scarab527

Nice. In the early 2010s these two teams would always play a live scrimmage the week before the season started. Never knew they'd never played before in the regular season.

Lol very intelligent and thought out response. You wanted a civil discussion, I attempted to have one by providing the context of this. I’m sorry that it doesn’t fit your narrative and now you’ve got nothing to say. It’s also quite ironic you say I’m overthinking this when you were just attempting to draw a bunch of unfounded conclusions about why Roncalli did this in the first place.

If you’ve read articles about this, you’d know there’s been people who’ve called for the name to be changed since the 80s, when the associations with the Confederacy really started. The name was originally supposed to honor Roncalli, who was a ‘rebel’ in the church. No one would care if that’s what the name still represented. But over the years, it seems the nickname became more and more associated with the other rebels, with confederate flags in the yearbook and a confederate soldier mascot (which were rightfully banned in the 90s). The problem is, right or not, people still associate “rebels” with the confederacy. I know you’ve said before you work with kids, go ask any black kid you work with how the confederacy and confederate paraphernalia make them feel (even though in your first comment you seemed to make fun of this).

Not at all. You’re the grown man complaining on the internet about a high school changing their nickname.

Like I thought, you have no sources saying they were forced to do anything. And how dare Roncalli for not wanting to be associated with a bunch of losers who got their butts kicked so badly they’re still butthurt about it 150+ years later. I’m sorry them changing the nickname triggers you.

Please provide some sources that say they were being forced to do this.

How is it cancel culture if the school freely chose to change the nickname?

I gotcha, and yeah, I remember, I was on the team haha.

Yeah, as was mentioned, that was the year after that team. How did GRCC do that year?

At Andrean in 2014, we went up to Grand Rapids to play Catholic Central. We won 28-0. Sharing just for context, obviously that one matchup from years ago means little, but I don’t remember many IN v MI matchups in recent years.

I put IN over KY in my rankings. The hard one to judge, like you alluded to, is whether IN or MI is better. I think top-down MI is probably better, but the top teams in IN might be better than the top teams in MI. Obviously hard to judge this year though.

No way Illinois is behind IN or MI. I’d go OH, IL, MI, IN, KY

Disagree. You’d have people from all over the Region coming to those games. I’d even go as far as saying they’d probably be sold out almost every year. Many people in the area couldn’t care less about Notre Dame or even college football in general. A Saturday double header at Ames would be a huge draw.

I agree. However, keep in mind Penn has played DAC schools in basketball on school nights for years, and Elkhart plays Valpo and Chesterton this year. The travel would be tougher in football, but you could do an East/West concept to minimize it a little bit more (going from Valpo/Michigan City to Penn/Elkhart isn’t too bad). I just feel like Penn and Elkhart are woefully out of place in the NIC, and the DAC is the closest, and in my opinion best, alternative.

As has been discussed before, Penn and Elkhart should join the DAC.

Getting the average amount of fans back you would’ve expected this year next year will not recoup the losses of this year. The only way to do that will be to draw fans to cover next year and the losses of this year. His proposals do nothing to address that.

I think it comes down to the fact that college coaches make promises to recruits that high school coaches obviously do not make. I don’t think that comparison works here. Edit: For transparency I personally don’t care if a college coach leaves for a better job either.

All you did was parrot something you heard a talking head say on the news. The more I see you post, the more I’m convinced there’s not a single original thought in your senile brain.

Whatever makes you feel better about not being able to read, gramps.

The question was about lost athletic department revenue from this season. No one was talking about covid next season. I feel bad that a cranky old man like yourself has such trouble with reading comprehension. I didn’t offer any solutions because I don’t think this will be a problem.

What he said in 2017 could’ve been true for him at the time. But that truth could’ve changed.

Did you even read the question he asked?

Generally I don’t fault coaches, or anyone for that matter, for leaving one job to go to another they feel is better for them. Yes I don’t like people going back on their word, but circumstances can change in 3 years, it’s a little unfair to expect someone to feel the same way now as they did then. Coach Kirschner might’ve gotten from MV the break he needed at the time, he could’ve realized he missed the grind of the MIC and working with a larger number of kids. I’m sure he has his reasons, and as you’ve been alluding to, I don’t doubt that winning in the tournament is part of it.

I think you’re being a little too cynical here. For some guys coaching their alma mater is a dream. Seems that way here. I wouldn’t read into it anymore than that.

This comment shows just how wildly out of touch certain members of GID are lol.