Lysander

9 hours ago, Warren05 said:

Lost starting QB to Indian Creek. 

4 different high schools in 4 years if I am correct.

I have to really respect those who work so hard in seeking out that perfect educational fit.........and never give up..............apparently.

2 hours ago, DumfriesYMCA said:

I think the number of students participating is contingent on the coaching staff and community support. 

 

I also dont think lacrosse has much to do with anything.  I played lacrosse in college at Wabash and there were a number of football stars who played. It’s mostly a spring sport with some fall ball.  If there is any sport “taking away” from football it’s soccer but even so, I don’t think it’s anything major.

 

like I said. Coaching and community support. Gibson Southern currently has its largest roster in the history of the school with 90 and it was said yesterday by coach Hart that the youth program is only 6 students shy of reaching its all time record. A school of 650 students having a roster of 90 (9-12) 

Agreed.  No conflict between lacrosse and football.  Spring and Fall. 

I’ve said it before, both Cathedral and Chatard have had kids who were All-State players in both sports.  I’d be hard pressed to find any more football crazed schools than those.

Chatard has 79 in 10-12 and 35 for Frosh team (114 total).  23 Seniors.

Pretty typical year....no contraction.

On ‎5‎/‎3‎/‎2019 at 3:13 PM, Wabash82 said:

In terms of our stated objectives, we "won" back in December of 2003 when they pulled Sadaam from that spider hole.   

All is good then.

Good for us....again.

1 hour ago, Wabash82 said:

I think your description of the conflict in Iraq is a bit off. (That is understatement.) During the time frames that  the U.S. military actually fought them directly, al Qaeda and other insurgent groups were effectively driven out of the country. (Leading to their involvement in the Syrian civil war, the rise of ISIS "caliphate", etc, etc.) So I believe you are misrepresenting history if you are suggesting that there was ever anything close to a military "stand off" between the insurgency and the U.S. military in Iraq during any of the discrete periods of time in that conflict when the U.S. military was actually attacking them and not refraining from offensive action due to political considerations. 

And as a side note, the most effective weapon the insurgents had in Iraq was the IED, not an automatic rifle. It's a few years old, but as this USA Today article noted,  as of 2013, IEDs had caused between half to two-thirds of the U.S. casualties.   https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/3803017

So no, in case that was not clear, I am not in agreement with you. I cannot think of an armed conflict in which a civilian population armed with just guns was able to defeat militarily a government-sponsored force armed with modern military weapons (e.g., tanks, artillery, armed helicopters, war planes, etc.). Revolutions in the modern era have been won in one of two ways: (1) the insurgents ultimately acquired, through foreign interventions or the defection of government military units, weaponry and firepower much closer to that of the government-sponsored military they are fighting and won on the battlefield; or (2) the majority of the population engaged in essentially peaceful protests and the military forces of the government were unwilling to slaughter them, and "surrendered" to them. 

Glad to hear we won and "nation formed" in Iraq.

Good for us.

Thought I heard it was near the Red Garter.

I could have given them a scouting report.

On ‎5‎/‎1‎/‎2019 at 6:26 PM, Wabash82 said:

Yeah, because as ISIS recently demonstrated, simply having automatic rifles immediately makes you a dire threat to overcome the U.S. military....

Not sure I am following if this is irony, hyperbole, etc...….or if we simply agree (I am as dense as a neutron star sometimes).....but given any given time in Iraq the most technologically advanced fighting force on earth has been fighting to a standstill against about 20,000 insurgents at most with a varied mix of weaponry....for more than a decade.   

For the record, I think every country in the world should be socialist/communist...….excepting the US. 

Just as I have stated (openly and often), since college, that every dude should be gay...excepting ME.

Not that I am an opportunist.

It could be implied that Sectional 28 in 3A is already an unofficial “tweak” to the Success Factor.

Interesting factoid about Sectional 28. 

