Muda69

Madison-Grant? Oak Hill?

IIRC Lewis Cass had this stupid bell at one end of their football field they would ring incessantly every time they scored. Is that still there? Also during my playing days their visitor locker room was this dank, dark, hole underneath the home bleachers. It was like something out of a bad horror film.

I'm looking for the bald guy but can't find him. Are you sure you are in this picture? 🙂

Purdue QB Brady Allen enters transfer portal a second time: https://www.jconline.com/story/sports/college/purdue/football/2023/04/25/purdue-qb-brady-allen-enters-transfer-portal-a-second-time/70151477007/ Trading Indiana High School Football Royalty for D1 Program Mediocrity is a tough pill to swallow. I hope Mr. Allen can find a happy home somewhere.

Oak Hill? Really?

Harry Belafonte, activist and entertainer, dies at 96: https://apnews.com/article/harry-belafonte-dead-2d8cbdf0043e4383a6c4a85c862cdbe1?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=TopNews&utm_campaign=position_03 Truly an American Icon. He will be missed.

https://reason.com/2023/04/25/robbed-by-the-taxman/ There is practically nothing government will not attempt to steal from it's citizens.

But Bud Light isn't beer. It's practically tasteless swill.

Bribes or blackmail immediately come to mind.

I never said to screw CG at all costs. And you never answered my question concerning 3A/4A A.D.s & coaches. Exactly how am I purportedly "lost"?

So theoretically Center Grove, or any independent school for that matter, could choose not to schedule any regular season games, then be allowed to enter the IHSAA state tournament. I'm liking Bob's long standing contention that Indiana needs a playoff qualification system more and more.

I haven't been compiling those statistics and posting them on the GID for several years now. Frankly I got bored with it, but your statement may make me reconsider for the upcoming season. Depends on how much time I have.

What 3A/4A A.D. or Coach in their right mind would willingly schedule Center Grove at the moment? They either must believe than can make mucho $ at the gate or they are truly desperate.

Yes.

I'll leave that to the rules lawyers at the IHSAA to work out. But in my mind scheduled <> played. What ultimately should count is what teams take the field on that Friday night. Schools, primarily government schools, are political entities. Always have been, always will be.

Yeah, maybe lazy. But mostly true nonetheless. Five games was not an arbitrary selection. In a 9 game regular season 5 games constitutes the majority (> 50%) of that that season. Hence my choosing fives games, so that schools have to play the majority of their regular season games against other IHSAA schools. If my 5-game proposal along with no other scheduling proposals would be approved by the IHSAA executive board then yes, they would have that collusion power.

Encourage the competitive inclusion of member schools to schedule games/contests again each other and not non-IHSAA member schools.

I'd move to Thorntown just for the BPT and onion rings at Stookey's.

Should they be punished for 3 straight 6A state championships? No, I don't believe they should. But other IHSAA member school A.D.'s seem to feel differently. Do you believe the IHSAA should step in and force other member schools to schedule CG football? And life isn't fair, regardless of how little thought you believe it takes. Admitting such is along the path to wisdom.

Why be a member of the IHSAA if you are not going to schedule games against other IHSAA schools?

It usually does work. It's not the IHSAA's fault that CG has become some kind of football scheduling pariah.

Because IMHO if you want to be an IHSAA state champion you should then play predominately other IHSAA member schools during the regular season. If the IHSSA would adopt this rule then its approach to regular season scheduling would not longer be as much "hand-off", would it?

A 5-Year-Old Pulled Down a 3-Year-Old's Pants. The Preschool Workers Are on Trial.: https://reason.com/2023/04/03/poncha-springs-schoolhouse-daycare-kids-preschool-trial/?itm_source=parsely-api *sigh* *groan* What is wrong with this country?

Not with it's current 2023 schedule, no. And I expressed my reasoning in a previous post. Sorry for the children but also as I stated before life isn't fair. Get used to it.