Yuccaguy

9 minutes ago, ASJCPUMA said:

This is just what is on John Harrel's sight.  Penn, Elkhart, New Prairie all are not complete.  Some SB schools have an open date

Fort Wayne schools sure wasted not time getting better quality games too.

They (SAC) had a "blueprint" agreed upon prior to the start of the 2022 Season as to what the SAC would become.  I can tell you they you they were PROACTIVE in looking at what they needed to schedule (in most cases) that would allow them to move forward.

The NIC openings in some cases as it relate to a few SAC schools would actually fit them better than a few of the contests that have been signed, but that's what 'they" (SAC) have agreed to.... for now.  

5 hours ago, ASJCPUMA said:

Adams:  Replace Northridge with Culver Academy and Fairfield with Logansport

Clay: Boone Grove replaces Twin Lakes and Angola replaces Calumet

Riley:  Week 1 open

St. Joe:  F.W. South replaces Mishawaka, S.B. Washington replaces John Glenn, Culver Academy back on week 8

Washington:  Replaces Kankakee Valley with S.B. St. Joe

Marian:  Brebeuf Jesuit replaces Bremen

John Glenn:  Angola replaces S.B. St Joe

New Prairie:  not all posted yet

Bremen:  Week 2 open and South Central replces Marian

Jimtown:  No changes

Penn:  Mishawaka replaces Portage  ( whole schedule not posted yet)

Elkhart:  Full schedule not posted yet

 

 

Welp... I had better get with the assignor and figure out where are going in the insuing years....

Knew changes were coming. But WOW....

3 hours ago, Rodney said:

barely belong in the top 50

The Wikdkats as well as (the) Warsaw Tigers may not the "prettiest" offensive scheme....but it's DAMNED effective and led by coaches that know their personnel.

Besides the young man at KHS can look to his side and get all the information he needs!  Looking at YOU Brett!!

2 hours ago, dazed and confused said:

 

Im confused Yuckyguy

I owe you an apology.   I sincerely apologize and sorry that I posted a response...

Sometimes, not paying attention to ONE word....can make one become a total idiot....  = @yuccaguy  in this case. 

And yes even perhaps...Yuckyguy also.  😃

50 minutes ago, gindie said:

I do not personally know Chuck, never met him, but do know about him, and would be surprised to hear that he has such an attitude about the situation.  Also, I find it surprising that the IHSAA is allowing someone (purporting to be "in the know") to engage in such opinionated banter about IHSAA policies/decisions, etc.

Since you know him...  give him a call and ask....FIRST!  

1 hour ago, foxbat said:

I would contend that, while there may be a couple of folks that might be chapped, the vast majority basically take the mindset that Chatard has for most of their seasons, "Tell us where to play and that's what we'll do, play."  This is also the same that most teams that have been SF'd do.  Chatard takes each season as it comes and realizes that, when you take each season as the hand that you've been dealt and push to make it the best, regardless of conditions, eventually you get to where you can be and want to be.

Pioneer did it and didn't complain when the Kiser era was over and they were still taking their lumps in 2A.  Scecina did it when they were the poster team for SF as the only team to be SF'd to a higher level without earning a blue ring for the effort.  Cathedral has yo-yo'd and got beat up in 6A to only work their way through and become a more permanent fixture above their enrollment level.  I conjecture that schools like Chatard realize that, yes, they can take advantage of a seasonal or yearly situation, but that organic tends to be more long-lived.  Chatard will eventually end up more permanently outside of 3A, but like weightlifting, you are better off building the mass organically over time rather than rushing it for short-term satisfaction.  Chatard will likely still be in the mix for 4A in a decade too.  Again, the mantra of the SF'd tends to be fairly pragmatic: "Just tell us where to play."

I thought that Linton-Stockton got the WHAMMY also?  I could be wrong, though...

A couple of observations about the tournament itself also (since I am a FW area guy):

#1. Carroll's move to Sectional #2 from #3 was to their benefit I believe.  Now that only applies to THIS year.  Who knows what #2 will be like next season? 

