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Hence, my qualifier: “as long as Coach Buzea is on the job.” He was seriously ill years ago, but has made a fantastic comeback. He’s something like 63 yrs. old.

CP has a great chance to emerge as the next Beast of the True North as long as Coach Buzea is on the job. That school is only going to get bigger. They have great facilities and community support. Very good school. As transfers get easier and easier, and the influx of Illinois families continues, the Bulldogs are poised to become the new Penn — and a destination for athletes. Now whether that gets them anything on Thanksgiving weekend is another question.

We should treat potential violators in #2 just like we do in #1. Preventive officiating is important. We’ve been lining up wide receivers forever. If you’ve got a kid who lines up illegally, but doesn’t gain an obvious advantage, get to him between plays and move him back a step, at the same time explaining to the coach why we’re doing that.

Hard to believe it has been 14 years now. Anyone still in contact with Mrs. T.A.? How is she doing?

Interesting that with people crossing state lines, the “transfer portal” is not necessarily a zero sum situation, i.e., whatever one Indiana school gains, another loses.

I assume these are not students who live in the Elkhart school district?

There has been a lot of talk in other threads about the increase in high school transfers by athletes. Trying to get some sort of a handle on it. Is this a legitimate concern, or have the alarmists made a mountain out of a molehill? If you are aware of a transfer that involves a football player, record it here and we’ll try to keep track.

Got my NF rulebook, and it contains some more discussion of this year’s Points of Emphasis, including formations. It’s clear that the emphasis is on 2 things: 1. Offensive linemen who are actually not on the line because they don’t have a head or foot breaking the plane drawn through the waist of the snapper. 2. “Backs” who are not clearly in the backfield. “If an offensive player lines up by intersecting the waistline of the tackle, but not the snapper, Team A has committed an illegal formation foul because all Team A players must be a lineman or back.” We have been told unambiguously to enforce these rules as written. #2 is, IMO, the most overlooked penalty in HS football. It will be interesting to see if this causes problems.

Undeniably his greatest cinematic performance.

Bait. If we define “female” as someone who, at birth, has 2 X chromosomes, and a “male” as someone who, at birth, has both an X and a Y chromosome, what do we call those who, at birth, do not present with either of those configurations?

When I was a little kid, and I’d play catch in the backyard with my brother, he would be Mickey Mantle, and I would be Willie Mays. I followed his career always. He was my first “sports hero.” Simply put, he was the greatest baseball player to ever walk between the white lines. The term “5 tool player” was invented for him. R.I.P. Willie.

Using Lake County as an example, in 2023 the salary range for Deputy Prosecutors (the guys who actually try the cases) was from $87K - $137K. Assuming the top end guys are the ones trying the big felony cases, a top flight criminal defense lawyer in a decent sized urban area would make several times that. Of course, there are also advantages to being a prosecutor: you don’t have overhead, there are no worries as to whether you’ll get paid, and for the most part, you have a better client to work for.

For what job? Are we hiring new law school grads, or trying to lure experienced attorneys from private practice?

There are plenty of attorneys. This article focuses on one very small slice of the legal business pie: criminal felony prosecution and defense. The vast majority of attorneys graduating from law school will (hopefully) never see the inside of a criminal courtroom. The answer to the “shortage” is very simple. Pay prosecutors and public defenders more, and you will find more attorneys willing to assume those roles. The “shortage” is not the number of attorneys. The shortage is the salary the government is willing to pay.

How many on here are old enough that they actually saw him play? I did. He was arguably the best player in the league at his position for several years. The first great shooter I can remember seeing. If the NBA had a 3 pt. line when he played, he’d probably be the all time career points leader.

You can be a fashion follower … or a fashion setter.

Both of you, please stop. There is only one helmet in college football that’s real gold.

I want kids to be free to choose a school environment that allows them to maximize their potential, whatever their ambitions might be.

Couldn’t have come up with a better example of what I’m talking about if I tried. And your reading of my posts is, apparently, very selective. But that, too, fits the pattern.

This is the part of the so-called “debate” I find most objectionable. The demonizing of opponents and the trashing of institutions because the outcome was unfavorable. This is simply a substitute for critical thinking by those too lazy to actually have a reasoned discourse. Don’t agree with the jury’s verdict in the Trump case? Never mind analyzing the evidence and forming your own conclusion. Simply rail at the vindictive prosecutor, the political appointee judge, the 12 “woke” New York jurors. Intellectual laziness and/or dishonesty. No, he doesn’t. But that doesn’t mean the mold he does fit is any better.

So, in a single post you compared Trump to both Jesus and a psycho killer. Congratulations, I think you win the internet today.

Is that Charles Manson?

I liked the old days better, too. But I am hard-pressed to come up with logical arguments against extending NIL and free transfers, to high school players. Maybe you have one?

Just curious as to why you think it is ridiculous. If a high school kid gets a part time job while he’s in school, we call him industrious. If your kid was a whiz at math, what’s wrong with enrolling him in a school where he can develop that ability to the fullest? Why do we look at athletics differently than “real life?”