Since 2009, teams currently in Sectional 28 have won:

6 State Championships

10 Semi-State Championships

14 Regional Championships

3 of the 6 Parochial 3A teams in the State are in Sectional 28.  3 of the 4 Indy Metro Parochial 3A teams are in the Sectional (only Ritter is not)

Note: Chatard was in 4A two of those years (2013 and 2014).  Guerin won 2 of those Regionals in 2A

Ooops....., EM is 4A these days.

For the record, I'd simply suggest they also put Evansville Memorial and Gibson Southern in Sectional 28.

Seems to be the point....

On 4/25/2019 at 1:31 PM, Tanka Jahari said:

You milk a bull, you get a friend for life

It’s an art form, so I am told, but you probably need to start slowly....good manners if nothing else....warm hands help too.

No doubt they’ll be appreciative.

9 hours ago, BTF said:

It could happen. Every once in awhile all,  of the 3000+ enrollment schools have an average or down year at the same time. Case in point...............2015. Not taking anything away from the great program of Center Grove, but Snider and New Pal would have had a good shot to win 6a that year. If Warsaw can put together 2000-2001 type season, anything is possible.

So long as we are talking about Warsaw...it doesn't happen overnight.  But it's not unimaginable (see New Pal).  Still...takes some time.

My personal opinion is that Snider/New Pal 2015 could have given ANYONE a fight.

In the case of New Pal, it started in 2013.  Snider has always been pretty great.

Nothing happens overnight....at least in 6A.

On ‎4‎/‎18‎/‎2019 at 2:32 PM, Knight said:

4.  I would love to see Snider/Dwenger vs a MIC team or Cathedral.  I think it would be great for the Ft. Wayne area and MIC schools.

 

Dwenger played Chatard in 2011 and 2012.   Winning 24-14 in 2011 and losing 42-7 in 2012.

Read the first book back in the 90s.  When they threw Bran off the Castle wall I stopped reading.  My oldest was a little younger than Bran's age then. 

Broke my heart....

Picked the series back up and read it gleefully about 15 years later when I was ready to throw my oldest out of the house.....unfortunately, I didn't have a castle wall at the time...

Timing is everything.

On ‎4‎/‎9‎/‎2019 at 10:32 AM, Lysander said:

Dude, I was the smartass 5th grader that asked the engineers at some kind of idiotic public relations meeting at the elementary school at the foot of that dam, "Didn't the only other earthen damn like this in Italy burst?"

Heard that question from some of the old Man's buddies at the local tavern, btw.

Surprisingly, the Army Corps of Engineers guy explained to me just why it wasn't like the  damn in Italy that had burst.

The life lesson I learned was that I should spend as much time at the local tavern as I could.  True wisdom was to be found there.

Been following it to the letter ever since.

Damn....just noticed I don't know how spel "dam".

'...and I hav always ben so proud of mi spelun….

Says a lot about my tendency towards profanity I guess.

Errr.....slightly changing subject and reeaally dates me but does anyone remember when Bob Seagram (pole vaulter) won the very first “Superstars” competition on TV?   Kyle Rote, Jr. (soccer) won it around 3 years over time.   The late Peter Revson  (Race Car Driver) finished 3rd  - not sure which year.

When do the alignments come out?

6 minutes ago, Impartial_Observer said:

I can't tell you how many times I've been on that field and stared at that dam and thought, oh geez.....

Dude, I was the smartass 5th grader that asked the engineers at some kind of idiotic public relations meeting at the elementary school at the foot of that dam, "Didn't the only other earthen damn like this in Italy burst?"

Heard that question from some of the old Man's buddies at the local tavern, btw.

Surprisingly, the Army Corps of Engineers guy explained to me just why it wasn't like the  damn in Italy that had burst.

The life lesson I learned was that I should spend as much time at the local tavern as I could.  True wisdom was to be found there.

Been following it to the letter ever since.

2 minutes ago, Impartial_Observer said:

I think the Ahole theory has more plausibility, if it weren't for the fact that I'm #7, I'm clearly a bigger Ahole than that. 

