Impartial_Observer

1 hour ago, foxbat said:

Not unless you're a ref when the field goal team is warming up.

 

I had a salesman one time give me a Permian  hat. The sales manager told me built a concrete vault to store it until he gave it to me. He’s a Midland Lee graduate. 

East 

BNL

FC

Fern Creek

Listening to the post game in local radio last night, most telling stat I heard was offensive plays East 67 Seymour 43. East had a great game plan and executed perfectly, until Seymour got a stop. Big win for the Owls as far as their conference aspirations. 

Just now, Frozen Tundra said:

Let me see if I can verify that info. If so, I’ll have to withhold the names of the kids unless it’s public info.

No problem, I heard via the grapevine 1 O and 2 D with various injuries. 

@Frozen Tundra any word in JC missing three starters tonight? 

2 hours ago, AW0352 said:

This is supposedly the type of field that Castle and Boonville will be getting after this season.   Exciting to see even field turf is improving.   No more black rubber pellets everywhere.  

Particularly on my laundry room floor!

3 minutes ago, AW0352 said:

Most JV and below games aren’t done by a Varsity crew.   Unless something has changed.   

Or you have younger guys learning new positions, etc. 

On 8/28/2023 at 1:31 PM, JQWL said:

I really tried to download the video so I could share it but after I made my playlist, I never had an option to download. It doesn't really matter at this point. I really hope someone talks to that crew before Friday though because I don't think they are doing anything intentionally incorrect. They just don't know they are doing it wrong every single time. 

You may be surprised at what shows up on any given Friday night. Given the current state of affairs with regards to the official shortage. Throw together crews are starting to become the norm. 

Columbus East at Seymour 

Jeffersonville at Bedford NL 

Jennings County at New Albany 

Silver Creek at Floyd Central
 

Columbus East’s dominance is still fresh in everyone’s mind, I still think there’s a stigma about playing East in the conference. I went with Seymour based on their ability to score points and CE’s lack of doing so. Granted CE has faced two significantly better D’s. 
 

JC at NA is another interesting matchup. JC seems to be enjoying a bit of a revival, but do they have the mindset they can win on the road in the conference? I’m going with they’re too young and dumb to understand all that, they’re 2-0 and feeling good about themselves. 
 

Looking forward to my first conference game as a spectator. I will admit it was somewhat odd sitting in the stands two weeks ago. 

19 hours ago, Frozen Tundra said:

 

This week’s games (week 3):

 

Columbus East (0-2) at Seymour (1-1, 1-0 HHC)

Jeffersonville (0-2, 0-1 HHC) at BNL (0-2)

Jennings County (2-0) at New Albany (0-2)

Silver Creek (1-1) at Floyd Central (1-1)

Anyone have an injury report on SC? FC?

29 minutes ago, foxbat said:

The best of luck to you and the HS kids!  That's doing God's work there and one day those HS kids will realize what a role they played in helping the next generation enjoy the game.  Hope you get all the support you and those kids need from those coaches.  I'm encouraged by their "enthusiasm" in handling their fans.

I think they’ll do it, they know how I’ll deal with it, and I don’t think they want to deal with that either. In fairness I’ve never really had any issues at Seymour. They play at the HS and parents have to be in the stands. I’m more of the mindset you’re starting your AB with an 0-2 count.

12 minutes ago, foxbat said:

We weren't perfect with this, but the league took steps to have the refs as a part of the league as opposed to like just gameday work.  The refs were part of the league's board.  They were part of the season prep and the season debrief.  They also provided inputs to the coaches throughout the season.  There were some coaches that just wanted to play on Sunday and win, but there were enough other coaches out there that would remind parents, before games, kind of exactly what you said; that they were there to cheer for the team and support their kid and let everyone else, coaches, refs, players, chain gang, concession stand folks, etc. do their jobs.  For the most part, coaches did a good job of nipping stuff in the bud really quickly if a fan yelled out. 

Even got the kids involved in helping out and understanding the refs' role that, whenever there was a timeout or halftime, the kids bringing out the water would ask the refs if they needed some too.  It was the only time the kids got to talk to the refs in games except to say "good game" at the end of the game or "heads" or "tails" or "that one" for the endzone to defend at the coin flip, so they thought it was something special.

Working on putting a similar system in place here. I asked the local youth league leaders if I could be in charge of dealing with out of line parents and they said NO, we’ll handle that. OK, but rest assured if you don’t I will, you’re asking me to train HS kids, I’m not letting some idiot run them off. 

