Madison currently plays Paoli, South Dearborn, and Mitchell for their NC games. With the MSC only having one NC game, I would venture to guess those schools are going stay with a more lucrative gate than Madison. Madison has in the past played Greensburg and Batesville. Given the division split in the EIAC it stand to reason those schools would have a little more flexibility in scheduling. Independents such as Providence, Oldenburg Academy, and Rock Creek could play into the mix. Not sure of the scheduling in the PLAC, but Crawford County, Springs Valley, etc., could play into it as well. Milan, North/South Decatur? 

JC and Seymour stay on the schedule for the foreseeable future.

5 hours ago, DanteEstonia said:

Not as stupid as the one it responds to.

Slow down, take a deep breath, and use your words.

2 hours ago, DanteEstonia said:

But not, of course, the original version passed by GWB.

What a stupid comment.

On 5/14/2020 at 1:40 PM, gonzoron said:

The GOP at work.

Senate Votes to Allow FBI to Look at Your Web Browsing History Without a Warrant

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jgxxvk/senate-votes-to-allow-fbi-to-look-at-your-web-browsing-history-without-a-warrant?fbclid=IwAR1C4EdPR4ZhrwvCMFdnca3S4foKK3v1TsIGj_2Bp2QTOvBvRoFFB_WGCJo

 

The Patriot Act needs to be repealed in it’s entirety, including both of BHO’s expansions.

9 hours ago, oldtimeqb said:

Travel baseball practices have already begun here in Evansville. Which highlights the illogical nature of the July 1 date set by the IHSAA/InDOE

Option A - Athletes can practice with their HS fall sports teams, supervised by their HS coaches at their local HS facilities 

Option B - No more than 2-3 athletes from each school, resulting in a mixture of 5-6 schools, form a team. Then this team from Evansville goes to Westfield to play teams from Ft Wayne, Lafayette, Jeffersonville, and Carmel. 

If I had to choose which would be ‘safer’ from a public health perspective, I am choosing A. It’s not just a baseball/foootball thing. I can’t wait to see those travel soccer tournament photos in June as well.

 

Back in my daughter’s TB days, we never had two kids from the same school. 

On 5/8/2020 at 2:20 PM, oldtimeqb said:

As I expected, I have just seen my first advertisement for a girls travel softball tournament June 20-21st.

July 1st (which is really July 6th after moratorium) was a CYA choice by the IHSAA in my opinion.

Travel SB is starting June 13-14.

1 hour ago, gonzoron said:

And for the love of God, if you're not passing, stay out of the F@#$@* left lane!

4 hours ago, gonzoron said:

Is that still standing?

Sounds like it would be a great place for a large wrestling tourney. Do they ever host those there? 

It is still standing. Google “Shields Gym Seymour, IN” too many links to post. Local slum lord has owned it since the 90’s, it’s in a sorry state of disrepair. My guess is at some point to roof will go and it will be gone. A classmate of mine was given access several years back and wrote a great piece on it including current and historic pics, unfortunately I can no longer find it. 

Seymour traditionally hosted the Wrestling SS. Great venue, three mats on the bottom with all the seats rolled back and fans upstairs. Given the history of IHSAA tournaments in Seymour, the Wrestling SS was the most profitable for the city itself. Hotels were full, restaurants were full, etc., we don’t necessarily get that with other tournaments, occasionally at the regional or SS level for the odd team in BB, depending on who gets sent here. Now the downside, the host school for these tournaments receives a ridiculously small amount of money to host, I’m thinking around 150 bucks or so. The Wrestling tournament is really hard on your facilities. For instance the last one we host we had three lockers destroyed and a urinal ripped off the wall. That was the final straw, AD called North Meridian and told them we would not host another one. 

FYI I just watched the video and there is one glaring error, the first season was in fact the 70-71 season. The 69-70 25-1 team played at Shields Gym. The team featured two Indiana All Stars, another player who would go on to get beaten nightly by The Harlem Globetrotters as a member of the Washington Generals, and another player who go on to be a US congressman. 

Also of note, Bud Shippee retired at the end of this season. He used to do color when his dad Bob was doing play by play. I’ve listened to Bud since I was a little kid on the radio, kind of the end of an era. I run into Bud quite often at the post office in the morning, always enjoy talking to him, he talked a lot this winter about going here or there for the last time. 

Thru the Damon Bailey years, smaller schools would sometimes rent the gym if Seymour wasn’t playing to get bigger gates. Seymour did quite well financially during the Bailey years. 

The building has a fair amount of history, given it’s relatively short life when compared to some of the other iconic gyms in the state. With all the bleachers rolled back, you can have 6 full court basketball games going on simultaneously and another two with about 75’ courts. All but 2 of the games would be on hardwood. 

5 hours ago, Muda69 said:

Thank you for your honesty.

And the Lloyd E. Scott Gymnasium is a fantastic, historical venue.  I have only been there once, but it is truly one of Indiana's basketball palaces.  You and other Seymour residents should be proud of it.

 

My parents may have been poor, but they always taught us to be honest. 

I have been there more than once, and words can not describe my profound pride in a building where I was never chosen for teams in PE. 

6 hours ago, Muda69 said:

You are not a true Hoosier if you dislike basketball.   Just a humble opinion.

In fact most of this dislike for our historic state sport is probably just some sort of inferiority complex.

Ya got me, I have long suffered from being introverted, shy, lacking confidence, and being the last kid picked when teams were chosen, I blame my parents for not being able to afford for me to be in Boy Scouts.

7 hours ago, TrojanDad said:

Non-Hoops Fan?  Basketball Sucks!!

And I thought I was the only person in this state who wasn’t a basketball fan. 

