Bobref

No one’s arguing that. The discussion is about whether the travel restriction represents a wise policy. Things like you mentioned are definitely factors to be considered ... on the local level, not the one-size-fits-all approach the IHSAA rule currently imposes. And frankly, your “IHSAA, love it or leave it” approach adds nothing to a reasoned discussion of the subject.

Enforced mediocrity. And it’s even a poor way to accomplish that. Some schools can afford better weight rooms than others. Will we begin regulating that soon? I look forward to someone demonstrating how the ability to have those kinds of experiences translates to an unfair competitive advantage on the field. After all, there are all kinds of things that give one school an advantage over another, but they’re not unfair.

And some are. https://www.forbes.com/sites/bobcook/2019/04/22/the-issue-with-hiring-youth-sports-referees-may-be-that-the-pay-stinks/#232881902380

Title IX doesn’t necessarily require equal numbers of sports. It requires substantially equal opportunities. That’s why many colleges actually do have more women’s sports teams than men’s ... because football is all male and there are so many participants in it.

Possibly because they realize it’s none of the IHSAA’s business and that schools should be free to make their own decisions on what type of travel experiences they want to afford their student athletes?

Which is more likely to happen, schools taking positive dramatic steps to treat officials better - and I’m not talking about a PA announcement before the game encouraging everyone to be nice - or schools doubling their budget for paying officials?

Sigh ... I was thinking something more along the lines of recruitment/retention strategies. 😅

A little disappointing, DT, that an out-of-the-box thinker like yourself hasn’t mentioned the officiating crisis that is very real at all levels of high school football in Indiana. We are getting to the point where you are going to see more Friday night games shifted to Saturday because of the shortage of officials.

I played at Cuyahoga Falls when I was a sophomore. or jr. at St. Ed’s. Remember a real bruiser of a fullback named Doug Root. Of course, that was back when dinosaurs walked the earth. 🤣

Where are you from in Ohio?

Similar, but the leprechaun is much shorter. 😅😂🤣

When I was a junior there, and living in the dorm, my next door neighbor was the leprechaun. She’s a lot better looking than he was.

This may well be an issue to be resolved by SCOTUS. But not “directly.” The ability to initiate a lawsuit in the Supreme Court - called “original” jurisdiction - is limited by the Constitution. Article III, Section 2 restricts the Court’s original jurisdiction to suits between states and matters involving foreign diplomats, consuls, and the like. For this matter to get to SCOTUS, it’s going to have to start in a district court, then the Circuit Court of Appeals, and then to SCOTUS ... if they decide to hear it. They don’t have to accept the case ... in which case the ruling in the Circuit Court of Appeals becomes final.

This is a quality Div. 1 program from Ohio. A great measuring stick for CE. Central lost in the state semifinal to Colerain last season. http://www.pctigerfootball.com/history.html. I don’t know what they have coming back, but I’d bet the Olympians will have their hands full.

As originally conceived, the tax system had one purpose: raising operating funds for government-provided services. But then lawmakers realized they could influence behavior by using taxes to incentivize - or disincentivize - economic decision-making. So, we got things like the investment tax credit. Then they went one step further and applied the “incentive” theory of taxation to more social decision-making, e.g., cigarettes, alcohol, etc. Now, taxation policy in this country bears little resemblance to the original system designed to fund government services. Incentivizing decision-making through tax policy is just another way government messes with the free market.

My concern is that, under modern rules, Bobby would likely be disqualified for targeting.

Kudos to the Kingsmen. Adding HF and St. X represents a serious upgrade.

Craig Buzea, former HFC at Portage and Michigan City is the head coach at HF.

The NFL has enacted the rule change, although not all aspects of the coaches’ proposal made it through the approval process. http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000001024371/article/owners-make-pass-interference-noncalls-reviewable Fans of “slippery slope” arguments — and there are a lot of them on the GID — should start the moaning and gnashing of teeth any time now.

I guess the people who were righteously indignant that he was initially charged under a felony statute are feeling a little sheepish at this point. He was basically allowed to plead it down to a low 6-figure fine.

It long predates either of these greats of both silver screen and gridiron, but the best movie/football player of all time is Oliver “Spearchucker” Jones of MASH fame. Played by none other than Fred “Hammer” Williamson in the movie. Spearchucker would have wasted both of those punks in nothing flat. https://mash.fandom.com/wiki/Oliver_Harmon_"Spearchucker"_Jones?file=Spearchucker-pilot.jpg

There is already a well-established body of law that deals with this type of situation. It’s called “product liability.” There is a huge body of case law, supplemented by statutes in many states, describing the process of making a legal claim against a manufacturer of a product that was defective and made unreasonably dangerous by the defect, resulting in harm to a user or consumer. There’s really nothing new here.

All I can say is “beware the Law of Unintended Consequences.”

Impose a huge tax on skinhead haircuts? Outlaw white sheets?

A little birdie told me that the IFCA has developed a “mercy rule” proposal that will, in all likelihood, be ready for implementation this Fall. Coaches, what say you?