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So, Carmel conspires with the rest of the MIC schools to oust its chief rival from the Conference, being willing to take it on the chin as an independent for a couple of seasons. Then isolate CG and be granted readmission to a new MIC, one in which CG’s ascendancy is not so much of a problem. It’s obvious, no?😉

It was a foul. Everything else is speculation, subjective opinion, and, ultimately, irrelevant.

The guy who was called for the foul doesn’t think so. He fessed up. https://athlonsports.com/nfl/eagles-cb-james-bradberry-on-controversial-penalty-i-tugged-his-jersey

Front runner for the OC job is now Andy Ludwig, OC at Utah.

The “Bee’s Knees?” Is that a thing down in Renssel-tucky?

One wonders when the rules changes, equipment improvements, increased neurological surveillance, elimination of most contact in practices, etc., will begin to show results in the CTE studies.

I am unaware of any study that reaches that conclusion for subjects who play tackle football through the high school level, and then stop. Are you?

CG loses Carmel but picks up Lakewood (OH) St. Edward. Carmel loses CG and picks up ? Regardless, advantage CG.

The selection biases are basically two: First, CTE can only be diagnosed by post-mortem examination. Thus, only players who have died are examined. To the extent CTE has a negative effect on life expectancy, a sample of only players who have died is skewed toward a higher incidence of CTE. Second, the great majority of former players whose brains were examined post mortem exhibited symptoms of CTE while they were alive, again skewing the sampling in favor of a higher incidence of CTE. @US31had it exactly right. There is no control group. If you go to the article published by Boston University, it contains this: “The NFL player data should not be interpreted to suggest that 91.7 percent of all current and former NFL players have CTE, as brain bank samples are subject to selection biases.” https://www.bumc.bu.edu/busm/2023/02/06/researchers-find-cte-in-345-of-376-former-nfl-players-studied/

The Munster football community is mourning the passing this morning of Tom Largus. A great player for the Mustangs in the 70s, Tom was an assistant coach at Munster for decades. A member of the IFCA Region 1 Hall of Fame, Tom was the type of guy that everyone liked. Never heard anyone say a bad word about him. Godspeed, Coach.

Don’t put words in my mouth. That is not what I said at all.

You get the government you deserve.

First of all, recognize that the gigantic selection bias makes this study scientifically invalid as “proof” of many of the sweeping conclusions attributed to it. If someone concludes that a large percentage of NFL players have or will develop CTE on the basis of this study, well, I’d like to have a crack at them on the witness stand. My guess is that whatever $$ the League has to spend on healthcare for these players will be a minuscule percentage of what those retired veterans earned for the League and its current players.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. — Mark Twain

Just like there are former NFL players who don’t have CTE.

There is another way to look at this. There are very few occupations/avocations that do not have long term physical effects. Know any old carpenters or bricklayers who don’t have chronic back issues or arthritis? It’s an occupational hazard, now well-documented. As to whether it’s worth the risk, that’s an individual choice.

They will never do that. “A man’s reach should exceed his grasp … or what’s a heaven for?”

Another possible “answer” to the shortage is to get more females involved in officiating. The standard objection is “they never played the game.” That may be changing, at the grassroots level. https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/cif-unanimously-votes-to-make-flag-football-a-girls-high-school-sport/ CIF unanimously votes to make flag football a girls' high school sport FEBRUARY 3, 2023 / 3:02 PM / AP California approved a plan Friday to make flag football a girls' high school sport amid soaring popularity of the game and a push to get more female athletes on the field. The move by the California Interscholastic Federation — the statewide body that governs high school athletics — makes flag football an official sport for girls in the nation's most populous state for the upcoming 2023-24 year. The plan was approved unanimously by the organization's federated council in Long Beach, said Rebecca Brutlag, an agency spokesperson. Paula Hart Rodas, president-elect of the CIF Southern Section's council, said the goal is to get more girls involved in high school sports and tap into a widespread love of football by many who are loath to play tackle. Southern California schools spanning from Long Beach to Corona are hoping to start teams in the fall and the approval allows districts to add the sport to their budgets, Hart Rodas said. "You can love the game of football and not love getting tackled but still want to participate," Hart Rodas said. "Flag right now is aimed directly at getting more girls involved in athletics by adding a different sport that we know girls across the country are interested in, but not willing to play tackle for a variety of reasons." The move adds California to a growing list of states that have included girls' flag football in high school athletic programs, such as Alabama and Nevada. New York state's public high school athletic association took a similar step this week and expects to host the first state championship for girls flag football in the spring of 2024. The vote in California comes amid a surge in interest in flag football among younger players in recreational leagues and burgeoning support from the NFL and teams such as the Los Angeles Rams and Los Angeles Chargers, which have been running a pilot high school league for girls in Southern California. Scores of schools signed up to participate in the pilot and those selected to do so — and the eager young players who played in it — have widely been seen as pioneers in the sport. Paul Schmidt said being part of a start-up has been exciting for his 14-year-old daughter, who had never played flag football before she tried out for the team at Redondo Union High School, one of the schools participating in the league. Making the sport official should make it easier to secure field time, he said, and gives a boost to a tight-knit team of girls that has bonded around starting something new. "She loves it, loves it. It's exciting to be in a new sport," he said. Rising interest in flag football — in which no one gets tackled and a play ends when an opposing player pulls a flag from a belt around the ball-carrier's waist — comes amid concern about the risk of concussions and other injuries from tackle football. In the decade leading up to 2018-19, the number of girls playing flag football in U.S. high schools doubled to 11,000, according to the National Federation of State High School Associations. Without the CIF's approval, California high schools could organize flag football clubs. But coaches said allowing official interscholastic competition will likely drive more schools to start teams and develop a pipeline of players. Troy Vincent Sr., the NFL's executive vice president of football operations, wrote in the Sacramento Bee that times have changed since he played professional football, which back then was "broadly seen as a man's game." He said high school players might be able to play into college and beyond as universities have also ramped up the sport. Vincent is also pushing to get flag football added to 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. "This is no longer just a backyard sport for girls' pickup games during family holiday gatherings," he said.

Joe Brady, QB coach of the Bills.

😂 Bait declined.

Because they don’t think much of Indiana football, I would guess.

Capacity: 16,844

In case you’d like to know a little bit about CG’s opponent.

Awesome venue for high school football. Lots of history there.

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