3 hours ago, gonzoron said:

Not a meme, but what the heck is going on in Seymour @Impartial_Observer?  "Sometimes you just don't ask questions 🤔

This modern art masterpiece 🎨 was spotted during a security check at Seymour Middle School by Officer Schapson. What should we name it??"

One of those meth heads from Prentice Addition behind the MS would be my guess. I can't get past the Dandelions, geez! I know the school system pays someone a pretty nice contract to spray the grounds. 

Methsketball?

Surprised talk of female leads and no one mentions Candy Slice

1 hour ago, Irishman said:

Similar topic. I did not create a separate one, but thought this would fit in well. We have mentioned Jim Morrison, Chris Cornell came up here, but they are in that category of gone too soon.

other frontmen gone too soon

I would have loved to see what Queen would have done, but part of me feels what we saw from Freddie at Live Aid was mainly because he knew his time was short.

Kurt Cobain....incredible poet, lacked an on stage presence, but it fed the persona or vibe of Nirvana

As I said above Chris Cornell, what a phenomenal talent. The possibilities were endless for him.Bon Scott....enough said
Michael Hutchence...just a sad and tragic story for someone so talented. 

others? 

Also, I was trying to think of females who were the front “person”.
Stevie Nicks comes to mind. And even though Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie were lead vocals on several songs, Stevie’s personality was the dominant one for the group. I cannot wait for a movie to come out about Fleetwood Mac. If you have not seen it, it very well may be the best Behind the Music episodes on VH 1. 
Does Ann Wilson count? I know she and Nancy are always spoken of together. But Ann does all the lead vocals. 
I did a quick google search for female rock singers, and most of them have what I referred to as support bands, and really were not the front person of a group....if that makes sense. And the ones that were, like Belinda Carlisle of the Go Gos 🤪😍, I don’t think they have the staying power of any of the bands we have mentioned. 

 

 

A couple of names you mentioned popped out:

Michael Hutchence I could not agree more. Tragic story, INXS figured prominently in The Lost Boys soundtrack, Good Times with Jimmy Barnes classic three chords and a cloud of dust rock and roll. Don’t Change is a song I have always loved, one can only wonder what might have been.

Belinda Carlisle I absolutely love her voice. I will occasionally endure the songs just to listen to her sing. Oddly enough just had this conversation with Gonzo, a lot of female acts with music that I can’t stand, but I will listen just to hear them sing. A current act comes to mind is Little Big Town. I love the harmonies and how their voices work together, but find the music/songwriting to be boring, predictable, top 40. 

This is of course a different conversation and I apologize for steering the thread in another direction. I’ll be honest, with these PPP loans and their impossible timelines my wife working at home having to process them, I’ve spent the better part of the last three nights listening to music on YouTube with my ear pods. 

2 hours ago, Bobref said:

Sheltering in place is making some people cranky. Seems like I may have touched a nerve here.

I’m currently watch Rolling Thunder Revue on Netflix, I highly recommend such endeavors over pandemic discussion on CNN and political campaigns which are on hold indefinitely.

Tough to argue with the frontman from the World’s Greatest Rock and Roll Band. 

When asking this question I think several factors have to come together, longevity, being more than a lead singer, more than a cult following, etc.

For me it is, was, and will always be Mick, and it’s not open to debate.

Irishman and have had this debate in the past, I will concede Freddy Mercury is probably in the conversation, but being the targeted demographic when Queen was in their prime, I never cared for their music. At the risk of offending a new generation of Queen fans since the movie came out, my thoughts are similar to Slim Pickens in Blazing Saddles when he caught his boys trying to teach his workmen to teach the hired help to sing. I recorded Live Aid in it’s entirety on cassette tape and when I edited it down to a copy of just music, Queen was left on the cutting room floor.

Bob I figured you to be a Lizard King guy, probably in the conversation as well, but to me The Doors have some music that stand the test of time, but most of it just gets dated and stale to me. When LA Woman comes on the radio, I will NEVER not turn it up and sing along.

This vid features what I think is one of the best guitar intros ever, although live it gets really obscure, as well as one of the best back up singers in the biz, Lisa Fisher.

31 minutes ago, Robert said:

No offense intended.  Did you bring it for as many years as he did?

Well obviously if my HS coached hadn’t screwed me, I’m quite certain I would have had a long and storied NFL career.

1 hour ago, Robert said:

Rod Woodson says he never wore pads below the shoulders.  If true, I wonder how much he's had replaced. 

I never wore knee pads either, and no real problems, a little art that requires a shot once in a while.

1 hour ago, DT said:

GID is getting lazy.  Where are the advance reports of these job moves?  The world is passing us by and nobody is taking notice.

 

I’m not getting one of Coach Nowlin’s smack downs 

7 hours ago, Coach Nowlin said:

Yes different cuts at the chest plate to the shoulder area for different position groups to provide more free movement for QBs and Pass Catchers alike.   

Girdles these days are all in one.   Days of fighting Hip pads into cloth girdle's are long gone, sadly.   

HA! Never wore hip pads. Do you reckon there’s a correlation between that and a hip replacement at 50?

Best of luck @senatorcoach72 I can only imagine the can of worms that’s been opened. 

9 hours ago, gonzoron said:

I started to react to this, but there’s no laughing/crying reaction available. 

18 hours ago, TrojanDad said:

wait a minute....Fred?  Fred Garvin?  

Props for the obscure old school SNL reference. I loved that skit!

1 hour ago, Muda69 said:

No, I did not whine.  You can ask Mr. Nowlin yourself.

 

Not only did you whine about it, you pinned it, then whined when it got unpinned. Which of course turned into a giant pissing contest....much like you’re trying to bait me into here.