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Coach Nowlin

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  1. Saw reports there was 4 or 5 suitors asking for JF, but JF's Agent requested that those teams not be the final destination and led them to Pittsburgh. I believed Poles then and I do now, when he said he was going to "do right' for JF when he makes his decision. Rooting for the kid.
  2. Just putting this out there: Gateway in INdiana where this data comes from is ANY MONEY the school corp pays you. For instance, when I look at my "gateway" number, it is more than the teaching contract with the 2 varsity sports I coach and its stipends. I do Middle School reffing for my AD, school has to put it on my payroll , which came from central office decision, so be it, but those type of things raises the number on Gateway. Just throwing it out there.
  3. #oldtakesexposed I think this is what Dakich refers to as "blogger boys" I talked to IRISHMAN on the side, it continues to BAFFLE me that IU has still not figured out how to find guys who can shoot the ball. IU has fallen into that same trap of others, enamored by "STAR" rating and the athleticism of the ranked players, however, are you recruiting any basketball players or just athletes who play basketball? That is exactly what you see in that post above by CrimQuerry, in the summer, X is just the better athlete and is so much better than Smith is the sentiment.......then the season happened...as a reminder, it was between BELMONT and PURDUE for Smith, IU didn't even bother to look at him. You have to find that balance in my opinion between Tremendous athletes with actual basketball players. I know I am huge Purdue fan, alum, etc, however, I WANT IU to be consistently good as it HELPS Purdue, It Helps B10/18/20/24 whatever it is these days
  4. Buy your Potato farm for retirement yet in Idaho ? 😃
  5. Swift I think is a interesting signing for Bears, reasonable price, but not stupid price, essentially a 2 year contract. Love the Safety Byrad signing and especially the price also. Now with all the QB movements that have occurred: What is logically known? Vikings (just signed Sam Darnold) Pats (Just signed Jacoby Brisett) Commanders. (Still has Sam Howell) 11th, 3rd, 2nd picks How bout this scenario: Vikings send: Justin Jefferson, 11th overall, 4th/5th in 2024: 1st and 3rd in 2025: 2nd in 2026 For 1st overall Pick in 2024: 4th in 25: 3rd in 26. Extend JJ right away. Draft J.J. at 9 Draft best EDGE/BOARD PLAYER at 11. Fields plays next 2 years with JJ and behind him. Give Bears a chance to see if this Coach can unlock talent of Fields, if he does and he turns out to be that guy, then you have trade capitol of JJ LETS GO!!!
  6. Trinity, perennial powerhouse, Alma Mater of Brohm Family and Rondale Moore (bummer for New Albany)
  7. not against it Winner, leader, great qualities to have in your QB
  8. https://thesidelinecatch.com/2023/03/05/does-the-nfl-combine-matter/#google_vignette' For the last decade its been a manufactured made for TV event. I could care less about it, haven't paid attention to it and will continue to ignore it. It is great for the unknown to show some movment skills and go from Undrafted FA to maybe a 6th round pick. It serves its purpose to be able to meet the prospects and get to know them as a person thats about it. I take zero away from anyone who chooses not to throw or Ghost the entire interviews like Marvin
  9. Russ WIlson on open market now too Now you want to talk about a complete mess......Denver $85 Million in Dead Money
  10. They never really had leverage in first place because I think the entire NFL was willing to call POLES bluff on keeping FIELDS So there was really no leverage anyways. The question remains if you can still get a 2nd round for him....its looking dicey
  11. Who is hosting and who is heading on a trip? Bombers will be making our way to WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS for a week 3 matchup on a 1 year deal. School of I think around 1200 students, they finished 4th in their conference last year, pretty good conference it looks like. Conf Champ, Morris, they went to class 5a elite 8 before losing to Joliet Catholic. Their 2nd and 3rd place finishers in conference, each won a game in playoffs before losing the next round. Should be a fun little trip for us. Last time we dipped into Illinois, was the year after Delphi left Hoosier Conference, 2017, played Champaign Central. Fun to see a complete random school and experience what their Friday Night Lights were like, for instance, man they had one LARGE and ROWDY Band. So fun. They just got after it all game long. Bombers won 42-14 that night and I will also say, a take away that my Referee pals here would appreciate, I want to say we were in year 2 of the 40 sec clock pilot, maybe year 1, in 2017, either way, we had gotten used to 40 sec clock, Illinois was 25 sec, WOW, what a difference, hard pass on ever going back to 25 secs.
  12. I have a good friend who lives in Boston area, HUGE Boston College fan, former season ticket holder..... anyways, he is florred that Packers went with Hatley and some of his staff coming over from BC, he said prepare yourselves Packer fans, its not great for what its worth
  13. none of this is going to matter in about 3 or 4 years entire system is going to be changed, no such NCAA forthcoming, at least not in its current set up
  14. In all these situations that have involved coaches in our state, I caution folks on a few things, 1. Due process This is why I hid a topic last week talking rumors of something at Glenn with Coach Barron 2. What is reported by WNDU is just that, what they reported. Which is summary of charges, nothing more, nothing less. 3. We've always taken stance going back to Coach Tim Adams days , to allow due process and sticking with to reported facts that become available if they do.
