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There's always been a few softball people who want softball to begin in July as golf does..

If the alternative is: 2021 Seniors lose their final year. This is better, I would guess. Maybe I dont know football players but I believe sophs and juniors will gladly play more in a smaller 'window' so older boys can get that final year.

Worth what? Its one year. One season. Everybody gets their chance later and nobody risks unknown circumstances now. This is not a permanent change.

Coach, this is a realistic plan. Volleyball cant be held indoors this fall either... March to June football will be OK for one year... But where is baseball and softball in this plan. Summer? The best thing about spring football is that it allows fans back in the stands in some way...we have time to plan Football is the money maker.....To have it this fall with few or no fans is a losing proposition.... ..and all senior boys get a chance to play football AND baseball, right?

This is what they say today. It will change.....

The suggestion is that simply the use of 'people' as a mascot is inherently demeaning. .....That's wrong on the face of it. If Twin Lakes, as the anti-Indian letter authors agree, had good intent, then good was intended and no insult should be manufactured. Nothing needs to be changed. Indy Northwest is the 'Space Pioneers'(but was space travel really worth it?) Lafayette Catholic is the Knights (were they good or bad?) Mishawaka is the Cavemen (werent we all Cavemen at one time?) Eastern is the Musketeers (but who did they shoot?) ..and dont even start with New Palestine. I think the 'mascot mafia' is a product of idle minds.

As of Sunday (July 26) , 16 schools in Northwest Indiana have stopped athletic practices......presumably until Aug. 4 .......I'm thinking that a lot of opinions expressed are colored by where in the state of Indiana you are..... ..and I think that many feel that if the virus isn't showing in their particular part of the state, that its okay to proceed as normal.

Roncalli is named for a Catholic priest. ..Angelo Roncalli,, who later was named Pope? I'm assuming that Father Roncalli and the name Rebel have nothing to do with each other? The 'R' name just sounded good.? As you suggest, I doubt that an Indianapolis Catholic school was nick-named after heroes of the confederacy. Roncalli was named a Saint? Maybe Roncalli can be the Saints. Can there be anything bad about a Saint?

Scary, FOX, that's all I can say. If we play this fall, there almost certainly will be casualties. And we will know who they are.

Julio, are the scrimmages still on??? Might be a good idea to cancel them and begin with the season.

Scary, Robert. I wonder when someone connected with high school football dies of Covid (player or coach), do we simply continue.?

Help me out here. What is offensive about being a 'Rebel' ?

TD; I appreciate your thoughts and obviously I dont know what's going to happen. Most of the people on this board are pretty hard core. They've seen it all. Until now. Its the unknown aspect of this that is scary. Just so we're clear, I do think I know how you feel. I was seriously depressed to see the basketball tourney wiped out. And Crown Point high school had 13 returning starters off a team rated No.1 in 4A in baseball and three Division I softball pitchers on the 2020 squad that was the defending regional champ. But the spring season was wiped out. A total loss. I've walked the sidelines every football season since the 1980s like may here have and I've already been told that I would be seriously foolish to attend ANY basketball games this winter with the virus and some pre-existing medical conditions (like old age) that I have. The empty school campuses where I live truly upset me and I admit to being a little scared that I wont live long enough to see things return to the 'normal life' you speak of. I really do want the football season to go on as scheduled next month.

The kid will be lucky if he gets to make a choice of either one, coach. That's just the way it would be. And after no basketball tourney, no baseball, no track and no tennis, they'll be lucky to play checkers in the spring. Spring football assumes some medical vaccine or treatment help that is not guaranteed in any way. This is a football board so we havent even discussed basketball. 500-1000 kids Indoors? Grabbing and holding (on good defensive teams) and sweating on each other. Starting in November? That sport has less chance of going off than football. If football is cancelled, basketball might be, too. By spring the kids and everybody who knows them could be begging for the chance to make a choice.

