Muda69

Now, now Donnie. Making posts here without words like "football", "offense", "defense", "spread", "tackle", etc. in them will get you labeled as a troll or bum. State law.

You be you, chief. An apparently humorless buffoon. If you don't like me posting here then by all means report me to the GID administration. And while you at it why don't throw in a nickel or two for the GID cause. You're also not a cheapskate, are you?

The amount of time you think I spend on the GID is vastly overestimated. I would guess 99% of my posts are made within about an 8 hour window, and usually only during the week. Hardly 24/7. Sorry that that hit a nerve with you. And I've never taken YOU very seriously as well. I'm sorry you feel that way, temptation.

Ahh, the old trope about those having a different opinion or worldview being a "troll". Go to some other football forum where you can navel-gaze with your other like-minded brethren.

So one has to be 100% passionate about something in order to have an opinion about it? I frequent other message boards on other topics and hobbies that I enjoy. Do you? And please expound on this "ideology about non football related nonsense". I think I do a good job of keeping no football/sport related discussion to the OOB forum. What exactly do you think my "ideology" is? Thank you for the info.

No, I don't believe that I do. There are differences between children and adults in American society, are there not?

I'm curious. What kind of insurance obligations are youth football organizations required to carry? Or is it all on the families of the players?

https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/high-school/2024/08/21/ihsaa-football-predictions-every-2024-indiana-high-school-champion-sectional-winners-kyle-neddenriep/73924889007/ I really don't understand the Indy Star's fascination with Lebanon. They seem to pick them as an "up and comer" practically every year and every year they disappoint. But this year they are the only Indy-area school in a generally moribund Sectional 20, so Mr. Neddenriep's Indy-area bias has to come into play.

I enjoy football as a simple game. Nothing more, nothing less. Do I have a "passion" for the sport? No, not really.

So did Westfield officially drops the letters 'sham' from the school mascot name? Or is "Shamrocks" simply not tough enough for a football team?

https://www.ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=child Many are children, not adults. If you want to get worked up about the number of 18 year olds playing Indiana High School football from August-November, knock yourself out. They are still in high school, however. Also: https://www.healthline.com/health/do-guys-keep-growing-until-age-25 Still children.

Democrats Just Can't Quit Saving Our Souls: https://reason.com/2024/08/20/democrats-just-cant-quit-saving-our-souls/ Just prior to Obama's rise, Gene Healy warned us about executive branch omnipotence in his terrific book (and Reason cover story) The Cult of the Presidency. "The chief executive of the United States," Healy wrote, "is no longer a mere constitutional officer charged with faithful execution of the laws. He is a soul nourisher, a hope giver, a living American talisman against hurricanes, terrorism, economic downturns, and spiritual malaise. He 'or she' is the one who answers the phone at 3 a.m. to keep our children safe from harm. The modern president is America's shrink, a social worker, our very own national talk show host. He's also the Supreme Warlord of the Earth." Obama's successor Trump, after having campaigned on a Great Man Theory of politics, continued the modern tradition of playing overpromiser in chief. "Dying industries will come roaring back to life," he predicted in his 2017 speech in front of a Joint Session of Congress. "Crumbling infrastructure will be replaced with new roads, bridges, tunnels, airports and railways gleaming across our very, very beautiful land. Our terrible drug epidemic will slow down and ultimately stop. And our neglected inner cities will see a rebirth of hope, safety and opportunity." Or not. As Reason Editor in Chief Katherine Mangu-Ward remarked at the time, "This weirdly grandiose rhetoric is a reflection of a weirdly grandiose bipartisan conception of the powers of the president….Presidents do not make the earth move. They do not turn back tides. They do not heal the sick, or eliminate vice, or remake the nation. They are humans with human failings, and one of those failings is the inability to resist taking a big slurp of their own Kool-Aid in moments of triumph." Investing our very souls into the fortunes of politicians is not the habit of a healthy civic culture. The people who compete for the right to control $7 trillion of money extracted from taxpayers upon threat of imprisonment are not your friends. The executives who sit atop the Justice Department, who have control over history's most powerful military, are not responsible for your hopes, your dreams, your healing. Imbuing elected officials with such spiritual potency is a recipe for self-infantilization, disappointment, and terrible executive-branch governance. Presidential candidates will only stop promising to heal our souls when we stop asking them to. The long, slow climb out of our national sump hole requires not only that we treat pompous pols with the derision they deserve, but that we stop pouring our own aspirations into the career prospects of the politically ambitious. Democrats will spend these next three days scaring voters both about Trump's legitimately scary behavior, and such Potemkin threats as Project 2025 (or as Sen. Jim Clyburn (D–S.C.) called it last night, "Jim Crow 2.0"). Such darkness is the regrettably typical stuff of politics, on both sides. It's when they imagineer a government headed by Kamala Harris to be an agent of spiritual healing that you should really reach for the gong.

No. Just that it is the adults that tend to overemphasize, mutate, and twist games played by children into some hyper-competitive, "my child needs that athletic scholarship!!!!!!", make-or-break, every-game-is-high-stakes, mess. No, I never alluded to that. Only posting the results from the study. Please point to the posts where I have espoused socialism as a needed and viable political/economic theory for the United States of America. No need to welcome me, I've been a supporter of capitalism my entire adult life.

Yes, or at least private sports organizations.

It is how true promotion and relegation system would work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promotion_and_relegation https://www.rentonreporter.com/sports/promotion-and-relegation-in-high-school-sports-i-say-yes-commentary/

https://news.osu.edu/organized-youth-sports-are-increasingly-for-the-privileged/ It's just a game. Played by children. Why do adults have to ruin it?

It would be some kind of points system, encompassing the regular season along with the tournament. Which wouldn't be automatic BTW. You would have to earn a spot in the tournament.

So why don't we have the reverse? A "failure factor" for lack of a better term. Oh yeah, because it would make Johnny and his parents sad, maybe litigious towards the IHSAA.

One could also argue a school with 1073 kids doesn't belong in a tournament with a school with 5327 kids. Yet here we are...................

It could be. Just that nobody wants to face the reality that in a true promotion/relegation system "1A" and "2A' level programs equals pretty bad football programs, regardless of enrollment. That could make Johnny, and his parents, upset.

So a kid that goes to one meeting of the after school chess club in late August, then never goes again, would count? I did see your post. Hence my response.

Sounds like inching closer to a true system of promotion and relegation. "6A" are the top tier programs, regardless of enrollment, while "1A" is the lowest tier programs, again regardless of enrollment.

Americans Paid for the Trump Tariffs—and Would Do So Again: https://www.cato.org/blog/americans-paid-trump-tariffs-would-do-so-again These tariffs are bad for Americans, and should be repealed. But Trump (and Biden) are too enamored with "sticking it to China" to actually care about the citizens there are supposed to be serving.

Democrats Unburdened by What They Have Done to Chicago: https://reason.com/2024/08/19/democrats-unburdened-by-what-they-have-done-to-chicago/?itm_source=parsely-api Yep, Americans will get more of the same from the uni-party. More debt, more war, more corruption. Regardless of whether Harris or Trump are victorious in November.