#2. I wonder what Snider is thinking .. "What could have been?".  All support to Valpo!  To decide to go for the win in OT, propelled them to a level no one thought they could achieve.  They DID though!  Congratulations to the Vikings... 

All in all, a nice 50th Tournament.  Didn't seem to be much discussion about the officiating, that's a good thing.  

The situation regarding ticketing needs to be addressed.  There is no reason that 'outside" fans shouldn't have the ability to purchase tickets at a State Finals school, free from 'convenience" charges.  Heck, at least have a charge go directly to the IHSAA at a MUCH lower price...  $2 per ticket?  $7 to Ticketmaster is a bit excessive, even with some of that going to Meridian Street.  

Just my @.02

4 minutes ago, Yuccaguy said:

I am absolutely digging the James Brown being played at LOS!  

 

Chatard 34-14  2 mins left 

FINAL  

I am absolutely digging the James Brown being played at LOS!  

Chatard 34-14  2 mins left 

4 hours ago, SPARKS said:

I'm not saying the enforcement of uniform rules is tied to lack of advancement.  My biggest problem is waiting for feedback from the IHSAA on what our school scores were and who voted.  We will get it in a couple of weeks, when many officials are involved with winter sports, the last football game was 7 weeks ago, you have an idea what schools voted how, and when you try to address scores, it gets lost in everything that has happened in the last 7 weeks.  So you start thinking, it would be nice going through a football season without worrying about the politics of playoff assignment.  When the first playoff games are awarded, that is when we need our crew info.  Bob, I know you mean well, but your thoughts on all of this are based on a highly successful career of football officiating.  I know you try to see things at the other end of the seesaw, but other people don't always have empathy for the folk down here.

Are you suggesting that the IHSAA post the 'rankings' prior (or in conjunction with) the beginning of the tournament?   

If you have noticed, the past 2 seasons the IHSAA has removed the ability to see who was awarded games in the tournament in FB.  I assume that this was due to multiple inquiries as to who/what/where/why crews were given assignments; And they were tired of dealing with it on Meridian Street.  

Every season, I can "plan" on receiving a negative vote from at least 2 schools, for NO REASON whatsoever other than spite.  I am fully aware of who they are.

Of course the occasional 3 pops up, and it usually is "Well they did our Sectional"...completely oblivious as to how the ranking system works.  But so it is.  

.I have no idea of how information is presently conveyed via Meridian Street to their member schools as to 'how they should evaluate/vote for crews. 

But I do know a few years back at an IHSAA sponsored conference;  To an official we were floored at the rational and utter randomness of how schools were voting.  It was astounding in its simplicity of an evaluation for crews.  The IHSAA schools adminstrators present had no standard way of anything close to an accurate way of anything that could be considered an 'evaluation'.  

Just now, Bash Riprock said:

You took the game to hypotheticals, not me. I know you officiated the game last year. CG made mistakes in that game as well they resulted in missed opportunities for points. So it wasn’t just Westfield. 
 

I get it your team of choice didn’t get the W this time around. But it’s poor to talk only about one particular play in that game when we all know no game comes down to a single play. Heck, CG had a kickoff return nullified in the game last year by a very questionable call from your crew. 
 

I won’t be looking forward to you officiating future CG games. 

Trust me.  You WILL see me! 

And not questionable IMO.  If my LJ said it happened ....it happened!

Did the contest come down to a single play?  Perhaps...  but with 3 TO"s in hand of course CG could have overcome the point total.

And when did I say I ever was "rooting" for a particular school?  Heck. I don't even live, pay taxes, have had relatives and a child that even had anything to do with the NACS School Corporation.

8 minutes ago, Footballking16 said:

Imagine bragging about not having to pay to attend a high school event….because you’re working it? How tone deaf can one be?

And I’ll assure you that nobody paying to attend such an event is there to see you no matter how much you want to make it about yourself. 

You are an idiot. Time for you to uphold your earlier comment to 'drop out'..  

 Not a brag.  Just a retort to your suggestion that I was sitting at home watching in TV.

