Bobref

I wonder if the IHSAA considers seeding the tourney as a first step on the “slippery slope” of a tournament qualification system. The inevitable consequence of seeding is those 1 vs. 8 or 1 vs. 7 opening matchups, which will get everyone very familiar with the Mercy Rule, if they aren’t already. Once we have a few years of first round massacres, the IHSAA will realize the futility of those 1st round matchups, and simply eliminate half the field, let everyone play a 10th regular season game, and the tournament will be 5 weeks instead of 6. I just hope it happens in my lifetime ... but they better get started pretty soon. 🤣

I’ll be there Friday night. Love the Inferno.

Trick plays are one of my favorite things about football. This thread is dedicated to gadget plays at all levels. If you can accompany your post with a video, that would be optimal. Otherwise, try to describe it in sufficient detail that we can picture it in our mind’s eye. Here’s my favorite ... from a national championship game, no less.

So, this foul is on the defense, correct? It’s a running play, so the enforcement spot is the end of the run. 15 yd. penalty is 1 yd. short of the line to gain. 1st down and 1 to go.

Been there a number of times over the years. Great place. Great fans. One of my favorites.

They’d be crazy to say anything more publicly until they have made the full report to the IHSAA, and the IHSAA has finished whatever they’re going to do. Until that’s closed, mum should be the word.

Ironically, the best team in Ohio right now is a Div. II school, Archbishop Hoban from Akron.

If, as often happens, they announce to the officials/opposing team that they’re going to take a knee ... and then do something else, that’s not going to be allowed. That’s the one time an inadvertent whistle comes in handy. 😉 On the other hand, if they just line up in a formation, it’s “play football.”

The reason is that ejection is such a severe penalty that it triggers automatic replay review in NCAA. We don’t have the ability to review those calls at the high school level. Note that disqualification is warranted under the NF rules if the targeting (or any personal foul) is deemed “flagrant.”

This very play has been discussed with some frequency, and the answer depends on a little more information. Did the offense do anything other than line up in “victory formation” to give the defense the impression they were going to take a knee?

In this week’s games, did you: See an unusual ruling? A question about a rule? Just want to vent (within reason)? This is the place to post it. Complain if you must, but be sure to supply sufficient detail that we can get a discussion going.

His insurance probably won’t cover it. 😄😆

There have been discussions about things like this in the past. The IHSAA’s position is that “props” are not allowed, and certainly not something like a sledgehammer. I seem to recall someone bringing something like that out for the mock coin toss once. Not allowed.

I think the oddsmakers will take this one off the board.

Your point is well taken. But to be scrupulously accurate, St. X and Elder couldn’t both be 2019 champs, since they play in the same division.

As infrequently as possible.

I recall a season at Notre Dame when we played back to back home games, first USC and then Navy. Saw a bedsheet hanging out of a dorm window that said: “Burst the Trojans and Bring on the Seamen!” True story.

Not directly on point, but I found this with a minimum of effort. The gist of it is that student athletes score better in every indicator of academic success than non-athletes: grad rates, dropout rates, etc. http://ihsaa-static.s3.amazonaws.com/resource_center/Academic_Assistance/2013_Slashing_Sports_DrTuPrice_Results.pdf

I think many feel this way, but I’ve never seen any hard data. That doesn’t mean the data do not exist somewhere, nor does it mean it’s incorrect, even if there are no data. But you would think that enough schools have discontinued a program that some doctoral candidate in education, or sociology, or something, would have done a study to determine if there really is a correlation between closing down a program and some set of adverse consequences.

Even if that sort of generalization had any validity whatsoever, we’re not talking about “how Catholics behave.” We’re talking about how one person behaves in her profession, and she happens to be Catholic. Do you think all anti-Catholics, such as yourself, are so predictable on the wide range of issues that come across the SCOTUS plate? Why would you think Catholics are? If you’re talking about “hot button” Catholic issues such as abortion, and whether we can fire gay teachers from our Catholic schools, do you think she gets a call on the Vatican hotline with chapter and verse on what the’s supposed to say, and how she’s supposed to rule? Is your white hood back from the cleaner’s yet?

And, unfortunately, it seems like we haven’t come very far in terms of religious tolerance in 60 yrs. And I have to laugh at the idea that someone, even the pope, is going to make a puppet out of an associate justice of the Supreme Court. @DanteEstonia apparently hasn’t met too many federal judges. No one tells them anything. 😜

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Yeah, discussion forums are more interesting when everyone thinks alike. @DT has done more to stimulate discussion on football topics on the GID than any other two posters combined.

You really think they’ll have the stomach for attacking a woman nominee the way they went after Kavanaugh?

Things are trending in the wrong direction for the Irish.