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    Pennsylvania bill to separate Public - Private

    in The Indiana High School Football Forum

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    9 minutes ago, DumfriesYMCA said:

    I can get behind this too. And while I agree, there are some people in the belief that getting to that game has more implications than just a trophy.  Maybe there is a kid that went unnoticed and a college scout spots them on the field during the title game.  While sure it may be a game and fun, I think you would be surprised by the number of families who view football and sports in general not as just a game but an avenue to a college education...especially in lower income areas, athletics is a more promising ticket to a college education than academics.  That’s just a sad reality of today’s education. 

    I get your point, I never meant to come across as an arrogant POS.  I wish all you guys well...

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    Pennsylvania bill to separate Public - Private

    in The Indiana High School Football Forum

    Posted · Edited by Gipper

    Look, I realize a lot of you think a championship is the only thing.  It's not.  A few good moments on the field, one hell of a victory party, etc.   But it ends there as time does not stand still.  People move on...

     

    ...as I said in an earlier post, I never won a state championship in high school, yet I was cool with it and still am.  I'm no longer a football player, yet I'm killing it in my career--that's the real victory!  If I trampled on some of your feelings, I would like to expend my most sincere apologies, but I would also like to remind you football is a game, and games should be fun. 

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    Pennsylvania bill to separate Public - Private

    in The Indiana High School Football Forum

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    20 minutes ago, DumfriesYMCA said:

    Oh. Well in that case why don’t you just remove yourself from conversations about these sort of things. Because whether you care or not, there are hundreds of thousands of families who do care about these sorts of topics and you’re just preventing honest dialogue. 🤷🏼‍♂️ And whether you think it’s funny or not, there are over a million students in Indiana who would be impacted by any such change and that’s no laughing matter 

    No.  Free speech rules...

     

    By the way, sorry you played without a helmet.

    Pennsylvania bill to separate Public - Private

    in The Indiana High School Football Forum

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    17 minutes ago, DumfriesYMCA said:

    😂😂😂😂...I’m dying over here.

     

    Okay okay.....so lemme get this straight...

     

    you are saying memorials success these last few years was more about coaching than athletes...even though before 2017 Hurley’s coaching record 59-52...if you go back to Lindauers sophomore year...he was 50-48.  Lindauers freshman year Memorial went 2-8. The 3 years prior to that memorial had to scratch and claw to get to 3 or 4 wins on a season

     

    and then...AND THEN 😂 you wanna make offhand/between the line comments about a coach who has gone 76-12.  And on that note...vs public schools he has a record of 73-6...leaving a record of 3-6 vs p/p schools.  5 of the 6 losses were to teams who made it to the state finals (3 of those 5 won the state title) I think you are undercutting the athletes you guys had....especially Lindauer and Combs...both of them were once in a generation players and to say coaching was the reason for success is a huge discredit to their abilities IMO.

     

    In regards to this whole conversation and this “get better” movement....

    get better...just triple the number of players on your team.  Get better...just take a historically losing team with no sectional titles to a winning tradition and a 76-12 record over 12 years.  Get better...have your community take one empty stands and pack them so much that you have to bring in extra bleachers and build a larger stand section. Get better....have your student athletes commit year round to bettering themselves...during the summers for the past 5/6 years travel to Alabama, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, and the Indianapolis area to play against numerous top programs and champions from Michigan to Oklahoma to Alabama and is everywhere in between.  Get better...try and make your schedule as tough as possible with conference restrictions...do so well that your conference welcomes the idea of your team leaving the conference and you get a conference realignment that will allow you to schedule 4A/5A/6A teams....

     

    ”get better. Just get better. It’s as easy as that”. Telling a team to “get better” is a lot easier if you are talking about a team that isn’t giving it everything they got...and for GS, the community, the coaches (even at the youth levels), and especially the players are giving absolutely everything they got and have been for the better part of this decade. At this point, I don’t think anyone could possibly ask the Gibson Southern community and its players to work any harder or sacrifice more in the goal of getting better.  

     

    “Get better” such an asinine comment

    That really puts me in my place.  The only thing is I really don't care...

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    Pennsylvania bill to separate Public - Private

    in The Indiana High School Football Forum

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    2 minutes ago, Screagle said:

    It should be wide open in the south for 3A public schools to advance to state. I can name 1 school for sure that is extremely excited about that. Chatard went north and Memorial to 4A.  That’s the way some prefer it. Easy path over a challenging path.  Speaks volume about competitiveness.  I guess it comes down to mommy and daddy having higher expectations since they’ve invested 15k?? Or at least I think I’ve read that on a previous post. 

    in short, play like a champion.

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    Pennsylvania bill to separate Public - Private

    in The Indiana High School Football Forum

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    I guess my point flew over your head.  To rehash, let's School A has 1200 students, and School B has 1184.  Pretty close in enrollment, although School B is funded by the Rastafarian church and is an athletic powerhouse.  School A's enrollment is based in an urban setting and has also enjoyed a fair amount of athletic success.  The schools happen to be located less than 25 miles apart and happen to be IN THE SAME TIME ZONE.  But they wouldn't be able to play for the same State Championship?   Talk about next -level stupid...

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