foxbat

Are Freshman Raiders playing Goshen too in place of Kokomo? If so, home or away?

Nothing to be served by releasing individual grades to the public and a lot more harm to the individuals that can be done. And especially with regard to minors ... nothing at all to be gained that isn't heavily outweighed by the negative impact on a kid. There are aggregate and organization-based evaluations that tell the public about what the tax dollars are doing or not doing.

As Joe Friday might say, "I just want to get the facts" ... and the less salacious, the better when it comes to kids. Your best bet in most of those cases is, if it doesn't show up in the stat book, better to leave it out ... and if those are bad, redirect to other lines. Those four interceptions can tae a different approach away from the kid and focus on the positive of the defensive acumen and the kids making the picks. Those fumbles can go from focusing on the kid losing them to the opportunistic defensive line. Can it be boring? You bet. Does not focusing on the kid negatively end up being better for the kid? You bet ... or perhaps better is that it doesn't end up being or having the potential for being negative for the kid. Can probably think about writing about kids kind of in the same vein as a line by Hippocrates in Of The Epidemics, "First, do no harm."

Most students and their families OK things like being on honor roll or valedictorian or NHS, etc. via paperwork at the beginning of each semester/school year as a publicity release item. When they are signing that, however, it is for awards or positive recognition not for general release or release with negative items. Even in those situations, a kid/parent can opt-out of that.

I needed to make up some ground and took a few calculated risks that did not work out at all. There's always next season.

Since LCC isn't going to play TL, I'll take AC against TL if we are doing a replacement game.

1 Point Games Benton Central @ Rensselaer Cass @ West Lafayette Northwestern @ Western 2 Point Games Tipton @ Hamilton Heights Twin Lakes @ Central Catholic 3 Point Games Pioneer @ Knox Caston @ Culver North Central @ Riverton Park Attica @ Covington Seeger @ Sheridan Tri-Central @ Eastern

That's not Fballfan15 getting ejected is it?!?! 😄 Just kidding!

LCC? 😀 Lord, I apologize for that.

Is that the @gonzoron version of the "blue rocks?" 😀

Make all the teams that missed games play all of the other teams that missed games. LCC's in the lead right now at 2-2 with games missed in their division. Don't know if there's anyone in the East that's also missed two games within the division.

Didn't that happen to Heights or someone else in the HCC in the last couple of seasons?

If LCC had been in quarantine for West Lafayette, they could've end up undefeated in the West ... by default. 😀

10 lead changes.

So are we doing a wash on LCC - RCHS or replacing it with RCHS vs. North Knox? If we are replacing it with tomorrow's game, then I'm taking RCHS vs. North Knox.

My brother-in-law played for Mesquite Poteet back in the day.

If you are using a mobile device, in the options in the browser, at least for Chrome, select Desktop Site and make sure the box is checked. That will then give you emulation like you are on the PC and that will give you access to login and also see notifications, etc.

I figured as much, but there are some experienced kids that they'd get to play against. Kind of had the same issue on Monday when Harrison's freshman played Seeger's JV after the weekend's opponent fell through. I'm just happy to see the kids getting some reps in game play ... even though I could really use a free weekend to get some work done. 😀

That rumor was started by Microsoft ... those aren't bugs, they are features. 😉

1 Point Game Benton Central @ West Lafayette Cass @ Western Tipton @ Northwestern 2 Point Games Hamilton Heights @ Twin Lakes Rensselaer @ Central Catholic 3 Point Games Logansport @ Richmond Carmel @ North Central South Vermillion @ Parke Heritage Kankakee Valley @ Lowell Riverton Parke @ Cloverdale Frontier @ North Newton

There's only a small time window after you post that you can actually edit the post ... maybe about 10 minutes or so tops ... then it ends up being "locked." You kind of have to figure out you want to add or change something almost right after you post it. Also, the edit button changed from under your post to over in the corner of the post by in the ellipses (...).

Looks like Harrison's freshman are going to play West Central's JV squad tomorrow. While it's not a perfect scenario, the freshman are getting a chance to play some guys that are somewhat bigger and also have some playing experience under their belt, so I think it provides a better alternative that just sitting idle over the weekend.

I'd venture a guess that might depend on the school, the coach, a combination of both, and possibly even the classification, etc. ... and that idea may very well be true by the time the kids get to 7th/8th grade where the benefit of running varsity schemes, etc. is more likely to pays off with results. On the other hand, LCC's only had one period in the last two decades where a kid would have seen the same varsity coach that was there when they played 3rd/4th grade ball. Again, there have been six coaches and an interim across 18 years. Coach O'Shea was at LCC for half that time. And he was one of the coaches that specifically told us that he liked what we were doing and that he'd rather us focus on the fundamentals rather than trying to match the varsity schemes and that he'd take care of the formations, scheme, and plays when he got them in high school. Coach O'Shea's first state titles at LCC came from kids that had developed their skills with other coaches/schemes at the helm in the varsity ranks. A kid that would have been in 5th grade the first year that Coach O'Shea coached at LCC would have been a freshman in Coach O'Shea's 4-peat team.

I'm not sure aligning the youth program plays, etc. is a necessity for success. I think it's much more about creating an environment that draws kids in and sustains kids playing over time. In my 18 seasons of coaching youth ball at LCC, I officially retired this season, I have seen six head coaches and an interim coach. Every time we'd get a new coach, we'd ask the question if there's anything they wanted us specifically to be teaching the kids in the program. It always came down to safe procedures, understanding the proper way to do things, why we do things, and stoking their continued interest in the game; keeping them engaged until their bodies and skill caught up with their enthusiasm for the game. Even had a couple of them specifically state that, given the nature of the game, there's no guarantee that what the high school was running when the player was in 3rd grade would be the same six years later ... or that the coach might be different too. I think there is a move afoot now to do things like use similar nomenclature as the high school, but that still isn't the same as offensive schemes, defensive schemes, etc. A colleague of mine that also coached in the youth league with me for many years broke down the idea of the successful feeder program ... at least based on how we did it at LCC. All the teams, 3rd/4th, 5th/6th, junior high, and high school practice on the same stretch of land with the 3rd/4th closest to the school and moving successively out. He told me that our main job was to keep those kids engaged/involve and learning the game so that they would move from here to there to there to there and eventually to there on Friday nights *gesturing from the 3rd/4th grade practice area to the 5th/6th grade practice area to the junior high practice area to the high school practice area to the varsity field*. He said, however, the most important aspect of that was not the kids, but to also get their moms to move in that progression as well because we had to make sure that we were providing something that they were comfortable with regarding safety, fun, and ROI for the family time spent with the player playing.