Impartial_Observer

I’m not going to lie, I always hated that gym. It’s better since they got a new floor.

Didn’t Jeff return another donation a couple of years back when the story broke? Good for Pappa John, giving back.

I'm 54, if we have a lousy assignment, we'll complain, we'll whine, we'll cuss the weather, (officials are notorious whiners), but we'll prepare the same way we do every week, we'll show up at the same time we do every week, and we'll work the game to the best of our ability. Football is a different animal than BB. One of the state finals crews from last year opened the tournament with Madison/Edgewood.

Regardless of the level of play, to the two teams playing, it's about the most important thing in the world going on at that time. They deserve the third teams best effort regardless of the quality of the two teams playing. When the tournament starts, one team's seniors are playing the last game of their careers, that demands my respect, and demands our crew's best effort.

I believe that was a one year deal and replaced Roncalli. Roncalli had to go to Columbus, OH. Roncalli and BHSS had a four year deal that started and ended in 2018. I don't believe either school (Roncalli or BHSS) has a game for week 8 in 2020.

Uhhhhhh, it's hemp. I suppose you "turn it into joints" but you're going to be really disappointed.

Charlestown at Eastern (Pekin)

A local farmer is raising it here. One plot is just below the hill from my house. A lot of cars stop and look.

I can confirm not all schedules are set yet. Why did BHSS only have one crossover game?

I'm getting paid to watch one of them, does that count?

Not just OMG athletes, position players, solid kids, etc. If you look around at rosters, it's not hard to find kids from surrounding school districts. Given the school voucher system as it exists today, EVERY school recruits, they have to have butts in seats, their budget depends on it, it's not necessarily about sports. However we always knew it was about the education right? wink, wink, nod, nod.....

I recall talking to Coach Ballart in the hallway after that game, geez I’m getting old!

I was kinda wondering which tribe? Me thinks he’s engaging his inner STC.

You are using the words “enroll” and “transfer”, interchangeably. If I as an 8th grader choose to enroll at Frankfort HS, that is NOT a transfer. If I’m a sophomore at Seymour HS and my dad is unhappy with the coaching staff and I opt to enroll in the football academy at Frankfort, that is a transfer and my eligibility to play football will be ruled on by the IHSAA. You asked if the WL and LJ players were ruled as eligible by the IHSAA, if they enrolled as 8th graders, the IHSAA has no say.

No I didn't say anything of the sort.

The IHSAA deals with transfers. If you enroll in a different district as an 8th grader, you are not a transfer.

Sure, but some of the kids who do make moves are game changers.

As an 8th grader, you can enroll in ANY HS in the state without penalty, and the IHSAA didn't make the rules, the state legislature did with their property tax laws.

I have intimate knowledge of two major news stories in southern Indiana, one of which garnered some national media coverage. I was stunned and amazed at the amount of misinformation and rumors, dare I say outright lies, that were broadcast from "credible" news sources in both of these situations. Especially in the case of "breaking news", I believe NOTHING that is reported by the press.

Yea has been for about 11 years. https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/schools-debate-law-s-impact-on-open-enrollment/article_622c7b90-36ea-5f9a-bceb-9b3e820ab040.html

Officials are assigned in the tournament. Unless of course the IHSAA is on on the "home cookin" conspiracy.

ABC News airs footage of the Knob Creek Machine Gun shoot, that they obtained exclusively, and stated it was footage of Kurds being slaughtered in Syria. Just a hint would be all the people sitting in lawn chairs filming the action with their phones. The KCMC was last weekend. I've never been but it's on my bucket list. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/abc-news-slaughter-in-syria-footage-appears-to-come-from-a-kentucky-gun-range

How long before some of these NBA players are tapped for positions in the State Department?

We're about the enter the first week of the tournament, we have from the first of December until the first of August to deal with seeding the tournament, multipliers, success factor, conference alignment, etc.

I don’t know man, there’s a VERY select group of people I fish with, and more times than not I’m by myself. I’d just give the dude the fish, I was just going to throw it back anyway.