PhilLee

In a year full of stupid, ridiculous and asinine protocols, this is right up there.

Its just a clownshow at this point. 

On 10/23/2020 at 5:40 PM, Gipper said:

Then again, I don’t feel the administrators arrived at their decisions on a whim.  They are giving the virus the respect that is so badly needed.

Administrators are all in cover their backside mode.  Most have no clue what they are doing.  The virus is not a factor for children.  Period.  A very, very small % factor for anyone under the age of 70 too.  But we stopped dealing with reality long ago.

13 hours ago, DE said:

As I said in another thread, it is the contact tracing that is crippling many schools/teams, NOT the actual "+" cases.

Bingo.  This stupid "quarantining of close contact" lunacy is the only reason most of these teams have had to cancel games all year.  And can we get a % of the people who have come back with any sort of illness, after these quarantines?  I can give you the % at one large school...its 0%.  Of all the kids in the school they have quarantined for supposed "close contact"...none have gotten ill.  Its really a joke. 

10 hours ago, Muda69 said:

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

Yes because playing football has resulted in SO many kids catching the sniffles.

Has there been a documented case ANYWHERE in the state of Indiana this fall, of any player catching zee virus by playing football?  Anyone?  Didn't think so. 

8 hours ago, Whiting89 said:

Good for south wood but this just proves USA is a freaking mess with covid and now I see why it’s out of control

 

Its "out of control" because of misinformation, scare tactics and continuing to test, test and test people who aren't sick.  Dumbest policy ever enacted. 

2 hours ago, Gipper said:

It’s not just the players.  Coaches, support staff, and fans are far from immune.  Actually they’re at higher risk.

Nor do I.  

Higher risk of what?  Do some of you not understand how incredibly tiny the risk of any serious repercussions are from this nonsense?  Jesus, players and coaches are at much higher risk of getting t-boned at a stoplight driving home from practice then this virus bs. 

3 hours ago, Gipper said:

 We made it through the season, good for us, but why risk anything further?

Because its literally zero risk to the players?  Because there's been zero proof of ANYONE catching the sniffles from playing football in 2020?  Maybe that's why. 

When you've beaten the hell out of each other for 2 hours, it only makes sense to stay away from a handshake.

Thoughts and prayers 🤣

39 minutes ago, Staxawax said:

A reasonable chance it was a false positive. 

A reasonable chance that the majority of these "positive cases" are.  

And speaking of needless quarantines, I know of one very large school in Indiana that through the last 3 months and the many, many kids who were quarantined because of supposed "close" contact, a grand total of ZERO of them ever came down with any virus.  None. 

4 hours ago, Whiting89 said:

Here is a controversy some team gets covid after winning semi state and some team wins state without playing.

More like a team wins semi-state and one member of the team, who isn't sick, is needlessly quarantined because some kid in Algebra may have come down with something a oversensitive and likely inaccurate test says is Covid, shutting an entire football team down because of idiotic protocols. 

On Warren Central, I've heard you better get your licks in on them now.  Because their sophomore class is lights out good.  Have dominated at every level. 

10 hours ago, Staxawax said:

I agree wholeheartedly.  And I think the fanbase at Fishers and HSE will demand a better football program.  It's started at HSE and Fishers has a recent state title. Zionsville is also a program that could see a slow rise to prominence. 

Zionsville will go nowhere if they are in 6A though.  Which is where they will be in the next cycle.

Whiteland could also soon be a 6A program, which will really be an issue for them for the next 2 years. 

8 hours ago, DT said:

 

Lets say theu travel down to Warren and come back and a huge Covid outbreak hits the team.

 

Yes because there's been SO many "huge outbreaks" of the common cold Covid with football teams all over the state since August. 

There's been no "huge outbreak" and there will be no "huge outbreak" on any team, whether they travel 4 miles to play a game or 3 hours.  

3 hours ago, Footballking16 said:

There’s a certain school on the East Side of Indianapolis licking their chops hoping New Pal makes it out of sectionals....

Yes a school that should be playing in 6A.  Playing against a 4A school, playing up a class, with a lot of new faces and starting a freshmen RB. 

Best of all time?  Always subjective.  

2006 Warren Central might have an argument.

Barring a last minute cancellation between now and Friday night, it appears that as we hit the half-way point of the 2020 season (that some thought would never happen and if it ever got started, would quickly be shut down) that here are how we are doing...

228 of 320 eligible for the tournament schools will have played games in all 5 weeks of the season.  That's 71% of the state.   That's also counting all schools who cancelled their seasons before we even started.  So its actually closer to 75% of schools who actually TRIED to play football in 2020.  

Considering how ridiculous some school systems are with quarantining anyone with a pulse and how that's forced some schools to cancel games, when literally nobody on the team had tested positive for anything, the fact that we have 70-75% of schools who have played the maximum allotment of games is a real positive.

Add in the fact that going on 5 weeks of football being played against different schools, traveling on buses to and from games, practicing in close quarters every day for 2 months and all the other "concerns" some had for why football could not and would not dared be played in 2020, and the numbers of actual positive cases of football players BECAUSE of playing football has to be incredibly small. Microscopically small. Most of the positive cases (which aren't many from a total % standpoint) that have come to light have been through some means outside of the football field.  Or much more accurately, from perfectly healthy kids being told to stay away for 7-14 days because they may have had some kind of "close" contact with someone who may or may not actually have some sort of virus.  

Great for those kids and coaches.  One stupid decision at least was reversed in time to save some sort of season. 

Getting the QB from Greenfield to transfer over didn't hurt either. 

At this point, with Lebanon missing at least 3 conference games (including games against Danville and NM), not even sure you can award a conference champion this year.

That's ridiculous.

ONE coach has a fever and he's considered a "close contact" of 100 football players?  And this shuts down the entire football program for 2 weeks?

Are these coaches living with 100 players?  Otherwise, there is ZERO reason to be doing this.  

Feel bad for the kids who are being forced in this school system to be under these idiotic rules. 

Brownsburg does have a good team but wasn't blown away by anything they did. QB looked very shaky at times with accuracy. 

2 hours ago, FridayNightLights said:

I want a CG vs Bburg matchup 

CG would beat Brownsburg easily. 

St. X completely gave that game away.  And outplayed them throughout. 

They either did not prepare themselves well during the week (with all the cramping) or were not in the best of shape to play 4 quarters.  Or possibly both.  

12 hours ago, sls said:

Does not fully explain your question, but ACHD (Allen county) just changed the 15 minutes to cumulative and not direct/constant.

That's following the science, you are making up on the fly.

Teams will never finish the season in Allen County with that kind of idiocy. 

9 hours ago, casualfan said:

This was creative. And necessary.

https://www.bannergraphic.com/story/2831023.html

Could someone ask the IHSAA why they kept the 10 practice rule in effect this year?  It has really screwed some small schools.

All the practice rules should have been thrown out this year.  If you wanted teams to actually be able to play, that is. 

3 hours ago, Daniel_Bragg said:

Every game this season will be played "at risk".  I will say, it is beyond ludicrous for teams to be rolling around on each other, sweating, spitting, bleeding...................but they wave at each other after the game because heaven forbid they high five.  That was hysterical at the end of the Sheridan/WeBo game.

Its also even more ridiculous to quarantine hundreds of students or shut down an entire football team, for ONE positive test (which may or may not be a false positive result).

Quarantining people who have no symptoms is ridiculous.  And the CDC said as much earlier today with their newest update.