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Perhaps they release the enrollment figures first so that all the GID people can then tell them what the classifications, sectionals, etc., should be. Makes their job a lot easier.

It’s “death knell,” not “nail,” although come to think of it, that sort of works in a mixed metaphor kind of way. But you’re correct. It amazes me that people who have been so successful can be so tone deaf. Like Nero fiddling while Rome burned.

Minor League Baseball.

Well, that ought to liven up the off season for a while. 😂

This guy thinks so. I think it’s “an” answer, but not “the” answer. https://www.carolinacoastonline.com/news_times/sports/article_99b0d308-9173-11ec-b038-77c3f1609b35.html Only way to rectify shortage of officials is pay up ZACK NALLY "Keep Pounding" column Feb 19, 2022 There was already an officials shortage before the coronavirus pandemic, but the last two years haven’t appeared to help the cause. The National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) reported this week that a survey of state high school associations revealed that approximately 50,000 officials are no longer in the workforce since the 2018-2019 season, the last full season unaffected by the pandemic. An editorial released by NFHS CEO Dr. Karissa L. Niehoff via HighSchoolOT.com detailed a situation wherein officials nearing retirement age were pushed into it by the challenges of the pandemic. To address the issue, the NFHS is planning a first-ever National Officials Consortium Summit in April to address the vacancies and how new officials can be recruited. The summit will also be attended by the NCAA and more than 30 national-level sports organizations including governing bodies for Olympic sports. The issue persists nationally, but we may see a significant impact locally as spring sports prepares for the new season in March. At the conference tournament basketball games at West Carteret on Thursday, baseball coach Brooks Jernigan was on a Zoom call discussing options this spring concerning the umpire shortage. The potential challenges are so great that doubleheaders with four teams at one site was floated as a possible solution. Just before the pandemic started, the N.C. High School Athletic Association reported an 11-percent drop in officials. A 17,000-person survey held by the National Association of Sports Officials (NASO) in 2017 reported that there were “more officials over the age of 60 than under 30.” Low pay, long training with little compensation and poor attitudes toward officials from coaches, players and fans are all primary reasons for the growing shortage. There is also the growth of fledgling sports, such as girls lacrosse and girls wrestling. Like the officials shortage of the 1980s due to a boom in soccer growth, the addition of more matches and games only compounds the already difficult situation. The NFHS has created the #BecomeAnOfficial Program, but the recruitment efforts are falling short. The organization, among others, is calling for improved behavior toward officials to help encourage would be applicants. In this reporter’s opinion, though, the shortage comes down to the almighty dollar. Officials are responsible for their own equipment, their gas and time spent in travel, and pay only ranges from $50 for a volleyball game to $100 for a basketball doubleheader. Like many employers are learning right now, raising the pay is the only sure way to attract new talent. In the same way, winning makes problems go away in sports, money makes all the other challenges of being an official go away. If you want more officials, pay up. That’s the only real solution and one that’s needed right now to avoid a debilitating problem that is only going to grow worse.

I’ve already got Sept. 23 on my calendar: KV at The Inferno.

Somebody woke up even grouchier than usual. 🤣

I worry more about the effect of the sun on punts and passes.

Yes, but you really would prefer a north-south orientation, so players (and officials) don’t have to deal with the sun in the early Fall.

KV has been something of a black hole for coaches in the past. If anyone can change the culture of that program, it would be KK, assuming he hasn’t changed much since we last saw him. One of my favorite coaches, but don’t tell him I said so. Love to get @DE’s take on this.

Shut up!

Griswold was the precursor to Roe v. Wade and the same-sex marriage cases. By any measure, one of the 3 or 4 most significant individual liberties cases in the 20th Century.

Chief Justice Warren wrote the majority opinion in Miranda when he was 75, and Loving v. Virginia the next year. Hugo Black was 77 when he wrote one of the greatest constitutional law opinions in the Court’s history in Griswold v. Connecticut.

Yet, Justice Douglas authored his landmark Brandenburg opinion at age 71. There are many similar examples.

When referring to the IGA, isn’t the term “Republican leadership” oxymoronic?

I noticed that Alaska had a mandatory retirement age of 70. Interesting.

Alaska’s method is similar to the way state court judges for the appellate courts are selected in Indiana (and trial judges in Lake County). A panel composed of attorneys and non-attorneys submits a small number of nominees from which the governor makes the appointment. In the US federal system, all judicial nominations are made by the President, and then confirmed by the Senate.

There it is! You can take HHF out of Highland, but you can’t take the Highland out of HHF!

Are you an advocate of some other method of judicial selection, e.g., popular election?

I don’t know that there is any metric for determining that. She certainly checks all the boxes for intellectual rigor and relevant experience.

Do you think her confirmation vote will be unanimous? I don’t.

She is very well-qualified. But she is probably somewhere to the left of where RBG was on the political spectrum. She was one of Justice Breyer’s clerks early in her career. Her’s is a Supreme Court track if I’ve ever seen one. But a lot of people will ignore qualifications in favor of the “correct” political leanings.

CNN says President Biden will elevate Judge Brown from the DC Circuit to SCOTUS. Her confirmation is a foregone conclusion, even if the Senate splits strictly along party lines. It will be interesting to watch how the Republicans who cried “foul” when partisan politics reared its ugly head during Justice Barrett’s confirmation hearings handle this. Because on paper, her qualifications are very impressive: federal public defender, private practice, federal district judge, federal appellate judge. Keep in mind, though, that replacing the retiring Justice Breyer, a liberal, with another liberal, is unlikely to affect what is perceived as the 6-3 conservative majority on the Court.

I will look for your support the next time a non-official tries to critique a call in a game. 😉

And no one else can do that? The notion that only those who have lived an experience can express a legitimate opinion and discuss the subject intelligently is a particularly harmful kind of close-mindedness.