Nothing has changed. The virus is not gone. In-school school is dangerous. So is football, volleyball, basketball.... We should wait until January at least.

Spring football skips over a lot of problems. The big one being that we may have a vaccine by February or March..... We also will have experience in the in-school Covid way of life. 12 schools up our way are suspended....as you are reading this. You would like spring football

You probably cannot use pneumonia or influenza because they are known and accepted risks with existing treatments and vaccines. They also aren't tested for at school and also aren't part of a world wide pandemic. That's the second thing you're going to hear at the trial. . The first thing is that it is No. 1 responsibility of all schools is to keep kids safe. Above education and athletics. Keep them safe. Can anyone at any school do that with Covid right now.? I'm not a lawyer but......... "Sure, we knew Jimmy Quarterback tested positive but we didnt know what the virus would do to his girlfriend Susie Cheerleader or her friends Charlene and Lulabell (Jimmy and Susie go to a southern Indiana school)" is probably not a legal defense. Until there is a vaccine, a treatment or a cure, will parents accept FULL liability in writing for anything THIS all-new virus does to their son or anyone their son knows or doesn't know at school that he came in contact with?. Forever. Will any school board accept full liability for anything THIS all-new virus does to ANY student they know has tested positive or any other student that boy came in contact with.. It does not matter where the kid got the virus. He tested positive at the school. Mortality rates are irrelevant. There's about 20,000 teenagers in the eight school Duneland Athletic Conference. It only takes one at each school. And what does Covid do to those who 'recover'? And haven't there been cases of 'recovered' Covid victims testing positive again??? And does the school board know of any previously undetected pre-existing condition which would make Jimmy, Susie, Charlene, Lulabell or anybody else then come across more vulnerable to Covid? "We don't know. We cant say. We didn't have time to find out. We couldn't answer those questions." is probably also not a legal defense. See what I mean? What you and I want is a low priority.

Bishop Dwenger is your old team? Try Bishop Chatard.....How many titles have they won?

It doesn't matter what you or I want. It doesn't matter what time it is. Once school is open and a kid gets sick and there is a lawsuit, who is liable.? It wont be you or me. Who will pay for the sick kids? It wont be you or me. If no one accepts liability for what happens to students, coaches, players and fans, there wont be school or games. That's just the way it is. Parents have to waive all legal rights to whatever happens or school districts have to be legally liable for kids getting the virus no matter what it does to them.

If the majority of parents agree, the games can go on.

This is a major step towards playing this fall.

But pnuemonia is no where near as contagious as Covid, no where near as deadly for their older relatives or teachers and, again, there is no vaccine, treatment or cure for Covid. School districts are obviously legally liable for all aspects of this virus once they open the door. How do you reconcile that problem?

It probably is. What parent is going to sign a 'death waiver' absolving the school district of ALL legal liability if their kid catches a virus and dies playing district-sponsored sports after his teammate tested positive for the same virus for which there is no vaccine, no treatment and no cure? What school district is going to accept the ALL legal liability for the damage done to a student involved in a district-sponsored extra curricular activity after a similar kid in the same activity tested positive for a virus for which there is no vaccine, no treatment and no cure..? Cant blame either one.

The IHSAA cant do that. The members are are interconnected. The IHSAA must decide as a group for ALL of its members...... You cant have 58 school districts making 58 different decisions with different levels of education about the issue and different levels of toleration of risk. You get extreme decisions. And mistakes that, in this case, would be contagious. There needs to be a state-wide call. Soon.

Is the term 'Hoosier' offensive? To me it just means 'being from Indiana' If anyone suggests (apparently a few have) that its derogatory, I would say its not derogatory to me.....and I'm one of the ones 'Hoosiers' refers to and I believe it is meant with home-state pride. Is if fair that a minority of the 'subjects of a nickname' can inspire the change of that nickname.. ..over the wishes of the majority of the subjects of that same nickname.?