Impartial_Observer

I believe there is a cap on government lawsuit awards, I’m sure our attorneys can chime in. 

lol, there’s a reason why I’m an official.

It should be noted, I’m undefeated as a coach, not only at the HS level, but NCAA as well as NFL.

55 minutes ago, JQWL said:

The truth is there are rumors every year.

Best of luck coach, lets keep them just rumors. 

1 minute ago, hhpatriot04 said:

Not meant to be argumentative. Eventually, when I chronicle more of IN HS football on Wikipedia (if @Rudy doesn't beat it to me first), having that knowledge and some of those old email chains are invaluable. Having worked in newsrooms, so much data is lost when writers retire. The Bloomington H-T, which had some of the best preps coverage due to the team that included Harrell had all kinds of box scores from the 1970s in all sports and team records for all the local schools going back to the early 1900s just sitting in a file organizer... In another life, I would tour every small newspaper and AD office and digitize it all. TA had started doing around the state podcasts, but monetizing it was difficult at the time. Perhaps now it's easier. 

@Rudy's books make great Christmas presents... http://almanacsports.com/football/

Word. 

26 minutes ago, JQWL said:

I hate to break bad news or be the cause of any DT and Muda posts, but unfortunately Crawford County has canceled tomorrow's game with North Harrison. I hate this for the North Harrison players, coaches, and fans and especially the North Harrison seniors. I am very sorry.

Is there any truth to the rumors circulating regarding the future of Football at CC?

We were dangerously close to this last week, one USC away. I posted on a FB group. I have not been able to find any specific rule reference, other than R's restraining line must be 10 yards beyond K's LOS. One tip I found was to use the chains to set R's restraining line. 

The obvious applies, if the ball touches the GL it's a TB. If the ball doesn't go 10 yards K can not recover unless touched by R. 

Why don't we just have another election? 

8 minutes ago, hhpatriot04 said:

There were definitely jealousy talks in the 1990s, but most conversations were very local (old time Bosse and Evansville Central alumni complaining about Memorial's rise in the 1980s come to mind). What didn't really exist until you had email and lists was people from across the state debating. I still see baseball statistician (professional) email lists with "threads" dated back pre-1995.

@DK_Barons or @77Jimmie may be able to elaborate on if there were IN HS football mailing lists, and if so, what the main topics were and who was involved.

I'm not going to argue that point to the masses. Memorial wasn't a local issue, it was discussed in Football "networks" (remember when there was face to face networking) around the state. I don't recall any mail lists, usenet groups, or even chat rooms back in the day devoted to Indiana HS Football, I'm not saying they weren't out there, I just never ran across any. 

42 minutes ago, Muda69 said:

Then perhaps it shouldn't have been built in the first place.   Using taxpayer funds as the impetus  to "make numbers work" is bad government.

 

 

That ship has sailed, cussed and discussed on this very forum ad nauseum. I don't necessarily have a problem with it operating in small red numbers, provided you're getting a payback on the back end. That number is hard to determine though. 

Forget the fact that we are there, that ship has sailed. We can't just bail on these people. BHO was wrong to leave, and Trump is repeating the same mistake. 

My daughter played a couple of fall college events at Grand Park. It's not very user friendly. Fortunately we did find a golf cart to get my parents too and from the field from the parking area. The costs of this thing has been dissected enough. I still maintain there is no way this enterprise would fly if it were privately owned. I have looked at building multi-use athletic facilities, I've put pencil to paper with a GC, I could NOT make the numbers work. Granted I'm half way between Indy and Louisville, not near a major metro area. Even at that, Hamilton County is not the easiest area to navigate. 

The question that begs to be answered, is the facility bringing in enough money to the local economy to make up for the operating expenses. We (ICGSA) have had to change dates twice for our Softball All-Star game, due to hotel space because of events at Grand Park. We typically take about 35 rooms for players, coaches, and staff, I have no idea where parents stay. We eventually moved the venue from Carmel HS to IU.  

Just now, Olympian06 said:

You guys heading north tomorrow or where is the crew officiating at? 

In the middle of our MSC tour right now, I'll leave it at that for now. We started Saturday at Scottsburg. 

38 minutes ago, Olympian06 said:

It was actually 20-14 entering the 2nd Q still a competitive game. 

That reporter was way off lol. 

East played without 3-4 starters on Friday night, the only difference is East has some backups they can plug in and really not miss too much. Hoping all teams heal up for sectional. 

Surely you jest!

24 minutes ago, DannEllenwood said:

Hmmmmmmm.........

He can always "challenge" her to be the new "Alpha" and hasn't yet.......so, maybe you are onto something...

Women control the money and the pu....., so nothing under the sun is new.

Not sure what “best” is.