Oh. And I can assure you. .  You'd never even notice I was there.  ...the mark of a good official 

Let's not get too deep onto to the 'what if'.

All I said was that Westfield had a TD in their grasp...missed it. And CG then won in 2021.  I have no idea what would have transpired had Westfield scored and given the ball back to CG.  

Here's what I know. ....dropped TD attempt.   Next play, INT.  Knell down twice.   State Championship 

8 minutes ago, Footballking16 said:

I watched the game on TV tonight just like you did skip! You aren’t that special.

You sure I saw it on TV??

2 minutes ago, Footballking16 said:

So you’re a sh**y referee and even worse speller.

Thanks for clarifying.

Well I guess it's down to 'spell check' now.

Yeppers.  I am a terrible official, I have no idea of the rules, no idea of the situation that exists in the IHSAA's currently employed systems used to move crews forward, no idea of how to properly adjudicate an Interscholastic Athletic activity. 

A total idiot!  You win. 

And of course, you still have to pay to attend ..... I don't...  I GET paid.  If I don't...I get in free.

2 minutes ago, Footballking16 said:

Another official who likes to make it all about himself and probably the reason this thread gets locked.

Good job, Zebra!

Only locked because of YOU!  I have a mountain of gravitous behind me!  

You don't!

Just now, Footballking16 said:

Now I understand why you weren’t invited back 

Again...learn the RULES!!!

Jackass!  

1 minute ago, Footballking16 said:

I’m not an official and it looks like you and I have the same assignment this weekend…

Log off.

Only because I did the 6A State Finals LAST YEAR..    

Just now, Footballking16 said:

Oh the horror for suggesting that the coaching staff of a player who has committed two personal fouls for late hits out of bounds in about 6 minutes of game time sit out for a series or two to regain his composure.

Forgive me God.

YOU are the God.  

I bet that if you ever were an official...you NEVER advanced past a Sectional.   Any contrary comment to that?  Mr. Know It All.. 

Just now, Footballking16 said:

Lol. 
 

Winning the Eskew Award is irrelevant to the fact that two dumb…and reckless penalties were committed. Coaches don’t sit kids who make repeated mistakes? Does making a mistake on a football field automatically disqualify you from being a high character person? Have I suggested any of this at all?

You’re reaching.

IGNORAMUS = @Footballking16

Yes you have... the player is ejected!  The coaching staff should sit him to cool off.  

Personal fouls are ejectable. As YOU see them in this situation.   

The player is not 'teachable' by the educators on the Coaching Staff.  He is not looked upon as a major part of their ability to participate in an Interscholastic Athletic event, due a few minor transgressions ...which were penalized. 

It's all about YOUR implicit ability to psychologically make a decision about a 17 child at an athletic event, and be absolutely correct in your assessment.

You truly are a GOD!

1 minute ago, Footballking16 said:

I didn’t stutter.

The application to the rules and a coach exercising his judgement to sit an out of control player for a period of time aren’t mutually exclusive.

Oh so now you are coaching also?  

Damned shame he won the Phil M. Eskew Award also?

Guess you are an administrator and IHSAA Commissioner also.

Just give it up! 

45 minutes ago, Huge Football Fan said:

Maybe they learned from the 4A game where they announced 6 unsportsmanlike personal fouls??? Didn’t know those existed?

Correct...they don't 

1 minute ago, Footballking16 said:

I never called for the player to be ejected jack**. I said he should be standing on the sidelines for a series or two to calm down.

Learn to damned read.

Jackass?

Well that sums up your ignorance in one simple statement.   You said 2 Unsporting Behavior penalties 

15 minutes ago, Footballking16 said:

Wrong verbiage but my point stands as you and I both know what would happen if a player committed two dumb and reckless penalties like that. Done talking about it as this isn’t the place.

Congrats to CG on their 3-peat.

RULES!!!  And the subsequent administration there of....are of primary importance as to the adjudication of an ejection of a participant....

Again...learn the damned rules and applications thereof!

Just now, PHJIrish said:

Don't get me involved!😊

Sorry @PHJIrish