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This reminds me of Pioneer in the early 90s, right before Mike Johnson bought in to using the Delaware Wing-T and implementing it in the youth program. However, Pioneer had a very young program and had never really achieved anything as a program. There's an entire story somewhere chronicling Coach Johnson's journey to using the Wing-T, in which he attempted to attend a Wing-T clinic, in another state, just to realize that he had gone on the wrong date. He and his assistant, I want to say Clay Scott, then located the guy who ran the clinic and the guy, feeling sorry for them, let them pick his brain for a few hours, as the story goes. I absolutely love this story because it shows what can be accomplished when dedication and passion are applied to situations of adversity. Also, remember that this was in the early-90s, so there wasn't any internet or probably even cell phones involved.

He was fired as a coach, but the article didn't disclose whether or not he was a teacher as well.

Was the Indian Creek assistant a teacher? If so, why wasn't he fired?

It's looking like the HNAC championship will be a five team race this season between Knox, NJ, LaVille, Pioneer, and Triton. LaVille might be in the driver's seat if they can beat Pioneer next week.

Which schools have swimming programs? Pioneer does and I know that Caston and Winamac do not.

Unfortunately, Bob Shanks sold his remaining restaurant to the owner of Penguin Point and the quality has basically fallen off of a cliff ever since. Employees didn't even receive their paychecks a few months ago and there was speculation that it was going to close down for good. The ice cream bar hasn't been opened since COVID, and I've seen reports that the buffet is no longer open, either. I've had a drive-thru meal since it was sold and it was okay, but I could tell that cheaper, lower quality product was being used. The other Hap's, on the west side of town, was turned into a pretty good Japanese steak house, however. I also highly recommend the arcade/record store Bonus Pints. It has a bar and really good food too. It's on Broadway.

I'm interested in hearing about how this game became scheduled.

Okay, so what is the actual reason? Transparency is needed here.

Maybe Jeff will be the next member of the HNAC?

I heard that the Pioneer Panthers will be changing their mascot because it offends five year olds.

Logansport has seemed to be treading water in many sports recently. They haven't been horrendous in most, but they were a 4A school in a mostly 5A/6A conference. However, they have stuck out like a sore thumb lately demographically in the NCC. NCC school population by city Indy - 887K Lafayette - 70783 Muncie - 65914 Kokomo - 59604 Richmond - 35720 Marion - 28310 Logansport - 18366 Keep in mind that I only used the "city" populations, not the metro populations, which are much larger in the larger cities.

Logan and Western are both 4A in football.

"Karma." LOL

Isn't Jay County in a similar sized conference as a 4A and doesn't dominate it? I don't see anything wrong with Frankfort joining that conference in order to compete. If they start dominating they can always join a larger conference again. Why won't Frankfort join the Hoosier? It's a better competitive fit than their current conference.

I'll take a gander and say that it's the guy, in the second row, who is distracted and not paying any attention. Typical ref! 😝

I was interested in the league until I realized that it involved a reality-house show that I could give two craps about. I also found it to have far too many rules, including not being able to leave your feet, which part of the facial area can be slapped, which part of the hand can be used and etc. I understand that there are safety concerns, but are there really? I mean, it's a sport involving two fit and strong men repeatedly slapping each other, in the face, without any protection or the ability to move. I watched the first episode and none of the rules were really explained and several fights ended with a slapper losing by DQ, but moving on to the next round because they injured their opponent with an illegal slap. Without the idiotic reality TV formula, both fighters should've been eliminated. Many of the fighters are only receiving a few thousand dollars to compete in the show, which is a joke when considering that Dana White owns it.

You all laugh, but don't forget that these jerseys/uniforms were virtually retired.

That we can both agree on. So are you against all celebrating?

So a guy doing a Lambeau leap "doesn't know how to handle himself?" A guy doing a fist pump doesn't know how to handle himself?

While I understand what the point is, I've always found it to be too strict, but maybe that's just me. I see no harm in changing the rules as long as the rule change is simple. If they're not going to play pro football, why not let them celebrate now and have a bit of fun?

I have no problem seeing kids do a little celebration dance after scoring a TD if it is tasteful, not drawn out, and not disrespectful to anybody, including the opponent. If the pros can act like kids, why can't the kids act like kids?

I meant as far as realignment.

Does anyone want to take a crack at how adding Blackhawk to 1A will shake up the existing sectionals? It probably won't happen for a few more years and things might change by then, but I still find it interesting to guess.

He seems like a very good coach, but he has never stayed anywhere for very long.

I get it. I was briefly hospitalized with a bad case of Limp Lip, a very rare condition, after Pioneer was upset by LCC in the 2005 sectional final.