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A very true statement.

Who paid for all these tests? And they came back that quickly. Must be nice.

Let's wait and see what happens. My allegiance is the with South Bend teams and Gary West. Could fans be rooting for attrition. It is nice to have the means to get tested so quickly...will never happen in other places.

They are tested quite often...bet they have to be cleared before every game. Baseball survived this year...a glorious thing

DT need to have a fishing instruction video because he catches a lot of fish on here with very little effort

United flag football is an IHSAA sport that has players with and without disabilities as part of the team. They play for a state championship just like any other IHSAA sport. Indiana was the first state to offer Unified Flag Football. Indiana also sponsors Unified Bocce, Bowling, and Track and Field

Kiermaier hits a home run to cut the Dodger lead. Go Rays

Congrats to the Mustangs...the 2020 Unified Football State Champs. Congrats to all teams that made it through the season. Can't wait until 2021.

Last Monday, it was recommended to the South Bend school board to close 5 to 8 schools in the district. So South Bend may be down a high school or two. Hammond is about the same size and they reduced to 2 high schools. I don't see any reason for Elkhart and Penn to leave. Penn has had many opportunities and stayed put. Elkhart is the last charter member of the NIC. I think all sports are fairly competitive in the NIC, especially boys basketball. I don't think the football will ever have parity.

WSBT had an article today talking about Friday's match up. Goshen College is down for the week though

Where do you think this is unique...there are plenty of examples of kids like this all over the state. Maybe the circumstances are a little different, but the stories are the same. The boys are to be commended...but they aren't unique.

How can so many people be so wrong on an opinion to a simple question. I know how a senior can still play football and learn some serious life lessons. The is Unified Flag Football in Indiana. It give students who would never play high school sports a chance to say I played for Local Town High School. You learn about people different from you, how to work together to make a team. Who knows, they may become your best friends. Unified Sports is going to grow and grow. Maybe kids need to look at how they can make a contribution to their school.

I believe that there are some on this site that overestimate their importance. Arguing to argue kind of ruins the flow of a thread...there were a lot of valid points until personal attacks come into play I try to respect all in here and accept their point of view...Many here do not. Maybe the administrators need to set up permanent conference threads so people can talk about what they want. Maybe some want to have debate over general football topics. Jeeze

What I see is a lack of kids playing any sport without adult interference. Kids just don't meet at the park, choose up sides and play. It's a new day of parent interference, uniforms, and officials. Can't play without em. Got to have the most expensive equipment, best looking uniforms. AAU and Travel have stunted the growth of the player mentally, making it a coaches game more than a players game. A sad state of affairs indeed

Was Lowell in person school or elearning? What were the rules of teachers posting grades in a timely manner?

2 good ones out of 7. But the 2 are really good.

The superintendent is too busy looking at his national profile and awards to do anything like consolidation. For the moment...there are 4 high schools. I don't see that changing for a while.

leave the NIC to make their own conference or join another conference

The biggest problem is that there is open enrollment. So there is no actual feeder to any high school. There are a couple of youth football leagues, but they aren't very big. The last time South Bend had really successful teams was when they switched the junior high sport seasons. Football was in the spring. High school coaches were able to help out and give better instruction. Consolidation of high schools isn't in the picture for the near future. So we will see what happens.

Interesting fact: South Bend schools are 3-11 against non SBCSC opponents this year The 3 wins came from Gary West, Woodlawn (2A), and Osceola Grace (non IHSAA) Let's hope for a better finish. I wonder is SBCSC athletics director Howard Edwards will look for a different placement of South Bend sports teams.

It seems, according to the predictions, there may be only on competitive game this Friday. Not as many good games as there used to be. How sad

While I agree that you have to build your program from the bottom up, there are many factors that a coach has little control. It is much easier to have consistency in a one high school town. All the junior high feed into your program. In South Bend...there are 5 middle schools going to 4 high schools. With open enrollment, any kid can go to any school in the city. There is no way to build consistency if you don't know who you are going to have. This leads to letting the middle school coaches do what they want. There are some programs in multi high school towns that have had consistent success...but the are the exception rather than the rule.

I doesn't seem that there are too many close games every week so I thought I would bring up another topic to spice things up. Given that the South Bend School won't contract their high school in the near future... Do you believe that the other schools leave the NIC or All South Bend Schools form their own conference. Just having a conversation

It is new. Nothing was done until the end of the quarter with eligiblity

The year...The South Bend Schools added that athletes grades will me monitored weekly. Ultimately, it is up to their teachers to record their grades in a timely manner. So some of those ineligible player could be eligible today...if the teacher puts the grades in Power School. To become ineligible...a player must have 2 F's on their progress reports.