  15. can the hope be to change course ? i know, pipedream, and IM on the side of Until MCaskey's sell.....well.... but its ok to still have hope, even if Morgan Freeman believes it will kill you
  16. For sake of conversation: here is the breakdowns from 2 years ago (I left off Success Factor bump downs, like Kokomo in 4a) https://www.ihsaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/2022-23 2023-24 Football Alignment.pdf 4a: Greenfield Central 1475 to Angola 795 3a: Norwell 790 to River Forest 511 2a: South Vermillion 510 to Eastern Hancock 379 1a: Park Tudor 378 to Indiana Deaf 94, or Traders Point 124
  17. Should 2100 body schools play schools of 1000 kids in tournament play? That was the #1 reason to split into 6 classes, the discrepancy of Carmel to Munster was 3k kids So, the question is what is the most realistic top end to bottom end enrollment wise that keeps the schools in competitive classes? I just did 5a into top 32 4a to show what that would look like thats an awful lot of kid difference from Top to Bottom
  18. 5A 1 Valparaiso 2140 2 Warsaw 2108 3 Whiteland 2074 4 South Bend Adams 2062 5 Decatur Central 2050 6 Merrillville 2050 7 Lafayette Jefferson 2034 8 Goshen 2006 9 Chesterton 1980 10 Castle 1965 11 Hammond Central 1923 12 Floyd Central 1823 13 New Albany 1814 14 LaPorte 1812 15 McCutcheon 1786 16 Plainfield 1773 17 Evansville North 1751 18 Concord 1730 19 Anderson 1722 20 Seymour 1719 21 Bloomington South 1681 22 Terre Haute South 1609 23 Franklin Community 1590 24 Bloomington North 1589 25 Hammond Morton 1534 26 Michigan City 1520 27 Columbus East 1518 28 Munster 1514 29 Terre Haute North 1467 30 Kokomo 1465 31 Fort Wayne North Side 1460 32 East Central 1241 4A 1 Fort Wayne South Side 1459 2 Mt Vernon (Fortville) 1455 3 Greenfield-Central 1430 4 Mishawaka 1422 5 Fort Wayne Wayne 1416 6 Mooresville 1398 7 Northridge 1393 8 Huntington North 1382 9 Evansville Reitz 1378 10 Pendleton Heights 1353 11 Muncie Central 1332 12 Richmond 1320 13 Martinsville 1315 14 Hobart 1298 15 South Bend Riley 1298 16 Evansville Harrison 1293 17 Bedford-North Lawrence 1242 18 Logansport 1226 19 Greenwood 1211 20 New Palestine 1209 21 Indianapolis Crispus Attucks 1170 22 Jennings County 1169 23 Columbia City 1162 24 Indianapolis Shortridge 1159 25 Evansville Central 1131 26 Shelbyville 1093 27 Jasper 1092 28 Indianapolis Roncalli 1082 29 New Haven 1068 30 Plymouth 1054 31 Marion 1045 32 DeKalb 1044
  19. Quite a wild scenarios that could play out in Chicago This much I do know, if anything is leaked out of Chicago Hallas hall its because Poles wants it out there, other than that, Bears Brass is pretty darn good at the cloak and dagger under POLES, unlike PACE who was buffooned into bidding against himself in the infamous Tribusky draft. August 2024, I believe Fields to be a Pittsburgh Steeler August 2024, I believe Bears to have Caleb Williams but as I have stated, I believe in Ryan Poles over everything, so if he decides to move off the #1 and trade down and keep and Fields or even extend him then im in and lets go and coach him up
  20. VITAL part of any game!! Sadly that was not the most dangerous part of my night, the Halloween party ongoing in the WIRT gym that was being shared with our locker room took that prize. However, I do remember a couple of Halloween costumes of gals in referree stripes, they were heading into the community bathroom as I was heading out, needless to say, we may have just grabbed all our stuff and took it to the track on our sidelines. I do like water cooler action
  21. CJ Stroud doesn't happen often and some say because of the infrastructure already in place in Houston was a good reason why he was successful Josh Allen was AWFUL early in career Patrick Mahomes sat a year behind Alex Smith Tom Brady Sat behind Drew Bledsoe Drew Brees Sat Lamar Jackson, Sat Justin Herbert should of sat, but Ownership told trainer to stab Geno Smith in lungs with a needle Love sat for YEARS behind Rodgers and Rodgers sat behind Farve If Bears end up drafting Williams 1st, he should SIT a year, if they trade down, stick with Fields and draft lets say JJ McCarthy (that is scenario I hope for) then JJ sits and you get a better OC in for Fields this year and we get to see what this guy actually can do with proper coaching. Something IMO he has yet to be able to experience
  22. agree, get present quickly on sidelines, especially when other teams sidelines, keeps from nonsense happening.
  23. Speaking of Striped folks 1. Thought they did great, some early flags, but overall great 2. GLAD they held the hankeys in the pockets on those 2 holding calls late 3. What did you think about what seemed like 4 extra.crews on the sidelines? CORRECT. Only answer that is acceptable !!!
  24. who gets Tippy Valley'd? thats my new term for future ridiculous committee decisions for sectional alignments.
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