belief and practice as long as it was "nondenominational" (e.g., "Protestant"). I remember an older family member complaining about "God being taken out of schools" and saying "well, we had a Jewish person in my class and when it was her turn to read the Bible, she always read from the Old Testament." The Catholic/parochial school system developed as a means of educating Catholic students because the public schools were so openly Protestant. 2. After court rulings banned prayers, Bible readings and open religious instruction in public schools, churches (especially conservative Baptist churches) began opening their own schools. The one my siblings went to opened in 1965. There was a Lutheran school system similar to the Catholic one (albeit on a much smaller scale), but it grew post-1965, too. Some were also created to avoid segregation, but moreso in the South than in Indiana (where, thanks to the Klan's control of the state in the 1920s, most small towns had few/no Black residents, and that's where many of the religious schools were). 3. Parents began desiring their tax dollars that were supporting those "Godless" public schools be able to be used to send their kids to said conservative Baptist schools (or pay for homeschooling, which has also become a big deal in conservative/evangelical culture), and thus the voucher concept was born. Legislators, in trying to funnel money to their preferred private schools, began to villify public schools, and the distaste has grown since. In Indiana, every single bill post-2009 has been to try to weaken traditional public schools and funnel as many kids as possible to charter/private/parochial schools. And when not enough kids are doing what the legislature told them to do, they double down even more.

"All his fans should just trot right on over there." It appears that you have an ax to grind with anyone who simply likes the content that he provides. I'm not saying DT is perfect, as pointed out by @Irishman, just saying the guy has good content and promotes the greatest game in America at the greatest level.

He provides a lot of good content on that page.

Reminder from the original owner Coach Tim Adams and onto current owner @DK_Barons the long long long established policy of this website is that its your privilege to participate on our website, not an inherit right to particpate So the ole "FREE SPEECH" doesn't apply to this sites standards. There many things on here that would get members removed immediately that would not get you banned from other websites, message boards, social media platforms. Just a friendly reminder for all

Here’s a deal for Mudas and Sparty!

This stat will blow your mind:

Did someone from the government tell him not to speak?

Interesting that the GID cognoscenti here believe competition is bad.

Donnie! It’s time you bring down the thunder. Captain Insano shows no mercy!!

The amount of times I see the "theme" of one of his posts being something that was discussed on this "other Indiana high school football message board" is staggering for someone who is happy to be free from the lot of us... lol

how absolutely dumb do you have to believe that an HC job opening created 30K views in 24hrs? I'm dumbfounded

Is this from Facebook? Nice to see GID legend DrivenT has found a a new home for his information and opinions.

The MIC schools have to want Carmel & CG back, but never let "Hoosier Prep Gridiron" find a rumor he wouldn't create.

Once a bulldog always a bulldog: Green tie = Hall of Fame.

I worked the 2007 state final his junior year at Chatard. They played SB St. Joe. Then watched him play for the Irish. A real technician, as contrasted with a guy like Q Nelson, who is more of a “mauler.” A lock for Canton.

What a tremendous career he had He also created a scar on our head coach leg at St. Joe team camp when he hip tossed our lineman after the whistle completely in the air cleats up at our coach slice them right through his leg with the cleat.... Yeah he's a bad man

Good catch.....I fixed it. Hammy and Rocket3118 were the same dude.

Is that anything like a non-paying Booster? https://gridirondigest.net/clients/donations/

All I ask is that you don't forget a central Illinois program with big time tradition......