Punttheball

Just report facts not hearsay. Pretty sure thats how this group wants it, right Admin?

Is Pioneer going to better this year in football?

Your source is wrong. Why was Rochester the first call Valley made when they initiated the switch? Why did their AD say that Valley and Rochester must keep playing each other? The gate is too good for either team to "distance itself". You don't have a source. You have an uninformed bystander.

Nah, I wasn't tell you anything. Just stating a few observations. There were a many factors that led to the declining the offer. Travel, other sports, current situation, and so on.

Two year exit is by the bylaws. They are asking to be released a year early. They could also be voted out immediately!

Rochester is mid pack in the TRC by enrollment. If they would have accepted the invitation to the new conference, they instantly move to the second smallest in enrollment. I am guessing that LaVille will continue to grow and make Rochester the smallest. The other teams mentioned like Fairfield and Wawasee are larger. Many Zebra faithfuls remember the NLC days. When you were loaded, you still weren't loaded. The TRC has been a nice conference fit and still is.

Rochester has Knox, Valley, Peru, and Maconaquah on their schedule already as 3a opponents. Along with a mix of 2a and 1a teams. There is the possibility of North Miami leaving the TRC also. This would open up the opportunity to schedule another 3a opponent. There are possible additions to the TRC that may happen now. Valley and Rochester will always play. What don't you understand FinePrint?

Any invitations that were issued have been declined.

If you aren’t leaving, what is there to announce?

Rochester isn’t leaving the TRC.

Nah!! It is just a case of Southwood and Northfield want to keep their identity and nobody likes Wabash.

Southwood and Northfield don't want to merge! Heck they already bought land to do it and then voted it down. And nobody wants to merge with Wabash! This just isn't happening.

Not in the next 20 years.

The merge was voted down again. I'm not sure what is going to happen there. If they ever happened to get this merge done, I see a team like Lewis Cass being an option to jump to the TRC.

Does anyone know if this event is still on? There was an email that went out, but I believe they do not have a coach right now. Any information would help.

So I called the Sheraton to make a reservation for the clinic. The hotel acts like they don't even know there is a clinic going on that weekend. No rooms available. I'm ok with that. But does the IFCA no longer have a block of rooms that can be reserved for the clinic? The agenda was just released recently and the rooms are all gone. Maybe there is another event scheduled and rooms are taken.

Exactly coach! I know there were a couple schools that had coaches at the National Wing-t clinic this year and could not attend as head coaches, but made sure they had representation as a staff and school. You make a great point about representing even if you have not nominated a player.

You should get Mike Johnson to speak. It would give you a wing-t representation. Brett Colby would be awesome also for a double wing rep. It is a great lineup either way. Thanks coach.

I know that Region 4 honors those guys that have accepted Div. 1 offers and will not play in the game. They do not make a position on the team generally. It was emphasized this past nomination period that no kid should be put up for the Region All-Star team that was not willing to play in the game. So, is it really the best representation of talent for the region? There are players that make the region team that are on 1-9, 2-8, 0-10 teams. There are teams that get no representation because kids cannot play in the North/South Game for whatever reason. But the chances of getting selected to that game are low anyway. So the IFCA elects to recognize players at the region level that may have no business playing in the game. This is the dilemma coaches face, and they must answer questions brought up by their parents and stakeholders about why their school has no representation. It is tough.

We will find out for sure. He struggled with the exception of a couple years at North Central. He had a losing record there and a couple 1 win seasons if I recall correctly.

In 1994, there was a Hispanic/Latino presence on the team. I specifically remember Tony Gonzalez playing D tackle. I think the Andreisen(sp?) kid was a freshmen. He went on to be a part of the State team in 1997. I cannot speak to the numbers in the school at the time, but I am not sure Race/Ethnicity is a problem. The free and reduced number is everywhere, so not sure that can be the problem either. Maybe a combination of things.

No, but from past experience, I am guessing the dates will be June 12-15 and June 19-22. They do not always get these dates out very early. It does make it difficult to plan in the summer.

Who is going the first week and who is going the second week?

The point is...if that slot receiver declares as being on the line of scrimmage and is covered. This makes him ineligible..if he is allowed to go out for a pass, it certainly affects coverages and assignments. If there is a flexed TE and a receiver flanking him on his outside that declares on as does the TE, our defensive backfield would communicate to each other that the TE is dead. We would ignore him if he went out for a pass. We would expect the crew to recognize that also, but it gets by many officials. It is probably not a great place to talk about this or these situations because there are so many scenarios that could happen. I'm not sure that I am expressing myself well enough in the post.

You are correct. I was bringing up two different situations. It was more of a reply directly to Bobref because of the nitpicking comment as if neither situation was something of importance to the crews anymore. Each instance though is happening more and more without recognition from sideline refs. Covered up TEs are going out for passes more and more. END OF SITUATION! And 5 men in the backfield is going uncalled more and more. END OF SITUATION. In my opinion, not emphasizing these calls compromises the defenses more than it seems to appear to those in the refereeing world. Are these both situations in which crews are being told not to nitpick about? Or is one less important to crews than the other? Because they are both important to coaches.