Mark Herman

Blair Kiel

Rondel Moore

Shawn Blaich

Kevin Dudley

Alex Smith

As has been mentioned, Tardy, Levron Williams, Samardizja, Stevie Brown...

Stevie Brown may have been the best athlete I ever saw, dude was a freak.

Has the time come to just contract high school football? I mean between the winners losing money, and the bad schools being bad, maybe it's just time we call it a day?

7 minutes ago, TrojanDad said:

Anyone else feel this way watching the Sunday night NFL game???

Chris Collinsworth and whoever his man crush du jour is. 

No one knows what means what to people. I would suppose only Coach Radtke could answer that. 

In my short and really mediocre coaching career, I kept two trophies, and one was a 2nd Place LL trophy, that's still on my desk 20 years later. Because it had meaning to me and the group of kids I had that year. Conversely I threw an entire box of 2nd place trophies in the dumpster and didn't even pass them out one year. Things like this are really personal who knows what means what to people?

11 minutes ago, Muda69 said:

Not a shock to me at all IO.  I would just like to see some concrete evidence of your assertion.  That's all.

 

Sure, I made it up. 

P/P dominance in November just happened to coincide with this forum opening up. 

4 minutes ago, Muda69 said:

Links?

 

This may come as a shock to you Muda, but some of us have ties to Indiana HS Football other than our interactions on this board. 

Following a PAT, multiple dead ball fouls are called B/R, four to be exact. 1 R's 45, 2 R's 30, 3 R's 15, 4 R's 7.5. Rule book states 10 yards between K's LOS and R's restraining line. What do we have? 

18 minutes ago, DT said:

I disagree

The Multiplier discussion on this forum from 2003-2007 was a lobbying tool that brought a great deal of attention to the issue, as both sides of the debate were represented.  

Do we influence policy?  Debateable

Do we shed light on critical issues impacting the game?  Definitely.  Moreso then than now, as The Forum is not nearly as widely read as it used to be.  

 

The multiplier issue was on the IFCA's mind long before this forum existed. The challenge was getting a formula you could get the IFCA to agree on. 

On 10/4/2019 at 1:09 PM, Tanka Jahari said:

I find it fascinating that both teams would film from the same endzone. I've always wondered if that had ever happened before. In your situation were you able to have any friendly banter with the other team's endzone videographer? Did you guys compare equipment?

As I recall Linton has seating in one EZ and not the other, thus they put the cameras in the EZ with no fans. 

9 hours ago, DT said:

No its not.  But the GID Forum members certainly have a voice when it comes to major issues which impact-affect the game of high school football.

This forum is widely read by administrators, coaches, IHSAA members and other community leaders who make decisions that impact the game.  Some of us use this forum as a lobbying tool to influence those decisions.

Our greatest impact was felt during The Multiplier Debate, which ultimately was adopted by the IHSAA in the watered down format known as the Success Factor.  

It took a decade for the Success Factor to move from radical idea to actual policy.  

Contraction is a different issue, and potentially of even greater import as it deals with multiple issues including school finances, changing demographic and socio economic trends and player safety.

I would be very concerned as a parent to send my South Newton teenager out to the practice field for a team that is 1-36 in the past 4 seasons and is outscored by nearly 60 points per game weekly.  A program that barely has enough live bodies to conduct a decent practice.  A program that cannot develop young players at lower levels because participation is at all time lows.  These are real issues that are all trending in the wrong direction.  

As I have stated before many times, schools are not obligated to offer football on the extra curricular menu.  Football consumes huge amounts of resources.  Admins have an obligation to objectively evaluate their respective programs and determine if moving forward, despite these horrific results, is a wise investment for the school and a worthwhile experience for the student athlete.

 

1A	41	E-MAIL CORRECTIONS	MAP TO SCHOOL	0-7
		TOURNAMENT HISTORY
SOUTH NEWTON REBELS Coach: Brad Bevis, 1-36 in 4th year at school

DATE	OPPONENT		CENTRAL TIME				OA 6.9, DA 54.7
Aug. 23		North Newton 2A ©	L	0	58
Aug. 30	at	West Central 1A ©	L	14	68
Sep. 6		Frontier 1A ©	L	0	38
Sep. 13		Carroll (Flora) 1A	L	14	65
Sep. 20	at	Tri-County 1A ©	L	20	42
Sep. 27	at	Covington 1A	L	0	52
Oct. 4		North White 1A ©	L	0	60
Oct. 11	at	Casey-Westfield (Ill.)	7:00 pm
Oct. 18	at	Lake Station 1A	7:00 pm
©MIDWEST CONFERENCE GAME

 

Laughable. 

Are there some movers and shakers who read, probably, but to say we have a voice is laughable. 

We've seen several girls playing this season with various teams. By this point of the season the games start to run together, sorry I don't have any specifics.