Bobref

So 4 teams in each class have "earned" the right to host a semistate, but only two will get to host one? Doesn't that "take away community pride and accomplishment," too? What if a team gets a regional championship because the opponent got "Covided" out? Have they earned it then? The reality is that with the total randomness involved in the draw and the determination of home field, nobody earns anything in our tournament except the right to play another game and, if you're the last man standing in your class, that trophy. But this is the lamest argument against neutral semistate sites that I can imagine.

Doesn't someone have to be the visiting team at the semistate?

For now, our sights are set a little higher than that.

“Hurdling is an attempt by a player to jump (hurdle) with one or both feet or knees foremost over an opponent who is contacting the ground with no part of his body except one or both feet”

Just give Pioneer a little credit. I suspect their play had something to do with Andrean’s difficulties.

Interesting that the first word in your post is “respectfully,” and then you go on in your zeal to call out the Andrean coaches and disrespect a very worthwhile opponent. Apparently, Pioneer’s players and coaches had little to do with the outcome, it was all just a colossal series of screwups by Andrean. I strongly doubt it.

I still see no logic to a contention that this heralds some sort of a sea change in Indiana high school football that is “long term” in nature. We haven’t even completed a single season following the pandemic. That must be a really special crystal ball you’ve got there. Settle down. If things have changed to the point where some kind of adjustment is necessary, we can do that. But this sort of knee jerk reaction to information that is incomplete, at best, is just alarmist

Disagree.

My memory’s not that good. Don’t remember how we got to the field. I do remember we skated back to the locker room on the ice.

Coldest for me was Nov. 10, 2006. Regional at New Prairie, hosting Norwell. Temps in the low 50s when we got there. We finished our pregame and got dressed. When we walked out of the school, the temperature had dropped 20 degrees and it started raining. We went back in, changed to our cold/wet weather gear and went back out. The rain was coming down sideways from the start and the temperature kept dropping. The field was a quagmire. By the time we got out there for the 2nd half, the mud ruts in the field had started to freeze. There’s cold, and then there’s wet cold. Norwell had a QB named Chandler Harnish who went on to great things at Northern Illinois. On that field, he just couldn’t be stopped. After the game, I took my white knickers and striped socks and just threw them in the trash.

Yes, the University commissioned an independent investigation which found several instances of safety code violations and/or unsafe practices in connection with the decision to employ the hydraulic lift platform to film practice that day, all of which ND made public immediately. I believe they also paid an OSHA fine of $70K or so. And no personal injury or wrongful death suit could bankrupt a school corporation in Indiana. We have a Tort Claims Act that limits the max recovery against a governmental entity. And all municipalities are insured up to that limit.

Please elaborate.

I assume you’re speaking of the tragic death of Declan Sullivan while filming football practice 10 years ago. There was never any lawsuit. The Sullivan family remains a valued part of the larger Notre Dame family.

His pattern of behavior was evident early. Remember when he “sucker punched” Purdue’s Roosevelt Barnes?

People officiate for different reasons. For most people interested in primarily money, they either quit after a short time — or they’re really bad at economics.

Looking at the video again, I probably would not have called this. The snapper’s block is a near pancake. The QB would have gotten in the end zone if he just tripped over his own feet. But I’m definitely going to talk to the pusher, and get a message to the coach, since this does look like the play was designed with the push in mind.

It’s a factor. But it’s not conclusive.

Well, he clearly pushed the QB. As an official, the question you have to ask yourself is “did it matter?” If the QB was already sure to get in as you watch the play, then no advantage gained, and you don’t call anything. If the push really helped, then you have to look at other factors.

I believe the confluence of the pandemic and the most bitterly polarizing election cycle in memory has changed America in many ways, some of which we won’t discover for a while. Pretty much none of them good.

I assume you mean possession for personal use only.

When pigs fly.

Somebody’s going to need to find a better example to illustrate the point. Cocaine is a Schedule 2 substance under the federal Controlled Substances Act. State legalization would not alter the fact that it’s illegal under federal laws. And while weed is also still illegal under federal law, unlike weed, the federal authorities are not going to turn a blind eye to distribution of cocaine, regardless of what some state legislature says.

I don’t know if this is the case at all, but I do know in the past there have been instances where a crew should have worked — according to their rating — a sectional final. But because of a clerical error when tabulating the vote, they were not assigned. The IHSAA then decided, in fairness, to treat them going forward as if they had actually worked that sectional final.

I will be in the house at Valpo Friday night. Any GIDers who will be in attendance, let me know.

All good questions. That’s why I think you really have to see a play to call intentional grounding.