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If someone had told me before the season started that our redshirt freshman led offense would score 64 pts. against 2 quality opponents, I’d have thought us a lock for 2-0. This defense is supposed to be elite. I guess we are finding out just how good a DC Al Golden was.

Two very evenly matched teams last night. Valpo had the ball, 1st & goal at the 6 with 2:00, down 27-21. But then they went backward.

City blocks Valpo field goal at end of 1st quarter. City DL dominating.

No score with 3 min. left in the 1st. Valpo can’t do anything on offense. MC only a little better.

It’s Patriots Night. We’re about to have a flyover by a helicopter … after the fireworks.

I’m at the Michigan City @ Valpo game. Will report my observations.

They should have done that, but the numbers don’t quite add up. If that’s what they did, they were about a yard off.

To be honest, I don’t pay that much attention to the players. I’m there to observe and evaluate the officials.

I was on the Crown Point sideline for most of the 4th quarter. I don’t know who is a backup and who isn’t. But if that was just normal rotational players, all I can say is that they must rotate an awful lot of players.

I count 11 on defense, so it’s probably not illegal substitution. And if it were UNS, then it would have to be enforced. So, my money is on a sideline warning. But it would have to be their 2nd, since they need a distance enforcement to offset the false start yardage.

Since we have incomplete information, it is possible they got it right. But I’m racking my brain for a way to reconcile what they did enforcement-wise, since the 2 penalties announced were false start on the offense, and personal foul on the defense. If true, there is no way those penalties offset one another, yet there appeared to be no yardage enforcement. As I said, the video doesn’t show everything, and we are missing some information.

Crown Point has gone to The Beast offense. It might sound new. But to me, it looks an awful lot like the single wing that I played against vs. Valpo … in 1969!

They substituted freely in the 4th period.

I certainly wouldn’t call it a loophole. A false start is a dead ball foul, so anything that happened after the false start is meaningless. It can’t be a turnover on downs, because they haven’t yet played 4th down. Having said that, there are a few things I don’t understand yet, and which could represent fairly significant officiating errors. They announced a false start against the offense, and a personal foul against the defense. Since a false start is a dead ball foul, the ball never became alive. So, the personal foul on the defense must have also been a dead ball foul. It appears that they offset the two fouls. However, dead ball fouls are not combined to make a double foul. They are enforced separately and in the order they occurred. In this case, they should have gone back 5 yds. for the false start, and then enforced the personal foul against the defense half the distance. It would be fourth down there. Perhaps more significantly, they put 1.5 sec. back on the clock, which was correct. But the Referee should have started the clock on his ready for play signal not on the snap. The last play ended up with the runner down inbounds and the clock running. Therefore, after the penalty was enforced the Referee should have wound the clock after marking the ball ready for play. With only 1.5 sec. on the clock, that’s a major error. Disclaimer: There’s a lot video doesn’t show, and there may be things not shown which might affect the above analysis.

I saw CP against Merrillville, and they are legit. But if they want to be playing late into November, they need to sharpen up the passing attack. They’re not going to be able to just line up and play bully ball against really good 6A teams.

Perhaps in a general sense. But I would expect a lawsuit would concentrate more on the vulnerabilities and symptoms displayed by the individual kids. You can’t treat everyone the same since different kids respond differently to heat stress.

I’m still not sure what your question is. Are you asking whether it was, in fact, a false start? Or are you asking whether the ball should have gone over on downs?

Spill the wine! 😂🤣😅

That is not within the jurisdiction of the game officials. It’s between game management and the IHSAA.

Play on. Same as if the ball were to hit a bird in flight. But if your drone is flying over the playing area, that’s a problem. You’re going to get a call from N. Meridian St., and it won’t be a pleasant one.

I’ll be very surprised if this is the case. The IHSAA requires that every school have protocols in place to prevent heat-related illnesses, and to deal with them on an emergency basis if they occur. On the other hand, thinking like a lawyer, these well-established protocols provide a road map to a successful lawsuit if they’re not followed. What has been publicly revealed about this so far? Has it been confirmed that these were hear-related illnesses, as distinguished from some sort of a virus that was exacerbated by heat and physical activity?

Just some background info. Claims based on injuries allegedly caused by school officials are governed by Indiana’s Tort Claims Act. Under the Act, you can’t sue individual school employees based on acts committed in the course of their employment. The proper defendant in such cases is the school corporation. The negligent employees are not personally liable. Under the ITCA, a person injured has to file a notice with the schoo of intent to make a claim within 6 months of the injury. Failure to do so bars the claim. if the claim is successful, the maximum amount an injured person can recover is $700,000. Punitive damages are not available under the ITCA.

The only way #13 can be on the end of the line and be ineligible is if he originally lined up as an interior lineman under the numbering exception, and a shift then “uncovers” him. Once he lines up between the ends under the numbering exception, he remains ineligible during the down. 7-2-5b Exception 2

No, there’s a way #13 can be on the end of the line but be ineligible.

I was at Crown Point last Friday, and they were using a drone.