6 minutes ago, Bobref said:

Give the Linesman a little credit. 

OK, but never the U!

Two things:

1: I have been charged with traing a group of high schoolers to officiate youth Football games. Rule 2 is on the agenda for Wednesday night. Rule 2 for those who don’t know is titles “Definitions”. One of the items in Rule 2 worth noting is there is a definition for a “forward” pass and a “backward” pass but there is no definition for a “lateral”. Sorry, just a pet peeve of mine. 
 

2. If the line to gain after the penalty enforcement is gained it will be 1st down. If the line to gain was not reached after enforcement it will be loss of down. So if the play happened on 3rd down it will now be 4th down. A new series can not start on any down other than 1st. 

My brother’s brother in law and sis-in-law, retired corporate lawyer and college department head from Chicago bought 400 acres in Brown County, built a ginormous house and currently live there. More to the point I was making earlier, that’s not a great game plan for athletic excellence. Plus the fact that I cringe every time I have to go thru there…..

1 hour ago, Bulldog15 said:

East has not scored a TD the past 3 years.  The six points East scored last year was two field goals.  Our JV defense were playing and they could not score on us.  

Our JV won 20-0 so it's going to be a long few years.  In the freshman game, East won 14-0 so there may be a little light at the end of the tunnel.  However, taking multiple beat downs like that for a few years can make kids and family question their allegiance to a program. 

Central/East has a good mix with the current 8/frosh classes. All of course based on what I saw last year in MS. I’m not one that gets excited about youth players, but with QB’s they have some intangibles that can’t really be coached, easy to spot in MS. Last years 7th grade QB at Central is going to be a stud. 

I think the situation has stabilized a little but a revolving door in the AD’s office for several years hasn’t helped. BC faces similar issues to other single school counties. Granted huge tourism dollars, but no real industry that attracts people. Fair amount of vacation/summer  homes most of the residents work in Columbus or Bloomington. BC has some history of success, but those days are a long ways in the rear view mirror. 
 

Congratulations to the Panthers! Athletic success starts at the top, great hire in Corey Stevens, he has a vision and is working diligently to move the athletic program forward. I’ve only met Coach Newton once, but my initial opinion is he’s a young man with a plan and he’s working hard. JC has long been the butt of jokes aside from being a sad story of rural decay in the US. Good for them, they finally are getting some of the pieces to fit together. 

BNL (0-1) at 5A #9/#10 Bloomington North (1-0)

Brown County (0-1) at Jennings County (1-0)

3A #1 Christian Academy of Louisville (1-0) at New Albany (0-1)

Columbus North (0-1) at Columbus East (0-1)

Seymour (0-1) at Jeffersonville (0-1)

Terre Haute South (0-1) at Floyd Central (0-1)

Seymour at Jeff moved to Saturday 7:00. 

I’ve heard some schools putting out feelers looking for officials on Saturday. One southern Indiana matchup has already been moved to Saturday night 7:00, I’ll let the athletic departments make the announcement publicly. I suspect a bunch of dominos are about to fall. 

We had Salem in like round one or two last year in the tournament…..big hole to dig out of. 

57 minutes ago, Muda69 said:

But the residents of Floyd County Indiana probably do because a good portion of them have some kind of economic or social interests (job, services, school, material goods,  etc.) with the Louisville area.  Same for the residents of Dearborn county and Cincinnati. 

So much like I’ve told many UK fans, move to the other side of the river, I don’t care. 

44 minutes ago, Titan32 said:

Why this entire state is not on Central time is beyond belief. 

Indiana is the only state in the nation who’s time is dictated by metro areas outside the state. It’s time Indiana became whole, I don’t care what time NY, Cincinnatti, or Louisville uses. 

10 minutes ago, PHJIrish said:

In the late 1950's and early 1960's, when I went to school, our games started at 8PM, but you had to be at CYO Field by 6PM to get a seat at most games.  I realize that's back in the dark ages, but we were on Central Time, here in Indianapolis, at that time also.  It was a lot more civilized, imho.

I don’t agree with much you post, but spot on commentary on the time. 

2 hours ago, Impartial_Observer said:

I had a JV game tonight moved from 6:00 to 7:00. 

JV game was canceled for tonight. Heat index over 105. 

46 minutes ago, Titan32 said:

Gibson Southern @ Mt. Carmel IL pushed to 8:00PM

That’s a KILLER if you have officials coming from EDT……trust me I know, it’s a LATE night!