Agreed, you should rank higher under the Ahole theory...as should I.  This is all about repression, though.  The "1"s  are part of the violence inherent in the system and not part of the autonomous collective we "6"s and "7"s belong to.

"Help, Help, I am being repressed!"

13 minutes ago, gonzoron said:

I was hoping it was my GID Deputy badge number. 'There'll be no mollycoddling! At the first sign of trouble, we've got to NIP IT IN THE BUD!'

 

Dude - you're a No 1.  I'm part of the autonomous collective.  I am being repressed.  I'm just a 6.

10 minutes ago, Muda69 said:

Looks to be a new bug related to the "affiliation" checkboxes in the GID user profile section.  The more affiliations (player, parent, fan, etc.) you have checked, the more numbers show up.  Probably a database lookup thing.    0 = player, 1 = parent,  etc.  Instead of the actual verbiage just the number(s) is being displayed.

 

 

 

Dunno' for sure, but my basic assumption is that the "6"s are either sexual panthers like me or....

(Thinking you might enjoy this reference Muda.....formative for me..."I am not a number....")

7 minutes ago, Impartial_Observer said:

I see I have some work to do. 

 

Well.....no surprises here.  Always knew I was a good dude.....just ask me.

On ‎1‎/‎17‎/‎2019 at 5:48 PM, Impartial_Observer said:

I happen to also be personal friends with The Godfather of Roncalli LAX. 

Somebody passed away this year associated closely with Roncalli LAX (just catching up on a lot of these threads....I have lot of people I owe a duty to retrospectively piss off).  Hope he wasn't "The Godfather".  I know their head coach literally had an on-field heart attack last year...and was coaching a few days later. 

That said, Roncalli LAX games (whom I LOVE personally as our Brother South Archdiocese counterpart....seriously do....) have been the most difficult games I have participated in as a scorer these last 11 years.  Largely difficult because my fellow scorers from Roncalli scream, shout and are confrontational to all....including officials.   Really bums me out as the laid back Hippy Dude you have long known me to be (IO, you know how much of a Dylan fan I am....never heard of Waylon).  Really bums me out as regards Roncalli....did I tell you how much I usually love Roncalli?

Just hoping those Roncalli scorer's kids have graduated since most others who score lacrosse games on the other team generally are current lacrosse parents.  I actually had to tell the Roncalli scorer last year essentially to STFU.   But, outside of Roncalli, most all of them keep their trap clamped.  Yeah, I am generally not a big fan of scorers from HSE or Cathedral either.....but it might have something to do with the 10 foot stick up their rear ends as they look down on the rest of us proles.  Carmel folks are generally act like sharecropper's kids in comparison to the HSE and Cathedral folks.

I can deal with condescension.

Still, kind of have to bite my tongue though, since apparently AS HSE or Cathedral parents, no doubt, ALL of their kids will also be HS All-Americans or will start in 3 NCAA Sweet 16s (or most likely...graduate and simply go to IU praying to get into the Kelly School...used to be the business school back in the day like most any idiot like me could even attend....but....today...THE KELLY SCHOOL....wow...) - IO, think you MIGHT have been there as regards this sort of experience.

I, personally, haven't had a kid play HS lacrosse these last 5 years....still scoring games though.  Being the total bourbon-infused pro you know me to be.  

Okay...…………done venting.  Maybe I need to stop scoring these games.

To be clear, we are all down with 100,000,000 or so dead folks (maybe more...certainly not less) murdered in the name of "well intended" socialism/communism/egalitarianism/equity in comparison to the world ending sin of crony capitalism?

Okay.  God forbid I'd look vaguely askance at those of you really cool with it. 

Personally, just trying to stumble along on my own personal bourbon and chewing tobacco path to an early grave without assistance from the "well intended".

Looks like its a race these days....plus I probably need to pay Reparations too.  Go figure.

I am so f*ck*d.

Sucks for me.  I actually like most everyone.  Well...there is Cathedral…..