Impartial_Observer

Bartholomew, Jackson, Scott counties used to have a large number of dairy farms. Thompson Dairy which was headquartered in Columbus bought all the milk. Thompson's had facilities in Columbus and Seymour and still offered home delivery as late as the mid-70's. Thompson's was a regional dairy supplying milk and ice cream to a good part of of south central Indiana. The Thompsons sold out around the mid-80's to Prairie Farms, giving Prairie Farms a pretty good strong hold in south central Indiana. I'm not sure about the Columbus facility, but all production ceased at Seymour. Prairie Farms did maintain a small distribution hub in Seymour for several years. There has been a pretty steady decrease of dairy farms in the area since. Dairy farms are hard work, cows have to be milked twice a day 365 days a year, they don't get sick and they don't take vacations. As with so much in the farming industry large corporate facilities began dominating the landscape. C'mon Muda, follow the money. And to be clear, I'm a Gen Xer, I have never drank milk. The thought of sitting down with a big glass of milk is repulsive to me. My wife goes thru 2-3 gallons a week. But she drinks 1% which is really just water lying about being milk.

All milk stinks in my opinion. I don’t drink any of it.

It's pretty clear we now have a new generation here on the GID, you gotta love these 20 year old subjects getting new legs.

I told you the dude at Central was in the driver's seat! 😉

Westfield has a Sushi bar one day a week.........the P/P's can't compete.

There are any number of factors: Look at the number of kids who participate in extracurriculars at publics vs. privates. Last time I checked it was about 70% in privates vs. about 35% in publics. TA often misconstrued this concept, read carefully, kids who attend. Look at your own programs, look at the kids who work hard, odds are their parents are fairly successful, contrary to popular belief, success occurs thru hard work. Unsuccessful people are not sending their kids to private schools. No I did not say private students work harder. Not necessarily a private only advantage, but in many cases private feeder schools have multiple feeder K-8 schools. So the pool doesn't start getting weeded out until their freshman year, where schools with a single feeder MS start getting weeded out when they're in the 7th grade. As has been mentioned, in most cases parents who send their kids to private schools are much more likely to hold their children accountable than their public school counterparts. The may also have the means for outside of school instruction, camps, etc. Legacy, again not necessarily a private school deal, but it seems a lot more prevalent there. Multiple generations who attend the same school. That creates a culture, Grandpa was on that 56 team that went undefeated, dad was on 85 championship team, and Junior and his teammates have that tradition to live up to. You hear constantly private schools talk about their culture, and it's necessarily aimed at sports, but sports do weigh heavily into it. Just some random thoughts off the top of my head. And just to be clear the tired old "they can recruit" thing is sooo played. EVERY SCHOOL in the state of Indiana recruits, lets move on.

That is correct, play clock goes. Game clock should start when the down box is set. Ideally with around 32 seconds on the play clock.

Apparently the kind that most people can't repair.

Happy Thanksgiving to the Gonzoron family. I'm smoking a ham tomorrow. I assume there's some roundball on tap this weekend?

Not what I said. But you know as well as I do that's pretty much how it works.

He was impeached in the Illinois legislature, not exactly a Republican strong hold. He's in prison via the BHO/Holder Justice Department.

The outpouring of support for Coach Bowsman and his family just reaffirms what I've always said about this game, ultimately it's about relationships. I read an interview with Levon Helm a long time ago, and he made a statement I've never forgotten. "We all start out thinking we're going to change the world, at the end of the day if you just helped your neighborhood, you did alright." You did alright Coach Bowsman!

IWU is the Evil Empire.

You are clueless.

Just out of curiosity have you ever seen the momentum exception come into play on a free kick from K's 40?

It was three years ago tomorrow a chain of events began that led us to losing two family members by Christmas. Thanksgiving dinner was in the cafeteria at IU that year. The holidays just have not been the same. My heart breaks for the Bowsman family, Coach Bowsman was passionate about his Senators. I worked some Softball down there as well, always enjoyed talking Football with him when I was there. I'm so old I remember working games when he was a player back in the day.

And everyone lost their minds when Carmel went north this cycle. Of course they move to the south next year.

No PI, but there can certainly be holding, as well as other fouls.

It's always been southern Indiana. https://www.in.gov/history/markers/4129.htm

IHSAA Baseball tournament uses 3 at the sectional level all the thru the state finals. Softball uses 2 at the sectional level and goes to three at the regional level. Softball does not have enough officials to use three in the sectional. More officials than you might think work both softball and baseball tournaments. For instance my sectional partner turned down a fifth state baseball final in an attempt to get his first softball final.

Per Twitter he was taken to surgery this evening for an emergency procedure to relieve swelling in his brain. Scary stuff, best of luck to Coach Bowsman.

South of Indy? Scecina is somewhere around 16th and Emerson, Brebeuf is on 86th on the northwest side, and HC is on Binford up around 75th.