11 minutes ago, Bash Riprock said:

Those dang extremist right wingers!!!!!  😆

Once again, I haven’t kept up. Are the right wingers for or against seeding?

57 minutes ago, BTF said:

PM me. Educate me on the IHSAA having a right wing extremist attitude. 

I too was surprised that 79% of AD's voted against. I would have guessed closer to 50/50. But if we really dig deep, 79% of the programs probably know they're not making a run to state anyway. So maybe the blind draw is a better opportunity for those schools to advance as far as they can. 

Exactly. There’s the problem. Schools vote their individual interests. No one is interested in what’s best for Indiana high school football.

7 hours ago, Gipper said:

I still don't get why they're doing it.

Progress

1 hour ago, Muda69 said:

<insert deity here> forbid that teams would have to adapt to differing field conditions.

Get off my lawn!

4 hours ago, Gipper said:

As referenced earlier, as I know how important it is, Lowell is also putting down turf.  Actually, new bleachers and everything.  There is nothing back there now, well, other than trucks (how Lowell is that?) and the high school will not be holding graduation on the field later thing Spring because there is no field.  I guess it's a good thing, why risk the Valedictorian tearing his (or her) ACL? 

An awful lot of great memories on that field — which was always rock hard by November.

WHME Ch. 46 is reporting that Glenn has found their new coach.

“Ron Brown, who had a very successful run as head football coach at Triton and has been serving as an assistant principal at Glenn, has been named the new head football coach at Glenn.

Brown was 17-8 in his last 2 seasons at Triton in 2017-2018 including a sectional title.”

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1722423207993391/permalink/3834517973450560/

9 hours ago, Boilernation said:

A lot of solid points in there. Getsy really caught my eye. We're not talkign about a demotion to QB Coach or down to College. He immediately landed an NFL OC position. 

 

Don’t tell that to @Coach Nowlin. He was the President of the “We Can’t Get Luke Getsy Out Of Town Fast Enough Club.”

10 hours ago, Coach Nowlin said:

Rooting for the kid.  

I really believe that JF will be a top 10 QB in the NFL someday. I wouldn’t have said that even 2 years ago that a QB with that skill set could be a winner in the League. But Lamar Jackson has made a believer out of me. Fields can be a bigger, faster version of Lamar if he gets some coaching.

1 hour ago, temptation said:

The left wing media:  “Donald Trump is telling you exactly who he is and is threatening violence similar to January 6th were he to lose the election.”

This has all the earmarks of a self-fulfilling prophecy, I fear.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day to all the “Irish”  out there, from the Fightin’ Irish!

7 hours ago, Boilernation said:

The Steelers have made it clear that Wilson is the starter and there will not be a QB competition.

Until Russ sucks. That’s why I said Week 6.

3 hours ago, Irishman said:

Someone in Chicago is sold on Caleb Williams

 

 

This is just interesting as heck … from the Steelers’ side. How does anyone think Russel Wilson is going to feel about this? I foresee a world class pout from diva Russ. I also predict Fields will be the starter by Week 6, if not before.

Ryan Poles has now officially pushed all his chips to the center of the table.

2 hours ago, Gipper said:

You're not wrong there about Hanover!

A program on the rise. They’ve only had varsity football for a decade!

Bernie’s 15 minutes were up long ago.

1 hour ago, Boilernation said:

Did someone forget about the offensive line? The first thing a rookie QB needs is a little extra time to process all the information.  I know they have recently signed several guys to 1 yr. deals. I never heard of any of them. Looks like they’re just shuffling the deck. I’m sure they’ll make up for it in the draft. Otherwise, these highly-touted receivers will be useless. And I like the Swift signing, but again, who is going to block for him?

7 minutes ago, Muda69 said:

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39738379/rams-aaron-donald-3-dpoy-retiring-nfl-age-32

First ballot Hall of Famer?

 

No doubt whatsoever. Probably the best player with his hand in the dirt since Reggie White. But — and I heard this on the radio today — please stop with the comparisons to Lawrence Taylor as the greatest defensive player of all time. LT completely revolutionized the way 2 different positions — offensive tackle and outside linebacker — were played. They had to invent a new position (“edge rusher”) to describe what he did. Just read The Blind Side. Or, you can just ask Joe Theismann. 😉

22 minutes ago, temptation said:

You’re talking to the wrong guy here.

I agree with your premise and am actually on board with it.

I never imagined you’d think otherwise.

2 hours ago, temptation said:

They are not shy about wanting to become the next Carmel.

Do you think the determination whether to build another school is going to be influenced, and to what extent, by the perception that a mega-school, like Carmel, has a greater chance of athletic success? I mean, if it’s really “all about the kids,” doesn’t that favor multiple schools, i.e., more opportunities for participation?

How similar is this situation to the one that Hamilton Southeastern faced years ago … and resolved by building Fishers?

