Muda69

It's not a "culture of the participation trophy" crap, HHPatriots. Simply a logical acknowledgment that the tournament for this particular class was not played with a full tournament field due to hopefully a once in a lifetime event, therefore possibly skewing the overall results. If you care anything for sportsmanship and fair play you surely realize this.

I just hope this upcoming Southfield vs. Northfield game, or any game for that matter, turns out to be a super-spreader event.

https://www.clinicaloncology.com/COVID-19/Article/07-20/False-Negatives-Found-If-COVID-19-Testing-Done-Too-Soon/58781

If I were the Northfield Norsemen I'm not sure I would want to play my county rival in a tournament game under these circumstances. Seems like an awfully pat conclusion.................

As my late father always said "When you play with fire you get burned." Obviously athletic glory is more important than overall safety at Southwood H.S. and the MSD of Wabash County.

Agreed. Perhaps they should solicit donations from private entities to help them through this lean time.

The IHSAA is a 100% private institution. The state of Indiana providing it taxpayer money to cover operating costs would be a gross misappropriation of public funds and probably unconstitutional.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/us-officials-were-targeted-across-the-world-including-american-soil-by-seeming-sonic-attacks Ohh, the evil Russians again.

Yet you do.

Yes, with the aforementioned asterisk (*) next to each 2020 class champion if that class had one or more schools drop out of the tournament due to covid-19.

About 24 hours behind the GID times: But thank you for the additional information.

Holcomb to send National Guard into nursing homes to help facilities care for residents https://www.jconline.com/story/news/health/2020/10/21/indiana-nursing-homes-receive-help-national-guard/3716948001/ I wonder when the state/national guard will leave, or is this just he beginning of a state takeover of private long-term facilities?

So much for Indiana High School football being a "no cuts" sport.

San Diego Public Schools Will Overhaul Its Grading System To Achieve 'Anti-Racism' https://reason.com/2020/10/19/san-diego-public-schools-grades-antiracism/?itm_source=parsely-api Perhaps some of our resident education professionals can speak up with their learned opinion of this plan?

How many one-finger salutes were given I wonder?

The #3 team in 1A has already had to bow out of the tournament due to covid-19: How much more damage will there be? If this tournament does go on and is completed in November the winners of those classes that have at least one school that has had to drop out due to covid-19 should have an asterisk (*) beside them.

https://www.cato.org/publications/white-paper/drug-reformation-end-governments-power-require-prescriptions The knowledge that some individuals would inevitably self‐medicate in ways that harm their health should not delay reform. Americans do the equivalent every day when they exercise their right to refuse potentially beneficial medical treatments. The utilitarian argument for eliminating government‐imposed prescription requirements, moreover, is not that manufacturers and consumers of pharmaceuticals will never make harmful mistakes. It is that government is right now making far more harmful mistakes than would a free consumer populace aided by price competition, quality competition, third‐party certification, innovation, greater health literacy, and the threat of tort liability. In any event, the burden of proof lies not with those who seek to restore the right of individuals to make their own medical decisions. It lies with those who would preserve laws that allow government to interfere in personal medical decisions. The individual‐rights argument for eliminating government‐imposed prescription requirements is that government has no legitimate authority to interfere in the first place. Agreed. State imposed prescription requirements needs to go away. A fascinating white paper.

A Plague of Pandemic Restrictions Builds Herd Immunity to Arbitrary Rules https://reason.com/2020/10/21/a-plague-of-pandemic-restrictions-builds-herd-immunity-to-arbitrary-rules/

Tough season for the Mavericks when your stadium loses power due to an electrical fire while getting pummeled 31-0 by Marion: https://www.jconline.com/story/sports/2020/10/16/mccutcheon-football-regular-season-ends-flames/3673426001/

I prefer a automatic one class bump up for p/p's. And of course the best solution is a true system of promotion/relegation, get enrollment out of the equation completely. Yes, big $ with most if not all venues, including the taxpayer funded boondoggle called Lucas Oil Stadium, at 25% or less capacity.

You must be a New Palestine graduate. Yep. The state finals, if they are even played, will be yawners.

And who are you to make decisions for a community you are not even a part of? Yes, multiple children. And some participated in extracurricular athletics and activities.

I was kidnapped by mimes once They did unspeakable things to me.