19 hours ago, Coach Nowlin said:

I do Middle School reffing for my AD

I would pay to see that! 😂🤣😅

42 minutes ago, Basementbias said:

Hearing on Yappi that Ohio small school power Marion Local (close to here) will make the long trip to Linton Stockton in week 1.

Wow! I may have to finagle my first trip to Linton.

So, Ryan Poles got pretty good grades for his first 2 seasons as Bears’ GM. But clearly, the honeymoon is over.

https://ftw.usatoday.com/2024/03/justin-fields-trade-bears-excuse-caleb-williams-failure-video#

The Bears’ excuse for failing to trade Justin Fields lacks all common sense

All offseason, the Bears have been presumably preparing to move on from Justin Fields and select a new young quarterback with the No. 1 overall pick in next month’s NFL draft. If only this bumbling excuse for a pro football organization could get out of its own way.

With the early salvos of 2024 free agency taking away various potential Fields’ trade suitors off the board — Kirk Cousins with the rising Atlanta Falcons, Russell Wilson with the usually competent Pittsburgh Steelers — the Bears have more or less been left high and dry. It turns out most other NFL teams don’t want to trade a Day 2 draft pick for a flawed quarterback and extend him his fifth-year option. Huh, who knew?

Now armed with little recourse but to reevaluate how the rest of the league views their incumbent quarterback, it sure seems like the Bears are trying to play the stupidest public damage control imaginable for their trade failure:

Why haven't the #Bears traded Justin Fields? Well: This isn't a Justin Fields situation, it's a Caleb Williams situation. Let me explain… 

Do you mean to tell me that they didn’t deal away Fields because they’re still evaluating Caleb Williams? Really? That’s the best possible explanation that Chicago general manager Ryan Poles and his cronies could come up with. Come on now.

At this time of year, in mid-March, you’re confident in your potential quarterback of the future (that everyone else seems to love) and deal away the guy (Fields) you don’t want when his market is the healthiest. There is nothing much else to learn about Williams (or Drake Maye) at this stage in the evaluative process. And even if you’re unsure who to take, it seems pretty clear Fields isn’t in the long-term plans, and you should be committed to maximizing his trade value as much as possible before taking more appropriate time in deciding on a rookie signal-caller.

You do all that, or you simply stand pat and stick with Fields and deal away with the top pick.

But that’s not really what happened here. Oh, no, no.

The Bears asked for too much in a Fields trade, everyone balked at the price — including two of the primary suitors who opted for two quarterbacks in their mid-30s instead — and now they’re trying to pretend that the reason nothing happened is because they’re only 99 percent sure Williams is their man. Again, that is literally the best they could do to save face for playing themselves. It’s embarrassing, I know.

I’d say I’m surprised this failure happened with Poles — who has 10 wins in two years as a GM — but this is par for the course for the Bears, a franchise that can’t even get its own fanbase properly excited for a generational quarterback prospect because it doesn’t know how to rip the Band-Aid off.

Bravo, Bears. Next, you’ll tell us that, actually, you believed in Fields the whole time, and pigs will start flying in the sky.

1 hour ago, BTF said:

I think that speaks volumes about their coach, but he's no longer there.

Didn’t I see that one of his assistants already has the job? My impression of Westfield is that one of the reasons for their execution and discipline is a great staff from top to bottom.

1 hour ago, BTF said:

What separates Westfield from Carroll, Homestead, Fishers, Carmel, HSE, Zionsville, Brownsburg, Center Grove, Avon, Penn, Ben Davis, etc? Legitimate question. I'm counting 10-15 schools that are right up there. What makes them Top 5?

My 2 cents:

I first saw Westfield when they came up to play Merrillville in the semistate in November, 2020. Before the game even started, I knew Merrillville was in trouble. Even in the pregame, you could see Westfield was extremely well-organized and disciplined. And that’s the way they played. Not extraordinarily athletic, but no missed assignments, no bad body language, no stupid penalties. Their sideline ran as smoothly as I’ve ever seen in a great big game on the road. In that regard, I felt they were comparable to Center Grove. In my view, these are the signs of a very well-coached team: discipline and execution. In the times I’ve seen them after that, same thing.

5 hours ago, Coach Nowlin said:

Fields plays next 2 years with JJ and behind him.  Give Bears a chance to see if this Coach can unlock talent of Fields, if he does and he turns out to be that guy, then you have trade capitol of JJ 

How ironic would it be if the Bears were “stuck” with Fields because they couldn’t unload him … and then he turned into the multi-threat franchise QB we saw flashes of this past season? You can bet everyone would be lined up to take credit for that, when the reality is they busted their butts to try and ship him out of town.

On 3/7/2024 at 8:40 AM, Muda69 said:

So, loyal fans or sad idiots?

Both can be true. 😂